Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts
A comprehensive list of all keyboard shortcuts in Windows. The ones in gray have been in previous versions of Windows, but the ones in black are exclusive and new to Windows 7.
Archive for February, 2009
Windows 7 on 512MB… Ed Bott says all good
Ed Bott, the award-winning technology writer, shares an important insight on Windows 7 performance vis-a-vis Windows XP and Windows Vista over at his blog at ZDNet.
The x64 edition of Windows 7 Ultimate running on just over 200MB of RAM? That was a pleasant surprise. I was also surprised to see that this clean install was using less than 9 GB of disk space in this VM.
With identical configurations, Windows 7 was dramatically faster at starting up and shutting down than Vista, and some routine tasks that would grind the Vista machine to a halt completed without incident on the Windows 7 machine.
Read the complete post: How well does Windows 7 handle 512MB?
Windows 7 SKUs announced
The Windows team has just announced the SKU line-up for Windows 7. In the line-up, each SKU is a superset of the previous SKU, unlike with Windows Vista. This means that each higher edition SKU will have every feature lower edition SKUs have. The SKU lineup for Windows 7 is: