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If it's too good to be true, it probably is. Microsoft has officially sold out of the Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack in the US. The Family Pack was a special edition that consisted of three licenses for $150. When compared to the price of a single upgrade license ($110), the Family Pack was a steal. These things sold faster than beer at a Yankees game.
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Microsoft announced the Windows 7 Touch Pack back in May but originally it was meant for OEMs only. Today the company confirmed that it will be offering the Touch Pack for download soon.
The official Touch Pack site states "the Touch Pack comes preinstalled on some multitouch PCs running Windows 7, and will soon be available for download. It's not included in Windows 7." A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the sighting to Neowin but would only say "Microsoft is planning to make it available via download soon but has not confirmed/committed to a timeline."
Microsoft Blackboard:
Microsoft Blackboard is another rather intriguing piece of software. It is a puzzle game, that uses simulated physics combined with multi-touch to get the user to solve it. You use gestures to create seesaws, fans and gears that can all be resized and moved around. Everything is pieced together on a virtual blackboard (hence the name), and the goal is to get balloons and balls to a lightbulb.
Microsoft Surface Globe:
The first of these applications is called Microsoft Surface Globe. This, as you can imagine, is a multi-touch capable globe (think Google Earth) that uses the Virtual Earth 3D engine to display a rotatable 3D version of the world. You can visit various locations and regions, get information about some areas, and bookmark your favorites. To add to this, some cities are even constructed in 3D, providing a very realistic and detailed experience. If you want to watch a quick video of this in action, please head to this link. Also, there's a screenshot of this below.
Microsoft Surface Collage:
Next up, we have the Microsoft Surface Collage. This tool allows you to choose a gallery of photos, and then move them around and scale them however you please. If you've watched a video of Microsoft Surface before, you'll have an idea of how this works. Once you've got an arrangement that you like, you can choose to save it as an image then use it as a desktop wallpaper. Again, a screenshot is included.
Microsoft Surface Lagoon:
Microsoft Surface Lagoon is a very interesting looking application. It is, essentially, a screensaver for your computer that you can interact with using your hands via multi-touch technology. It depicts an underwater scene with sand, water (of course), and fish. By interacting with it, you can have fish gather around you and also run your fingers through the virtual water.
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Microsoft has re-posted the USB/DVD download tool after it was discovered it contained GPLv2 code.
Installing Windows 7 on a netbook can be a daunting task. The lack of DVD drive can make even the most skilled geek feel inadequate and mortal. The only real way to plug external data into a netbook is via its USB ports. Now these handy lil' ports would be great, assuming Windows 7 actually came on bootable flash drives. Sadly, Microsoft hasn't decided to take that route. Instead, you're stuck scratching your head, googling (or binging, whichever) the best way to turn your flash drive into an installation disc.
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Windows 7's on screen keyboard works for basic text input, but nothing really stands out about it. Hot Virtual Keyboard 5.0 will surely re-excite those who like the full Windows 7 touch experience. With Hot Virtual Keyboard, you get an on-screen keyboard, and much more.
The features:
- Multi-Touch support in Windows 7
- Gestures to quickly change case or insert spaces
- Programmable buttons for performing routine operations such as copying and pasting text
- Keys to launch applications, open Web pages or run macros with a single tap
- Word auto-complete to make typing faster and more accurate than ever
- Fully customizable look and behavior
- Support of multiple languages and keyboard layouts
More @ www.neowin.net/news/main/09/12/17/hot...
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Awesome post bro.. havnt been thoroughly, but surely will, superb efforts..
very useful. Thanks for sharing ...
Hope you remember me ;)
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The most annoying thing about being a "geek" is the need to be prepared for anything that can go wrong with a computer. With Windows, this becomes even more complicated, as you need to have a disc for each and every edition of the OS. With Vista, Microsoft introduced a universal disc, but for some reason, with Windows 7, Microsoft felt it better to return to their old ways and make each disc edition specific.
Technibble made a post about this very issue a few weeks ago. It's not that the Windows 7 discs don't contain all editions of the OS, but rather a small 51 byte file is present, restricting the disc to a specific one. To change this, a user would have to manually mess with the disc image. He'd have to create a new ISO from his DVD, remove the ei.cfg file, and write the new ISO back to the DVD.
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Yesterday morning there was a rumor that Steve Ballmer was going to steal Apple’s thunder by announcing Microsoft’s very own tablet PC during his CES keynote. It turns out that did happen, but not in a way that would grab the headlines and make Steve Jobs worry.
Ballmer didn’t just unveil one tablet, but three of them from competing vendors calling them Slate PCs. On stage there was a HP, Archos, and Pegatron. He described them all as:
Almost as portable as a phone and as powerful as a PC running Windows 7
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At just two months after it hit store shelves worldwide, Microsoft’s latest version of the Windows client enjoys a level of support other platform makers can only dream about. The number of unique applications that play nice with Windows 7 is approaching the 1 million mark, while the number of devices compatible with the operating system is extremely close to 250,000. The statistics were made public by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive officer, during his keynote address at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
More @ news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-Sup...
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MSI is the first company to show off a working prototype of their dualscreen e-reader. And it’s everything you ever dreamt of – sort of. MSI is calling this dual 10-inch screen device an e-reader, it’s really more of a netbook with two screens since it’s got an Intel Atom Z Series processor and runs Windows 7 Home Premium.
The device is about the size of a netbook; it’s all metal and it actually felt quite heavy in our hand. Both screens are 10 inch multitouch displays that interact the way two monitors would on a dual-display setup. It ran a little sloppy; it’s obviously running some beta software, but the digital keyboard was easy to pull up and had a haptic-like feedback when typing on the bottom screen. For a very early build it is quite impressive. MSI actually plans to bring it to market within the year.
More @ www.mobilemag.com/2010/01/07/msi-dual...
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With the holiday season come gifts. If you're lucky you might have gotten big-ticket items—like new PCs, loaded with Windows 7. And even if you didn't get a new PC, you might have gotten Windows 7 to upgrade an older machine. Finally, if you got around $100 in gift certificates you don't know how to use, you might buy Windows 7 for yourself, because it's an improvement over the Vista and XP—check out our Windows 7 versus XP and Windows 7 versus Vista performance tests. But owning Windows 7 isn't the end of the story—the more you know about this operating system, the better, more convenient, and safer your experience using it will be. Read this overview of our Windows 7 coverage to make the most of your new PC OS.
Anyone who's used a Windows PC over the last few years shouldn't have much trouble adjusting to this operating system's new interface. But there are a few pointers that can ease the transition. For an overview of what's new in the OS and to help you decide whether it's right for you, check out my in-depth review of Windows 7, or view my video tour of its new features.
More @ www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357663...
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Q: I don't like the new Windows 7 "snap" feature. How can I disable it?
A: Windows 7's Aero Snap feature may take new users by surprise. To see what Snap does, grab an open application  's title bar and move it to the left, right, or top of your screen until your mouse cursor touches the edge. Snap will then kick into action, showing you a large translucent rectangle, indicating that if you release the mouse button, the application will "snap" to fill the space occupied by the translucent rectangle.
The main purpose of Snap is to make it easy for you to situate two open applications side-by-side on your screen so that they perfectly fill all available screen space. Move an application to the top of the screen, and Snap will maximize the application -- achieving the same result as double-clicking the title bar.
The trouble with Snap, as you've no doubt discovered, is that it can interfere with efforts to move application around on your monitor. If you inadvertently "snap" one to the side or top, you have to go to the trouble of unsnapping it.
Luckily, it's easy to turn off Snap. Just open the Windows 7 Start menu, type "snap" or "arrange," and then click the search result labeled "Turn off automatic window arrangement." In the resulting dialog box, select the check box labeled "Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen." Click OK, and Snap will be history on your computer.
More @ www.newsfactor.com/news/Dealing-with-...
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The next iteration of the world’s most deployed Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) platform will stretch beyond the limits of digital TVs and Xbox consoles to embrace Windows 7 PCs, and additional devices, such as smartphones. At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that it was tailoring Mediaroom 2.0 to its three-screen strategy for entertainment delivery, covering TV, PCs and mobile phones. At the same time, the Redmond company’s next version of Mediaroom TV platform fits into a broader vision of software plus services (S+S), and it is by tapping both the platform itself and associated Cloud based services that Microsoft is making it possible for television service operators to provide their TV services to Windows 7 machines and select mobile phones.
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In an effort to get customers to move away from Windows XP/Windows Vista and Office 2003/Office 2007 to Windows 7 and Office 2010, respectively, Microsoft announced 50% Up-to-date discounts via Open Value Subscription license agreements. Obviously, the licenses are available exclusively to small and medium businesses, and along with the actual software, customers will also be getting the benefits associated with Software Assurance. In this regard, business users need to be aware of the fact that the 50% Up-to-date Discounts that will be offered through June 2010 via Open Value Subscription license agreements is only valid for the first year payments.
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HP today has announced TouchSmart tm2, the much awaited follow up to TX2 in their convertible tablet PC lineup. The TouchSmart tm2 is going to be powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processor with monstrous 9 hours of battery life off its standard 6-cell battery. The duo capacitive multitouch touchscreen is compatible to work with both fingers and pen, oh and it will ship with Windows 7 as pre-installed OS. Best of all, like all the new HP notebooks, the TouchSmart tm2 will have aluminum build which is slimmer, lighter and stronger than its predecessor the tx2.
More @ www.redmondpie.com/hp-touchsmart-tm2-...
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 Sony have been out in force at CES 2010 with a number of announcements about new Sony Vaio laptops that they’ll be releasing in the coming months. There would appear to quite a selection to choose from in their various different model series of Sony Vaio branded notebooks and also includes a Sony netbook, a market in which they’ve made a late entry
Sony Vaio F Series Laptop
The Sony Vaio F series multimedia notebook creates your own portable cinema and as usual looks great with some pretty high spec. But as usual with Sony Vaio laptops, you will pay a premium.
With a 16.4” screen this isn’t the most portable of the computers that were announced at CES this year, however it must be one of the most attractive and boasts great spec. 1Gb of NVidia graphics really bring this thing to life with 3D graphics and full 1080p video playback (obviously!). The impressive Intel Core i7 quad core processor coupled with 8Gb of DDR3 RAM make this machine an absolute beast under the hood as well as a beauty on the outside.
It has a Blu-Ray drive and 500Gb hard drive make this thing brilliant for a mobile media system. IT comes packed with Windows 7 Home Premium too which I suppose is a given nowadays.
Other features include a 1080p screen and a spacious chiclet keyboard. I am extremely impressed with this machine. No word on pricing as yet though I’m afraid.
More @ www.zath.co.uk/new-sony-vaio-laptops-...
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Advanced Micro Devices announced new DirectX 11 mobile graphics processors which should bring improved graphics and application performance to Windows 7 laptops, the company said on Thursday.
The company released ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards that are the fastest laptop processors the company has released to date. The graphics chips offer bandwidth for laptops to run two Blu-ray streams at once, said Asif Rehman, product manager for AMD's mobile graphics business.
The 5000-series cards outperform the older 4000-series graphics cards by up to 40 percent, Rehman said. The high-end 5800-series graphics card includes 1.04 billion transistors and provides computing power of up to 1.12 teraflops, which AMD claims is the highest in the laptop category.
The units can harness the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs to improve gaming and application performance on PCs, Rehman said. That is partly done by native hardware support for DirectX 11 tools that are built into Windows 7 by Microsoft.
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Lenovo on Wednesday introduced a hybrid laptop that's either a clamshell notebook or a multi-touch slate tablet, each with its own processor and operating system.
The two-in-one design makes the IdeaPad U1 unique and more mobile than a standard laptop. Lenovo plans to showcase the device along with a variety of other PCs at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The IdeaPad U1 has an 11.6-inch display and weighs 3.8 pounds. When the display is attached to the body of the laptop, the unit operates like a typical notebook running Microsoft Windows 7.
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Toshiba and Gateway are early participants in the growing cavalcade of Netbook makers expected to stretch across the exhibition floor at the Consumer Electronics Show.
New Toshiba Netbook packing Intel 'Pine Trail' silicon.
(Credit: Future Shop)These Toshiba and Gateway listings at a Canadian reseller follow Hewlett-Packard's leak of its iMini 210 Netbook specifications. All three models from HP, Toshiba, and Gateway are based on Intel's new N450 silicon, aka "Pine Trail."
The Toshiba and Gateway models both appeared on the Canadian reseller Web site Future Shop and both have similar configurations: the 1.66GHz Atom processor, 160GB (Gateway) or 250GB (Toshiba) hard disk drives, a 10.1-inch screen, 1GB of memory, and an Intel "GMA 3150 Express" graphics chip.
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I finally got around to installing Windows 7 on my home computer, blowing a day off last month to back up and reinstall all my applications so I could move on from Windows XP.
Upgrade gripe:"Windows Easy Transfer" didn't quite live up to its billing. Yes, it dutifully saved almost all of my application data and settings. But no, it did not then reload most of them automatically when I reinstalled my apps. Would it have been too much to ask to code this for some oft-used software? If Windows Easy Transfer could figure out how to put back all my favorites, shortcuts and cookies in both IE and Firefox, why not do likewise for, say, my Thunderbird e-mail client? Or were we XP holdouts made to suffer for not jumping aboard the Vista bandwagon?
But back to Windows 7 itself. I'd been using it on and off for awhile now on my husband's desktop, but really got a chance to put it through its paces during the holiday week on my own system. And I've been pleasantly surprised so far by how well designed the user interface appears. Keep in mind that I've been using Mac OS X at work for a year now, so my UI standards are pretty high these days. Mac fans won't want to hear this, but there are in fact some (not all) Win 7 interface designs I like better than Mac OS X.
More @ blogs.computerworld.com/15367/windows...
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For some reason that only the gods of the blogosphere can explain, an old Windows trick took on new life this week. If you create a new folder using an arbitrary name, followed by a period and the GUID {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}, you end up with a categorized list of Control Panel tasks. As I explained last weekend, there’s nothing new or hidden in this list, but calling it “God mode” seems to have given this tip wings. Even Steven Sinofsky got into the act, sending a list of 15 additional GUID-based shortcuts to my colleague Ina Fried at CNET.
So, that must be it, right? If Sinofsky has spoken then surely there can’t be any more.
Ha. I had compiled a list of these shortcuts for use in Windows 7 Inside Out but cut this section for space reasons. (It is slated to appear in the Deluxe edition, due next year.) I found that list the other day and just finished testing all of these shortcuts on a pair of clean Windows 7 installations. Here, then, is my Ultimate List of ‘God Mode’ shortcuts for Windows 7.
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