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Windows 7: The Five Most Talked-About Features

Certain interface features in Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista, have been mostly applauded by experts who have tested the pre-beta. Which features are the most interesting and controversial? Here are five that deserve your attention.

| Feature | Operating systems | Windows | 11/24/08 at 9:49 am |


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Does Microsoft Need to Ship Windows 7 in 2009?

Microsoft officially says it will ship the Windows 7 operating system within three years of the January 2007 consumer release of Windows Vista. But speculation abounds that the software giant is gunning to ship halfway through 2009 to be on machines for the back-to-school and holiday seasons.

| News | Operating systems | Windows | 11/17/08 at 10:39 am |


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From iPod to Android: How 10 tech products got their names

The makers of these 10 tech products -- the iPod, BlackBerry, Firefox, Twitter, Windows 7, ThinkPad, Android, Wikipedia, Mac OS X and the "Big Cats," and Red Hat Linux -- all have displayed certain amounts marketing savvy, common sense and fun-loving spirit in settling on their products' names. Here are the intriguing, surprising and sometimes predictable accounts of their creation.

| Feature | Business | 11/17/08 at 10:27 am |


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Windows 7: This time Microsoft gets it right

Microsoft may call the newest version of its operating system Windows 7, but you may want to think of it as Windows 6.5. In overall look and feel, it mimics Vista, although there are enough changes to make it far more than just a juiced-up service pack.



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