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Congratulations Clifford Cooley on reaching your tenth post. First milestone achieved. May your prolific input long continue! Elmer. :D

I just realized that last month on July 22nd, this forum had an otherwise unheralded birthday. So even though it's somewhat belated; Happy 6th Birthday to windows7forums.com (formerly winvistaforums.com 2005). Congratulations to all the many site staff, members and visitors who have contributed...

There's always someone willing to pay extra cash for early access to a future product. In this case, an enterprising Canadian Ebay user made an attempt to sell off an early build of Windows 8 for $1,500. Listed as The Real Windows 8 Milestone 3 Leaked CD , it is unknown if the copy is a genuine...

It’s fair to say that Windows 7 continues to sell like hotcakes all over the world. The previously announced pace of 7 copies per second back in June of 2010 shows no signs of slowing, with Microsoft now trumpeting another significant milestone. More than 400 million Windows 7 licenses have have...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has once again reaffirmed what we already know: Windows 7 is the fastest-selling operating system in history. At Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles, Ballmer remarked that Windows 7 has sold more than 400 million user licenses worldwide...

By Ed Oswald, Betanews As it tries once again to kill Windows XP, Microsoft's sales of Windows 7 licenses hit an important milestone. Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL Link...

So much for not keeping pace, huh? We heard back in June of last year that Microsoft had blown through 150 million Windows 7 licenses , and just a few months later, it had surpassed 240 million . At this year's Worldwide Partner Conference, head honcho Steve Ballmer took great pleasure in...

Windows 8 build 7955.0.x86fre.fbl_srv_wdacxml.110228-1930 leaked to the Internet recently, and is rumored to have been created shortly after the D9 conference where Microsoft showcased the new operating system. The build is severely limited in the sense that it is still using the same graphical...

Windows 8 Forums will have a lot to offer. And such offerings start with new members such as you. As a one stop shop for operating system related guidance discussion, Windows 8 Forums will carry on the tradition of our sister site Windows7Forums.com. With so much information becoming available...

"Early milestone builds of Windows 8 have leaked onto the Internet, and considerable effort has been put into figuring out how they work. Though officially tight-lipped, snippets of information have escaped Redmond's walls. So far, it appears that Windows 8 development doesn't just look not bad...

Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows According to BetaArchive, Windows 8 is nearing the M3 milestone, the final stop on the way to beta. And they’ve received a new leaked build of Windows 8, build 7989 (7989.winmain.110421-1285.615974c7346f7374). Here are some shots of the build, including...

Congrat's Richard on your 100th post. Sorry to all the people I've missed, but I've only been here a week. Link Removed If you know someone who's coming up on a signifigant post, anything from 100 -100,000 then kindly leave me a message Link Removed - Invalid URL so I may keep my eye on...

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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is gaining market share for its' new Internet Explorer 9 web browser. Whether or not IE9 adoption is enough to stem the tide of IE's overall declining share in the face of competition from Mozilla and Google remains to be seen. "Just six weeks after the launch of...

Yet another build Windows 8 build has leaked - this time around it's a 64-bit Windows Server 8 build 7959. Link Removed

Yet another build Windows 8 build has leaked - this time around it’s a 64-bit Windows Server 8 build 7959. Link Removed

I'm going to have a lot more to say about the leaked Windows 8 build 7955 'Milestone 2' in a future post, but satisfy those of you craving for information, here are a few screenshots of the... Link Removed

angry tapir writes "While Microsoft has not announced the release date of its follow-up to Windows 7, an early pre-beta version of Windows 8 (although its official name has not been confirmed) has surfaced on the Internet, the second version to appear within a month. It is the second milestone...

Windows 7 already sports some solid user data utilities, from its built-in backup tool to the greatly improved file and settings transfer wizard and System Restore. From what has been revealed in the early leaked milestone builds of Windows 8, Microsoft is clearly focused on offering even better...

Microsoft on Friday announced that it has sold over 350 million licenses of Windows 7 in the past 18 months. The milestone points to a momentum in the adoption of Windows 7, but Microsoft didn't break down the numbers into how many copies shipped with new PCs or are upgrades. Link Removed -...