Windows 7 News: Software, Virus Protection

Today, at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, Microsoft Corp. announced that Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 have reached the technical preview engineering milestone. Starting today, tens of thousands of people will be invited to test Office and Visio as part of the Technical Preview program.
“Office 2010 is the premier productivity solution across PCs, mobile phones* and browsers,” said Chris Capossela, senior vice president of the Microsoft Business Division at Microsoft. “From broadcast and video editing in PowerPoint, new data visualization …

The Windows Live™ ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 installs the Windows Live ID online provider for Windows® 7. By making it possible to link a Windows Live ID to a Windows 7 user account, this online provider helps enable Windows 7 applications to deliver great features like sharing documents, pictures, music, and video.
Benefits
Through the online provider, the Sign-in Assistant helps a Windows 7 application running on one computer identify and communicate with other computers that are associated with the same Windows Live ID. Just by linking your Windows Live ID to …

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 after the upgrade. We recommend uninstalling these programs before upgrading.”

It definitely means that Windows Live One Care wouldn’t work with Windows 7.Microsoft have already announced that …

Microsoft made a few quiet but great changes to its kid-proofing SteadyState tool for Windows 7, changing the name to Guest Mode and trimming it into a dead-simple way to protect your PC from anyone’s error-prone fingers.
Guest Mode isn’t the same as the “Guest Account” sometimes enabled on your system. In early builds of Windows 7, it was dubbed PC Safeguard, but someone at Microsoft—probably not in the Windows Live division—caught on that it was a pretty wonky name, and sounded like circa-1999 boxed fakeware. Now it’s just a feature …

We have already seen that some new wallpapers were introduced in Windows 7 build 7048, this version of Windows even comes with 13 different sounds.These sounds are really different and give a sense of newness.The sound has been classified as Afternoon, Calligraphy, characters, Cityscape, Delta, Festival, Garden, Heritage, Landscape, Quirky, Raga, Savanna, Sonata.
We could expect more changes in the upcoming RC version of Windows 7 and would be posting as soon as we find it.
You can download the Windows 7 build 7048 sounds here-
Download Windows 7 build 7048 sounds
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Microsoft plans to use telecomunications companies as a channel to promote Windows 7 for netbooks.
Speaking to ZDNet UK at Microsoft’s Growth and Innovation Day in Brussels on Thursday, Neil Holloway, vice president for business strategy at Microsoft International, said the company was in talks with telecoms companies and other service providers to work out how netbooks running Windows 7 could be bundled with other hardware and services, in order to increase market reach.
"Microsoft is working with telcos as a specific channel," said Holloway. "The way that Carphone Warehouse bundles phones, …

Microsoft has sent an invitation to some of the Windows Logo Kit testers to test WLK 1.4.7048 Build Snap.The mail sent by the Microsoft clearly states that Windows 7 Build 7048 has been compiled.In the message sent it has been written that testers are recommended to use Windows 7 Build 7048 for maximum stability.
Just check the mail sent to the testers
Greetings from Microsoft Connect!
You are invited to apply for participation in WLK 1.4.7048 Build Snap program on the Microsoft Connect Web site ( http://connect.microsoft.com ). This will be your …

The Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 (Beta) installs the Windows Live ID online provider for Windows 7. This provider enables linking a Windows Live ID to a Windows 7 user account.
The Windows Live™ ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 (Beta) installs the Windows Live ID online provider for Windows® 7. By making it possible to link a Windows Live ID to a Windows 7 user account, this online provider helps enable Windows 7 applications to deliver great features like sharing documents, pictures, music, and video.
Benefits Through …

The Technet India blog has written a nice article regarding the features of Windows 7.Here is what it reads-
Windows 7 , the next client release of Microsoft will be available in 32 & 64-bit versions.
Here are some things that you asked for in your Desktop OS:
For end –users
1. Faster-Your system starts up, shuts down and resumes from standby faster, and your laptop’s battery lasts longer!
2. Touch- Multi touch, ink and gesture support along with handwriting recognition allow you to create exciting new input capabilities. Managing large number of windows …

Today the Live Mesh team has updated the software for Windows 7.Now Live Mesh no longer disables Windows 7 aero theme while using it.Here is what the Live Mesh Blog reads-
 
For your safety and enjoyment, the Live Mesh client verifies the SSL certificate of the update server before downloading new code.  It turns out that one of the other things we didn’t get to do during the holiday blackout was update our SSL cert, which expired at end of 2008.  As soon as we can get the new valid cert …