Tomorrow is Liberation Day. At least in Down Under where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Senior Director Gianpaolo Carraro and Microsoft Director Tim Sneath speak on a three hour event beginning 3:30pm. Tim Sneath has the last 40 minutes of the event all for himself and will “show you how technologies like Windows 7, Live [...]

We previously mentioned that Microsoft locked some of the features in the Windows 7 build that they handed out to attendees of the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The reason why that was done has not (obviously) been revealed by Microsoft. Possibilities range from locking incomplete features from over-observant reviewers to releasing news about [...]

Windows 7 PC Safeguard is another new Windows 7 feature that recently came to light. The feature can be enabled on Windows 7 standard user accounts and has the effect that changes to the system will only be temporary. Microsoft is offering a similar feature in the form of Windows SteadyState for computers running Windows [...]

Microsoft has released a first draft version of the Windows 7 Reviewer’s Guide which is basically a first look type of guide that has been divided into three main categories that addresses certain user groups; The categories are Windows 7 for end users, Windows 7 for professionals and Windows 7 for the ecosystem. The guide [...]

There have been already several attempts at creating Windows 7 wallpapers but none were close to the original wallpapers that have been distributed in the Windows 7 Milestone 3 build that was given to attendees of the PDC 08 conference. Deviant Art member DJ Corny created a wallpaper set of two Windows 7 wallpapers; The [...]