The final release date of Windows 7 has been confirmed. Windows 7 will be generally available for commercial purchase and retail sales on October 22nd, 2009, just in time for holiday shopping season, said Senior Vice President Bill Veghte of Microsoft’s Windows business unit and Steve Guggenheimer of OEM business unit in an interview during Computex 2009. The date has been speculated for a while, […]
Wonder how you can simplify your daily office operation process for more effective work? Now with the software utility named as SysPad, you will be able to manage your folders and launch notepad-like applications with simple clicks by having the tiny utility sitting in system tray.
Windows Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is the latest web browser of the IE browser series developed by Microsoft as the successor to Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). IE8 was released to web (RTM) on March 19, 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) build flavors, with exception of Windows 7, which bundled natively […]
To titillate the senses and awaken curiosity pending the official release of Windows 7, Microsoft has released Windows 7 beta for users who want to take a firsthand peek at this new Operating System to satisfy their curiosity. My Digital Life has previously reported various builds and also new features and improvements in the new Windows 7. Device Stage and Windows Touch are two interesting […]
Multi-touch or multitouch functionality has been attracting consumer attraction, thanks to iPhone and iPod Touch, two-finger-scroll in Apple MacBook with TrackPad, and Windows 7, which has built-in multi-touch mapping application, photo viewing program, and gesture support in Internet Explorer 8. Multi-touch is essentially a set of interaction techniques which allow computer users to interact and control graphical applications with fingers.
Another newer pre-RTM and post-RC build of Windows 7 has been leaked, and this time it’s Windows 7 Build 7137. The English version of Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7137 can be downloaded via BT torrent network. User who wishes to translate and change the Windows 7 UI to other international language can download the following MUI (Multilingual User Interface) language packs for the conversion.
Adventurous users who have downloaded and installed Windows 7 Build 7127, a post-RC pre-RTM version of Windows 7 leaked, can now also download and install language interface packs (LIP, also known as MUI – Multilingual User Interface) to change the language of user interface to their first native language or mother tongue. The language packs convert system menus, dialogs and other text in Windows 7 […]
One of the many features in Windows 7 is Windows Touch, which provides multi-touch gestures functionality for the operating system, taking cue from multi-touch capability of iPhone and iPod Touch. Various applications in Windows 7 such as photo viewing program, Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and mapping application has built-in support to respond to multi-touch gesture, based on Microsoft Surface technology. In fact, Windows 7 multi-touch […]
If you have habits of blog reading or web surfing offline while on the train or plane where broadband access is still very limited, here is a very useful software utility that can help in such situation. Name as BackStreet, it enables users to download and store all websites in local drive, allowing them to view contents at own pace without the need to have […]
After its maiden appearance was made last September, the free mobile web browser for Windows Mobile 5 & 6 and Symbian S60 3rd Edition handsets, Skyfire, has finally released its official version 1.0. Similar to Opera Mini, Skyfire is a proxy-based browser. It examines and compresses all web content before loading to users’ phones. Users will enjoy a PC-like surfing experience and save time and […]
Adventurous computer users who feel that official Windows 7 RC available for download from Microsoft does not good enough, and want a build which is closer to RTM (release to manufacturing) which presumably comes with less bugs, can now download the leaked Windows 7 Build 7137, the latest pre-RTM build leaked after Windows 7 Build 7127.
Microsoft has officially released publicly available customer preview program for Windows 7, which makes available Windows 7 RC for free download recently. However, only a few languages such as English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese are available. Windows 7 enthusiasts who only fluent in other languages can use the MUI language interface packs (LIP), which also available via Windows Update to convert system menus, dialogs […]
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