If you compare Windows Vista and Windows 7 you see lots of similarities. So many that most Windows 7 users who have been using Windows Vista in the past might be hard pressed to name ten new features of the operating system. Most of them would probably start with obvious changes like the new Windows [...]

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I spend the last two hours upgrading my Windows XP SP3 computer system to Windows 7 Professional. As you all know it is not possible to perform a direct upgrade. Only a clean install is possible but this would have been the chosen path for me anyway as clean installations are usually the way to [...]

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Microsoft has released its latest operating system Windows 7 in selected countries today with other countries to follow down the road. Many say that Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been, an optimized operating system that combines the looks of today with interesting new features and less bloat. The similarities between Windows Vista [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Windows

We have all read the news that Google is planning to enter the operating system market with their soon to be released Google Chrome OS which is initially targeting the netbook market. Google Chrome OS is based on Google’s web browser Google Chrome and a Linux kernel. Little information are know as of yet. The [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Operating Systems

If you’ve been around long enough you will probably remember the Be operating system. Be began life in 1991 by Be Inc as an operating system for BeBox hardware. There was a lot of excitement about this operating system as it was going to be the be all end all OS for multimedia. The operating [...]

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Microsoft yesterday released a security advisory that described a new security vulnerability affecting several Microsoft operating systems. The article, which was posted only a few hours after the release of security patches for this month’s patch-day affects the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) implementation. The operating systems that are affected by the new vulnerability are [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

It seems that Microsoft is trying to explore some new ways of promoting their upcoming operating system Windows 7. Other methods of promoting Windows 7 are slowly coming to light next to the official launch parties that are hosted by Microsoft in various cities throughout the world. One of the – rather unusual – strategies [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Operating Systems, Windows

Microsoft’s next operating system will be released on October 22. Users who participated in the beta test might have already downloaded, installed and used the Windows 7 Release Candidate which can be used for more than six months without problems. Some users who like MSDN or Technet subscribers are also able to download the Windows [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

Here is a quick reminder: Users who are interested in the next Microsoft operating system can download the latest official test release from the official Microsoft website. The download will be taken off the page on August 20 which means that it is from then on not possible to download an official Windows 7 release. [...]

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