By 8 pm PST, Jan 1, 2010, the Windows 7 Giveaway is ended as planned. The final winning list will be posted as soon as possible. For info on winners for the final day, please refer to http://uneit.com/2010/01/01/winning-list-for-final-day-of-windows-7-giveaway/ Congratulations! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
A firm believer and supporter of Microsoft, I’d come up with an idea to have a test of how Windows 7 upgrades itself in versions. An interesting look at Windows Vista was done by me years ago, but I didn’t keep any blog then, so the project went lost in record. This time, let’s make [...]
Windows 7 is inching to the final public release, and party atmosphere is heating. For any software as huge and essential as operating system, no matter how great it is, gets dysfunctional here or there sometimes. The question is how to fix it and we judge a good OS by having as few frustrations as [...]
A final step towards Windows 7 general availability is done today when Microsoft released Windows XP Mode to MSDN. Just last week, Microsoft released their latest attempt on securing the Windows platform, Microsoft Security Essentials, to general public. Today’s release of Windows Virtual PC is viewed as the final mark of the whole development of [...]
It’s there! This time, it’s not that exactly 10:00AM, instead these images were put up around 9:56AM. Quite on time. With Windows Server 2008 R2 being posted, all the wait for the past year is over. It began with Windows 7 PDC test build 6801 last September, and lasted all the way beyond Beta, [...]
It’s there! For those of you who have MSDNAA accounts, go ahead to get it! Inheriting the habit for MSDNAA, Microsoft released Windows 7 Professional there, in both x86 and x64 versions, thus providing two different product keys for you guys to enjoy! Well, I don’t have any MSDNAA account, so I couldn’t check further. [...]
[From sevenforums.com] Windows 7 RTM will be available to all MSDN Subscribers on August 6 Summary On August 6th, the first public release of Windows 7 will be to MSDN Subscribers, which is over two months ahead of the general availability date of October 22nd for retail and OEM customers. To support the variety of [...]
With the introduction of the Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM, Microsoft had put in a new kind of licensing for customers to try out their products, a licensing for trial, although it’s no news that Microsoft used to roll out license keys specific for use in products trial. For Windows Vista, there was a one [...]
Microsoft had been responsive to customers more than ever since the public testing of the upcoming flagship OS, Windows 7. Just when the Internet is filled with info around the leaked builds of Windows 7 RTM and all kinds of guesses and rumors on the OS availability, Microsoft published another official Q&A on Windows 7 [...]
The idea of Windows XP Mode is generally welcomed by the industry and millions of Windows 7 RC users around the world. Amid the good reception, some people complaint about the lacking of freedom over control of the whole virtualized Windows XP, the most fierce one of them being the lack of settings to change [...]