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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer: You can skip Vista Computerworld, MA - 9 minutes ago “Windows 7 will be Vista, but a lot better,” he's quoted as saying, but provided few details. The Gartner analysts, though, referred to Windows 7 as Vista ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista, Server 2008 could get their SP2s before Windows 7 kicks ... engadget, CA - 21 minutes ago Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Building Windows 7 - A Developers Perspective Gotta Be Mobile, CO - 43 minutes ago If you have not been following Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog, I’d encourage you to do so. Steven Sinofsky, who is the lead on Windows 7, ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft mulls "instant on" for Windows CNET News, CA - 5 minutes ago Microsoft has already been working more closely with PC makers both on Windows 7 and Windows Vista to try and improve, among other things, system boot time. ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> 5 More Things I Wish Linux Had And One I Wish It Didn't DaniWeb, VA - 16 minutes ago Retail Visibility - Walk into any retail store that sells software and you'll see Windows of every flavor: Vista Home, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP2 Due Out Before Windows 7 Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 2 minutes ago The All About Microsoft blog at CNET hears (and sees) that a second Service Pack for Vista will be released before Windows 7, as a beta has already been ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer: ‘Windows 7 will be Vista, but a lot better’ ZDNet Blogs - 23 minutes ago As Microsoft officials reemphasized via a posting on October 15 on the company’s Engineering 7 blog, the Windows team is not showing potential customers ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=AZX9z_etRMkJ&imgurl=www.efluxmedia.com/content/news/news_26640.jpg width=80 height=60 alt="" border=1> eFluxMedia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 to officially be called… Windows 7 TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - Oct 14, 2008 Writing on the official Vista blog, Mike Nash (the man in charge of Windows as a product), said the decision was down to wanting to keep things simple. ... Willing to Pay a 'Mac Tax'? PC World Microsoft Will Sell 'Windows 7 U.S. News & World Report Microsoft’s FUD-filled ‘Apple Tax’ Macworld Inquirer - Apple Insider all 139 news articles More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Top 10 Microsoft Windows 7 rants VNUNet.com, UK - 20 minutes ago At number four, we have 'Jon Mellos', who has one, or maybe two, concrete reasons for not using any recent version of Windows: "I will not go to Vista nor ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> What Does User Feedback Mean? Redmondmag.com, CA - 8 hours ago Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 were tested by thousands before release. But what's shifting -- in a way that many Microsoft customers still have ... More...

Tackling the biggest nonissue of the decade, I examine the faux uproar over Microsoft's decision to use the Windows 7 brand! More...

I've updated my PDC 2008 page with new schedule information, including the sessions and other events I plan to attend during the show! More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> How does MS number thy Windows? Let Mike Nash count the ways. engadget, CA - 20 minutes ago Fair enough, we said, but some netizens are perplexed about where that number came from and, after reading Mike Nash's explanation on the Vista blog, ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> ASUS readying touchscreen Eee PC and laptops for 2009 Windows 7 ... engadget, CA - 29 minutes ago Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> All Tom's Guide news of October 14, 2008 Tom's Guide, CA - 55 minutes ago Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management, posted on the Windows Vista Blog that the operating system has now been officially named ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft keeps 'Windows 7' name for next client OS NetworkWorld.com, MA - 11 minutes ago Nash said "aspirational" monikers such as Windows XP or Windows Vista did not seem to do justice to "what we are trying to achieve, which is to stay firmly ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Windows 7 name game, continued ZDNet - 4 minutes ago guest post on the Windows Vista Team Blog. Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore “Windows 7´´ just makes sense. ... More...

The IE Cumulative Security Update for October 2008 is now available via Windows Update. Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates via the new Microsoft Update. I encourage you to upgrade to Microsoft Update if you haven’t already to ensure that you receive the latest updates for all Microsoft products. This update addresses six vulnerabilities. The security update addresses these vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Internet Explorer handles the error resulting in the exploitable condition. For detailed information on the contents of this update, please see the following documentation: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-058 Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 956390 This security update is rated Critical for all supported versions of Internet Explorer 6 and earlier. The security update is rated Important on Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista. Beta versions of Internet Explorer are not vulnerable. IE security updates are cumulative and contain all previously released updates for each version of Internet Explorer. I encourage everybody to download this security update and other non-IE security updates via Windows Update or Microsoft Update. Windows users are also strongly encouraged to configure their systems for automatic updates to keep their systems current with the latest updates from Microsoft. Terry McCoy Program Manager Internet Explorer Security http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8993370 More...

Microsoft hasn't moved quickly enough to improve Windows Mobile and now its competitors are lining up to make it an also-ran in the smart phone market! More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> What's in a name? Microsoft defends 'Windows 7' moniker Computerworld, MA - 16 minutes ago The AeroXperience blog, for example, counted seven as of Windows Vista, eight if the consumer-oriented Windows Millennium was included. ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 equals some strange math CNET News, CA - 17 minutes ago That brings us to Windows Vista, which is 6.0. So we see Windows 7 as our next logical significant release and seventh in the family of Windows releases. ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=R_jYy09ju_gJ&imgurl=images.betanews.com/media/2103.jpg width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> BetaNews <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Windows name: Is there special significance to '7?' BetaNews - 20 minutes ago "We also had the lesson reinforced when we applied the version number in the Windows Vista code as Windows 6.0 -- that changing basic version numbers can ... More...

There were so many theories on why Microsoft has chosen the number 7 in the next Windows Vista. Mike Nash quickly posted his explanation — Why 7? In an excerpt of his post:Anyway, the numbering we used is quite simple. The very first release of Windows was Windows 1.0, the second was Windows 2.0, [...] More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft defends choice of 'Windows 7' VNUNet.com, UK - 15 minutes ago Windows Vista was version 6.0, Nash said, adding that Microsoft had realised from this launch that changing basic version numbers can cause application ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> It's official: Windows 7 to be called "Windows 7" Yahoo! Tech, CA - 8 minutes ago Consider Windows Vista: For years it was known widely by its code name, "Longhorn." And just when everyone got used to calling it Longhorn, Microsoft up and ... More...