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August 30th, 2009 - 2:17 pm § in General

Free Software Foundation Wants To Stop Fortune 500 Companies Upgrading To Windows 7

According to The Register, The Free Software Foundation has sent letters to 499 Fortune 500 companies asking them to not upgrade to Windows 7, to reduce their reliance on Microsoft products and to encourage the use of GNU/Linux on PCs instead. They decided to not send a letter to the remaining Fort[...]

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August 2nd, 2009 - 2:47 am § in General, Windows Tips

Shortcuts in Windows 7

I am a shortcut addict. Keyboard shortcuts are faster, easier and more than hold the mouse button, but the real problem is what they are shortcuts. Fortunately, the article by Microsoft for Windows 7 and a complete list of all links in the software giant and the large version. The article can be f[...]

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August 1st, 2009 - 4:01 am § in Software, Windows Tips

Running Windows 7 on a netbook

Microsoft has said that any version of Windows 7 will run on a netbook. We try it with Windows 7 Ultimate. Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company planned to equip netbooks with the Starter edition of Windows 7, a semi-crippled version that only lets [...]

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June 23rd, 2009 - 5:06 am § in General

Why is the next Windows called Windows 7?

Windows 7, the next operating system that Microsoft issued. It is the successor to Windows Vista and earlier Windows key Vienna. Well, Vienna is no longer the code of Windows 7, which will change once Microsoft comes with a different name for the next operating system. Most people I talk that Windo[...]

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June 21st, 2009 - 9:47 am § in General, Maintenance & Repairs, Software

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Tools 4.0 Beta7

Microsoft has released a beta version of Microsoft Assessment and Planning 4.0 tool, which makes it easier for customers of Microsoft and its partners to quickly identify what servers, workstations and network devices in their IT environment. The toolkit can be used to “discover all the comput[...]

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June 8th, 2009 - 2:14 am § in General

Can someone help me with tweaking Vista to look like Windows 7?

I have added VistaGlazz to patch the system for the transparency, and it was working just fine, then when I added the Windows7.msstyles file and applied it, the theme showed up how it was supposed to, but the transparency isn’t working anymore. I tried unapplying the patch for vistaglazz and [...]

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