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Application Compatibility Round Table on demand

Last week the Springboard team did one of their Virtual Roundtables with Mark Russinovich, this time about Application Compatibility. You can download it here.

All questions and answers will be posted on the Springboard Blog. There is also a new video on Application Compatibility posted on Talking About Windows and a new Windows 7 Application Compatibility section on Springboard.

On the Springboard site you can also find the previous Virtual Roundtables around topics like security, deployment and performance.

Free Windows 7 Learning resources

MS Learning has come up with a lot of free Learning assets for Windows 7. First you have Learning Snacks; short, interactive presentations with animations and demos.

For more deeper understanding I recommend eLearning and there are three free courses available now for IT Pros, Developers and Consumers.

You will also be able to download sample chapters from coming books on Windows 7. All this can be accessed from the MS Learning Windows 7 site

Windows 7 Beta will expire on July 1st, move to RC now!

Are you still on Windows 7 Beta? Then it’s time to move to the Release candidate since the Beta will expire on August 1st. But already next week on July 1st you will experience issues since the OS will start rebooting every 2 hours.

You can download Windows 7 RC here and give us your feedback via input.microsoft.com

Project Natal

Some news for all gamers out there, or maybe I should say for all NON-gamers :-) Project Natal is our new project for xBox where you will use your body instead of a traditional controller! Use your arms and legs to kick a ball and move your avatar any way you like! Check out this video from the media event or visit the Project Natal site where you can find more videos and an interview with Steven Spielberg saying:

“It’s not about reinventing the wheel, it’s about no wheel at all”

Windows 7 will be released on October 22nd

Now it’s official, the date when you will be able to buy Windows 7 in stores. Mark your calendar with October 22nd, that’s when it all begins :-) Read the full announcement on the Windows Blog. Windows Server 2008 R2 will also be available on this day, that announcement was made on the Windows Server Blog

Don’t forget that you can already now download the Release Candidate of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Have you tried Bing?

Bing! That’s our new search engine that we announced earlier this week. I’ve used it since Monday and like the look and feel of it and I recommend you to check it out and get your own opinion. For a review and to understand some changed that we implemented you can read this article in the Wall Street Journal: “Microsoft Effort to Best Google Yields Results”. Here you find a review from cnet.

Let’s Bing!