Here;s a round-up of Microsoft Windows-related news things of be aware from your previous week:Windows seven battery-fix obtainable for LG machines: Keep in mind the dust-up earlier this 12 months concerning Windows seven and battery-life issues? Even though Microsoft officials said at that time that there weren;t any battery-related troubles of notice, it seems like there were battery difficulties with specific LG devices, including the R500 family of notebooks. Microsoft printed a Understanding Base post that factors to BIOS refreshes now out there from LG which will fix ######## “battery is low” reports. (Thanks to Ars Technica for the pointer to the KB article.)Price cuts for Windows Anytime Upgrade coming next week: Microsoft and its PC partners have been providing Windows users with an “Anytime Upgrade” capability,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, via which they can pay to upgrade their operating systems about the fly. Starting the week of April 5 (and through July 3),
Office 2010 Activation, Microsoft and its OEMs will be cutting the price of some of those upgrades on Windows seven PCs sold at retail,
Office Professional 2010, according to a new publish about the Windows Blog. Windows 7 Starter to Windows Home Premium upgrade prices will be cut from $79.99 to $49.99 (ERP) and Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional upgrades from $89.99 to $79.99 (ERP).MDOP 2010 refresh now offered: On April 1, Microsoft made accessible to business customers the promised 2010 refresh of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP). The latest refresh contains the final version of Service Pack (SP) 1 of Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-v) 1.0 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, plus localized client versions of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6. The refresh is downloadable for free for existing MDOP licensees via Microsoft;s Volume Licensing Service Center. Evaluation copies of the MDOP 2010 Refresh are out there via MSDN and TechNet.Microsoft readies updates to Hyper-V Linux Integration Services: Microsoft released a beta of an updated version of Hyper-V Linux Integration Services this week. These Integration Services are the source code Microsoft submitted and had accepted for inclusion in the Linux kernel (version 2.6.32) last year. The new beta adds SMP support for up to four virtual CPUs, integration shutdown, and Timesync,
Office 2007 Ultimate Key, for keeping guest OS time synchronized with the management partition. Microsoft officials said they plan to submit the updated Integration Services for inclusion in the Linux kernel,
Office Standard 2007 Key, as well.