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Windows Phone 7 launch Confirmed for October

In an event at the Cannes Lions advertising conference Microsoft have apparently confirmed an October launch date for the first handsets featuring their new smart phone OS. In a video…

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Would you use a free ad-supported copy of Windows? Poll

There was some debate caused by my article the other day about the prospect of not only Microsoft, but Apple and Google providing cheap and even free copies of their…

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Would you use a free ad-supported copy of Windows?

There’s been some talk this last week about Microsoft opening Windows to advertisers.  In essence this is something that OEM system builders have been doing for years, but now it…

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Microsoft to sell advertising space on your desktop

Computerworld have announced a plan by Microsoft to allow corporations to rebrand the Windows 7 desktop through themes.  Seen in a Windows 7 OS for the first time since Windows…

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New Apple Commercials Attack Windows 7

With the launch of Microsoft’s latest operating system, there’s a lot of excitement in the air. The Redmond company obviously wants Windows 7 to takeover Windows XP’s position and is trying hard to avoid any bad publicity…

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Windows 7 Promotion To Beat Them All

Ok, I know we have seen some strange advertising and promotion efforts  ( launch parties ) from Microsoft leading up to the Windows 7 launch, but this is on a…

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New Windows 7 Commercials

After all the somewhat – odd adverts Microsoft have released for Windows 7, they have finally come up with some decent ones that actually make sense. The first, appropriately named…

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Windows 7? What’s that?

We’re now less than two weeks from the launch of Windows 7 on October 22nd, when anybody walking into a PC store to buy a new machine will see an…

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Four New Windows 7 Advertisements Released

Microsoft’s first Windows 7 advertisement, Good News 1, has only been around for about two weeks and today the software giant has begun airing an array of new advertisements. Unlike Good News 1, they focus more on new Windows 7…

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Microsoft Releases First Windows 7 Commercial

Microsoft has released its first Windows 7 advertisement, Good News 1, on several TV stations in the US. The advertisement shows Kylie, a 4½ year-old girl, who finds “happy words” about Windows 7 on her dad’s…

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