Podcast: Windows 7 Feature Overview

With all the hype from 7’s release candidate launch, Microsoft decided to record a new podcast to talk a little more about it’s new OS.

This podcast discuss about Windows 7 improvements for the IT professionals and users.

Some of the topics are:

- Direct Access
- Branch Cache
- Windows Powershell 2.0 improvements
- GPO improvements
- Bitlocker To Go
- …

So, here’s the link for this podcast:

MS Podcasts: Windows 7 Feature Overview

Windows 7 – Cool Features – 002

After talking about Problem Steps Recorder Tool (Frontslash – Windows 7 – Problem Steps Recorder Tool), here’s another cool feature that Windows 7 brings to corporate environments.

It’s called Branch Cache, and in simple words, what it does is cache files that an user access in the branch, so that when another user asks for the same file, the access time will be quickier.

This feature will also be available in Windows Server 2008 R2.

You can see a interview with Devrim Iyigun from Microsoft, on the Technet website, where she explains more deeply this new feature:
Technet – Branch Cache in Windows 7