Here’s a nice neat article on how to get your Vista back to peak performance with a clean installation and clever partitioning. Worth a read.

Clnet together with Lifehacker and Norton bring you several cool free tweaks to transform Vista into Windows 7.
You can change the taskbar, dock bar, visual style, snap windows to the sides, shake windows into focus, soup up the calculator and improve wifi connection settings.
Well worth a read!

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Yes, we all know that Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been. Here’s an article that tells you exactly why in 18 specific ways. There’s also another nice article listing 50 Windows 7 tips and tips. Enjoy

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Based on aggregate tests of five major web browsers (in various recent/current versions), Windows XP is still the faster operating system when it comes to the internet experience. Specifically, XP is an average of 13 percent faster at running your browser than Windows 7 is.

The final version of Windows 7 as it will appear when it ships in October was used for the testing.

The good news is that Windows 7 is substantially faster than Windows Vista when it comes to the web: XP’s most up-to-date version is a full 29 percent faster than Vista, so Windows 7 has closed that performance gap quite a bit. Compared directly, Win 7 is 17 percent faster than Vista…

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Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2, a combined service pack for both operating systems encapsulated in a single installer, will simplify deployment, management, and support for IT Professionals. It includes support for new types of hardware and emerging hardware standards, as well as updates since SP1. More information here.

Riverbed’s new operating system optimizes Exchange 2007 and Oracle 11i and offers branch offices virtualized services without additional hardware.
Riverbed’s new operating system optimizes Exchange 2007 and Oracle 11i and offers branch offices virtualized services without additional hardware.
The Windows 7 Touch Pack includes Microsoft Surface Globe, a 3-D map of the Earth that users can navigate through with their fingertips; Surface Collage, a digital photo organizer and editing program; and Microsoft Surface Lagoon, an aquatic-themed screensaver in which fish and other creatures react to touch.

Other apps in the pack include the mechanical design game Blackboard and the pinball-like game Microsoft Rebound. Another app, Garden Pond, lets users create and control organic creations in a garden setting…

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Microsoft last week urged Windows 7 beta testers to return their machines to the Windows Vista operating system before upgrading to the impending release-candidate version of the new software.

Windows 7 Release Candidate, the next milestone for the operating system, is expected to be available sometime next month.

In a post on its Engineering Windows 7 blog, Microsoft asked users to revert to Vista to ensure that their upgrade process is “something real-world customers will experience.”

Microsoft said that bugs or other problems reported while upgrading from one prerelease build to another aren’t worth fixing. “We don’t always track them down and fix them because they take time away from bugs that would only manifest themselves during this one-time prerelease operation,” it said.

Microsoft acknowledged the difficulty that its request poses to users. “We know that means reinstalling, recustomizing, reconfiguring and so on. That is a real pain,” it said in the blog…

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It features Gates doing the robot dance and reading bedtime stories while Seinfeld – who was paid $US10 million for his part in the campaign – becomes embroiled in family politics.

The ad has been interpreted as a metaphor for what Microsoft is trying to achieve with the campaign. Whereas Apple’s “I’m a Mac” ads have been interpreted as an elitist Mac user bashing an ordinary PC user, the Microsoft ad positions the company as connecting with ordinary people…

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