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Articles on Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware

Intel Core i7 Mobile laptop chips to launch with Windows 7

Crave Your order for Windows 7 is here--you want chips with that? Good, because that's exactly what you're getting--and not just any old chips, either. Laptop manufacturers are gearing up to release ... Read story »

Snow Leopard brings great news for Windows 7

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 »

How I would have designed Windows 7

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 »

Windows 7 on MacBook Pro is nice, but doesn't impress

Crave I have had Windows 7 Ultimate RTM (release to manufacturer) for a few days. This is, of course, a legitimate copy, not the leaked copy that you can download from the ... Read story »

Enjoying my older bits (not what you think)

Blogs In a stark example of "be careful what you wish for" 10 minutes after telling a friend that computers and such were a cause for many an aggravation, I discovered that ... Read story »

Google Chrome OS challenges Windows 7, while Microsoft Gazelle takes on Google Chrome browser

Blogs The fight between Google and Microsoft is heating up after Google announced its intention to enter the OS market via Google Chrome. Yes, Chrome, which started as a browser, is now ... Read story »

Vista Home Basic: Upgrade to Windows 7 without losing your data

Crave In most Windows 7 coverage, Vista Home Basic users are left out because Microsoft does not offer a direct upgrade path to Windows 7. For this group of consumers, switching to ... Read story »

Prizefight: Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard

Features It's not often that the two most popular operating systems get major updates at nearly the same time, so we couldn't resist throwing them into a cage match together.  Read story »

AMD demos first DirectX 11 graphics processor

Crave We've tried not to get too hung up on the posturing by both AMD and Nvidia over whose graphics card driver software is most prepared for Windows 7. With no major ... Read story »

WWDC and the iPhone 3GS

Blogs Apple's WWDC keynote address had many of us here in Tokyo awake well into the early hours of Tuesday morning. There was no earth-shattering announcement (no tablet as many anticipated), but ... Read story »

Lenovo Enhanced Experience runs Windows 7 faster

Crave Microsoft claims that Windows 7 runs significantly faster than its predecessor, Vista. However, Lenovo is taking it one step further by becoming the only vendor to receive Microsoft's Windows 7 Enhanced ... Read story »

Windows 7 catching developers' eyes

Features This week, touchscreen maker N-trig is showing off a variety of third-party software programs that take advantage of the multitouch features of Windows 7. Read story »

What to expect in Windows 7 RC

Features The latest Windows 7 RC introduces more than mere bug fixes as it includes a couple of spanking new features.  Read story »

Ubuntu 9.04 is as slick as Windows 7 and Mac OS X

Features Ubuntu 9.04 designers have polished the hell out of its user interface and it can now stand toe-to-toe with the Windows and Mac OSes.  Read story »

Sony says no to Windows 7 XP mode

Crave A small but vocal group of tech enthusiasts is raising a fuss over Sony's plans to disable the hardware virtualization required to run Microsoft's Windows 7 XP virtualization technology. Answering reader ... Read story »

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