Well, my colleague Carl is back from his extended holidays, and is back at it with providing some great application compatibility and general application packaging news links for your review. Enjoy!
Platform News
Windows 8 Explorer
in detail
New
features in the Windows 8 Deployment Image Servicing and Management Tool
800
days and counting for XP’s death
Article on KMS
for Win7 deployment
More Win7
migration success stories
Certification requirements for
Windows 8 desktop apps does not require MSI, bans VB6, requires signed
executables, must install to ProgramFiles (does this mean per-user apps are
banned?)
Certification requirements
for Windows 8 Hardware replace CTRL-ALT-DEL with Windows-Power and
other highlights
Microsoft has sold over 525
million Windows 7 licenses since launch
Lots of new
Win7 themes
Packaging News
Requirements for apps
being on Windows Store
Virtualisation News
A video
of Thinapp’s AppSync, used to update packages
Optimising
Thinapp package sizes
Security Corner
Browser News
IE10 Compatibility Inspector tool
released
If your Win8 Metro IE10 page really needs to use a plugin
then it
can switch to regular IE
Office News
Office 15 Beta
expected in Summer
In case you missed it, Obama’s state of the union address is
a stunning
example of how to use powerpoint effectively
Mobile News
Interview with Nokia’s
head of design
Mobile phone evolution
infographic
“My primary phone is the iPhone,” says Steve Wozniak, Apple
co-founder “I love the beauty of it. But I
wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.”
Switch
your phone off when attending classical concerts
Web News
Programmers! Tired of Google’s ‘helpful’ suggestions? You’ve
even put your string in quotes and it still got interpreted? Click on “More
Search Tools” in the bottom-left corner of the search results and choose
“Verbatim”. It will actually search for what you asked. Very useful for error
messages and code fragments.
Seriousness Apology
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