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Windows 7 – Changes to Run As

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David Myers has a great post today on the changes to Windows 7 when using Run As.

For those that don’t know. David and I spent many hours together driving back and forth from the Certification Study Group in Ottawa for a couple of years and we both did our Train the Trainer course for our MCTs together back in 2007. While the certification groups are on a hiatus right now, we still do stuff together through the user groups, OWSUG & .

David has accounts that he uses for SQL Server that he needs to run commands as. With Vista, he had to create batch files for programs that he needed to run as the SQL account. Now with Window 7, he just holds shift when right clicking on the program and now another option shows up, Run As Another User. I never would have noticed this as I have my domain user account that I use for my day to day stuff, and the system will prompt me for the domain admin account to load drivers, apps, etc. I don’t have a need right now to run stuff as different domain user account.

Go check out his blog at DavidEMyers.com and have a look what he’s discovered new in Windows 7.

Great work pointing out that new feature David.

Windows 7 – The Lineup is Released

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Microsoft announced their Windows 7 lineup today. The plan for Windows 7 is to promote 2 main versions in North America, Professional and Home Premium, but the other versions will be there as well.

The versions being offered are as follows and the points listed are my interpretation of the what I read in the article.

  • Starter – Only available to OEM’s.
  • Home Basic – Not available in North America
  • Home Premium – The version for home users
  • Professional – Mainstream version for business customers
  • Enterprise – For customers who opt to purchase Software Assurance, has bitlocker and other security features
  • Ultimate – For those customers who want every feature available

According to the article, there is supposed to be a natural progression from version to version, as opposed to having some features in some versions and not others at the same level like we saw in Vista. (The example given was Media Centre being available in Vista Home Premium but not Vista Business).

It will be interesting to see what the differences between versions on Windows 7 will be. From the press release, it looks like Bitlocker will only be available to customers who buy Ultimate or purchase Software Assurance and utilize the Enterprise edition of Windows 7. That’s a shame because I think the value of Bitlocker should be available to home users along with businesses. Home users have a need to protect their data just like a company, but I guess I can’t have everything in one version.

The complete plan is located at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/feb09/02-03Win7SKU-QA.mspx

 

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Media Center Fix KB961367 in Windows 7 Beta

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Just getting up to date and I notice Microsoft has posted a page for the Media Center problems with the latest Windows 7 release. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961367 is the page where you can find the information and the hotfix. It explains the problem and has the official Microsoft links to the download. Fixes play back and record issues along with the MP3 problem I spoke about before in my post .