Haven’t you been wondering what you will do with the Windows 7 shipped on your shiny new laptop since you are familiar to be working with XP? What does Windows 7 have to offer that Windows XP or Vista doesn’t have?

Well, Windows 7 has many changes on the surface and many more under the hood is all I can say. You can go to the official site and play some videos available there highlighting all the features available in 7.

In the meantime, I got a great article that gives tips and tricks for use on your Windows 7.

Sample this excerpt from the article regarding some great keyboard tricks:

Keyboard magic

Windows 7 allows you to use the keyboard in some pretty imaginative ways. For instance, to quickly dock the current application to the left or right side of your screen, hold down the Windows key and tap the left or right arrow keys. To quickly maximize the current window, hold down the Windows key and tap the up arrow key. To return the application to its former size, hold down the Windows key and tap the down arrow key. To minimize all open applications except the one in the foreground, hold down the Windows key and tap the Home key. The same key combination returns all applications to the state they were in before you pressed Windows key: Home.

The Windows key in combination with the numbers along the top of your keyboard can be used to activate minimized applications as they are represented in your Windows taskbar. Windows key+1 restores the first application icons on the taskbar. Windows key+2 restores the second application, and so on. For instance, if Internet Explorer is the first icon on your taskbar, pressing Windows key+1 will bring Internet Explorer to the foreground. Press Windows key+1 again, and Explorer is minimized again to the taskbar. If you have multiple instances of Windows Explorer — or another application — minimized to the taskbar, keep pressing the Windows key and the appropriate number to cycle through the instances of the running application.

For more such tips, go to the article right away! If you plan to upgrade to Windows 7 from XP or Vista, make sure to run the Upgrade Advisor on your PC/laptop to ensure that all the available features work on your machine. Best of luck with your adventures in Windows 7! I have got the Windows 7 Enterprise Edition (yay!!!) that I have installed on my PC and I must say that I can’t get enough of it.

Links in this post:

• Tips & Tricks for Windows 7 on Arab News website.
• Windows 7 Video Tour.
• What is Windows 7?
• Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

Well, Microsoft has made a beta version of Office 2010 available to the general public. I just came across the link while I was checking out the big M’s website. In fact I went there to check out special downloads or such stuff for Windows 7.

Anyway, I guess this news is exciting enough. Great features in Office 2010 are sure to knock you off your feet! Check out the beta and share your comments. I am currently downloading it and will post my comments later.

Links:

Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus Beta Download

Well, I got the chrome today and so must have many of you out there. I am just finished installing it on my laptop (it is a web installer) and have imported settings from Firefox. As I write this post from Chrome itself, I feel the browser needs a lot of testing before we come to any kind of conclusion.

As for the Fox fans, there’s nothing called plugins in Chrome (for that added functionality) so do not waste time in finding similarities between the two browsers.

I must mention here that my days with IE8 Beta2 are really great. Microsoft has really done a great makeover of it’s browser. What with all the new functionalities and all. This time IE8 has really taken the lead with innovation (with Chrome following it in some features).

Choose your browser carefully while I still stick to my Fox and test the rest.

Ever since Google announced (by mistake I guess) that they are launching there own browser called Chrome, there’s been a lot of buzz. It was expected to be launched on 2nd September 2008, Tuesday (yeah you tell me when Tuesday will come??? Of course, today is tuesday!).

I tried searching for a download link for Chrome on Google, and found out that there was in fact a website for Chrome at (http://gears.google.com/chrome) (don’t bother following that link, it’s dead). Apparently, after the Chrome comic book leak posted at Blogoscoped.com, Google took the Chrome site down and postponed the launch to 3rd of September.

All this has caused a lot of chromefusion, oops!, I mean confusion. So, I finally decided that in the end I should sit back and wait for the link to appear and for the browser to be made available for download on major sites like Download.com and Softpedia.com before I go hunting for it. Or maybe, I will try it one more time tomorrow??

I don’t know. But, whatever happens I love Firefox and plan to stick with it.

So, Google has finally made public it’s browser called Chrome :

As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

Microsoft has released Beta 2 of the upcoming Internet Explorer 8. This is a wider beta release of the browser which has many improvements over Beta 1. It has features which were introduced by Firefox 3 a long time ago (well not exactly a loooong time ago but yes before IE8).

With the release of Firefox 3 being a major event this year, there’s been considerable buzz regarding new add-ons for the 3 and upgrades to popular extensions to enable support for the latest version: 3. Mozilla recently organized a contest to crown the best add-ons for Firefox.

Nokia PC Suite v7.0 is now available for download from Nokia. It is the first major version release since v6.0 so expect good amount of improvements in it. It supports majority of Nokia’s phones.

As per my analysis of the server logs of my site/blog and the general analysis of the data available on the web, I have found one thing and one thing only. By delaying in bringing Windows Vista to the consumers, Microsoft may have sounded the death knell for it’s latest operating system even before it’s launch. Actually the non-availability of a new version to the best version of Windows to-date, Windows XP, has hurt not only the consumers but Microsoft too. The result is easily visible before you. Windows XP reigns supreme while Vista struggles to make friends with consumers.

Ok, I think that I should let you know that I created a browser search plugin for MyBlogLog. But since the link has not been posted yet on this new theme, I would like to re-post it for you all.

CLICK HERE TO INSTALL THE MyBlogLog Search v1.0 v1.1 PLUGIN INTO YOUR BROWSER

MyBlogLog Search Plugin v1.1