System software

Today’s post comes to us from David Trupkin, Sr Product Manager for App-V and MED-V

One of the ways I can tell it’s going to be a good day at work is when I look at my calendar in the morning and see that I’ve got some sort of IT Pro related activity on my schedule. As the product manager for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) and Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), I find your feedback particularly valuable. Considering my own background as an IT Pro, I enjoy helping you solve business problems.

Remote Web Access allows you to stream music, videos and pictures remotely over the web to almost anywhere in the world. In essence, Remote Web Access is your personal in the cloud storage space. If you’d like to learn how to setup Remote Web Access or how to use specific features, check out the Windows Home Server 2011 Learning Bites video below!

Viridian PC announced a new release of Windows Home Server 2011 powered systems. These energy-efficient Windows Home Servers are based on enterprise grade hardware and features that are straight out of a data center and into your home!

On this blog, we’ve discussed the ways that scammers can attack your PC, through malicious software, rogue security alerts, phishing attacks and more. But the bad guys have now devised a new vector: the phone. I first learned about this when I heard my parents had received a call that they had been identified as having rogue software on their PC. The caller, who said he was from Microsoft, needed to remote access their PC to resolve the issue.

Today we’ve started delivering updates to Samsung Focus and LG Quantum owners with AT&T. As I mentioned Friday, updates for the HTC Surround are still being tested. While updates have progressed, I can assure you that we’re not resting until we complete the job globally. Where’s my phone update? has the latest official status.

Application compatibility is one of the most crucial factors when it comes to organizations being able to easily move from XP and IE 6 to Win 7 and IE 8/9. With so many of you beginning your migration to Windows 7 this year, it is more important than ever to be able to quickly identify and solve application compatibility issues. To help get over this humps, easy to use AppCompat tools are crucial to giving IT pros like yourself the capability to move ahead with their deployments.

Working with VMware, Microsoft has identified an issue within Internet Explorer 9 that may prevent third party hypervisors from being able to take advantage of IE9's hardware acceleration feature. As a result, IE9 will default to software rendering when running in some virtual machines. Internet Explorer 9 interacts with non-Microsoft hypervisors differently than earlier versions of Internet Explorer.

We’ve had a great response to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) through the Microsoft Download Center and Windows Update. Windows 7 SP1 continues to roll out on Windows Update. For customers with IT departments, today we are making SP1 available on the WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) catalog, which makes it available through management tools including WSUS, System Center and others.

Starting today, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 will be available to everyone via the Microsoft Download Center and start rolling out via Windows Update. Most people will simply get Windows 7 SP1 via Windows Update when it becomes available to them (See Learn how to install Windows 7 Service Pack 1).

Starting today, some of you might see something new on your Windows Phone: A message announcing that a software update is available. Woo hoo!

Now, before you get too excited, let me explain: This isn’t the update you’ve probably been reading about or perhaps waiting for, the one with copy and paste (but that’s coming soon). 

No, this update is a relatively small one.