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Windows 7 Upgrade: a problem to Students
Microsoft offers students an option, instead buying the whole package of windows 7 in a box, they can have it download and upgrade their system in a website in just $ 29. The move was great but several students have reported lots of issues and error encountered upon downloading or with in the process of upgrading.
The most common issue that students encountered is the fact that they cannot easily upgrade a 32-bit version of Vista to 64-bit version of windows 7. At the end, it requires a clean installation thus deleting all previous installed components or simply reformatting and installed the new OS.
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These are some of the errors encountered:
Error “We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this application was downloaded.”
Error “This version of the file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running.”
Error “An error has occurred. Unspecified error.”
Description of the above errors are being determined at Social Answers of Microsoft and in addition, there is an established thread for possible work arounds of the said errors and others.
The most common issue that students encountered is the fact that they cannot easily upgrade a 32-bit version of Vista to 64-bit version of windows 7. At the end, it requires a clean installation thus deleting all previous installed components or simply reformatting and installed the new OS.
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These are some of the errors encountered:
Error “We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this application was downloaded.”
Error “This version of the file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running.”
Error “An error has occurred. Unspecified error.”
Description of the above errors are being determined at Social Answers of Microsoft and in addition, there is an established thread for possible work arounds of the said errors and others.
Working with Windows 7 by Voice Commands
This can be a very interesting post ever in my blog.
Speech Recognition is a feature already available in windows vista and is now in full blast in windows 7, the most talked OS online and offline. So how do Speech Recognition and Voice Commands work? As i did my report in Management and Information System, i learned a lot in the field of Artificial Intelligence most especially its most used subfield in business, the Expert Systems. But as of now, what captured my interest is the other subfield of AI, the NLP or Natural Language Processing in which Speech Recognition and Voice Commands are part of. Truly, technology is getting more and more complicated and oops!, of course, useful.
What is Natural Language Processing? This is a process in which human language will serve as input to NLP programs and translate it into a standard set of statements that a computer can execute. And one of most promising product of which is the Speech Recognition and Voice Commands of Microsoft Windows 7.
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And now, let us tackle more on the voice commands. But first, you need to have a high-quality microphone and i believe Microsoft recommends a USB headset model for wise and best performance. After then, we can start commanding our computer with some of below guides, words and/or phrase with their corresponding actions and outcome.
"Start" - Windows Speech Recognition will open and display the START menu
"All Programs" - Of course, this will display all programs installed in the system and after then, you may continue working with that specified program
"open (program)" - this command is applicable only if you already know the specified program and for that, you may skip that navigation part. Example of this is "OPEN MSPAINT"
"File", "Open" - this is applicable only to windows which has menus available
"Show Numbers" - windows speech recognition tags every clickable object with a number in your screen
"Click" or "Double Click" + NUMBER - this will accomplish the command
With individual Windows, you can work with:
"maximize" , "minimize" , "close" followed by the name of the program
To minimize all programs opened say "Show desktop"
These are some of the common Voice commands available in windows 7. I bet i now have 1 reason to grab that Operating System. What ya think?
Speech Recognition is a feature already available in windows vista and is now in full blast in windows 7, the most talked OS online and offline. So how do Speech Recognition and Voice Commands work? As i did my report in Management and Information System, i learned a lot in the field of Artificial Intelligence most especially its most used subfield in business, the Expert Systems. But as of now, what captured my interest is the other subfield of AI, the NLP or Natural Language Processing in which Speech Recognition and Voice Commands are part of. Truly, technology is getting more and more complicated and oops!, of course, useful.
What is Natural Language Processing? This is a process in which human language will serve as input to NLP programs and translate it into a standard set of statements that a computer can execute. And one of most promising product of which is the Speech Recognition and Voice Commands of Microsoft Windows 7.
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And now, let us tackle more on the voice commands. But first, you need to have a high-quality microphone and i believe Microsoft recommends a USB headset model for wise and best performance. After then, we can start commanding our computer with some of below guides, words and/or phrase with their corresponding actions and outcome.
"Start" - Windows Speech Recognition will open and display the START menu
"All Programs" - Of course, this will display all programs installed in the system and after then, you may continue working with that specified program
"open (program)" - this command is applicable only if you already know the specified program and for that, you may skip that navigation part. Example of this is "OPEN MSPAINT"
"File", "Open" - this is applicable only to windows which has menus available
"Show Numbers" - windows speech recognition tags every clickable object with a number in your screen
"Click" or "Double Click" + NUMBER - this will accomplish the command
With individual Windows, you can work with:
"maximize" , "minimize" , "close" followed by the name of the program
To minimize all programs opened say "Show desktop"
These are some of the common Voice commands available in windows 7. I bet i now have 1 reason to grab that Operating System. What ya think?
Windows 7 Official Launch Date confirmed
Yes, at last. After all the "later this year or mid this year or early 2010" speculations, now Microsoft has confirmed its official Launch Date of the most awaited OS after the very problematic Windows Vista, the Windows 7. October 22 of this year, Companies and consumers can now buy this OS from retailers and preinstalled in new PCs.
After this date, then people can test if it surpasses the headache-causer windows vista and can contribute a lot of productivity and most of all, user friendly interfaces. As to date, Windows 7 is now on release candidate stage and as shown from reviews, it has now the capability of a great performance and compatibility is not a problem not like Vista which made every IT companies and customers sticked to windows XP for many years.
As of now, Microsoft is busy of promoting and working on many ways to let people know and be convinced that Windows 7 is more stronger than Vista.
After this date, then people can test if it surpasses the headache-causer windows vista and can contribute a lot of productivity and most of all, user friendly interfaces. As to date, Windows 7 is now on release candidate stage and as shown from reviews, it has now the capability of a great performance and compatibility is not a problem not like Vista which made every IT companies and customers sticked to windows XP for many years.
As of now, Microsoft is busy of promoting and working on many ways to let people know and be convinced that Windows 7 is more stronger than Vista.
Windows Vista SP1: Soon to unleash
As what Mike Nash of the Windows Vista Team said, "I've personally been running Windows Vista SP1 pretty exclusively for a few months and I've noticed that my systems run faster and more reliably than they did with the "Gold" release of Windows Vista." So, customers who are currently using the Gold version will expect a lot on this upgrade made by Microsoft. As reported, this will be release in the mid-March.Here's the timing for SP1 availability for current Windows Vista users:
* In mid-March, the team will release Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update (in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) and to the download center on microsoft.com. Customers who visit Windows Update can choose to install Service Pack 1. If Windows Update determines that the system has one of the drivers the Vista team know to be problematic, then Windows Update will not offer SP1. Since the team know that some customers may want to update to SP1 anyhow, the download center will allow anyone who wants to install SP1 to do so.
* In mid-April, Vista team will begin delivering Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Vista customers who have chosen to have updates downloaded automatically. That said, any system that Windows Update determines has a driver known to not update successfully will not get SP1 automatically. As updates for these drivers become available, they will be installed automatically by Windows Update, which will unblock these systems from getting Service Pack 1. The result is that more and more systems will automatically get SP1, but only when the team are confident they will have a good experience.
* The remaining languages will RTM in April.
Original post: Windows Vista Team Blog
