Many Windows Vista users feel they were unpaid beta testers and that Microsoft has used their time and their error reporting with Vista, to help them produce Windows 7. I agree! In fact, many people have suggested that Windows 7 should have been rolled out as a Service pack for Vista.
Here’s why…
So, the tech news blog has been on holiday for the past couple of weeks. In that time, quite a bit has happened. Clearly, the BIGGEST story in tech news during that time, was that I got to name the title of last week’s Windows Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte; “bing is my back end”. Yeah, I’m a fan of the show (thanks Leo.)
Here’s the news I missed…
The marketplace has been asking for a single version of Windows for a long time. After all, this approach works fine for other operating systems.
However, even though people have been demanding a single OS since the first beta of Windows 7, it’s not going to happen. That’s right, instead of using the launch of Windows 7 as a chance to give their users what they want, Microsoft decided to create 6 different editions of the same OS, all differently priced too.
Apple has forced Microsoft to change one of its ads, and remove a statement about the price of Mac laptops.
Here’s what happened!
Businesspeople are an unforgiving bunch! Just because Microsoft released Windows Vista before it was finished and with limited driver support for their office machines, the majority of corporates have stuck with Windows XP. Vista is on just 12% of business desktops!
Google has just announced a list of hardware manufacturers, that it’s working with on the new Chrome OS. Here they are…
It seems the news just keeps getting better and better for bing.com; Microsoft’s new search engine. comScore report that bing has seen its share of the search market increase by another 1% over the past week.
According to Microsoft’s Senior Vice President, Bill Veghte, Windows 7 will be on sale and pre-installed on PC’s on 22nd October this year! Read on…
bing.com has hit the headlines here in the UK, 2 days before its official launch. It seems that users are able to view pornographic videos, without leaving bing.com. By simply hovering the mouse pointer over the video stills. Read on…
Hey Google, you better watch out because Microsoft is about to launch another search engine, this time called bing.com. According to the promo video (there’s a link to it in the article) it looks interesting – Read on…
According to Microsoft insider Paul Thurrott’s blog, Microsoft has decided to do a U-turn and will now remove the “3 app cap” they placed on Windows 7 Starter Edition. Read on…
Thinking of getting your new netbook with Windows 7 installed? You MIGHT want to think again!
Microsoft are taking a massive gamble, by shipping a heavily restricted version on Windows 7 on new netbooks. The Windows 7 ’starter’ OS will only allow you to (wait for it) run THREE applications at a time and will have many other features stripped! To use the operating system properly, you will have to take your newly-purchased netbook, surf over to Microsoft and go pay them some more money!
Microsoft has confirmed that anyone who buys a PC with Windows 7 pre-installed, will be able to get a free downgrade; to either Vista or XP.
There are multiple reports that the conficker / cornflicker worm is set to strike infected machines on 1st April 2009. This is NOT an April fool joke!
If you are NOT using a Windows-based PC you will be fine. Conficker, like most virus’ is Windows only. However, if you run a Windows based PC and you do not use anti-virus software, (like a lot of people) there’s a simple test you can do, to see if your machine has been infected – READ ON…
There have already been dozens of fixes and improvements made to the Windows 7 beta ; according to Microsoft’s Engineering Windows blog. They list 36 improvements, which will be in the RC (release candidate.) This disproves the often mentioned rumour that the Windows 7 feature-set is ‘frozen.’
Windows 7 fixes & improvements
The changes have been made [...]
