November 3rd, 2009

Thursby updates DAVE and ADmitMac solutions for Windows networking

Posted by David Morgenstern @ 9:11 am

Categories: 10.6, 64-bit, Snow Leopard, Windows 7

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Windows Networking, ADmitMac Version 5, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Software, David Morgenstern

With recent changes coming to both Mac and Windows OSes, Thursby on Tuesday released new versions of ADmitMac, its Windows Active Directory client software for Macs, and DAVE, its file- and printer-sharing solution. The updates feature support for Mac OS X 10.6 Leopard and Windows 7.

The previous ADmitMac Version 4 and DAVE Version 7 did not support Snow Leopard and a link to uninstalling instructions was featured on the company’s support pages (and still is). The current versions of ADmitMac for CAC and ADmitMac for PIV are still incompatible with Snow Leopard.

ADmitMac Version 5 improves compatibility with Active Directory and now supports the Windows Group Policy console.

Administrators can manage their domain users in a consistent way – regardless of whether they use a PC or a Mac. And ADmitMac requires no Active Directory schema changes.

According to the company, DAVE Version 8 supports all current Windows operating systems including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and WIndows NT

When running on Snow Leopard, both products now support 64-bit multi-threaded operation and multiple processors.

The ADmitMac v5 upgrade is $89.95 for users of Version 4.x; the DAVE v8 upgrade is $69.95 for users of Version 7.x.

November 1st, 2009

Yes, based on Mac history, Windows 7.5 will suck less

Posted by David Morgenstern @ 9:11 pm

Categories: Mac OS, Windows 7

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Version 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern

No doubt, Windows 7 users will find that the latest update to the Microsoft client operating system sucks less than Vista. And so they should after all the time, effort and budget line items put into the fixes (and let’s not forget the pain in the user base). One of Apple’s latest ads counter by recalling past promises with of Redmond for a better experience, which reminds me of a time when a certain Mac OS also “sucked less.”

However, I don’t buy Redmond’s “Lucky 7″ version count.

In the Apple ad, the Windows 7 character transforms into the following previous versions: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 95, Windows 2. This leaves Windows 1.0, which totals 7 versions.

I see the count differently than Apple or Microsoft: There can be no dispute until we head past flavors of Windows 3. Here’s my list:

Windows 1: Shipped in 1985 and nobody cared.
Windows 2: Shipped in 1987 and few cared.
Windows 3: Came out in 1990 and PC users cared, especially with Windows 3.1 in 1992 (And I include here the introduction of Windows NT, which I believe was given a 3.x number.)
Windows 4: Windows 95. Huge. The last DOS-based version.
Windows 5: Windows 2000. The transition to the NT kernel.
Windows 6: Windows XP. Still gotta love it.
Window 7: Vista. Incorporated a number of Longhorn elements.
Windows 7.5: What Microsoft is calling Windows 7.

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