Over at LearnItFirst, where we are currently developing find some great Windows 7 training courses, we’re all excited about the upcoming release of Windows 7. One common question people have is, “Can my existing PC hardware run Windows 7?” Thankfully we don’t have to guess – Microsoft has provided the...
Windows 7 requires a “modern day” PC but thankfully it doesn’t require a very expensive one. I’ll break this down into “Absolute Minimum Requirements to Run Windows 7”, “Suggested Minimums to Run Windows 7”, and “Minimum Requirements Needed to Run Windows XP Mode”: Absolute Minimum Requirements to Run Windows 7...
Microsoft announced that Windows 7 was “RTM” (Released To Manufacturing) yesterday but the big question is, “When can I download Windows 7?” The answer, as it so often is with anything related to Microsoft, is, “It depends!” First, you need to put yourself in a category – which of these...
Last week, Microsoft released “Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 3” – a long title but, in effect, it’s simply the latest release of ForeFront. ForeFront has been one of the more confusing bits from Microsoft in recent years – you can download ForeFront for SharePoint, for Exchange,...
I woke up this morning to lots and lots of error messages from our credit card processing system (over at LearnItFirst, our training video company) due to the fact that Authorize.net, our credit card processor, was offline. Since it was 4:00AM CST, I figured that they were doing maintenance and...
