Tag: Windows 7
Windows 7 to be unveiled tomorrow in LA
Tomorrow at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, Microsoft will be distributing the first copies of its new operating system, Windows 7. Details have been leaking out of Microsoft for a little while about what it’ll include, but a big dump of info has appeared in the last few hours as people close to the project start revealing its secrets…
Microsoft revealing "technical information" regarding Windows 7 in October, says W7 dev blog
Fantastic. Just when we’ve finally turned off everything in Vista, deleted half of it and got it working and looking something like good old XP again, Microsoft starts preparing to change the game once more.
According to the nerds working on it, MS will “provide in-depth technical information” regarding the…
Next Windows operating system to use multi-touch technology
Speaking at the opening night of Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference in Southern California yesterday, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and fellow exec Steve Ballmer had a few things to share about the next step for the Windows platform. They were restrained when quizzed about the faults in the current OS, Vista, but acknowledged that in hindsight something could have been done better…
Windows 7 arriving "sometime in the next year" says Gates, "The hell it is" says the rest of Microsoft
A slightly off-hand comment from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates managed to set the blogosphere alight with a wave of excited speculation over the weekend. Answering a question about Vista, Gates told the audience at the annual meeting in Miami of the Inter-American Development Bank on Friday:
“Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version [of Windows].”…
Windows 7 coming in 2010… probably
According to reports, Microsoft has confirmed that its next version of Windows will be available in 2010.
Windows 7 will succeed Windows Vista, with Microsoft explaining that it had always scheduled its next operating system launch for three years after Vista was launched to consumers. That was January last year…
Windows 7 promises touchscreen technology to "blow iPhone away"
According to a Microsoft engineer's blog, the next version of Windows (version seven) will contain touchscreen features which will blow the iPhone away. "I will say that if you are impressed by the 'touch features' in the iPhone, you'll be…
