It appears that with the market share of Windows 7, Windows 7 tweaking tools list is also growing at a rapid rate. In the past, we reviewed tens of free tweaking tools for the latest version of Windows, and here is another impressive tool to the growing list.
READ MORE >> Tweak Me : Another Impressive Windows 7 Tweaking Tool
Last May, a few months before Windows 7 was released to manufacturing, I looked at the then-current crop of CPUs available for business PC buyers and identified a potential sticking point: Some of the most popular Intel CPUs available at the time didn’t support hardware-assisted virtualization (HAV). That made them incompatible with the newly announced Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode, a crucial compatibility feature in Windows 7. (For details about Intel CPU support, see “How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7?” For a closer look at Windows XP Mode, see this video demo.)
The problem is that Windows Virtual PC requires hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT for Intel CPUs, AMD-V for AMD processors). And the late-2008/early-2009 CPU lineup from Intel was notoriously inconsistent in its support for VT.
READ MORE >> Will your new Windows 7 PC support XP Mode? | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com
Microsoft has begun an investigation into a possible problem with Windows 7 that might cause poor battery life, and even degradation of the battery itself, on certain notebooks.
The idea that a bad OS/BIOS combo could be damaging a battery is very worrying because it opens up the possibility that this issue might not just be annoying, but could also be dangerous.
The issue, which was first reported by users on Microsoft’s TechNet forum, seems to have been around since June of 2009, and not only affected the release version of Windows 7 but also the beta and Release Candidate builds of Windows 7. Users are presented with an error message that tells them that they should “Consider replacing your battery” because “There is a problem with your battery, so your computer might shut down suddenly.” Along with the error message, users are also claiming that battery life is being cut short. Some are going as far as to say that their machines are virtually unusable when powered by the battery.
Is Windows 7 wrecking notebook batteries? | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com
The fastest selling operating system in history has given sufficient fuel to Microsoft to outpace Apple in terms of consumer satisfaction. Essentially, Windows 7 has bested Mac OS X Snow Leopard for the boost in satisfaction delivered to end users, revealed London-based market-research firm YouGov Plc. Both on the day of the release of the latest iterations of Windows and Mac OS X, and also throughout 2009, the proprietary OS from the Redmond-based company beat Cupertino’s favorite cat, as data extracted from the respondents in YouGov’s Chart of the Day reveals, according to Bloomberg.
Windows 7, which hit the shelves on October 22, 2009, boosted the level of consumer satisfaction for the software giant to on less than 67% for the entire week after launch. The increase was substantial, no less than 3% in a single day. Certainly, it was more substantial than the jump that Mac OS X Snow Leopard delivered to Apple, just 1%, bumping the consumer satisfaction level to 65%.
At the same time, Windows 7 managed to keep its momentum throughout the end of 2009. No less than 73% of respondents declared that they were satisfied with Microsoft on December 31, namely a 14% growth. By comparison, Apple customer satisfaction only grew by 6.9% by the end of the past year.
READ MORE>> Windows 7 Bests Mac OS X Snow Leopard in Satisfaction Measuring Contest – Microsoft tops Apple – Softpedia
So you picked up your shiny new copy of Microsoft’s latest OS offering – Windows 7 and want to install it on your (cue dramatic music)…….. Intel based Mac. Mac fans will view this as blasphemy and Windows lovers will probably ask; "why didn’t you get a PC if you wanted to run Windows". Well there are numerous valid reasons for having Windows 7 installed on one’s Mac and today we will guide you through the set up. My personal retort is because I can.
Naturally you don’t want to get rid of OS X when installing Windows, so thankfully Apple created Boot Camp which allows safe installation of a Microsoft Operating System ranging from Windows XP to the newest Windows 7. This is made possible by the fact that underneath all the Mac and Apple branding the components are basically a standard Intel PC.
Microsoft’s Windows 7 took just three months to reach a penetration benchmark that Vista needed almost a year to make, Web measurement firm NetApplications.com said today.
Windows 7 finished January with a 7.5% usage share, a mark the little-loved Windows Vista didn’t attain until 11 months after its January 2007 debut.
"There’s no slowing of the Windows 7 growth curve," said Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president with Net Applications, who also noted that on Sunday Microsoft’s newest OS accounted for more than 10% of all machines that were online. Windows 7’s share typically climbs on weekends and holidays, as more of the people online are running home computers, which are more likely to run the new operating system.
READ MORE >> Windows 7 adoption swells, as XP suffers record drop
Yesterday Apple finally launched its much hyped iPad to the world, presumably avoiding the rumoured name iSlate after realising how much of gift it would have been to journalists. Apple products do tend to create a huge amount of anticipation and good will but on this occasion it’s, if you read around the internet, a case of OOH! OOH! OOH! oh!
So why will the iPad fail and what’s this rubbish I’m pedalling about it helping sales of Windows 7? This is simple. Quite simply this time Apple have got it wrong.
READ MORE >> Why the iPad will fail and help Windows 7 to succeed | Windows 7 News
Preston Gralla
PC World
Friday, January 29, 2010; 12:19 AMIf you’re looking to tweak Windows 7 in just about any way possible–as well as gather important system information–you’ll do well to try out EnhanceMySe7en Pro ($30, 15-day free trial). It’s a combination system customizer, diagnostics tool, and maintenance tool rolled into one. [...]
The vendor also offers a free version of EnhanceMySe7en, which by the developer’s estimate has only about 60 percent of the features of the paid version. The paid version includes features such as performance, network, and security tweaks; plus hard drive optimization.
READ MORE >> EnhanceMySe7en Pro Helps You Master Windows 7 – washingtonpost.com
By NICK WINGFIELD
Microsoft Corp. said consumer demand for Windows 7 propelled a 60% increase in profit during the holiday quarter, in another sign of hope for the battered technology sector.
The world’s largest software maker’s results, which included a 14% rise in sales, were a welcome change after three quarters where sales fell from a year earlier. The turnaround in Microsoft’s business was almost entirely due to the October launch of Windows 7, which lured consumers back to stores for copies of the software and new PCs running it, especially in markets like Asia and Latin America.
Microsoft executives cautioned they haven’t yet seen a return to strong spending by businesses on Windows 7 and other products, though they reiterated earlier expectations of a recovery sometime this year. "This is the best launch of an operating system we’ve ever had," Peter Klein, chief financial officer, said in an interview.
READ MORE >> Microsoft Profit Jumps 60% on Windows 7 – WSJ.com
Listen to your favorite music without having to carry your laptop from the living room to the kitchen. Share your music library on a wireless network.
While this workshop shows you how to stream music from one laptop to another, digital media such as videos and pictures can be accessed using the same method.
READ HOW AT >> Streaming music from Windows 7 – Chip Magazine -
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