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The guessing game is over! Windows 7 will be on sale starting October 22nd 2009.
Microsoft have confirmed that this is the General Availability date they are aiming towards and technology partners such as HP are confident it will happen. Phil Mckinney, CTO of HP said:
We’re locked and loaded for the launch…The quality of code is [...]

A big red orb is hovering in the air at eye level in front of me, so I instinctively wind up and whack it with my fist, like a volleyball player serving a blistering ace.
It rebounds off a brick wall and heads back towards me, and I leap up and headbutt it. Again [...]

Microsoft originally promised that Windows 7 would be released within three years of Vista—which would put the release date in January 2010—but now the folks at Redmond have confirmed that Windows 7 (and Server 2008 R2) will officially be ready for the 2009 holiday season. We’d already heard plenty of rumors regarding the Windows 7 [...]

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Microsoft is pushing out Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, promising significant performance improvements and support for the OpenDocument format, among other things.
In all the update packs in hundreds of bug fixes and improvements for Microsoft’s suite of office applications, which you can see in their entirety in this Excel doc. If you’re [...]

Lifehacker – Office 2010 Screenshots Preview What’s to Come – Microsoft Office 2010

After the guessing games of last week, it has been officially announced that Microsoft will definitely be issuing the final release candidate for Windows 7 next month.
The Windows 7 RC will go out to MSDN and TechNet professionals on 30 April and more widely on 5 May. After that, it’s almost certain that the retail [...]

Not so fast First you need to be part of the TechNet or MSDN program from Microsoft or browse through the Torrent sites to find a copy

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Microsoft will be renaming Office 14 and make it available as an ad-supported web version…
We knew Microsoft was almost ready to lift the lid on the next version of its Office suite of software, but we hadn’t expected the surprises that appear in the offing.
According to reports in the US and Japan, the next iteration [...]

Engadget posts evidence that Microsoft is further positioning itself directly against Apple’s product line. Marketing images of a so-called “Zune HD” whos an iPod touch-like media player.
We present what might possibly be your first look at, yes… the Zune HD. In the gallery below, you can see images from what appears to be a forthcoming [...]

Microsoft confirms you’ll need to do a clean install of the OS instead
Microsoft has confirmed it isn’t providing an upgrade path for Windows XP to Windows 7.
The not unexpected confirmation came in a new post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog outlining the latest developments with the new OS as it moves swiftly towards [...]