Windows 7

After fixing the thousand bugs fixes from the beta are we going to see a RC candidate soon ?

Here’s few more changes from beta to RC.

• Improved taskbar thumbnail overflow
• Control Panel Jump List
  
• PowerShell Jump List
  
• Remote Desktop Jump List
  
• Applying taskbar settings
  
• Multi-touch zoom
  
•  Invert Selection
  
• Going up?
  
• Finding music by artist
  
• New folder is always available
  
• Right-click in Windows Explorer
  
• Content view for search results
  
• … and many more

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They gave us a secret message at the end of the credits…

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http://aws.amazon.com/windows/

From Amazon,

Starting later this Fall, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Today, you can choose from a variety of Unix-based operating systems, and soon you will be able to configure your instances to run the Windows Server operating system. In addition, you will be able to use SQL Server as another option within Amazon EC2 for running relational databases.

Amazon EC2 running Windows Server or SQL Server provides an ideal environment for deploying ASP.NET web sites, high performance computing clusters, media transcoding solutions, and many other Windows-based applications. By choosing Amazon EC2 as the deployment environment for your Windows-based applications, you will be able to take advantage of Amazon’s proven scalability and reliability, as well as the cost-effective, pay-as-you-go pricing model offered by Amazon Web Services.

Our goal is to support any and all of the programming models, operating systems and database servers that you need for building applications on our cloud computing platform. The ability to run a Windows environment within Amazon EC2 has been one of our most requested features, and we are excited to be able to provide this capability. We are currently operating a private beta of Amazon EC2 running Windows Server and SQL Server.

This is great news for windows programmers.

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Interesting technology. The inovation looks not in the software as it was probaly already developped but the hardware for the sphere is definitly worth to look. Imagine having this in your lobby. It would create a buzz for sure.

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Direct X 11 is coming with an interesting new feature. You get advancements in shading and better support for multi-core machines, but the brand new concept is letting programmers use the GPU in your video card to do some of the heavy lifting, meaning your graphics chip becomes a second, parallel processor.

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Who is the worlds uber nerd? It’s matter of opinions, my vote goes to Gates, he has true plans for curing Aids and his foundation helps millions of people around the world. In my book Gates is the perfect example of what a multi billionaire nerd should be, hats off to you. Watch and comment whose your pick.

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Is this a sign of things to come ? Will we start to see Microsoft surface all over the place now ? I guess this is a good place to start.

Interesting technology developed by Microsoft. See publicity/books/maps and picture a different way.

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