items tagged with Windows 7
Installing Windows 7 from a USB flash stick
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-05-02 20:45:24
Microsoft has made Windows 7 release candidate 1 available. Yet, it is a DVD image - what if you want to try it on a netbook or an ultra-slim laptop without a built-in optical drive? Here is how to make a bootable USB memory stick to install it from.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-05-02 20:45:24
Microsoft has made Windows 7 release candidate 1 available. Yet, it is a DVD image - what if you want to try it on a netbook or an ultra-slim laptop without a built-in optical drive? Here is how to make a bootable USB memory stick to install it from.
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Windows 7 leaves netbook market open for Linux
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-05-01 04:48:15
Microsoft's newest operating system Windows 7 will leave much of the burgeoning netbook market open for Linux because of its relatively large footprint. This was confirmed to iTWire by a local Microsoft executive today, although she did not spell it out in those words.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-05-01 04:48:15
Microsoft's newest operating system Windows 7 will leave much of the burgeoning netbook market open for Linux because of its relatively large footprint. This was confirmed to iTWire by a local Microsoft executive today, although she did not spell it out in those words.
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Windows 7 Release Candidate hits public download space
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-30 17:57:07
In one of the most anticipated releases from Microsoft since - well - Vista, Microsoft has announced the availability for public download of its come back operating system Windows 7. With Windows 7, Microsoft hopes to correct its mistaken market judgment call made when it released Vista.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-30 17:57:07
In one of the most anticipated releases from Microsoft since - well - Vista, Microsoft has announced the availability for public download of its come back operating system Windows 7. With Windows 7, Microsoft hopes to correct its mistaken market judgment call made when it released Vista.
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AutoRun curtailed in Windows 7 RC; XP, Vista to follow suit
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-28 19:25:47
Microsoft has decided to significantly curtail Windows' AutoRun feature in order to help curtail the spread of malware. The change will appear in the Windows 7 Release Candidate and will also be applied to XP and Vista.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-28 19:25:47
Microsoft has decided to significantly curtail Windows' AutoRun feature in order to help curtail the spread of malware. The change will appear in the Windows 7 Release Candidate and will also be applied to XP and Vista.
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Back to the future: Windows 7 and its Windows XP Mode
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-25 08:29:24
Microsoft still can't shake the success of Windows XP. In a move that seems designed both to ensure backwards compatibility and to sway the Vista nay-sayers it has been revealed Microsoft’s impending Windows 7 operating system will include a virtualised Windows XP mode.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-25 08:29:24
Microsoft still can't shake the success of Windows XP. In a move that seems designed both to ensure backwards compatibility and to sway the Vista nay-sayers it has been revealed Microsoft’s impending Windows 7 operating system will include a virtualised Windows XP mode.
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The offensive Microsoft anti-Linux netbook offensive
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-21 10:52:27
Ever since the unexpected advent of netbooks – who would have expected low-powered computing to be such a winner – Microsoft has been working to push Linux out. Unlike Vista, Windows 7 will run effectively on a netbook. However, Microsoft have reminded us they’re a proprietary company with the offensive Windows 7 Starter Edition being limited to three apps only. Are they trying to insult us or what?
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-21 10:52:27
Ever since the unexpected advent of netbooks – who would have expected low-powered computing to be such a winner – Microsoft has been working to push Linux out. Unlike Vista, Windows 7 will run effectively on a netbook. However, Microsoft have reminded us they’re a proprietary company with the offensive Windows 7 Starter Edition being limited to three apps only. Are they trying to insult us or what?
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Windows 7 Starter is a non-starter
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-20 06:03:38
Microsoft is being pilloried over its plan to hobble the power of netbooks with a crippled version of its new operating system called Windows 7 Starter Edition. With the release of Windows 7 still months away and a competitor like Google's Android looming, Microsoft may be just testing the market to gauge its reaction. If so, the answer it is receiving spells trouble.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-20 06:03:38
Microsoft is being pilloried over its plan to hobble the power of netbooks with a crippled version of its new operating system called Windows 7 Starter Edition. With the release of Windows 7 still months away and a competitor like Google's Android looming, Microsoft may be just testing the market to gauge its reaction. If so, the answer it is receiving spells trouble.
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Why enterprises will embrace Windows 7
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-14 09:09:14
I've just finished reading an article about how Windows 7 will be panned by enterprises which are now supposedly skeptical about Windows because of their bad experience with Vista. What's more, many of these enterprises will supposedly be moving to desktop Linux. Hogwash.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-14 09:09:14
I've just finished reading an article about how Windows 7 will be panned by enterprises which are now supposedly skeptical about Windows because of their bad experience with Vista. What's more, many of these enterprises will supposedly be moving to desktop Linux. Hogwash.
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Microsoft, Lenovo win massive NSW netbooks schools deal
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-03-31 19:49:12
Microsoft and Lenovo have won a massive deal worth hundreds of millions to supply sub-notebooks running Windows XP and Microsoft Office to 200,000 year 9 students in NSW state schools. The three year deal, with an option to renew, will see all year 9 students get the notebooks to keep for the remainder of their school years and beyond.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-03-31 19:49:12
Microsoft and Lenovo have won a massive deal worth hundreds of millions to supply sub-notebooks running Windows XP and Microsoft Office to 200,000 year 9 students in NSW state schools. The three year deal, with an option to renew, will see all year 9 students get the notebooks to keep for the remainder of their school years and beyond.
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Microsoft promises to release Windows 7, free
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-03-31 19:47:23
In an exclusive, long sought after interview with Microsoft’s CEO and Lord of the Dance, Steve Ballmer, a startling revelation on the future of Windows has emerged, set to shock, surprise, delight and dismay. Which emotion will you feel today?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-03-31 19:47:23
In an exclusive, long sought after interview with Microsoft’s CEO and Lord of the Dance, Steve Ballmer, a startling revelation on the future of Windows has emerged, set to shock, surprise, delight and dismay. Which emotion will you feel today?
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SUSE 11 vs Windows 7: no contest
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-29 20:33:43
SUSE Linux 11 has been out less than 10 days but already there are comparisons of the distribution to Windows - all of which are being accepted as compliments.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-29 20:33:43
SUSE Linux 11 has been out less than 10 days but already there are comparisons of the distribution to Windows - all of which are being accepted as compliments.
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Microsoft leaks Windows 7 Release Candidate availability
Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-03-26 17:48:27
Microsoft's TechNet Evaluation Center -- a site offering beta and trial versions of Microsoft software for download and evaluation -- briefly displayed a page with the date May 2009 and welcoming users to Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) testing.
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Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-03-26 17:48:27
Microsoft's TechNet Evaluation Center -- a site offering beta and trial versions of Microsoft software for download and evaluation -- briefly displayed a page with the date May 2009 and welcoming users to Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) testing.
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Why it's better to buy Apple rather than Microsoft
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-24 17:40:19
You have to hand it to Steve Ballmer. The man is never short of inaccurate statistics or words to take a dig at the two rivals which Microsoft has been confronting in recent times - Apple and Linux.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-24 17:40:19
You have to hand it to Steve Ballmer. The man is never short of inaccurate statistics or words to take a dig at the two rivals which Microsoft has been confronting in recent times - Apple and Linux.
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Just what is the big problem with Linux?
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-19 09:20:57
A bunch of Microsoft Windows users were asked just why don't they use Linux. What's wrong with Linux? What needs to change to entice them? And I'll tell you! The results are a list of gripes and grievances and make an insightful collection of matters that really need to be fixed or better explained.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-19 09:20:57
A bunch of Microsoft Windows users were asked just why don't they use Linux. What's wrong with Linux? What needs to change to entice them? And I'll tell you! The results are a list of gripes and grievances and make an insightful collection of matters that really need to be fixed or better explained.
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Kogan claims cheapest 10in netbook
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-03-17 01:58:02
Consumer electronics importer Kogan Technologies is never shy of a bold claim, and it reckons it has the cheapest 10in netbook in the country.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-03-17 01:58:02
Consumer electronics importer Kogan Technologies is never shy of a bold claim, and it reckons it has the cheapest 10in netbook in the country.
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Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 out in the wild
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-03-12 05:15:44
Microsoft is doing a real bad job of keeping the lid on Windows 7 builds, as the availability of the latest RC1 Build 7057 software via BitTorrent demonstrates.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-03-12 05:15:44
Microsoft is doing a real bad job of keeping the lid on Windows 7 builds, as the availability of the latest RC1 Build 7057 software via BitTorrent demonstrates.
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Xbox 360 Elite soon to be erased?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-03-08 22:42:35
Rumours suggest the top-end Xbox 360 Elite may soon be phased out by Microsoft as retailers complain the Elite models take longer to sell than the cheaper Arcade and Pro editions, although Microsoft is said not to have yet made any final decision.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-03-08 22:42:35
Rumours suggest the top-end Xbox 360 Elite may soon be phased out by Microsoft as retailers complain the Elite models take longer to sell than the cheaper Arcade and Pro editions, although Microsoft is said not to have yet made any final decision.
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The Linux killer 10 inch netbook
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-08 22:09:24
The release of the very nice Asus Eee PC 1000HE signals a turning point in the sub-notebook market and it's one that Linux desktop advocates will not like. It looks like the 10 inch netbook has hit the sweet spot for consumers and that sweet spot includes Windows but not Linux.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-08 22:09:24
The release of the very nice Asus Eee PC 1000HE signals a turning point in the sub-notebook market and it's one that Linux desktop advocates will not like. It looks like the 10 inch netbook has hit the sweet spot for consumers and that sweet spot includes Windows but not Linux.
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Windows 7 beta build 7048 32-bit leaked
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-03-07 21:45:57
Although the 64-bit version of Windows 7 build 7048 has been widely available on bittorrent sites, the 32-bit version was missing in action. But no longer, for it too has escaped Microsoft’s clutches and is available to any pirate that wants it!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-03-07 21:45:57
Although the 64-bit version of Windows 7 build 7048 has been widely available on bittorrent sites, the 32-bit version was missing in action. But no longer, for it too has escaped Microsoft’s clutches and is available to any pirate that wants it!
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Windows 7 - no Blu-ray for you!
Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Seeking Nerdvana
Category: The Digital Lounge Room
2009-03-06 02:41:59
Hopes for native Blu-ray support in Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system have been dashed with confirmation the new OS won't play Blu-ray movies out of the box.
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Written By: Adam Turner
Section: Seeking Nerdvana
Category: The Digital Lounge Room
2009-03-06 02:41:59
Hopes for native Blu-ray support in Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system have been dashed with confirmation the new OS won't play Blu-ray movies out of the box.
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