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Windows 7: A Day 7 Scorecard - PC World

Microsoft and Yahoo Need a Bit More Time to Negotiate a Deal | Maximum PC

Now that Windows 7 is available, are you looking for some security baseline recommendations from the experts? Then here’s another timely release from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team! Today, new security baselines for Windows® 7 and Windows® Internet Explorer® 8 are available for download. Over the past few months, the Solution Accelerators team collaborated with Microsoft security experts, multiple government agencies worldwide, and a large community of IT security professionals to develop and test these new security baselines.All of these baselines are free for you to use. In case you are not familiar with all of the security baselines available for Microsoft products, they ship as part of the Security...

Microsoft Concocting Its Own Multitouch Mouse | Maximum PC

Testers who decided they wanted a physical version, instead of one for download, of their free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate will see it arrive in the next month or so. Full Story: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/free-windows-7-copies-for-testers-on-the-way.ars

Microsoft has posted the 140-page Windows 7 Product Guide and has also launched the Windows 7 Solution Center. Full Story: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/microsoft-posts-140-page-windows-7-product-guide.ars

Intel and Microsoft have been collaborating for more than 20 years. The day Microsoft launched Windows Vista; we had already been collaborating on Windows 7. The joint team quickly grew to several hundred engineers. Last week, the work we did together became a reality. While marrying Intel’s future Intel Core processors with Microsoft’s latest operating system was quite possibly the biggest undertaking to date for the two companies, there was a very short list of top priorities from users. First, make notebooks run longer (“I want to watch the whole DVD on the airplane.”). Second, make it run everything faster (“I want to start work when I turn it on and don’t want that DVD, encryption or anything else to slow it down.”) So...

For our friends Down Under, the wait is now over thanks to the arrival of HP’s MediaSmart Servers (powered by Windows Home Server software). Australians are the happy new recipients of home servers that have created so much buzz and excitement here in North America! So it’s no surprise that HP’s recent announcement about the availability of the MediaSmart LX197 and MediaSmart EX490 servers in Australia garnered rave reviews. Gizmodo Australiasays: “ . . . ultimately I think this is going to be a mandatory box (or a box like it, at least) for every home within the next couple of years.” PC Authority says: “HP have a really good product on their hands here, and with space for up to 7TB of internal storage, it's an interesting...

As many of you have noticed, there is a lot of information out there about Windows 7 now that it is available for everyone. You can find information on everything from the Action Center to Windows XP Mode on various blogs and web pages all over the Internet. You might want a concise guide of what Windows 7 has to offer and how it can help you and your business.  With this in mind we created the Windows 7 Product Guide.  This easy to read guide gives you a clear overview of the features in Windows 7 without a lot of technical jargon that you might find in other content. The guide was designed to educate and inform readers about benefits you get from adopting Windows 7. The Windows 7 Product Guide is has three major sections...

Over the past months, my colleagues from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team have been hard at work to develop the planning and design guidance for DirectAccess. Today, we are pleased to announce the release of the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for DirectAccess. In case you’ve been haven’t heard, the new DirectAccess feature in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 now gives you the ability to allow remote users to access enterprise shares, websites, and applications without the need to connect to virtual private network (VPN) systems. DirectAccess also gives IT managers like you the ability to update remote PCs anytime they are connected to the Internet, without the user being logged on to the machine. As...

Windows 7 student upgrade hell - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Brainstorm Tech

The Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) Ongoing Beta Program has started letting testers in and is already handing out build 1.0.1676.0. MSE is so far available in 39 markets. Full Story: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/microsoft-security-essentials-ongoing-beta-begins.ars

Microsoft Reports $12.92 Billion Revenue for First Quarter - Q1 2010 - Softpedia

Windows 7 RTM Compatibility Center Now Live - Courtesy of Microsoft - Softpedia

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Today’s launch is something Corel’s software teams have been looking forward to for many months. Windows 7 and Windows Touch are the most exciting things we’ve seen in computing for a long time. To coincide with the launch of Windows 7, Corel has released two all-new products that re-invent the typical menu-driven user experience, offering consumers more expressive and interactive creative environments. Engaging and dramatically different UI designs let users get the most out of Windows 7 by providing a more natural way of interacting with your PC. It’s all about removing barriers to creativity. Nothing gets between you and your inspiration. Windows Touch has given our software teams the opportunity to push the limits of user...

Download Free Windows 7 RTM Custom Themes - Straight from Microsoft - Softpedia