Microsoft, and a number of other people, and blogs have been touting the success of Windows 7. Part of the effect has been that many computers are selling as a result of Windows 7

Up until now the Windows 7 SP1 Beta has only been available to Technet or MSDN subscribers, so us common users haven’t been able to get our hands on it. Well for those of you who are early adopters and anxious to try it out, now you can. All you need is a Windows Live ID which anyone can get (if you don’t already have one) and head on over to the Microsoft Eval Center to download the beta right now.

Apple have today unveiled their new 2010/2011 product line-up which includes some new Macs and the “Magic Trackpad”.  This is, essentially, simply a multi-touch trackpad and asks the question why Apple are bothering. If this is a response to multi-touch support in Windows 7, something their iOS operating system has had for years now but that has still not made its way to the Mac, then it’s pretty poor. It can be argued that people won’t use multi-touch PC screens on a desktop or laptop, but that hasn’t stopped a great many companies selling reasonably sized quantities of them.  How many people I wonder have bought a separate trackpad for their PC?

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR WINDOWS 7 FORUMS MEMBERS! In finalizing the Windows 7 Forums Millennium Celebration, we would like to thank the award winners: sabrehagen, ironken22, and stueycaster. Their contributions are among a droplet of many great threads and messages that have made Windows 7 Forums part of what it is. In concluding our message of thanks to these Problem Solving Competition Winners, we award the first place nominee a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (Full) and all runner-ups receive a Lifetime Premium Supporter membership.

SlideShow Extension for Chrome Browser, turns your favorite photo sites like  Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, and Google Images into a slideshow, that indeed looks quite classy ! For installing this little… For more visit The Windows Club.

Microsoft and Blue Line Innovations have announced a partnership designed to give consumers real-time information about their home energy use. Blue Line’s popular energy tracking device combined with Microsoft Hohm can now give you information (in graph and chart form) about household energy use, its cost, and where you can save the most. Here’s how it works: the Blue Line PowerCost Monitor, which runs $249, attaches to a household power utility meter (no wiring is required, thus you don’t need an electrician).

To be honest, you can have all these features but it simply does not look & feel that good and sometimes it is also quite tricky to get thinks working right. Just think of using a Web browser… For more visit The Windows Club.

The Microsoft Outlook family of messaging and collaboration clients is based on the recognition that home and business users have different needs.

A recently discovered vulnerability in the processing of lnk files in the Windows operating system may be used by attackers to executed malicious code on the target system. Windows users can take a look at our previous coverage of the security issue for additional details.

Yahoo Japan has announced that it will adopt Google’s search engine technology, rather than Microsoft’s which is used by its strategic partner Yahoo Inc. The majority share-holding in… For more visit The Windows Club