Windows 7 : top stories

All summer long we’ve given you some great reasons to purchase a new PC and make the move to Windows 7, an operating system loved by a whopping 94% of folks who use it ! Here’s one more: starting October 3 in the U.S., Windows 7 Family...

The Windows 7 Family Pack promotion is coming back, right after the back-to-school PC buying rush is over.

This is the sixth in a series of articles covering “unpopular” larger companies.  Benjamin Graham believed that such companies may present opportunities for enterprising investors.  We discussed the Graham approach in more detail i...

We have 4 more of the wonderful Taiwanese art themes for Windows 7, following on from the 4 from last week link_expandAllText = 'Show all'; link_collapseAllText = 'Hide all'; ...

Besides that Android tablet , Toshiba's brought a whole slew LED-lit LCD televisions to IFA 2010 . The REGZA WL Series is the company's first range of 3DTVs, available in 40-, 46- and 55-inch sizes (pictured above) with LED backlighting, 7,00...

Last year, in the run-up to the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft rewarded early adopters with a series of discounted upgrade offers. And then, as quickly as they appeared, those deals vanished. But...

ViewSonic hasn't settled on a name for this thing yet, vacillating between the ViewPad 100 and the ViewPad 10i. What it has settled on is a pretty delicious for factor for an Atom N455-based Windows 7 tablet, and the dual boot option to Android...

Microsoft announced today on their Windows Team Blog that the Windows 7 Family Pack will be making a return to the market, just in time for the one-year anniversary of Windows 7's retail debut. Windows 7 Family Pack will allow consumers to upgrade any three computers in their house-hold to Windows...

Last week Microsoft has released few new themes for Windows 7 . Continuing with the same trend of updating personalization gallery, Microsoft ahs released another set of 4 themes,  more of the wonderful Taiwanese art themes for Windows 7. These...

When Microsoft launched Windows 7 about a year ago, the company offers the usual versions. You could buy a single user Windows 7 upgrade disk that let you upgrade from an earlier version of Windows or a full install disc that let you install t...

Have you ever used the Homegroup feature in Windows 7? It’s a great way to share files and printers with all your Windows 7 computers, but if you don’t want it anymore, you can disable or enable the feature easily. Before you bother disabling ...

Here is some great news from Microsoft, the Windows 7 Family Pack is making a comeback in just a few months. The Redmond company will celebrate the first year anniversary of the fastest selling operating system in history by bringing back a speci...

Deploying Windows 7, but still running Web applications based on Internet Explorer 6? Join us live at 9:00 AM Pacific Time on Thursday, September 30, 2010 for a virtual, interactive roundtable discussion on migration strategies, standards, an...

I’m going to just assume that if you’re reading this, you’re familiar with torrenting and the like. It’s pretty much commonplace now and while I’m not here to argue its legal ground, it’s a fact that many peopl...

The new Apple TV is running on an Apple A4 chip , just like iPhone and iPad, and almost certainly running iOS, so where are the apps, games, and web browser? We got Netflix , but it was built in just like YouTube. We got iOS under the co...

Click on image to enlarge Samsung is evidently trying to set a new a new standard in mobile computer design with its recently introduced NF series netbooks. Mobile computer designers have reached an impasse, Samsung must have thought,...

# tablets After warning us last week of their impending dual-booting tablet, ViewSonic has now spilled the beans on the ViewPad 100 's specs. I don't think anyone will be impressed by the Android 1.6 flavor, even if Windows 7 's also there too. More »

# downloads Windows: If you're sporting an HTC phone with the HTC user interface you may have grown fond of the combination clock and weather forecasting widget. HTC Home ports the HTC interface from your phone to your Windows desktop, complete with animations. More »

For the past year now, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux have been the number 1, 2 and 3 operating systems worldwide in terms of market share. This is no longer the case as Linux has lost the 3rd spot, leaving Apple platforms to occupy both the second and third positions on the OS market. Statistics now indicate that w... ( read more )

Hey guys I'm starting my first year in college in the next week or so and a laptop is definitely a requirement. I'm looking for something small and powerful, netbooks keep coming up as i search. I'm entering the engineering field so it will get a lo...