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Among lots of other stuff, one of the main focus of Microsoft with Windows 7 has been to give a facelift to the native Windows applications like Paint, Calculator and WordPad which haven’t been updated since Windows 3.x days.

I was searching for DreamScenes over at DeviantART Gallery and found this Aurora wallpaper from OS X Leopard converted into a pretty neat DreamScene for Windows Vista.

Microsoft’s open source platform - Codeplex has released two very useful plugins (LiveUpload to Facebook & Live

As promised, we will be bringing out a series of screenshot galleries covering almost all the aspects new to Windows 7 M3 Build 6.1 6801. In the first part of this series we have covered the installation portion of Windows 7 which looks and works almost the same way as it did in Windows Vista.

Windows 7 Preview video has been released as part of Microsoft Partner Program in which Mike Nash – Corporate Vice President Product Management, Windows talks about what to expect from Windows 7 and why should we be really excited about it?

Microsoft today at the Professional Developers Conference have released a CTP (Community Technology Preview) version of their next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, 2007 Microsoft Office System and the web.

The genius guys over at Microsoft Live Labs have released a solution for web developers to secure their web application content from hackers through isolation.

Microsoft has released Windows Server 2008 evaluation VHD (Virtual Hard Drive) images for Hyper-V which as of now is available for download from Microsoft Download Center. VHD format is the common virtualization file format used by virtualization software’s from Microsoft like Virtual PC, Virtual Server 2005 and Hyper-V

After the announcement of Silverlight 2 release, Microsoft has now announced the release of Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1 – a tool for harnessing the power of XAML, .NET framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and Silverlight 2 to deliver compelling user experiences for connected desktops and the web.

Microsoft today has released final bits of Silverlight 2 - one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of rich applications and media experiences through a Web browser.

Back in July 2008, Microsoft added background images to Live Search homepage. While it didn’t added much to the overall function of the search engine itself, what it added was a nice touch to the homepage which differentiated it with other competing search engines like Google and Yahoo.

Microsoft in partnership with Total Training – the leading online and DVD-based training content provider for software programs have released a complete set of getting started training videos to guide the starters through the learning of the entire Expression Suite.

Do you have a HP Printer in your home or work environment? The smart guys over at HP has released a photo printing gadget to make it easier for you to take print outs on the fly.

After the release of Expression Blend SP1 RC Preview last week, the Expression team today has released Service Pack 1 for Expression Media 2. Currently the update is only available through Windows Update.

Windows has a built-in DOS-based utility called systeminfo.exe that shows complete information of the system including the exact date and time when was Windows installed.

Last week I received many emails from our readers requesting for the icons I used in the screenshot here with Drive Icon Changer. I got tired of emailing every individual one by one and decided to bundle them all in a pack to share it with all of you here

Microsoft has today released Silverlight 2 RC0 to developers for testing purposes and to help them prepare their existing Silverlight 2 Beta 2 applications for the final bits which is expected to roll out at the end of this year.

The era of PCs which we have so used to grown up on is vanishing fast. Mobile phones today have become more personal devices than they ever have been in the past. Its amazing to see how in the last few years mobile phones evolved with great strides.

Jeff Weir of Microsoft Live Labs has released a Sidebar Gadget for Windows Vista that enables users to pick color codes from different range of color palettes.

Drive Icon Changer helps you customize your hard drive icon shown in My Computer and Windows Explorer to an icon of your personal choice. Like Turn Off LCD, I developed this little tool in C# using Visual Studio 2008 to change drive icons on the fly. It just takes a couple of clicks to customize the icon to your personal choice.