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 [...]
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Acer enters the Android and Windows 7 Tablet space
November 24th, 2010 
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Taiwan-based PC maker Acer enters the tablet market with multiple models to cater to tech-savvy buyers with varying Slate PC tastes.
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.
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.
Windows 7 RC Shutdown Starts March 1
February 24th, 2010 sylv3rblade In a weeks time, computers that have the Release Candidate (build 7100) of Windows 7 installed will begin to experience a bi-hourly (every two hours) recurring shutdown. That means a not so subtle prompt of having your PC shutting down as a reminder to fork up some cash for the retail version or saddle up [...]
Windows 7 Market Share Reaches 10%
February 10th, 2010 sylv3rblade Love em or hate em, you got to admit that Microsoft did something right with Windows 7 as their current flagship OS reaches 10% market share. And that’s only after three months of availability. That’s 1 in 10 computers accessing the Web, if the report from Net Applications is to be belived. Microsoft wasn’t kidding [...]
Windows Classic Start Menu With Aero For Windows 7
November 20th, 2009 sylv3rblade A lot of us have already tried and fell in love with the new start menu from Windows 7 (well if you’re coming from Vista, it’s not really new now is it?). It’s a functional combination of the age-old start menu that we’ve seen since Windows 95 and a launcher program (just search for your [...]
