news microsoft smooths road vista apptimum buy

Qoute: Microsoft announced March 7 that it is has acquired application-transfer specialist Apptimum for an undisclosed sum. Formerly Eisenworld, Apptimum, based in Sunrise, Fla., began in 1998 and is best known for PC relocation products branded with the vacation-friendly moniker "Alohabob," named after the founder's father, who lives in Hawaii.
Microsoft's plans for the acquired intellectual property and technology assets of Apptimum are focused on streamlining the application transfer process between older and newer computers, with an emphasis on Window's Vista migration.
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Interesting purchase, I thought originally that Microsoft was developing a migration technology in house for Vista. My reason for believing this was after seeing a demo presented at WinHEC 2004 by Microsoft Platform Group President Jim Allchin showing what had seem to be a prototype migration tool for what at the time was named Windows "codename" Longhorn.
Alohabob has been around for a while, I first heard about it on TechTV as a highly recommended solution for migrating PC settings to a new computer. Its gonna be free for Windows Vista users, so you really can't beat that. What I think would be great is migration of registry settings, if Microsoft works migrating Registry settings to Vista from say.. a Windows XP computer, it would definitely be awesome. -- -- Andre Windows Connect | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta