Three years or just 18 months into it’s release, Microsoft announces that it has sold 350 million licenses of its current flagship operating system Windows 7. In stark contrast to Vista, (which lot of people hated, some for technical reasons, others for no other reason than jumping on the hate machine) Windows 7 is flourishing [...]
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Windows 7 over takes XP’s Desktop OS market share
April 9th, 2011 
sylv3rblade According to the latest numbers crunched by pingdom, people are finally migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7. That is, for the U.S. market at least. The data comes from aggregated visits to over 3 million websites (so for you survey OCDs out there, yes, there’s a huge enough sample group). Since it’s launch, usage [...]
Happy first Birthday, Windows 7
October 23rd, 2010 sylv3rblade Microsoft celebrates the first birthday of it’s flagship operating system with news that Windows 7 has sold more than 240 million licenses for it’s first year in the market! Not a lot you say? Compared to XP and Vista’s first year of sales. XP sold just about 89 million licenses during its first year in [...]
Restore missing Notification Area icons in Windows
August 20th, 2010 sylv3rblade 
If your Notification Area looks as blank as the image you see here then there’s something wrong with your registry. The usual fix for this is to turn your computer off and on again or simply logoff and login to the same account. However, that may be a bit extreme since you’re just out to [...]
Dell Compares PCs vs Macs
August 12th, 2010 sylv3rblade With Microsoft putting up it’s own PC vs Mac comparison (guess who wins on this one?), Dell ups the ante by erecting a similar page comparing Apples to Apples. Apples to Apples? Huh? For some reason, Dell’s marketing thinks it’s own offerings are comparable and superior to the MacBook equivalents.
Windows 7 reaches 175 million licenses
July 26th, 2010 sylv3rblade 
Just after a month of topping 150 million in licenses, Microsoft and no doubt Steve Ballmer, is happy to report once again that Windows 7 is selling quite well, adding another 25 million in sales. That’s 175 million copies of their currently flagship OS.
Microsoft releases Windows 7 Service Pack 1 BETA
July 13th, 2010 sylv3rblade 
Microsoft has made the BETA release of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 publicly available to TechNet, BizSpark and MSDN subscribers. If you’re eager on testing the latest build for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, head to the MSDN download page. Otherwise (if you’re a consumer), just wait [...]
Windows 7 hits 150 million licenses
June 24th, 2010 sylv3rblade 
Microsoft has announced that it has now sold over 150 million Windows 7 licenses since the product first launched in October 2009, reiterated that this makes it’s current flagship OS as the fastest-selling operating system in history. Doing the math, Windows 7 customers are snatching up 7 copies every second.
File Management made easy with Windows Double Explorer
March 2nd, 2010 sylv3rblade Managing files between multiple Windows Explorer windows is usually a hassle without a proper software to handle this task. Sure, it’s easy transferring a file or a set of files from one folder to another but what if you need to distribute them along multiple folders with different file structures? That’s quite a task especially [...]
Full Listing of Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts
February 24th, 2010 sylv3rblade Hotkeys are the epitome of efficient computing. AKA accelerator keys or keyboard shortcuts, hotkeys are a set of keys or combination of keys that when pressed, invokes specified commands on computer. They can launch programs, perform tasks, send a command to your PC or an active application etc. Using hotkeys/keyboard shortcuts them not only increases [...]
