Windows 7 – 20 Features to Make Users Forget Vista SP1/SP2 and XP SP3
Microsoft is currently moving onward with the development of Windows 7, having passed Milestone 3 with the operating system.
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15.11.2008 Position Changer Add-In updated for Media Center in Windows Vista
Stephen Toub : Back in early 2005, I wrote an article for MSDN on implementing add-ins for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
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5.1.2007 Microsoft in pole position to buy AOL
Search giant Yahoo's decision not to buy AOL has left Microsoft as the most likely candidate to buy the troubled outfit.
Vole wants AOL to sink Google and is widely seen as the main candidate to buy the outfit. Google wants AOL to give it a portal to increase its advertising potential. At the moment, it makes more than 10 per cent of its revenues out of AOL.
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New Window Management System for Windows 7 Pre-Beta
The window management system is one piece of the Windows 7 graphical user interface which will evolve starting with the pre-Beta version of the operating system.
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3.10.2008 Windows Vista Build 5728 Availability Window Closing Soon
Nick White has posted this on the Vista team blog yesterday, thought I'd give everyone who is interested in testing the latest build of Vista a heads up on the limited availability.
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26.9.2006 Disable Aero Snap Auto Maximize and Arrange Window in Windows 7
Windows 7 includes a new feature called Aero Snap that intends to improve open windows management on the desktop. Aero Snap allows user to drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize the window automatically, or to the left or right side of the screen to resize the window to fill and take up half of the screen estate on the moved side automatically.
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19.5.2009 Hack to Activate and Switch Window in Windows 7 By Mouse Over Hover Without Click
When there are many windows open on desktop of Windows 7, normally users will click on another window in order activate the window into front or foreground and switch to the task or window.
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19.5.2009 Gates opens entertainment window
Though Bill Gates is in town to tout his hot new Xbox 360 to the hordes in attendance at the huge Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), his horizon extends to the Hollywood hills ? and beyond.
Video games are key, but the Microsoft chairman also has his hand in much of the behind-the-scenes wrangling over entertainment and the Internet.
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12.5.2006 Window Seizer 1.00 Beta
Windows Seizer and a standalone freeware utility which lists all the windows you have open on your PC.
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31.3.2007 Forget about the WGA! 20+ Windows Vista
Forget about the WGA! 20+ Windows Vista Features and Services Harvest User Data for Microsoft - From your machine! Thanks to odeeee for this post.
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1.7.2007 Napster hangs "for sale" sign in front window
Napster is evaluating the possibility of a sale by hiring of an investment bank. Citing "recent third party interest," the company has asked UBS Investment Bank to explore strategic partnerships or an outright sale of the company.
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20.9.2006 Forget about Vista – Onward to Future Versions of Windows...
In November 2006 and in January 2007, Windows Vista came to plug the gap that stretched all the way back to the late 2001 release of Windows XP.
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12.11.2007 Forget about Vista SP1, Just Go with XP SP3 and Windows 7
Windows Vista has managed to deliver an experience at the opposite pole of the Wow, becoming in this context a bitter disappointment for Microsoft.
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29.11.2007 Forget about IE8 – Onward to Internet Explorer 9 in Windows 7
Well, Internet Explore 8 is not even barely out the door and there has already been talk about Internet Explorer 9... The fact of the matter is that IE8 is not out the door at all.
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20.12.2007 Secunia round 3: Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
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30.10.2006 Microsoft Office 2007 RTM'ed, Window Vista 99% RTM
On Monday Microsoft will announce that the 2007 Microsoft Office system products have been released to manufacturing (RTM).
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6.11.2006 Forget Vista. Long live Longhorn client!
Should old, abandonned operating systems just fade away? Or is there some way to breathe new life into them – without running afoul of the copyright police?
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27.10.2006 ReadyBoost in Windows Vista: Does it Make a Difference?
USB memory keys are compact little devices that can store and transfer anywhere from 128MB to 8GB of data, all it takes is a USB slot.
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27.8.2007 Last OS Standing: Make the Most of Windows Vista
Now that Windows XP is no longer being sold by Microsoft, PC users will be stuck with Windows Vista. Here's a roundup of PC World's best tips for making Vista easier to use.
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3.7.2008 Forget Windows 7 pre-Beta, Windows Strata Is Coming
At the start of October 2008, during a presentation at CIGREF – Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises in Paris – Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer stressed the need for a new operating system beyond the Windows server and client platforms.
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9.10.2008 Ultimately, Touch Will Make the Killer Windows 7 Applications
Undoubtedly it is the ecosystem of third-party software solutions that make Windows the platform that it is today, sharing the operating system's success.
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12.11.2008 CES 2007: Forget the VGA Cable, Wired & Wireless USB Next
Quartics, based in Irvine, California, plans to link monitors to computers via wired or wireless USB connections. The company expects its partners to come out with USB monitors sometime in February 2007.
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9.1.2007 How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard, make OS X a little less smug
It's pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system.
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31.10.2007 OneCare Death to Make Room for Free Morro Antivirus for Windows 7
A future core antimalware solution will replace Windows Live OneCare, which, considering the price of a one year subscription, has already qualified for an alternative to free security software, come mid-2009.
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25.11.2008 Microsoft: Forget about Linux – Windows! Windows!
Microsoft revealed that Windows is the only choice when it comes down to the offer of operating systems available on the market.
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23.8.2007 Do not make Win 7 too Mac-like
Blogger Paul Thurrott has written a couple of interesting posts about the difference between “simple” and “easy” in the context of Windows 7.
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4.12.2008 Why Apple does not make a netbook
As netbooks continue their inexorable rise up the wish lists of gadget hounds, businesses and ordinary folk alike, the clamor for Apple to join the market continues to increase from all sides.
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5.3.2009 Is Google going to make Microsoft look good?
Why do we like Google? Is it because they are the “do no evil” company? Is it because they are not Microsoft? Is it because they make our lives easier through their search, email, and other services? The fact of the matter is that a lot of people from users, to developers, to workers, and to investors like Google. Heck, even I like google! (Look at the ads.)
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3.8.2006 Microsoft Blogs Make Room for Ads
Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging features are set for a major upgrade to incorporate a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Amazon.com, according to various sources.
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26.1.2006 How To Make a Custom Vista Disc AIO
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Make a Custom Vista Disc All In One in our forum.
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26.1.2007Microsoft: Forget iPhone, were still number two in business
Companieslots of themare still buying Windows Mobile smartphones, and Microsoft doesnt want to let iPhone-mania make them forget.
325 enterprises purchased at least 500 Windows Mobile phones in Microsofts most recent fiscal year, with many buying many more, said Scott
Rockfeld, group products manager for the mobile communications business at Microsoft, in a Friday interview.
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22.07.2008Winsize2 Remembers Your Preferred Window Sizes
Free, open-source utility
Winsize2 sets up a single keyboard combination to
remember, and change, the preferred size and positioning of your Windows applications. In other words, if you hate how your browser opens up to
seemingly random sizes, or full-screen instead of windowed, have Winsize2 running and hit Ctrl+Alt+Z (or, on some systems, with Y as the final key).
That locks down the apps' size and place, and hitting the combination again will over-write that preference if you like another position better...
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09.12.2008Application Specific Glass Colorization in Windows 7?
Microsoft might be introducing application specific glass renderings. The color of the glass frame around a window can be changed in Vista, but the
change is global to the system. The color of any particular window glass frame can not be set by choice. But, how about being able to change the
color/opacity level of a the glass frame of any application through defined events or commands? According to a Patent number 7418668:
A
method for changing a color value and/or level of opacity value of a glass appearance window frame for an application window is described. The method
includes steps of determining a defined color value and a defined level of opacity value to apply to a glass appearance window frame and displaying
the glass appearance window frame in accordance with the defined color value and the defined level of opacity value. A command may be received to
apply the defined color value and the defined level of opacity value to the glass appearance window frame, thereby applying the defined color value
and level of opacity value to the glass appearance window frame. Color values and/or level of opacity values may be changed automatically, be
application specific, and/or be changed in response to receipt of an input from a user to change one or more portions of a default configuration.
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06.09.2008Patent reveals Aero Glass reflections was also to change according to time of day
Is there a possibility that
we may see this idea as a
future Ultimate Extra or as a
feature in Vista SP1? Only
time will tell...
Dont read this if you are
easily disappointed or are
already disappointed with
Windows Vista compared to
Longhorn, since it just adds
more fuel to the flame. A
patent application filed
yesterday (May 31) reveals a
little more about the other
ideas Microsoft had for Aero
Glass.
The key
characteristics of Aero Glass,
colorization and reflection,
are explained in two separate
patents,
"http://appft1.uspto.gov/neta
cgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect
2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetah
tml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f
=G&l=50&s1=%2220070124692%22.P
GNR.&OS=DN/20070124692&RS=DN/2
0070124692>Glass appearance
window fram colorization" and
"http://appft1.uspto.gov/neta
cgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect
2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetah
tml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f
=G&l=50&s1=%2220070124691%22.P
GNR.&OS=DN/20070124691&RS=DN/2
0070124691>Dynamic reflective
highlighting of a glass
appearance window frame." The
latter brings up an
interesting idea, it writes:
As described
above, a reflective highlight
of a glass appearance of an
application window frame may
be configured to change during
a move and/or resize operation
based on a set of rules that
describe a reflective
highlight images placement
relative to the current
position of the application
window within a desktop space.
Concurrently or alternatively,
a reflective highlight may be
configured to change in
response to a time of day
event.
If youre
not familiar with the
techno-babble-patent-language,
what it means is that the
reflection in Aero Glass (the
white stripes) was designed to
change based on the position
of the application window on
the desktop, on the time of
day, or both.
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01.06.2007Microsoft 'Chelan': A new Windows Embedded platform takes shape
It's easy to forget as Microsoft wants you to that
the Windows Mobile
operating system is built on top of an embedded Windows CE core.
Windows Mobile 6.5 seemingly is built on a
customized version of Windows Embedded CE 5.X.
Windows Mobile 7 is likely to be built on the Embedded CE 6.X platform, I’d wager. (I’m hedging because don’t know either of these
things for a fact, as Microsoft hasn’t answered my questions about this.)
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14.05.200910 Cool Things about Vista you may not have heard of
With the release of MacOS X Leopard, the comparisons between Vista and Leopard are out in force. Windows Vista had a rough start and has taken its
share of beatings on-line including here at Neowin.net.
But after 9 months of availability, Vista has shaped up nicely and SP1 looks to
massauge most of the remaining complaints with Microsofts new OS.
Moreover, it is often easy to forget just how big of a release Windows
Vista really was. While Leopard claims "300 new features" most of those features are minor in nature (Lets face it, MacOS X is so good that
its in the enviable position of only needing to evolve, Windows Vista, by contrast, had to play a lot of catch-up). Windows Vista has closer to
10,000 new features when one adds both major and minor updates to the mix.
WinCustomize has an article outlining 10 examples of minor
features that rarely get discussed and yet make a small but noticeable improvement to the Windows experience over Windows XP.
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30.10.2007Eclipse Gets Interoperability and Next-Generation Experience on the Microsoft Platform
Part of an ongoing initiative to make its products more open, Microsoft Corp. today announced at the Eclipse Summit Europe new solutions that help
developers using the Eclipse platform take advantage of the new features in Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2, and reinforce Java and PHP
interoperability with Windows Azure and Microsoft Silverlight. Microsoft worked with open source companies, Tasktop Technologies Inc. from Canada for
Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2, and Soyatec from France for Windows Azure and Silverlight, to provide greater choice and opportunities for
developers working in heterogeneous computing environments and use a mix of Microsoft and open source technologies.
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28.10.2009EC Commissioner proposes doubling terms of performers' copyright
"Oldies" music remains popular among many generations, which could present a window of opportunity for record companies in Europe to take
advantage of royalties terms expiring after 50 years. Today, the EC may be looking to shut that window...
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15.02.2008Microsoft Shares Details on Windows 7
Forget another five-year wait
for the next version of
Windows. Microsoft has shared
a few details of its
next-generation operating
system, tentatively named
"Windows 7," due in
2010...
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23.07.2007Microsoft's failed case against Google + DoubleClick revealed
A set of policy position documents reportedly authored by Microsoft made the case that Google could use DoubleClick's advertising network to peer
into competitors' traffic -- a position the FTC apparently rejected last week...
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28.12.2007FileBox eXtender - Now Freeware
After a great deal of
development work we have sadly
concluded that it is not
practical to adapt FileBox
eXtender to work under Window
Vista - the architecture is
simply too different.
With FileBox eXtender you
can create a menu of files,
folders or drives that you can
access from a tray icon or
from whatever window is open.
It will add more buttons to
the top of your windows that
you can use to roll-up the
window, make it stay on top of
other windows or quickly
choose save location. You can
create sub menus in the list
if you want to. This provides
one click access to any
application or folder you want
to open. FileBox eXtender has
more features which you can
read about at the site.
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06.10.2006Why Windows ME deserves more respect
I have a confession to make, I used Windows Millennium Edition and I liked it. That doesn’t stop me making fun of it however.
At a
time where there was still a separation between consumer and enterprise operating systems, Windows Me was at the top of its class.
What a
lot of people forget or don’t even recognize to begin with is that Windows Me is actually a rather innovative and forward-looking operating
system. Instead, almost everyone focuses on its reliability problems which can be largely attributed to the flaky and inherently unstable Win9x
kernel.
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18.03.2008Mozilla Security Chief Calls It Quits
Window Snyder, the head of security at Mozilla Corp., will resign her position at the end of the year, she said in a blog post Wednesday.
Snyder, who has the kooky job title of "chief security something-or-other," is in charge of improving security in the Firefox Web browser
and other Mozilla projects.
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11.12.2008MS: Forget OPML, Use Windows
RSS
With the first public preview
release of Internet Explorer
7, Microsoft has outlined its
plans to bring RSS into the
core of Windows, opening up
APIs and a "Common Feed
List" for all applications
to access. The advantage, the
company says, is an end to
bothering with OPML thanks to
a unified storage for feed
data...
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02.02.2006Nvidia: We're ready for Microsoft this time (no, really)
When chalking up what went wrong with Vista, incompatible hardware/software always makes it into the Top 10 lists. So its understandable that the
Windows team is doing everything in its power to make sure third parties are ready with drivers and products that will work with Window 7 right out of
the gate.
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07.05.2009PINNED: WLM Build 566 Comming
Soon
Remember that little talk
about how the 562 build of
Windows Live Messenger was
just a preview; well here
comes the bride... I mean the
build. Build 566 of WLM is to
be released on February 28th
according to the WLM team
blog.
The
build will feature some
noticeable updates, mainly the
layout of the Contact List,
the tabs have now been
repositioned inside the main
window, the spacing between
each contact has been reduced
to allow more contacts to be
viewable in the window (= less
scrolling) and the avatar
preview and display
name/personal messages boxes
are finally back to the left
side again.
A
few of the minor updates
include the fact that the
menus are now only available
through the drop down menu,
meaning you can no longer
expand or minimize the window
frame like before. Also, the
ink/type tabs in the
conversation window have been
moved to the right side closer
to your display picture.
It has also been
announced that the WLM team is
working on new status icons
that both look good and show
the status at the same
time.
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28.02.2006Who needs Android? Windows Mobile gets the rest of Google's apps
Just about one year ago, Google finalized its plug-in for Windows Mobile that brought a Google search field to the WM home screen. Now, the app has
expanded to include Maps, Gmail, News, and more in the same small window...
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20.02.2009Yahoo sends letter to shareholders over Microsoft bid
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang cited the growing online advertising market and his company's position to take advantage of that growth as reasons for
shareholders to reject Microsoft's acquisition bid, he said in a letter to shareholders Wednesday. The letter, the contents of which Yahoo made
public Wednesday, stated that Microsoft's February 1, $44.5 billion unsolicited takeover offer was too low. Yang said that Yahoo is the most
visited site in the United States, held the top position in online display advertising, and counted almost one out of two of the world's Internet
users as its members. He also said Yahoo is the top mobile destination in the U.S.
Yang did not cite sources for most of his claims.
However, comScore Networks research from November 2007 confirmed Yahoo's online display advertising leadership, with almost 19 percent of the
market. The online ad market is expected to grow from $45 billion last year to $75 billion in 2010, Yang said, and that Yahoo wanted "to take
advantage of what we see as a unique window of time in the growth -- and evolution -- of this market to build market share and to create value for
stockholders."
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full story.....
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14.02.2008Mozilla admits Firefox is flawed just like IE
In a public mea culpa, Mozilla
Corp.'s chief security
officer acknowledged today
that Firefox includes the same
flaw that the company called a
"critical vulnerability" in
Internet Explorer during a
two-week ruckus over
responsibility for a Windows
zero-day bug.
"Over
the weekend, we learned about
a new scenario that identifies
ways that Firefox could also
be used as the entry point,"
said Window Snyder of Mozilla.
"While browsing with Firefox,
a specially crafted URL could
potentially be used to send
bad data to another
application.
"We
thought this was just a
problem with IE," Synder
continued. "It turns out, it
is a problem with Firefox as
well."
The argument
over responsibility for a flaw
that involved both IE and
Firefox began two weeks ago,
when Danish researcher Thor
Larholm argued that IE
contained an input validation
bug that lets it pass
potentially malicious URLs to
other applications. Larholm
called out Firefox's
"firefoxurl://" protocol as
one that IE mishandled. He
staked out the position that
IE was to blame, while other
security experts said it was
Firefox's fault...
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25.07.2007Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?
The day after it launched
the first ad in its $300 consumer-focused make-over campaign,
Microsoft is going public with some of the other planned Windows-branding fixes it has in the pipeline.
Microsoft isn’t
opening brick-and-mortar Microsoft stores. Instead, this holiday season,
Microsoft will be hiring 150 or so
Microsoft-trained “Windows gurus” to work in retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help explain how Windows, Windows Live
services and Windows Mobile PCs and devices work. The gurus will “assist PC buyers, similar to the Nordstrom model of ‘personal
shoppers,’ where the focus is more on informing and supporting the customer than on the actual sale,” according to Microsoft.
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