More users adopt Windows 7

May 18, 2009
37% of lifehacker viewers use Windows 7 the most

37% of lifehacker viewers use Windows 7 as there main os!

According to a poll at lifehacker there seems to be a increasing number of people using Windows 7 at the moment.  The poll asked “What version of Windows do you use the most?”  36% answered the obvious choice Windows XP, 25% said that they used Windows Vista the most which was surprising considering Vista’s bad rep.  Windows 7 came out at 37%, just a little more than XP!

As you can see Windows 7 is gaining popularity within the lifehacker community, which in my opinion is a good sign of how much better 7 is compared to Vista and XP.  Adoption rates within interent communities seem to be on the rise, while many businesses will continue to use Windows XP and server 2003 until economic conditions improve.

References:

http://lifehacker.com/5256089/which-windows-os-are-you-running

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Hidden Items on the Send To Menu

May 16, 2009
Hiddem Sent To Items

Hidden Sent To Items

If you haven’t tried out the Release Canidate for Windows 7, you sure are missing out on a lot of cool stuff.  Just the other day I read about this feature that really dosen’t get a lot of attention.

Apparently if you hold shift while right-clicking a file, and go to “Send To”, you should see some hidden menu options that were not previously there.  The new items should be Music, Downloads, Picture, Favorites, etc.. you get the idea from the picture on the left here.

Anyway, I thought this was a cool feature in Windows 7 that really gets underplayed and deserves to be mentioned.  Knowing this hidden feature has come in handy a lot this week alone since I tend to send files from my desktop to my pictures and document files.

References:
http://lifehacker.com/5254211/

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