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Your Ohio IT Support team at Micro Doctor is handed an opportunity of a lifetime and invited to attend the HTG 2011 Summit to be held May 2 to 5 in Dallas, Texas.

The HTG 2011 Summit is a unique get-together for like-minded Global HTG Members who are part of an élite group of high-caliber SMB-focused Value Added Resellers (VARs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to get together in Dallas, TX on May 2-5, 2011 at the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas for their annual summit. Micro Doctor Inc. is proud to be a member of this élite group.   Over 550 technology professionals are registered to attend this year’s HTG Dallas event.

As a HTG member, Micro Doctor Inc. will be part of a peer group that will contain up to 12 non-competing and geographically separated companies. This summit will allow the group to work together to enhance each other’s professional and personal development in the Information Technology (IT) Industry.

HTG members have demonstrated skill and ability as leaders in the IT industry and in the communities they serve.  All HTG members need to make a substantial financial, time and personal commitment to take part.  The members of each peer group are involved in an intense quarterly two-day meeting that involves business reviews, benchmarking, technology evaluation, planning, sharing of best practices and goal setting.  Being able to execute on ideas and growth are a key trademark of Micro Doctor Inc. and other HTG members; in many cases, this ability to execute can be what sets them apart from other IT solution providers.

Besides attending the Peer Group meetings both President Mark Richmond and VP David Daichendt will attend IT training from Sonicwall, Microsoft and other vendors. They will also engage with hundreds of IT vendors that will be exhibiting at the show. Micro Doctor believes that we must invest in our company and training to stay current and provide the best IT support in all of Ohio.

The HTG Peer Groups Program is managed by Heartland Tech Groups LLC (HTG). Founded in 2000 by Arlin Sorensen as a business and personal development community, today HTG Peer Groups is highly recognized as being an international organization of leading IT solution providers that come from North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia/New Zealand and consists of about 250 IT solution providers worldwide.. Here you will find a select group of company executives working together and sharing resources and information to formulate and meet business goals such as strategic planning, process improvement and tools, and life-work excellence.

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Mark Richmond

It has been 17 months since the introduction of Windows 7 and Windows XP has almost been completely removed from the marketplace. So what is you have an older application that is critical to your business and you are not sure if it will run correctly on Windows 7. Well that brings me to the second compelling reason to buy your next PC with Windows 7 Pro. Windows 7 Pro and Ultimate have a feature called XP mode. XP Mode also requires a decent processor with Virtual

XP Mode will run the older operating system in a virtual environment inside Windows 7 for maximum compatibility with older applications. In fact, Microsoft is claiming that XP Mode provides near perfect Windows XP compatibility within Windows 7 . A minimum of 2 GB RAM is needed for XP Mode. XP Mode will utilize and require virtualization technologies in recent processors such as Intel VT Often hardware virtualization will need to be enabled in the system BIOS too. Now the confusion comes in for many owners of recent Intel CPUs. Even if you have a Core 2 Duo or Quad CPU, that doesn’t mean that you have what it takes to run XP Mode in Windows 7.

Micro Doctor supplies only VT enabled PC to its customers. Some of the value with dealing with us versus Dell is we got your back. Dell with sell you a $299.00 pc with Windows 7 Home  that will not run XP Mode. WE WON’T DO THAT!

Here is the latest list I could find of VT supported processors.

Intel Processors with have VT-x

it appears like all the currently shipping processors have virtualization except for some lower-end models. so don't buy cheap.

Windows 7 Home would be OK for a college student or home user who never brings their computer to the workplace.

Windows 7 Pro is the business standard and with features like Bitlocker (encryption), Remote Desktop and XP Mode is our pick.

Windows 7 Ultimate is Windows 7 Pro with Media Center functions like recording TV and controlling home media centers.

We have released our latest Platform for Business Level PC’s using Windows 7 Pro

Here is our new MDI Intel I5 PC offering.

Copyright 2011 – Mark Richmond, MCSE at Micro Doctor Inc.

So far so good. Internet Explorer 9 installed and no loss of functionality. Tried many websites, remote cameras, Facebook, and Exchange OWA. Goodbye unwanted toolbars. Lots of geography to view sites with reduced menu area. It even fixed Ingrammicro.com password reset problem. I used to have to use one of my employees PC's with Firefox on it to change password at this site, but now because Microsoft followed standards this time it works fine. It supports HTML 5 support, Windows 7 integration, a double-duty address bar that you can enter terms to search or a website address.

So get rid of Firefox and Chrome and upgrade to the new sleeker and stylish IE9 Browser, the new king of the hill!

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/products/ie/home

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