Jun 26
Starting today, major PC manufacturers will be offering a promotion with new PC’s that allows you to upgrade to Windows 7 at a later date for free. To help boost computer sales right now, Microsoft is offering this promotion to users that purchase a new computer installed with Windows Vista. Their hope is that people …
May 04
Sometime tomorrow, Microsoft will make the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) available to the general public. The new Windows operating system will be completely free to download, and its license will last until June of 2010. That means you can try Windows 7 for free for over an entire year. To download this final test …
Apr 27
Microsoft has officially confirmed the existence of a Windows XP Mode for the final version of Windows 7. Basically this means the new Windows 7 operating system will be able to run older applications specifically designed for Windows XP. This immediately solves any compatibility concerns surrounding an upgrade to Windows 7. A post by Scott …
Apr 07
According to AppleInsider, Microsoft has granted HP the right to downgrade the operating system installed on new computers to Windows XP for another year. Currently, HP allows purchasers of new PC’s to downgrade their OS from Windows Vista to the eight-year-old Windows XP. However, this right was set to expire in July as Microsoft transitions …
Feb 26
The engineers at Microsoft have been busy listening to feedback from the Beta testers of Windows 7. In a recent blog post by Microsoft, Steven Sinofsky said Windows engineers had received well over 500,000 feedback reports from Beta testers! They attempting to read all of this feedback, and engineers have already made over 35 new …
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