tweaktown.com - 1/18/2009
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Windows 7 BETA vs. Windows Vista SP1 SSD Performance Compared Continuing on with our early Windows 7 beta coverage, we move onto Solid State Drive (SSD) performance. The topic of SSDs itself is rather interesting, but when you team up the increasingly popular flash memory technology with ...
brandonlive.com - 1/15/2009
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brandonlive.com —
Got yourself a shiny new Windows 7 Beta
install? Here’s a little cheat sheet I made up
for some of the handy new hotkey combinations, many of which I’ve become quite dependent on! General Win+Up Maximize Win+Down Restore / ...
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Windows 7 Beta hotkey cheat sheet
blogs.msdn.com - 1/19/2009
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blogs.msdn.com —
We’re busy going through tons of telemetry from
the many people that have downloaded and installed the
Windows 7 beta around the world. We’re super excited to see the excitement around kicking the tires. Since most folks on the beta are well-versed ...
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Engineering the Windows 7 “Windows Experience Index”
f-secure.com - 1/19/2009
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f-secure.com —
The Downadup worm utilizes autorun.inf files to spread
via removable devices such as USB drives. Our January
7th post, When is AUTORUN.INF really an AUTORUN.INF? , provided analysis. The autorun.inf uses some tricks, such as variable size, to help ...
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Social Engineering Autoplay and Windows 7
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Windows 7 Beta takes another crown, besting Vista in SSD performance
Engadget —
... It's no huge surprise, since Microsoft was planning on improving performance on this front, but now we've got some of our first solid numbers on Windows 7 Beta SSD performance. Nothing crazy spectacular, but Windows 7 looks to have a slight edge over Vista ...
Windows 7 Beta Beats Vista at SSD Performance
Mobilewhack.com —
... and things might improve and sure you will still get that blue screen of death from time to time, but over all, Windows 7 beta is doing better than Vista. And speaking about that SSD performance it looks like Windows 7 runs better on SSD than Vista. You can expect better speed, better access times and lower CPU usage. And since Windows 7 and SSD are going to be surely part of your immediate future, it’s good to know that Microsoft is finally doing its job.\\ via TweakTown Tags: Beta , microsoft , microsoft , Mobile News , ...
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Windows 7 Review Consensus: It's A Faster Vista (MSFT)
alleyinsider.com 1/15/2009 — Microsoft (MSFT) made Windows 7 Beta publically available a few days ago, and already eager geeks are downloading the software, playing with it a little, and putting their reviews up on the Internet.
What's notable about these early reviews is how ...
Installing Windows 7 beta on Netbooks —
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The Microsoft Message is that Windows 7 is less resource hungry compared to Vista and should be also running nicely on lower end hardware like Atom powered Netbooks.
Instructions on how to install Windows 7 beta can be for instance found here (Via ...
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