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 for the ecosystem. The guide [...]

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 end systems running Windows Vista [...]

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 Windows. In Windows Vista services [...]

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 features to the user. Basis [...]

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 finding and organizing files. They [...]