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    Microsoft Wows CES Crowd With Windows 7-Powered Tablets

    From the CES keynote tonight, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is annoucing a lineup of Windows 7 tablets. We’ve been expecting an annoucement about Windows tablets for a few weeks. In fact, tablets seem to be something of… Link Removed
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    Windows 7? On ARM Tablets? I don't think so!

    Seriously, Windows 7 on ARM-powered tablets? Is Ballmer off his meds? Tablets belong to Apple and Linux. More...
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    Viliv plans two Android and Windows 7 tablets for CES

    One thing that’s retrospectively hilarious about last year’s CES was just how smug all the collected computer makers were that they’d beaten Apple to the tablet punch. Fueled only by the rumor of the iPad, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer held aloft the HP Slate, convinced he was ushering in the next...
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    ExoPC Windows 7 Tablet Debuts

    Steve Ballmer has promised us Windows 7 tablets in time for Christmas, and this is just what where going to get. Say hello to the ExoPC. The ExoPC, a Windows 7 tablet, is to be sold in partnership with Microsoft straight from its Windows store. The ExoPC is the first of many ushering in a wave...
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    NYT: Microsoft to show Windows 7 tablets at CES 2011 -- deja vu?

    Next month at CES, Ballmer is expected to show off a few tablet PCs that are meant to challenge the wildly successful iPad, which has gone all but uncontested by other platforms such as Windows and Google Android. Link Removed
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    Windows 7 Tablets Are a Terrible Idea

    I keep hearing about Windows tablets. Steve Ballmer got up on stage with an HP slate at last year's CES, and nobody was particularly impressed. Now we're hearing rumors that he'll give it another shot this year, perhaps even revealing a bit about Windows 8 (I don't think that's likely, given...
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    Windows 7 tablets are a terrible idea

    I keep hearing about Windows tablets. Steve Ballmer got up on stage with an HP slate at last year's CES, and nobody was particularly impressed. Now we're hearing rumors that he'll give it another shot this year, perhaps even revealing a bit about Windows 8 (I don't think that's likely, given...
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    Windows 7 tablets are a terrible idea

    I keep hearing about Windows tablets. Steve Ballmer got up on stage with an HP slate at last year's CES, and nobody was particularly impressed. Now we're hearing rumors that he'll give it another shot this year, perhaps even revealing a bit about Windows 8 (I don't think that's likely, given...
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    Report: Microsoft to Show Off Windows 7 Slider Tablet at CES

    Today's hot rumor: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will demonstrate tablet computers running a version of Windows 7, including a Samsung model with a slide-out keyboard, st CES 2011. More...
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    Will Microsoft Demo Windows 7 Slates at CES?

    Microsoft has had an embarrassing fall, fending off accusations by competitors and critics that it has been talking big but still hasn't delivered on CEO Steve Ballmer's boast last summer that gaining a solid foothold in the evolving market for slate computers is Microsoft's "job one." Link Removed
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    Photos: Windows 7 launches in New York

    Steve Ballmer, Tami Reller, Brad Brooks, Mike Angiulo, and 5-year-old Kylie take the stage to tout the new Microsoft operating system. Link Removed
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    Apple passes Microsoft to be biggest tech company

    Apple has pushed past arch-rival Microsoft to become the world's biggest technology company. Changes in the share price values of the two in Wednesday's choppy trading left the total value of Apple at $222bn (£154bn). Microsoft is now valued by investors at $219bn. However, Microsoft still...
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    Ballmer: with Vista (Longhorn) We Tried Too Big a Task

    From Link Removed - Invalid URL One of the few pieces of criticism that Microsoft got for Windows 7 was related to the apparently modest plans it had for the operating system, with some calling the new OS just a minor upgrade from its precursor. Under the leadership of Steven Sinofsky...
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    Windows 7 Too big a task with Vista

    It’s not every day that you hear the CEO of a major corporation admit that they wasted time on a product. But Steve Ballmer did just that when talking about Windows Vista. Ballmer stated that “We tried too big a task and in the process wound up losing thousands of man hours of innovation,"...
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    Windows 7 Are there really 800,000 Windows 7 apps?

    Microsoft CEO Steve Link Removed, but he did whip through a lot of stats during his Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote on January 6. One of those stats only caught my attention this morning, when I saw a couple of folks tweet it. Ballmer said during his keynote last night that there are...
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    Ballmer: Windows 7 Microsoft's 'Best Ever' OS (InformationWeek)

    New operating system is building market momentum as PC users upgrade from Vista, CEO says. Link Removed - Invalid URL
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    Windows 7 7 ultimate bsod from large print

    I clicked print on a 100+ pdf file, after a minute or so which i guess is the printer gathering enough info for it to start, i get a bsod reference pointer error. This happens every time i try printing the whole file and another pdf that is 90 pages long, yet a small 30-40 page portion print...
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    Windows 7 to come in 'Steve Ballmer' edition (ZDNet UK)

    For Steve Ballmer fans, Microsoft plans to release a special edition of Windows 7 Ultimate that comes in a package with the chief executive's signature on the front. The software maker did the... Link Removed - Invalid URL
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    Ballmer: Windows 7 worth the investment (ARNnet)

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put on his sales hat Tuesday and made a case for why businesses should upgrade to Windows 7, despite an economy in which many IT budgets have been frozen or are lower than in years past. Link Removed - Invalid URL
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    Windows 7 Achieves RTM Status: A Milestone of Collaboration and Feedback

    Its done, officially confirmed by Ballmer. I am pleased to announce that Windows 7 has RTM’d! As I mentioned previously, RTM officially happens only after sign-off occurs. What happens is a build gets designated as a RTM contender after going through significant testing and meeting our quality...
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