Now that Windows 7 pre-orders are being sold for a big discount, Computer World is reporting that buyers are flocking to take advantage of these discounts, and that Windows 7 pre-orders already claimed Amazon’s top sales spots for software.
As of 1:30 PM ET, Windows 7 Home Premium, selling for $49.99 has claimed the number one [...]
We’ve just received a note from Neowin reader kilobyte1024 that let us know electronics retailer Micro Center is offering Windows 7 pre-orders for $10 less than the pre-order standard prices.
There is a catch though, you have to go visit one of their 21 US locations to obtain a coupon between today and Sunday. However, once [...]
Microsoft’s pricing of Windows 7 threatens to derail its efforts to move users off the aging Windows XP and make them forget the bad taste of Vista, a retail research analyst said today.
“I’m very disappointed in the upgrade pricing,” said Stephen Baker, an analyst with the NPD Group. “I would have much rather seen Microsoft [...]
A new rumor has sprung up that suggests Microsoft is looking at a third alternative for sending out copies of Windows 7: USB drives. There are currently two known ways to move to Windows 7 without buying a new computer: via retail or via download.
 The third solution would make it easy for users with netbooks [...]
Windows 7 has evolved as high as Build 7262 on the way to RTM. It is true that all development milestones past the 7100 mark belonged to the RTM-branch, but fact is that as high as Build 7232, not to mention earlier builds, the Release Candidate label was very much present across the operating system.
Only [...]
Delivering excellent audio playback on a PC is one of those “much harder than it looks” technical challenges. Unlike dedicated audio / video devices, PCs have a lot going on during playback of audio and the playback happens on an incredible array of hardware and software.Â
Many of you might be familiar with “glitches” that occasionally [...]
Just hours after a noted research analyst criticized Microsoft’s plans to limit sales of Windows XP PCs, the company said it would extend the aged operating system’s lifespan in the post-Windows 7 world to as late as April 2011.
On Tuesday, Michael Silver of Gartner took Microsoft to the woodshed over the company’s decision to let [...]
It’s been a week since Microsoft publicly acknowledged its plan to release a browserless version of Windows 7 that would be sold in Europe only, as a way to potentially appease European antitrust regulators.
Since then, I’ve gotten more than a few reader questions about Windows 7 E — and have come up with a few [...]
Check this post out from the forum of thewindowsclub.com! Member, “hackerman1″ has run a few tests on a really old (and I mean REALLY old) system just to see if Windows 7 would run on it… and it looks like he was successful! Here are the specs of the machine he used for his tests.
CPU: [...]
The head of the firm behind games such as Demigod is encouraging PC gamers to upgrade to Windows 7. It’s a boost to Microsoft after game developers reacted underwhelmingly to the Vista market.
Brad Wardell of Stardock, who has previously criticized Vista’s compatibility problems, told the Gamasutra site, “it would be good if everybody switched to [...]
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