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Rafael Rivera and Long Zheng have released a handy application for Windows 7 called Geosense, a Windows Sensor, that provides the Location and Sensors platform in Windows 7 with accurate and reasonably ubiquitous positioning information without requiring or the assistance of GPS hardware, enabling more practical location-based applications and scenarios on Windows 7. Geosense is available [...]
Apple have now finally released a version of Bootcamp for OSX 10.6 to support Windows 7. Not to soon either as Apple had previously announced that they would be releasing Windows 7 support by the end of 2009. This is good new for owners of Mac’s as they can now dual boot their Mac’s Windows 7 [...]
Microsoft has a great blog post detailing the new APIs from the Sensor platform that Windows 7 provides developers for creating unique applications. Read More: The Windows Blog
Microsoft has released Silverlight 3. You can grab Silverlight 3 RTW build 3.0.40624.0 (4.69MB) from Microsoft.com/Silverlight. Version 3 supports Windows Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, and Safari 3/4. In addition, the Silverlight 3 SDK (9.5MB) and the Silverlight 3 Tools (32.2MB) have been posted on the Microsoft Download Center.
See the chart below for full results. IE7 was the base, and each number at the end of the bars indicate how many times faster than IE7 that browser runs, on Windows 7.
If you’re still using Windows 7 Beta 1, the operating system will start shutting down every two hours starting from June 1st. Following that, it will completely be unfunctional on August 1st. For anyone still on the beta, it is recommended that you upgrade to Windows 7 RC before June 1st. Don’t forget that Windows [...]
Windows 7 — Vista replacement scheduled for release sometime in 2009 — it sounds like Microsoft has taken this feedback on board and is making a more concerted effort to bring a little UI consistency to Windows. It’s still early days, but so far, it looks like Notepad and Wordpad have been given a Office [...]