Microsoft Corp launched Windows 7 on Thursday in its most important release for more than a decade, aiming to win back customers after the disappointing Vista and strengthen its grip on the PC market.

The world's largest software company, which powers more than 90 percent of personal computers, has received good reviews for the new operating system, which it hopes will grab back the impetus in new technology from rivals Apple Inc and Google Inc.

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Google and Microsoft have more than each other to contend with in the lucrative market for Internet advertising. Increasingly, when Web surfers want information online, they're bypassing those rectangular search boxes on the home pages of Google (GOOG) and Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing and getting it instead from places where they already spend lots of time: social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

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The latest versions of the five major most web browsers (Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, Opera 10.0, and Apple Safari 4.0) went head to head under six performance indicators: JavaScript speed, average CPU usage under stress, DOM selection, CSS rendering speed, page load time, and browser cache performance.

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Researchers at Gartner (via AppleInsider) are predicting that the global market share for Google's Android mobile OS could overtake the iPhone's in a little over two years, with Android poised to leapfrog Apple into the No. 2 spot.

That would leave the iPhone in the No. 3 position—right where it is now, behind BlackBerry and Nokia's Symbian OS, according to Gartner. The industry researchers believe that by 2012, Research in Motion (the company behind the BlackBerry) will have lost 7 percent of its market share, causing it to slip into fifth place (behind even Windows Mobile). Android, meanwhile, will get a 12.9-percent boost to become the No. 2 smartphone platform in the world, with Symbian still safe in the No. 1 spot (with a dominating, although dwindling, 39 percent of the global market).

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I saw Windows 7 for the first time on October 26, 2008 at a press briefing just ahead of Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. I had all of a day to use the pre-beta build and then stayed up most of the following night to have my first look ready for publication two days later.

Since then, I’ve personally installed, tweaked, and used beta and Release Candidate versions of Windows 7 on no fewer than 15 desktop and notebook PCs. At any given time, I have also had a dozen or so Windows 7 virtual machines running under three different virtualization platforms, plus a couple of Windows servers (one for business, one for home).

I began using what turned out to be the RTM build about a week before Microsoft officially announced that Windows 7 had been released to manufacturing on July 22. So, for nearly three solid months, I’ve been running the final, RTM version of Windows 7 on six desktop PCs and four notebooks here, using them for a variety of roles.

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In just two weeks, on Oct. 22, Microsoft's long operating-system nightmare will be over. The company will release Windows 7, a faster and much better operating system than the little-loved Windows Vista, which did a lot to harm both the company's reputation, and the productivity and blood pressure of its users. PC makers will rush to flood physical and online stores with new computers pre-loaded with Windows 7, and to offer the software to Vista owners who wish to upgrade.

With Windows 7, PC users will at last have a strong, modern successor to the sturdy and familiar, but aged, Windows XP, which is still the most popular version of Windows, despite having come out in 2001. In the high-tech world, an eight-year-old operating system is the equivalent of a 20-year-old car. While XP works well for many people, it is relatively weak in areas such as security, networking and other features more important today than when XP was designed around 1999.

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There may be times when you want to present your Microsoft Office Excel worksheet data, or a chart that you created in Excel, in a Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation. You can simply copy selected data or charts in Excel and then use the Paste or Paste Special commands in PowerPoint to insert the data or charts into a presentation.

Here is the guide from Microsoft Office Online

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Exchanging files between previous releases of Microsoft Office and the 2007 Microsoft Office release

Microsoft has added new file formats to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 to reduce file size, improve security and reliability, and enhance integration with external sources. To help ensure that you can exchange documents between Microsoft Office releases, Microsoft has developed a Compatibility Pack for the Office Word, Office Excel, and Office PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.

The Open XML Formats usher in a new era of openness and transparency for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Solution developers can take advantage of a host of new integration opportunities to connect documents to important sources of information. Learn more about the Open XML Formats.

Installing the Compatibility Pack

By installing the Compatibility Pack along side of Microsoft Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able open, edit, save, and create files using the Open XML Formats new to the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Office 2000 users, as well as users of Windows 2000 SP4 and later, can convert Open XML Formats to binary file formats from within Windows Explorer.

• Windows users, Office 2000, Office XP, and Office 2003 users: Download the Compatibility Pack.

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Flickr vs Picasa or Picasa vs Flickr web albums is the one you have to know or use if your cell phone and digital camera are loaded with tons of photographs that you have captured when you went to a long trip or drive.You will probably like to upload it somewhere and share those memorable pictures with your friends and family

The two most popular photo sharing services are Yahoo’s Flickr and Picasa Web Albums, which is owned by Google. We’ll dig deeper into each of the services to help you choose the right one for your job.

Picasa Web Albums service, which is Google’s answer to Yahoo Flickr, has gone live today. Like other Google beta services, Picasa Web is open by invitation only.

We had a chance to try Picasa Web Albums and our first impression is that it is very inspired by Flickr but not anywhere near. Here’s a first hand comparison of Picasa Web Albums with Flickr based on several parameters like prices, storage, ease of use, features, etc.

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With a new crop of ever-faster, ever-smaller, ever-better smartphones launching seemingly every month, there has never been a more enticing time to buy a smartphone. Or a more confusing time for the prospective buyer. The same plethora of options that make today's smartphones the most best ever made also make the marketplace a minefield to navigate.

We've all been there: Your best friend claims the iPhone is the only way to go, but your boss insists you need a BlackBerry, the engineer who lives next door claims you need to go with Google Android, your geeky dad still swears by Windows Mobile, and your coworkers are all trying to cajole you into the Palm Pre.

Which one is the best ? Here is the comparison made for your reference.

Photo source : Digital Trends

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