Upgrade Path to Windows 7 Based on Upgrade Chart
After Microsoft announced the release schedule of Windows 7, a lot of tech site and bloggers post about the Windows 7 upgrade chart to be ridiculous and confusing like one here and here.
If you see the chart below, the question that rise is “why Windows Vista Basic/Home Premium users can upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate but not Windows 7 Professional?” others perhaps will ask “why Windows XP can’t be upgraded to Windows 7?” but in the case of Windows XP, I think the answer is because XP and 7 have a very big gap of architecture hence you can’t upgrade it.
Windows 7 Release Schedule Chart
We have been waiting for quite some time for the release of new operating system from Microsoft, Windows 7. From their blog, Microsoft employee already post a blog post which explain the schedule of Windows 7.
Microsoft partners and MSDN/TechNet subscriber already can download the new Windows 7 by now. Below is the schedule chart of the release date.
Windows 7 Release Chart (click for bigger chart)
For us, customers, we must wait a little bit longer till October 22 
but if you can't wait that long you can download the Release Candidate version from Microsoft website.
Cheaper Windows 7 License with Family Pack
We all know that Microsoft Windows licenses are very expensive. If you go to Microsoft store, you can see that the price for Windows Home Premium full version is US$199.99 per license. The upgrade version wouldn't be cheap either, it will cost you US$119.99 per license.
Most of computer users will have at least 2 computers, one PC and one Notebooks. If you have family, big chances you have more than 2 computers. If you buy the retail price of Windows 7 that would cost you more than US$ 200 just for the upgrade license. But there is a cheaper deal from Microsoft if you can wait a bit more.
Squid for Windows Server Tutorial
A short review of articles about installing open source Squid proxy server on Windows Server that I wrote some time ago.
I wrote 2 articles, one explaining on how to install Squid NT (the Windows version of a well known Linux based Squid proxy server) and the other explain about how to configure it into transparent proxy.
Changing Registered Owner and Organization on Windows XP and Windows Server
If you go to Control Panel > System you can see the information of windows registration owner and organization, you can change this information by editing the registry. These are the steps:
- Open RegEdit: Click on Start > Run... then type: regedit and click Ok
- Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion
- Edit the value of RegisteredOrganization and RegisteredOwner
Firefox 3 Auto Complete URL Bar
I just noticed yesterday that Firefox will do auto complete of URL you type if you already visited that URL before. For example you open http://markus.revti.com yesterday and the URL is stored on Firefox’s history. The next time you want to visit the same URL, you only need to type ‘markus’ and Firefox will show list of URL which have the word ‘markus’ in it. Press ‘TAB’ button and Firefox will do auto complete of URL which is on the first of the list.
Firefox 3 Beta 4 Released
Yesterday Mozilla released new beta version of Firefox 3, the beta 4. On this new beta version, Mozilla developers include more than 900 enhancements from the previous beta 3, add performance boost, increase the stability and improve the user interface.
Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which on the release note web page said that it has been developed since the last 31 months. Within 31 months, Mozilla developers already made 12.000 updates, re-architecting and simplifying the codes.
Microsoft Release IE 8 Beta
Look like Microsoft doesn’t want to lose the browser competition with Mozilla’s Firefox. After the entire buzz about the new release of Firefox 3 beta 3, Microsoft soon releases its Internet Explorer 8 Beta. Users and web developers seem give Microsoft a great push to release the new browser sooner. Further more everybody expect that the new release will comply with the web standard, ex. Acid browser test.
From Microsoft’s website, Internet Explorer 8 Beta will have these new features:
Archives
Web Sites
Rapid Share
