Windows Phone 7 New Features

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NewWindows Phone 7 Features

When anyone asks me what the future of computers will look like, I take out my Verizon phone and say, PC’s are going to be this big. Naturally, we will have monitors and keyboards, but the actual PC will be so small that you can carry it in your own shirt pocket.

Well, that future PC is already here. It is the mobile phone device. iPhone or Windows Phone 7, or Android…whatever. The device  does what the consumer needs outside of a business setting. That is the key.

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Consumers don’t need Access, or Excel, or a Database system; they need communication between and among their friends. Steve Jobs idea to create a communication device attached to a mobile phone was genius. Otherwise, it would have been just another play toy for geeks. But he turned a mobile phone into a computer. With the Apps concept, it showed that if you have a specific program that does one, specific, thing the consumer will buy it. This is a far cry from the portable computer, or laptop. Now the PC can be relegated to it’s appropriate role, that of a business computer.
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Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts & Hotkeys

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Here is a list of 22 Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts that I recommend and use daily. These are huge time savers.

If you’re not shortcut-type of person, and don’t usually use shortcuts when working on your computer, you really need to reconsider that habit now.

At least when it comes to Windows 7 (or any other operating system) where you do so many things. Sometimes, there’s simply not enough time and you need some speed to tackle your daily tasks.

That’s why knowing these will definitely be of huge help. It gets a little bit hard at the beginning, because you need to remember all (or some) of them and try to make yourself really use these instead of just “knowing” them.
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Find Product keys Of Microsoft Softwares and Serial Keys of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

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Author: Soumen Halder

The biggest problem after a fresh Windows installation is obvious – you have to start installing all the softwares from scratch. This includes installing your browsers, office programs, media players and so on. Most of the applications come free these days but there are some applications which are not (e.g Microsoft Office, Microsoft frontpage etc). And to install them, you have to find the old product keys which came with the CD or DVD pack you bought years ago.

Now, if you have lost the CD case (high chances that you would), the product keys can be extracted from Windows registry. Wouldn’t it be wise to first extract all the product keys of software and keep them at a safe location? This ensures full installation of programs after a system format. This article shows you ways to extract the serial and product keys of application software in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
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Office Web Applications

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(Originally posted at Cloud Avenue)

This year’s Microsoft Profesional Developers Conference is full of announcements and surprises. The next big announcement besides Windows Azure (and Windows 7?) is the new “Office Web Applications” live service. The Office team will be delivering the five most popular Office applications as light weight browser based versions that include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
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100 Windows Keyboard Shortcuts That Will Help You Work Faster

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Did it happen to you sometimes, when you are in a big rush and want to do something fast on your computer but things don’t go so fast and smooth? It’s because of all those windows and applications opened on your desktop, and you want to minimize them, move them, close them and so on… That’s pretty time consuming and when you’re in such a big rush, it can be pretty depressive too. Like sometimes you try to close that running program and it seems you can’t target that tiny “close” button in the upper right corner( no matter how unbelievable it sounds) so you need to click it few times more (It often happens to me when I’m in hurry, plus when I’m mad about something arghh… so frustrating).

But I made a list of Windows keyboard shortcuts so you can work much faster and with much more accuracy. Since I learned and applied this list of shortcuts, I had far less problems with managing tasks even when I’m in a rush. Everything goes faster and easier. It took some time and practice to learn to use these shortcuts in my daily computing but… it pays off big time believe me…

Don’t be surprised when you see how many of these you didn’t know even existed…

Did it happen to you sometimes, when you are in a big rush and want to do something fast on your computer but things don’t go so fast and smooth? It’s because of all those windows and applications opened on your desktop, and you want to minimize them, move them, close them and so on… That’s pretty time consuming and when you’re in such a big rush, it can be pretty depressive too. Like sometimes you try to close that running program and it seems you can’t target that tiny “close” button in the upper right corner( no matter how unbelievable it sounds) so you need to click it few times more (It often happens to me when I’m in hurry, plus when I’m mad about something arghh… so frustrating).

But I made a list of Windows keyboard shortcuts so you can work much faster and with much more accuracy. Since I learned and applied this list of shortcuts, I had far less problems with managing tasks even when I’m in a rush. Everything goes faster and easier. It took some time and practice to learn to use these shortcuts in my daily computing but… it pays off big time believe me…

Don’t be surprised when you see how many of these you didn’t know even existed…
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The 7 deadly sins of Windows 7

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Lust, gluttony, greed, anger, envy, pride, and sloth – Microsoft’s new OS suffers from each deadly sin. Here’s what you can do to minimize the toll each sin takes

The seven deadly sins — for centuries, they’ve shaped the imaginations of poets, priests, and politicians, while giving the great unwashed a frame of reference: Do these things and you’ll burn for sure!

When it comes to software, few products have inspired as much debauchery as Windows. From lust to sloth to envy, Microsoft’s flagship OS platform has proven to be a source of manifold transgression. Zealots have praised it, and pundits have cursed it, while those of us in the IT trenches are forced to actually live with it.

So with Windows 7 just around the corner, it makes sense to examine the product through the prism of these 7 deadly sins. Just how does Microsoft’s new OS drive users to acts of iniquity? And what, if anything, can you, the IT administrator, do to manage the carnal impulses and aberrant behaviors this interloping force of nature engenders?

Lust: Beware Windows 7′s faux-Mac experience, which may drive users to the real thing
Windows 7 inspires lust. Specifically, it arouses an unhealthy yearning for a better computing experience. If you’re an IT administrator, you can see the signs easily: a lingering glance at a contractor’s MacBook Pro, an iPhone in use instead of the standard-issue BlackBerry, browser histories filled with links to macworld.com articles, telltale “my other PC is a Mac” bumper stickers adorning their cubicles.
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Windows 7 on multicore: How much faster?

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Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system is receiving raves in its pre-release testing. While much of the kernel that lies at the heart of the operating system is based on Vista code, several key advances have been made that get rid of Vista annoyances and greatly improve the user experience. Inside the kernel, one important change centers on how multithreaded applications are run. The threading advances provide benefits in energy reduction, scalability, and, in theory, performance.

To check out the benefits on the desktop, I ran tests that reflect the most common use case for heavily threaded desktop apps — namely, graphics-oriented software. Programs such as Adobe Photoshop and other graphical applications query a system’s capabilities at startup and self-configure workloads accordingly. They typically use all the processor cores and as much RAM as they can get away with monopolizing. This approach enables them to provide the fastest performance. So I checked how such programs perform using the Viewperf benchmark (an omnibus graphics benchmark from SPEC, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) and Cinebench, which is a pure rendering benchmark from Maxon Computer. Both benchmarks follow InfoWorld’s tradition of using benchmarks that you can download and run on your own systems to see how your mileage varies. Both benchmarks can be obtained at no cost.

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