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Update: The Windows 7 development team announced on their blog this afternoon that the operating system has been released to manufacturing (RTM). Windows 7 Build 7600 (7600.16385.090713-1255) has been signed off as the official RTM build. Windows Server 2008 R2 which was being developed in parallel also went RTM today. Microsoft has confirmed it does [...]

Microsoft today announced that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have hit the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone. The software giant still has a lot of work to do, but the bigger responsibility now falls to OEMs that must get PCs ready, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that are testing their new apps, and Independent [...]

With the release of Windows 7 RC, everyone can finally see what the new OS is going to feel like. I recently installed the new OS to try out and so far I am very impressed. I decided to split the review into several pieces, this way I can add more information into later parts. [...]

I have completely switched from Outlook 2007 to Gmail for just about all of my email needs. I will continue to use Outlook to download my email periodically for backup purposes and for storing my contacts. The contact feature in Gmail is disappointing and is lacking in feature set when compared to what Microsoft offers. [...]

I think Microsoft has finally been able to produce a good commercial for Windows and PCs. I really enjoyed the commercial and found myself really caring about what is happening to the lady. Good work! Tags: Ad, Computer, Laptop, Microsoft, Notebook, Windows

Most email programs have a preview pane. To me this is the most important feature I would like to have that Gmail does not currently offer. Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, Outlook Express and even Yahoo Mail, they all have it. They have this feature for a reason, because it’s useful. I’m hoping Gmail will implement this [...]

Last fall it was decided that my wife and I would get a couple of new laptops. After a very short amount of consideration we decided to purchase two Dell XPS m1530 laptops, fully loaded. It seemed like a nice laptop and had a very reasonable price tag for what you get. I ordered both systems [...]

  Computer #1 (Workstation/File Server)   Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz 4MB Cache Intel D975XBX2 ATX Motherboard 2GB (2x1GB) Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 Ram BFG GeFore 7600 GT PCI Express 256MB DDR3 Ram 2X Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA 7200RPM 16MB Cache Hard Drives NEC 16X DVD/CD-RW Burner Lite-On 16x DVD-Rom Drive Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP [...]

And on the 366th day of the year, the music died. Thousands of Zune portable media players made by Microsoft Corp. suddenly froze up early Wednesday, Dec. 31, labeling Internet wits to label the phenomenon “Z2K.” The model affected was the Zune 30, which sports a 30-gigabyte hard drive and was first released in November [...]