Posts Tagged ‘Windows 7’
See Windows XP put up against Windows 7 RC in a detailed review by Legit Reviews. Excerpt: Many in the industry are counting on Windows 7 to bring the netbook market to the next level. Having netbook manufacturers ship netbooks with 7+ year old Windows XP pre-installed surely deterred some from joining the ranks of […]
Since the introduction of Windows Geniune Activation (WGA) in XP, Windows piracy has become seemingly more difficult (and quite rightly so!) Pirates have previously worked around WGA by obtaining OEM certificates and updating the SLIC table within the computer BIOS (very risky, especially if you BIOS does not support SLIC v2.1). Today Windows 7 WGA was […]
Paul has posted an updated set of tables detailing Windows 7 features for easy comparison. Source: here
This evening, before I left work and joined rush hour traffic I decided to show a couple of tech-savvy Vista haters (you know who you are!) how un-hardware resource hogging Windows 7 really is. I headed for the office laptop museum and pulled out an old HP nc4010, I ran the install off a 32GB USB […]
It is hardly surprising to discover that a new alternative mechanism to “E” (referred to as a “consumer ballot screen”) may become accepted by the EU commission. I’d imagine that the EU have realised that without a browser at all you really are in trouble! Taken from the Europa site: Antitrust: Commission welcomes new Microsoft proposals on […]
The beta fish wallpaper is no more, now replaced with…a Windows logo (no surprises there then!)
