It’s not just any Thursday – it’s Windows 7 launch Thursday! The day all PC users have been waiting years for has finally arrived and we’ve got all the must-read coverage right here, as well as everything else going down in gadget land.
October, 2009
Twitter has been styling itself as a realtime search engine for some time, but the potential audience for digging through all those tweets just got a whole lot bigger: both Google and Bing have just announced that they’ll begin shovelling relevant 140 character content into their search results.
The Nintendo Wii 2 will be smaller and cheaper. That’s the word from Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Mario and Donkey Kong. He says the console will also move into “other aspects of daily life”, hinting Ninty will follows Microsoft and Sony into the world of home entertainment.
Thought holding a Windows 7 party was the only way you could show your appreciation for Microsoft’s all new OS? Think again. The hunger for the Big M in Japan is clearly more voracious than here in Blighty, with Microsoft teaming up with Burger King to unleash the Windows 7 Whopper.
Windows 7 has been praised by Microsoft’s fanboy army, and berated by Apple’s Mac-toting zealots. But putting what’re the real differences?
Say you’re installing an OS on a netbook, or wondering whether to slip Microsoft’s latest onto your Apple-branded machine. You could listen to a pair of comedians muttering “I’m a PC” and “I’m patronising”… Or you could read our head-to-head death match to see just how the rival platforms stack up.
So, you’ve just installed Windows 7. What to do first? Follow our handy guide and we’ll show you all the whizzy new features worth showing off to your mates.
It’s heating up in gadget land as we enter shopping spree season, and another hero smartphone has entered the fray, the BlackBerry Bold 9700. We’ve got all the coverage on RIM’s finest, and a whole lot more besides, right here for you in your techie breakie.