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Martin Brinkmann is an Online Journalist from Germany who discovered his love for technology in high school. He is currently working as a freelancer for several publications and runs his own Internet website Ghacks
A Close Look At The New Windows 7 Taskbar
Microsoft introduced some fundamental design changes in the Windows 7 presentation today. This article will take a closer look at what Microsoft has shown. One of the most talked new features is the new Windows 7 Taskbar. We already talked about the increase in size but Microsoft has revealed some interesting information about the taskbar [...]
28Oct2008 | Martin | 30 comments | ContinuedOfficial Windows 7 M3 Screenshots
Paul Thurrott started the day by posting new screenshots of Windows 7 that Microsoft provided to anyone attending the PDC08 conference in Los Angeles. The screenshots are from a different build than the one getting distributed by Microsoft on the PDC08. Paul managed to post a batch of his own screenshots as well. We managed [...]
28Oct2008 | Martin | 26 comments | ContinuedWindows Server 2008 R2 To Be Shown At PDC 08
Microsoft has big plans for the ongoing PDC 08 conference. The company will not only present its upcoming operating system Windows 7 to the public but also the server version Windows Server 2008 R2. Participants of the conference will receive both a M3 release build of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The news [...]
28Oct2008 | Martin | 3 comments | ContinuedWindows 7 M3 First Screenshots Appear
No one is allowed to talk about the changes of the Windows 7 M3 client that will be presented tomorrow by Microsoft. The German magazine WinFuture got hold of two rather blurred images of the new interface which give a first impression of the changes in that version. The screenshots seem to confirm that the [...]
27Oct2008 | Martin | 9 comments | ContinuedWindows 7 Privacy Statement Hints At Editions and Features
The Windows 7 Pre-release (M3) Privacy Supplement was just published on the Microsoft homepage. It contains several interesting information that one can draw out of the document. Several of the features - old and new - of Windows 7 are addressed in the large document. Two editions of Windows 7 are specifically mentioned in the [...]
27Oct2008 | Martin | 5 comments | ContinuedMicrosoft Launches Two New Windows 7 Blogs
Neowin posted the information that Microsoft has launched two new blogs centered around their upcoming operating system Windows 7. The Windows 7 Blog For Developers (link) will “mainly focus on the development aspects of Windows 7 by providing valuable content for developers.” while the blog with the name Springboard Series - The Resource for Windows [...]
27Oct2008 | Martin | 1 comment | ContinuedWindows 7 Theme
One of the main focus points of Microsoft in the creation of Windows Vista was to make it visually appealing. They spend lots of effort to add eye-candy to the operating system which made many users who wanted a visually pleasing operating system happy. Other users however disliked the eye candy because they associated huge [...]
26Oct2008 | Martin | 10 comments | ContinuedFirst Security Patch For Windows 7 Pre-Beta
Security sites around the web reported on a out-of-cycle patch that Microsoft would release on October 23 that would fix a security vulnerability affecting most Windows operating systems. The vulnerability was rated critical on Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 and important on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. According to [...]
23Oct2008 | Martin | 0 comments | ContinuedWindows 7 Release Date: One Piece A Time
Microsoft is still not releasing many information about Windows 7 and it feels more like connecting the different pieces of a puzzle than anything else to discover news that have not already been covered on multiple other websites. We all suspected for a while that the last quarter of 2009 is the supposed release data [...]
22Oct2008 | Martin | 5 comments | ContinuedChannel 9 To Offer All PDC08 Sessions
The PDC08 (Professional Developer Conference) will start in six days from now and will be packed with Windows 7 related sessions that promise to provide news about the upcoming Microsoft operating system. Not anyone can attend the conference which is held in the Los Angeles Conference Center from October 26 kicking off with a pre-conference [...]
20Oct2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued