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Will Windows 8 Save the PC Business?

Windows_8_screenshotPredictions are in already: Windows 8 will be irrelevant. The clues seem to support the suspicion – the masses are already happy with Windows 7. Enterprise already made a substantial investment upgrading to Windows 7. Another migration in 2012 is just too soon.

But putting all that aside, the PC manufacturers need to support Windows 8 because it’s the platform that will finally bring integration of desktop PCs with Tablets1 – especially in an Enterprise environment.  There’s also a good list of new features that will ensure some to upgrade.  Plus, there are millions of new PCs and Laptops to sell, every year.

Windows 8 is still relevant and it will save the PC business.

  1. As demonstrated in Microsoft’s Build Conference 2011 []

Samba and Windows 7

Windows 7 has upgraded security.  This will effectively cause trouble in making connections to legacy apps (ie. Windows XP supported).  One of them is Samba on Unix.

Fortunately, there’s a solution to this:

  1. Open Control Panel.
  2. Choose Administrative Tools.
  3. Click Local Security Policy.
  4. Under Local Policies and Security Options:
    1. Change Network security: LAN Manager Authentication Level to “Send LM & NTLM responses”
    2. Change Minimum Session Security for NTLM SSP to disable “Require 128-bit encryption” into “No Minimum Security”.

Illustrations below: