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 for both x86 & x64 versions of Windows 7. You can download the setup file from the link mentioned below. More information is available at the Geosense download page and articles on Rafael Rivera and Long Zheng‘s blog.

Download Geosense

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 enabling them to run the Windows 7.

The bad news is that Bootcamp only does not allow users to re-size partition safely and it is still difficult to transfer file between the OS’s due to the incompatible file systems.

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 7 RC have an expiry date as well. It will start shutting down every two hours starting from March 1st, 2010, and will be unfunctional on June 1st, 2010.

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 2007 style face .

Screenshot of Paint in Windows 7

MS Paint: In terms of functionality, imagine a software somewhere between the currently-existing MS Paint and the wonderful Paint.NET freeware application. Make everything accessible through a ribbon bar (tabs ‘n all) Office 2007 . Even remoted in, the performance was quite nice. All of you users who love MS Paint but still need a second photo editing application just to do that one thing or two that Paint won’t do (like working with transluscent/transparent .png files)will be delighted to know that you may very well no longer need said second application. Bear in mind that this is MS Paint as it currently exists in a milestone 3 build OS not scheduled to be completed until mid to late 2009, so a lot could still change between now and then.

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