Posts Tagged ‘Windows 7’

Welcome to Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) testing. We’re on our way to Windows 7, and if you like trying out pre-release software, now’s your chance. You get to see what’s coming, and we get to see if our changes and fixes from the Beta testing are working correctly. How do you test the software? […]

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 at 11:43 | 0 comments
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Windows 7 RC1 is now available via MSDN & TechNet, I have been using it for over a week now and I can honestly say I’m very impressed with the overall stability, performance and functionality. Go here for the announcement, here for a Neowin guide on changes and FINALLY an admission that it will be […]

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 15:53 | 0 comments
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Stephen Rose “Sr Community Manager for Windows Client”, just annouced a new IT Pro site for Windows 7. Check out his article here.

Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 22:44 | 0 comments
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There has been quite a bit of buzz around a Windows 7 feature called “Windows XP mode”, essentially the addition of Virtual PC for 7 including a Windows XP SP3 license. This feature could really help a number of businesses who have not yet widely deployed Vista and still run a handful of older applications (I […]

Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 22:28 | 0 comments
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Whilst some of you may be aware Windows 7 includes ISO burning functionality (at long last!), I thought i’d recommend an excellent alternative to those still using Vista or XP. Check out ImgBurn, (free) not only will it let you write ISOs but you can create them too. Burning ISOs in Windows 7.

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 at 08:29 | 0 comments
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As we all know by now one of the issues with Vista (when in its infancy) was mainstream driver support. With Windows 7 this seems to be a thing of the past, a good example is Virtualisation, I remember that Virtualising Vista was almost impossible with the early betas. However as you can see below […]

Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 20:52 | 0 comments
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