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Windows 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 | Continued
Good News! User Account Control Will Be Toned Down In Windows 7
Vista’s User Account Control isn’t as annoying as it first was when Windows Vista was launched because software developers have found ways to get their programs onto machines without UAC trying to put the fear of God into users. However, UAC still does pop up far too many times for many users liking.
Microsoft are taking [...]
How Many Editions Of Windows 7 Will Microsoft Release?
One of the major problems customers face when upgrading to or purchasing a copy of Windows Vista is the so called “edition chaos”. Windows Vista was released in so many editions that it was complicated to find the most suitable edition for one’s needs. Many users fear that Microsoft will continue the trend of releasing [...]
19Oct2008 | Martin | 14 comments | ContinuedBallmer On Windows 7 And Windows Vista
Companies who have not yet made the switch to Windows Vista are in an awkward position. Windows 7 is supposed to come out in late 2009 which would mean that a company skipping Windows Vista would save lots of money when switching right to Windows 7. The costs for testing and deploying Windows Vista and [...]
17Oct2008 | Martin | 4 comments | ContinuedPublic Windows 7 Beta To Be Expected in December
Good news for everyone who cannot wait to get their hands on the upcoming Microsoft operating system. According to Mary-Jo Foley at ZDnet Microsoft is planning to run a public beta test of Windows 7 beta 1 at the end of this year. It was rumored that participants of Microsoft’s two developer conferences in October [...]
16Oct2008 | Martin | 2 comments | Continued