Today in a major breakthrough, Microsoft's Eric Rudder, while speaking at Tech-Ed Middle East, gave a fantastic demonstration of a game developed in the new Visual Studio 2010 as a singular project, that runs on multiple platforms. It can be played on Windows 7 based PC with a keyboard, on a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and touch controls, and on the Xbox 360 with gamepad. Amazing, isn't it? One same game, running on three different screens, on three different platforms. There is also no reason why Zune wont chip-in to these sometime in near future.
Microsoft today has released a fresh a new theme for Windows 7 - LIFE by Discovery Channel. The said theme packs 5 amazing high-resolution wallpapers from nature to decorate your desktop with a resolution of up to 1920 × 1200.
Panasonic has announced a new line-up of “Let’s Go” notebooks and amongst them is a netbook “Let’s Note”, sporting the new Intel Core i7 processor. The netbook in question boasts of a 1.20GHz Intel Core i7-650UM vPro processor with a 10.4-inch (1024 x 768) display. Intel’s Atom chip is the standard stuff that is showing around all over as the driving CPU of the 10.1 inches netbooks these days like the Dell Mini and HP Mini, so to have a netbook with Core i7 is surely an amazing thing for this form factor.
Steve Jobs yesterday announced the most awaited and hyped Apple product in recent times – the iPad in his keynote address at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. On the other hand, HP Slate was first shown by Steve Ballmer at CES earlier this month. Both type of devices are of same form factor i.e. tablet/slate which many think may decide the future of general purpose computing.
Microsoft has been introducing beautiful theme packs for Windows 7 users via Personalization Gallery. After the inclusion of Coca Cola and Pepsi themes, ‘Nothing but 7up’ has been added to the official collection of Windows 7 themes. It is a fresh new theme based on 7up, a popular brand of a lemon-lime flavored non-caffeinated soft drink.
A Spanish site named Muywindows has grabbed exclusive screenshots from the upcoming Service Pack for Windows 7. The screenshots seems to have been taken from a demo copy of a Pre SP1 Build of Windows 7 which according to them will be handed over to a selected pool of private testers in the coming weeks.
HP today has announced TouchSmart tm2, the much awaited follow up to TX2 in their convertible tablet PC lineup. The TouchSmart tm2 is going to be powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processor with monstrous 9 hours of battery life off its standard 6-cell battery. The duo capacitive multitouch touchscreen is compatible to work with both fingers and pen, oh and it will ship with Windows 7 as pre-installed OS. Best of all, like all the new HP notebooks, the TouchSmart tm2 will have aluminum build which is slimmer, lighter and stronger than its predecessor the tx2.
The following step by step guide will help you in installing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard as a guest virtual machine in Windows 7. You’ll need to have a system with an Intel processor which supports hardware virtualization, original OS X Snow Leopard retail disk, VMware Workstation 7 and Windows 7, Vista or XP installed as host operating system. If you meet all these requirements, you can then install OS X Snow Leopard as a VM under Windows and can enjoy the best of both worlds.
Last month we informed you about Kohjinsha’s new dual screen DZ series netbook PC that ran Windows 7. This DZ series netbook featured dual 10.1 inches widescreen displays with each having 1024×600 resolution. It was powered by 1.6 Ghz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor with 5780MN chipset and ATI Radeon HD Integrated graphics card.
Cyber Monday is the biggest online shopping event of the year in which all the major retailers offers great discounts online. Cyber Monday is celebrated every year on the first Monday, right after Black Friday event. We covered Black Friday event extensively with offers from Microsoft, Apple and the general web. Windows 7 based Netbooks are one of the hottest in demand item for this holiday season.If you missed out on getting one this Black Friday, you don't have to worry as you still have another chance to grab one on this coming Monday.
