Posts Tagged ‘Windows 7’

Windows 7 reaches 175 million licenses

Windows 7 reaches 150 million licenses

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

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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

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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

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

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 [...]

Windows 7 RC Shutdown Starts March 1

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 [...]

Install and Enable DreamScene in Windows 7

Windows DreamScene is a feature from Windows Vista that allowed you to use a video, movie show, slideshow or even an animated image to be set as a the desktop background.  This has been booted out of Windows 7 in favor of Desktop Desktop Slideshow wallpaper auto rotator.  If you’re missing DreamScene’s features and want [...]

Windows 7 Market Share Reaches 10%

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 [...]