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Though Windows 7 Release Candidate will be valid for 13 months, it’ll be more useful for first 10 months as from March 1, 2010, it’ll start having bihourly shutdowns alerting the user to buy Windows 7, as stated on this Microsoft’s partner page. While it’ll work well up to June 1, 2010 but after March [...]

Switcher is a tiny freeware utility for Windows, that lets you switch between open windows in three amazingly intuitive ways. If you’ve used Mac OSX then you must be aware of the Expose feature that is Apple’s version of Windows Aero to switch windows but instead of cascading open windows, it tiles up windows on [...]

Windows 7 Release Candidate build 7100 has been made available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers and will be available to general public from May 5. One good reason for testing out the release candidate of Windows 7 is that it will be valid for 13 months that makes it valid up to June 1, 2010. [...]

Microsoft will provide Windows Updates even to pirates copies of Windows 7. Softpedia reports that idea of providing updates to illegal windows copies might seem like promotion of piracy but according to Paul Cookie, director, Windows Client Enterprise Security, Keeping your system updated makes sure it is reliable and remains safe from online threats. It [...]

Though Windows 7 will have a starter edition, that is targeted towards netbooks as it’ll be a reduced version of Windows 7 with lesser functionality and a limit of running 3 programs at the maximum. this 3 program limit made Linux guys happy as users would certainly not like netbooks that can only run 3 [...]

If you are a heavy Outlook user with Microsoft Outlook open on your desktop whole day, then now you can access Twitter updates directly from within Microsoft Outlook with OutTwit. OutTwit is a free twitter client for Outlook  using which you can update your status, follow your friends’ updates directly from within Outlook. It includes [...]

Last week, Microsoft shared a word about Windows XP Mode in its upcoming Windows 7. Today According to a report from CNet, to use Windows XP Mode in Windows 7, you need to have a decent hardware with at least 2 GB of RAM and a processor that supports chip-level virtualization. At present chip-level virtualization [...]

Sometimes, you have a lot of windows open on your desktop but feel tired to hit close button on each and every window, then CloseAll is what you need. It is a tiny little application(just 18KB) for Windows  that flashes close signal on all open windows and instantly closes all the open windows with a [...]

It looks like Microsoft is working on every possible improvement it can make to its upcoming Windows 7 operating system to make it a huge success. Do you remember those Vista annoyances when programs compatible with Windows XP refused to run on Windows Vista even ater changing compatibility settings. But in Windows 7, you won’t [...]

SiteShotr lets you capture a specified web page URL over time by specifying time interval between each capture and a file naming convention. It also lets you adjust browser window size and cropping of screen shot to capture a particular region of a web page.