Posted by Ankur | Mar 31st, 2009
To celebrate the new Windows 7 TechCenter,the french TechNet team is giving away 1000 DVD’s of the beta version of Windows 7.To get the DVD all you have to do is to sign up for the technet newsletter on this page and if you one of the first 1000 users who have subscribed for the newsletter,you would be getting Windows 7 Beta complete with a DVD from Microsoft.
Even if you are already registered for the...
Posted by Ankur | Mar 31st, 2009
We’ve got .NET sample libraries and example for managed code developers to target Windows 7 new APIs!
The Windows 7 Beta SDK is a great source of documentation and examples for using these new sets of APIs. However, most of the examples are written in native code similar to Windows 7 APIs which are all native C, C++, and COM APIs, which makes the life of managed code developers a bit hard. For that reason,...
Posted by Ankur | Mar 30th, 2009
I just tried to install Windows Live One Care on Windows 7 and got the following error: Windows Live One Care is incompatible with this version of Windows.For more information contact Microsoft
After searching a bit I found the following KB article which states
When you try to upgrade to Windows 7, you receive a compatibility message: “Compatibility report… These programs might not work property...
Posted by Ankur | Mar 30th, 2009
Last year during the WinHEC conference, Microsoft official said that they would be improving the logo certification program. IT168.com reports that Microsoft has set up logo certification lab in China which is equipped with about 10 engineers.Microsoft China R & D Group, Department of strategic cooperation,senior director Shen Yuan-qing said that the new laboratory would work in closer cooperation...
Posted by Ankur | Mar 29th, 2009
Just after the leak of Windows 7 build 7068 on the net,one of the member at facepunch has posted the screenshots of Windows 7 Build 7070.The Build string is 6.1.7070.0.winmain.090324-1853 which shows that the build was compiled on 24th March.The member at the forum states that his dad works in SQL server division in Microsoft and he has got the screenshots from their.He also added that this version of Windows...
Posted by Ankur | Mar 29th, 2009
With every leak their has been new addition to Windows 7,which includes new wallpapers,sound schemes and many other small goodies.This version of Windows 7 too contains some new wallpapers,sample and display pictures,though the sound schemes is the same
All wallpapers are of high resolution ( 1900×1200 ), and the size of wallpaper pack is 56.9 MB.
Here are the download links
Download Windows 7 Build 7068 Wallpapers
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Posted by Ankur | Mar 28th, 2009
Couple of hours after the leak of x86 version of Windows 7 Build 7068 the 64 bit version of Windows 7 build 7068 has been leaked on various torrent sites and is available for download.The file name is 7068.0.090321-1322_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRC1CULXFRER_EN_DVD.iso and the size of the ISO file is 3.23 GB
Posted by Ankur | Mar 28th, 2009
We have been posting the Windows 7 latest build lists couple of times on the site,so here are all the builds that were compiled after Build 7057
6.1.7057.0.winmain.090305-2000 6.1.7058.0.winmain.090307-1140 6.1.7059.0.winmain.090309-1815 6.1.7060.0.winmain.090310-1910 6.1.7061.0.winmain.090311-1856 6.1.7062.0.winmain.090312-1900 6.1.7063.0.winmain.090313-1842 6.1.7064.0.winmain.090316-1936...
Posted by Ankur | Mar 28th, 2009
Windows 7 Build 7068 has been leaked on the net and is available for download on various torrent sites.The complete build string as we reported in our previous post is 6.1.7068.0.winmain.090321-1322 according to which the build was compiled on 21st March 2009.The Download file name is 7068.0.090321-1322_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRC1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso.
Here are the few more screenshots of the Build-
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Posted by Ankur | Mar 28th, 2009
The Japanese blog at MSDN has posted some of the screenshots which shows the build to be Build 068 whose string is 7068.winmain.090321-1322 which shows that the build was compiled on 21st March 2009.
Here are the screenshots-