Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. Its about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer.
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19.1.2009 AeroBar: Show Titlebar Text in Explorer Windows Under Windows Vista
Have you ever wondered why Explorer Windows don't show titles in Windows Vista?
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13.2.2009 Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 reaches RTM
Microsoft has finally finished and compiled the RTM version of Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008. The full version string being 6.0.6006.18005, which company officials have confirmed is the final RTM version of SP2.
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28.4.2009Intel's Core-fueled Xeon MP arrives at 2.93GHz
Intel finally looks set to
carry its Core processor
architecture to midrange and
high-end servers with the
release of a new Xeon
code-named Tigerton.
The chip maker today
revealed that the Tigerton
chip will officially be sold
as the Quad-Core Xeon 7300
series and will rely on the
7300 chipset code-named
Clarksboro. The fresh Xeon
should provide twice the
performance of its
NetBurst-based predecessor.
The fastest version of the
Xeon 7300 will arrive at
2.93GHz, and Intel will sell a
low-voltage part that chews
through 50W. (Add the chipset
and chip together, and you get
the "Caneland" platform -
for what it's worth.)
Customers started
receiving seed systems in
June. Intel will ramp into
whole-hog mode sometime during
the third quarter...
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25.07.2007Intel: Caneland turning AMD's server momentum around
Intel is gearing up to launch the its Xeon 7300 processor, the last piece of its Core micro-architecture strategy. It's a critical product that is
designed to attack AMD in a market that is still dominated by the green team. But Intel believes that is going to change.
An
internal newsletter article, Intel is preparing its employees for the launch of the Caneland platform and the Xeon 7300 processor, previously
code-named "Tigerton". The company chooses aggressive phrases to stress its confidence that the MP processor will successfully "tackle" what is
AMD's only remaining bastion today.
Intel acknowledged that AMD "has gained market share versus Intel for several quarters
based on MP platforms and its Hypertransport architecture," which enabled the company to convince many big OEMs to switch to the Opteron processor.
However, Intel said that the Xeon 7300 platform is "key to helping turn this AMD momentum around". "We're excited to hear some of AMD's largest
OEMs now calling the Caneland platform their 'virtualization platform of choice'," the article states. ..
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05.09.2007Intel launches quad-core products for multi-processor server
Intel has finally completed its transition to replace Netburst with its Core microarchitecture by launching its Caneland platform for multi-socket
(4-way) servers and six Quad-Core Xeon 7300 series (Tigerton) CPUs. At the heart of Caneland is the Intel 7300 chipset which allows each of the four
sockets to be connected to its own 1066MHz FSB. This design offers at lot of bandwidth, but it also shows how close to the limit Intel is pushing is
FSB architecture, and how much the company needs to switch to its Common System Interface (CSI) to pass the bottleneck.
The 7300 chipset
also allows memory capacity to be quadrupled to 256GB across 32 DIMMs. Those are FB-DIMMs however, so if you really want that much RAM you will have
to pay for it in system heat and power consumption, not to mention the hefty cost of the memory itself.
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07.09.2007New 4-Socket Xeon Targets Virtualization
Intel has unveiled its new 7300 and 7200 series Xeon processors as well as its new 7300 chipset today at a launch event in San Francisco. Previously
known by their Tigerton and Clarksboro codenames, respectively, the 4-core and 2-core chips are designed for systems with 4 or more physical
processors. The new chips also mark the final stage of Intel's transition to its Core micro-architecture, which allows for more power efficient chips
than the previous NetBurst generation. The transition to the Core architecture has allowed Intel to close the gap with AMD in the performance per Watt
metric, allowing the chipmaker to take back market share from AMD Opteron.
To further support migration of virtual workloads, the new chips
also feature a new technology dubbed VT FlexMigration Assist. The technology allows virtualization software such as VMware ESX Server or Xen to move
virtual workloads between physical processors and servers as they are running. Currently such technology requires that all servers offer the same
micro-architecture. Intel's FlexMigration enables for the migration of workloads between the Core micro-architecture as well as future
micro-architectures such as the ones that will be used in Intel's forthcoming 45-nanometer Penryn processors and future chips.
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06.09.2007Windows Installer 4.5 Beta Accepting Nominations
The Windows Installer team has
unleashed the beta program for
Windows Installer 4.5 on
Microsoft Connect. Anyone
interested can sign up,
provided they have a Windows
Live ID tied to Microsoft
Connect - there is no survey
to fill out. " Windows
Installer 4.5 will provide
targeted features for
multi-package products and
advanced servicing. Windows
Installer 4.5 will be
delivered down level to
Windows XP SP2 and above. This
down level update will include
the operating system
independent features and fixes
from the Windows Vista only
release, Windows Installer
4.0 ." There is supposed
to be a draft paper entitled
"Agility Trends in Package
Software" which discusses the
problems the team is targeting
with the Windows Installer 4.5
release but at the time of
posting the link seems to be
dead.
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25.06.2007Intel releases quad-core Tigerton processor
Intel plans to unveil a version of its Xeon processor on Wednesday that's designed for high-end servers with multiple processors -- setting the stage
for a showdown with rival Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming quad-core Barcelona chip.
The Xeon 7300 chips, called Tigerton, are
the first quad-core processors from Intel designed to be used in servers with four or more processors, a relatively small but lucrative segment of the
server market. Previously, the Xeon processor for this segment of the market had two cores, despite the availability of quad-core Xeon chips for
single-processor and two-way servers.
The new chips offer significantly better performance compared to their predecessors,
Intel's Xeon 5300 chips, said Adesh Gupta, regional platform architecture manager at Intel Asia-Pacific's Server Platforms Group. ..
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05.09.2007Intel readies Penryn chips, may release Silverthorne early
Following the launch of Intel's quad-core Xeon 7300 processor on Wednesday, the company's efforts are now focused on preparations for the rollout of
its first Penryn chips later this year. And there are signs the company is planning an early 2008 release of its Silverthorne chip for ultramobile PCs
and handheld devices.
Intel confirmed plans to release a server version of Penryn before the end of this year, but the company is
releasing little information about its plans for mobile and desktop versions of the chip. Penryn will offer better performance than Intel's current
processors, and the company is counting on them to hold off any gains rival Advanced Micro Devices makes with the release of its quad-core Barcelona
chips next week.
"So far what we've said is that we intend to ship a broad family of 45-nanometer processors by the end of the
year," said Nick Jacobs, an Intel spokesman in Singapore, referring to the technology used to produce the Penryn chips. ..
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06.09.2007Did AMD Barcelona and Intel Tigerton really launch?
AMD officially
launched the Barcelona quad-core processor last month in San
Francisco, but people are telling me that the systems are nowhere to be seen from any of the major server manufacturers nor is there any time line
given for availability.
To see if there is any merit to these complaints, I posed as a prospective IT shopper and called up
some of the major Server makers such as HP, Dell, and IBM to see if I can actually order a server with AMD Barcelona inside of it. Intel officially
launched their
Tigerton 7300 series multi-processor (4-32 CPUs) platform less
than a week before AMDs Barcelona so I was curious if those systems were shipping too and I checked on its availability as well.
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15.10.2007Sun Launches its First x86 Quad-Core Servers
Adding spark to its Sun Fire line on servers, Sun Microsystems Inc. is expected to announced its first x86-based quad-core systems Tuesday.
The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 rack-mount servers are the second and third Intel Corp.-based products Sun is releasing after the
companies signed a partnership early this year. Sun shipped an Intel-based blade server, Sun Blade X6250, in June.
The X4450 is a
four-socket, 2U server powered by Intel's quad-core Xeon 7300 processors, while the 1U Sun Fire X4150 is a two-socket server powered by Intel's
quad-core Xeon 5300 processors. Both servers offer memory capacity ranging from 2G bytes to 128G bytes.
Starting at US$8,895, the
X4450 server will ship worldwide in October, said Rebecca Tong, product line manager at Sun. The X4150, starting at $2,995, will ship in the U.S. this
month and worldwide in October. The X4450 and X4150 will also support Intel's 7200 and 5100 dual-core processors, respectively...
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25.09.2007Apple fixes DisplayPort Dual-DVI problems
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28.01.2009Intel's New Nehalem & Tukwila Platforms in Detail
Intel is moving to IT usage
based segmentation for future
Nehalem and Tukwila platforms
in H2 2008.
The
current Itanium segment will
be renamed as Mission Critical
(MC), Enterprise MP to be
known as Expandable (EX),
Volume DP to be known as
Efficient Performance (EP) and
lastly Entry UP to be called
Entry (EN). For MC segment,
Itanium 2 platform (Itanium 2
9000 series + E8870 chipset)
will be succeeded by Boxboro
MC platform made up of Tukwila
MC and Boxboro MC chipset. For
EX segment, Caneland Platform
(Xeon 7000 series + 7300
chipset) will be succeeded by
45nm Dunnington Nehalem based
processor.
For EP
2-socket segment, Bensley
platform (Xeon 5000 series +
5000P Blackford chipset) will
be succeeded by Tylersburg EP
Platform made up of Nehalem EP
and Tylersburg-36D chipset and
for EP single socket segment,
Garlow platform (Xeon 3000
series + 3210 chipset) will be
succeeded by Tylersburg EP
Platform made up of Nehalem EP
and Tylersburg-36S chipset.
For EN segment, Cranberry Lake
Platform (Xeon 5000 series +
5100 chipset) will be
succeeded by Tylersburg-EN
Platform made up of Nehalem EP
and Tylersburg-24D chipset.
All the chipsets will be
featuring QuickPath
technology, the next
generation system interconnect
used on Nehalem and Tukwila
-based platforms which is
commonly known as CSI.
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16.07.2007Flexible Color E-Paper Coming Soon
LG.Philips LCD has announced a
14.1-inch size flexible
display. Dubbed "technology
e-paper," the LG.Philips
display uses technology from
E-Ink Corporation, and is able
to produce 4,096 colors
(previously only available in
grayscale). LG.Philips says
that it's able to achieve
flexibility from using a thin
metal foil, instead of thin
glass, as the back lining for
the display allowing the
display to be bent and then
recover its original shape. A
company in France called
Nemoptic also announced a
14.1-inch e-paper display
capable of resolutions up to
1650x2340 (~4 megapixels) with
approximately 200 dpi of
resolution. Judging from the
specifications, the Nemoptic
display is identical to
LG.Philips' unit.
The flexible displays are
resistant to curve damage and
use very little power. Because
of the way E-ink works, the
display only uses power when
the image changes, allowing a
static picture to hold for a
long period of time without
requiring power.
Unfortunately, the technology
behind E-ink is too slow to
display videos (24-30 FPS) as
the screens are only capable
of a refresh rate of slightly
less than one second. Both
LG.Philips and Nemoptic
indicate that they are
shipping samples to
manufacturers and consumers
should see the technology
available in the market
sometime in 2008.
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17.05.2007GeForce 8600 Ultra, 8600 GT, 8300 GT and 8300 GS Specs
GeForce 8600 and GeForce 8300
are the two series of graphics
cards which will fill the void
beneath NVIDIA's already
launched 8800 series. Based on
the G84 core 8600 Ultra and GT
will have 64 and 48 shader
processors respectively with
cores running at 500MHz and
350MHz. With a 256-bit memory
bus and memory speeds at
1400MHz and 1200MHz the cards
will replace the 7600 series
of today. The launch date for
these cards is about the same
as for when ATI will launch
R600, that is, around CeBIT at
the start of March.
Except from the 8600 series
Bear Eyes has also published
specifications for 8300 GT and
8300 GS (via VR-Zone). These
cards will replace the 7300
series of today and is based
on the G86, an 80nm core. The
number of shader processors
has been halved to 32 and 24
respectively, while both cores
will work at 500MHz. The GT
model will have slightly
faster memories though,
1200MHz vs. 1000MHz. With a
128-bit bus and up to 256MB
the performance will most
likely be reflected by the
price.
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15.01.2007Nvidia Announces GeForce 7200 GS
Nvidia has announced the
GeForce 7200 GS, a card that
delivers Vista Premium Ready
graphics performance for a
mere $50. NVIDIA touts
full support for DirectX 9.0,
shader model 3.0 and high
dynamic-range with the
entry-level card. The G72
graphics core, clocked at 450
MHz, is essentially a crippled
GeForce 7300-series core: half
the pipelines. This brings the
total pixel pipelines to two,
each with one texture unit.
PureVideo video processing is
also supported; however,
NVIDIA is unclear if the
GeForce 7200 GS supports
PureVideo HD for
high-definition video decoding
acceleration.
Add-in board manufacturers
are free to equip GeForce 7200
GS graphics cards with 128MB
or 256MB of DDR2 memory
attached to the GPU via a
64-bit memory interface.
NVIDIA recommends 800 MHz for
GeForce 7200 GS graphics
cards. GeForce 7200 GS based
graphics cards will be
available to OEMs, system
builders and retail. NVIDIA
add-in board partners with
GeForce 7200 GS products
include Albatron, ASUS,
Biostar, ECS, EVGA, Foxconn,
Galazy, Gigabyte, Innovision,
Leadtek, MSI, Palit, Point of
View, PNY Technology, SPARKLE,
XFX, Zogis and Zotac.
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09.05.2007Windows 7: Superbar Overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7 Tips and Tricks Windows 7: HomeGroup
Overview Windows 7: BitLocker To Go & Biometric improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action
Center Overview Windows 7: User Account Control (UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage
Windows 7: Internet Explorer 8 Overview Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7
networking and media enhancements. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net.
Read full story.....
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15.01.2009Windows 7: HomeGroup Overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: BitLocker To Go & Biometric
improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows 7: User Account Control
(UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage Windows 7: Internet Explorer 8 Overview Over the
next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements. Stay tuned for the
ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of HomeGroup in Windows 7.
Read full story.....
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13.01.2009Windows 7 Beta 1 Vs Windows Vista Vs Windows XP
After Windows 7 beta 1 leaked, many bloggers caught hold of it very soon and started testing/using Windows 7. We saw Ed Bott from ZDnet reporting
about the changes in the Windows 7 beta 1 license agreement. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDnet has benchmarked Windows 7 with its successors Windows
Vista and Windows XP. The Windows 7 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 was considered for testing. Since its 32bit, it was tested against 32bit versions of
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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03.01.2009Windows 7: Vista Upgrade & Anytime Upgrade overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: HomeGroup Overview Windows 7:
BitLocker To Go & Biometric improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows
7: User Account Control (UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage Windows 7: Internet
Explorer 8 Overview Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media
enhancements. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of Windows Vista to Windows 7 Beta upgrade.
Read full story.....
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13.01.2009Windows 7: Easy Connect overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows 7:
User Account Control (UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage Windows 7: Internet Explorer
8 Overview Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements.
Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of Easy Connect in Windows 7.
Read full story.....
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11.01.2009Windows Live Strategy Inches Forward, Slowly
Microsoft is continuing to
flesh out its Windows Live
strategy, on Wednesday
releasing beta versions of
Windows Live Photo Gallery and
Windows Live Folders. The
additions will join Windows
Live Mail Desktop, Windows
Live Writer, and a number of
other applications as part of
the Windows Live Suite...
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