Registry Cleaners – Windows 7 Less Energy Hungry than XP, Vista – Softpedia

Microsoft’s latest iteration of the Windows client is less hungry when it comes to energy compared to its precursors. In this regard, Microsoft and Intel demonstrated at a recent event how Windows 7 bests both Windows XP and Windows Vista when it

Microsoft Russian antitrust probe closed – Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s state anti-monopoly service, FAS, said on Monday it had closed a probe into Microsoft as it had found no violations of antitrust laws over cutbacks in supply of the Windows XP operating system. The FAS launched a probe

Windows 7 Windows XP Mode RC Hotfix for Shared Folder Performance – Softpedia
Customers testing the virtualization extensions of Windows 7, namely Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode have been experiencing performance problems in scenarios in which sharing folders are enabled. Ben Armstrong, Program manager on the core

Will Windows 7 reboot PC sales? – Zd Net Asia.com
For the first time in years, the PC market is starting to draw serious attention from Wall Street. Dell shares surged after the company beat earnings expectations for the second quarter. The next day chip giant Intel gave the sector another lift by

Users finally ditching XP for Vista & Windows 7 – PC Advisor
Windows XP’s share of the OS usage market fell 1.1 percentage points during August, tying its November 2008 record drop. Windows XP’s fall doesn’t mean that the aged operating system is less than dominant: it accounted for 71.8% of all OSes used by