After having successfully installed Windows 7 on my test PC I thought I would try another machine, after some encouragement via followers on Twitter I decided to give it a try on my old Samsung Q1 UMPC. This is the original Q1 with 1GB of RAM and a Celeron M processor and I have had [...]
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One of the interesting new features of Windows 7 is HomeGroup and Libraries, this is the way all your machines are going to share content over the network. Brandon LeBlanc on the redesigned Windows Experience Blog explains how Libraries and HomeGroup work together . I have had a quick play with the feature and it’s [...]
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I haven’t had much time to play with Windows 7 yet so I thought I would post a few pictures. The installations tool under 20 minutes on my test machine and on a Hyper V session, its very much like Vista at this stage. It boots very quickly but I would expect that as there [...]
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Charlie Owen has details of the changes to the Windows Media Center Platform in Windows 7 . If you working on Media Center applications then you will want to read the details of the updates, they seem to be small improvements rather than any major changes. The Windows 7 release of the Windows Media Center [...]
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While the details of the Windows 7 version of Media Center are just coming out I am sure there are lots of questions about the update. I am going to be interviewing Microsoft’s Charlie Owen on [tmcs] and I would like to get answers some of your questions answered. I am not promising to get [...]
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HomeGroup is a new features that is going to be great for Media Center users, there is not a lot of information out about it yet but it looks interesting . It’s a way to search and share multiple PC libraries, you can link all your Windows 7 computers together so you can share music,pictures, [...]
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Charlie Owen has the best look at the new build of Windows Media Center in Windows 7. Charlie has posted details of the pre-beta build of Windows Media Center and included some detailed screenshots. It looks like for the first time since Vista Windows Media Center is going to get some visual changes! The Start [...]
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I wish I could be at the PDC but other commitments mean that I can’t be there so I am watching the keynote about Windows 7 over the web. I should have my hands of a build of Windows 7 soon but here are some of the interesting bits of information from the PDC: A [...]
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I was speculating about the name of Windows 7 last week and today Microsoft surprised me by announcing the final name as Windows 7 (interesting seeing as the version is actually 6.1). Mike Nash over on the Windows Vista blog says: The decision to use the name Windows 7 is about simplicity. Over the years, [...]
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I was reading Ed Bott’s blog post about Windows 7 final name and as yet there seems not to be to much speculation on what the next version of Windows will be called. As Ed points out Windows 7 shouldn’t be called Windows 7 as its real version number is Windows 6.1 (based on the [...]
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