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Windows 7 Review and Installation Walkthrough

David — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:33:24 +0000

Good walkthru..

and the very end of it made me LOL

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Will Microsoft’s retail store open in time for the Windows 7 Release?

David — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:09:31 +0000

Will Microsoft’s retail store open in time for the Windows 7 Release?

Looks like Microsoft is pushing hard to have there first retail store opened by the release date of Windows 7. This will be there first step into a retail market currently dominated by Apple,but will they make it in time? Although they haven’t officially offered up a opening date, there store in Scottsdale,Arizona seems like it is just needing some finishing touches and to be filled with product.

When asked Chief executive Steve Ballmer teased reporters with an imminent opening on Friday, but also would not commit to a date.

“We’ll open a couple of stores, try to improve, open a couple more stores,” Ballmer said at a public appearance in downtown Boston.

“It’s very important for us to have a direct connection with the user,” said Ballmer, talking about the planned stores, which he said will be important for “showing the customer what you really can do.”

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Windows 7 VS Snow Leopard

David — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:00:43 +0000

Now that Windows 7 is officially released next week..we find ourselves wondering how its gonna stack up against Snow Leopard. Inherently there are issues in any type of a head-to-head benchmarking….like Apple not allowing official installs of OS X to PC’s. Then theirs is just personally choice..what does the end want. That said..we have found what we believe is the closest we can come to a fair head-to-head test.

CNet’s Dong Ngo took a late-2008 model 15-inch MacBook Pro and used it to compare Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and Windows 7 64-bit RTM (with native drivers from Boot Camp 3.0). The machine was equipped with a 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM, and a 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT video card – all fairly standard in the average laptop.

Ngo found that Snow Leopard outperformed Windows 7 in nearly all areas except for graphics (likely due to better drivers from Nvidia). Some results are:

- Snow Leopard booted and shut down around six seconds faster than Windows 7.

- Snow Leopard took 149.9 seconds to convert 17 songs from MP3 to the AAC format. Windows needed 12 seconds more for the same job.

- Snow Leopard took 444.3 seconds vs. Windows 7’s 723 seconds to convert a movie file from the MP4 format into the iPod format while having iTunes converting songs in the background the job (versions of QuickTime were different, however).

- In a battery test, Windows 7 lasted 78 minutes, while Snow Leopard managed to stay on for 111 minutes.

- Windows 7’s Cinebench R10 score was 5,777 vs. 5,437 for the OS X.

- Windows 7 in Call of Duty 4 scored 26.3 frames per second while Snow Leopard got only 21.2 fps.

Interesting..but not conclusive ……

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Windows 7: Aero Shake! (HD)

David — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:34:22 +0000

Aero Shake, a new feature in Windows 7 allows you to quickly concentrate on one window, hiding the rest. Simple grab and shake the title bar to hide/show all other windows!

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CES 2009: Windows 7 Demo

David — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:34:05 +0000

Get an early look at Windows 7.

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Good News – Windows 7 Commercial

David — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:02:49 +0000

Kylie takes all the happy words about Windows 7 and makes them happier in her very own slideshow. See more happy words about Windows 7: www.microsoft.com

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Windows 7 in 77 Seconds – Desktop Slideshow

David — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:21:33 +0000

Wouldnt it be cool to have a slideshow of your favorite pictures as your Windows background? Well thanks to the new Aero themes in Windows 7 you dont have to wait any more its a reality! You can create your own slideshow using pictures of your choice and have Windows 7 rotate through them as you go about your daily work.

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Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode for Windows 7

David — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:15:31 +0000

The Windows XP Mode Beta is over and the feedback is in. The final version for Windows 7 should be available at the Microsoft Download Center on October 22nd, just in time for the Windows 7 launch.

Windows XP Mode is aimed to provide small and mid-sized businesses who have upgraded to Windows 7 Professional or higher the ability to run Windows XP productivity applications that may not be fully compatible with Windows 7. Many Windows XP applications are already compatible Windows 7 , and the added security of the new OS can provide businesses to upgrade to Windows 7 without any major worries.

Here is a list of some features they have incorporated into Windows XP Mode based on feedback from users who tested the beta.

You can now attach USB devices to Windows XP Mode applications directly from the Windows 7 task-bar. This means your USB devices, such as printers and flash drives, are available to applications running in Windows XP Mode, without the need to go into full screen mode.
You can now access Windows XP Mode applications with a “jump-list”. Right click on the Windows XP Mode applications from the Windows 7 task bar to select and open most recently used files.
You now have the flexibility of customizing where Windows XP Mode differencing disk files are stored.
You can now disable drive sharing between Windows XP Mode and Windows 7 if you do not need that feature.
The initial setup now includes a new user tutorial about how to use Windows XP Mode.

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Windows 7 – First Look

David — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:20:13 +0000

Please Rate or Comment. Will you be upgrading to Windows 7 you think? Microsoft has released a Free 90 Day Trial on Windows 7 Enterprise Edition for IT Professionals here technet.microsoft.com . For more Windows 7 tips , tweaks and tutorials click pcwizkidstechtalk.com

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