Google and at least one of its Android partners—Barnes and Noble—have been agitating for a government antitrust investigation of Microsoft’s patent licensing practices. Last month, Barnes and Noble submitted a formal request for the Department of Justice to launch a probe

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips This week Microsoft had a huge promotional event for Windows Phone in New York City where they constructed a six story phone, complete with live tiles to show off the platform, and by all counts it drew a huge crown and garnered a lot of media interest. Now the company has put a mash-up video online of the day’s festivities which include a rock band, a samurai demonstration and a marriage proposal; fortunately a succesful one (I’m wondering which ring they’d choose from the phone?) The event was to mark the release of new Windows Phone handsets from Samsung, Acer, Nokia and other companies and is effectively a reboot of Windows Phone as a platform after a fairly quiet first year.

Sometimes you may want to benchmark drives or servers connected to your computer system, for instance to compare them to other devices or to test optimizations that you plan to make. Parkdale is a free benchmarking software for the Windows operating system that can be used to benchmark all drives that are currently connected to the PC.

Organize your contacts in groups and pin a group to your Start screen so you can get updates to text, email or IM the whole group at once. It is easy to plan a book club, a night out with friends and more

Many websites have been suggesting that if you have not yet installed the Windows 8 DP or do not want to go through the hassle of installing it, but still want to get a taste of Windows 8, you can… For more visit The Windows Club.

Witness a giant, six-story Windows Phone bursting to life. Check out electrifying Live tiles revealing an epic “Plants vs. Zombies” battle, fruit-slashing ninja-action, a surprise gig by party-rockers Far East Movement, a killer live set from DJ Virman, and a native New Yorker proposing to his girlfriend from inside the giant phone.

Some of us love to install and carry Windows on USB Drives. But these are scenarios that Microsoft does not support.

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips I only realised today that we actually have no collection of dual monitor wallpapers up here on Windows7news, so I made it my goal today to go and dig up a top notch selection of dual monitor wallpapers. I’m sure plenty of our readers are running Windows 7 on a dual monitor setup, I often switch between single and dual monitor displays depending on what I’m doing. One problem with traditional Windows 7 wallpapers is that they are only designed for single monitor displays and when you switch to a dual monitor setup, all it does is tile repeat the image on your second monitor.

If you are like me you have some documents and files stored on the desktop for fast access. Some users may prefer to pin those files to the taskbar or start menu instead, or use a program and file launcher

In my last post  (Part 1) I talked about the how to share PowerPoint presentations by creating Handouts and PDF/XPS documents. You put hard work in making your PowerPoint presentations look…