Neowin News Feed for: 7

Microsoft gets tough on spam apps for WP7

Stefano Elia — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:07:38 +0100

As we saw at the beginning of this week, the number of apps on the Windows Phone 7 marketplace hit 20,000, but a number of them were considered spam apps by developers. An example of... Read more...

Nostalgia: Upgrading through every version of Windows 1 to 7

Steven Parker — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:55:12 +0000

Someone on Youtube calling himself TheRasteri, with some time on his hands took it upon himself to test the ability to upgrade Windows from 1.0 through to 7. Not all Windows versions were used, and... Read more...

Dell Streak 7 and Streak 10 leaked

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:40:01 +0100

It's been known for a while that Dell was going to release the Mini 5, a mini-slate, now codenamed "Streak" for some time. But now, Engadget is confirming that there will be 7 and 10... Read more...

Windows 7 more popular than Harry Potter in the UK

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:18:00 +0100

Boy wizard Harry Potter has been outsold by Windows 7, as Microsoft's latest operating system becomes the biggest pre-order of all time, according to Amazon. More pre-orders of Windows 7 were sold within the... Read more...

Kaspersky releases Antivirus beta for Windows 7

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:37:54 +0000

Kaspersky Lab has announced the release of a "technical prototype" a.k.a beta of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows 7. The prototype is based on a new antivirus engine which provides complete antivirus protection from all types... Read more...

Windows 7 to have only one "compatible" logo

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:26:18 +0000

The Register is reporting on an interesting story from WinHEC about how Microsoft is planning to change how it will run the "compatible with Windows 7" logo program. Microsoft seems to have learnt its... Read more...

Seven: One Windows, One Role

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:47:30 +0100

I had hoped that Microsoft would take a role-based approach to Windows 7. But, there won't be roles, according to a Saturday blog post by Steven Sinofsky, senior veep of the Windows and Windows Live... Read more...

Official Windows 7 blog goes live

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:24:22 +0100

Thanks Emil for pointing out that the Windows 7 Engineering blog has gone live. Its authors include Steven Sinofsky is in charge of the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group and Jon DeVaan heads the... Read more...

Microsoft needs 7,000 resumes

malebolgia — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:30:53 +0100

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College graduates get your resumes ready. Microsoft announced Friday that it will be hiring 6,000 to 7,000 workers over a 1 year span. Hopefully other companies will start to offer more jobs like... Read more...