Seattle Times is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 will go on sale October 22nd, 2009.
There is speculation that there will be upgrades bundled with any PCs sold with Windows Vista up to 2 months before the release date. This would ensure that the back to school season goes well, and would let [...]
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Ran across this at Tom’s Guide and it’s fascinating. Apparently the Windows 7 Designers had a list of 8 guiding principles they used when making decisions about Windows 7 Design -
Reduce concepts… Increase confidence. Thoughts: Confusing.
Solve distractions not discoverability. Thoughts: This is very good.
UX before knobs and questions.
Personalization not customization.
Lifecycle of the experience.
Small bad and good things [...]
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Update: This rumor is wrong – Microsoft has stated that they’re still working on Build 7046 of Windows 7, and that it isn’t the Release Candidate build.
There are rumors flying everywhere that Windows 7 Build 7048 is Release Candidate 1, and will have an April 2009 launch date. It’s build 6.1.7048.win main_win7rc1.090211-1625 and no word [...]
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Microsoft and Windows 7 face a huge perception battle –
Perception is Reality
A significant portion of the media and a significant portion of the tech early adopter crowd are very anti-Microsoft. This has resulted in a few different convictions among people in general -
Microsoft is boring.
Microsoft doesn’t innovate, it only copies ideas. [...]
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Microsoft has stated that it will support XP to Windows 7 Upgrades, although not in the sense you might imagine – what they mean is that if you own and run XP, you can get a lower priced license (and DVD) for Windows 7 to do your Windows XP to Windows 7 Upgrade.
The actual [...]
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Microsoft has confirmed that there won’t be any new Betas of Windows 7. This means that there are only 3 stages left -
Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC).
Windows 7 Release to Manufacturing (RTM).
Windows 7 General Release.
And my estimates for these three dates are -
Windows 7 RC – I think this will most probably be out in [...]
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This is absolutely insane – Windows 7 is really making a name for itself.
Windows 7 on UMPC – Amtek U560 with CPU Intel A100 at 600 MHz, 512 RAM.
This is an Amtek U560 UMPC. The manufacturer’s website is focused on their newer products so details are hard to get. However, this seems like a [...]
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