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Photos: Windows 7, supercomputers, Google Labs, iPill
Photo Attendees got to have a play with Microsoft's Vista replacement, Windows 7, at the Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles. Here a WinHEC attendee checks out a touchscreen... [27 Nov 2008]
Photos: Getting hands on with Windows 7
Photo A Microsoft booth worker at WinHEC demonstrates how touch can be used to move quickly through a long text document. Multitouch has its serious side, but fingerpainting proved one of the more popular uses when Windows 7... [12 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 boosts location based services
News The reason, Microsoft officials say, is that Windows doesn't have a reliable means of determining that an application is what it says it is, so any attempt to limit the location to a specific application would be easily spoofable,... [10 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 aims for netbooks as well as PCs
News Senior vice president, Steven Sinofsky, said in a speech at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC): "A key part of Windows 7 is to enable a full spectrum of choices. While Vista has largely been absent in... [06 Nov 2008]
It's official: Windows 7, no longer a codename
News In a few weeks we are going to be talking about the details of this release at the PDC and at WinHEC. For the first time in recent memory, Microsoft has chosen to stick with its codename for a final Windows release. [14 Oct 2008]
Gates: Vista selling faster than XP
News Giving a keynote speech at the Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles, Gates told a crowd of hardware developers: "As of last week, we've sold nearly 40 million copies. Microsoft has sold... [16 May 2007]
Vista won't crack the living room, says AMD
News Fleck struck a chord with Mike Dellisanti, a researcher at Bose who is attending WinHEC. Windows Vista is a step in the right direction but major obstacles remain before PC technology can make it big in the living room,... [24 May 2006]
Microsoft tees up Windows marketing drive
News A beta, or test version, of Longhorn is slated for this summer; developers will get an updated preview version of Longhorn at next week's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle. Even though Windows... [18 Apr 2005]
Microsoft lets Longhorn out of the barn
News An updated developer preview version will be given out at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, WinHEC, set to take place at the end of the month in Seattle. After months of keeping its prized cow in the barn,... [15 Apr 2005]
Microsoft lifts the lid on Longhorn
News The company has also updated its WinHEC site with a preliminary list of tracks - many of which are devoted to Longhorn. Microsoft plans to offer developers an updated test version of Longhorn in April, along with more... [17 Feb 2005]
Microsoft sticks with controversial Longhorn security
News The latest changes have been in the works for a while, with the shift first evident at the WinHec conference last spring in Seattle. Although Microsoft continues to tweak a controversial architecture for securing PCs it... [09 Sep 2004]
Emerging markets tough nuts for Microsoft to crack
News We haven't gotten this figured out," said Matthew Price, a senior director in Microsoft's Windows Client unit said in a panel discussion at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC). If Price was looking for... [10 May 2004]
Gates: Make the move to the 64-bit desktop
News This is going to be a really wonderful transition," Gates promised during an hour-long talk at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle. The shift to 64-bit computing on the desktop is nearly here,... [05 May 2004]
Latest look at Longhorn on the way
News In an email, the software maker said it will outline the required specifications for computers to run Windows at WinHEC (the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference), which takes place 4 May to 7 May in Seattle. [19 Feb 2004]
Microsoft: Customised security is safer
News Secure windows will look different from regular, unsecured windows in order to remind users that they are looking at confidential material, Peter Biddle, product unit manager for Microsoft, said on Thursday at the Windows Hardware... [09 May 2003]
