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Attempting to avoid the rather sluggish experience that has become inherently associated with Windows Vista RTM, Microsoft promised, through the voice of Steven Sinofsky, that Windows 7 would not set a single “bit” out of Redmond until it would meet a set of performance criteria. The Senior Vice Pres... |
29 August 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Service Pack 1 was nothing short of a panacea for Windows Vista, and in this context it now falls on Windows 7 to wash away all the sins of the current version of Windows. Vista RTM managed to hit a consistent amount of speed-bumps from software and hardware incompatibility to lack of support and to poor performance.... |
28 August 2008
13:34 GMT |
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Even if it is virtually Windows Vista at the core, or at least an evolved form of Vista, Windows 7 is being artificially dissociated from its precursor. At the start of August 2008, Microsoft finally put an end to the deafening silence surrounding the Windows 7 project, and started actually communicating bits and pie... |
25 August 2008
14:56 GMT |
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Former Windows chief Jim Allchin, co-president, Platforms & Services Division, considered Windows XP SP2 the equivalent of a fully fledged Windows release, but certainly much more than a service pack. Allchin retired from Microsoft just as Windows Vista hit the shelves in January 2007, and there are no doubts that th... |
21 August 2008
04:03 GMT |
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There is not one single cohesive group building Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, revealed Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group. Instead, the engineering entity is made up of no less than 25 different teams, each hammering away at one specific segment of the next ... |
19 August 2008
11:16 GMT |
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Microsoft has been tiptoeing around Windows 7 since Windows Vista hit the market back in January 2007. Kevin Kutz, Director, Windows Client, came out back on February 13, 2007, just two weeks after Vista's general availability and stated that Microsoft was "not giving official guidance to the public yet about th... |
16 August 2008
07:18 GMT |
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The next major iteration of the Windows client, Windows 7 has been under development, taking into consideration the planning stage, for approximately two years, and yet outside of the leaked information and then the Milestone 1 Build, little to no details at all are available about the operating system. However, Micr... |
15 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Believe it or not, the successor of Windows Vista is starting to become palpable. The first signs of life as far as Windows 7 is concerned were delivered in December 2007 with the release of the Milestone 1 Build of the operating system. Since then, with the exception of the crumbs from the Windows 7 feast that slipp... |
15 August 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, but also of Windows Server 2008, in the form of Windows 7 Server, had been under development over at Microsoft under the lead of Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group since 2007. At the end of 2007, the Redmond company made availa... |
4 July 2008
12:56 GMT |
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Since Bill Gates has officially finished his transition out of the day-to-day role as Microsoft Chairman with the Redmond company, he won't be around full time when Windows 7 comes out, but this aspect has failed to stop him from revealing that the Windows team is doing amazing things with the successor of Windo... |
1 July 2008
07:56 GMT |
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Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP. Even though Service Pack 3 for XP has only been available for a few months, almost two in fact, today, June 30, 2008, is the last day when Microsoft will allow retailers and OEMs t... |
30 June 2008
13:11 GMT |
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Windows Vista is an operating system defining of how Microsoft will shape Windows 7. According to Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, the way to Windows 7 started from Windows Vista and went on to also integrate the evolution delivered with Windows Server 2008. In this ... |
27 May 2008
09:59 GMT |
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In case there were any more doubts left, the Windows boss himself, Steven Sinofsky has come out and re-confirmed what was by now nothing more than common level, the fact that Windows 7 would drop by the end of January 2010. Microsoft is looking at a three year development timetable for the next iteration of Windows, ... |
27 May 2008
08:12 GMT |
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If there is any doubt in you mind, Microsoft confirmed that it is WORKING on the next iteration of Windows, that will succeed Windows Vista. Windows 7... Yes, Windows Vista was number six. And yes, the next Windows iteration after Windows 7 will be... (are you ready for this?) Windows 8. This because of the product r... |
30 January 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Introducing... Windows 7, codename Translucency, Milestone Sinofsky... After a diluvian leak of Windows 7 information, from intimate details to screenshots and videos, Microsoft has finally managed to talk Windows 7. The Redmond company has been hard at work on the next version of the Windows Operating system, as soo... |
28 January 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Whether Microsoft likes it or not, the truth is that the Windows 7 genie is out of the bottle. For the Redmond company, there are two viable options at this point, to either attempt sweeping Windows 7 under the rug, or to completely ignore the operating system. This because bringing Windows 7 to center stage and taki... |
25 January 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Just as Windows 7 will succeed Windows Vista, so will Office 14 be the next version of the Office System, designed to replace Office 2007. And just as Windows 7 is a product version rather than a codename, the same is the case for Office 14. Both product version references are an integer part of the product numbers v... |
21 January 2008
10:54 GMT |
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As far as Microsoft is concerned, mum's the word when it comes down to Windows 7. And this scenario was synchronized to perfection with the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas. CES is traditionally a unique landmark in the global technology landscape, and as far as Microsoft is concerned, ... |
9 January 2008
11:06 GMT |
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Believe it of not but Microsoft is cooking some "great stuff" for Windows Live. Now, the term could not have been more general and abstract, but the fact of the matter is that it comprises all the information the Redmond company is willing to share about the future of its cloud suite of products and services. As is t... |
22 November 2007
07:05 GMT |
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Windows 7 will be a complete tabula rasa in terms of the evolution from Windows Vista, but at the same time it will not be positioned as a repeat of its predecessor. With the upcoming version of the Windows client, Microsoft indeed needs to diverge from the mistakes it has made with Vista. And strong signals in this ... |
15 November 2007
12:23 GMT |
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Windows Vista makes users lose faith. The failed Wow was cataloged as a rank disaster, and produced the conclusion that Windows Vista is an operating system inferior to Windows 98. Alec Saunders is a former Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Canada, and yes, he is the one losing faith, and labeling Vista as worse of... |
19 September 2007
06:44 GMT |
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Is Office 2007 both outgunning and outnumbering Windows Vista? Back in 2006, when it was effervescently getting ready for the releases of the new version of main cash cows, the Redmond company decided in a strategic move to bundle Windows Vista and the Office 2007 System together from a marketing perspective. This is... |
17 September 2007
08:22 GMT |
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There is a sole conclusion that can be drawn from the first approximately seven months that Windows Vista has been available to the general public - the operating system is in a lamentable condition. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft itself acknowledged that Windows Vista was not ready for the world back in Ja... |
22 August 2007
12:39 GMT |
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Getting inside the third service pack for Windows XP is a task accessible to all Windows XP users currently due to the fact that Microsoft's private, select and hush-hush refresh was leaked to torrent trackers worldwide. Such a simple move obviously managed to ruin the entire translucent Windows Omerta that Stev... |
14 August 2007
11:36 GMT |
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In mid July 2007, Microsoft confirmed that it made a pre-beta version of the first service pack for Windows Vista available to a select pool of testers. The Redmond company then subsequently put to rest rumors of a public release of Windows Vista SP1 in the immediate future. However, the select group of Microsoft tes... |
13 August 2007
06:54 GMT |
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The limited Windows Vista Service Pack 1 pre-beta release made available to a select group of testers in mid July was leaked to torrent trackers and is free for the taking. Under the rule of the PR "shy" Steven a.k.a. Codename Translucency, Sinofsky, senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering ... |
10 August 2007
11:28 GMT |
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Microsoft offered official confirmation, admitting that a pre-beta release of Windows XP SP3 has shipped to a select group of testers. All it took was a small, insignificant crack in Sinofsky's Windows Omerta wall, and the flood of information related to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3... |
9 August 2007
04:45 GMT |
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Asphyxiated under Sinofsky's Windows Omerta, the Redmond company is not breathing a single word about the future of Windows XP and Windows Vista, and the whole of the Windows platform for that matter. But Redmond is no longer the sole epicenter of the Windows operating system. Apparently, Microsoft has exported ... |
6 August 2007
09:26 GMT |
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The first beta for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is live. Mid July was synonymous with the date Microsoft started to push the beta of Vista SP1 to what the company referred to as "a very small, very select group of advance customers." The selective pool of testers for the Vista SP1 beta ensures that the process is not... |
6 August 2007
04:07 GMT |
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In future versions of the Windows operating system, users should expect a completely reinvented Windows taskbar. Microsoft has already evolved the strip of desktop real estate at the bottom of the screen in accordance with various versions of Windows; still, the taskbar has remained essentially loyal to the same conc... |
24 July 2007
09:52 GMT |
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Dane Glasgow, general manager for Live Search is just the latest Microsoft Search executive to announce that he is leaving the Redmond Company. There are still shock waves reverberating through Microsoft's Search division and by the latest signs the shake-ups are by no means done. Glasgow is one of the executive... |
26 April 2007
09:55 GMT |
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