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Windows 7 Beta – Summary

My first impressions then of Windows 7 are very good.  It is much like Vista but it almost seems like a more intelligent operating system, if there can be such a thing.  Things that we have always wondered why we can’t make them more easy have been made easy. There are a lot of graphic [...]

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Nice and Simple – Windows 7 Features

Today we have a few simple but very nice features of Windows 7, starting with the show desktop…where is it…it is no longer part of the QuickLaunch that people are used to but now instead it is on the far right of the taskbar where there is a small rectangle…click this and it takes you [...]

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Windows 7 Beta – First Glance

It is almost unbelievable that Microsoft are bringing out a new version of Windows when Vista was only released two years ago…but I suppose it is only in Beta.  But we have it here to test and have been playing with it for some time. First impressions are that it is very Vista-like!  But we [...]

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Windows 7 Beta

We like to be on the ‘cutting edge’ when it comes to Microsoft Software..so I think we must have been one of the first to download the Windows 7 Beta when it was made available last week! So far we haven’t done much with it other than Install it on a Dell Optiplex 360 with [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta

So we have had Firefox 3, Google Chrome and on the horizon is Internet Explorer 8! At the moment there is a beta version out which we have been playing with. We would like to remind users that beta versions are really only for designers and developers or those more competent computer users. This is [...]

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bbc.co.uk – refreshing new beta site

The BBC website has to be one of the biggest sites from the UK offering everything from News, TV, Radio, Sport and Weather but my view is that it’s a fairly dull and boring site. Useful for checking the football news but that is about it, certainly not a replacement for my interactive, useful and [...]

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