As Microsoft gets closer to a public beta of the next version of Office (Announced last week), the company has just announced that the Technical Preview program for Office 2010 is coming to an end.
In the e-mail sent to participants, Microsoft noted that the public beta will be available sometime next month. Participants will still [...]
Linus Torvalds, the father of the Linux Kernel gave Windows 7 the thumbs up in Japan yesterday.
Torvalds was in town for the Japan Linux Symposium exhibition and Microsoft reportedly setup a big promotion booth across the street from the conference center. During a conference break an attendee dragged Torvalds across the street to “make fun [...]
Microsoft has revealed a bunch of numbers surrounding the development of Windows 7, and boy do they carry a lot of weight.
In addition to helping us understand how the Windows 7 product development and planning team used feedback to shape the final release of Vista’s successor, Microsoft also followed up to give us some more detailed numbers. The company threw a lot of data points at us, but the one that stuck out like a sore thumb was this number: more than eight million people took part in the Windows 7 beta program. Redmond made a point to say that this number was more than any Microsoft beta ever.
Windows 7 has been launched and that certainly is great new for India when it comes to the pricing. The prices are apparently 40% lower than the US prices.
We managed to source Windows 7 India prices and here they are:
Windows 7 Home Basic – Rs. 5,899
Windows 7 Home Premium – Rs. 6,799
Windows 7 Professional – Rs. 11,199
Windows 7 Ultimate – Rs. 11,799
Windows 7 has been officially launched, but Microsoft never makes available official download links that allow retail customers to download setup installer or ISO image of Windows 7, despite digital downloads have been the sole distribution channel for many that purchases from online store or on MSDN or TechNet subscriptions.
In conjunction with the official release of Windows 7, Microsoft press is now giving away “Deploying Windows 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine” digital eBook in PDF format for those who is looking for guidance specific to Windows 7 deployment. The contents of the eBook are extracted from selected chapters written by industry experts Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, and the Windows 7 Team with selected Windows 7 articles from TechNet Magazine.
In past we had seen Google Map Buddy Downloader which lets you to browse and download Google Maps for offline viewing purpose. Now here is yet another similar application Google Map Saver.
Google plans to launch a music service, Wired.com has confirmed with sources familiar with the situation. Next to nothing is known about the service at this point, rumored to be called “Google Music,” “Google Audio,” or “One Box,” although we have confirmed that it will be announced next Wednesday, and that it will link out to two music services: Lala and iLike.
Microsoft is not backporting a new Windows 7 feature that allows customers to encrypt removable devices to the platform’s precursors, namely Windows XP and Windows Vista, but it is offering users a solution that allows them to access encrypted content. In this regard, the Redmond company has made available for download the BitLocker To Go Reader. The utility is designed to compensate the lack of the BitLocker To Go feature in XP and Vista, but permits exclusively read-only access to BitLocker-protected FAT-formatted drives, and only from machines running either XP or Vista.
The official launch event of Windows 7 is still hours away, but the latest iteration of the Windows client from Microsoft has already hit the market, as initially scheduled, today October 22nd, 2009. The successor of Windows Vista is now available for purchase for customers in markets around the world, while Microsoft is gearing up for the official release in the U.S. The Redmond company has already confirmed that the main event celebrating Windows 7’s General Availability will be hosted in New York City and will feature its Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.
Windows 7 might officially be just away from becoming available for purchase to customers worldwide, but fact is that the operating system is already available for free, almost free, or at a reduced price compared to what Microsoft is charging for the product. Pirated copies of the latest iteration of the Windows client are being sold for as low as $3 in Shanghai’s Xinyang market, in China, according to Reuters. In this regard, it appears that the Redmond-based company will have just as hard a battle tackling piracy in China as it did with Windows Vista.
