Downloaded Windows Automated Installer Kit (WAIK) for Vista so that I could use ImageX.exe to extract a file from a 2.5GB WIM file. (Windows Image File) Apparently WIM is the new hotness and CAB files ...

Microsoft is trying to address a key reason business customers are skipping over Windows upgrades by including a new tool in the next version of Windows that simplifies the deployment of the operating ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Windows AIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit) will help you customize, install and deploy the Microsoft Windows Vista family of operating systems. The Windows Automated ...

On October 12, Microsoft provided system builders with the Windows 7 OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) tools and related documentation they need to preload and customize Windows 7 on multiple new PCs.

Microsoft is promising that the process of upgrading PCs to Windows 8 will be more streamlined and will require a fraction of the time to install than earlier ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

There are a handful of specialized tools that make large-scale Windows 7 deployment much easier than with previous versions. Here's how to use them. It was a different world at the turn of the century ...

Even though Windows 8 is just a few months away from formal release, most businesses — about 70 percent, in fact — are still running Windows XP. And while Windows 7 has been available for nearly two ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...