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Is there a recommended minimum spec for a dev machine for win phone 7? I'm between machines at home at the moment and am stuck with a netbook - VS runs passably on it by the emulator is, unsurprisingly, a complete no-go.
Edit: to clarify, I want to find out of fellow devs what they think a usable minimum spec is - not just the 'on the box' spec
See the System Requirements section on the downloads page. Repeated here for when MS moves the link:
Supported Operating Systems:Windows 7;Windows Vista
Windows® Vista® (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2 – all editions except Starter Edition
Windows 7 (x86 and x64) – all editions except Starter Edition
Installation requires 3 GB of free disk space on the system drive.
2 GB RAM
Windows Phone Emulator requires a DirectX 10 capable graphics card with a WDDM 1.1 driver
The last one is very, very important.
Having done a bit of research, I'd suggest that a decent minimum spec would be:
2Ghz Core 2 Duo (with the appropriate support for hardware assisted virtualization)
3Gb+ RAM
DirectX 10 graphics with WDDM 1.0 driver.
Running in a VMware session on an iMac i7 does not give satisfactory performance!
no dice, netbook won't do the job
Setup and System Requirements for Windows Phone Emulator
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I need to run docker on my new Windows 10 Home laptop.
Until recently, the docker website said that it didn't work on Windows 10. It now says you need Windows 7.1 or later.
But it also says that virtualization must be enabled.
Task Manager on my machine says that it isn't enabled (says, Hyper-V support is yes though).
I see that I need Windows 10 Pro to have virtualization capability.
Before I upgrade, does anyone know that Windows 10 Pro does indeed run docker?
Does it run it without troubles?
First, we are talking about Windows supporting a Linux VM for supporting docker in that Linux VM.
Windows itself won't support natively docker before a Windows Server 2016 SR3+.
Second, the Docker installation on Windows page says:
Your machine must be running Windows 7.1, 8/8.1 or newer to run Docker. Windows 10 is not currently supported
Actually (from this article), Windows 10 is also supported, but:
as it turns out, HyperV and VirtualBox will not run together side-by-side in 64 bit modes. And Scott’s blog post about rebooting to a hypervisorlaunchtype off mode of Windows 8.1 worked flawlessly for Windows 10
See "Switch easily between VirtualBox and Hyper-V with a BCDEdit boot Entry in Windows 8.1" (which applies here for Windows 10 as well)
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This is part of a migration from Vista to Windows7. I now have a dual boot computer, with Win7 the preferred OS. From time to time I might need to go back to Vista to see how the things were configured there and then I will need to go back to Win7 to configure/install the same app there.
This is a computer that had very complex settings and it was difficult and risky to upgrade in place, to install Win7 over Vista.
In order to avoid countless reboots I would like to be able to always run Win7 and when I need I would like to be able to fire up VMWare Workstation and to start a Vista Machine that would have as HDD the physical HDD where currently Vista resides. I would expect the VMWare machine to run the OS installed on that HDD and I would expect Vista no to see that the hardware changed. My apps are not hardware dependent.
Is this possible?
Its possible and there are a few ways you could go about doing this.
The Easy Way
VMware Desktop allows you to use your existing partition/Disk to boot from only if its an IDE Disk.
https://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_dualboot.html
The hard way
You can capture the Windows Vista OS as an .wim image with Windows Deployment Tool ImageX.exe. Then use other tools to create a bootable ISO. You would have to update the image though every time you feel there are a lot of changes made in Vista you want to see in VMware.
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How is Windows CE distinct from the other desktop Windows?
Quote from Wiki:
Windows CE is a distinct operating system and kernel, rather than a
trimmed-down version of desktop Windows.
Can anyone please explain?
Kernel is the central piece of any operating system which is manages every aspect of a operating system.
So each operating systems like Unix, Windows have their own kernel which makes it different form each other. Similarly, Windows CE is different from your normal personal computer versions of operating system
Personal computing OS may include Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows XP etc
But Windows CE is not another version of the above mentioned Operating Systems, but a different one. This compact edition is specifically designed for a particular task may be like Car Computer, TV, etc..
By Trimmed down it tries to convey you that this Kernel cannot help with all tasks that your desktop can do and also its size is possibly less than that of your normal desktop OS
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In this website we can see that W7 pro is able to manage (physically) 192Go of RAM. (I'll talk only about x64)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_8
But we know it's a lie because the OS don't accept to manage that much. I can't have 32Go of RAM on a windows 7 pro, the OS will not use everything, I'm right? It will limit to 6Go I think, maybe 8Go.
So I would like to know about the windows 8 pro version, how much RAM can be managed by the OS?
This question is to know if it's useful to have 32Go of RAM or if 16Go are enough, because I don't think that W8 Pro will manage more than 16. But I don't remember where I learned that.
There is any change with windows 8.1?
Thank you.
The Core Edition of Windows 8 can handle 128 GB and the Pro/Enterprise can handle 512 GB of physical RAM. This is explained in the link you posted.
In a stock Windows installation, the OS limits your ram for some reason. The way to change it is tucked away in the settings:
Use the shortcut "windows button" + "r" to bring up the run window, then type in "msconfig", then go to the "boot" tab, then click "advanced options", and finally uncheck "maximum memory" and click apply. Now reboot and enjoy your full amount of ram.
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What is it's background and "inspiration" if any? Does it by any chance have fragments of Unix DNA deep within it but not disclosed for whatever reasons?
No it wasn't.
MS-DOS was a renamed and ported to IBM PC clone of CP/M OS bought from Seattle Computer Products by Microsoft (this goes to all Windows from beginning and to Windows 98/Me)
If talking about Windows based on NT, Microsoft hired a team of engineers (headed by Dave Cutler, one of DEC's VMS operating system developer) from DEC company. He was told to develop a 32-bit OS with supporting the OS/2 API. So at the end, new OS (NT OS/2) was really similar to VMS, and later, based on this new NT OS/2, Windwows NT 3.1 was released in 1993.
P.S. This information was taken from a book I've read -- Modern Operating Systems, 3-th edition. Author: Andrew S. Tanenbaum.