Your first day with a new Mac: the get-started guide for Windows users
admin @ December 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just got a new Mac for Christmas and feeling a little bewildered?
Fear not – Switch to Mac, brought to you by our colleagues over on MacFormat magazine, shows new Mac users how to move comfortably from the familiarity of Windows.
Below are 20 common tasks that PC owners perform without thinking about, and their equivalents on [...]
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Everything you need to know about Windows 7
admin @ December 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Microsoft has been developing Windows 7 under a shroud of secrecy worthy of Apple, and it’s led to a rash of rumours and unfounded expectations.
So let us state for the record: Windows 7 doesn’t have a new kernel, it doesn’t run in the cloud and it’s not based on Midori (a research project focused [...]
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Windows 7 netbook system specs explained
admin @ November 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“If I show you the PC I use as my primary machine, I think you’ll be surprised,” Steven Sinofsky told us just before this year’s Professional Developers Conference.
The next day the Senior Vice President of the Windows team showed off the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 running Windows 7, and the next week at the Windows [...]
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7 lessons Windows 7 can learn from OS X
admin @ November 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Our hands-on Windows 7 pre-beta review shows that things are looking promising for Windows 7.
Windows 7 will run faster than Vista, and it’s breaking new ground with support for multi-touch displays, but we can think of seven more simple things that Windows 7 needs to address.
One way to make Windows 7 a hit is to [...]
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Windows 7, Office 14 and the future of the PC
admin @ October 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ray Ozzie yesterday showed Windows 7 to the world at the Professional Developers Conference but recovering from the Vista malaise might not be the most important development he’s presiding over at Microsoft – synchronizing Windows Mobile devices through Live Mesh and putting Office 14 (the follow-up to Office 2007) applications on the web could be [...]
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Hands on: pre-beta Windows 7 review
admin @ October 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Microsoft has never been so secretive about a new version of Windows for so long.
Windows 7 is finally being unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference, but we got to try out the Milestone 3 pre-beta version that attendees will take home, as well as getting a sneak peak at the next internal version and the [...]
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Hands on: pre-beta Windows 7 review
admin @ October 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Microsoft has never been so secretive about a new version of Windows for so long.
Windows 7 is finally being unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference, but we got to try out the Milestone 3 pre-beta version that attendees will take home, as well as getting a sneak peak at the next internal version and the [...]
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Hands on: pre-beta Windows 7 review
admin @ October 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Microsoft has never been so secretive about a new version of Windows for so long.
Windows 7 is finally being unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference, but we got to try out the Milestone 3 pre-beta version that attendees will take home, as well as getting a sneak peak at the next internal version and the [...]
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Make Windows boot lightning-fast
admin @ October 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When your PC is running properly, you probably won’t spend a great deal of time thinking about the Windows boot process. What would be the point?
You turn your PC on in the morning, Windows starts and your desktop appears. It happens automatically, and every time, so there will seem little need to worry about [...]
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Make Windows boot lightning-fast
admin @ October 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When your PC is running properly, you probably won’t spend a great deal of time thinking about the Windows boot process. What would be the point?
You turn your PC on in the morning, Windows starts and your desktop appears. It happens automatically, and every time, so there will seem little need to worry about [...]
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