Microsoft Windows 7 story background (200 px) Early in the history of Windows Vista’s promotional campaign, before the first public betas, Microsoft’s plan was to create a desktop environment unlike any other, replete with such … The consumer saw right through Microsoft’s plan even before the Vista RTM date , which was one reason why the graphics card manufacturers ended up being too slow to upgrade their Windows drivers, even as much as a year after Vista’s release . …

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The update goes by the name “A folder that is created under the root of the system drive is missing entries in its security descriptor, which may cause some application failures on the English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate 32-bit Ultimate” and can be downloaded from Windows Update. It fixes the following issue: …

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Microsoft Releases Windows 7 RC Upgrade | Windows 7 News

Windows 7 RC (Build 7100) is likely to be the final pre- release version before the software is shipped, a date for which has not been announced. It will be available until the end of July, according to Microsoft . …

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Those of you who are brave enough to run Windows 7 RC at work, in a domain environment, as a systems administrator will be interested to know that Microsoft has released updates for the Remote Server Administration Tools package for Windows 7 RC. … along side Windows 7

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Microsoft releases update to RSAT tools for Windows 7

This is the second important update issued since the release of Windows 7 RC to the public. Earlier Microsoft had pushed out a fix for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7 RC which fixed performance issues when opening a new tab. …

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Compatibility update available for Windows 7 RC | ithinkdifferrent

This is the second important update issued since the release of Windows 7 RC to the public.

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After reading last month’s Microsoft Surface installation horror story , it’s a nice surprise to see the Surface not taking itself too seriously during the setup process. Flickr user “mulmatsherm” captured these photos of the Surface when it was presumably just being initialized for the first time. The text on screen reads “I’m just a table right now - Check back later”.

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Microsoft Surface: “I’m just a table right now”

We also take the opportunity to talk about the much-maligned Windows Vista. Why do people say it’s a bad operating system? What exactly went wrong

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Microsoft has released a series of so called feature walkthroughs in the past months. Each feature walkthrough covers a specific aspect of the new Windows 7

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Windows 7 Feature Walkthroughs | Windows 7 News

Windows 7 RC download now, release date this fall. For those of you who are already about to through Windows Vista in the trash, you will be pleased to learn that the final test version of Microsoft’s Windows 7 is now available for you …

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