blogs.msdn.com - 10/26/2008
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Ed. Note: This is our first post from a senior member of the development team. Allow me to introduce Michael Fortin who is one of Microsoft’s Distinguished Engineers and leads the Fundamentals feature team that is in our Core Operating System group. Michael leads performance and reliability ...
blog.laptopmag.com - 10/31/2008
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blog.laptopmag.com —
Here is a confession: I am getting pretty
tired of netbooks running Windows XP. So when we
got our Windows 7 Beta disc at PDC earlier this week, I couldn’t wait to get it running on a netbook. This morning we loaded Windows 7 Ultimate (Pre-Beta) on ...
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Eee PC 1000H Runs Windows 7 Well
channel9.msdn.com - 10/30/2008
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channel9.msdn.com —
How has Windows evolved, as a general purpose
operating system and at the lowest levels, in Windows
7? Who better to talk to than Technical Fellow and Windows Kernel guru Mark Russinovich ? Here, Mark enlightens us on the new kernel constructs in ...
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Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7
pcmag.com - 10/28/2008
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pcmag.com —
Windows 7 made its first official public appearance
today at Microsoft 's Professional Developers Conference 2008. For
the first time, Microsoft made an API-complete, pre-beta version of Windows 7 operating system widely available to attendees and ...
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Inside Windows 7 Pre-Beta - News and Analysis by PC Magazine
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Fire it up: How long does it take your computer to boot?
TechBlog —
... Microsoft is trying to dramatically trim start times . Of course, a system with a virgin OS will always start faster than one that's been in a user's hands for a while. Computer owners install software and add peripherals that ...
Linux to out ship Windows by next year … maybe not!
Hardware 2.0 —
... by this time next year. I think if Linux hit 3% market share it’ll be doing very well indeed. Sure, instant-on technology is a very nice feature, and one that we’ll be seeing more and more of over the coming month. It’s great to be able to get online quickly without all the hassle of having to boot into Windows. Instant-on also highlights a massive weakness for Microsoft. Sure, with Vista Microsoft tried to cover up bad boot times by using hybrid sleep, but this was a dodge and Microsoft knew that . If Instant-on really is as big a feature as OEMs such as HP, Dell and Lenovo ...
Windows 7: New app-compat toolkit coming in April
All about Microsoft —
... much-expanded essays on Win 7 performance from the Engineering Windows 7 blog, if you don’t care for nutshells.) Q: Why is Windows 7 more quick to start up compared to Windows Vista? A: In working to improve performance for startup we have focused on making improvements in the following areas:
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