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Windows 7 right on track

Microsoft has once again confirmed that Windows 7 is right on track and that they are still aiming for a release date that comes close to three years after the deployment of Windows Vista. Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President, Online Services & Windows Business Group, said on Thursday that Windows 7 remains on track according [...]

25Jul2008 | Martin | 10 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Server

Windows 7 Server is another product that we can expect to be released approximately at the same time that Windows 7 will hit the streets. A first announcement, or shall we say Hello World, message has been posted at Brian Puhl’s website. Brian is an Active Directory engineer for Microsoft’s IT department and he published [...]

20Jul2008 | Martin | 2 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Expectations

When Microsoft announced Windows Vista everyone had high expectations for that Microsoft operating system and it’s pretty safe to say that Windows Vista could not live up to those expectations in many areas. Expectations for Windows 7 are therefor directly related to those that Windows Vista was not able to deliver.
Windows Vista was not a [...]

10Jul2008 | Martin | 44 comments | Continued
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An Update on the Windows Roadmap

A letter from Microsoft to Windows customers -that is business partners- , that has not happened a lot in the past. The letter gives Windows customers an update on three interesting core issues: The plans for Windows XP, the progress in Windows Vista and the view on Windows 7. The last part is obviously the [...]

26Jun2008 | Martin | 11 comments | Continued
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Windows Sensors

Two screenshots of the Windows 7 control panel popped up recently which were showing a new function called Windows Sensors. The current menus unfortunately offer no real clues about this new feature, the help simply states: Programs on your computer can communicate with your Windows compatible sensors.

Listed in the same menu are Windows Media Player [...]

21Jun2008 | Martin | 2 comments | Continued
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German Computer Mag Chip Windows 7 review

German computer magazine Chip reviewed Build 5619 of Windows 7. The article which is available online contains an extensive set of screenshots of the new operating system and a short German article detailing some of the changes of the new Microsoft operating system.
Their first impression was that the interface and design looked pretty much like [...]

20Jun2008 | Martin | 4 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6519 Leaked

It was clear that a release of Windows 7 would sooner or later make its way into the dark side of the Internet. Windows 7 Milestone 1 with the buld number 6519 was released on June 11th by a group calling themselves The Microsoft Beta Project. The nfo file, a sort of readme text file [...]

13Jun2008 | Martin | 13 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Theme for Windows XP

If you cannot wait anymore until the release of Windows 7 the Windows 7 theme for Windows XP might ease the pain of waiting another year or so until the new operating system is released to the public. The theme can be installed on any Windows XP version that has a patched uxtheme.dll file. If [...]

6Jun2008 | Martin | 14 comments | Continued
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Multi-Touch LCDs: Will they be ready when Windows 7 is released ?

The demonstration of the Windows 7 multi-touch feature was interesting but I think most users have asked themselves how likely it would be that they would be having a multi-touch LCD monitor in their homes at the time Windows 7 is released to the public. If you currently look at hardware retailers you notice that [...]

4Jun2008 | Martin | 17 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Presentation Recap

I guess everyone has already seen the touchscreen presentation from the All Things Digital conference a few days ago. While most eyes were glued to that main presentation it turned out that Microsoft was revealing more information than they wanted to reveal at that point. Long Zheng has already written a great article about the [...]

2Jun2008 | Martin | 13 comments | Continued
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