Windows 7 RTM has been leveraged for anything from a kitchen utensil to a Christmas accessory, but it appears that the latest iteration of the Windows client is also the perfect tool for world domination. Feast your eyes on the videos embedded at the bottom of this article and you’re bound to understand the role that Windows 7 can play into taking over the world. And, believe it or not, this time around it’s not the Redmond software behemoth pulling the strings of a Machiavellian strategy designed to enslave the planet. In fact, the “danger” comes from the last place you’d expect, something as apparently inoffe... [read more >>] The forth Beta development milestone for the next iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser is currently available for download. Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 was already offered to heavyweight testers as a nightly, preview build via the browser maker’s FTP servers, and was followed shortly by the fully-fledged Beta 4 bits. In fact, Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox at Mozilla had announced early yesterday that the nightly Builds had already been offered to early adopters and that the full Beta was scheduled to follow. Mozilla managed to live up to the promise and users can now grab the complete Firefox 3.6 Beta 4. And not just the night... [read more >>] Get ready for a new development milestone of Mozilla’s next iteration open source browser ahead of the Release Candidate Build. Although it was initially planning to make available a single Beta on the way to RC, Mozilla is now preparing to offer early adopters of Firefox 3.6 the forth Beta release. In this context, Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox at Mozilla, has announced that the almost half a million Firefox 3.6 Beta testers will be served the Beta 4 Build ahead of graduating the next version of the open source browser to RC stage. Testers interested in getting on the Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 early need to know that Mozilla has ... [read more >>] Microsoft released the third major upgrade to Windows Home Server on November24th, 2009, living up to the promise of making available Power Pack 3 this week. Current users of Windows Home Server will have PP3 automatically served to them through Windows Update. Microsoft advices customers running older releases of its home server operating system to make sure that the Automatic Updates settings are enabled in order for their machines to seamlessly access Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 (PP3) via Windows Update, and subsequently to download and install the upgrade. At the same time, the Redmond company is offering potential Windows Home Se... [read more >>] The race between Mozilla and Microsoft is on yet again to establish positions such as innovation leader and follower, when it comes down to Firefox and Internet Explorer. And it will most probably fall on the two company’s next generation browser releases to help label the two software makers as either leading the wave in innovation or bringing to the market features that are already sported by the rival product. In this regard, Firefox 3.7 and Internet Explorer 9 are currently neck-in-neck at the start line toward the adoption and implementation of hardware acceleration. Last week, at the Professional Developer Conference 2009 in Lo... [read more >>] There’s no disputing over the fact that Windows 7 brings a consistent overhaul of the graphical user interface that has become synonymous with the Windows operating system. One critical aspect of the Windows 7 GUI redesign is the revamping of the Taskbar, which is now affectionately referred to in some circles as the Superbar. Microsoft aimed to deliver a more user-friendly design, less crowded, less redundant. In this regard, the Superbar comes with an evolved mechanism to deal with pinned items and opened programs, new functionality such as Thumbnail Previews and JumpList, with an upgraded Notifications Area, and without Quick Laun... [read more >>] Customers having problems with the Shut Down process of Microsoft’s latest iteration of the Windows client can now turn to the company for a possible resolve. The software giant informed that in certain scenarios users of Windows 7 RTM that attempt to Shut Down, or put their computer into Sleep mode, won’t be able to do so. According to the Redmond company the issue is associated with machines that sport multiple CPUs or multi-core CPUs. “You have a computer that is running Windows 7. When the system is under heavy load, you may encounter one or more of the following problems: the hotkey on your keyboard does not work. For... [read more >>] Today, November 23rd, Opera Software is making a decisive first step toward delivering on a promise from earlier this year which involved reinventing the web. Users are now able to download the latest iteration of the Opera browser, and take advantage of the evolution from version 10.0. The start of this week is synonymous with the general availability of Opera 10.10 designed to include the Opera Unite platform. What make version 10.10 stand out from the crowd of browsers is the fact that the application bundles not only the Opera browser, but also server capabilities via Opera Unite. In this sense, users will be able to use nothing more th... [read more >>] Microsoft was supposed to make available for download an open source tool designed to streamline the creation of Windows 7 RTM bootable media and subsequently, the installation of the operating system this week; however, this will not be the case. In a genuine case of a “take 2,” the Redmond company promised to re-release the Windows 7 RTM USB/DVD Download Tool, after it was found that the utility lifted code from an open source project hosted on CodePlex while managing to break GPLv2 in the process. Just 10 days ago, the software giant confirmed that Windows 7 RTM USB/DVD Download Tool indeed contained code from an open source... [read more >>] 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 >>] | 
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