Install Windows 7 on it
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4 Oct 2009I mentioned in a previous post, that I had decided to take a spin on using a computer running nothing but Microsoft software. To qualify that, only Windows 7, Microsoft Essentials/Live free software and Microsoft Office. The computer is running the final retail build of Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Live Essentials (Mail, Messenger, Writer, [...]
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1 Oct 2009Last night it was time to upgrade my personal laptop to Windows 7 RTM. My wife and I were finishing a silly horror flick that we had started a night previously, and I decided to just knock it out. By having started the movie the night before, I was already against a tight timeline. I [...]
I noticed this today by accident. When you are hovering over taskbar icons in Windows 7, they hover the general color of the icon they contain. You might notice first that my taskbar is a sidebar, this seems to be a really desirable configuration with Windows 7 now that taskbar buttons don’t contain application [...]
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7 Jun 2009 There is a whole lot of speculation about what restrictions Microsoft will place on Windows 7 Starter Edition. Regardless of what those will be, I would like to take a few minutes to talk about why restrictions are important and how other software makers use this practice regularly.
LE Syndrome
No, that’s not French for Syndrome, [...]
Windows 7 screams on netbooks. My wife and I both run it on MSI Wind netbooks with 1.5GB Ram flawlessly. Installing it isn’t so easy though. Netbooks don’t have optical drives and Windows 7 RC ships as an ISO to burn your own disc. What to do….
What You Need
First, obviously, download the Windows 7 RC [...]
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11 Jan 2009I am going to warn you of a few things before I get started on spilling my thoughts and impressions. First, I work for Microsoft, no reason to hide that little gem. Second, I tested Windows 7 in the alpha stage for a short period, and 3rd I started running Windows 7 beta on my [...]

Jason Burns is a technology enthusiast, Microsoft guy, photographer, musician and all around geek. This blog is the general rambling one, check out the links for the specific ones!
