Windows 7 has been out nearly 3 months to the day and I can’t remember any other operating system to date which has received as much praise as Windows 7. And well to be honest with you, the good news seems to just keep on rolling in for the the guys over at Redmond

One cannot say that Microsoft has not tried some rather – unorthodox – marketing techniques since the launch of their latest operating system Windows 7.

To coincide with the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft released several free international Windows 7 Themes.  More countries have since been included, with themes now available for New Zealand, Poland, Taiwan and Latvia. New International Official Windows 7 Themes Bicycle Ride – Taiwan Windows 7 Theme 9 Photos Syue Mountain – Taiwan Windows 7 Theme 6 Photos Green Island – Taiwan Windows 7 Theme 6 Photos Greg Straight – New Zealand Windows 7 Theme 4 Photos Nature – Latvia Windows 7 Theme 6 Photos Landscapes – Latvia Windows 7 Theme 5 Photos Baltic Beaches – Poland Windows 7 Theme 6 Photos Landscapes – Poland Windows 7 Theme 6 Photos Nature – Poland Windows 7 Theme 6 Photos

Many applications that get installed in the Windows operating system add entries to the context menu of Windows Explorer. One of those menus that are often modified is the New menu which can be used to create new files in Windows Explorer. Some of those options are added by the Windows operating system during installation while others are added by third party installations

Microsoft will have to follow Yahoo’s policy of keeping search data for three months if the Microhoo 10-year partnership goes through later this year. That means the Microsoft will have to delete any personal data it gets from the Yahoo after three months. Earlier this week , Microsoft decided to comply with the EU’s request to cut down search data retention to six months.

Microsoft have added a number of free new Windows 7 featured themes to their theme lineup.  The new themes might not be to everyone’s taste, but if you’re a pet lover then they will be right down your alley

When Microsoft released the highly-publicized patch for Internet Explorer yesterday , the software giant admitted that it was aware of the flaw for quite some time. “As part of that investigation, we also determined that the vulnerability was the same as a vulnerability responsibly reported to us and confirmed in early September,” Redmond disclosed on the Microsoft Security Response Center .

In recent years, scientists may have inadvertently given up on a key component of the scientific method: reproducibility. That’s an argument that’s being advanced by a number of people who have been tracking our increasing reliance on computational methods in all areas of science. An apparently simple computerized analysis may now involve a complex pipeline of software tools; reproducing it will require version control for both software and data, along with careful documentation of the precise parameters used at every step

Do you know these? • More than a billion people around the world use Windows every day, and millions have provided input on what they want to see in an operating system. This feedback was built into the product

Here are some more tips & articles from my other site WinVistaClub, posted much earlier. As mentioned earlier too, most or all of them apply to Windows 7 too! How To Stop or Abort the Restart Or..