Archive for October, 2009

10
Oct
09

More on Windows 7

By azilliax Leave a Comment
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I have seen a number of people emailing  us asking about if we will be supporting the 64 bit version of Windows 7 with Deep Freeze. It’s looking like more and more people are eyeing installing a 64 bit OS for the first time so I can understand the question.

YES Deep Freeze supports 64 bit versions of Windows, including Windows 7

We have supported 64 bit versions of Windows for quite some time, and Windows 7 will be no different. You will need a recent version of Deep Freeze (6.x) to work properly on a 64bit operating system, and for Windows 7 you will need the version that we released last week.

08
Oct
09

Deep Freeze for Windows 7

By brentsmi Leave a Comment
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“Is it out yet? Is it out yet? Is it out yet?” That is what I have been asking our Dev and QA teams for the past couple of days. I’ve been driving them crazy…

They came through! Deep Freeze Standard and Enterprise v6.61 is now available. Customers with current Maintenance can download it and retrieve their current License Key from Faronics Labs. Everyone else can download an evaluation version from Faronics.com. Enjoy and let us know how it goes.

07
Oct
09

MacBook Pro unibody is tough

By brentsmi 1 Comment
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I have some time to kill before I can post an exciting announcement here, so I’ll tell a quick story.

My MacBook Pro 17″ unibody withstood some abuse last night very well. Specifically, my 45 pound son stood and then jumped on it. No damage whatsoever was done. However, I have to say: don’t try this at home! Here is the backstory:

I was at home last night watching a game in the living room. My 5 year old son came in and asked me where the candy was that I had bought him the day before. I told him where it was (on top of a cabinet in the front hall). I told him to go get it and let me know if he needed help. I admit I wondered to myself whether he would be able to reach it as the cabinet is quite high.

He came back a minute or so later with the candy, sat down on the sofa beside me, and casually said, “I couldn’t figure out how to reach it, so I stood on your backpack and jumped up. Wasn’t that smart of me?”

To make a long story short, while it’s debatable whether or not jumping on a backpack that contains a brand new MacBook Pro is “smart”, the machine was fine and my son got his candy. All’s well that ends well.