Congratulations Microsoft! Today, around 500 people (some even camped out all night) waited for the software giant to open its retail store. Located in Fashion Square Mall in Scottsdale, Arizona, the store is the Microsoft’s first retail outlet. People who waited outside for the opening were greeted by staff wearing Microsoft shirts. “It’s a good [...]
Continue reading →Several readers report that some auctions of the house party kits have been cancelled in eBay. The kits, along with other stuff, contain a Steve Ballmer “signature edition” of Windows 7 Ultimate. If you’re not sure what this “signature edition” is, it’s just the same as other Windows 7 Ultimate, but its packaging looks waaay [...]
Continue reading →Seem far-fetched? Not exactly. Microsoft, in an effort to promote Windows 7, has teamed-up with FOX and Family Guy creator/voice actor Seth MacFarlane to bring in Windows 7 promotions in the TV special. Set to air on November 8 at 8:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, the no-commercial-break show will feature Seth MacFarlane and Family Guy [...]
Continue reading →Microsoft wants everyone to be able to convert to Windows 7 smoothly. To help with that, it will launch a Windows 7 compatability Web site for consumers to be able to see which products will be able to run and support the OS. As of this writing, the site is live but the database of [...]
Continue reading →Yup, Microsoft’s bigman himself, Steve Ballmer, confirmed that the Windows 7 Starter will have certain limitations that should be abided by computer makers. Although some executives of the software giant already said earlier this yea that the company will place restrictions on some of the versions of the OS, Steve Ballmer is the highest computer [...]
Continue reading →Not even available in the market, and its already hacked. Well, it comes not as a surprise when hackers have become more and more intelligent in breaking protections and deciphering codes. The final code for Windows 7 which was just released to manufacturers is now reportedly facing a security risk, according to variety of forums [...]
Continue reading →With their history going back more than 20 years now, the collaboration with Microsoft and Intel for Windows 7 OS is not that surprising anymore. The two giants are working together to give Windows 7 the ability to better identify resources available and break up application processing over multiple chip cores and threads. Joakim Lialias, [...]
Continue reading →Through a new survey conducted by Quest Software’s ScriptLogic unit, a significant number of corporations have no plans to immediately change their OS to Windows 7. From 1000 responses from IT administrators, only 5.4 percent said they will move to Windows 7 this year while over a third of the survey respondents said that they [...]
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