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HP Slate Priced At $540 With June Launch Date According To Leaks

Well, they’ve succeeded in coming in at under $630, but even so the €400 ($542) price rumored for the Slate is still too much when it’s coming up against the $499 iPad. https://gizmodo.com/begun-the-tablet-wars-have-hps-slate-wants-to-undercu-5474343 The price comes via the Spanish Clipset site, so isn’t confirmed or anything—though they are saying it’ll support Flash, run on an…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Right Hard Drive For You

So, all this storage talk has gotten you excited about upgrading your laptop’s crappy old 120GB drive? It’s about time, dammit. Traditional hard drive have never been cheaper, and the advent of flash-memory based SSDs—that’s solid-state drives—delivers a storage upgrade path that actually deliver solid, real-world benefits that you’ll notice every single day. SSD-equipped PCs…

Reviews Will Smith

See HP Slate. See HP Slate Run Flash.

Adobe’s got a video out that proves the HP Slate can run Flash and AIR just fine, thankyouverymuch. To which we say: no kidding! It’s a Windows 7 device. What’s of some concern might be HP’s own marketing clip: https://gizmodo.com/hps-windows-7-slate-device-revealed-by-steve-ballmer-5442200 The Adobe clip shows real-use situations with Flash, and it looks great. The HP clip,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

How To: Run Windows in OS X, the Right Way

If you’re anxious about switching from a PC to a Mac, consider this: There are a multitude of ways you can virtualize Windows within OS X, and they all work uniquely well. Here’s how to choose the right one. There are three major virtualization products for Mac, and at their core, they’re all quite similar.…

Tech News John Herrman

It’s Not Your Imagination: Windows 7 Release Candidate Started Exploding Today

Today kicks off the bi-hourly shutdowns for anybody still running their free copy of Windows 7 Release Candidate, which will continue until June 1, when the seizures turn the OS into straight crippleware. (Or more specifically, your copy of Windows is marked as non-geniune, locking you out of any feature that requires a legit version…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

‘Windows 7 Was My Idea, But to Be Fair, I Don’t Know What I’m Talking About’

Click to viewThose “Windows 7 was my idea” ads only make sense if you assume the people with the ideas weren’t idiots. This take on the ads is more honest about what Microsoft would’ve gotten if they’d really crowdsourced their OS. [CollegeHumor]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Microsoft’s Impartial, Antitrust-Friendly Browser Ballot Screen

You may have forgotten about it, but Microsoft got in to a bit of trouble with the European Commission for anti-competitive practices (including force-feeding customers IE). Microsoft’s plea bargain was to add other browser options alongside its own. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-gives-europeans-choice-of-browser-instead-of-5322453 The new screen, seen here, will pop up for any European Windows (XP/Vista/7) user who has…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Begun, the Tablet Wars Have: HP’s Slate Wants to Undercut the iPad

Even if you hate Apple, you can’t deny they set the tone. The WSJ reports that while HP announced their Slate first, they waited for the iPad unveil to make changes, like the price—which they plan to undercut. https://gizmodo.com/hps-windows-7-slate-device-revealed-by-steve-ballmer-5442200 HP wants to come in under $630 for their full Windows 7 Slate. A tall order,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Boxee Integration App Lets Boxee and Windows 7 Media Center Play Nice

Windows 7 Media Center and Boxee each has its own strengths, and now the Boxee Integration App gives you access to both with minimal hassle. It’s a Windows Media Center plug-in that’s simplicity itself to use. Just click on the Boxee option in the WMC main menu to close WMC and open Boxee, and when…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Microsoft Releasing Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Update Later This Month

In the next week or two, Windows Update will list a new, “Important” update for you to download. It’ll be called “Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7,” and if you’re running a bootleg copy of Windows 7, beware. The optional update will sniff out 70 “known and potentially dangerous activation exploits” that are meant…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Microsoft Employee Claims Windows 8 Will Be A “Completely Different” Experience

Whoa, a Microsoft employee just published details on Windows 8 on their blog, claiming it will be “completly different from what folks usually expect of Windows,” [sic] and that internally, they’re calling it “Windows.next.” Shown above is a leaked Windows server roadmap from last year, that marks 2012 as being the year of a “major…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Windows 7 Murders Vista on Steam

Most of the gamers I knew stuck with XP during the Vista’s time because it drained precious CPU cycles, but that’s not the case here: Steam’s released their latest stats on Windows usage, Windows 7 has already blown past Vista. The stats break down this away: 42.78 percent on XP, 28.53 percent on Windows 7,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Microsoft Blames Your Laptop—Not Windows 7—For Battery Issues

After upgrading to Windows 7, some users saw a new warning message suggesting that they need to replace their laptops’ batteries. Some screamed “bug,” some shouted “conspiracy,’ but Microsoft denies that anything’s wrong. In an entry on Microsoft’s MSDN blog, Windows division President Steven Sinofsky explains that the warning message is a new feature in…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Another Early Account of How Microsoft Strangled Its Own Tablets

In former VP Dick Brass’s stabbing assault on Microsoft, he pointed to how his tablet projects were strangled to death by competing groups inside the company. So it’s interesting to see the record of infighting go back further. https://gizmodo.com/how-innovation-dies-at-microsoft-5464229 First, Microsoft didn’t give Brass as many engineers as he wanted—just six, instead of the 20…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Windows 7 Running on the Apple iPad via Citrix

Trumpets playing, bloody moons, seas of fire, cats cohabiting with dogs, and Windows 7 running on the Apple iPad right on the day it launches. That’s how the Universe ends, my dearly beloved, and you can blame Citrix for it: It turns out the 9.7 inch display on the iPad with a 1024×768 screen resolution…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

ExoPC Tablet Looks Familiar, But Similarities End There

The comparisons to another recently revealed tablet are unavoidable, but believe you me the similarities end with the aesthetics. Inside there’s Windows 7, flash support and multitouch. In fact, the more apt comparison is probably “netbook,” as you can see: There’s the Atom N270 processor, running at 1.6Ghz, for example. And then there’s the 2GB…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Microsoft Earnings Saved By Windows 7, Its “Fastest-Selling Operating System in History”

Microsoft made a record revenue numbers last quarter, but only its Windows division did substantially better than last year. In fact, practically every other aspect of Microsoft’s business did worse. Don’t get me wrong, revenue of $19 billion is extremely impressive. But other than the Server business—which was basically flat—all of the growth came from…

Tech News Brian Barrett

HP Slate: Coming 2010, Way Less Than $1500, Plain Old Win 7

HP just popped a video of CTO Phil McKinney demonstrating the “slate” we showed you first at CES 2010. McKinney affirms that this is not just some will-o-the-wisp, but in doing so, might’ve taken away some of its allure. https://gizmodo.com/hps-windows-7-slate-device-revealed-by-steve-ballmer-5442200 The highlight of Steve Ballmer’s slate introduction was the different modes—ebook reader, movie player—you can…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Apple Boot Camp 3.1 Update Includes Windows 7 Support

It’s a little behind schedule, but Mac users can now run Windows 7 natively after today’s Boot Camp update. Boot Camp 3.1 supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate. Multiple OS enthusiasts, rejoice! https://gizmodo.com/apple-to-officially-support-windows-7-in-boot-camp-befo-5388074 The software update also adds Magic Mouse and Apple wireless keyboard support and fixes…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Some Technical Difficulties at the Steve Ballmer CES Keynote

Oh, that’s why we’re delayed 5 minutes.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

HP Slate Priced At $540 With June Launch Date According To Leaks

The Right Hard Drive For You

See HP Slate. See HP Slate Run Flash.

How To: Run Windows in OS X, the Right Way

It’s Not Your Imagination: Windows 7 Release Candidate Started Exploding Today

‘Windows 7 Was My Idea, But to Be Fair, I Don’t Know What I’m Talking About’

Microsoft’s Impartial, Antitrust-Friendly Browser Ballot Screen

Begun, the Tablet Wars Have: HP’s Slate Wants to Undercut the iPad

Boxee Integration App Lets Boxee and Windows 7 Media Center Play Nice

Microsoft Releasing Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Update Later This Month

Microsoft Employee Claims Windows 8 Will Be A “Completely Different” Experience

Windows 7 Murders Vista on Steam

Microsoft Blames Your Laptop—Not Windows 7—For Battery Issues

Another Early Account of How Microsoft Strangled Its Own Tablets

Windows 7 Running on the Apple iPad via Citrix

ExoPC Tablet Looks Familiar, But Similarities End There

Microsoft Earnings Saved By Windows 7, Its “Fastest-Selling Operating System in History”

HP Slate: Coming 2010, Way Less Than $1500, Plain Old Win 7

Apple Boot Camp 3.1 Update Includes Windows 7 Support

Some Technical Difficulties at the Steve Ballmer CES Keynote

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