All Posts Tagged With: "windows 7 news"

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A Close Look At The New Windows 7 Taskbar

Microsoft introduced some fundamental design changes in the Windows 7 presentation today. This article will take a closer look at what Microsoft has shown. One of the most talked new features is the new Windows 7 Taskbar. We already talked about the increase in size but Microsoft has revealed some interesting information about the taskbar [...]

 28Oct2008 | Martin | 30 comments | Continued
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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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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 | 0 comments | 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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Channel 9 To Offer All PDC08 Sessions

The PDC08 (Professional Developer Conference) will start in six days from now and will be packed with Windows 7 related sessions that promise to provide news about the upcoming Microsoft operating system. Not anyone can attend the conference which is held in the Los Angeles Conference Center from October 26 kicking off with a pre-conference [...]

 20Oct2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued
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Public Windows 7 Beta To Be Expected in December

Good news for everyone who cannot wait to get their hands on the upcoming Microsoft operating system. According to Mary-Jo Foley at ZDnet Microsoft is planning to run a public beta test of Windows 7 beta 1 at the end of this year. It was rumored that participants of Microsoft’s two developer conferences in October [...]

 16Oct2008 | Martin | 2 comments | Continued
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Where does the 7 come from in Windows 7

The question why the next iteration of the Windows operating system will be called Windows 7 is highly discussed among the technical inclined. The last days saw several posts pop up at various news sites like Cnet or DownloadSquad which all cited a post by Microsoft’s own Mike Nash who tried to explain why Microsoft [...]

 15Oct2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued
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