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 [...]

Rafael Rivera did analyze the Windows 7 version that was handed out to the attendees of the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles and discovered that it contained features that were locked in the build by Microsoft. You might remember that Microsoft did a presentation of the desktop elements of Windows 7 at the conference [...]

Here is the list of all Windows 7 presentations at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. A click on a link will load the video in the browser. Microsoft Silverlight is required to watch the videos. Next year’s PDC has been announced as well: It will take place November 17-20, 2009 in Los Angeles.
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The German computer magazine Winfuture revealed in a recent post that Microsoft will extend Readyboost support in Windows 7. Readyboost was introduced in Windows Vista and was used to add flash drive caches of up to 4 Gigabytes to the system. The main intention of Readyboost was to provide lower end systems running Windows Vista [...]