Windows Stories for 2009

Chinese Pirates Launch Ubuntu That Looks Like XP 580
Cygwin 1.7 Released 203
Windows 7 May Finally Get IPv6 Deployed 283
The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade 378
CherryPal's $99 "Odd Lots" Netbook 234
How Europe's Mandated Browser Ballot Screen Works 169
VMware Workstation vs. VirtualBox vs. Parallels 289
Microsoft Finally Open Sources Windows 7 Tool 284
VMware's Dual OS Smartphone Virtualization Plan Firms Up 179
Microsoft To Switch Focus To Windows 8 In July 2010 374
Windows 7 Share Grows At XP's Expense 412
Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Black Screen of Death" 351
G-WAN, Another Free Web Server 217
Microsoft Advice Against Nehalem Xeons Snuffed Out 154
No More Fair-Price Refund For Declining XP EULA 339
New Microsoft Silverlight Features Have Windows Bias 251
Microsoft Denies It Built Backdoor Into Windows 7 450
Chinese Court Rules Microsoft Violated IP Rights 237
The First Windows 7 Zero-Day Exploit 289
Microsoft Takes Responsibility For GPL Violation 364
Microsoft Responds To "Like OS X" Comment 505
Microsoft Plugs "Drive-By" and 14 Other Holes 189
MS Pulls Windows 7 Tool After GPL Violation Claim 186
Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? 493
The Machine SID Duplication Myth 201
In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses 843
Unfinished Windows 7 Hotspot Feature Exploited 234
Microsoft Links Malware Rates To Pirated Windows 348
After 1 Year, Conficker Infects 7M Computers 95
Wait For Windows 7 SP1, Support Firm Warns Users 433
Who Installs the Most Crapware? 583
When Software Leaks (and What Really Goes Down) 179
Now Linux Can Get Viruses, Via Wine 343
A Tale of Two Windows 7s 770
Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 452
Some Users Say Win7 Wants To Remove iTunes, Google Toolbar 570
Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? 349
Windows 7 Released Early In UK 194
What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume? 232
Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs 627
Comparing Performance and Power Use For Vista vs. Windows 7 WIth Clarksfield Chip 119
Acer Launching Dual Android/Windows 7 Netbook 105
Revisiting the Original Reviews of Windows Vista 414
Platform Independent C++ OS Library? 310
Windows Server Trusts Samba4 Active Directory 182
Inside the Windows 7 Launch Party Pack 267
Microsoft Readies Ad-Supported Office Starter 2010 235
Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 581
Most Mac Owners Also Own a Windows PC, But Not Vice Versa 814
Windows Mobile 6.5 Launched, Panned 202
Hidden Fees Discovered For "Free" Windows 7 Upgrade 406
Vista Share Drops for the First Time In Two Years 332
"Windows 7 Compatible" PCs Must Be 64-bit 440
Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It 465
Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties 830
AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks 501
Ballmer Admits "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile" 275
New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second 437
Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon 1124
Windows Marketplace For Mobile Kill Switch Details 140
Windows 7 Touch, Dead On Arrival 352
Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP 759
Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day 706
IE8 Beats Other Browsers In Laptop Battery Life 263
Lawsuit Claims WGA Is Spyware 360
FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign 926
Red Hat Releases Windows Virtualization Code 183
Behind the 4GB Memory Limit In 32-Bit Windows 756
China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy 164
Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market 257
Windows 7 To Sell In UK For Half the US Price 487
XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance 720
Danish FreeBSD Dev. Sues Lenovo Over "Microsoft Tax" 318
No Windows 7 XP Mode For Sony Vaio Z Owners 198
Microsoft Denies Windows 7 "Showstopper Bug" 241
How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet? 491
Windows Drains MacBook's Battery; Who's To Blame? 396
Best Free Open Source Software For Windows 324
Windows 7 RTM Reviewed & Benchmarked 792
Amazon US Refunds Windows License Fee, Too 284
Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook 397
92% of Windows PCs Vulnerable To Zero-Day Attacks On Flash 286
Microsoft Agrees To EU Browser Ballot Screen 438
Gaming On Windows 7 554
Amazon UK Refunds Windows License Fee, With Little Hassle 194
Windows 7 Hits RTM At Build 7600.16385 341
Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe 803
Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey 429
Windows 7 Hits Build 7600 (Possible RTM) 671
RAID Trust Issues — Windows Or a Cheap Controller? 564
London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows 438
Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine 389
One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong 538
Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows? 536
Exchange Rates Spell High Prices for Windows 7 In the EU 548
Microsoft To Offer Windows 7 On USB Thumb Drives? 259
Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing 821
Nvidia Lauds Windows CE Over Android For Smartbooks 263
Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops 567
EC To Pursue Antitrust Despite Microsoft's IE Move 484
Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 in Europe With IE Unbundled 578
AMD Demos DirectX 11-Capable ATI Graphics Card 107
Google's Android To Challenge Windows? 269
Microsoft Confirms October 22 Release Date For Windows 7 182
EU Wants Multiple Browser Bundling On New PCs 464
Microsoft Kills 3-App Limit For Windows 7 Starter Edition 352
Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed 248
Lightweight C++ Library For SVG On Windows? 130
Asus Slaps Linux In the Face 644
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released 334
Windows 7 Sets Direction of Low-Power CPU Market 369
Malware Found On Brand-New Windows Netbook 250
US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista 374
MS Suggests Using Shims For XP-To-Win7 Transition 316
Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher 485
Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista 309
Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Plans 403
R.I.P. MS-DEBUG 1981 - 2009 240
MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization 315
When Hacked PCs Self-Destruct 418
Windows 7 Users Warned Over Filename Security Risk 613
Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista 821
Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows 710
First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook 435
Microsoft Not Ditching Vista Until At Least 2011 297
A Mixed Review For Windows 7's XP Mode 137
Windows 7 Launch Date Leaked — 23 Oct. 2009 127
Windows 7 RC Rush Crashes MSDN, TechNet Pages 186
Microsoft To Disable Autorun 429
Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare? 413
Windows 7 Streams Media To the Xbox 360 and PS3 Seamlessly 121
Windows 7 To Include "Windows XP Mode" 364
Microsoft Suffers Leaks, Lagging Sales Numbers As They Look Forward To Windows 8 386
Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only 695
Antitrust Regulators To Monitor Windows 7, But Not Later Releases 105
83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7 545
Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story 833
Using Linux To Make a Slow, Awful WAN Connection 110
Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install 420
Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP 580
Microsoft Warns of Copycat Conficker Worm 86
XP Reprieve, Downgrade May Continue After Win7 392
Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration 774
Texas Senate Proposes a Budget With a No-Vista-Upgrades Rider 290
Ubuntu vs. Windows In OpenOffice.org Benchmark 262
The "Vista-Capable" Debacle Spreads To Acer 133
Windows 7 Touchscreen Details Emerging 152
Windows 7 RC Download Page Points To May Release 183
UI Features That Didn't Make It Into Windows 7 342
Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips 626
Did the Netbook Improve Windows 7's Performance? 440
Windows Home Directory Encryption? 121
2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux 258
Romanians Find Cure For Conficker 145
Windows Security and On-line Training Courses? 189
How Vista Mistakes Changed Windows 7 Development 483
Norton Users Worried By PIFTS.exe, Stonewalling By Symantec 685
UAC Whitelist Hole In Windows 7 496
Windows 7 Kill Switch For IE Confirmed — For More Apps, Too 208
Windows 7 Lets You Uninstall IE8 474
Microsoft Windows, On a Mainframe 422
Parallels Desktop For Mac Vs. VMware 195
Windows Server 2008 One Year On — Hit Or Miss? 386
Microsoft Brings 36 New Features To Windows 7 509
Are Windows 7 Testers Going Unheard? 394
The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7 496
Microsoft Says No Profit In Vista-XP Downgrades 315
MS To Slip IE8 Into Vista and XP Through OEMs 289
Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 1127
Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native 493
Post-Beta Windows 7 Build Leaked With New IE8 332
MS Critical Patch Fixes 8 Vulnerabilities 202
Firefox Exec Says Windows Bundling Is a Bad Idea 413
Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More 842
The Broken Design of Microsoft's "Fix it" Tool 165
Microsoft Caves, Will Change UAC In Windows 7 249
Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? 559
Ubuntu Wipes Windows 7 In Benchmarks 781
Users' Admin Logins Make Most Windows Malware Worse 420
Why Windows Must (and Will) Go Open Source 555
MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7 758
Microsoft Ramps Up "Fix it" Support Tool 144
Security Hole In Windows 7 UAC 388
Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension 803
More Indications Windows 7 Is Coming In 2009 369
Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate 856
If Windows 7 Fails, Citrix (Not Linux) Wins 638
Windows 7 To Be "Thoroughly" Tested For Antitrust Compliance 364
Fallout 3 DLC and Games For Windows Live Woes 121
Less Is Moore 342
Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions 821
USB Flash Drive Comparison Part 2 — FAT32 Vs. NTFS 198
CoreBoot (LinuxBIOS) Can Boot Windows 7 Beta 207
Testing the KDE 4.2 Release Candidate, On Windows 272
Windows 7 Gaming Performance Tested 179
EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows 650
Microsoft To Kill Windows 7 Beta Februrary 10th 216
Downadup Worm — When Will the Next Shoe Drop? 295
Windows 7 Taskbar Not So Similar To OS X Dock After All 545
How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer? 835
Possible Last-Minute Problems With Vista SP2 328
Conficker Worm Could Create World's Biggest Botnet 220
Windows 7's Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect As Vista's 864
1 In 3 Windows PCs Still Vulnerable To Worm Attack 242
Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's 515
In-Depth With the Windows 7 Public Beta 785
Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay 848
Ballmer Sets Loose Windows 7 Public Beta At CES 672
32bit Win7 Vs. Vista Vs. XP 641
Windows 7 Leaked To Pirates By Microsoft? 236