Windows 7

Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to…

You might have noticed that the version of Windows 7 given out at PDC is a pre-beta developer preview. You might also notice that this copy looks a lot like Vista. No doubt you're wondering what different parts of the post-pre-beta Windows 7 will look like, so we've secured and uploaded some…

Microsoft made huge headlines this week and somehow in the mix of it all, some of us managed to search for Wolf T-shirts on Amazon. Here's how it all went down:Microsoft and Yahoo partnerRide the Microsoft WaveBeta Testers get Win7 for freeMilk get high ratings!

WEI Share ("We Share") is a Coding4Fun code sample that takes your Windows Experience Index score and shares it with the world (anonymously) to an Azure website with a Silverlight front end and lets you post your WEI score to Facebook for bragging rights. Why would you…

Previously, there have been some problems getting the incredibly useful utility Ultramon to run correctly on Windows 7. However, with a new beta version of Ultramon (3.0.9) available, it looks like such problems are now a thing of the past.If you've never used it, Ultramon is a great way to extend…

Windows 7 is out and if you're like me you want to know where the new multitouch hardware is. Well here's a running list of all the hardware I know of so far. When it comes to multitouch methods, capacitive is going to give you the best results and most touch points. Optical is going to be the…

Welcome to this short series of Windows 7 screencasts for showing developers how to use Libraries to Light Up their applications on Windows 7. Windows 7 introduces the concept of Libraries as the new entry point for users’ data. In Libraries, users can find and organize their data as…

Every week Laura & Paul bring you the hottest topics on the minds of Microsofties. Here's the latest from this week:Multi-Point Server Announced3 Designs for Windows Phone 7 SeriesIE6 FuneralWindows 7 Commercial Parodyand finally...RikRolling!

Drawbridge is a research prototype of a new form of virtualization for application sandboxing. Drawbridge combines two core technologies: First, a picoprocess, which is a process-based isolation container with a minimal kernel API surface. Second, a library OS, which is a version of Windows…

We are experimenting with some new ideas on Channel 9, and this is the latest Please understand that we are a work in progress and we'd really love to hear your constructive criticism!Ping is a new weekly show that will premiere every Monday here on Channel 9. The concept is simple: here at…