Microsoft's marketing machine tried to convince Windows users that Windows 7 was a collective effort based on your ideas. "Windows 7[......]
North American’s in search of the perfect tablet PC Steve Job would never make, won’t have to wait much longer. Gigabyte’s S1080 made its way through the FCC offices last week , and is expected to be made available here in the next few months. [......]
Internet Explorer 9 has hit the release candidate milestone ( download ) and Microsoft is behaving like any browser vendor would when its browser reaches a new development milestone. You guessed it right, Redmond is touting the blazing speeds brought along by the Release Candidate. A lot of these improvements - are avowedly inspired by the “over 17,000 pieces of feedback†MS received from developers and enthusiasts, according to a post on the official Internet Explorer blog . [......]
If you don't fancy yourself a gambling man and have been putting off picking up a Windows 7 Family Pack, you better get on the ball. "This product is available for a limited time and will be available to purchase until December 31, or while supplies last," Amazon notes in its Windows 7 Family Pack product page[......]
In the long run, Microsoft didn't do itself any favors by releasing Internet Explorer 6 as a non-standard browser. Now all those companies who were forced to develop apps specific to the nine-year-old browser are struggling to migrate to Windows 7 , according to market research firm Gartner[......]
The expression “kids say the darndest things†gets just about anyone under the age of 10 off the hook for bizarre remarks, but Microsoft PR is likely looking for someway to spin Steve Ballmer’s latest comments into this category as well following a recent interview at the Gartner Symposium. [......]
Microsoft says it's overwhelmed and humbled by the initial response to Internet Explorer 9 Beta. It has released some figures to quantify the “early customer enthusiasm.†According to the Redmond-based company, IE9 Beta had been downloaded over two million times by the end of the second day. [......]
The tablet market continues to inch closer to a competitive field instead of just a one-man show dominated by Apple. ExoPC, for example, is now taking preorders for its upcoming Windows 7-based slate. [......]
We're starting to see a resurgence in planned Windows 7-based tablets, with the latest entry belonging to MSI. After putting on display its WindPad 100 tablet at Computex, the company has gone and released a bunch of press images into the wild, indicating that it's moved past the prototype stage[......]
Best Buy’s CTO and Geek Squad founder, Robert Stephens has just piqued our interest today after tweeting some pics of a Rocketfish tablet . In case you haven't spent any time in the big box electronics chain, Rocketfish is Best Buy's in-house brand for various accessories. [......]
After Microsoft scrapped plans to release its dual-screen Courier and HP pulled the plug on its much hyped Windows 7-based Slate (you know, before the company went out and gobbled up Palm, putting them in a webOS state of mind), we wondered if we'd ever see Redmond's latest OS make a run at the tablet market. Wonder no more, says Steve Ballmer, who told 14,000 partners during his July 12 keynote at the Worldwide Partner Conference that Windows 7 slates are forthcoming. [......]
Pause for a moment and count to 10. All finished? Assuming you counted in accurate 1-second increments, Microsoft sold 70 more copies of Windows 7 by the time you finished. [......]
Windows 7, which was launched on October 22, 2009, has since sold more than 100 million licenses and can now be found on one of every 10 PCs in the world. According to Microsoft, that's enough to qualify as the fastest selling Windows OS in the Redmond company's history. The rapid adoption of Windows 7 has paid off big time for Microsoft, who earlier this week reported revenues of $14.5 billion for the financial quarter ended March 31[......]
Of interest to anyone with a touchscreen display, Microsoft this week announced the release of its Touch Pack for Windows 7. [......]
Virtualization specialist Parallels said it will release software that will facilitate the upgrade process from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7 using, what else, virtualization technology. Called "Parallels Desktop Upgrade to Windows 7," the product will go on sale next month for $49 with a high-speed USB cable bundled in, or $39 for just the software[......]
