We did a comprehensive review of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 when it was released back in August 2008. Not surprisingly, there is no major change since Beta 2. I did some testing of RC1 bits installed on Windows Vista Ultimate (x86) and my own impressions are that IE8 is indeed generally faster than Beta 2.
Windows 7 Beta was announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at this years Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas. Today, Microsoft has released the SDKs for both the Windows 7 Beta and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 which is included in Windows 7 Beta. Both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 were shipped with .NET Framework 3.0.
There were some reports from users who tested Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 when it was leaked back in Christmas holidays about a data corruption bug in Windows Media Player 12 which resulted in corruption of MP3 files.
In his first keynote address at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced the beta availability of the Windows 7 operating system as well as the availability of the latest version of the Windows Live, a suite of personal communications services and applications.
Wouldn't it be cool to run the most popular and widely used operating system on your beloved iPhone? According to this blog post on the Citrix Community Blogs, Citrix Receiver will soon enable iPhone owners to run millions of Windows applications on their iPhone’s (not natively though).
Windows Laptop Scout is a great tool though. If you’re looking for a new shiny laptop, this is where you should start. It’ll show you 4 options which are
Microsoft Update Product Team Blog has a new post announcing the roll out of an infrastructure update to Windows Update...
Google Chrome looks as good on XP as it does on Vista. I like the blue title bar that shows...
The third ad installment from Microsoft’s enormous $300 million advertisement campaign have started to air and surprisingly they have stopped experimenting with Bill Gates and Seinfeld pair for good. This is the first time that Microsoft has responded to Apple’s popular “I’m a PC, I’m a Mac” campaign which was believed to have played a big part in tarnishing Vista’s image.
All of you must know by now that Windows 7 will not be featuring a sidebar, as the gadgets will...
