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Windows XP, Vista and 7 Users Can Experience Full PC Performance with TuneUp ... PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) New to this version of TuneUp Utilities is a gadget located on the desktop for Windows Vista and 7 users. It displays the PC's health and provides direct ... View the full article

Product Reviews (blog) Windows 7 Upgrade Headaches May Slow Rollout CIO Today Certainly, no one ever got fired for not installing the initial version of Windows Vista. But with Windows 7's origins in Vista, some feel that the ... Yes, based on Mac history, Windows 7.5 will suck lessZDNet Microsoft: Clean installs from "upgrade media" is piratingNeowin Wishing for a Windows winner: Microsoft, Motorola make moves on MacsChattanooga Times Free Press ZDNet Asia

Phishing, worms spike this year, say Microsoft and McAfee CNET News Infection rates for Windows Vista were significantly lower than Windows XP, while the rate for Windows Server 2008 was less than Server 2003. ... and more

Ghacks Technology News Yes, based on Mac history, Windows 7.5 will suck less ZDNet Windows 5: Windows 2000. The transition to the NT kernel. Window 7: Vista. Incorporated a number of Longhorn elements. In the Windows Vista Team blog, ... Wishing for a Windows winner: Microsoft, Motorola make moves on MacsChattanooga Times Free Press My favourite new features of Windows 7ZDNet Asia Will the real 'new' features in Windows 7 please stand upBuilder AU ChannelWeb

In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss the Windows 7 upgrade conundrum, the wider Windows ecosystem, LA dumping Microsoft for Google Apps, Office 2010 public beta, and more... View the full article

Here's another common Windows 7 upgrade scenario: You want to upgrade a Windows XP-based netbook to Windows 7 using Upgrade media. View the full article

Here's another common Windows 7 upgrade scenario: You want to upgrade a Windows XP-based netbook to Windows 7 using Upgrade media. View the full article

Maybe you're a brand new network admin. You've taken some courses, you've passed some certification exams, perhaps you even have a Windows domain set up at home. But you'll soon find that being responsible for a company network brings challenges you hadn't anticipated. Or maybe you're an experienced corporate IT person, but up until now, you've worked in a UNIX environment. Now either due to a job change or a new deployment in your current workplace you find yourself in the less familiar world of Windows. This article is aimed at helping you avoid some of the most common mistakes made by new Windows administrators. Source: Tech Republic

Techtree.com My favourite new features of Windows 7 ZDNet Asia Virtual XP Mode is very useful for running legacy applications that don't work with Windows Vista/7. Windows 7 may not look very different from Vista, ... Wishing for a Windows winner: Microsoft, Motorola make moves on MacsChattanooga Times Free Press Microsoft Exec Taking Heat On Windows 7 UpgradesChannelWeb When is Windows 7 Upgrade Illegal?Techtree.com guardian.co.uk all 38 news articles

SYS-CON Media (press release) Wishing for a Windows winner: Microsoft, Motorola make moves on Macs Chattanooga Times Free Press The gadget blog Gizmodo.com used the headline, “Windows 7 Review: You Can Quit Complaining Now,†hinting at the problems with Vista. ... Microsoft Exec Taking Heat On Windows 7 UpgradesChannelWeb all 22 news articles

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WinInformant.com wininfo Short Takes: Week of November 2, 2009 WinInformant.com The concern here is that virtually every single PC user owns a previous version of Windows (Vista or XP) and thus qualifies for any upgrade version of ... and more

Q & A Tip of the Week  Troubleshooting Vista New York Times ... Microsoft's Automated Troubleshooting Services may be able to fix common problems for nontechnical Windows Vista users with just a click or two. ... View the full article

Apple provides a minor update in Apple TV 3.0, adding a new home screen, support for iTunes LP and iTunes Extras, Genius Mixes, and a few other new features. View the full article

Telegraph.co.uk Windows 7 'Full Upgrade' ... InternetNews.com As with Windows Vista, it didn't take very long for some clever hackers to figure out ways to install ... Microsoft confirms Windows 7 install trick is legalComputerworld Is Your Windows 7 Install Illegal?PC World Microsoft Haunted By Windows 7 Upgrade IssueChannelWeb Redmond Developer News

We are pleased to announce that the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 8 now supports creating custom Internet Explorer 8 packages in a total of 43 languages. IEAK8 can be downloaded from http://ieak.microsoft.com. Custom Internet Explorer 8 packages can be created in the following platform and language combinations: Windows XP SP2 or SP3 x86: [*]Total languages: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hong Kong Chinese, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malayalam,…

Telegraph.co.uk Microsoft confirms Windows 7 install trick is legal Computerworld "You can always do a clean install if you're upgrading, so long as you're upgrading a machine that's already running genuine Windows XP or Windows Vista," ... Is Your Windows 7 Install Illegal?PC World Updates Help Coders Put Windows 7 Tech Into Vista appsRedmond Developer News Libraries Give Vista Apps a ...InternetNews.com Malaysia Star

Here's another common Windows 7 upgrade need: Going from a 32-bit Windows Vista/XP version to a 64-bit Windows 7 version. View the full article

Tip of the Week: Microsoft's Automated Troubleshooting New York Times ... Microsoft's Automated Troubleshooting Services (support.microsoft.com/gp/mats) may be able to fix common problems for nontechnical Windows Vista users ... and more

Migrate to Windows 7 from an XP dual-boot configuration TechRepublic In last week's edition of the Windows Vista & 7 Report, Create a Windows XP and 7 dual-boot system staged for an easy migration, I showed you how to resize ... and more

Here's one that will bite many potential upgraders: You want to upgrade from Vista (or XP) to a lower-end Windows 7 version. View the full article

Introducing a new series that will examine the many ways in which you can upgrade to Windows 7. There are more questions about this process than you may suspect. Let's find some answers. View the full article