Consumer Market Research firm NPD has confirmed that initial sales of Windows 7 have surpassed those of the Windows Vista launch.
According to NPD’s weekly tracking service, Windows 7 software unit sales in the U.S. were 234 percent higher than Vista’s first few days of sales. The most popular choice for consumers was the Windows 7 [...]
In only two weeks since the official commercial launch of Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7 has managed to surpass Apple’s Snow Leopard market share.
Snow Leopard has been on the market for three months while Windows 7 has only been on the market for two weeks.
We all know Windows Vista got a bit of a bum rap. Its biggest sin was that it shipped earlier than it should and its reputation has never recovered.
However, with Windows 7 now out, those of us who have to switch between PCs now find ourselves discovering completely new things about Windows Vista that are [...]
Microsoft offers many ways to buy Windows 7. You can buy the operating system preinstalled on a new PC, upgrade an existing PC using a shrink-wrapped retail package, purchase an upgrade online, or build a PC from scratch and install Windows yourself.
In each of these cases, you can also take your pick of multiple Windows [...]
While Windows 7 technologies are, as a general rule, available exclusively with the latest iteration of the Windows client from Microsoft, there also are exceptions.
Illustrative examples are DirectX 11, which will be backported to Windows Vista, a smaller part of the Platform Update for Windows Vista, which features additional bits and pieces of Windows 7 [...]
Concomitantly with the worldwide general availability of Windows 7, on October 22nd, 2009, Microsoft also released a collection of new content designed to enable users of certain editions of the operating system to personalize their desktops.
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The Personalization Gallery on Windows.com is an online nook dedicated to offering users free resources for the customization [...]
With Windows 7 out the door we already know Microsoft immediately starts work on the servicing of Windows 7.
Engineers are now hard at work at creating hot fixes for application compatibility and ironing out any bug reports they receive. The same process occurs for every version of Windows once it has been classed released to [...]
Windows 7 only hit the store shelves 9 days ago, but, as us geeks got our hands on it much earlier, we already explorered most of the OS—including the desktop customization aspect of it.
Using Vista Style Builder to build visual styles for 7, and AveStyler or UXStyle to enable custom, non-Microsoft visual styles on [...]
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
Now here is one more tool Vista ProductID Changer that simplifies the process of editing the ProductID key in your PC’s registry.
Prior to Windows Vista it was known as Longhorn which was revolutionary Windows Operating system.
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Microsoft had planned very big with Longhorn unfortunately due to time constrains and other issue they need to drop many features and Longhorn name and end product was Windows Vista.
Those users who haven’t seen Longhorn [...]
Windows 7 no longer has “One Disc to Rule Them All” universal installation DVD disc media or ISO image which allows users to select whichever editions of Windows 7 they prefer to install during setup. Instead, each Windows 7 installation ISO or media is specific for a channel and distribution and can be used [...]
Windows 7 is an evolutionary Windows client release, according to Microsoft, and it was also fit that support for the OS would also be an
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evolution compared to what was available for Windows Vista.
And Windows 7 comes in a world where Microsoft Support is much different from what it was when the company [...]
