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The Windows 8 Consumer Preview is being used over twice the amount that the Windows 7 beta was used at their same development point, according to a new Twitter message by Microsoft.

Bumptop for Windows 7 Touchscreen PCs is a 3D desktop organizer that helps you to pile your files along with advanced search and sort capabilities . You can flip through websites, toss your photos up...

Neowin earlier sighted that Windows 7 users can now change their logon screen background. But in order to customize the logon screen, users had to hack the registry and create a new directory for background...

There has been lot going on with Windows 7 and that it can run on 'netbooks' - lightweight, low-cost laptops that typically use Intel's low-powered Atom processor and don't come with substantial amounts of RAM...

PCWorld reports that in a recent poll conducted, Windows 7 Beta testers are 4 times happier with Windows 7 than the early users of Windows Vista, the reason due to which more than half of...

Every one of us is waiting for the upcoming Windows 7 RC release. In the meantime, Windows 7 Team has blogged on the upgrade experience from pre-RC builds to RC build, even when the RC...

According to a blog entry in Dell's website, Dell has tested hundreds of Dell systems with Windows 7 Beta and has found the results to be promising. Dell notes that the following results were observed...

PC Pro is reporting that, in a briefing at Microsoft's London headquarters, Microsoft's Windows OEM Manager, Laurence Painell has told there will be a couple of additional, quite major announcements regarding Windows 7 in the...

Two days back, we had a Microsoft Employee leak screenshots of build 7068. Today, we have screenshots of build 7070 leak! The leak is yet again from someone working at Microsoft and the story goes...

A Microsoft Employee, in his blog post explaining about the new Windows 7 Gadgets platform, ended up posting the initial Windows 7 build 7068 screenshot. The screenshot is just the Windows 7 Desktop but the...

A Gartner analysis report recommends IT departments to depart from the usual SP1 milestone when deciding to deploy Windows 7 "Conventional wisdom has been that organizations need to wait for the first Service Pack...

Yet again E7 team has posted a massive list of changes from Beta to RC based on feedback, which is quite welcoming. Below are some of the changes listed by Chaitanya Sareen, a Senior Program...

Last week, our friends Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera explored one of the untold mysteries (according to them) of Windows 7 - Windows Vault I have been using this feature for...

The E7 team has posted an interesting blog post about the various Windows features that are available to turn on or off in the Windows 7 RC. Customers are now given more control, flexibility and...

Along with various other changes that are to be reflected in Windows 7 RC, here is a big change that is not in the list. From Windows 7 build 7048, Internet Explorer(IE) is an optional...

Craig Marcho, a support engineer with the Performance Team of Microsoft has blogged his recent experiences with Windows 7 on netbook. A pre-beta build of Windows 7 loaded on a netbook helped him to run...

Microsoft has outlined the features that will be included in Windows 7 Enterprise Edition in a series of briefings to product reviewers. Windows 7 Enterprise edition will include support for scripted PowerShell commands for centralized...

With Windows 7 gearing towards the RC release in April 10, WinFuture has posted some screenshots of the latest Windows 7 build 7048 which it mentions to be available only to Microsoft Partners and select...

Windows 7 already has built in DivX support in the current beta. Hidden inside the various changes since beta for the RC is a change to Windows Media Player to natively support the .mov files,...

After a long post yesterday by Steven regarding Windows 7 feedback, which focussed heavily on how Microsoft was gathering the feedback for Windows 7 and the feedback process, the E7 blog has posted the changes...