All Posts Tagged With: "Microsoft"

post thumbnail

New UI Concepts to debut in Windows 7

The team responsible for the Windows 7 graphical user interface is planning to include several new User Interface (UI) concepts into the Windows 7 plattform. One of them is the graphical user interface widget Ribbon which users of Microsoft Office 2007 experienced first hand. Microsoft refers to the implementation as the Office Fluent Ribbon which basically describes the menu bar at the top.

 23Mar2008 | Martin | 3 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Windows 7 release date not yet official

There has been some confusion lately about the release date of Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 7. Some sources claimed that 2010 was finally announced as the official release data while others rebuked that story saying that Microsoft did not yet make such an announcement.

 20Mar2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail

Microsoft confirms Windows 7 2010 Release Year

It seems that Microsoft tried to ignore all the speculations and rumors about a soon to be published Windows Vista successor for as long as they could until they finally gave in and confirmed to Softpedia that the official release year for Windows 7 will be 2010, not 2009 and not 2011 as some other [...]

 13Mar2008 | Martin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Windows 7 submitted for Antitrust Review

Microsoft has submitted the first Milestone of its upcoming operating system Windows 7 to the committee that oversees its antitrust compliance in the US according to an Computer World article. A Technical Committee will conduct middleware-related tests to ensure that Windows 7 is not giving Microsoft an unfair advantage over third party software running on the operating system.

 13Mar2008 | Martin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Windows 7 Calculator

To be honest, updating those small applications like the calculator, notepad or the control panel would not be very high on my priority list for a new Windows operating system. Microsoft apparently thought otherwise and managed to squeeze in some major changes to programs like the Windows Calculator.

 24Feb2008 | Martin | 14 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Of Vista and Windows 7

Microsoft is having a problem, a huge one that is only becoming apparent these days. The announcement that the Windows 7 Milestone 1 was released to a first batch of testers which included an update of the release schedule made it clear that we might be less than two years away from the public retail release of Windows 7.

 22Feb2008 | Martin | 4 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Windows 7 Homegroup

One of the first - and few - new features that have been already implemented in the Windows 7 Milestone 1 release is the so called Homegroup.

 17Feb2008 | Martin | 3 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

A shaky Windows 7 video emerges

News about Windows 7 are rare because Microsoft tends to concentrate on Windows Vista nowadays and comments only when it is absolutely necessary. The last time I heard something about Windows 7 directly from Microsoft was when they announced the Windows 7 milestone release.

 12Feb2008 | Martin | 4 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

Windows 7 Milestone 1 Leaked ?

Not surprisingly, the first milestone release of Windows 7, the upcoming Microsoft operating system due out in late 2009, has already been leaked on the Internet. The milestone version was uploaded to some popular torrent websites and is already being widely distributed.

 6Feb2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued
post thumbnail

Why is the next Windows called Windows 7 ?

Windows 7 is the next operating system that Microsoft will release. It will be the successor of Windows Vista and was previously codenamed Windows Vienna. Well, Vienna is no more the new codename is Windows 7 which will be changed yet again once Microsoft comes up with another name for the next operating system.

 6Feb2008 | Martin | 12 comments | Continued
Page 3 of 4«1234»