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Forget about Build 1.0.154.36, Google Chrome is now at version 2.0.156.1 in pre-Beta stage, and available for download. Just 100 days after the introduction of the first Beta of its open source browser, in mid-December 2008 Google launched the RTW (release to web) version of Chrome 1.0. A few days short of a month la... |
9 January 2009
03:20 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, pre-Beta development milestones of Windows 7 fail to play nice with USB network adapters that rely on pre-Windows Vista drivers. The symptoms involve NDIS 5.x USB network adapters not being displayed in the Windows 7 Performance Monitor. NDIS refers to the Network Driver Interface Specif... |
29 December 2008
16:01 GMT |
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There are few still remembering that talk of Windows Live Essentials debuted all the way back in 2006, even before Windows Vista was released to manufacturing and over a year ahead of Windows Live Wave 2, which introduced the centralized Installer for all Windows Live desktop clients. And yet, only with Windows 7 and... |
20 December 2008
06:59 GMT |
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In the sense in which Microsoft is building Windows 7 as the evolution of Windows Vista, the next iteration of the Windows client will perform as if on steroids, compared to its precursor. Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, along with Michael Fortin, one of Microsoft&r... |
17 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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The development milestones of Windows 7, be them pre-Beta or fully-fledged Beta, are time-bombed, as is the case with all Microsoft pre-release software. When it comes down to the Milestone 3 releases of the next iteration of the Windows client, the expiration date is officially set to August 1, 2009. This despite th... |
15 December 2008
03:42 GMT |
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Windows 7 Beta is just around the corner, and yet, nowhere near close enough. But at the same time, Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6956 is already here. The Build was showcased at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference in China, and subsequently leaked and made available for download both as a VHD and as an ISO. Wind... |
13 December 2008
07:33 GMT |
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While laboring to produce the first Beta for Windows 7, Microsoft has dealt with issues that have survived past pre-Beta Build 6801. An illustrative example in this regard is associated with the Web Services application programming interface. The software giant revealed that automatic proxy settings retrieval tasks i... |
12 December 2008
05:49 GMT |
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Microsoft ensured that the Windows 7 development milestone delivered at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2008 delivered less than what it showcased at the two events. In this context, a variety of features were blocked in Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6801 Milesto... |
10 December 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has developed one of the key resources it has been providing so far for Windows 7. Accompanying the release of Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6801 Milestone 3 at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 at the end of October in Los Angeles is the Windows 7 Developer Guide. At the start of December 2008, the Re... |
10 December 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Windows 7 Build 6956 is the latest copy of Windows Vista's successor leaked and available for download via various third-party sources, including popular torrent websites. With Microsoft taking its Windows 7 road show, not only outside of Redmond, but also outside of the U.S., more leaked copies of the next iter... |
9 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Moving onward with the development of Windows 7 from the pre-Beta Build 6801 Milestone 3 stage, Microsoft has overhauled the boot screen of the operating system. Fact is, that between Milestone 2 and Milestone 3 of the next iteration of the Windows client, the Redmond company has moved away from Windows Vista, as Win... |
4 December 2008
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Microsoft has not only wrapped up the first Beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, but is also close to releasing the first Beta of Windows 7. At the end of October and in November, Microsoft made available Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6801 Milestone 3 to participants at its PDC 2008 and WinHEC... |
3 December 2008
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Microsoft has kicked the troubleshooting capabilities of Windows to the next level with the introduction of Windows 7. And as early as Windows 7 pre-Beta Milestone 3 Build 6801, the Redmond company is offering a taste of the full capabilities of the operating system, capabilities that could have been life savers for ... |
2 December 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering support to testers of Windows 7 when it comes down to issues associated with the integration of NTFS external drives with the operating system. In this context, a refresh is now available on Windows Update (WU), designed to smooth out the experience of using a NTFS external drive coupled with Mi... |
28 November 2008
07:57 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently hard at work building Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista. The Redmond company has long shipped pre-Beta Build 6801 Milestone 3 and is now hammering away to produce the first fully fledged Beta of the operating system. At the same time, plans are being drawn for the successor of Windows 7... |
26 November 2008
13:09 GMT |
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The Windows 7 road show debuted at the end of October, with the start of the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles. The Windows Hardware Conference 2008 and TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona were next on Microsoft's agenda of Windows 7-centric events. Still, the Redmond company is not yet done to s... |
25 November 2008
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It was on November 20, 1985 that Microsoft started shipping the Windows operating system. This means that Windows turned 23 years old this week, with the Redmond company keeping the celebrations down to a minimum, namely, to a few disparate mentions of the event. On Windows' 23rd birthday, the platform evolved w... |
21 November 2008
15:21 GMT |
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Microsoft promises to optimize the amount of disk space that Windows 7 will consume in comparison to Windows Vista. Essentially, the Redmond company is laboring to decrease the installation footprint of the operating system with the next iteration of the Windows client. While the software giant failed to indica... |
20 November 2008
15:51 GMT |
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The final version of Internet Explorer 8 will not install on the pre-Beta version of Windows, according to Microsoft. Just as it is the case with Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7, Windows 7 will come with Internet Explorer 8 as a default component. However, users of Windows 7 pre-beta will only be able to use th... |
17 November 2008
13:11 GMT |
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Microsoft revealed that it was happy with the way Windows 7 was received at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles, at the end of October. The software giant applauded the good reception of Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6801 bits at the event, which gathered more than 6,500 developers to the Staples Ce... |
17 November 2008
12:21 GMT |
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At this point in time, Microsoft is only displaying the message “Coming soon,” instead of a list with Windows 7 security software providers. However, the company is looking to change this aspect within the next year. With Windows 7 evolved past Milestone 3 stage, as the pre-Beta Built 6801 bits have been ... |
17 November 2008
09:18 GMT |
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While Windows 7 has yet to reach Beta stage, the first workarounds to illegally activate this operating system are already available in the wild. Microsoft offered Windows 7 Ultimate pre-Beta Build 6801 to participants at its PDC 2008 and WinHEC 2008 events. The third major development milestone of Windows Vista'... |
17 November 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently moving onward with the development of Windows 7, having passed Milestone 3 with the operating system. According to Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, the Redmond company is now cooking the Beta 1 release of Windows 7. But even as early as W... |
15 November 2008
07:20 GMT |
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Immediately after Microsoft delivered Windows 7 Ultimate, pre-Beta Build 6801 at the Professional Developers Conference in las Vegas, at the end of October 2008, the bits were leaked and made available for download from various sources, including the top worldwide torrent websites. Product keys accompany Windows... |
12 November 2008
03:12 GMT |
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In the evolution from Windows Vista to Windows 7, Microsoft is committed to offering an increased level of control over the Windows client to the end user. In this context, the Redmond company has fine tuned a variety of areas across the operating system, and paid special attention to the balloon popups from the syst... |
11 November 2008
15:11 GMT |
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With Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6801 out of Redmond, it was only natural that DirectX 11 would follow. And this is precisely what happened. Having served Milestone 3 Build of the next iteration of the Windows client, Microsoft is also moving forward with the graphics technology included by default with the operating sy... |
11 November 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Although Microsoft showcased a much more feature-complete variant of Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6801 Milestone 3 at the professional Developers Conference 2008 and Windows hardware Engineering Conference 2008 in Los Angeles the past couple of weeks, the bits that made it out of Redmond contained a variety of locked fea... |
10 November 2008
14:21 GMT |
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Back on November 6, 2008, then-Windows chief, Co-President, Platforms & Services Division, Jim Allchin, delivered this message: “It’s time!” He was signaling the debut of a new era for Microsoft, the move away from Windows XP, the introduction of Aero, User Account Control, the black screen of death... |
10 November 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Moving from Windows XP onward to Windows Vista, Microsoft completely overhauled the installation process of the Windows client. The blue background of the XP install was scrapped altogether, and replaced with a much friendlier Aero-inspired wallpaper. But the changes in terms of visual style only came to accompany th... |
8 November 2008
07:22 GMT |
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Ever since Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1, Microsoft's Windows client and server operating systems have been virtually joined at the hip. As a future product development strategy, the two platforms will evolve together, an aspect valid not only for Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 ... |
7 November 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Microsoft continues not to commit to an official release date for Windows 7, while managing to just send out signals indicating that the next iteration of the Windows client would ship next year, and would be available to the general public ahead of the 2009 holiday season. During a presentation of the Velocity progr... |
7 November 2008
04:02 GMT |
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As of November 5, 2008 Microsoft has given the green light to debut of the development and testing processes of hardware products tailored to Windows 7. The next iteration of the Windows client was showcased as part of the Windows 7 “roadshow” at the Windows hardware engineering Conference in Los Angeles ... |
6 November 2008
07:26 GMT |
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Although Microsoft failed to support in any way past comparisons between development milestones of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, arguing that pre-gold builds are not fit for any sort of OS measuring contest, it failed to hesitate in the least when it came down to throwing the pre-beta b... |
6 November 2008
03:03 GMT |
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There are just three more development milestones left out of the development process of Windows 7, following the first three. At the end of 2007 Microsoft made available Milestone 1, while M2 and M3 were delivered in 2008, the last of which offered to all attendees at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Ang... |
5 November 2008
13:40 GMT |
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The Desktop Slideshow is one of the features that Microsoft has tucked away in Windows 7, hidden even from testers (at this point in time) including the participants at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of the past month. But especially from the users that have grabbed a copy of Windows... |
5 November 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Even with the delivery of the first taste of Windows 7 with the bits for the pre-Beta Build 6801 Milestone 3, Microsoft has not brought all aspects of the operating system into the limelight. One illustrative example in this context is the PC Safeguard feature related to the management of User Accounts. Although this... |
5 November 2008
07:41 GMT |
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One of the elements of the Windows graphical user interface that is evolving past what end users have come to traditionally associate with it is the Taskbar. The GUI evolution delivered by Windows 7 is designed to bring what Microsoft is internally referring to as the Superbar, or the enhanced Taskbar. The new Taskba... |
4 November 2008
14:31 GMT |
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In parallel with the development of Windows 7, Microsoft is also taking Windows Vista to the next level. The Vista evolution is synonymous with the jump from SP1 to SP2, and Microsoft is already offering a taste of the second service pack for the operating system. In mid-October, the Redmond company delivered the fi... |
4 November 2008
03:06 GMT |
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Microsoft is laboring to deliver a new level of personalization, choice and control with the Windows 7 desktop, according to Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Steven Sinofsky. The new graphical user interface designed for the next iteration of the Windows client made its first appeara... |
3 November 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Despite the fact that Windows 7 pre-beta build 6801 was showcased and subsequently released at the Professional Developers Conference at the end of the past month in Los Angeles, Microsoft still has some aces up its sleeve when it comes down to the next iteration of the Windows client. In this context, there are disc... |
3 November 2008
14:41 GMT |
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The past week, Microsoft delivered the first consistent taste of Windows 7, offering the pre-beta bits of the operating system at the Professional Developers Conference. On October 28, developers attending the event got their hands on a 160 GB drive pre-loaded with various goodies including Windows 7 Build 6801 in bo... |
3 November 2008
05:38 GMT |
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The promise from Microsoft is that Windows 7 will be fully compatible with the applications currently designed for Windows Vista. However, this does not exempt developers from actually testing their solutions on Windows 7 in order to ensure compatibility with the next iteration of the Windows client. Concomitan... |
7 October 2008
07:50 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to detail the evolution of the Windows client graphical user interface, in just one month, at the Professional Developers Conference 2008, and then at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2008. One of the aspects under the microscope will the taskbar, a Windows 7 desktop item on which M... |
30 September 2008
13:18 GMT |
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Windows 7 is in no way making an exception from the traditional Windows client development process and, in this context, the evolution of the graphical user interface is among the last aspects of the product to be implemented. Early Windows 7 Builds including Milestone 1 and Milestone 3 feature a visual style e... |
30 September 2008
04:52 GMT |
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Hot on the heels of the leaked Windows 7 Milestone 3 Build 6780 details, Microsoft confirmed that the first public taste of Windows 7 is approximately a month away. Situated between the M3 Build 6780 and the first fully fledged Beta of the next iteration of the Windows client, the pre-Beta development milestone of Wi... |
25 September 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Microsoft is making headway with the building process of Windows 7, the next iteration of the Windows client, and is gearing up to release a development milestone of the operating system at the end of next month. Microsoft's professional Developers Conference in Las Vegas, between October 27-30, 2008 will be syn... |
24 September 2008
12:33 GMT |
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