Alpesh Nakar – SharePoint Consultant's Blog

SharePoint 2010 will come with pre-requisite installer and basically you just run the Prerequisite.exe before installing SharePoint 2010. This application takes care of the pre-requisite software including IIS installation. It does not install and configure SQL Server Of course, this may not be applicable for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation (WSS 4), since it installs and configures SQL Express 2008 for you.

However, to install Microsoft SharePoint Foundation (WSS 4) on Windows7 you will need to install pre-requisite software, since the SharePoint 2010 Prerequisite installer does not run on Windows 7.  Read more... (168 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)

No more speculating when Windows 7 will Release to Manufacture. It was RTM yesterday – July 22, 2009 per announcement first by Brandon LeBlanc on Windows 7 Team blog and then on Engineering Windows 7 blog.

Watch this video clip to see Steve Ballmer sign off Windows 7 RTM gold DVDs!

Windows 7 Sneak-Peak from MGX

So when will you get your hands on Windows 7 RTM? Depends. Check out Windows 7 team blog post here.

I know, I will get it on August 6/7 2009!

You will find number of tutorials to create a bootable usb to install Windows 7. If you don’t want to go through the steps of creating a bootable disk, then I’d recommend this free download to create bootable usb to install Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista ( who cares about Vista anymore )  Read more... (165 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)

Windows 7 RTM has not been signed off just yet. I know that is a bit disappointing news, in the sense that we will not get our hands on it until at least the end of this month.

As per the source, these are the new timelines for Windows 7  Read more... (194 words, estimated 47 secs reading time)

• MSDN & TechNet Subscribers: Subscribers will be able to download the final version of Windows 7 a few weeks after we announce RTM.
• Volume License (VL) Customers: As announced today by Bill Veghte during his WPC09 keynote, Windows 7 will be available to Volume License customers on September 1st.

Windows 7 RTM’s today – July 13, 2009. This could possibly mean that MSDN and TechNet subscribers getting their hands on the final build of Windows 7 by end of this week at the most.

Windows 7 outperforms Windows Vista any day and if you are looking at something to further tweak both OS’s then TweakUI is the tool you must have Why not when you don’t need to install it, just launch it from your USB memory stick! It’s a portable edition!!

MVP Folks have released this Ultimate Windows Tweaker v2 for Windows7 and Windows Vista, that you can download from the source.  Read more... (206 words, estimated 49 secs reading time)