Microsoft today announced a Windows 7 discount for college and university students — and the deal’s a doozy. In the U.S., for instance, students will pay just $30 for Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade if they order by January 3, 2010. The regular upgrade price is $120.
Which led me to thinking: Why not extend the [...]
It鈥檚 been around 30 months since Windows Vista hit the General Availability milestone, and in that time the OS has only managed to claw some 18% of the OS market share. Compare that weak market share to the aging Windows XP, which even today commands an impressive 73% market share. With Windows 7 now only [...]
Linux has long been the preferred operating system for rejuvenating older PCs for three reasons: It’s lighter weight than Windows, it’s secure enough to let you sidestep CPU-hogging anti-virus programs, and it’s free.
Windows 7 may shake up that thinking, being the first version of Windows that, judging from widespread reviews from beta testers, runs [...]
In certain scenarios, a failed Windows Vista upgrade to Windows 7 can throw the computer into a perpetual cycle of restarts, Microsoft informed. The Redmond company did not offer specific details on the causes of a Vista to Windows 7 upgrade failure, but it did offer a workaround for end users affected by this specific [...]
In the European Commission’s first public comment on the matter since Microsoft changed its mind last Friday, a spokesperson for the EC’s Office of Competition Policy told Betanews this morning that it has yet to make up its mind on the matter of whether Microsoft’s bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows is specifically unlawful.
This [...]
Back in April, we introduced the Windows XP Mode beta and after a few months of incorporating your enthusiastic feedback, today we are announcing the availability of the Windows XP Mode Release Candidate.
Download: Windows XP Mode Release Candidate
As you may know, Windows XP Mode is specially designed for small and medium-sized businesses to help [...]
When we announced Windows 7 had RTM鈥檇 on Wednesday, I posted that OEMs would receive the RTM code within a few days. Well, it鈥檚 been a few days! Earlier today, a handful of OEMs arrived in Redmond to pick up their RTM code.
In the past when a Windows release reaches RTM, we have traditionally given [...]
Wal-Mart will start selling a fully loaded laptop from Hewlett-Packard for a breakthrough price of $298 on July 26, but it may have a caveat: The Windows Vista OS included with the machine may not qualify for a free upgrade to Windows 7.
The laptop — a Compaq Presario CQ60-419WM — has attracted attention because of [...]
Microsoft’s transition from one big Windows version to another is always entertaining to watch, as executives start to distance themselves from the product they’ve been trumpeting for years, preparing to tout its successor as the one people really need to get. That phenomenon was on full display this week at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in [...]
Microsoft will sell approximately 180 million copies of Windows 7 by the end of 2010 is the forecast IDC offered in a study assessing the market impact of the next iteration of the Windows client that was sponsored by Microsoft.
The market analysis company indicated that Windows 7 would catalyze a brisk uptake, and that 177 [...]
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