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14
Sep
Windows 8

Get your hands on Windows 8 Developer Preview today!

Microsoft made avail­able its next win­dows devel­op­ers pre­view for devel­op­ers. It is pre-​beta ver­sion. The Win­dows 8 comes with lot of improve­ments over win­dows 7 and natively sup­ports all the win­dows 7 appli­ca­tions. Read moreRead more

15
Mar
IE9-Logo

Internet Explorer 9 Available to Download

Microsoft released its long await­ing Inter­net Explorer 9 today. Def­i­nitely it is big improve­ment over its pre­vi­ous ver­sions. It is avail­able to down­load for Vista, Win­dows 7 and Win­dows 2008/​2008-​R2 series oper­at­ing sys­tems. Microsoft is dropped sup­port for Win­dows XP even though it has sig­nif­i­cant mar­ket share. Read moreRead more

10
Feb
Windows 7 SP1

Service pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Release to Manufacturing and to general public by February 22

Microsoft released the first ser­vice pack for Win­dows 7 and Win­dows Server 2008 R2 to the OEMs. First, there’s Feb­ru­ary 16, the day MSDN and Tech­Net cus­tomers get SP1 and next it’s Feb­ru­ary 22, the RTW (release of web) of the update. The SP1 com­ing with improve net­work­ing, secu­rity and mobil­ity. Read moreRead more

1
Sep

Windows Mobile 6.5 based mobile phones debut on October 6th

Windows Mobile 6.5

Microsoft, today announced that the mobile phones fea­tur­ing Win­dows Mobile 6.5 will be avail­able from Octo­ber 6th. The new mobile oper­at­ing sys­tem fea­tures a new user inter­face, Win­dows Mar­ket­place (an app store), a backup ser­vice called Microsoft My Phone, pho­tos, video, con­tacts, etc to the web, and more. they’ll also fea­ture Office Mobile. Read moreRead more

5
May

Windows 7 Release Candidate is available for download now

Windows 7 RC
The Win­dows 7 RC1 is now avail­able offi­cially for pub­lic through Microsoft’s Cus­tomer Pre­view pro­gram. The RC will be avail­able at least through July 2009 and the num­ber of prod­uct keys are not lim­ited, so you have plenty of time. The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. So you have a year time to pur­chase the win­dows 7 orig­i­nal copy. RC is avail­able in five dif­fer­ent lan­guage ver­sions (Eng­lish, French, Ger­man, Japan­ese and Span­ish) of both the 32-​bit and 64-​bit versions.
The Sys­tem require­ments for Win­dows 7 RC are
  • 1 GHz or faster 32-​bit (x86) or 64-​bit (x64) processor
  • 1 GB RAM (32-​bit) /​2 GB RAM (64-​bit)
  • 16 GB avail­able disk space (32-​bit) /​20 GB (64-​bit)
  • DirectX 9 graph­ics proces­sor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Down­load the RC here –>Win­dows 7 Release Candidate

19
Apr

Windows 7 RC is available to Microsoft OEM partners now for Public on may 5th

Windows 7 RC
As per the infor­ma­tion by microsoft part­ners Pro­gram site, Microsoft next gen­er­a­tion Win­dows 7 Release Can­di­date is avail­able to Tech­net and MSDN Sub­scribers now. It will be avail­able to pub­lic on may 5, 2009. But accrod­ing to arstech­nica, The build is not yet avail­able to Tech­net and MSDN subscribers.
From a reader chat with Microsoft Online Concierge “Cur­rently the Win­dows 7 RC has not been avail­able through the Tech­Net sub­scrip­tion yet, only the Microsoft OEM part­ners such as Dell, Siemens are tak­ing part in the RC’s this period of test.”
26
Jan

Windows 7 Beta Download Deadline Extended

Microsoft Corp. extended the down­load dead­line of the win­dows 7 beta. Firstly the Microsoft had lim­ited the down­loads of Win­dows 7 beta at 2.5 mil­lion. The company’s servers were over­loaded as users tried to down­load the pre­view, Microsoft removed the limit and said it would offer the beta through Jan. 24. But again the Microsoft changed its mind.

“Because enthu­si­asm con­tin­ues to be so high for the Win­dows 7 Beta and we don’t want any­one to miss out we will keep the Beta down­loads open through Feb­ru­ary 10th. Cus­tomers who have started but not com­pleted the down­load process? will be able to do so through Feb­ru­ary 12th.” as told by spokes per­son Bran­don LeBlanc in win­dow­blog.

As per Bran­don, The shut­down of gen­eral avail­abil­ity for the Win­dows 7 Beta will occur in 3 phases over the course of the next few weeks:

  • Start­ing Jan­u­ary 27th, the Win­dows 7 page will be updated with a warn­ing that time is run­ning out on down­load­ing the Win­dows 7 Beta and that we will be lim­it­ing down­loads shortly. Peo­ple will be encour­aged to reg­is­ter and start the down­load of the Win­dows 7 Beta sooner rather than later.
  • Feb­ru­ary 10th, new down­loads of the Win­dows 7 Beta will no longer be avail­able. Peo­ple who have already started their Win­dows 7 Beta down­load and have not yet fin­ished will still be able to fin­ish their down­load and are encour­aged to do so.
  • Feb­ru­ary 12th, peo­ple will no longer be able to com­plete their down­load of the Win­dows 7 Beta. Any­one who hasn’t fin­ished down­load­ing the Win­dows 7 Beta will be unable to do so.

MSDN and Tech­Net Sub­scribers will con­tinue to have access to the Win­dows 7 Beta bits through­out the Win­dows 7 Beta phase. The above dates do not apply to MSDN and Tech­Net Subscribers.

So grab your copy if you didn’t grabbed it till now the grab it here
31
Jul

Microsoft’s Midori — a future without Windows

Cloud Computing

July 29th, 2008. Accord­ing to the report to SDTimes, The Microsoft is work­ing on non win­dows oper­at­ing sys­tem knows as Midori. Accord­ing to the report to SDTimes, Midori is an off­shoot of Microsoft Research?s Sin­gu­lar­ity oper­at­ing sys­tem, the tools and libraries of which are com­pletely man­aged code. Midori is designed to run directly on native hard­ware (x86, x64 and ARM), be hosted on the Win­dows Hyper-​V hyper­vi­sor, or even be hosted by a Win­dows process.

“That sounds pos­si­ble I’ve heard rumors to the effect that he [Rud­der] had an OS project in place,” said Rob Helm, direc­tor of research at Direc­tions on Microsoft.

The researchers are work­ing to cre­ate a con­cur­rent /​par­al­lel dis­tri­b­u­tion of resources — Cloud Com­put­ing, as well as a method of han­dling appli­ca­tions across sep­a­rate machines? religiously-​dubbed the Asyn­chro­nous Promise Archi­tec­ture which will set the stage for a backwards-​compatible oper­at­ing sys­tem built from the ground up, with net­works of vary­ing size in mind. Says the SD Times, “The Midori doc­u­ments fore­see appli­ca­tions run­ning across a mul­ti­tude of topolo­gies, rang­ing from client-​server and multi-​tier deploy­ments to peer-​to-​peer at the edge, and in the cloud data cen­ter. Those topolo­gies form a het­ero­ge­neous mesh where capa­bil­i­ties can exist at sep­a­rate places.” Like it tech­ni­cal? Read more look at Microsoft’s future with Midori.

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