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First Screenshots Of Windows 7 Build 7068 Appear

A Japanese blogger has posted first screenshots of the latest Windows 7 release with the build number 7068 and the build string 7068.winmain.090321-1322. The blog post itself does not contain additional information about that build which could possibly be attributed to the translation engine as the blog post is written in Japanese.
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27Mar2009 | Martin | 2 comments | Continued
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Microsoft Locks Mpeg4 H264 Codecs In Windows 7

Windows 7 will support various popular multimedia codecs like Mpeg4, H.264 or AAC out of the box which reduces the codec finding troubles that some users experience when trying to play certain multimedia files in the Windows operating system. A Directshow developer for the ffdshow tryouts application took a closer look at how Windows 7 [...]

27Mar2009 | Martin | 2 comments | Continued
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Technet Publishes Windows 7 RC Information Accidentally

A very observant Neowin user discovered the change of the official Windows 7 Beta Customer Preview page. The page contents were changed to contain information about the Windows 7 Release Candidate release prematurely. Microsoft has since then discovered the blunder and restored the old page but not before the information that it contained made its [...]

26Mar2009 | Martin | 2 comments | Continued
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Gartner: Windows 7 SP1 Not Needed For Deployment

One of the major problems that Microsoft did encounter after the release of Windows Vista was that many companies that wanted to switch to the new Microsoft operating system decided to wait until the first service pack for the operating system was released before starting the deployment phase.
Business researchers at Gartner published a paper [...]

26Mar2009 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued
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DirectX 11 Technical Preview For Windows 7

A lot of buzz surrounds the upcoming release of DirectX 11, a collection of application programming interface for the Microsoft Windows platform which was first announced at last year’s Gamefest event in Seattle (read DirectX 11 confirmed). The beta of Windows 7 was already released with DirectX 11 albeit a technical preview and not the [...]

25Mar2009 | Martin | 8 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Expected To Increase SSD Demand

Solid State Drives - SSD - provide several benefits to platter based hard drives including better shock resistance, faster access times and silence. They are still pretty expensive especially when it comes to Solid State Drives with larger capacities or above average performance. This is most likely going to change in the future according to [...]

24Mar2009 | Martin | 10 comments | Continued
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Software That Did Not Make It

If you compare previous installations of the Microsoft Windows operating system like Windows XP or Windows Vista with the soon to be released Windows 7 you notice that several software programs and applications have been removed from the latter. APC Mag is running a rather short but informative post about some of the programs that [...]

23Mar2009 | Martin | 10 comments | Continued
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Master List Of Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows 7 has introduced a lot of new keyboard shortcuts for those of us who prefer to use keyboards to mice for speed. Martin has already listed some shortcuts here, but I will keep this post updated with all Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts, so keep checking back for new Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts.
If you have [...]

22Mar2009 | Everton | 7 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Tweaks

There are a number of expert Windows 7 users who are now sharing their Windows 7 tweaks and mods with us mere mortals. Over at the Simple Thoughts site they have shared 12 Windows 7 Hacks.
Some of the 12 Windows 7 tweaks I don’t think are that useful, but here are the better ones in [...]

22Mar2009 | Everton | 8 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Logon Changer

Just a few days ago we mentioned that Windows 7 provides the means to change the logon background image without third party hacks or any other kind of system files manipulation as it was required in previous Microsoft Windows operating systems. The process had been primarily designed for the