By Stu on January 6th, 2010
Ok, got the new PC and been prepping it for dev use… Gone swimmingly so far. Now I want to experiment with Virtual PC for Windows 7 (my old PC was not capable of doing this). The only problem is that I have no experience with running a virtual machine and I have had a horrible time finding a walk through. So here is the beginner guide by a beginner for Virtual PC.
- You need to know if you can run Virtual PC. Download and run this application. It will test your computer for processor compatibility.
By Stu on January 14th, 2009
I have gone through the installation of Windows 7 Beta. Like the millions of others, I have notice a nice improvement on the speed of installation. Boot up is fairly fast and is faster than my Vista Laptop. Though to be fair, it is running SQL Express, IIS 7 and a whole host of applications.
What is really impressing is the responsiveness of the UI. Internet Explorer 8 Beta (IE 
is very quick and is rendering web pages better than IE 7. I currently use Fire Fox 3, but that is just due to render speed of IE7 on several of my most visited websites.
By Stu on October 28th, 2008
Just read some of the blogs about Windows 7 (next version of Vista) and it looks interesting. The most important part of what I have read is the reduction of bloat that Vista has. Vista is slow until you put 2 or more Gig of ram behind it. At work one of the dev systems is Vista x64 with 6 gig of ram (Intel Quad Core) and it screams! So reducing the amount of ram that Windows 7 used would be a great move.
There are many other interesting bits, like integration with Live Dev services (and Azure?)
Ok, got the new PC and been prepping it for dev use… Gone swimmingly so far. Now I want to experiment with Virtual PC for Windows 7 (my old PC was not capable of doing this). The only problem is that I have no experience with running a virtual machine and I have had a horrible time finding a walk through. So here is the beginner guide by a beginner for Virtual PC.
