All Posts Tagged With: "Windows 7"
Microsoft PDC 2008 Video
Microsoft has created a video announcing their upcoming Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 which will be held between October 26 to October 30 in the Los Angeles Convention Center. The most interesting news Windows 7 wise will be the beta version that will be handed out to attending professionals, something that we would love to [...]
14Oct2008 | Martin | 2 comments | ContinuedThe name is official: It’s Windows 7
Who would have thought that Microsoft decided to keep the codename of the next operating system instead of giving it a fancy name like they did with Windows Vista and more recently with Windows Mojave? It was just posted over at the official Windows Vista blog that the next name of the next Microsoft operating [...]
13Oct2008 | Martin | 7 comments | ContinuedWindows 7 Wishlist
Our sister site gHacks recently posted a wishlist of of the things they would like to see changed, fixed or included in Windows 7. Vista was a big step forwards, but I’m hoping that Windows 7 will include some more dramatic fixes such as:
Redesigned/More intelligent Start Menu
Windows’ menus are so big and clunky. I’m sure [...]
Can Microsoft Achieve A Sub 15 Seconds Boot Time With Windows 7?
Although they haven’t set it as an official objective, it seems Microsoft have set an unofficial target of achieving a sub 15 seconds boot time with Windows 7. On the Windows 7 Engineering blog Michael Fortin stats that:
In the lab, a very good system is one that boots in under 15 seconds.
The fastest I’ve ever [...]
11Oct2008 | Everton | 21 comments | ContinuedWindows 7 M3 Build 6.1.6801 Screenshots
The German news portal Winfuture published a series of 34 screenshots of the latest Windows 7 build number 6.1.6801. The Windows 7 screenshots do not show a lot of differences to previous versions or screenshots that have already been published. Most interesting are probably the closeup shots of the Windows Media Player, the Libraries that [...]
9Oct2008 | Martin | 7 comments | ContinuedWindows 7 Videos Of M3 Release
We have posted several Windows 7 Screenshots of the new Windows 7 M3 release yesterday which received some great feedback. Several videos were published as well which we would like to share with everyone in this article. The videos are showing some of the known new features that will make it into Windows 7, namely [...]
23Sep2008 | Martin | 10 comments | ContinuedWindows 7 M3 Screenshots Galore
You can be sure that screenshots will hit the Internet only a day or two after a release of a new Windows 7 build. It was the same this time as screenshots of new features and designs of Windows 7 were posted at the Think Next website. The screenshot of Windows Media Player light which [...]
20Sep2008 | Martin | 45 comments | ContinuedMore Basic Windows Applications To Get An Update In Windows 7
The first news are beginning to pour in after the distribution of Windows 7 M3 to a select group of close partners and hardware manufacturers. One exciting bit of information is regarding the basic Windows applications that ship with every version of Windows. News broke out earlier with the release of Windows 7 M1 that [...]
17Sep2008 | Martin | 2 comments | ContinuedWindows 7 Coming Sooner Than Expected?
Some rumors emerged the other day which basically suggested that it could very well be possible for a Windows 7 release in mid 2009 according to a new article posted at Internet News which mentioned that an internal Microsoft calendar listed June 3, 2009 as the planned release date of Windows 7 which would just [...]
16Sep2008 | Martin | 8 comments | ContinuedWinHEC 2008 Sessions Windows 7 References
The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2008 will be one of the few events that Microsoft will talk about Windows 7. The conference will be held from November 4 to Novemeber 7 2008.
Microsoft published details about WinHEC 2008 Sessions and there are several interesting references about the upcoming Microsoft operating system Windows 7. The [...]