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Windows 7's Calculator Bundles Real-Life Uses [Screenshot Tour]
lifehacker.com - 11/10/2008
Windows 7's Calculator Bundles Real-Life Uses [Screenshot Tour]
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While mathletes, scientists, coders, and statisticians will appreciate Windows 7's built-in calculator's programmer, statistics, and scientific modes, everyday people will love figuring out things...
DirecTV’s HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7? | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report
blogs.zdnet.com - 11/10/2008
DirecTV’s HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7? | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report
— blogs.zdnet.com — November 8th, 2008 DirecTV’s HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7? Posted by Ed Bott @... 2:11 pm Categories: Digital media , Windows 7 , Media Center Tags: Media Center PC , Microsoft Windows 7 , Microsoft Corp. , DirecTV , Satellite , H.264 , Media ... (more) DirecTV’s HD tuner set to debut with Windows ...

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Giz Explains: Why Windows 7 Will Smash Vista [Giz Explains]
gizmodo.com - 11/8/2008
Giz Explains: Why Windows 7 Will Smash Vista [Giz Explains]
— gizmodo.com — Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been, what we hoped it would be . The... Batman Begins to Vista's Batman and Robin . While superficially both are kinda the same (Batman!), there's a completely different thought process at work. Our ... (more) Giz Explains: Why Windows 7 Will Smash Vista [Giz Explains]

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pcworld.com - 11/12/2008
Under the Hood, Windows 7 Is Vista's Twin
— pcworld.com — At Microsoft's recent Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, the air crackled with anticipation. On the... heels of Vista, arguably the biggest disaster in Microsoft's history, Windows 7 was about to be revealed. A blast of fanfare, and ... (more) Under the Hood, Windows 7 Is Vista's Twin

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Windows 7 Calculator with real-life uses - Screenshots
D' Technology Weblog — ... to give more than a few lines of attention to something as minor as a calculator, but until you’ve seen the built-in calculator in the Windows 7 Preview, you haven’t known pure calculator bliss. This default calculator goes above and beyond the brick on your desk by including unit conversions, date calculations, and a neat new set of “templates” that let you do things like figure out gas mileage, hourly wages, mortgage payments, leases, and more. More screenshots ...

Get three future Windows 7 features for Vista today
jkOnTheRun — ... The Windows 7 Calculator has a simple Mode switch to get you moving between the Standard, Programmer, Scientific and Statistics function, but it gets better. There's also some built-in functions to compute everyday problems like gas mileage, mortgage or lease payments, and hourly wages. You can add this to Windows Vista with a ...

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