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Saturday 28 November 2009, 11:07 PM
Microsoft begins work on Windows 8
Its official - Microsoft is recruiting new software engineers for the follow up to Windows 7, currently named Windows 8. The job description states Microsoft needs engineers with minimum of five years of industry experience, and an engineering degree or greater in Computer Science or related technical fields.
The official statement reads "We just finished up work on Windows 7, and are pushing forth on Windows 8 planning and preparation," the description read. "There are opportunities to work on a number of hard problems, including third-party application updating, updating virtual machines while they’re turned off (turns out this is pretty hard!), and delivering full applications, among others."
Earlier Robert Morgan, an employee of Microsoft for seven years had 'accidentally' posted details of Windows 8 on his Linkedin profile. He described himself as: "Working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and long-term projects. Research & Development projects including 128bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan."
Microsoft will release Windows 8 in 128bit, which is a huge leap for OS. Windows 7, which released on October 22nd came in 64bit and 32bit flavours. The jump to 128bit confirms that Microsoft is banking on computers that use much substantially multi core processors and a buoyant hardware refresh cycle.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confirmed that the firm is working on a client operating system to follow Windows 7. However details have been kept tightly under wraps. According to Baller the earliest expected date would be 2012 and moreover, details of Windows 9 would also be unveiled in early 2010.
The official statement reads "We just finished up work on Windows 7, and are pushing forth on Windows 8 planning and preparation," the description read. "There are opportunities to work on a number of hard problems, including third-party application updating, updating virtual machines while they’re turned off (turns out this is pretty hard!), and delivering full applications, among others."
Earlier Robert Morgan, an employee of Microsoft for seven years had 'accidentally' posted details of Windows 8 on his Linkedin profile. He described himself as: "Working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and long-term projects. Research & Development projects including 128bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan."
Microsoft will release Windows 8 in 128bit, which is a huge leap for OS. Windows 7, which released on October 22nd came in 64bit and 32bit flavours. The jump to 128bit confirms that Microsoft is banking on computers that use much substantially multi core processors and a buoyant hardware refresh cycle.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confirmed that the firm is working on a client operating system to follow Windows 7. However details have been kept tightly under wraps. According to Baller the earliest expected date would be 2012 and moreover, details of Windows 9 would also be unveiled in early 2010.
Thursday 2 October 2008, 8:20 AM
Migrating Outlook Autocomplete Data (NK2 File Data) to a New Vista/Office 2
If your in the process now of moving all your data over from your old computer to your new computer and remembered that autocomplete information is not stored in the Outlook profile. Autocomplete is the drop-down suggestion window that appears when you start entering in an address in the To, CC:, or BCC: bar. Like you, this data is something your can't live without.
That data is stored in an NK2 file that for previous (non-Vista) O/S's used to be stored in C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Note that this location is not where your Outlook profile is by default stored. That location on non-Vista O/S's is C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Notice the difference in the two paths above: The second includes traversal through the "Local Settings" folder.
Now, in Windows Vista, that folder doesn't exist.
...Turns out that the new location in Vista where your NK2 file is located has moved to fit it into the new structure. That new location where you need to copy the NK2 file is:
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook
That data is stored in an NK2 file that for previous (non-Vista) O/S's used to be stored in C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Note that this location is not where your Outlook profile is by default stored. That location on non-Vista O/S's is C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. Notice the difference in the two paths above: The second includes traversal through the "Local Settings" folder.
Now, in Windows Vista, that folder doesn't exist.
...Turns out that the new location in Vista where your NK2 file is located has moved to fit it into the new structure. That new location where you need to copy the NK2 file is:
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook
Saturday 20 September 2008, 10:50 PM
Importing Outlook Express in Windows Mail
Needed to recover from a crashed system running XP and Outlook Express onto a new PC running Windows Vista which comes with Windows Mail and I had had a file level backup to recover from.
The goods news is it's quite simple and works, as long as you don't needed the mail profile which you'll have to recreate as it's stored in the registry and thus wasn't accessible with a file level backup.
1. Create a directory under the current user's Documents, such as Documents\OEMail. This directory needs to be within the user's space, such as under Documents, in order to prevent possible UAC permissions problems.
2. Copy all the .dbx files from one Outlook Express Identity into this directory, ensuring that folders.dbx is included.
3. You need to check that you have write access to the files, doesn't make sense I know but that's MS programmers for you: Go to Edit Select all in Windows Explorer and select all the dbx files. Then right click on the selection and choose Properties and ensure that the read only attribute of the files is unchecked.
4. In Windows Mail go to File Import Messages and choose Outlook Express 6 format and choose to import from a directory.
5. Then use the Browse button to browse to the directory of dbx files. Make sure that when you set the directory that what is listed in the path is correct (NOTE: Vista can put the wrong path in here sometimes, so instead of c:\mypath it puts c:\mypath\mypath, so check the path to verify that it is correct, and if it is not correct then fix it by clicking the Browse button a second time and then leave the selection blank and clicking Okay.).
6. Then select the files from which you wish to import messages and click Import, by default it will import all folders, which in this case included some 9,000 deleted items!
The goods news is it's quite simple and works, as long as you don't needed the mail profile which you'll have to recreate as it's stored in the registry and thus wasn't accessible with a file level backup.
1. Create a directory under the current user's Documents, such as Documents\OEMail. This directory needs to be within the user's space, such as under Documents, in order to prevent possible UAC permissions problems.
2. Copy all the .dbx files from one Outlook Express Identity into this directory, ensuring that folders.dbx is included.
3. You need to check that you have write access to the files, doesn't make sense I know but that's MS programmers for you: Go to Edit Select all in Windows Explorer and select all the dbx files. Then right click on the selection and choose Properties and ensure that the read only attribute of the files is unchecked.
4. In Windows Mail go to File Import Messages and choose Outlook Express 6 format and choose to import from a directory.
5. Then use the Browse button to browse to the directory of dbx files. Make sure that when you set the directory that what is listed in the path is correct (NOTE: Vista can put the wrong path in here sometimes, so instead of c:\mypath it puts c:\mypath\mypath, so check the path to verify that it is correct, and if it is not correct then fix it by clicking the Browse button a second time and then leave the selection blank and clicking Okay.).
6. Then select the files from which you wish to import messages and click Import, by default it will import all folders, which in this case included some 9,000 deleted items!
