Despite Windows Vista’s widespread reputation as a resounding failure, it is actually more popular with big businesses than predecessor Windows XP was at the same time after its release, a Microsoft Corp. executive said on Thursday.
“Adoption and deployment of Windows Vista has been slightly ahead of where we had been with XP,” said Tami Reller, [...]
The Windows 7 blog today showed off a collection of multitouch-exclusive softwares and games collectively known as the “Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7“. As many eager Windows 7 users with multitouch-enabled PCs (ex. Dell Latitude XT2 and HP TouchSmart, etc.) may have noticed, you can’t actually download or install these today.
You might be wondering, [...]
FInally, Microsoft has confirmed Vista/Server 2008 SP2 has been released and will be pushed to end-users via Windows Update at the end of the next month. And now, here is the download links.
Dowload Page:
Vista SP2/Server 2008 SP2 32 bit
Vista SP2/Server 2008 SP2 64 bit
Direct Download Link:
Windows6.0-KB948465-X86.exe
Windows6.0-KB948465-X64.exe
6002.18005.090410-1830_iso_update_sp_wave0-RTMSP2.0_DVD.iso
Microsoft has released an update to their Speech Recognition Profile Tool which makes it compatible with the Windows 7 operating system. The tool can be used to backup and restore speech profiles which comes in handy for users who work with speech recognition in Windows 7 and follow the Microsoft way of updating the operating [...]
It was a bit quiet after the release of the Windows 7 RC by Microsoft which somewhat seemed to have stilled the hunger for Windows 7 leaks. Up to now only one pre-RC leak with the build number 7127 was distributed through various P2P protocols and other means of distribution.
Earlier today Windows 7 Build 7137 [...]
Last week Microsoft sent emails to people who had downloaded the 7000 beta build of Windows 7 telling them that it would expire on the 1st June 2009.
Today they have sent further emails correcting this…
Special Beta Edition — CorrectionBecause you signed up to test the Windows 7 Beta, we recently sent you mail about the [...]
I have been a big critic of the new ’super’(yuk!)bar. Looking at things from an end-users point of view there are many things about it’s use and functionality that are just plain dumb. I could rant on for ages about this but for this article I want to focus on the biggest single flaw…
Look at [...]
Microsoft has released the System Update Readiness Tool for the Windows 7 Release Candidate that is fixing a problem that was discovered in the Windows servicing store which could prevent the successful installation of updates, service packs and software. The tool checks the computer system for these problems and tries to fix them if they [...]
Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a very small utility that lets you tweak some normally hard to get features within Windows 7 such as disabling low
diskspace warnings, speeding up thumbnail previews and turning off UAC prompts. The program only works on Windows 7.
Current Windows 7 Little Tweaker options:
Add “Copy To” option in files and folders [...]
Although many Linux users would have you believe that Linux is the greatest operating system ever, most of its variants are pretty ugly to look at. Ubuntu 9.04 users however, may be able to hide this ugliness by downloading the free Vistar7 Transformation Pack for Ubuntu 9.04, which will make Ubuntu look and feel a [...]
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