by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2009
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CableCARD is the cable industry’s standard for getting digital content to supported devices such as TVs, and in a few rare cases PCs, instead of having to rely on a large and clunky cable box. Unfortunately the PC option saw…
Read more Windows 7 Users Get CableCARD Support
by Rafael Hernandez on July 22, 2009
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Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system has hit its second to last major milestone today as the company has hit RTM status which means it’s off to some DVD pressing plant where millions of discs will be burned and packaged for…
Read more Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 Released to Manufacturing
by Rafael Hernandez on June 11, 2009
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With all of the anti-trust worries going on in the European Union Microsoft saw it fit to remove Internet Explorer 8 for the Windows 7 operating systems it plans to ship over to Europe according to CNET.One could argue…
Read more Windows 7 Sans Internet Explorer Coming to Europe
by Rafael Hernandez on June 2, 2009
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Well this certainly came out of nowhere. Microsoft is usually the first to tout their own perceived advancements but this may come as a shocker and a definite selling point for their next operating system Windows 7.bit-tech was on…
Read more Windows 7 Does GPGPU Video Transcoding Natively
by Rafael Hernandez on May 16, 2009
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Intel’s Hyper-threading technology was supposed to improve a system’s performance by keeping the CPU fully stocked with work to do.In reality its performance benefits weren’t fully realized by previous operating systems and, in some cases, could cause performance to…
Read more Windows 7 to Leverage Hyper-threading Performance Enhancements
by Rafael Hernandez on May 7, 2009
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Microsoft’s Windows 7 has been analyzed from every angle imaginable, given the free reign the developers have had in order to keep end-users in the loop, with all of their blogging and whatnot, it’s not surprising that you’ll know…
Read more Windows 7 RC1 Impressions: The Laptop
by Rafael Hernandez on May 5, 2009
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True to their word Microsoft has released the Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 for the general public to try out their pre-release software.Their customer preview program webpage has instructions and download links for bot 32-bit and 64-bit versions of…
Read more Windows 7 RC1 Available To The Public
by Rafael Hernandez on May 3, 2009
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If there’s one thing to attribute to Microsoft’s operating systems over the years it’s definitely not the word “personality”. They never went out on a limb in order to make their operating systems stand out once installed, they left…
Read more Windows 7 Personalization, It Gets Unconventional
by Rafael Hernandez on May 2, 2009
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Microsoft’s lineup of operating systems is popular due to the software developed for it, backwards compatibility, and quite a bit of brand recognition.Apple’s OS X is the runner up, given the cost of entry it’s not hard to figure…
Read more Is Windows 7 RC a Plot to Get Users Hooked?