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Windows 7

Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system was designed to be everything that Vista wasn’t. It was executed with an attention to detail rarely seen in most software today (aside from the fine fruit company) and has quickly gathered a large user base thanks to its forward looking feature set. How popular has it been? Well it [...]

Read more Windows 7 passes Vista usage rate, taking candy from baby still more difficult

by Rafael Hernandez on August 2, 2010 · 0 comments

Microsoft Windows 7 flag

Microsoft’s Windows 7 has had a grand time pulling in all manner of people looking to upgrade their operating system or already preloaded on new PCs and all of that market growth may just lead to an eco-friendlier planet, or at least a bit of savings on the old energy bill. It would seem the [...]

Read more Windows 7 leads to a greener home or office

by Rafael Hernandez on July 30, 2010 · 1 comment

Cups of espresso pciture

Transcoding your media files should be a whole heck of a lot easier given the amount of processing power in a modern PC but, somehow, many software makers just can’t seem to get the job done right. Thankfully CyberLink is keeping an eye out for all of us with their new MediaEspresso 6 software which [...]

Read more CyberLink MediaEspresso 6 offers caffeine enhanced media conversion

by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2010 · 0 comments

GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD5 motherboard picture

I don’t exactly understand why you’d want to perform such a function over the Web but…there it is. GIGABYTE has announced two new applications for owners of their motherboards. First up is the GIGABYTE Hotkey OC application, which is a part of their EasyTune 6 utility, that allows you to set up overclocking profiles for [...]

Read more GIGABYTE brings overclocking to the “Cloud”

by Rafael Hernandez on July 12, 2010 · 1 comment

Windows 7 SP1 Beta Download picture

Tablets aren’t the only stars of WDC 2010. Today, Microsoft released the first public beta of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (it’s a consolidated release). Although Microsoft warns that only IT pros need apply, it’s not preventing anyone with the “right qualifications” to grab the update after a brief registration process [...]

Read more Microsoft Releases Windows 7 SP1 Beta

by Pedro Hernandez on July 12, 2010 · 0 comments

HP Slate tablet picture

The iPad’s stranglehold on the tablet market may be nearing its end.  Several new reports hint that Apple’s rivals are gearing up for a fight, and judging by the exhaustive list of combatants, things could get really interesting really fast. First comes news that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is promising a deluge of Windows 7 [...]

Read more Windows 7 tablets ahoy: Dell, Toshiba, Asus on deck

by Pedro Hernandez on July 12, 2010 · 0 comments

Barnes & Noble Nookstudy picture

It’s a little late for those of us that completed college with several pounds’ worth of textbooks in our back(breaking)packs, but Barnes & Noble is looking to lighten the load for future generations.  The bookseller today unveiled NOOKstudy, an “e-textbook” platform that runs on Windows or Mac — no Nook required. Set to go live [...]

Read more NOOKstudy: Barnes & Noble goes to school

by Pedro Hernandez on July 12, 2010 · 0 comments

Microsoft’s Windows 7 removed quite a few of the applications people have come to rely on and bundled it under the company’s Windows Live Essentials banner in order to better promote, and update, their home-user centric programs. The company is planning to improve and extend their products with an emphasis on easily publishing your photos [...]

Read more Windows Live Essentials to get some user friendly updates

by Rafael Hernandez on June 3, 2010 · 0 comments

Microsoft’s Windows 7 added a whole host of new technologies which are designed to modernize the Windows operating system lineup which also included some Virtualization technology that would help older XP based software run smoothly on the new OS. Unfortunately at launch their “XP Mode” required hardware virtualization support in order to run. No longer. [...]

Read more Windows 7 XP Mode no longer requires Virtualization hardware extensions

by Rafael Hernandez on March 22, 2010 · 0 comments

Businesses dare not deploy a whole new operating system until they know the bulk of their hardware and software will run, in a stable fashion, on the fancy newly update OS…thus the wait until at least Service Pack 1 rolls around. Microsoft has deemed that line of thinking silly so they’ll be rolling out a [...]

Read more Windows 7 SP1 Detailed…sort of

by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2010 · 0 comments

Being a popular new operating system means that there are those that would circumvent protections in the OS so as to make it seem legitimate. There are those that willingly take that risk in order to save themselves some cash, then there are those that are suckered into a new system preloaded with a counterfeit [...]

Read more Windows 7 Reworking Its Copy Protection

by Rafael Hernandez on February 11, 2010 · 0 comments