Windows 7 test drive is a service that enables you to get an overview of doing development on Windows 7 platform. You do not even need to install the complete OS to explore the development environment of Microsoft’s latest operating system.
This news has come as a surprise for us that Microsoft has already started to work on a future version of its Windows operating system, planned Windows 8 will have 128-bit support with it.
Robert Morgan, a senior staff member of the Microsoft Corporation’s Research team has accidentally leaked this information on his Linkedin profile, a popular social networking site for professionals.
Microsoft is going to announce the availability of Windows Mobile 6.5 tomorrow, this will be the next OS version after the release of Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, and its successor will be the upcoming Windows Mobile 7.
As the smartphone market is very competitive, iPhone and Android are the major competitors of Windows Mobile OS, one could hope that this new release will enable Microsoft to compete fiercely to gain some ground in smartphone market. A major update of Windows Mobile 6.5 is also expected in near future before the major launch of Windows 7.
As Microsoft launched Windows 7, users have to choose an edition that better suits to their requirements. In this blog, we will try to compare all three editions of Windows 7, namely ‘Starter’, ‘Home Premium’, ‘Professional’ and ‘Ultimate’.
Microsoft Windows 7 has attractive range of built-in mini desktop utilities called ‘Desktop Gadgets’, these can be used to show the required information on your desktop instantly, like you can add gadgets on your desktop to view latest news headlines or latest weather reports.
Microsoft has added many customization features in its new Windows 7 user interface, one of them is enhanced customization of your Windows taskbar, you can get different customization options by right-clicking it and going to its properties. Following are the snapshots which will give you an overview of different options available for Windows 7 taskbar customization.
Microsoft has made some major enhancements to its graphic tool ‘MS Paint’ in upcoming Windows 7 OS, the major change is the UI, it now has ‘Ribbon Interface’ just like MS Office 2007.
Microsoft windows setup assign drive letters to hard disk partitions itself, but sometimes it become necessary to customize the drive letters according to your needs, following is the procedure to change the drive letters:
As Windows 7 launch is expected on October 22 this year, Microsoft has already sent invitations to many people to celebrate Windows 7 launch, but Windows XP users will not be able to upgrade to this new version of operating system.
Microsoft’s Vista operating system has support for IPv6. It uses a tunnel of IPv6 over IPv4. In Microsoft Vista IPv6 support is enabled by default and IPv6 enabled applications can be executed. Users can configure IPV6 settings through properties of Internet Protocol. Vista has capability of IPv6 addresses in URLs. Vista uses DHCPv6 configuration on local IPv6 network.
