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Windows 7 Gets More Stuff

The anticipation that built for Vista was the manufactured kind, created mostly by marketing types and by newsletters like this one that got sucked into the hype only to end up disillusioned. But the Windows 7 hype that's building is more organic, coming from beta testers, partners and IT professionals. Anyway, Windows 7 got some bug fixes and some new updates this week. More details here.

Posted by Lee Pender on March 17, 2009


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