Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

Downloaded and installed the free full version of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 successfully on Lenovo Z61t running Windows 7 Beta.

Within Virtual PC 2007, the option for hardware-assisted virtualization is not available. According to Intel, the processor on Z61t which is Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 does not support Intel Virtualization Technology. But on further checking revealed that it is supported. Also in the BIOS, there is no option for Intel Virtualization Technology. Using another tool SecurAble confirmed that the processor does not support hardware virtualization. The conclusion is it does not matter whether your processor or BIOS support virtualization for Virtual PC 2007 to work.

Next, I tested installing Windows XP in the virtual environment. It took almost an hour to get Windows XP up and running. As shown, I can run IE 6.0 SP3 in Windows XP simultaneously with IE 8 in Windows 7 Beta. This is useful to run those software applications that are still not supported in Windows 7 Beta.

However, you can't expand to full screen in Windows XP and the maximum screen resolution is 1024 x 768 even though Windows 7 Beta runs in 1440 x 900 mode. Also, the date and time in Windows XP don't correspond to the date and time in Windows 7 Beta.

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Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10

The latest release fixed a security issue:

MFSA 2009-23 Crash in nsTextFrame::ClearTextRun()

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Budget Intel 64-bit CPU Desktop PC

Compaq Presario CQ2019AP ($599)

1. Intel Atom 230 CPU (1.6GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 533MHz Hyper Threading)
2. Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic
3. 1GB SDRAM DDR2
4. 160GB Hard Drive
5. 6-in-1 Digital Media Reader
6. SuperMulti DVD+/-RW SATA Drive with LightScribe Technology and Double Layer Support
7. 18.5" LCD widescreen monitor

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1. Windows Vista (32-bit)
2. Windows Vista (64-bit)
   

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.9

The latest release fixed several security issues:

MFSA 2009-22 Firefox allows Refresh header to redirect to javascript: URIs

MFSA 2009-21 POST data sent to wrong site when saving web page with embedded frame

MFSA 2009-20 Malicious search plugins can inject code into arbitrary sites

MFSA 2009-19 Same-origin violations in XMLHttpRequest and XPCNativeWrapper.toString

MFSA 2009-18 XSS hazard using third-party stylesheets and XBL bindings

MFSA 2009-17 Same-origin violations when Adobe Flash loaded via view-source: scheme

MFSA 2009-16 jar: scheme ignores the content-disposition: header on the inner URI

MFSA 2009-15 URL spoofing with box drawing character

MFSA 2009-14 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.9)

Australian PC User May 2009

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