Windows 7 News

It’s only been a month since Microsoft announced that Windows 7 had outsold Vista during the same time period in its life with 60 million copies sold.

Microsoft could see a two-pronged attack in 2010 hitting both ends of their consumer market for Windows 7.  It’s no secret that Google will be launching into the netbook / low end market by the end of the year with Chrome OS, but there’s been fervent speculation about a forthcoming Tablet computer from Apple, frankly the only company who can revolutionise this market and make “the next big thing every year since 2002” sexy at last. As if industry watchers know that Santa delivered a very special package to Steve Jobs on Christmas day, Apple shares have risen by more than 11% in the last three weeks, and received an additional 1% push yesterday. This is fuelling speculation that the big announcement will come on January 26th at San Francisco’s Buena Centre which they have booked for a “major product announcement”.

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The Windows 7 Family Pack offer from Microsoft represented great value for users who needed more than one copy of Windows 7  - for $149.99 you got 3 copies of Windows 7 Home Premium .  After noticing over the weekend that Windows 7 Family Pack copies were becoming hard to find, Microsoft have formally pulled the offer and visitors to the US Microsoft Family Pack website are presented with the message “The Windows 7 Family Pack Offer has ended”. The situation seems to be different in the UK, where sites are still advertising the Windows 7 Family Pack.  It’s still being promoted on the UK Microsoft site: and is still available for sale at Amazon UK : That’s not to say that the Windows 7 Family Pack offer won’t be pulled in the UK soon, if you are planning on buying Windows 7 I’d do so now to save money. Microsoft’s decision to pull the offer could be because Windows 7 sales are naturally strong and further incentives are not needed

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We’ve hit the 7th day of our $9K Christmas Giveway and today we’ve got some hot prizes.  Our main prize today is a Belkin N+ Wireless Router and a Belkin N+ USB Adaptor worth $200 in total.  Don’t worry if you don’t win this one – we have another set to give away later in the month!  If that’s not enough for you, we’re also giving away today: a copy of Uniblue PowerSuite worth $100 a copy of MediaMonkey Gold worth $40 a copy of T idysongs worth $40 That’s $380 in total in prizes!  To win all you need to do is guess the lowest number that nobody else guesses.  All bids are free – click here to play now! Win $200 of wireless home networking hardware courtesy of Belkin.

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After the successful release of our first theme pack for Windows 7 (read Windows 7 News Winter Themepack For Windows 7 ) a few days ago we have decided to release another themed theme pack for Windows 7. The new theme is a red Christmas theme for Windows 7 featuring both photos and drawn pictures of scenery related to Christmas. The Christmas themepack has a size of less than nine Megabytes and comes with a total of nine different background images suited for all audiences. Take a look at the images below to see if this could be a nice theme for your desktop. [View with PicLens] 1 2 ► The themepack itself can be downloaded at this address

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Clement Clarke Moore’s poem essentially invented the modern-day image of Santa Clause. So I thought it was only fitting that the online message-handling system that’s revolutionizing the way we think of personal phone numbers and voice mail should get a shot at reinterpreting “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” for a new generation. To make it happen, I called my Google Voice number and read Moore’s chestnut into the phone. I did my best to speak clearly and slowly, but not so slowly that the rhythm of the original story was lost. The unedited results are below

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It’s Christmas time again and all those people who already have Windows 7 on their PCs, or who will be getting a new Windows 7 PC for Christmas will be looking forward to seeing if they get any Windows 7 goodies in their stockings.  Here I thought I’d run through some gifts you can share. ATI Radeon HD 5850 You can unleash the full power of the new DirectX 11 graphics engine in Windows 7 with the new ATI HD 5850 graphics card. Okay, so there’s no DirectX 11 games available yet, but that’s never stopped a gamer getting the best hardware before. Buy it here

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Microsoft have just added a seasonal Windows 7 theme to their featured Windows 7 Themes .  The Twinkle Wish Windows 7 Theme includes six cute Christmas Windows 7 Wallpapers , as well as other theme customisations.  I like the choice of imagry and I hope that Microsoft continue to produce great Windows 7 themes in 2010: [View with PicLens] If you’re looking for a more traditional Windows 7 theme, then check out our Windows 7 Winter Themepack that we released yesterday. Copyright

Our Christmas Giveaway is now in full swing!  Martin secured some more prizes yesterday and we now have more than $9000 IN PRIZES TO GIVE AWAY! To play all you have to do is visit our Christmas Giveaway auction site and start bidding in our reverse auction- all bids are free!  To read more and how to play click here . Day 1 Christmas Giveaway Winners On the first day of the Giveaway we had 3 great prizes totalling $385 available: 1 Year Giganews Platinum Account Worth $300: winner ‘calebgian’ Free Copy of WinRAR Worth $45: winner ‘infrablack’ Copy of a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 : winner ‘jpcrailjr’ We had thousands of entries so it was surprising that the winning bids were all under 25 cents!  I don’t think this will happen again.  Well done to the winners! Day 2 Christmas Giveaway Prizes Auctions will run from 24 hours each day starting at 8PM PST Free utilities and performance software from UNIBLUE -  Worth $100!! Free Unlimited Online Backup Account from Mozy -  Worth $55!! More software from UNIBLUE -  Worth $30!! Free Copy of MediaMonkey Gold -  Worth $40!! Free copy of RecoverMyFiles -  Worth $100!! Start bidding now!! Power Suite From Uniblue – Worth $100!! The lowest bid in this auction wins THREE great applications worth $100!! This Power Bundle from Uniblue includes: RegistryBooster 2010 Worth $29.99 DriverScanner 2009 Worth $29.99 SpeedUpMyPC Worth $29.99 RegistryBooster 2010 RegistryBooster is the easy answer to all your Windows registry problems. This award winning software starts by conducting a deep scan of your registry, checking for file extension errors and other registry conflicts. RegistryBooster will then repair or remove unused, corrupted and harmful files so optimizing your PC’s performance.

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Okay, so this may sound like a joke but it’s really not.