Wide Angle Zoom You can just feel Apple getting ready with a new slate of “I’m a Mac” ads featuring Windows 7. They’ll have to roll off Microsoft like Teflon.
Poor Windows 7. Months before its official launch, it’s already fighting to live down the reputation of its older siblings. It’s bad enough it has to [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Top lists that cover various aspects of the Windows 7 operating system seem to be in high demand lately. Everton just linked to an article that contained 70 useful Windows 7 Tips and Tricks which is definitely worth the read. The next top list has been compiled by Tech Republic. It is called 10 Cool [...]
Microsoft have reported that 40% of PC users in the Gulf have downloaded and are running the windows 7 Release Candidate, and that by the time the product launches 80% of Windows users will have tried at least one build.
“According to our estimates approximately 40 per cent of our customers - including enterprise, mid-market and [...]
The Windows 7 Beta program has been the strongest I’ve ever seen. The Windows 7 RC1 is so good I have to remind myself that it’s not a full release, and that it’s supposed to contain bugs. I’m now running it on all of my PCs, and will probably do so well beyond the official [...]
The average selling price for Windows 7 when it launches is expected to be more than both Windows XP and Windows Vista when they were launched. In the current recession many of us are having to justify purchases that in the past we would have just made automatically, and are probably questioning whether upgrading to [...]
Microsoft is sending out emails to users who have downloaded the Windows 7 Beta from the official download site. The emails contain information about the expiration date of the Windows 7 Beta and links to downloads of the release candidate.
The expiration date of Windows 7 Beta is August 1, 2009 but problems will start to [...]
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