Showing posts with label windows vista. Show all posts

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.

[Follow bugITs in Twitter]
[Add bugITs from PLURK]
[Subscribe to bugITS - technology news
and updates
]
[Subscribe to EUTS: Everything Under the Sun]

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.

Monday, October 26, 2009
Posted by Cebu Blogger

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.

[Follow bugITs in Twitter]
[Add bugITs from PLURK]
[Subscribe to bugITS - technology news
and updates
]
[Subscribe to EUTS: Everything Under the Sun]


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.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Posted by Cebu Blogger

Blog Archive

- Copyright © Affordable Air Fare and Promo Fares -Metrominimalist- Powered by Blogger