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31
Jul

Windows 7 on MacBook Pro: Nice, but still has poor battery life …

I have had Windows 7 Ultimate RTM ( release to manufacturer) for a few days. This is, of course, a legitimate copy, not the leaked copy that you can download from the Internet

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Windows 7 on MacBook Pro: Nice, but still has poor battery life …

31
Jul

Windows 7 RTM Cracked With OEM License Key - Tom's Hardware

Windows Vista was never really an option for netbook users, but the release candidate of Windows 7 piqued our interest. Can Microsoft finally retire Windows XP in the netbook space

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31
Jul

Review of the HP Mini 110 Netbook on ClintonFitch.com

Thankfully Microsoft will be releasing a version of Windows 7 for NetBooks and while you won’t be able to get upgrade pricing, you can get a more secure and feature rich OS experience when it is released. I nor HP make any claim Windows 7 will work flawlessly on the Mini 110 but having used Windows 7 RC 1 on a similarly configured Netbook from Acer, I expect there to be no problems.

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31
Jul

Adobe fixes major Flash Player vulnerability | Computer | TechBlogPlus

Adobe today issued an out-of-cycle security update to Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat that fixes several critical cross-platform vulnerabilities, one of which is related to Microsoft’s Active Template Library (ATL) vulnerability … This means that Windows 7 Beta lived for approximately seven months, judging from the official public release date on January 9, 2009.

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31
Jul

Windows 7 Beta Expires Saturday - AppScout

Bi-hourly shutdowns of the Microsoft beta already started on July 1, but it officially goes dark on Saturday. Users should consider switching to the Windows 7 release candidate or Windows Vista, Microsoft said. …

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Windows 7 Beta Expires Saturday - AppScout

31
Jul

BBC - dot.life: Microsoft: There's a buzz about Bing

These technology pages are fast becoming a joke, is Bing the most exciting story you could find concerning Microsoft ? I would have thought that Windows 7 encryption being broken more than 3 months before the release date would have more …

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31
Jul

Netflix Watch Instantly coming to Windows 7 Media Center

In what is sure to be just the start of many announcements surrounding Windows 7 in the next few months leading up to the general release , Microsoft demoed Netflix on Windows7 Media Center at the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting. No hard release date yet or big surprises here as Vista owners got this access some time ago and Extenders still don’t support Silverlight. The good news though is that the app will be full touch screen capable, so for those with the right …

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31
Jul

Microsoft blacklists leaked Windows 7 OEM key

Windows 7 is due to ship on October 22 this year and it’s 99% certain that after this date more OEM keys will start leaking. According to Microsoft officials ” Windows 7 already includes an improved ability to detect hacks, ….. But I still think MS should try to stop as much piracy as they can before the Windows 7 release otherwise it would probably get more out of hand as people would spread the word and a lot of people would pirate it just so they could use it earlier

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31
Jul

InstallFree | Windows 7 - The New Windows XP?

Originally anticipated for release in early 2010, Microsoft has surprised us with a pre-holiday release date . Coming a little less than three years after the highly anticipated Windows Vista, Windows 7 is believed to be the next “must …

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31
Jul

Pirates crack Windows 7 activation - FierceCIO:TechWatch

The disk contained a master OEM key and the requisite activation certificate to enable the release version of Windows 7 . Microsoft gives OEMs the ability to pre-activate its operating system in the factory to ease the hassle for end-users.

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