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Official 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 | Continued
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Microsoft to Launch Windows Azure Cloud Computing Service With Windows 7

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’, rather than locally on a PC.
Moving Microsoft’s cash cows, Windows [...]

28Oct2008 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Windows 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 | Continued
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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 | Continued
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Windows 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 | Continued
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Microsoft 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 | Continued
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Windows 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 | Continued
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First 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 | 1 comment | Continued
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Windows 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
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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 [...]

21Oct2008 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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