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Microsoft this week continued to give developers a peek at its forthcoming Windows 7 OS at its Windows Hardware Engineering (WinHEC) conference in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, company reps showed off features of the new operating system designed to improve boot times, ease connectivity with printers and other peripherals, boost wireless connections to the Internet, and enable touch-screen interaction.
Nov 06
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In the pre-Windows Vista Service Pack 1 days, Vista users were plagued by sluggish boot and shutdown times as well as by faulty device drivers. But according to executives in charge of Windows 7 development, Microsoft is applying the lessons it learned from Vista to avoid repeating its mistakes. Microsoft is focusing on improving the user experience in Windows 7, and plans to achieve that through better device support, improved system performance and the addition of user interface features such as multitouch, Microsoft executives said in a Wednesday morning keynote speech at the opening of Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC).
Nov 05
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That didn’t take long. Just last week, Microsoft distributed a pre-beta release of Windows 7 to attendees at its annual Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Now, nearly anyone can get a copy courtesy of multiple bit torrent sites that let users download the same code that PDC attendees received – granted it doesn’t come on a free 160 GB external hard disk as it did for paying attendees. For anyone who’s been living on Mars for the past year, Windows 7 is Microsoft’s belated ‘fix’ for all that turned out to be wrong with Windows Vista, including poor performance, annoying hassles like the nagging User Account Control feature, and lack of driver support.
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Microsoft’s latest security report shows that the number of new vulnerabilities found in its software was lower in first half of the year than the last half of 2007, with the Windows Vista OS proving more resistant to exploits than XP. Microsoft reported 77 vulnerabilities from January to June compared to 116 for the last six months of 2007, according to the company’s fifth Security Intelligence Report.
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