Windows 7 Features Complete Features List with Demo Videos
Windows 7Windows 7 is next iteration of almost-monopolistic Microsoft Windows operating system, after Windows Vista.
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21.7.2009 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 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 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 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 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 Windows 7 Build 7600 Possible Final RTM
Number game started for Windows 7 again, Final RTM release is just around the corner but the Build number isn’t revealed yet. Internet is filled up with lots of forum and blog posts claiming the final build number. Wzor posted the final string of RTM 6.1.7600.16384.win7_rtm.090710-1945 - possible FINAL RTM build.
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12.7.2009 Windows 7 Build 7600.16385 Download
After the disappointment with 7600.16384 not being the final build, everyone has been busy at work digging for the latest build. Now it’s the Chinese who are leaking these final builds for Windows 7.
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16.7.2009 Windows 7 RTM 7600 download x86 and x64
Windows 7 RTM 7600 ( 7600.16384.090710-1945 ) download is here. Enjoy it!
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12.7.2009 Is Windows 7 finished? Apparently not, build 7600 is not RTM
Among Windows fans, here's how much anticipation there is for the completion of Windows 7: There's actually a Web site called Has Windows 7 RTMed?
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12.7.2009 Windows 7 Released to Manufacturing - RTM Build is 7600.16385
It’s time to bust out the champagne and give a toast to Windows 7’s future success; Microsoft has officially released Windows 7 to manufacturing, the build string being 7600.16385.090713-1255, as confirmed by a Microsoft spokesperson.
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23.7.2009 Windows 7 RTM Build 7600.16385 Screenshots Gallery
Windows 7 Build 6.1.7600.16385 is RTM. Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows Division, and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista's successor on July 22nd, 2009.
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26.7.2009 First OEM Boxes of Windows 7 RTM Build 7600.16385
Last week, just days after Windows 7 was released to manufacturing, Microsoft started handing the gold bits to original equipment manufacturers.
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27.7.2009 Windows 7 RTM 7600 x86 and x64 activator - time crack
Here are 2 ways how to activate Windows 7 RTM 7600 x86 and x64.
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14.7.2009 Windows 7 Build 7600.16384 RTM 100-Screenshot Gallery
At the start of this week, abundant speculation that Microsoft was going to release Windows 7 to manufacturing on the first day of the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, New Orleans, July 13, 2009, was confirmed officially by Microsoft's Bill Veghte, senior vice president, Windows Business.
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19.7.2009 Windows 7 build 7600.16384.090710-1945 RTM on Track, Compiled + screenshots
We previously reported that the RTM build was delayed due to show-stopper bugs, however, we now learn that they have managed to meet the compile target date of July 10th, and have compiled the RTM build, which, unlike what we previously suspected, is build 7600.16384.090710-1945, and not 7300.
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12.7.2009 Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 x86 EN Final Untouched DVD.iso
Windows 7 Build 7600.16385.win7_rtm.090713-1255 Final "Exclusive".
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16.7.2009 Windows 7 RTM Build 7600.16385.090713-1255 CRC and SHA-1 Checksums
The original CRC and SHA-1 checksum values for Windows 7 RTM Build 7600.16385.090713-1255 untouched (original) ISO from Microsoft are now out!
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24.7.2009 Download Windows 7 RTM 7600.16385 x86 and x64 Original ISO Image
The original untouched ISO’s of Windows 7 RTM Build 7600.16385.090713-1255 for both x86 and x64 from Microsoft are finally here!
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24.7.2009 Download Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM Build 7600.16385 Leaked Home Made DVD ISO
Together with Windows 7 RTM, Windows Server 2008 R2 has also been released to manufacturing.
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23.7.2009 How to Upgrade Windows 7 RC Beta to Windows 7 RTM Build 7600
Most of the users are still on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 and Windows 7 RC Build 7100 since those were the two Windows 7 Builds which was distributed under Public Preview.
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30.7.2009 Windows 7 7600 Golden Build - Retail + Windows Server 2008 r2 RTM
These iso's are compiled from the leaked image files and VHD's, so it's not a real RTM iso. These will probably be available within a few days...
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20.7.2009 Download Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode Final RTM 7600.16393
Microsoft’s virtualization solution for Windows 7, Windows Virtual PC (VPC) and Windows XP Mode (XPM) final RTM builds have been compiled and signed off as build 7600.16393 on September 22nd, 2009.
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9.10.2009 IE7 features
Internet Explorer 7: Now in beta testing for developers
The first stage of the beta process for Internet Explorer 7 has begun?developer testing! The latest version of the world?s most popular Web browser has been released for technical evaluation, feedback, and testing by software and Web site developers.
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5 little-known Gmail features you may not yet know about
When we began rolling out a new Gmail code architecture a few weeks ago, we also launched some new features to help improve the speed and convenience of managing email.
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17.11.2007 IE7 Security features
All web browsers make security decisions based upon URIs. Many security features, from Security Zones to the JavaScript same-origin policy, depend on the browser being able to consistently evaluate URIs to determine their components, and to compare them to other URIs.
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Windows 7 RTM - build 7600
Wzor is reporting that Windows 7 will RTM at build 7600. Released to manufacturing follows weeks of rumour and speculation on when Microsoft would
unveil that it has finished Windows 7. 7.7600.16384.090710-1945 is the potential final build number and we're still expecting the company to
announce the finalisation of Windows 7 at the annual Worldwide Partner Conference on Monday providing there are no last minute recompiles. Windows 7
has been in development since mid to late 2008 and build 7600 will mark the end of the beta phase and on to servicing and then general availability on
October 22.
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12.07.2009EC 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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15.02.2008Application 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:
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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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06.09.2008Windows Live Mail Beta
Refreshed
Microsoft on Wednesday began
rolling out Milestone 4 of its
new Windows Live Mail beta,
formerly known by the
code-name Kahuna. The update
adds support for Web browsers
beyond IE6 and implements a
number of new features such as
spell checking and resizable
window panes...
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01.12.2005Sparkle produces the first 80 nanometre Nvidia card
MANY businesses in Europe will
be closed from Monday till
probably January the 3rd 2007.
That hasn't stopped Sparkle
from announcing its Calibre
P768 card based on Geforce
7600 GT 80nm chip. I guess
Nvidia had to do it in 2006 as
it promised to its investors
it was supposed to shift from
90 nanometre to 80 a while
ago.
The new 80
nanometre parts will end up
clocked at 650MHz - 90MHz
faster than the previous 7600
GT clock. The chip behind it
is G73 but we don't know what
Nvidia calls the new 80
nanometre ones. The memory on
Sparkle card works at 1600MHz
and Nvidia hasn't changed the
chip memory support as it
still works with 128 bit
memory only. The card comes
with 256MB memory and has
twelve rendering pipelines. It
supports PCIe 16X interface.
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22.12.2006Microsoft Updates Live
Messenger Beta
Microsoft on Tuesday began
rolling out a new Windows Live
Messenger build to beta
testers, streamlining the
client's interface and adding
a number of new features such
as integration with Windows
Live Contacts. The release,
numbered 8.0.556, also
supports colorization of the
entire Messenger window...
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28.02.2006Eclipse 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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28.10.2009Understanding Windows 7 AppLocker
Daniel Nerenberg: Window 7 RTM has been available for just a few weeks now, but already IT Pros everywhere are diving into great new features. One of
the more exciting features introduced in Windows 7 is AppLocker. Many of you know about Software Restriction Policies, they allow you to block the
execution of a program by file name or hash calculation. You probably also know how it was a race to block applications in our network with these
methods. Users could change the name of the file, or applications updates so frequently that you would constantly need to generate new hash
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19.08.2009FileBox 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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06.10.2006PINNED: 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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28.02.2006War breaks out between AdBlock Plus and NoScript
A quiet war has broken out between the authors of AdBlock Plus and NoScript and money is on the table. Both are trying to outdo each other by
disabling each other's functionality. The issue at stake is NoScript's behavior of showing a changelog window whenever it gets a new update,
which of late has been updated rather frequently. And unsurprisingly, that changelog window is filled with ads that generate revenue for NoScript.
AdBlock Plus on the other hand is commited to blocking ads regardless of where they are from; and this has treaded on the tail of the author of
NoScript.
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03.05.2009Lo and behold, the Internet Explorer 8 toolbar
Long Zheng: First, a few words about the following screenshot. To be perfectly clear, this is not an original image. The window and its contents
(address bar, tab, window title, page content) have been heavily recomposited to better fit in a smaller image size as well as to obscure any traces
where this might have come from. I did not take the screenshot nor do I have access to the beta (so no emails please but do send bribes regardless).
Having said that, I can easily vouch for its authenticity...
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02.03.2008AIM 6.0 Beta
Public testing of AOL's
version 6.0 of its Instant
Messenger Client has begun.
This version is said to
replace AIM Triton. Some
notable additions include
screen name linking, Mobile
IM, Quicknote mail and an
integrated Address Book.
The following changes
have been made:
- Fixes
several issues reported
against the last Preview
release, including the various
formatting issues that
affected the IM compose field
and the My Buddy Info window
- Several UI changes to
this build, especially with
Enhanced IM features such as
Live Video, Instant Images,
Talk and Voice Chat
- Layout of the IM
window has also been changed
- Tabs have been
replaced with buttons at the
bottom of the IM window
- Web cam selector
which has been added to the
Enhanced IM
settings
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01.10.2006Bluetooth gives Spies a Window into your Life
Worried about your civil liberties and privacy? Then it may come as a shock to discover that you have unwittingly been allowing your phone to signal
your every move.
Bluetooth, a wireless link built into many cellphones, makes our movements trackable by anyone equipped with a PC and an
appropriate receiver. Vassilis Kostakos at the University of Bath in the UK placed four Bluetooth receivers in the city's centre. Over four
months, his team tracked 10,000 Bluetooth phones and was able to "capture and analyse people's encounters" in pubs, streets and shops.
Bluetooth is now more of a privacy threat than the more frequently publicised RFID chips, Kostakos says. "If people are worried, they should turn
off the Bluetooth function on their mobile phones."
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08.05.2008The other Google Search Site
Google has created a search
site without any Google
branding to test new features.
The site, SearchMash, has a
simple blue and white
interface with a search bar
and an option to click on
"popular searches." Once
keywords are entered, the
results page features links to
results running down the left
side of the page and the top
three image results on the
right side.
SearchMash also lets you
click on a result and drag and
drop it to change the order.
Also, when a link is clicked
on, the user is offered the
option of opening the listings
in the current window or a new
window, seeing more pages from
the Web site or finding
similar pages. Additional
results are added to the
bottom of the original results
page by clicking on a "more
web pages" link.
With SearchMash, Google
"plans to test user interface
ideas without Google's brand
somehow skewing the tests,"
Danny Sullivan, editor of
Search Engine Watch.com wrote
in a blog posting on Monday.
"It's pretty slick."
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05.10.2006Microsoft Expression Blend 2 December Preview Free Trial
We are pleased to present our next preview of Microsoft
® Expression Blend
™ 2. The Expression Blend 2 December Preview
lets you
create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications as well as Microsoft Silverlight
™-based
applications. Additionally, you can export content from
Microsoft Expression® Design in a format that you can use in Silverlight-based applications
created in the Expression Blend 2 December Preview. You may also find
Microsoft Expression Encoder to be helpful when you are working with video, Silverlight,
and the Expression Blend 2 December Preview. Learn more about
Silverlight and its
community today.
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07.12.2007Windows Live Toolbar Released
It seems that Microsoft is
rolling out their Windows Live
Services this week. First
Windows Live Gallery and then
Windows Live Mail Beta
Milestone 7, well now it's
Windows Live Toolbar. The only
difference... this one is no
longer beta.
Less then
an hour ago, Microsoft rolled
out its newest addition to
their slew of Windows Live
Services. The toolbar provides
many new features to
Microsoft's popular Internet
Explorer web browser, features
such as Page Search which
allows the user to search for
content on the active web
page, Anti-Phishing and
Anti-Virus protection.
And the most
anticipated of all the
features is the toolbar's
ability to integrate tabbed
browsing into the browser's
user interface. (Not available
in IE7) This allows you to
view multiple pages without
having to open a seperate
window for each.
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25.07.2006Vista Users: Beware of the Firewall
The Internet Engineering Task
Force recently held its 68th
meeting in the
beautiful-but-cloudy city of
Prague. At that meeting, Dave
Thaler, who works at Microsoft
and is a member of the IETF's
architecture board, the IAB,
talked about what Microsoft
ran into when revising the
Windows TCP/IP stack for
Vista. The result: Network
connectivity may fail when you
try to use Windows Vista
behind a firewall device
(Microsoft Knowledge Base
article 934430).
What's this all
about? There are actually two
issues at play.
After XP shipped,
Microsoft wanted to take the
opportunity to add some new
TCP features to
Longhorn/Vista's IP stack.
The most troublesome new
feature is ECN, or Explicit
Congestion Notification. ECN
is specified in RFC 3168,
published shortly after
Windows XP's release in 2001.
The idea is that when there is
congestion on the network
because too much traffic wants
to flow through a certain
connection, it would be good
if the router would tell the
hosts sending all this traffic
that there's congestion so
they can slow down a bit.
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05.04.2007Microsoft Pushes Secure, Quality Code
Microsoft is adding new code analysis features to its upcoming Visual Studio 2008 tools suite.
In Visual Studio 2005, the company
integrated a couple of static analysis toolsFxCop and PREfast into the tools suite under the names Managed Code Analysis and C/C++ Code Analysis, said
S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft's developer division, in a blog post Oct. 4.
Now for Visual Studio
2008, Microsoft's code analysis team is adding some new features, including Code Metrics, a new tool window "that allows you to not only get an
overall view of the health
of your application, but also gives you the ability to dig deep to find those unmaintainable and complex
hotspots," Somasegar said.
winbeta.org - 06.10.2007
Winsize2 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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