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Unlock Hidden Windows 8 Features

Microsoft has packed a few new features into the early development milestones of Windows 8, and while the company went to the trouble of hiding them, just a little bit of digging is sufficient to bring them to the surface. Leaks from Windows 8 Milestone 1 (M1) have already revealed changes such as deeper integration...

19 April 2011
14:14 GMT

Installing Windows 8 on a USB Flash Drive – Video Demo

It’s already clear that Windows 8 will support a range of next generation form factors beyond traditional PCs, but at the same time, customers will be able to install the platform even on devices that are not computers at all. Thanks to Portable Workspace, an upcoming feature introduced in the successor of Win...

18 April 2011
11:41 GMT

Leaked Windows 8 M1 Build 7850 Screenshots

It looks like Microsoft’s “shhh… let’s not leak our hard work” plea to Windows 8 testers has fallen on deaf ears. As I told you yesterday, an early development milestone of Windows vNext was leaked in the wild. The actual Windows 8 bits are now available from a variety of illegal downl...

13 April 2011
13:51 GMT

Windows 8 Build 7850 Leaked and Available for Download, Reportedly

Following a series of Windows 8 details and screenshots making their way into the wild, it now appears that the actual bits of the operating system have also been leaked. Those users ready to jump the gun when it comes down to testing the next major iteration of the Windows client will reportedly get the chance to d...

12 April 2011
11:28 GMT

Windows 8 First Leaked Screenshots Are Fake [UPDATE]

While Microsoft is reportedly gearing up to offer the first taste of Windows 7’s successor in early January 2011, information on the next major iteration of Windows has already leaked in the wild. UPDATE: It appears that the screenshots are fake, not from Win8 at all but from Small Business Server 2011 RT...

29 December 2010
02:43 GMT

Windows 8 Development Process Still in the Early Stages

Microsoft makes it a point of not sharing all of interim Builds of next generation product available to all testers, and this is also the case for Windows 8, the successor of Windows 7. But although there isn’t much information available on Windows vNext, the company is hard at work building the operating syst...

21 December 2010
10:58 GMT

Microsoft: Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 Rolling Out

Microsoft has confirmed officially that it is rolling out the first development milestone of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4. Of course that the Redmond company is shy of using the Wave 4 reference. Instead, a member of the Windows Live Hotmail team referred to “improvements in current Hotmail features,” whil...

17 September 2009
10:41 GMT

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 Milestone 1 (M1)

Users might not even have noticed anything different, as they were getting a taste of the evolution of Windows Live Hotmail. According to Microsoft, the first development milestone of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 was introduced on August 31st, 2009. The Redmond-based company made a point of keeping the release of Wind...

15 September 2009
03:24 GMT

Installing Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6519

Installing Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6519 provides an experience almost identical to that of Windows Vista with the exception of a quite different finish. In this context, Windows 7 M1 gives the impression of something that Microsoft just threw together rather than a fully-fledged development milestone for the next...

20 June 2008
13:21 GMT

Microsoft Says Get a Life, Forget Windows 7, Fresh Screenshots Available

Mum's the official word from Microsoft when it comes down to Windows 7. The Redmond company is terribly careful not to share any details on the next iteration of the Windows client. And yet, with Windows 7 Milestone 1 out and about since the end of 2007, with Milestone 2 on the horizon, and even with talk of M3,...

7 April 2008
14:21 GMT

Screenshots Fiesta: Windows 7 Ultimate Build 6519

In Redmond Utero, Microsoft is making headway with the development of Windows 7. But aside from small leaked bits and pieces of information about the next version of Windows, there are almost no official comments on Windows vNext. Designed as the successor of Windows Vista, the Redmond company revealed that Windows 7...

4 April 2008
06:16 GMT

Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for 2010 - No Word on Windows 7 M2

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 is right on track for release in 2010. Concomitantly with the leaked details associated with Windows 7 Milestone 1 dropped by the Redmond company to select partners in January 2008, a potential timetable for the availability of the successor of Windows Vista was also made public...

12 March 2008
13:53 GMT

Microsoft Serves Build of Windows 7 for Antitrust Flavor Testing

Microsoft's next iteration of the Windows operating system, and the successor of Windows Vista, is in the very early stages of cooking, but still, the platform is out and about. First off, the Redmond company offered Windows 7 Milestone 1 to its close partners in the beginning of January. At that time, even thou...

10 March 2008
14:53 GMT

Windows 7 Milestone 1 (M1) Ultimate Build 6.1.6519.1

Since Windows Vista was essentially Windows no. 6 - its successor is now Windows 7. The codename Vienna failed to survive long under the new head of the Windows project. Jim Allchin, the father of Vista and the former Co-President, Platforms & Services Division retired from Microsoft the same day that the latest Wind...

16 February 2008
06:45 GMT

This Is Windows 7 M1 Build 6.1.6519.1 Ultimate Version in All Its Splendor

Feast your eyes on Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.6519.1 Ultimate version in all its splendor. In January 2008, Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista managed to steal the wind out of the sales of Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2008. Word went out that Microsoft had delivered an early testing milest...

14 February 2008
12:28 GMT

BREAKING: Windows 7 M1 Ultimate Edition Lives! - Video Proof!

Windows 7 Milestone 1 Ultimate Edition is alive, kicking and as real as they get! Although it's but one year away from the moment Windows Vista hit the shelves, and despite being in the final stages of development of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, Microsoft is also building Windows 7...

25 January 2008
10:52 GMT

Introducing Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.6519.1

That's right! Windows Vista, SP1 or no SP1, and Windows XP SP3 are nothing more than old news. Microsoft has started shipping an early development milestone of Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista. At the end of the past week, the Redmond company was confirmed to have served Windows 7 Milestone 1, exclusive...

22 January 2008
03:50 GMT


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