Gizmodo – Microsoft: Windows 7 Open Beta Download Limit Lifted Until January 24
Ghacks – Windows Vista Shrink Volume Problems
Neowin – Windows 7: Easy Connect overview (has links to several feature overviews)
Paul Thurrott – Windows 7 Beta Review
Ed Bott – Six Vista annoyances fixed in Windows 7
IEBlog – IE8 in Windows 7 Beta
Windows 7 Home Page
Microsoft Windows 7 Downloads (updates, papers, etc.)
Windows
Windows 7 Beta – My Initial Impressions
Please understand these are my thoughts after only 2 days of using Windows 7 Beta. I fully understand that your experience may differ significantly than mine.
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Neowin – Windows 7 Beta: Quick Review
Neowin – Windows 7 Beta: Quick Review
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, announced that Windows 7 beta is available from today to MSDN and Technet subscribers. A public preview version will be available on Friday January 9th 2009.
Neowin goes through a quick install. Most of the reports on Windows 7 have been very positive. I know there have been versions floating around the torrent sites but I decided to wait for the public beta, so I’ll be downloading it this weekend.
New Article – The Vista Freeware Machine
Did you or someone you know get a new computer for Christmas?
I hope my new article The Vista Freeware Machine will be of some use.
(Comments go in that articles section.)
Windows 7 Coverage
Windows 7 is being discussed in depth at PDC 2008. Paul Thurrott is there:
Paul Thurrott: Windows 7 Preview Part 1: Let’s Just Pretend Vista Never Happened, Shall We?, and, Part 2: Desktop Enhancements
Also check out the new/revised Windows Team Blog.
Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery
Publicly, Microsoft has said Windows 7, the successor operating system to the firm’s much maligned Windows Vista, will not ship until early 2010, but its internal calendar has June 3, 2009 as the planned release date, InternetNews.com has learned.
Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery
Wow. I mean……….WOW. We pretty much knew that Windows 7 would be “Vista Re-loaded” but this, if true, would confirm that. Is Microsoft right on this? Is Vista’s name so tarnished that it’s necessary? Glad you stuck with XP? Upset you spent $ on Vista now? I would like to hear your thoughts.
Tinker – The New Vista Ultimate Extra
Just appeared today. Here is the Tinker: How to play page. Run Windows Update to download it (Vista Ultimate only).
Looks a little lame to me. What do you think?
vLite 1.2 Final Released
vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it.
Windows Vista Performance and Tuning
Microsoft paper:
This guide focuses on performance improvements on a single computer, but also takes a look at some of the tools used in enterprise environments to help make performance tuning manageable on a much larger scale.
Microsoft: The Vista Bullying Stops Here
Tired of Apple’s campaign of FUD?
Windows Vista has been dragged through the mud by the bullies with which it competes, but those bullies are about to get hit with some long overdue retaliation…”There are a lot of myths around Windows Vista. We know the story is very different than what our competitors would like us to think,” Brooks told the audience.
In a clear dig at Apple and it’s ‘I’m a PC, I’m a Mac’ advertisements, Brooks suggested that Microsoft is preparing to retaliate against “noisy competitors” with a major new multi-million dollar advertising campaign, something that many channel partners have been hoping the software giant would do for months.
“You thought the sleeping giant was still sleeping. We’ve woken up and it’s time to take this message forward. This is the true story of Vista,” Brooks said.
I hope they have the ‘nads to follow through with this.
More at ChannelWeb.