Windows 7 release has been quite a success for Microsoft. Recent statistic also shows that Windows 7 is getting relatively strong early adoption even more than the Vista and there’s no sign of slowing down. In fact, Windows 7 OS already accounted for more than 2 percent even before the launch. That’s already more than that of Linux 1 percent market share.
Even on the Beta stage of testing, Win 7 has been getting mostly positive reviews from tester besides being too similar to Vista. The final released is great, it’s fast, stable with very minimum driver problems and surpassed [...] Continue Reading…
November 17, 2009
Microsoft on Friday said it is working on a fix for a vulnerability in the Server Message Block file-sharing protocol in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Release 2 that could be used to remotely crash a computer.
The software giant had said on Wednesday that it was looking at the bug, discovered by researcher Laurent Gaffi?, who published proof-of-concept code on a blog.
“Microsoft is aware of public, detailed exploit code that would cause a system to stop functioning or become unreliable. If exploited, this [denial-of-service] vulnerability would not allow an attacker to take control of, or install malware on, [...] Continue Reading…
November 16, 2009
There were some good, or at least useful, tweaks for Windows 7. We can look even further into some decent tweaks to simply make your life with Microsoft’s new OS a little easier.
Windows Vista had the first Microsoft Sticky Notes, and it could be a useful gadget. In Windows 7, it has been improved a little to offer more flexibility. However, if you are not happy with the default settings, you can make some changes. The Sticky Notes application is launched from the Start menu. Once you have it up and running, you can make changes to the text [...] Continue Reading…
November 15, 2009
With previous versions of the Microsoft Windows operating systems (OS), there were always several – possibly hundreds – of tweaks which made the OS perform better and easier to use for the end-user. If you are an administrator, you probably already know plenty of these and use them regularly with Windows XP and/or Windows Vista. Just like all of the other Microsoft releases, Windows 7 will be more comfortable for a user if they tailor it for their purposes. Here will be presented a few tweaks which may actually help you enjoy Windows 7.
One area of importance is the [...] Continue Reading…
November 14, 2009
Creating a Flash Drive Installation
With any Windows install, you usually need a media drive like a DVD-ROM. However, there are many times these days when a PC does not have this drive – especially the compact travel laptops also known as the netbooks out on the market now. If you have a USB DVD-ROM, well you have no issues here for the most part. But, would it not be nice to have a tiny and portable device from which you could install Windows 7 on any number of computers as long as they have a USB slot? Well, that [...] Continue Reading…
November 12, 2009
We all have an opinion about Windows Vista – even Mactards have something to say about Vista as they keep saying it over and over on TV and radio – and the most common view is not exactly positive. People purchased PCs and notebooks, and then asked to have Windows XP loaded instead of Vista; even Microsoft allowed manufacturers to sell XP on new machines for a short time after Vista launched. It was not exactly a win for them. However, and this is important, some of those people who downgraded their operating system (OS) to keep from using [...] Continue Reading…
November 10, 2009
In the first part of this article, we saw several ways which Microsoft’s Windows 7 release may not live up to the hype surrounding it. In the second part, we will see some more areas where it may not be exactly what customers are looking for.
The Windows 7 Starter version is not good for anything – especially netbooks. They have moved beyond the only-three-applications-at-a-time phenomenon, but there are few other improvements over the Vista version. You cannot stream data of any kind, which means you have to save videos or music to what is a very small hard drive [...] Continue Reading…
November 8, 2009
Well, Microsoft has already released Windows 7 to the public now. Early returns look promising but are not outstanding, and most of that is based on the large amount of pre-release orders. The possibility of the success of the new operating system (OS) has been discussed at length. There are many new features and Microsoft listened to customers when improving on what Vista lacked or did very badly. However, it is possible that many people will be turned-off by the OS for many reasons. Those reasons will be discussed here…
First of all, it is too much like Windows Vista [...] Continue Reading…
November 7, 2009
Windows 7, the new operating system (OS) from Microsoft, has a number of new features. Here, we will look at the Jump List feature which is new to the Windows 7 OS. This feature is very useful for performing common tasks with a specific application quickly and easily. All that needs to be done is to right-click on the application on the Task Bar or hover your mouse pointer over the application on the Start menu; you will then be shown a list of common tasks or commonly accessed documents with which you use the application.
To be fair, this [...] Continue Reading…
November 6, 2009
Problem reports where making the rounds shortly after the final release of the Windows 7 operating system. It is not unusual that some users report problems when installing a new operating system or upgrading their old OS to a new one. Windows 7 in this regard did not get a lot of bad press except for a problem that got reported quite frequently by Windows Vista users who tried to perform an upgrade to Windows 7. These Windows Vista users were experiencing an error at exactly 62% of the update.
Windows performed an automatic rollback to Windows Vista at this [...] Continue Reading…
November 6, 2009
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