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ASUS’s T101MT convertible netbook is now official

Published on: 18th February, 2010

ASUS T101MT convertible netbook, spotted, on Christmas Eve, at the FCC, has now gone official, as full specifications are available on ASUS’s website. Information leaked in December is confirmed, as the new netbook has a 1.66Ghz Intel Atom N450 processor and a 10.1-inch LED-backlit multi-input touchscreen, with a resolution of 1024×600. The default OS is [...]

Microsoft to update Windows 7 and close more than 70 activation hacks

Published on: 17th February, 2010

Microsoft has recently revealed a Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7 would be released later this month and would close about 70 activation hacks and therefore prevent hackers from accessing the operating system by fraud. This update would periodically check with a server for vulnerabilities. According to Joe Williams, general manager of the Microsoft [...]

Record revenue for Microsoft after selling 60 million copies of Windows 7

Published on: 9th February, 2010

Microsoft has claimed its best-ever quarter for revenue thanks to Windows 7. The revenue of the company has jumped 14 percent year-over-year to over $19.02 billion as a consequence of the 60 million copies of the new operating system sold and helped Microsoft to come back after three consecutive drops in revenue in 2009. The [...]

Cowon’s W2 MID to sport Windows 7

Published on: 15th January, 2010

Cowon has made its first real entry into the Mobile Internet Device (MID) world with its W2 device and has put up a web page for it. The device would occupy the higher end of the range with its 1.33GHz Atom processor and Windows 7. It would concentrate on style and sport a relatively low-key, [...]

Viliv to present the N5 and the S10 Windows 7-powered notebooks at CES

Published on: 30th December, 2009

Viliv plans to present two new notebooks at CES in January nest year, at the Las Vegas show. The first device, the N5, is the most advanced of its notebook-style Ultra Mobile Personal Computing, with a very dense 4.8-inch screen with a 1,024×600 resolution and sporting 3G and GPS. The N5 is meant to serve [...]

Microsoft’s browser ballot to be implemented in March

Published on: 20th December, 2009

Microsoft’s updated proposal regarding a browser ballot within its Windows 7 operating system recently received green light from the European Commission. Referred to as a “choice screen”, the ballot will allow the EU users to make a neutral choice of their browser. When first booting a Windows PC, the users will get an almost neutral [...]

ViewSonic’s 10-inch netbook running Windows 7

Published on: 20th December, 2009

VNB102 ViewBook has opened a new perspective for ViewSonic, the North American company, by its launch. It is a 10.1-inch netbook, which uses a 1024×600 LED-backlit panel and it seems to be one of the few netbooks to be released with Windows 7 Starter Edition. The netbook comes with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, a [...]

Dell’s Vostro 1015 for business users

Published on: 7th December, 2009

Dell’s 15.6-inch Vostro 1015 notebook PC, designed exclusively for business users is now shipping, after its presentation in August. Prices are ranged between $429 and $629, but users can opt for special options too. The basic version features 2.2GHz Celeron 900 CPU and Windows Vista Home Basic OS, all using a 160GB HDD. The rest [...]

Windows 7 helps Acer’s sales

Published on: 30th November, 2009

Gianfranco Lanci, Acer’s chief, revealed for the press, on November 26, 2009 that Windows 7 has influenced positively the company’s sales. He estimated that PC sales around the holidays should be 25 percent greater than last year, when sales have been affected by the economic crash, but that they will more likely be almost equal [...]

Mac influence on Windows 7 denied by Microsoft official again

Published on: 20th November, 2009

Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft official, reiterated the idea that Simon Aldous’ statement that the “look and feel” of the new version of Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 7, would be similar to the Mac OS X interface was “inaccurate and uninformed”. The Microsoft partner group manager Simon Aldous recently made this statement that determined strong reactions from [...]

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