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Living in a material world, and I am a material girl. Those infamous words from Madonna's Material Girl can be slightly tweaked to sum up my operating system perspective: living in a Windows world and I am a Windows guy. But I'm writing this post from within Moblin running on the new Asus Eee...
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After waiting through betas, release candidates, and, well, Vista , The Windows 7 launch date is finally here. Windows 7 has taken over Microsoft’s home page with a collection of seven second demos, and I’m seeing ads galore all over the web. They’re also sporting a really nice Facebook app that ...
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“Cranky Geek” John C. Dvorak recently wrote an article claiming that Microsoft’s business model for pricing it’s products—particularly Windows and Office—is “done.” Basically, he tries to point out that as netbook prices keep dropping, consumers would end up paying more for Windows and Office than...
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User Account Control in Vista was a really good idea that was pretty poorly implemented. In fact it’s downright annoying at times. Microsoft has decided to tweak it in Windows 7 and make it a little more user friendly, and they have done a pretty good job of that. There are now four levels of UAC, so...
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This just in from the Live Mesh blog : Now that we are out of our holiday blackout period for releases, we’re happy to announce that the next Live Mesh for Windows client update will (at long last!) be available later today. Thank you for your patience, and please see below for the details. Fixes Conflict...
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If you didn't catch the Windows 7 kernel debate between OSNews' Thom Holwerda and InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy, I highly recommend it. Basically, via a series of back-and-forth emails, the two agreed to debate Kennedy's claim that because the Windows 7 kernel has a similar thread count...
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Paul ( here ) is expecting Windows 7 to be finalized by April, at the latest. My personal opinion is that date would be very hard to hit. I put my money on this coming summer. Here is why. We are about to come up on the holidays and if the rumors of getting Beta1 out by early January are to be believed...
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One of the Windows 7 features that I most looking forward to is Mobile Broadband . This feature will allow users the ability to connect via a cellular modem limiting the need for a connection manager. Separating the driver from the connection manager should makes mobile broadband more accessible to the...
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http://blogs.msdn.com/bobfamiliar/archive/2008/12/02/windows-7-beta-1-for-mdc-attendees.aspx Notice this is from an official Microsoft blog. Now, it’s possible that they mean attendee’s will get mailed a copy of Win7 B1 when it comes out, but it never says anything like that. It simply says...
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Paul Thurrott wrote a great article basically comparing the user experience--and development mentality behind it--between Microsoft, Google and Apple software. It's a long read, but I strongly recommend checking it out. Good stuff.
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In one of a few post that doesn’t suck on the E7 blog today there is a look at the Windows 7 Taskbar . It does keep with the trend on that blog of rather lengthy posts so here are the highlights. Larger Icons by default 10 pixels higher than Vista More Prominent glass unified quick launch & taskband...
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Here are few of the interesting Windows related posts I found from this week. More Windows 7 Details from WinHEC Windows 7 ready for 2009 holiday season ? – Ina Fried Windows Server 2008 R2 Reviewer Guide – Microsoft Presspass Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 Moving in lockstep – Mary Jo Window...
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We are starting to learn a lot more about Windows 7 and what we can look forward to, but until people play with the build they got from PDC and WinHEC for a while we won't really know how well the folks working on Windows 7 have really done. Microsoft kindly gave me access to the M3 build as...
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Microsoft kicked off WinHEC 208 yesterday with a keynote loaded with new details on Windows 7 for its hardware partners. The keynote focused on the improved emphasis on boot time, shutdown time, better memory usage, longer battery life, and device experiences. Each was shown with compelling examples...
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Apple again proved that it is great at generating buzz today at the WWDC. The amount of discussion and positive PR they are able generate is a game Microsoft really needs to learn to play better. Since the inception of a policy of translucency under Steven Sinofsky we have failed to have a significant...