Tag: Windows XP

• Still on XP? There should be a reason…

  For the past year or so I have been counting down (on Twitter) the days left until the #EndOfDaysXP… as of the date of this article it stands at 591 days.  Some of my followers think it is silly, others thank me for it.  Some want to know why it matters, and there are a…

  Mitch Garvis

  August 24, 2012

  Windows 8, Windows XP

  John Marshall, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Twitter, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP

• Client-Side Hyper-V: How Microsoft is changing the game

  I have been a virtualization guy for a long time, so when Microsoft released Hyper-V 2.0 with Windows Server 2008 R2 I was among the first to ask why they weren’t including it in the client OS.  In my opinion it was a no-brainer. With the launch of Windows 8 with the client-side Hyper-V, they…

  Mitch Garvis

  August 23, 2012

  Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Windows 8

  Hyper-V, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 8, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP

• Windows 8 – Coming soon to a screen near you!

  It was nice to be in the room for a change. For nearly two years now I have been counting down the #EndOfDaysXP on my Twitter feed (@MGarvis) and encouraging users and corporations to migrate to Windows 7. Since the Developer Preview for Windows 8 was released in November of last year I have been…

  Mitch Garvis

  July 20, 2012

  Article, Springboard, Springboard Technical Experts Panel, Windows 8

  Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Software release life cycle, Steve Ballmer, Steven Sinofsky, Windows 8, Windows XP, Worldwide Partner Conference