Articles about windows 7 operating system

Deciding which tablet to buy is not always a matter of price and specs. If you go only for price you might find yourself spending more money after the initial purchase to get accessories, apps, or simply another tablet that meets your demands. Going for specs is also bad, since the software is the one that matters most today. Without it a tablet is worthless. See the Playbook example, a small 7 inch slate with great specs, but let down by the operating system and the lack of apps.That's why ...

Gigabyte S1080 is not a new tablet, as we've wrote a few bits about it on AllTouchTablet in January (here and here), but those were just leaked materials, as of today Gigabyte announced officially their 10 inch slate powered by Windows 7. There are a lot of specs announced and a few interesting accessories, which I'll mention below.First thing you'll see is that the S1080 resembles a lot in design the Viewsonic Viewpad 10 Pro tablet, but that's just the outside, as the inside tells a differe...

We have discussed this many times: Windows 7 is a great OS, but not what you'd expect for a touch tablet, that's why the best slates out there are the ones powered by iOS and Android. That doesn't mean they're perfect, as contrary to them, the complexity of Windows 7 is what some people are looking for, and when that's the only alternative things happen: Justin Campana, a known Windows modder, has posted a tutorial about how you can convert the Windows 7 user interface to make it a lot more fin...

Another month is coming, another important IT show is approaching. This March we have the CeBit in Hanovra, Germany. Here a lot of companies are expected to launch new products, one of them being Fujitsu, with its 10 inch Atom tablet, the Stylistic Q550, which contrary to its name is a business tablet (just like RIM's Blackberry Playbook, another business tablet with a strange name).I know you think there can't be anything special about a Windows 7 Professional tablet made by Fujitsu, but th...

Today's IT news comes from Nokia, but not this one. It's the one about the Finnish company ditching Symbian as their mobile operating system and switching to Microsoft, in a partnership which allows Nokia to customize Windows Phone 7 to suit their needs. It's an advantage that definitely could put Nokia on the table again as a mobile provider (services and devices). This could be also a good opportunity for Microsoft to offer better services through its Windows Phone 7 (think of Nokia Maps, one ...

If you like choices you'll love the Evolve II Maestro 10 inch tablet. It doesn't boot only one OS, not two, but three OSes can be selected when starting the tablet. Your options are Windows 7, Android and MeeGo. That's what I call 'let the customer decide'. The power comes from an Atom CPU at 1.83 GHz, the N475, but later this year a dual core Oak Trail model will be available for you to configure. Storage is done on a 32 GB SSD drive. I hope an SD card slot will be available too, as 32 gigabyte...

I want to take you a few moments back, when Acer has officially announced its plans for 2011 concerning touch tablets. Some items were detailed a bit, while others were left in the dark, especially the Windows 7 Tablet with a docking keyboard, bearing an AMD chipset. We still don't know the official name of that tablet (nor do Acer's employees, I bet) but Laptopmag got the chance to play with it at CES 2011 and got very nice impressions. The first thing that catches your attention is the way the...

You know something becomes mainstream not when big companies are producing it, but when all the smaller brands are jumping on the bandwagon. And since Onkyo decides to launch Windows 7 tablets, we now know for sure Windows 7 is big on the tablet PC market.While Onkyo goes under the radar in the States, the name is pretty common in Japan. This is also thanks to its wacky designs: a pimped-out two-monitor laptop, Hello Kitty and Miffy-laptops, and the „Wireless headphones” wireless headpho...

Windows 7 is the best OS Microsoft has  build  in the last 10 years, users say that and sales numbers say that, but that doesn't mean you can throw Windows 7 on any gadget you like. The latest gadget to prove that is the HP Slate, which was caught on video by an Youtube user who posted the hands on preview for the world to see. Some say it's a fake, but I have to admit that that looks awfully like a Windows 7 Atom powered netbook, which is slow, very slow.The hardware seems pretty solid, w...

Tablet computers are sleek, shiny, cool-looking and handy, the trend of the year. They stand alongside smartphones and e-book readers in the march against conventional gadgets. While the technology itself hasn’t sunk in just yet, it is a good idea to look around and see what software developers are offering as the baseline for our future tablet applications.So in this post we're going to take a look at the mobile OS options for tablets, tablet PCs and netvertibles. Some of those OSes you'l...