April 13, 2010: Windows Vista without any service packs installed will have it’s support lifecycle ended. No more security updates. (Rather quick imho)
July 13, 2010: Windows XP SP2 and every version of Windows 2000 will have it’s support lifecycle ended.
Windows Server 2003 will go into the Extended Support Phase (security updates are free, but the rest of the support must be paid for).
Do you ever have the problem that you take over a Windows Server with a remote desktop, you then later close the session leaving all your programs open to run for example overnight. The next time you start your remote desktop session you will enter a new session besides the one you already have running. If so, with the tscon command you can switch sessions.
First identify the session id of the session you want to control, you can do this by opening Terminal Services Manager. When you have your ID (i.e. 1) start a command prompt and enter: tscon {id} /v (i.e: tscon 1 /v) inside your current session.
You’re current session will be stopped and you will be redirected to session nr. 1
Windows 7 is just out, and we are talking about version 8 already.
thx to Stephen Chapman
He also quoted someone who said:
”Working on Hyper-V features for Win8 in the Platform and Management Extendability team, which is part of the Windows Core OS Kernel Group”
Quick search on who that could be. 
hmmmmmmm…. (Senior Program Manager –Windows Hyper-V) 
A nice chart summing up al the differences between the Windows 7 versions.
Original source: here (and that one was based on a table from wikipedia)
wow, this is nice.
Windows 7 Federated Search.
This Federated Search will change the scope of your search beyond your Computer. You can now search for items in remote repositories from your PC. It is based on OpenSearch and the RSS format. Since it is based on open standards, it becomes very simple to create custom ‘search connectors’ for your own remote repositories. For example, you can search Flickr or Twitter from within explorer.
Here are some search connectors.
I even created one for my own site , you can download it here
Nice Windows 7 advert. LOL
And another one, with the funny kid
This one is also funny.
After waiting a long time on august 6th, Windows 7 finally arrived. The installation was really easy, and I am surprised with the boot time, but then I always am with a freshly installed OS.
Some “nifty” things I found out:
Since I upgraded to IE8, I’ve been a bit annoyed with the this security warning:
It states: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely”. The first time I just pressed Yes, by pressing [Enter] on my keyboard (without reading the warning correctly), which obviously rendered me a incomplete page.
Note to Steve Balmer:
Why change this button press behavior Microsoft, just to let us read dialogs? It will cost time every time we have to read such a dialog, and as you know.. time is money
Since then the warning came up a few times. So I’ve you want to disable this warning the change this:
in IE8, go to [Tools], [internet options] , [security] , [custom level]
and change [display mixed content] to “enable”
Settings will take effect after a restart of IE.
*edit after comment
I’m not saying that you should disable the warning. If you find it annoying, you can disable it.
The “old” dialog was different: 
As you can see, this is the other way around. The changed it.
What you do with it is your choice.
With th ecommand: rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr, you wil open up the Stored Credentials Cache of Windows.
You can now clear your stored credentials with this tool.
Note: it also works in Windows 7 en 2008. See comments.
Some things in RDP that will be improved in Windows 7:
I’ve seen a demo where they played a video (1080p), the audio was a little behind on the video (but not irritating slow), the video was really smooth and the processor load on the server was only 1%.
Want to see it for yourself? Check out this link, @ 22min. it is playing the video, and @ 23min, it plays the HD movie.
My opinion: impressive, I know some company’s who really could use it.
