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Microsoft gives away Acer Aspire 1420P touchscreen tablets

Once a year around this time, Microsoft holds its annual Professional Developers conference.
This year, to mark the launch of Windows 7 and “to show our gratitude for the support we received by PDC attendees in the development process of Windows 7″, Windows and Windows Live Division President Steven Sinofsky took the stage and announced [...]

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Want to upgrade to Win7? Read this first.

That title wasn’t meant to scare you – but prepare you.
Acer have put together a specific page to deal with Acer owners wishing to upgrade to the latest Operating System from Microsoft. You can find it here:
http://www.acer.com/windows7/eng/

If you click on the link or picture above you’ll see that the page is divided into three, easy-to-follow [...]

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Share your Windows 7 experience

OK I’m going to start the ball rolling here.

As many of you know, tomorrow 22nd October, Windows 7 goes on sale in its final public release version.

In one of the most recent product presentations (AIO), I remember the product manager saying that one of the biggest complaints about Vista was that it was so damned power hungry.

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Think Microsoft’s boring? Check this out.

For those of you guilty of thinking that nothing interesting comes out of Microsoft, take a look at this video.
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In Robert Scoble’s first interview for FastCompany TV, he talks to Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay from Microsoft Research about Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope.
It’s not available just yet, but if you’re half [...]

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Not compatible with Office 2007? Try this.

Hi everyone.
I know this might seem a little off-topic but I think many of you will find it of considerable help.
I confess: I am still running Windows XP and, while we’re on the subject and clearing out the skeletons, Office 2003. I have no problems with it, it does everything I need, it’s stable and [...]

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