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Windows 7 Battery Life Worse on Netbooks

Laptop Magazine has some surprising news for Windows 7 battery life, at least on three netbooks: It's not as good as it was on XP. Here's what they found: Back in August when we started testing the final version of Windows 7, we noticed that several netbooks didn’t last as long on a charge with...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-12-2009
Get Tinker and Texas Hold 'Em ... For Free

Microsoft will soon make the Vista-era Ultimate Extras games Tinker and Texas Hold 'Em available for one and all, for free, via Games for Windows Live: Tinker and Hold 'Em are coming to Games for Windows! Need a break? If you like classic platform puzzles, or just want to play a quick hand of...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-05-2009
Microsoft Security Essentials Update

Microsoft previously reported that its new Security Essentials anti-malware solution ( see my review ) had garnered 1.5 million downloads in its first week of availability. Well, the numbers keep going up: After two weeks, the download total stood at 2.6 million. Also, the company tells me that Microsoft...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-19-2009
Now available: Microsoft Security Essentials

The public version of Microsoft Security Essentials is now available from the Microsoft web site : Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-29-2009
Microsoft Security Essentials Beta updated

If you're using the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta, you'll notice an update in Windows Update this morning. It's unclear what's changed under the hood (the referenced KB article below doesn't yet exist), but there's a new tray icon at least. Here are some before and after...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-20-2009
Windows Live Movie Maker 1.0 is now live

Sorry about the confusion yesterday, but Windows Live Movie Maker 1.0 is now live. Here's the word from Microsoft: Today, Microsoft is releasing its new Windows Live Movie Maker application globally. As the first application within the Windows Live Essentials suite optimized for Windows 7,...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-19-2009
Microsoft's proposed browser ballot screen

I'm embarrassed to say I missed this last week, but when Microsoft announced its proposal to let EU customers choose a browser via a so-called ballot screen, they also provided an image of what that screen could look like. Here it is. Under our new proposal, among other things, European consumers...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-31-2009
Browser ballot screen isn't just for Windows 7

Mary Jo Foley reports on an interesting tidbit I missed while traipsing around The Netherlands this week: Microsoft's proposal to let EU users choose from competing web browsers isn't relegated to Windows 7. They'll offer this capability on Windows XP and Windows Vista as well. The “ballot...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-28-2009
Gorgeous Firefox 3.7 for Windows mockups

Some may recall that I got excited about Mozilla's original plans for the Firefox 3 UI on Windows , only to have my hopes dashed when they came out with something half-baked . (The shipping Firefox 3.x "chrome" is just horrible looking, in my opinion, and as much as I hate wasting time...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-21-2009
The most useless dialog in Windows?

It amuses me when people complain about things in Windows that are complete non-issues (like the Windows 3.x-era Fonts window from Windows Vista). But how about the real stupidity? Ladies and gentlemen, I present Exhibit A: So what's wrong with this dialog, you ask? (Most likely because you've...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-13-2009

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