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Windows 7 – It Just Works… As Long as You Don’t Use It
I’ve been using Windows 7 since the RC was announced a few months ago and we’ve had quite a bit to say about it — mostly all good. Over the last month I’ve noticed a trend in my Windows 7 install (that I use as my primary desktop and work machine) that was feeling all too [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 Feature: Tells You Which Program Has Locked Your Files
Friday, May 8, 2009
My god it’s the little things with software… it’s always the little things that endear you to software for the long haul or turn you off of it forever. As mentioned a few times, I’ve been on the Windows 7 RC for a bit over a week now and been pretty much thinking it’s great. It seems [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 – 4GB vs 8GB Performance
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
When I originally installed Windows 7 64-bit, I had 4GB in my machine. While the performance improvements I saw were noticable and appreciated, it was clear that Windows 7 was more than happy to consume all the RAM I could possibly throw at it: At the urging of Grant Gochanuer (happy owner of 12GB of RAM), [...]
Continue reading...20 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks You Will Love
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
TIP: You can download Windows 7 RC for free. Ok, you’ve been hearing the buzz about Windows 7, maybe you read our take on it (or saw the screenshot tour), and you want to give it a try. Let’s say you downloaded it, installed it and are now sitting there wondering “Wait, so what’s so cool [...]
Continue reading...Thoughts on Windows 7 After 3 Days
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Introduction It is no mystery that I’ve been part of the parade yelling “Vista Sucks!” since it’s inception – I’ve even taken the time to review Vista’s shortcomings for everyone willing to read it by only taking a look at changes in one program as an example of the half-assed decisions made throughout the entire OS. The [...]
Continue reading...Screenshot Tour of Windows 7: Libraries, Taskbar, IE8 and the New Paint Application!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Introduction When the public beta of Windows 7 was announced, we did like everyone else and ran over to the Windows 7 site to download it (ISO Download Links: 32-bit, 64-bit). After getting it installed and spending some time with it, our overall take away so far are the following things: Windows 7 is a “finished” Vista. It’s [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 Beta Released
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Microsoft Windows 7’s Beta Customer Preview launched today. Based on the below message posted on the download page it looks like it is pretty popular. “Thanks for your interest in the Windows 7 Beta. The volume has been phenomenal — we’re in the process of adding more servers to handle the demand. We’re sorry for the [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7: What We Know So Far
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
A lot of info has been put released this week about Windows 7. If you’ve not yet seen any info about Windows 7 then I’d recommend checking out Technologizer’s first impressions. From the info that Microsoft has put out so far it seems like Windows 7 will have a pretty small system footprint allowing it to [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 Coming Sooner Than We Thought?
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
InternetNews is reporting that next version of Windows (codenamed Vienna) might be coming as early as June of 2009. This had been in the pipeline before XP was released, but what comes as a surprise is this would be almost a year sooner, cutting into the anticipated life cycle of Vista. The information comes from [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 Multi-Touch Demo Amazes non-iPhone Users
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Ballmer and Gates showed off Windows 7 (the follow-up failure to Vista) which ended up being Vista + Multi-touch technology. Everyone in the crowd that had never seen an iPhone before or heard of the idea of a “touch screen” since the 80s was sufficiently amazed… everyone else just saw Microsoft continuing to draft Apple [...]
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Monday, July 13, 2009
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