We’ve been hearing about Windows 7 launch events from everywhere nowadays, including house parties but this has to be one of the most interesting and unique launch ceremony by Microsoft’s Hyderabad campus in India. According to Manan, 22 Microsofties from that campus used 7000 dominoes to create a cascading Windows 7 logo which made up for a very cool unveiling.  Read more...

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Microsoft Store has just released Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. This tool allows the user  to create a bootable USB/DVD of their Windows 7 ISO file. To use this, all you need to do is, download Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, launch the tool, provide the location of your Windows 7 ISO file, and the tool will create a bootable USB flash drive or DVD drive for the Windows 7 ISO file. [Download Link provided below]  Read more...

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A lot of people came to this blog in search of themes for Windows 7 in the early days. I still get a lot of requests for customs themes but it’s difficult to get much time for new ones. Therefore, to honor the Windows 7 launch, I’ve created a list of 96 themes created by me and my friends as well as official ones by Microsoft for the best operating system in the world!  Read more...

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The day is upon us! The world’s best operating system by Microsoft, Windows 7 will be launched today on 22nd October, 2009. After the negative reception of Windows Vista, Microsoft has really come back hard at the competitors and you can imagine the linuxes and snow cats of the world jumping for cover. Windows 7 is already blowing away the competition by creating records on Amazon and other stores!  Read more...

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A couple of days back, Apple announced its Magic Mouse. Later on, it was discovered in the  Magic Mouse user guide, that the upcoming Mac OS 10.6.2 will have built-in features for the Magic Mouse. This news got my attention and I just wondered will Apple be releasing Mac 10.6.2 on 22nd October in an attempt to take people’s attention away from Windows 7 launch event? If there were any doubts regarding the arrival date for Mac 10.6.2, all of them can be put aside as 9to5Mac reports that the OS update appears bug free (as per the test results) and looks all set to arrive today.  Read more...

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Microsoft has just revealed a new set of Windows 7 themes. The timing couldn’t have been better from Microsoft with the Windows 7 official release getting closer and closer.  Read more...

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Microsoft will be hosting a launch party tomorrow in Sheraton Hotel, Karachi. The event will begin at 8:45 am (click here to see your local time) and I will be there along with my friends Umair Khan Jadoon from Programmer Fish and Taimur Asad from Redmond Pie to cover the event live. Along with Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 will be the highlights of the event.  Read more...

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Since Windows 7 is just about to launch on 22nd of October ( 12 days left! ), I decided to make this theme dedicated to Windows 7 itself. The Windows logo is surrounded by what Windows 7 is all about, where as the white color stands for the simplicity of doing things in 7 (compared to Vista of course ). The theme is available free for download and works only on Windows 7. Check out the screenshot below for a preview.  Read more...

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Michael Arrington from TechCrunch did an interview with Steve Ballmer which gives a lot of insight on Microsoft’s strategy for 3 screens ( PC, TV, Mobile ) and the cloud. He also talks about Bing, Azure, Mesh, Natal, Windows Mobile, Zune HD, Xbox 360 etc. Ballmer also gives a very good reason why there is not going to be a Microsoft manufactured phone because they want to focus on the software and services which would be beneficial for them down the road, when every phone will be a smart phone. For the complete transcript of the interview, check out TechCrunch’s post. Check out the video below:  Read more...

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Firefox has the worst UI amongst all the popular browsers. Almost all other browsers ( IE, Chrome, Safari ) have a new and better UI along with some sort of Windows 7 integration ( Aero Glass, jumplists, Aero Peek, thumbnail previews etc ), where as Firefox has none. The UI is still stuck in the Windows XP era. Mozilla has plans to change all that with Firefox 3.7 release.  Read more...

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