All Posts Tagged With: "Microsoft"

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Engineering Windows 7

Windows 7 News! There is finally a sign of life, an official that is, from Microsoft about Windows 7. Microsoft kicked of the Engineering Windows 7 blog which is run by two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product. The interesting aspect of this specific Windows 7 blog is that it is maintained and [...]

15Aug2008 | Martin | 0 comments | Continued
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Microsoft Has Nothing To Say About Windows 7 Server

A Microsoft software development team is working on the successor of Windows Server 2008 just like the Windows 7 development team is working on Windows Vista’s successor. There is however a huge time difference between expected releases for Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server mainly caused by the expected release of Windows Server 2008 R2 [...]

11Aug2008 | 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 | 50 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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Microsoft: Why we are not talking about Windows 7 yet

It is clear since day one that Microsoft is using a different approach to communicating Windows 7. One could say they are extremely tight-lipped and do not reveal more than necessary to the public which includes online and offline press. The approach is not without risks and one of the greatest is that not saying [...]

27May2008 | Martin | 16 comments | Continued
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Bill Gates reveals information about Windows 7

Bill Gates revealed some exciting new information about the upcoming next Microsoft operating system codenamed Windows 7. He spoke at the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium in Tokyo and had the following to say about Windows 7.
We’re hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I’m very excited about [...]

14May2008 | Martin | 23 comments | Continued
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Microsoft Internal Memo ties Windows Live to Windows 7

In an internal memo for Windows Live Wave 3 which dates back to August 2007 several Microsoft executives, including Chris Jones, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live Experience, David Treadwell, Corporate Vice President of Live Platform Services and Brian Arbogast, Corporate Vice President of Mobile Services outline their plans for the next stage of Windows [...]

30Apr2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued
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Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6574.1

Chinese website Think Next published several new details about the latest Windows 7 Milestone 1 release that has the internal build number 6574.1. Just a few hours after posting the new pictures, videos and information they pulled them again but thanks to caches they are still accessible. About a dozen new Windows 7 screenshots were [...]

22Apr2008 | Martin | 26 comments | Continued
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To wait or not to wait, that is the question

The press and users are highly critical of Windows Vista and while it is understandable that the public moans about features like the User Account Control that was specifically implemented to annoy them it is not as clear as to why the press is taking such a critical stance towards the operating system. It’s the [...]

16Apr2008 | Martin | 10 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 backwards compatibility

Windows 7 will be different. Different from previous Microsoft operating systems that all had to ensure that applications designed for older versions of Windows would also run perfectly on the newest operating system. Backwards compatibility is a great feature and gives users one less reason to worry about when updating from an old version of [...]

9Apr2008 | Martin | 9 comments | Continued
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