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| STORIES ABOUT: Windows 7 |
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| XP SP3 and Windows 7, the Wrong Reasons to Skip Vista SP1 |  | In the evolution of the Windows client, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is a step set firmly between Windows XP SP2 and Windows 7, just as well as the RTM version of the operating system. But while Vista RTM's Wow-less aura has managed to sell just 140 million licenses of the platform at over a year since the launch, shaving over $1 billion off the Windows Client division revenue in the third quarter of 2008, compared with Q3 2007, SP1 i ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 11:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Official Windows 7 Details Slip Through Microsoft's Fingers |  | There is no doubt that Microsoft has a tight grip on the next iteration of the Windows platform, but at the same time the Redmond giant manages to constantly let details slip through its fingers. While the company has only confirmed a development timetable scoped three years after the general availability (January 31) of Windows Vista, along with offering a quick look at MinWin, and promising to continue delivering both 32-bit an ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 03:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Leaked Details of Windows 7 M1 March 2008 Edition Version 6.1 Build 6574.1 |  | Windows 7 is alive and kicking, and despite the fact that Microsoft has gagged the details about the next iteration of Windows almost to perfection, details managed to slip through the Redmond giant's fingers. The initial Windows 7 Milestone 1 build was dropped at the end of 2007, and in early January 2008, only to close partners of the company. But the development of Windows 7 has moved along since version ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 12:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Art of Blocking and Dodging Vista SP1 |  | In the context of Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista RTM was easy to ignore throughout, but with the introduction of Service Pack 1, the equation of the latest Windows client has evolved. SP1 represents not only a maturity milestone for Windows Vista, but also a stage in the life of the operating system that will catalyze a boost in uptake. But at the same time, the rapidly approaching cut-off date for the availability of Windows XP a ... [read more >>] | | 19 April 2008, 07:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Will Own Linux-Free Desktops until Windows 7 |  | Even though with the advent of Windows Vista the open source community saw the ripe moment for Linux to strengthen its grip over consumer PCs, the fact of the matter is that Windows still holds a firm grip over the vast majority of desktops worldwide. And there is no change visible on the horizon, especially as the two largest vendors of Linux operating systems have no plans to go against Microsoft. Neither Novell nor Red Hat fee ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 08:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista (SP1) a Work in Progress, So Are XP SP3 and Windows 7 |  | Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer called the latest Windows client, Windows Vista, "a work in progress," at the Microsoft 2008 Most Valuable Professional Global Summit in Seattle, on April 17, 2008. But even if the statement has different connotations, and can be interpreted in more ways than one, the truth of the matter is that indeed Microsoft is still hammering away at Windows Vista. Yes, Vista was released to manufacturin ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 06:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows 7 Is Not a Way Around Vista SP1 |  | Despite the fact that Microsoft has released Windows Vista in two separate stages focused on entirely separate customer segments, for businesses in November 2006, and for the general public in January 2008, consumers in both target groups failed to crowd to the latest Windows client. And even if there is a general trend for adoption to pick up following the release of the first service pack, there is no guarantee that the Vista SP1 milesto ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 14:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Only Way for Windows XP SP3 Is Down |  | The third and final service pack for Windows XP will do little to nothing for the operating system, but will manage to deliver a superior boost to the platform's momentum in comparison to Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. Via SP1, Vista has indeed grown into its own, but the lates ... [read more >>] | | 12 April 2008, 06:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows 7 Between Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 8 |  | Just as Longhorn was a pit-stop between Whistler and Blackcomb, so Windows 7 will be a stage between Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP SP3 and Windows 8. Since the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008, Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.65 ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2008, 13:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| XP SP3's Survival Guide in the Linux Den Until Windows 7 |  | Microsoft has taken down the Support Lifecycle reference that incorrectly announced the General Availability Date of Windows XP Service Pack 3 for March 31, 2008. In this context, the third and final service pack for XP is still not available for the general public, with Microsoft continuing ... [read more >>] | | 05 April 2008, 07:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2008, 06:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| XP SP3 Will Live on Alongside Vista and Windows 7 |  | There are still consistent signs of life on the Windows XP front. Microsoft is in the final stages of cooking Windows XP Service Pack 3, and the Redmond company just doesn't seem ready to give up on the predecessor of Windows Vista. XP is scheduled to hit the end of its availability via the retail and OEM channels by the summer of this year, but there are exceptions to this rule. The Redmond company has decided to extend the availabil ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 14:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Evolution of User – Computer Interaction, the GUI 10 Years after Windows 7 |  | Microsoft is looking to the future of user – computer interaction and of the graphical user interface well beyond its next iteration of the Windows operating system, until 2020. Moving onward with the development of the Windows client, Microsoft is cooking Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista. The latest Windows operating system, released to businesses in November 2006 and to the general public in January 2007, did manage to place its ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 13:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Deep Inside the Core of Windows 7 |  | Microsoft did officially confirm Windows 7's delivery in 2010, but additional details on the next version of the Windows operating system are scarce to say the least, as the project is built under the watchful eye of Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group. In 2007, one piece of information did manage to find its way from under the Windows Omerta, courtesy of Microsoft Distinguished Engineer ... [read more >>] | | 01 April 2008, 09:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Consumer Version of Microsoft Surface Going for Windows 7 |  | Microsoft is currently working to produce the consumer version of its tabletop computer in a three-year timeframe. According to Tom Gibbons, Corporate Vice President, Specialized Devices and Applications Group, Microsoft Surface cou ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 12:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Ribbon Graphical User Interface Will Define the Windows 7 UX |  | The Ribbon graphical user interface will define the user experience of the next iteration of Windows, giving the operating system a new visual style trajectory compared to its predecessors, including Windows Vista. The Ribbon or Fluent GUI was born together with t ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 12:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista: the Gender Challenged OS, After the Longhorn Sex Change |  | Windows Vista is a Microsoft gender-challenged operating system, after it has survived the Longhorn sex change. Just bear with me, it will all make sense in the end, I promise. The short story on Windows Vista is bound not to produce any Wow reactions. At lea ... [read more >>] | | 22 March 2008, 09:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista SP1, XP SP3, Windows 7 Are Old News – Non-Windows Singularity OS Is a Hit |  | Microsoft is by no means all about the Windows operating system. In fact, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3, as well as the next iteration of the Windows platform, Windows 7, are old news by now. There is a new star emerging from Redmond, and it is a non-Windows operating system: Singularity. At this point in time, Microsoft has made available the Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) version 1.1for do ... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2008, 17:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Hints Windows 7 to Be the First Modular Windows Client |  | With Windows 7, Microsoft could diverge from the now traditional monolithic blocks which are designed to deliver functionality, such as hardware management, support for application runtime, a disk file system etc. In this context, Windows 7 could be compone ... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2008, 11:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Kernel for Vista SP1, New Kernel for Windows 7 |  | Microsoft is simply spoiling its users when it comes down to the evolution of the core of the Windows client. Both the first service pack to the latest Windows operating system available on the market and the next iteration of the Windows platform come with new kernels. Vista SP ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 11:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Starts Working on Windows 7 Parallel Computing |  | Microsoft has debuted work that will prepare Windows 7, the next iteration of the Windows client, and the successor of Windows Vista, to handle the imminent evolution of parallel computing. Windows Vista, as additional hardware and software products play well with the current dual- and quad-core-based PCs, but the continual increase in the number of processors beyond what is available today means that the technology has to be ada ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 14:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows 7 in Danger of Being as (In)Capable as Windows Vista |  | Windows 7, the next iteration of the Windows operating system, is in danger of being just as (in)capable as its predecessor, Windows Vista. This scenario was put forward by the plaintiffs in the Vista Capable lawsuit against Microsoft. The legal action, debuted in 2006, alleges that Microsoft misled consumers with the Windows Vista Capable logo program in order to help sell inferior machines, with hardware that was incapable of running the ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 07:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows (Vista SP1, XP SP3, Windows 7) - SkyDrive Synchronization |  | Microsoft plans to deliver an intimate connection between its Windows client and its cloud storage service hosted under the Windows Live umbrella brand. The Redmond company has continually been hinting at the bridging of its Windows desktop operating system with the Windows Live suite of services and products, as an integral part of the company's Software plus Services business model. According to Microsoft, one of the aspec ... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 08:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Top 10 Next-Generation Windows 7 Computers |  | The next-generation of Windows computers represents a consistent shift from the now traditional model of PCs. While, with the continual evolution of technology, the next generation of Windows machines are bound to deliver under the hood improvements from extra CPU and GPU horse power, to more efficient storage, all tucked away in an ever decreasing space with a focus on mobility, the future will also take the surface of computers to new in ... [read more >>] | | 15 March 2008, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vista Not a Big Hit with Pirates, Maybe Vista SP1, XP SP3 or Windows 7 |  | Microsoft's latest Windows client is not, by any measure, a hit with software pirates. And in this context, it seems that the Redmond company is ripping the fruits of the anti-piracy mitigations it has integrated by default into Windows Vista. According to the 2007 Anti-Piracy Year in Review report put together by the Software & Information Industry Associati ... [read more >>] | | 14 March 2008, 11:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Are in the Clear, Word Is Still Out on Windows 7 |  | While Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista are in the clear, word is still out on Windows 7, when it comes down to antitrust issues. With the exception of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 which has hit RTM on February 4, 2008, Microsoft is still cooking Windows XP Service Pack 3, and it is in the early stages of baking of Windows 7. And yet the Redmond company has had to submit all these products while still in the development phase for review, in ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 11:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 t ... [read more >>] | | 12 March 2008, 13:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 though Microsoft confirmed the existence of Windows 7, it only pointed out that the product was in planning. And yet, not only a ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 14:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Forget XP SP3, Vista SP1 and Windows 7 – Microsoft's Singularity OS Free Download |  | Forget about Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1 and even Windows 7. If you think that Microsoft is just building Windows platforms, you are mistaken. The fact of the matter is that the Redmond company is also hard at work putting together a new operating system dubbed Singularity. First of all, Singularity is a Microsoft Research project designed to reinvent dependable system design.
Microsoft research has been building Singularity sinc ... [read more >>] | | 05 March 2008, 14:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7? |  | Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2. Vista sales climbed slowly, with the operating system hitting an install base of 100 million by the end of 2007, a performance which culminated, only coincidentally claims Microsoft, with the departure of G. Michael ... [read more >>] | | 01 March 2008, 07:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Windows 7 Apple Will Fall Far from the Windows Vista Tree |  | Microsoft will not repeat the mistakes it has done with Windows Vista with its next iteration of the Windows operating system. In other words, the Windows 7 apple will fall far from the Windows Vista tree. An exception that will end up confirming the rule? Perhaps, however, Vista was all about UX ... [read more >>] | | 28 February 2008, 12:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows Digital Life, from Vista to Windows 7 |  | Windows Digital Life is an excellent example of the lifestyle Microsoft has envisioned for end users. And since we are indeed talking about the Redmond company, you have to realize that the perspective is exclusively centered around the Windows brand. I say the Windows brand because Microsoft's example of a digital life is not limited to the operating system, but involves a much wider range of products and services brought together un ... [read more >>] | | 27 February 2008, 08:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows 7 Start Menu |  | Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, is set to bring to the table an overhauled graphical user interface. As far as Windows 7 Milestone 1 (M1) Ultimate Edition Build 6.1.6519.1 is concerned, Windows Aero has survived without any major redesign, for the time being. There is, however, a certain amount of specific nip and tuck touch-ups across the Windows Aero in Windows 7, for build 6.1.6519.1, but nothing definitive, and certainly not ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 11:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Promises Vista SP1 and Windows 7 Will Be as Transparent as Aero |  | Windows Vista is among a collection of high-volume Microsoft products, also including .NET Framework), Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007, all impacted by the company's latest strategic move designed to expand interoperability across its technology and business practices. Microsoft is effectively envisioning a new tactic related to the information about its produc ... [read more >>] | | 21 February 2008, 13:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Forget Vista SP1 and DirectX 10.1 - Windows 7 Is the Next Generation Gaming Platform |  | Windows 7 Milestone 1 (M1) Ultimate Edition Build 6.1.6519.1 might not show it yet, but it is evolving to become the next generation gaming platform from Microsoft. Windows Vista brought to the table the jump from DirectX 9.x to DirectX 10, and Vista Service Pack 1 delivered the first update to the graphics infrastructure taking the version to 10.1. At this early stage in the development of Windows 7, Microsoft has failed to offer any clue ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 12:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows 7 - Could Microsoft Go Back Before Vista and Resurrect Longhorn? |  | Is Microsoft going back in time with Windows 7, before Windows Vista, and resurrecting bits and pieces of Longhorn? Could the crumbs of the original Longhorn project that were discarded on the way to Vista make the mother of all comebacks in Windows 7? Well, there are no official details from Microsoft pointing to the validity of this scenario, but the company did manage to leak just enough for such a perspective to be valid. In January 2 ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 12:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 & Servi ... [read more >>] | | 16 February 2008, 06:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bill Gates: We'll Use the Ribbon/Fluent User Interface across Windows 7 |  | One aspect that is inherently associated with the evolution of the Windows platform is the redesigning of the operating system's graphical user interface. From Windows XP to Windows Vista, this evolution was marked through the introduction of Windows Aero. For the time being Windows Aero has survived into Windows 7 Milestone 1 Ultimate edition. But in the future, the graphical user interface of Windows 7 could go in the same direction ... [read more >>] | | 15 February 2008, 12:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 milestone of Windows 7 to key company partners. Otherwise, the Redmond company has failed to officially confirm the exist ... [read more >>] | | 14 February 2008, 12:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows 7 and Office 14 Will Stretch into the Cloud |  | The next version of the Redmond company's flagship products will no longer be confined to the desktop. Despite the fact that both Windows and Office are essentially two desktop-centric solutions, Microsoft cannot afford to ignore the growing trend for applications and services to migrate online. The company itself has managed to make a few hesitant steps in the same direction in an effort to counter exclusive Software as a Service off ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 08:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Already Cutting Features from Windows 7? DirectX 11 the First? |  | Is Microsoft already hard at work repeating the history of Longhorn and Windows Vista in terms of overpromising and then underdelivering? Has the Redmond company already started stripping Windows 7 down of the features planned initially? Is DirectX 11 already being scrapped from the nest iteration of the Windows platform? Well, some ... [read more >>] | | 08 February 2008, 13:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Windows 7 M1 Lost the Leaks Race to XP SP3 Refresh 2 and Vista SP1 RTM |  | The first signs of Windows 7 M1 were delivered in mid-January 2008. With the Redmond company not breathing a single word on any specific details related to the next version of Windows, speculations at that point in time were distributed between either dismissing or confirming Windows 7 Milestone 1. Microsoft has yet to come out and officially talk Windows 7, but bits and pieces, details, screenshots and video demonstrations are i ... [read more >>] | | 07 February 2008, 12:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Windows 7 Team Promises to Fix Windows Vista's Mishaps |  | In a recent interview, as he attended the 2008 international Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, at the beginning of January, Microsoft Charmain Bill Gates suggested that Windows Vista could have been polished more before being unleashed on consumers. Of course that Gates failed to mention Vista specifically, he simply postponed the delivery of an answer until after the next version of Windows will be released. With Windows 7 M1 having ... [read more >>] | | 07 February 2008, 10:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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