In case you have bought a Windows 7 PC, Microsoft’s new Web site dedicated to how to install, reinstall and/or uninstall Windows might be a handy resource to have at your fingertips.
The new site has links to performing all three tasks for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Also, here are a few other Windows-related links of interest:
Microsoft is off
ering PC makers an OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) for its free security suite, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). On December 15, Microsoft also released MSE in 17 additional markets bringing the total number of available markets to 56. The newest countries where MSE is available for free download (if you can prove you have a Genuine copy of Windows) are: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. MSE also is available now in Russian and Romanian, in addition to the nine other languages it already supported. Microsoft has launched a new Windows 7 Test Drive site, aimed at developers who may not have Windows 7 installed on their development environments. The new site offers devs a virtual environment experience, highlightingf Windows 7 features of interest to developers (as opposed to end users).
Microsoft adds the Windows Live engineering blog to its Windows Team blog uber-site. It was ages ago that Microsoft moved the Windows Live organization in with the Windows one, both under Microsoft President Steven Sinofsky. But it took until December 15 for the Windows Live team to start a new blog that melds all the different Windows Live blogs into one. The “Inside Windows Live” blog will focus on the behind-the-scenes engineering stories of various Windows Live products, like Hotmail, Messenger, SkyDrive, the Windows Live Essentials suite and other Live software/services. Seems like a good time for such a blog to go live, given Windows Live Wave 4 is expected in 2010….
The new blog will discuss new features, share customer usage stories, provide updates on service interruptions and more. The first post on the new site is from Corporate Vice President Chris Jones hwo alo mentioned how this website would be integrated with Windows Live ID, giving you even more ways to interact with us on Windows Live.
Nice Post…I think this is an important development as I myself faced a lot fo trouble while installing Win 7.
By the way…I’m loving the functioning of Win7 🙂
Yes, I think….this is the right time for Microsoft to introduce such a website as the delpoyment of the new OS, Windows 7, both from a consumer as well as from an enterprise point of view is on the rise. Good post!
Microsoft seems to have got it right this time. Everything from the features of Win 7 to the inititives introduced to back it up seems to be blending perrfectly.
All the best to them to fight Google CHrome next year.
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