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 [...]
One of the most hated features of Windows Vista is the User Account Control, or UAC in short. Many people found it annoying and chose to disable it right away, even if this meant exposing their system to additional security threats.
 In Windows 7, Microsoft has seriously changed this feature. Now users have a lot more [...]
Yochay Kiriaty has put together a series of posts to help you move your Windows XP application to Windows 7 on the Windows Team for Developers blog. The series began with Is Your Application Ready for Windows 7 RTM? and continues with User Account Control Data Redirection. Other posting are promised. But these two provide [...]
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 [...]
No matter what you think of Bing as a search engine, you have to admit that the daily homepage photos are pretty cool. They range from amazing nature photos to holiday sensitive events. Those images now have a new use, being wallpapers for your Windows 7 PC. One of Windows 7’s lesser know features is [...]
Have you notice that in Windows 7, when you move your mouse over the taskbar shortcut of a running application, it will take about half a second before the taskbar thumbnail appears? A waste of time, isn’t it?
So, how to make it faster? A registry hack will work.
* WIN+R and type in regedit to open [...]
I’m not sure how many people have noticed this before today, but I think someone at Microsoft deserves some recognition and geek credit for updating the “Choose Font” dialog window for the first time since Windows 95 almost 15 years ago. In Windows 7, this system dialog now presents live previews of the fonts using [...]
Despite the fact that Microsoft is now proposing to release full functionality Windows 7 with web browser “Ballot Screen” option for European Economic Area (EEA) customers, the original proposal, Windows 7 E which disables and removes Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), has been prepared with RTM of Windows 7.
Windows 7 E will be published and distributed [...]
When we announced Windows 7 had RTM’d on Wednesday, I posted that OEMs would receive the RTM code within a few days. Well, it’s 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 [...]
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