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Microsoft Windows 7 launched in Korea with 777 power bloggers - Oct 25, 2009

Blogs Microsoft Korea prepared its Windows 7 rollout event with the usual media and bloggers at October 22 in Korea. This may have been a global event, but Korea was the only ... Read story »

Upgrading Windows Vista to Windows 7 - Oct 22, 2009

Crave If you're upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 it should be a fairly easy install. You can do what's called an in-place upgrade as long you install the same version ... Read story »

Windows Cafe to open in Paris on October 22 - Sep 25, 2009

Crave Parlez-vous Windows? Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it plans to open a "Windows Cafe" in Paris where people will be able to try out the latest from Redmond while drinking a cup ... Read story »

How I would have designed Windows 7 - Nov 16, 2009

Crave Like previous versions of Windows, Windows 7 supports legacy software written for previous Windows releases, including Windows 95. I remember the first time I ran into Windows in 1995. It ... Read story »

Snow Leopard brings great news for Windows 7 - Sep 1, 2009

Crave OS X 10.6 includes Boot Camp 3.0, a new collection of software drivers that make Windows run much better on Mac hardware. Every time I see the "I'm a Mac/I'm ... Read story »

Kindle app for Windows PC coming next month - Oct 23, 2009

Crave Amazon already has a free Kindle iPhone app. And soon it will have a free Kindle app for Windows PCs. While the new app won't be available for download until next ... Read story »

Why should Mrs Zhou work for one month to buy Windows 7? - Oct 24, 2009

Blogs Microsoft proudly launched Windows 7 the other day, hoping this would fix the damage done by the unpopular and troublesome Vista, and also praying this would finally persuade the vast majority ... Read story »

Windows 7 boots slower than Vista? - Oct 8, 2009

Crave Although Windows 7 has been praised for loading and shutting down faster than prior versions of Windows, one software company says that, in many cases, the new operating system can take ... Read story »

Windows 7 is so easy, even a 92-year-old can use - Oct 28, 2009

Crave My great aunt is 92 and, as of Friday, she's a Windows 7 PC. Now, Hilda is already not your typical nonagenarian. She is frequently online, does her finances in Quicken ... Read story »

The painful path from XP to 7 - Oct 20, 2009

Crave Many of you did not upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista, but are planning to upgrade to Windows 7. How dare you leave the Microsoft upgrade path? As a punishment, ... Read story »

Microsoft believes Windows 7 will ace Chrome OS, Apple - Sep 16, 2009

Crave Although the conventional wisdom is that the rise of the Netbook is hurting the Windows business, a Microsoft executive said Tuesday that lower-cost laptops can actually be a good thing. Speaking ... Read story »

Windows 7 RTM "special product key" leak confirmed - Aug 3, 2009

Crave Alex Kochis, Microsoft's director of Genuine Windows, posted a blog late Thursday addressing the "leak of a special product key" of Windows 7 RTM (release to manufacturers). This confirmed the ... Read story »

Getting Blu-ray on a new 27-inch iMac - Oct 26, 2009

Crave Apple's new iMac all-in-one desktops impressed us, especially the massive 27-inch model we reviewed this week. But we're left wondering what happened to the rumored Blu-ray drive option. Playing HD ... Read story »

Probably the best consumer DNS Benchmark tool in the world: Steve Gibson's DNS Benchmark - Dec 11, 2009

Blogs Steve Gibson is an old man. Even when he was young, in 1989, I used his software--Spinrite--just as a superstitious practice that he'd re-magnetize the hard disk drive platters for me as ... Read story »

Format a drive for Mac and Windows - Jul 15, 2009

Crave Jonathan sent us an email saying: I own a SimpleTech 320GB Black Cherry Hard Drive and needed it to run on both Mac and PC for school. I thought it would ... Read story »

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