Love Windows 7

I have 3 media centers in my home and I converted the main rig in my living room to Windows 7 Release Candidate at the start of the month.  Overall the experience has been fantastic, but one problem that was bugging me was that whenever I played a mkv file i.e. a HD file, I [...]

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 [...]

Action Center is a new Windows 7 feature that displays system notifications to the user from its icon in the Windows 7 taskbar. The service will monitor certain Windows applications and functions and display problem reports to the user. The majority of problems that can be discovered are security or maintenance related, for example that [...]

input.microsoft.com - Here’s your chance to help improve Microsoft products by submitting feedback that will be sent directly to the folks working on the features. 
The following feedback programs are currently open:

Network Monitor 3.3 - Provide feedback on Network Monitor 3.3 scenarios
Windows 7 Enterprise Scenarios - Windows 7 scenarios for the Enterprise
Windows 7 Scenarios - Provide [...]

Windows 7 IT Pro Guides is now available for download. These documents include:
1) A What’s New in Windows 7 Guide, covering many new and changed Windows 7 features of interest to IT professionals, including DirectAccess, BranchCache and other networking technologies, VHD boot and other deployment technologies, and AppLocker, Biometrics, and other security technologies, and
2) A [...]

Jumplists are one of the new feature that has been introduced by Microsoft in Windows 7. They basically display information - usually things like a history, quick access to program features or links - when right-clicking on an icon in the Windows 7 taskbar. Right-clicking the Internet Explorer icon for example would display the frequently [...]

There is really no reason to download the Windows 7 release candidate from P2P networks. While it might give a small speed boost it puts the computer system at serious risk of being subverted by trojans that have been build into these unofficial releases. There are two solutions to avoid falling prey to trojan infested [...]

The 3-app limit was probably the aspect of the Windows 7 operating system that Microsoft received the most criticism for. While it in effect was not as bad as it sounded it was something that received lots of negative press, many times from users who never tried to work on a Windows 7 Starter edition [...]

Microsoft has introduced an option to create power management reports in Windows 7. The reports can be generated over an elevated command line prompt with the command powercfg -energy. It takes Windows 7 about 60 seconds to analyze the current state of the Windows 7 operating system . The power management report will be stored [...]