Category: Windows Seven
January 11, 2012
While Ballmer’s CES keynote was as lacking in excitement as expected, there was one interesting announcement from Microsoft for PC owners. Kinect for PC aka Kinect for Windows will be coming out February 1st of this year. While that may seem to be a boon for PC owners the world over, there is one little catch. Kinect for PC will require new hardware and not just software.
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Posted in Hardware, Microsoft, Windows, windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Seven, Xbox | No Comments » Posted by: Susan Wilson
April 13, 2011
Team Note-Taker from Arizona State University won the Software Design category for the 2011 U.S. Imagine Cup while Team BearPaw from Brigham Young won the Imagine Cup People’s Choice Award. Meanwhile Team Bloom from Tribeca Flashpoint Academy won the top prize in the Game Design Windows/Xbox category and the People’s Choice Award for Game Design. Team Big Impact Bear won the competition for Game Design-Mobile.
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Posted in cloud computing, Microsoft, Mobile, Windows Seven, Xbox | No Comments » Posted by: Susan Wilson
December 4, 2010
Don’t you just love it when something that is designed to make your life easier makes it much, much more difficult? Good old AVG.
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Posted in AntiSpyware, Microsoft, Opinion, windows 7, Windows Seven | No Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack
November 13, 2010
Microsoft strikes again with a new video ad on YouTube taking a pop at Apple over its lack of Blu-ray support.
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Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, windows 7, Windows Seven | 5 Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack
October 22, 2010
Windows 7 is now a year old, having launched at retail on Oct. 22, 2009. And with 240 million Windows 7 licenses sold, Windows 7 is now the fastest selling operating system of all time.
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Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, Upgrading, windows 7, Windows Seven | 3 Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack
September 2, 2010
Microsoft is bringing back the much-loved but short-lived Windows 7 Family Pack. Unfortunately, once again it’s only going to be available for a limited time.
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Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, windows 7, Windows Seven | 1 Comment » Posted by: Dave Parrack
August 10, 2010
Just when you thought the PC vs. Mac battle was winding down, along comes Microsoft to stir things up again. Still, it’s fun to watch Apple fanboys bitch and moan, and I suspect this new effort will have just that effect.
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Posted in Hardware, Microsoft, Opinion, windows 7, Windows Seven | 2 Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack
July 10, 2010
It’s taken a long while for both computer manufacturers and consumers to make the move to 64-bit operating systems. But it’s finally happening, thanks to Windows 7.
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Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, windows 7, Windows Seven | No Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack
June 1, 2010
Google has apparently banned its employees from using Windows-based computers. At least without express clearance from a senior executive. But is security really the issue here? Or is it more about making way from Chrome OS?
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Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, Security, windows 7, Windows Seven | No Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack
April 27, 2010
Windows Embedded Standard 7 may not be a very catchy name, but it could catch on in a big way.
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Posted in Hardware, Microsoft, Opinion, windows 7, Windows Seven | 2 Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack
April 3, 2010
Microsoft is dropping the price of upgrading from one version of Windows 7 to another for a limited time. Which means those lumbered with Windows 7 Starter on their netbook can now upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium for $50 rather than $80.
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Posted in Hardware, Microsoft, Opinion, Upgrading, windows 7, Windows Seven | 3 Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack
March 30, 2010
The vast majority of the people who have upgraded to Windows 7 since its release last October are satisfied with Microsoft’s latest operating system. And why not? Because this is one Windows OS that does manage to live up to the considerable hype placed on it.
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Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, Upgrading, windows 7, Windows Seven | No Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack
March 18, 2010
Windows 7 has already been adopted by a large swathe of home users. But it now looks set to be adopted by enterprise as well, with the IT departments at businesses finally realizing it’s time to move on an up from Windows XP. And many are not even determined to wait until Microsoft releases Windows 7 SP1.
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Posted in Microsoft, Upgrading, windows 7, Windows Seven, xp | No Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack
March 9, 2010
Windows 7 is a solid and dependable operating system, and one of the best Microsoft has ever released. And yet, like every other Microsoft OS, it needs constant updating and patching. Which leads to an inevitable Service Pack. And it now appears SP1 could be with us before the end of 2010.
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Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, Support, windows 7, Windows Seven | No Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack
March 4, 2010
Microsoft has sold 90 million copies of Windows 7 to date since its release last October. This makes the latest Windows operating system the fastest selling OS of all time. But there’s more to come. Much more, in fact, as Microsoft expects to sell a total of 300 million copies of Windows 7 in 2010.
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Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, windows 7, Windows Seven | No Comments » Posted by: Dave Parrack