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Windows 7 a Big Improvement over Vista
eweek.com - 10/28/2008
Windows 7 a Big Improvement over Vista
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Microsoft shows off Windows 7, a less ambitious offering than Vista but one with more realistic goals. With its new features and improved performance, Windows 7 seems like a better version of Vista rather than a major step forward. - LOS ANGELES Microsoft is giving the public its first glimpse ...
blog.retrosight.com - 10/28/2008
Windows Media Center in the PDC Build of Windows 7
— blog.retrosight.com — If you are attending the 2008 Professional Developers Conference you received a pre-beta Windows 7 build today... (6801) which contains many features the Windows Media Center team has been developing over the past year. It’s my pleasure to take a few ... (more) Windows Media Center in the PDC Build of Windows 7

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Windows 7 Walkthrough, Boot Video and Impressions [Windows 7]
gizmodo.com - 10/28/2008
Windows 7 Walkthrough, Boot Video and Impressions [Windows 7]
— gizmodo.com — Like Elvis in '68, Microsoft is itching for a "comeback," and Windows 7 is the perfect excuse.... In fact, this week in LA at the Professional Developers Conference , Windows 7 officially shoved Vista aside. Having suffered through the often deserved ... (more) Windows 7 Walkthrough, Boot Video and Impressions ...

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pcpro.co.uk - 10/29/2008
Revealed: What's in Windows 7
— pcpro.co.uk — Microsoft has released the first pre-beta code of Windows 7, writes Barry Collins at the Professional Developers... Conference in Los Angeles. (more) Revealed: What's in Windows 7

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Microsoft Watch:  Microsoft Debuts Windows 7

The Microsoft Blog:  Reviewers mostly applaud Windows 7

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Microsoft Debuts Windows 7
Microsoft Watch — ... features and potential end-user, IT organization and developer benefits. There will be increased integration between Windows 7 and Windows Live services. During the opening keynote, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, said the day's focus would be on the client, or the "outside-in view." He acknowledged that the Web is bringing changes. He asserted: "The PC is adapting once again" to the Web. But right now the PC and the Web are "two worlds apart." arrow.gif eWEEK Labs' Jason Brooks' Windows 7 First Take He then went on to describe why the PC still matters. He ...

Reviewers mostly applaud Windows 7
The Microsoft Blog — ... most notable thing about Windows 7 is how strikingly similar both are from face value. A lot seems almost untouched, but there is more to it than it seems. The interface has been extremely cleaned up to give Windows a less cluttered appearance... ...This is the release of Windows everybody has been waiting for, it's what Vista was meant to be and beyond that. Windows 7 puts the user first; it's about going back to the fundamentals of what an operating system must do. Jason Brooks, eWeek : Rather than constitute some major leap from Vista, Windows 7 feels like a tighter, faster ...

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