Inevitable, the advent of a new operating system has to be branded with certain coordinates that position the platform in relation to the ubiquitous Windows OS from Microsoft. Google Chrome OS has in this manner joined the club of non-Windows operating systems, and don’t think for a minute that this does not apply to Microsoft’s itself. The Redmond company is also cooking non-Windows platforms (Singularity and Midori), and time will come when the software giant will have to go against itself on the OS market. However, which such a scenario is most probably reserved for the next decade, the Google Chrome OS has become tangible. A... [read more >>] Following the five year gap between Windows XP and Windows Vista, Microsoft indicated that it would pick up the pace for the delivery of Windows Next releases, and Windows 7 was an illustrative example in this regard. The latest iteration of Windows was delivered within three years after the general availability of Vista, and it looks like Windows 8 will have a similar GA timeframe in regards to Windows 7, considering that planning and preparation for the next iteration of the Windows client is already in progress. In a Microsoft job post for Software Development Engineer (via ActiveWin), a representative of the Redmond company mentions tha... [read more >>] Microsoft managed to pour more fuel on the fire driving the perspective that the Redmond company is no longer an innovator but just a follower, by noting that the Windows 7 graphical user interface (GUI) was borrowed from Mac OS X. The software giant was accused on various occasions that it was down-right copying rival products with their own, and then leveraging its mammoth presence on the software market in order to squash smaller-size competitors, generally out of its weight category. And nowhere have the accusations of copying found more virulence than when it came down to Apple products. The Cupertino-based hardware company m... [read more >>] An update is available from Microsoft for the gold version of Windows 7, designed to ensure that future service packs for the operating system, namely Service Pack 1, will be delivered and installed successfully. The latest iteration of the Windows client, just as its precursor, is prone to issues which can prevent the installation of service packs, updates and even software. The Redmond company is already offering a refresh set up to resolve any problems that might block the deployment of SP1. The update in question offers the System Update Readiness Tool, bits which are also available for Windows Vista, for Windows Server 2008, and for Wi... [read more >>] Windows 7’s overall superiority to Windows Vista has translated into the latest iteration of the Windows client, leaving its predecessor in the dirt in terms of commercial success as well. Windows 7 RTM has been embraced by over three times more customers compared to Vista RTM in the first week on the market alone. Market research company, The NPD Group, indicated that initial sales of the boxed, retail copies of Windows 7 dwarfed those of Vista’s. In the first few days on the U.S. market, Microsoft sold 234% more boxed copies than Vista, noted The NPD Group. “Microsoft’s program of early low-cost pre-sales, high vis... [read more >>] Security company Sophos has tested Windows 7 RTM and found that the latest iteration of the Windows client from Microsoft is vulnerable to no less than 8 out of 10 viruses currently spreading in the wild. The security outfit put a clean install of the gold edition of Windows 7, which hit store shelves worldwide on October 22nd, in the same arena with 10 samples of malicious code, and found the operating system lacking when it came down to offering protection to end users by itself. In addition, Sophos pointed out that Windows 7’s User Account Control, either turned off completely or was running with default settings, was not an ... [read more >>] Microsoft has made available for download an automatic fix designed to resolve failed upgrades from Windows Vista to Windows 7 in scenarios in which the process gets stuck at 64% indefinitely. With Windows 7 having hit the shelves on October 22nd, 2009, eligible users running Vista proceeded to upgrade to their recently acquired copies of Windows 7. And, while the general rule is that the jump from Vista to Windows 7 is nothing short of a smooth transition, some users found that the upgrade process stopped responding at 62%. In such cases, the operating system also creates a file labeled system_drive:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\Pan... [read more >>] Microsoft released Windows 7 to manufacturing on July 22nd, 2009, and then the operating system to the general public on October 22nd. But this does in no way mean that work on the platform stopped. In fact, as soon as it signed off on the Windows 7 code, the Redmond company moved forward with work on the first major upgrade for the Windows client, Service Pack 1. Wzor indicated that the software giant was planning to finalize the first Beta for Windows 7 SP1 by the end of this year, and to release the service pack to manufacturing in the summer of 2010 (via Neowin). According to Wzor, Microsoft has been hard at work on Windows 7 SP1 since ... [read more >>] At the end of July 2009, just one week after it released Windows 7 to manufacturing, Microsoft revealed that, despite its initial position, testers that helped build the latest iteration of the Windows client with their feedback would be awarded a free copy of the Ultimate SKU of the operating system. Testers could opt between downloading the Windows 7 RTM bits ahead of October 22nd, or simply having a boxed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate (full license) shipped to them after the general availability deadline of the operating system. Windows 7 Technical Beta Program participants that choose to have the Ultimate edition sent to them in the box va... [read more >>] For those who have watched closely the launches of Windows Vista and Windows 7, one thing must be perfectly clear. There is less hoopla when it comes down to the latest iteration of the Windows client compared to its precursor, a smaller footprint Wow as far as marketing efforts are concerned. Nowhere is this more true than in India. While Windows Vista took center-stage at the Taj Mahal, Windows 7 got just a logo built out of 7,000 domino pieces, of course designed to incorporate the number 7 into the launch. At the bottom of this article you will be able to see the domino extravaganza that went into the launch of Windows 7 from Microsof... [read more >>] | 
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