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Windows 7 Touch Pack not just for OEMs anymore

Sina Hamedian — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:26:17 +0000

One of the selling points of Windows 7 when it came out was the irresistible touch pack, a suite of applications designed for multi-touch, which only just came out as an optional user download. Before today, only OEMs had access to the suite, deciding whether they wanted to include the pack with their PC. There were leaks, but there no official release to the general public. You still will need a touch screen, not a mouse for the free apps to work. The pack is divided as three games and three Microsoft Surface apps, designed for Windows 7.

The download is a whopping (but understandable) 240MB, and is available at the Microsoft download site.

Source: The Windows Blog

Windows 7 Family Pack is no more

Sina Hamedian — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:42:00 +0000

Remember seeing the box on top in stores? Well, yes, and it was a great deal. $150 got you three copies of Windows 7 Home Premium. Also, something tells me that along with egg nog, people want to score this copy. Well, too bad for them. Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the popular copy since it was a “limited edition”. Your local store should have plenty of copies in stock still, and with eBay, Amazon, and other online retailers, making the sprint to buy it now shouldn’t be a problem.

Source: Ed Bott

HP announces touch screen monitor for Windows 7.

Sina Hamedian — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:42:00 +0000

HP has finally answered my lonely shouts into the wild for a touch screen monitor. The HP Compaq L2105tm touch screen monitor will span 21.5″, support full 1080p video, and be dubbed the first Windows 7 certified monitor. You can pop it in and use it without any problems. It will be launched tomorrow – same day as Windows 7 for $299 and an multi-touch input sensitive.

Via Engadget.

Windows 7 XP Mode hit RTM, will launch in 18 days.

Sina Hamedian — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:13:00 +0000

Today, Windows 7′s hit feature, XP Mode hit RTM. XP Mode is a virtual machine of Windows XP Professional built in into Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise that simulates the XP enviroment inside, and gives you the ability to run programs installed on the virtual machine in Windows 7 natively. This is ideal for those end-users who have applications incompatible with Windows 7. The VM, available on October 22 as a final release uses hardware virtualization on newer computers to run the XP environment using the full speed of the processor. This also might be great for those accustomed to XP’s looks. In any news, Microsoft announced via Twitter and their blog that XP Mode hit RTM and would launch via Windows Update on 10/22. MSDN or TechNet subscribers can download it right now.

Source: The Windows Blog