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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.

While playing around with the Pre-Beta Windows 7 build, I came around another little gimmick in 7 which makes your windows stretch across the screen vertically. Move your mouse over the top corner of the title bar of a non-maximized window where it should become a resize arrow, and then double click it. Your window [...]

I came across this video at Channel 9 of PDC 2008 Open Space discussion with Steven Sinofsky where he talked about Windows 7, UI, Media Center, boot time, Touch, Surface and lots more. According to him there’s still a lot of stuff left to do for RTM, which is a great thing as Windows 7 [...]

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 has  been in the news the past few days. Mr. Sinofsky demoed Windows 7 running on a netbook as well ( and I must say I loved the Windows 7 presentation too! ). Well, Laptop Mag got hold of the pre-beta Windows 7 build and installed it on an Asus Eee PC 1000H. [...]

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?

Most of you must know by now, that Windows 7 is going to be called Windows 7 finally. We at Redmond Pie are happy with the name. Seriously, what’s wrong with it? It’s the next version after Vista SP 1, which is version 6.1. Makes sense to me.

Admit it or not, the UAC does tend to get on our nerves after some time. The rude blacking out to the prompt isn’t a pleasant view.

Before you read further, see the ‘People’ Tile in the Sidebar in the above picture. It shows an AIM contact as well. Although this sort of practical Sidebar Tile or Gadget didn’t make it into Vista, Microsoft still has patented it.This Patent awarded to Microsoft on 7th October is all about the functionality of this [...]

Not many people remember the problems Windows XP had before Service Pack 2. The Blaster and Sasser worms had almost ruined the security record of the OS. On top of that Internet Explorer 6 had security patches almost every week. What’s amazing is that, this is the same OS that people love now. They prefer XP over Vista! XP is hailed to have been the perfect OS. I can only imagine, how people would think like this about Vista too after some time.

I came across these images of Microsoft Home, on Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows. While, I’m very much fascinated by the cool gadgetry and hi-tech integration of Internet and devices in that place, what caught my eye were these images.

This is an image of the Media Center Prototype, which is in working condition, as it’s [...]

Most of us have read by now that Microsoft is going to replace some of the most essential applications in Windows by their Windows Live alternatives. I, for one, do not welcome this change at all. Can you imagine an operating system, which after install you can’t view your images with? Or one, in which there is no email application? Do we really want to rely on an operating system that is so barebones that it requires us to first download a 100 + Mb setup to achieve all these functionalities?

All of you must know by now that Windows 7 will not be featuring a sidebar, as the gadgets will be integrated in the desktop. But, this feature shouldn’t come as a surprise, since this functionality is achievable in Vista as well. Yes, not many know this, or might not have noticed this, but it’s [...]

A few days ago, Bryant from AeroXperience had made a blog post on his thoughts for what Windows 7 Milestone 3 has. Looks like he opened Pandora’s Box as since then, there has been a lot more information out about the build and it’s features, specially the Ribbon UI spreading through out bundled applications such as Paint and Wordpad. He mentioned the end of Sidebar as we know it, a trend which was obvious from the M1 build screenshots.

Microsoft Update Catalog. Made for corporate environments, this service lets you download updates that can distributed over corporate networks and so on. These updates include software updates, drivers and hotfixes ( no Ultimate Extras though! ). The setup files of any individual selected update is downloaded which can then be installed manually.

Microsoft might be introducing application specific glass renderings. The color of the glass frame around a window can be changed in Vista, but the change is global to the system. The color of any particular window glass frame can not be set by choice. But, how about being able to change the color/opacity level of a the glass frame of any application through defined events or commands?

Last month we ran a small contest in which we asked our readers to design a bootscreen for the next version of Windows. The contest ran for a month in which we received 44 designs from 7 different readers.
We promised to reward a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate to the user who best [...]

Yes! you read it right! We are giving away the most complete version of Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows Vista Ultimate ( 32/64 bit ) right here at Redmond Pie!! Not only this, we are also giving away Windows XP Professional ( 32 bit ) for those of you who still prefer the compatibility and reliability of Windows XP. The [...]

If you’ve read the post Windows 7.. 8.. Midori?!?, you’ll know by now that Microsoft is working on Sapphire. There’s going to be a session in PDC 2008 covering this, called Windows 7: Graphics Advances
Windows 7: Graphics Advances
Windows 7 enables you to advance the graphics capabilities of your applications while carrying forward existing investments in

“Every once in a while a new revolutionary product comes along that changes everything” - Steve Jobs, MacWorldExpo 2007
These are the famous words of Steve Jobs which he said at MacWorldExpo 2007 and you cant deny that Apple at least on two occasions in past 10 years have done justice to this statement. First with [...]