Microsoft readies Win7 netbook specs
Microsoft is readying a set of maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks –or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, “small notebooks” — that will likely dictate which PCs will qualify for lower per-copy Windows 7 pricing.
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22.5.2009 Microsoft readies Win7 netbook specs
Microsoft is readying a set of maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks –or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, “small notebooks” — that will likely dictate which PCs will qualify for lower per-copy Windows 7 pricing.
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26.5.2009 Windows 7 Increased Performance and Optimal Use of Available Hardware
icrosoft is optimizing Windows 7 in order to increase performance, and, in this context, the dispatcher lock is one of the components that has got cut off.
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6.1.2009 How to check software or hardware for Windows 7 compatibility
Microsoft has put up an extremely useful site that will allow you to check your software and hardware for Windows 7 compatibility.
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27.10.2009 Windows 7 RTM Drivers from Microsoft Hardware Available
Microsoft’s “Better Together” slogan apparently applies not only to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 but also to the latest iteration of the Windows client and the Redmond company’s peripherals.
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30.10.2009 Microsoft Details Hardware Requirements for Windows Vista
During the several-year development time of Windows Vista, I've been asked one question more than any other about this next generation operating system: What hardware will it require? Microsoft has always been pretty vague about the requirements.
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30.3.2006 New Windows Home Server Hardware and Software Partners
In his keynote address at the Microsoft® Windows® Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today demonstrated Windows Home Server and announced new hardware partners for the upcoming product, which include Gateway Inc., LaCie and Medion International.
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15.5.2007 Safely Remove Hardware fix for Windows Vista
When you click the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the notification area on a Windows Vista based computer, and then you click Safely remove Device_name, the device may not be removed as expected.
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5.9.2007 Windows 7 on older hardware: A Catch 22 for Microsoft
There are a few bloggers wondering aloud about how well Windows 7 ultimately is going to run on older hardware. That’s an interesting question, given Microsoft’s symbiotic relationship with its hardware partners who constantly are in search of new ways to convince users to buy pricier PCs.
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14.1.2009 Vista Requires More Hardware Resources than Microsoft's Windows for Supercomputers
A new level of the absurd... Windows Vista requires more hardware resources than Microsoft's Windows for Supercomputers.
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18.11.2007 88% of corporate PCs sport minimum Windows 7 hardware
A new study conducted by Softchoice has found that 88 percent of corporate PCs would currently be able to run Windows 7, compared to the 50 percent that could run Windows Vista prior to its release.
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19.10.2009 Microsoft Hardware Support for the Windows 7 Operating System Beta Release
If your computer is running a beta version of the Windows® 7 operating system, the following information can help you select the correct beta software to download for your Microsoft Hardware product.
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23.1.2009 Open source hardware, what is it?
Open source hardware is a term we've used here on MAKE & CRAFT for describing some of the projects featured as well as some of our electronics kits and it was the subject of a talk we participated in at then SXSW conference, but what is it?
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24.4.2007 Microsoft says: We're a hardware company, license us
NOT MANY people know this, but Microsoft is a hardware company, the firm said today, as it introduced a hardware licensing scheme.
Robbie Bach, head of the devices division at Microsoft said: "We've been a leading hardware innovator and supplier to the desktop peripherals industry for over 20 years."
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29.3.2006 Should Microsoft get into the PC hardware business?
I really enjoyed watching this recent interview with Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich on Microsoft’s TechNet Edge.
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9.9.2008 10 reasons to buy new hardware now - during a recession
TechRepublic guest post: It may seem like the last thing you want to do in the midst of tough economic times is invest in new hardware.
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20.1.2009 Creative Hardware Accelerated 3D Audio for Vista
Creative Labs has opened up the doors to its ALchemy Project to enable hardware acceleration for DirectSound and EAX audio algorithms in Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Vista. The Alchemy Project is currently in its beta stages and intends to work around Microsoft’s audio limitations in Windows Vista due to the removal of the Hardware Abstraction Layer, or HAL.
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23.1.2007 Microsoft unveils hardware for Web phone push
Microsoft Corp. introduced on Sunday phones, headsets and other devices to work with its software that aim to replace the traditional office phone and deliver e-mails, instant messages and phone calls over the Internet.
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14.5.2007 Maximum Hardware Specifications for Small Notebook PC (Netbook) on Windows 7 Starter (and Home Basic in China)
Microsoft has a list of Windows 7 minimum recommended system hardware specification requirement for desktop, notebook, netbook, nettop, laptop computer and tablet PC that intends to run any versions and editions of Windows 7.
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23.7.2009 Microsoft pushing sleek new hardware vision to PC makers
A How-To kit for the ideal PC has been making the rounds of leading design shops. It calls for "accelerated curves" and "purposeful contrast." The preferred colors include a shade of black called Obsidian and a translucent white dubbed Ice. "We want people to fall in love with their PCs, not to simply use them to be productive and successful," reads the enclosed booklet. "We want PCs to be objects of pure desire."
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27.7.2006 Todays Microsoft Press Releases, lots of Hardware news
Hardware news
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14.9.2006 New Hardware for Vista SP1 DirectX 10.1 - XP SP3 Too?
Microsoft is currently in the final stages of cooking both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. In December 2007, the first public builds of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, namely the Release Candidates became available for download.
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15.1.2008 Microsoft dropped Vista hardware spec to raise Intel profits
According to an email sent last February by Microsoft general manager John Kalkman, the software giant lowered Windows Vista's minimum hardware requirements to ridiculous levels only because Intel needed to sell more graphics chipsets.
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4.3.2008 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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T-Mobile leaks Apple's iPhone 3GS hardware specs
A few days ago Apple announced the iPhone 3GS at the annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). Apple was very short with the details on the new
iPhone 3GS, however T-Mobile has spilt the beans and have posted a few hardware specs that the device will feature at launch in a few weeks:
According to the screen shot below, taken from the T-Mobile NL website, the iPhone 3GS will feature 256MB of RAM and a whooping 600 MHz processor.
Previous versions of the iPhones that came to market included 128MB of RAM and a 412MHz processor. The added RAM alone will make a huge difference in
speed and should allow larger applications run on the device.
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11.06.2009New iPhone to launch July 17, full specs leaked?
Wired is reporting that a source closely connected to the Apple hardware team is giving out details about the suspected upcoming revision of the
iPhone.
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19.05.2009Crysis Hardware Specs Revealed. Ouch.
Crysis? Gorgeous! Crysis hardware requirements? Intimidating. No one was expecting Crysis to run on their 6-year old Gateway POS9001, but the game's
final specs are, in a word, heftymaybe a tad heftier than you had imagined. PC gamers looking to spec out their new hardware set up will be thrilled
to read that Crytek has revealed the final hardware requirements for its hyper-pretty first person shooter, set to launch on November 13.
The minimum and required configurations are after the jump. Vista gamers, brace yourselves.
Minimum System
Requirements:
OS - Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor - 2.8GHz or faster (XP); 3.2GHz or faster * (Vista)
Memory -
1GB RAM or 1.5GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card - 256MB **
Hard Drive - 12GB
Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible
Recommended System Requirements:
OS - Windows XP / Vista
Processor - Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz
Memory - 2GB
RAM
GPU - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar
* Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz (3.2GHz for Vista)
or faster, Intel Core 2GHz (2.2GHz for Vista) or faster, and other similar CPUs.
** Supported chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT +
or similar GPUs. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Integrated chipsets are not supported. Updates to your video and
sound card drivers may be required.
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10.10.2007Report: Microsoft readies new maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks
Microsoft is readying a set of maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks –or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, “small notebooks” that
will likely dictate which PCs will qualify for lower per-copy Windows 7 pricing.
The
alleged Windows 7 netbook specs were published earlier this month on
the TechARP technology enthusiast site.
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22.05.2009Apple's iPhone Specs and Requirements
Apple's iPhone is coming on
June 29th, and surprisingly
few details have been leaked
about the phone itself, beyond
the original specs described
in January.
Mac
Rumors obtained the official
list of specs that Apple lists
for the upcoming device.
˘ System requirements
- Mac or PC
- iTunes 7
- Internet access is
required, and a broadband
connection is recommended
- Mac: Mac with a USB 2.0
port, Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
- PC: Windows PC with a
USB 2.0 port and Windows XP
Home or Professional (Service
Pack 2)
˘ External
Controls
- Volume Up /
Down
- Ringer / Silent
- Power / Lock
-
Sleep / Wake
- Menu
Button..
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09.06.2007WinHEC: Vista Specs Still
Murky for Many
Customers who want more
information about the system
specs that PCs will require to
run the forthcoming Windows
Vista operating system will
get some, but not much, help
from Microsoft at the
company's conference for
hardware engineers, which
starts tomorrow.
At Microsoft's annual
Windows Hardware Engineering
Conference, or WinHEC, the
company will discuss a "Get
Ready" for Vista program it
launched late last week, which
outlines the hardware
requirements to run low-end
and premium versions of
Windows Vista.
However, Microsoft expects
the Get Ready program to
pretty much speak for itself,
says Mike Burke, a Microsoft
product manager, and will not
discuss it in "any
comprehensive detail" at the
conference.
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22.05.2006Final Windows Vista System
Specs Revealed
Microsoft just relealed the
final Windows Vista Hardware
Requirements. There you go,
you'll need the following
machine to run Vista:
Minimal Specs
(Called Vista-Ready PCs):
-800Mhz Processor
-512 MB of RAM
-DirectX 9-Capable Graphics
Processor
Recommended Specs (Called
Premium-Ready PCs):
-1
Ghz Processor
-128 MB
Graphics Memory, numerous
other graphics-related
requirements
-1 GB
System Memory
Microsoft also plans to make
an advertisement campaign
around those required
machines, in order to make
people be sure their machine
will meet those requirements,
and this campaign should be
revealed on May 18th, in this
case tomorrow.
This announcement was made
to prepare the also planned
WinHEC release of Windows
Vista Beta 2 (Supposedly Build
5384, last known compiled
build as of today), which will
likely be made public in the
days following its release at
WinHEC.
These
requirements are about what
was expected, maybe a little
bit below. As previously
announced, most PCs sold
within last year might be
Vista-Ready, though very few
fully meet the Premium-Ready
requirements.
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18.05.2006Neowin Exclusive: Lets talk some Zune HD specs
Over the last week there has been a ton of buzz around Microsoft's upcoming device update which we have confirmed will be labeled as the Zune HD.
We've teamed up with Ryan Rea (aka volvoshine) from LiveSide.net and are going to let the world know what we do and do not know about the Zune HD.
We've got the green light to go ahead and share the specs that our sources within Microsoft have confirmed to us. An overview of the Zune HD
specs: 3.6 inchish OLED full touch screen.NVIDIA Tegra powered.4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 120GB versions.HDMI Connection to stream straight to your
TV.HD Radio.Web Browser.WiFi compatible, with wireless marketplace.
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16.04.2009Is Your PC 'Vista Capable'?
The Answer is Maybe
Microsoft will start rolling
out in April new
"Vista
Capable" logos for
PCs, despite the fact that it
still has yet to release the
final hardware specs for
Windows Vista. As noted over
on the InsideMicrosoft blog,
"The Vista Capable page at
Microsoft TechNet explains
that PCs that are Capable must
pass the current Windows XP
certification, and then meet
certain CPU/RAM/GPU
requirements in order to bear
the logo." But a Microsoft
spokesman added this caveat:
"The Windows Vista Capable
program does not represent
minimum hardware requirements
for the different versions of
Windows Vista ? we look
forward to providing
additional information
regarding minimum hardware
requirements for Windows Vista
and the Windows Vista logo
program in the coming
months."
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01.04.2006Microsoft offers guidelines for next-gen UMPCs
Microsoft still thinks
there's a bright future for
Windows-based ultra-mobile PCs
(UMPCs), the small-form factor
PCs that haven’t exactly
taken the world by
storm.
At
the Windows Hardware
Engineering Conference
(WinHEC) in Los Angeles this
week, Microsoft officials
outlined some of the
“possibilities” the
company sees for
next-generation UMPCs that
will be optimized to run
Windows Vista.
Development Manager Vikram
Madan noted that the next-gen
specs he outlined during his
talk on May 16 were
“guidelines of what is
possible, not promises.”
(However, Fujitsu launched at
WinHEC a new Windows Vista
Business UMPC including many
of these next-gen features.)..
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18.05.2007Intel Enables Hardware T&L on G965
Intel has released a
pre-beta
for Broadwater G965 and GM965
chipsets that enable hardware
transform and lighting.
Hardware transform and
lighting were touted with the
Intel GMA X3000 and X3100
integrated graphics cores,
however, current release
drivers did not enable the
feature, despite Intel
demonstrating games running
with hardware T&L on GMA X3x00
hardware.
Now nearly
a year after the Broadwater
launch, users can take
advantage of hardware T&L on
G965 and GM965 hardware in
Windows XP. Windows Vista
users need not apply, as Intel
does not have the hardware T&L
enabling Vista driver ready
yet. Intel promises Windows
Vista hardware T&L drivers in
the ścoming weeks.ť..
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19.06.2007How To: Build An HTPC (With Windows 7)
Tom's Hardware: In this How To guide, well explain why the HTPC now makes so much sense, well show you the hardware that goes into our test platform
(and how it all fits together), and well walk you through using it with Microsofts Windows 7 beta, which should be shipping by the end of the year.
Truly, this is the hardware/software configuration for which we've been waiting...
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18.02.2009Tim Sweeney on UT3 Specs & Peformance
http://www.beyondunreal.com/da
edalus/singlepost.php?id=10581
>Beyond Unreal noticed a
http://forums.epicgames.com/sh
owthread.php?t=571019>thread
on the Epic Megaboards that
translates a Tim Sweeney
interview with German
magazine, PC Games Hardware.
Here are a couple juicy
samples:
PCGH:
How do the general hardware
requirements look like?
Epic: Since optimization work
is still ongoing, these
details may change every day.
Generally speaking, the game
runs quite smooth with DX9
hardware released by NVidia
and Ati since 2006. On
high-end cards, including the
DX10 models, UT3 runs
incredibly smooth already.
Additionally, we also support
shader 2.0 graphics hardware,
with only a few technical
limitations.
PCGH: How exactly are you
utilizing the functions of
DirectX 10?
Epic:
Unreal Tournament 3 will ship
with full DX10 support, with
multi-sampling being the
biggest visible benefit of the
new graphics interface.
Additionally, with DX10 under
Vista we have the possibility
to use the video memory more
efficiently, to be able to
display textures with a higher
grade of detail as it would be
possible with the DX9 path of
Vista. ..
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30.05.2007Windows 7 build 6956 performance test
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: My Hardware 2.0 mailbag is brimming with Windows 7 related questions. The main question on everyones lips is the obvious one -
How does Windows 7 stack up against Vista?
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11.12.2008Microsoft's project "Pink" specs revealed?
Over the past week there have been a ton of rumors in relation to a variety of Microsoft's upcoming products and services. The folks up in Redmond
have been hard at work for over a year on a top secret project codenamed "Pink". We get the question all the time, "What exactly is
‘Pink'?" The people working on the project have been extremely quiet, not much is known except that the device isn't going to be
manufactured by Microsoft. A few weeks ago
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12.05.2009New specifications enable browser-based Web Single Sign-On (SSO) between security domains that use Liberty ID-FF and WS-Federation
Customer feedback has driven the development of two specs to enable browser-based Web single sign-on across domains. The Web Single Sign-On Interoperability Profile and Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol specs define interoperability between Liberty Identity Federation and WS-Federation for WebSSO...
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31.08.2005Microsoft Accommodating Eee With Lightweight XP
In what could be a first Microsoft is working to
create a
special build of Windows, just because Windows doesn't run very well on a certain computer. ASUS' runaway success Eee PC is now 'officially'
available with Windows XP, but (according to APC magazine) is not exactly a great experience. There are none of the nice pre-loaded apps that come
with the Linux version, for example. And XP has some real problems coping with the screen size and limited system specs of the unit. As a result, ASUS
says it is going back to Microsoft and working on a special XP build that will be lightweight and more suited to UMPCs.
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15.04.2008Windows 7 May Run Better than You Think on Older Hardware
Noting that Snow Leopard will support Intel Macs onlyleaving out PowerPC computers built just over three years agoPC World got curious about how their
old hardware might stand up to Windows 7. To put it to the test, they installed Win7 on a 2001 computer that was just under spec for Windows 7's 1GB
RAM/1GHz processor requirements. The results...
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11.06.2009Microsoft Highlights Changes to the Windows Kernel
Attendees at
Microsoft's Windows Hardware
Engineering Conference here
got an in-depth and deeply
technical keynote outlining
the changes to the Windows
kernel and other key areas,
and how partners can take
advantage of these.
In his presentation
on May 16, Mark Russinovich, a
technical fellow in
Microsoft's platform and
services division and the
third keynoter of the day,
talked about how uniprocessor
kernel variants were now gone
from Windows Server 2008,
which reduces the need for
downtime by supporting
hardware configuration changes
without the need to reboot the
system.
The new
server product, which is the
basis for Microsoft's new
virtualization offering, also
introduced a new common
infrastructure called WHEA
(Windows Hardware Error
Architecture)...
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17.05.2007Microsoft launches Windows 7 Readiness Program
With Windows 7 RC getting ready, Microsoft announced on Monday, the Windows 7 Ecosystem Readiness Program to help hardware and software partners (OEMs
and ISVs) ensure that their existing applications, devices and systems will be compatible with Windows 7. The program provides partners with access to
Windows 7 builds, development and test toolkits, technical documents, Windows Driver Kit, the Windows Logo Kit, application testing labs and other
resources through Microsoft Connect to proceed with the compatability tests of Windows 7. Hardware developers can get tools and resources from the
Windows Hardware Developer Central and Software developers can get their tools and resources from MSDN.
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