Recent Posts Tagged With 'os updates'

• Search Twitter with Windows 7's federated search

  Posted on Friday January 16th, 2009 at 22:53 in search, internet, windows, beta, os updates, windows x64

  It wasn't that long ago that you had a chance to look at a gallery of seven different Windows 7 federated search connectors at work. At the time, I'd found .osdx files for sites like Flickr, YouTube, and DeviantArt.As more people play with the beta, ...

• Windows 7 beta ISO the hottest download on the net?

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 12:14 in Microsoft, beta, os updates

  , the torrents for Windows 7 build 7000 have become more numerous - and extremely healthy.Pirate Bay's now has more than 5,500 seeders and more than twice that number leeching. Mininova's top two torrents have almost 6,000 seeders and 17,000 leechers...

• Windows 7 Beta ISO leaked on torrent trackers

  Posted on Sunday December 28th, 2008 at 01:23 in Microsoft, beta, os updates

  Apparently you won't even have to wait until January to get your hands on the Windows 7 Beta release as I mentioned in a previous post. That's right, there's already been an ISO file leaked to several torrent trackers.The ISO appears to contain the ...

• Windows 7 Beta to ship in early January

  Posted on Wednesday December 24th, 2008 at 14:02 in windows, Microsoft, beta, os updates

  A number of sources were reporting a mysterious Windows 7 Beta download link that appeared on Microsoft's Windows 7 page. Of course, it would be fairly easy to screenshot a page, make a few edits, and post the doctored image as "proof," so I took th...

• Windows Vista Ultimate RED edition coming next week

  Posted on Tuesday December 9th, 2008 at 20:37 in windows, Microsoft, os updates

  Microsoft is set to release the (PRODUCT) RED version of Windows Vista Ultimate on December 15th. Dell has been selling computers preloaded with this special version of the OS for a few months now, but starting next week you'll be able to to buy a st...

• Windows Vista SP2 beta now publicly available

  Posted on Saturday December 6th, 2008 at 08:02 in windows, Microsoft, beta, os updates

  It's December 5, 2008 and - as promised - Microsoft has made the Vista SP2 beta publicly available. Early adopters can install it now and take advantage of improvements like 10% better power saving, reduced resource consumption in sidebar gadgets, W...

• Microsoft to start testing Windows Vista SP2 Beta next week

  Posted on Sunday October 26th, 2008 at 20:57 in windows, beta, os updates

  It looks like the rumors were true. Microsoft is hoping to roll out Windows Vista SP2 before Windows 7 is publicly available. How soon? We don't know for sure. But the company is delivering the first beta version of Vista SP2 to a handful of Technolo...

• Windows 7 comes with an updated, oh-so-pretty calculator

  Posted on Monday September 22nd, 2008 at 20:23 in Microsoft, os updates

  There've been numerous reports over the weekend that Microsoft has released another test build of Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista. While I tend to take leaked screenshots with a grain of salt, I'm a sucker for video - even if it doesn't s...