Windows 7

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Okay, okay, maybe we’ve been a little too tight lipped about what we’re going to announce at the PDC this year.  We’ve dropped a few hints with some of our recent guests on the show (Amitabh Srivastava, Dave Campbell, Don Box and Chris Anderson, plus John Shewchuck), but folks want to…

For the majority of geeks the most nerve racking part of installing a new OS is ensuring that you've successfully backed up all your files and settings before hand. Trying to remember all the little nooks and crannies on your seven hard drives and 19 partitions where you squirreled away data can…

One of the central engineering and design themes of Windows 7 is efficiency: efficiency in user experience (things work as and when expected, reliably), efficiency in processing, execution, diagnostics, performance, scheduling, window managment, graphics, desktop search, etc. Well, not…

The biggest news from last week in the Microsoft Client World is tied to the biggest news of January, possibly of the year 2009.  If you haven't already heard it echoed on twitter and blogs, last week the Presidential Inauguration Committee announced the event will be streamed in…

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the latest developer news including: - Live Mesh wins TechCrunch's Best Technology Innovation at the 2008 Crunchie awards, via Live Services blog - Brian Keller's post on how to install Windows 7 Beta using Virtual PC - Tim Sneath has a…

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…

Meet Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist. Yochay will be producing several interviews on Windows 7 for Channel 9 over the coming days and weeks. We'll have 8 of his videos posted over the next 24 hours. Thank you for creating great content for Channel 9, Yochay!  Here, I have a…

TCSWeekly is a new weekly show on Channel 9 that covers the top news, tutorials and demos in the Microsoft Client world. "TCS" comes from its long form sibling The Continuum Show and "Weekly" comes from its publishing schedule.  As in once a week, I'll review…

RADAR is a memory leak detection technology built into Windows 7 and integrated with Watson (error reporting) and AutoBug (automatic bug filing). It allows Microsoft product teams and third parties to discover and fix memory leaks early in the product cycle and after release. Since RADAR runs…