Most tech blogs are reporting that the Windows 7 Release Candidate has been released to the public. It is available on the official Microsoft website where it can be downloaded as a 32-bit or 64-bit edition in five languages. The expected rush has already started and the Microsoft servers are bogging down under the load. [...]

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The release candidate of Windows 7 comes with a surprising new feature in the Control Panel that will please many advanced users. A main point of criticism for users of previous Microsoft operating systems was the lack of uninstallation possibilities. Programs like Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer or Windows Search felt like excess baggage if [...]

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Many Windows XP users have decided to skip the Windows Vista operating system due to countless problems reported in the early days of its release. Especially performance related issues where the main culprit why many Windows XP users decided to wait for Vista’s successor instead. The release of Windows 7 is not that far away [...]

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It has been some time since we last posted news about Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 7. Microsoft has made some important announcements in the past few days. The first big news which hit the online news sites today is that Microsoft will provide the options to upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7. The term [...]

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You might have heard about the Windows 7 Taskbar which will change the interface and functionality of the Windows Taskbar quite a bit. One of the changes is the iconized taskbar which no longer displays the names of the folders and programs by default. It looks similar to the Quick Launch bar. The advantage of [...]

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The Windows 7 M3 build that Microsoft distributed at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles made its way to various P2P networks less than 24 hours after the distribution. It became known shortly thereafter that Microsoft did lock some of the features of the upcoming operating system in that build including the new [...]

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The last days have been filled with news posts about Windows 7. Everyone posted news about the upcoming operating system and it was quite hard to keep an overview of the things that came to light during the PDC 08 convention. That convention is over now and it is time to lean back and take [...]

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I wanted to write a nice article over at the Windows 7 website that I run with Everton from Connected Internet but the server is running slow all day which is somewhat ironic. The most important day of the year regarding Windows 7 and the Windows 7 site is to slow to post on. We [...]

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Microsoft updated the Windows 7 Pre-release (M3) Privacy Supplement today and it revealed several new features of Windows 7 that have been covered over at the Windows 7 blog. Here is a short summary of what new features have been mentioned in the privacy supplement. Driver Protection checks a database that is maintained locally for [...]

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