Posts Tagged ‘Windows XP’

Windows 7 surpasses Snow Leopard in under two weeks

November 7th, 2009

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.

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10 Ways Vista is more annoying with Windows 7 available

November 7th, 2009

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 annoying — because they are things that Windows 7 made so much better.
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Download Windows 7 Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 for XP SP3 and Vista SP1 and SP2

November 7th, 2009

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 beyond DX. Following the general availability of Windows 7, Microsoft also delivered Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 for previous releases of Windows.

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VMware Workstation 7 released with full Windows 7 support

November 3rd, 2009

VMware has announced the latest version it’s flagship virtualization software – VMware Workstation 7 which is packed full of new features which are huge – including full 3D graphics support for virtual machines.

VMware workstation is compatible with over 20 operating systems out of the box, and can run many other operating systems unofficially.
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7 Stylish Visual Styles for Windows 7

November 2nd, 2009

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 your system, you can already begin skinning Windows 7. For many people, desktop customization plays a huge role in their OS experience, and if 7 is new and doesn’t have any stylish skins (like the majority of Vista skins out there, yuck), these customization enthusiasts may be reluctant to switch. » Read more: 7 Stylish Visual Styles for Windows 7

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Get Longhorn Style Sidebar in Windows 7 & Vista with Longbar

November 1st, 2009

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 OS here is Longbar which is an alternative tile-based sidebar for Windows XP/Vista/7. It is based on idea of Longhorn Sidebar. LongBar shows some relevant information to user using tiles.

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Windows 7 RTM Support, the Evolution

November 1st, 2009

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 made its debut.

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