Microsoft has announced via the Windows 7 Team Blog that Windows 7 will be released on October 22nd. This is a lot quicker than some people expected as Microsoft had previously announced that Windows 7 would be released in 2010.
Microsoft has revealed that netbook manufacturers looking to ship the new Windows 7 operating system on their products will need to agree to some fairly hefty restrictions to keep the Redmond giant happy.
Reports are surfacing online that Mozilla, amongst others, is complaining that the upcoming Windows 7 OS is anti-competitive - Hmm, haven’t we been here before?
Reports online have outlined the future plans for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system just as the company’s newest offering, Windows 7, has gone into full-on release candidate mode
A recent announcement by Microsoft is, for a change, very exciting. It seems that if you buy Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate, you will be able to download XPM, it is not included by default for anti-trust reasons. So what then, is this here XP mode? Quite simply, it is a virtual machine, based on the Virtual PC that you can already download from the Microsoft website.
CNN are reporting that Microsoft is facing its first fall in sales in more than 2 decades, and in the midst of a poor economic climate the Redmond based behemoth will clearly now be refocusing its efforts on regaining its previous market dominance, but what’s caused this turn of events?
Researchers have uncovered what they seem to think is a flaw in Windows 7 that has no fix. At the Hack in the Box Security Conference in Dubai, Vipin Kumar and Nitin Kumar demonstrated their Vbootkit 2.0 software, and used it to take control of a computer running Windows 7 at boot time.
Microsoft has announced that the release candidate of Windows 7 will be available for download on the 5th May. Those of you with a subscription to MSDN or TechNet are lucky enough to be able to download it from yesterday! The release from Microsoft is as follows…
