To all my fellow slugs out there- this is a big announcement.

Microsoft has released their new version of Operating System; Windows 7. Pick your version, pick your flavor and lets all hope it’s received better than Vista was.

Pick your poisons well…

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Microsoft has released it’s release candidate. This is basically it folks.

If you want to see what the next version is going to look like; this is it. Next to nothing will change from now to production time.

The long and short of it is this… download it, burn it to a DVD, install it, use it. Beginning March 2010 it’ll start shutting down every two hours. After that buy it or rip it out. After June 2010 it’s over.

32 and 64-bit versions are available for download.  Downloads are unlimited and you’ve until June 2009 to get your copy.

via Windows 7 Release Candidate Customer Preview Program.

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Enjoy.

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A piss poor and half baked Vista released to a audience with less and fair reception. Microsoft offered the option to downgrade to back to XP, but with Vista almost out the door and Windows 7 coming up faster than anyone assumed; there’s a good chance Microsoft doesn’t want users to downgrade back to XP.

I base this off my experience with them over the last few systems we ordered.

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If you’re  logging in to the google website, which you probably are; 80% of the world does.

You’ll notice is your running INTERNET EXPLORER your getting a little nudge to move to a better browser;.a noticeably faster browser.

Google did this a few months ago with their GMAIL account; pushing users of INTERNET EXPLORER to use Chrome.

Chrome is still fairly new, but has had good penetration to the browser market. Last stats showed 8-15%.

This website reports 2% of visitors here are using Chrome as their browser, but until Chrome releases full support for plug-ins and a larger selection of them, people are not going to migrate in masses.

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Enjoy.

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If you don’t know what DIGG is, your probably living under a rock or  some where that doesn’t have light. DIGG is one of the biggest social news websites on the Internet; if not the biggest.

You can imagine the amount of traffic that this webiste gets on a regular basis, but that’s not enough. DIGG has released the DIGGBAR.

Initially when you go to the website you can look at the top stories on the right or the ones on the left, gaining ground and coming up.

Recently, they started using this DIGGBAR. The DIGGBAR appears when you click on one of the links from the website. It creates a specialized  URL just for that page. The original URL is obscured and placed in the DIGGBAR.

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I’m very disappointed in Nuance.

I saw on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Facebook {April 8th 2009} that Nuance has decided not to support or honor their earlier statements to support the ‘Essentials’ customers.

For months, Dragon NaturallySpeaking customers have been promised updates. Nuance is showing that they are not people of their word.

They have practiced deception and discrimination with their ‘Essentials’ customers. They knew- they knew they were not going to support those customers and said nothing; announced nothing.

They wait until there’s a release/update and then unload on those customers the bad news.

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Microsoft is offering several options for those who want to move from the beta version of Windows 7 to the release candidate when it comes out sometime in the following weeks. Unfortunately, none of them are as easy as a direct upgrade path from the beta build to the RC but rather require a fair amount of work. The recommended approach, according to them, is to go back to Windows Vista and upgrade from that.

The reason offered by the software giant is that they need to get more feedback on the experience that the typical user will have in going from Vista to Windows 7. Those who still want to upgrade directly from the beta will be able to do so, but only using a makeshift workaround of sorts that consists of seven steps to avoid version checking. The steps are listed in Microsoft’s blog here. However, the company cautions that going this route might result in "some oddities" after the upgrade so you should try this at your own risk.

Alternatively, users can perform a clean install onto a separate partition and use the Windows Easy Transfer feature to move accounts, files and settings – which is probably the best way to go anyway.

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It’s no wonder why Microsoft is preparing so fast to get Windows 7 released; it’s got the lowest Operating System rating of any other competitor.

Microsoft made the mistake to push Vista out the door too soon has given them such a black eye and while Microsoft reports sales of Vista are up, many customers are still downgrading to XP PRO; that’s not being reported.

XP Pro is standard now. Drivers and software are very compatible with it. People like it; it’s more accepted.

Microsoft didn’t do anything with the XP Operating System for years, just providing service patches and then suddenly they dropped a whole NEW Operating System on the market and then sunset a common one while the public was force to suffer through a half baked Operating System.

The way to force penetration to the market is to include the new Operating System on all the new PC’s and refuse to sell the old Operating System, but a loophole allows customers to downgrade. Additionally, running TV ads on Mojave [just as bad a SHAM-WOW commercials].

Microsoft, in an apparent mistake, posted and recanted an article about possible Windows 7 release candidate download in May 2009.

The reception of Windows 7 has been nice for Microsoft, but you’ve to remember that Vista has been out for a few years and has been allowed to saturate the market and software providers have had time to adjust their products, update drivers and acclimate themselves to the NEW stuff. The release of Windows 7 is like going from Windows ME to XP; ME was a disaster and XP was a refinement of ME. Going from Vista to Windows 7 should be a easier transition.

When new versions of Windows are released in the future, I think Microsoft is going to take this in a different direction. Hopefully.

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