Tag: Windows
Windows 7 – the full details, with screenshots
Okay, as promised, here’s the lowdown on Windows 7 – Microsoft’s new operating system – which could be launched as early as the middle of next year.
The UI is rather different to XP and Vista, contrary to what I said the other day about things not changing much. The taskbar is the biggest change – you can see it above. All words have been replaced with big icons, which then show window previews when you move your cursor over them…
HP announces Mini 1000 and Compaq Mini 700 netbooks, including designer option
Just a couple of days after the leak, HP has announced details of the Mini 1000, in both standard and designer editions, as well as the Compaq Mini 700.
The HP Mini 1000, at 25.2mm thin and weighing 1.1kg, features a 10.2-inch widescreen display, a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, either 8GB or 16GB SSD, webcam/mic, WLAN, and Bluetooth. Depending on operating system configuration, you can choose from 512MB or 1GB of RAM (XP Home) or 1GB/2GB (MIE Linux).
Bundled with the hardware is HP’s new Mobile Internet Experience software and HP MediaStyle, for “one-stop entertainment through a single interface”. In other words, it’s a dashboard interface which lets you play music, watch videos, visit favourite web sites, read email, and so on. Great for the everyday consumer, perhaps, but those wanting a stripped down netbook might want to turn off the “always on” applications…
What the hell is Microsoft Azure?
Good question. Every single news story I’m reading about Microsoft’s new cloud computing platform, announced last night, is full of phrases like “foundational infrastructure”, “Dynamics CRM Services” and “hypervisor/virtualization technology”. Here’s an overview in tech layman’s terms…
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…
Learn Chinese Characters with this freeware application
Chinese isn’t the easiest language in the world to learn. Unlike our 26-letter Western alphabet, there are estimated to be more than 50,000 characters, depending on how one counts variants. However, you only (only!) need to know about 3,000 for basic literacy, and a well-educated person would know around 5,000 characters…
Apricot drops Linux from its netbook – it's apparently "too complicated"
Apricot has announced that it’s dropping the Linux version of its forthcoming netbook, because it’s “too complicated”. Originally, users had a choice of XP and SuSE Linux, but following tester feedback, the company are dropping the latter. Apricot say…
Windows Strata: Has Microsoft got rock and cloud mixed up in its new OS name?
It seems Microsoft may have another name for its imminent Cloud-based Windows operating system which Steve Ballmer called “Windows Cloud” last week.
According to a screen grab of a web page at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference, hastily edited after being spotted by eagle-eyed bloggers, the new operating system is Windows Strata.
This makes me wonder whether Microsoft has got its geology and meteorology mixed up. I don’t claim to be an expert, so I’d better watch myself, but I always thought “strata” related to rock layers, while “stratus” referred to clouds…
TDK launches security-conscious TRANS-IT USB Flash drives
USB Flash drives are fairly yawn-inducing, granted, but they’re pretty much the de facto standard for porting data around these days.
With security high on the agenda (if only because so many people seem to be losing large amounts of confidential data), Imation has launched its latest TDK-branded USB drives with built-in TRANS-IT security…
Top 10 Tuesday: Operating Systems that changed the world
With the release the Google Android mobile operating system widely expected later on today – around 3.30pm I should think – I thought to myself, "What better way to kick of our Top 10 Tuesdays than by looking at operating systems that changed the world." So here indeed are the Top 10 operating systems that changed the world…
Fenêtres 3.1 – get that 1992 blue-screen feeling in your house
Dan, who’s the editor here at Tech Digest, has been battling all morning with the infamous Blue Screen of Death on his PC. Perhaps he needs Fenêtres 3.1 on his wall to calm him down…
