Love Windows 7

Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is an upcoming version of Microsoft Windows, a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, netbooks and media center PCs.
Microsoft has stated that it plans to release Windows 7, “in time for the holiday season” [...]

A Microsoft spokesperson just confirmed for me the news I first read a few minutes ago in a story by Ina Fried of CNET News.
The official date on which Windows 7 will be available for general purchase is October 22, 2009. The RTM code will be delivered to partners at the end of July.
In addition, Microsoft [...]

Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that it will offer consumers “special deals” on an upgrade to Windows 7 if they buy a Vista-equipped PC before the launch of the new operating system.
Earlier in the day, Microsoft announced that it would start selling Windows 7 on Oct. 22, and acknowledged that it would have some kind of [...]

When we posted the new “inbox” desktop backgrouns, the reactions showed just how personal, personalization can be.  Building on that theme of personalization (pun intended), we wanted to share some of the work we did on themes in Windows 7. 
We’ve shared data about customization in previous releases of Windows and this post builds on that.  [...]

Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) were the big winners last month in the browser share sweepstakes, according to Web measurement company Net Applications.
Chrome’s usage share climbed by 0.4 of a percentage point, from 1.4% to 1.8%, the largest one-month increase since the browser debuted last September. The gain represented a 27% surge [...]

There’s all sorts of tech on show at this year’s COMPUTEX, but two items are clearly prevalent - Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system and touchscreen all-in-one PCs.
If 2008 was the year of the netbook, 2009, it seems, is shaping up to be the year of the touch-enabled nettop. Although Taiwan’s annual trade show doesn’t officially [...]

Microsoft’s Murray Vince yesterday revealed that Windows 7 features native support for GPU accelerated video transcoding.
Vince announced this interesting development during Nvidia’s pre-Computex shindig, where he joined Drew Henry on stage.
The implementation was seamless as Henry simply dragged and dropped the high definition video file onto a Sony Walkman portable media player in Windows Explorer, [...]

There are currently three Windows operating systems which you can legitimately choose from to use on your computer. Windows XP is still the OS of choice for many, despite being almost eight years old. While Vista is still the choice for anyone buying a new PC today. But Windows 7 is just around the corner [...]

Windows Vista’s market share growth has slowed since Microsoft released public versions of Vista’s successor, Windows 7, according to data published today by Web metrics company Net Applications.
For the fourth month in a row, Vista’s gains in May were lower than its 12-month average. That stretch coincides with the availability of Windows 7 beta in [...]

Sure, Windows 7 isn’t expected to RTM until sometime around August, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft’s hardware and software partners aren’t already hard at work. Currently they’re submitting their products’ Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 compatibility status or support plans.
Microsoft determines a product’s compatibility status for the Compatibility Center by looking at whether [...]