http://windows7news.com The Latest Microsoft Windows 7 News, Milestone, Screenshots & Rumours Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:21:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a new job offering Microsoft is looking for a Marketing Manager. The job description mentions the requirement to "communicate and generate Partner excitement for Windows Vista Business, Windows 7 for Small Business (future), Office Ready, Server channel programs, and new Server launches with Windows Small Business Server & Essential ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/21/windows-7-for-small-business/ The Engineering Windows 7 blog is finally starting to integrate the operating system into their articles. Most of the previous articles that have been posted at the website were about theoretical aspects and things Microsoft learned from past operating systems. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a very detailed article about the ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/21/the-windows-7-taskbar/ The German online magazine Winfuture (German) got their hands on the latest Windows 7 build with the build number 6936 that got distributed to the small circle of pre-beta testers. The build is identical with the build that was used to demonstrate Windows 7 at the WinHec conference. That build ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/20/windows-7-build-6936-hints-at-windows-7-beta/ Long is again at the forefront of discovering new and exciting features that have been packed into the Windows 7 M3 build that was given out last month to a group of professionals. The build quickly made its way on various P2P networks and is now available to a large ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/19/windows-7-search-federation/ Zdnet posted a very detailed photo gallery outlining the current visible changes that Microsoft has implemented in Windows 7. The release of Windows 7 (Windows 7 M3 6801) that has been handed out to attendees of the Microsoft Professional Developers conference. The photo gallery is divided on 32 different pages ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/18/detailed-photo-gallery-of-windows-7-changes/ Microsoft published a press release today in which they took a look at the reactions from developers and professionals that attended the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last month. Although the majority of the press release addressed Windows Azure some passages referred to Windows 7. About the reception of Windows ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/17/microsoft-developers-making-plans-for-windows-azure-windows-7/ If you are a Windows Vista user and cannot wait another year before Windows 7 arrives you might want to pimp your operating system to look and feel like Windows 7. The following article is a guideline on how to tweak several areas of the Windows Vista interface to resemble ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/17/turn-windows-vista-into-windows-7/ The hunt for the codec is one that many Windows users know. Windows right out of the box supported only a handful of codecs and it always required the installation of addition audio and video codecs to make many of the videos on the Internet playable. This changed a bit ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/15/windows-7-to-support-popular-video-formats/ The new and improved calculator was one of the first new features of Windows 7 that came to light. Everyone thought that this was a much needed improvement to one of the basic utilities that shipped with almost any version of the Windows operating system since Windows 3.11. Windows Vista ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/15/run-windows-7-calculator-in-windows-vista/ Windows Vista and Windows 7 are related products, some users would even go so far to describe Windows 7 as an update to Windows Vista. One aspect that could fuel these rumors is that it is possible to use the application Vlite on Windows 7. Vlite is a software program ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/14/windows-7-lite/ Long posted another interesting find today. He discovered that Windows 7 supports Touch Panning which might be known by some as kinetic scrolling. It obviously requires a device that offers touch support. Users of Apple's iPod or iPhone already know the feature that enables them to scroll with their hands. ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/13/windows-7-touch-panning/ Windows Vista users had the option to run an application as the system administrator instead of the currently logged in user. There was however no option in the context menu to run the application as a different user. The current build of Windows 7 has this feature which should come ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/11/windows-7-extends-run-as-options/ Aero Snap was one of the new features of Windows 7 that got quite a bit of coverage lately. It is actually a pretty basic feature that makes it possible to move windows to the left, right or top screen to display them on half the screen (left or right) ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/11/windows-7-aero-snap-for-windows-xp-or-windows-vista/ Lifehacker tested the boot speed of Windows 7, Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 and Windows XP Professional SP3 on a triple-boot system. All tested operating systems were 32-bit versions. Test 1 measured the boot time from boot choice to a fully loaded desktop while test 2 measured the time from boot ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/11/windows-7-boot-speed-benchmark/ Microsoft has locked some of the upcoming features in the Windows 7 release that they distributed among attendees of the Professional Developers Conference 08 in Los Angeles. The build has made its way on various P2P sites shortly thereafter and is now in the hands of thousands of additional users ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/10/unlock-locked-features-in-windows-7-m3/ Windows Complete PC Backup is a feature available in Windows Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions that allows users to completely restore their PC environment including the operating system, installed programs, user settings, and data files. The feature in Windows Vista was limited to backing up data on a different ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/10/windows-complete-pc-backup/ Microsoft is planning a Windows 7 Tech Guarantee Program which will make it possible for Windows Vista owners to upgrade their operating system to Windows 7. They have not released many information yet about the program but some have been published at Neowin today. Not all editions of Windows Vista will ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/08/windows-7-tech-guarantee-program/ Microsoft has released information about the so called language waves of Windows 7. Windows 7 will be released in a total of eight language waves which basically define when a localized edition of Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing. Please take a look at the table below for information ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/08/windows-7-language-waves/ Microsoft was very shy about pinpointing the Windows 7 release date in the past. They did provide some clues like that it would be released about three years after the release of Windows Vista, or that Windows 7 would be released before the PDC conference in 2009. There was still ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/07/windows-7-to-be-released-for-2009-holiday-season/ New Windows 7 features are revealed every day. This one is actually a bit older but has not been mentioned yet here at Windows 7. Screen docking is popular feature that is currently only available by installed third party software to previous versions of the Windows operating system. The feature basically ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/06/windows-7-screen-docking/ WinHec 2008 just started and the keynote is available in three different quality streams that can be watched online. The keynote is available as a 100K, 300K or 750K video stream. The Keynote begins with a few information for the attendees of the WinHec 2008 conference and an introduction of ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/06/winhec-2008-keynote-summary-and-recordings/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/05/microsoft-liberation-day-online-streams/ The Microsoft Windows 7 development team seems to have put a lot of emphasize on smaller changes to the operating system that can have a big impact. We have already seen a few features that fall into that category like the Windows 7 Wallpaper Changer, the Windows 7 PC Safeguard ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/05/windows-7-aero-shake/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/05/next-locked-windows-7-features-turns-up-desktop-slideshows/ It took only some time until someone decided to provide access to the Windows 7 wallpapers that were supplied with the Windows 7 M3 build that was handed out to attendees of the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Someone uploaded all Windows 7 wallpapers to the Internet and they ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/04/windows-7-wallpapers/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/04/windows-7-pc-safeguard/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/03/enable-new-windows-7-taskbar-in-windows-7-m3-build-6801/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/02/windows-7-reviewers-guide/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/02/all-windows-7-pdc-08-presentations/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/02/windows-7-wallpaper/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/11/01/windows-7-to-extend-readyboost/ There is not probably a single Windows Vista user who is not annoyed by Vista's User Account Control. Not many computer users on the other hand would say that the UAC is a waste of resources and not beneficial to system security. What Microsoft did not make right in Windows ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/31/a-close-look-at-the-windows-7-user-account-control/ The options to install, uninstall and manage fonts has not been changed in a Windows operating system since Windows 95. At least not in a remarkable way. The only solution so far was to rely on third party applications that would offer font previews and a comfortable solution to install ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/31/windows-7-introduces-new-font-management/ Steven Sinofsky sat down with some convention attendees for a Q&A session. An interesting aspects of this discussion was if it would be possible to install Windows 7 on a notebook with touch capabilities (yes). Windows 7 boot time was another interesting topic. Microsoft changed the way services work in ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/31/qa-with-steven-sinofsky-at-pdc-08/ A new entry with the name ClearType Text Tuner is available in the Windows 7 Control Panel. Previous operating systems provided users with an on and off switch for ClearType but no configuration options beyond that. Microsoft Powertoys provided access to a ClearType Tuner which provided access to a wizard ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/30/cleartype-text-tuner-integrated-into-windows-7/ Multi-touch was another known feature of Windows 7 which was already demoed in May of this year. The PDC 08 did not fail to provide additional information to the multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7. New Hardware and APIs ensure that all applications that run on Windows 7 can provide multi-touch ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/29/windows-7-multi-touch-video/ Windows 7 Sensors was one of the first new functions that was spotted in one of the early builds of Windows 7 although it was not clear what the feature was all about. Some light was shed on Windows 7 Sensors at the PDC 08 conference in Los Angeles. Now ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/29/windows-7-sensors-explained/ The second video about Windows 7 that has been released by Channel 9 shows an interview with Mark Russinovich about the technical aspects of the Windows 7 operating system. It should be interesting to software developers and users who are interested in the Windows 7 Kernel. Related posts:Windows 7: Find and ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/29/mark-russinovich-inside-windows-7/ Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 1 - The User Experience was one of the first Windows 7 videos of the PDC 08 conference that have been uploaded to Channel 9. The video shows David Washington and Paul Gusmorino demonstrate the changes and enhancements in Windows 7 in regard to ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/29/windows-7-find-and-organize-part-1-the-user-experience/ Long Zheng posted an interesting screenshot taken from the presentation by Anantha Kancherla which was about Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware. It contained a sheet that mentioned that Windows 7 will cut memory usage in the graphics system of the Windows 7 Desktop Windows Manager by ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/29/windows-7-desktop-windows-manager-cuts-memory-usage-by-50/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/28/a-close-look-at-the-new-windows-7-taskbar/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/28/official-windows-7-m3-screenshots/ [caption id="attachment_434" align="alignnone" width="100" caption="Windows Azure"][/caption] The news is coming in thick and fast from PDC08.  Microsoft have just announced that Windows Azure, a new cloud computing service, will be launched at the same time as Windows 7.  Windows Azure will allow data and applications to exist online in the 'Cloud', ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-to-launch-windows-azure-cloud-computing-service-with-windows-7/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/28/windows-server-2008-r2-to-be-shown-at-pdc-08/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-m3-first-screenshots-appear/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/27/windows-7-privacy-statement-hints-at-editions-and-features/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/27/microsoft-launches-two-new-windows-7-blogs/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/26/windows-7-theme/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/23/first-security-patch-for-windows-7-pre-beta/ 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 ... http://windows7news.com/2008/10/22/windows-7-release-date-one-piece-a-time/