Traffic Circle 2.0 » Microsoft http://markesoper.com/blog Mark Edward Soper's Online Home Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:57:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Windows 7 Feature Focus: XP Mode http://markesoper.com/blog/2009/07/windows-7-feature-focus-xp-mode/ http://markesoper.com/blog/2009/07/windows-7-feature-focus-xp-mode/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:11:31 +0000 Mark Soper http://markesoper.com/blog/?p=100 I’ve been spending a lot of time with Windows 7 lately, and my latest Windows 7 Feature Focus article, on Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate/Enterprise XP Mode, is now up at Maximumpc.com.

If you need to run non-3D Windows XP applications and don’t want to worry about tinkering with them for Windows 7, take a close look at XP Mode.

Even if you think you know what XP Mode can do for you and how it works, be sure to check it out. It cuts through the misinformation and helps you deal with some of the trickier features of this new virtualization environment.

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Get a taste of what vLite can do from my original blog posting, which inspired the article.

]]> http://markesoper.com/blog/2008/04/lighten-up-vista-with-vlite-now-on-newsstands/feed/ 1 Question: What do Mach 10, Booster and Bob Have in Common? http://markesoper.com/blog/2008/01/question-what-do-mach-10-booster-and-bob-have-in-common/ http://markesoper.com/blog/2008/01/question-what-do-mach-10-booster-and-bob-have-in-common/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:00:08 +0000 Mark Soper http://markesoper.com/blog/microsoft/question-what-do-mach-10-booster-and-bob-have-in-common/ Answer: they’re three of the most obscure products developed by a certain West Coast technology company:

  • Mach 10 was a processor board upgrade for the IBM PC
  • Booster was a mouse, clock, and memory upgrade for the IBM PCjr
  • Bob was a short-lived friendly front-end for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95

And that company was Microsoft (or, as in early ads, MicroSoft). With Microsoft founder Bill Gates riding off into the sunset this week after his final keynote address at CES, I figured it was time to rediscover some of Microsoft’s strangest products ever. Have other nominees? Let us know.

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