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Microsoft buys Alohabob

What took them so long?For years, Windows users have been complaining that the process of moving programs and data to a new PC is needlessly complex. A whole cottage industry of less than perfect software utilities has grown up to deal with the problem.Today, Microsoft announced that it’s buying Apptimum,...

Tags: Apptimum Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2006-03-07

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Has Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows Easy Transfer Companion?

More than two years ago, Microsoft purchased Apptimum, Inc., which had developed two system utilities for transferring programs and settings from one computer to another. Roughly six months later, around the time Windows Vista was released to corporate customers, Microsoft announced that it would release the software under a new...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Jim Allchin's a'bloggin, pee on Microsoft's Vista bus, and three migration tools. The Vista full-court press begins

I've heard this sound before. It's the sound of Microsoft revving up its engines as it prepares to launch an all out marketing blitz for a new operating system. Here are three new items that crossed the transom in the last 24 hours.It appears as though Microsoft has launched a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Jim Allchin

Blog posts 2006-10-27

The return of PC Relocator

My ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley notes that Microsoft has officially announced its soon-to-be-released tool to migrate programs from one computer to another:That tool, the Windows Easy Transfer Companion, will transfer actual applications from Windows XP PCs to Vista PCs using a cable or a network connection. Microsoft is planning to...

Tags: tool, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Easy Transfer, Windows Easy Transfer Companion, PC

Blog posts 2006-10-25