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Ask about our Windows 7 specials! We are now doing Windows 7 upgrades at a very special rates for a limited time only. 

Windows 7 Screenshots , notes and review:

I'll add some more notes and a complete review when I have more time. For now a number of screenshots of Microsofts new OS with my notes.

Discuss further by asking questions or commenting below or in this forum.

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I’m helping Microsoft test the new Windows Release Candidate. My testing machine is a Intel Core 2 Quad with 1GB of ram. I’ll be delivering windows 7 systems to clients in the near future if your interested contact us.

Bundled Applications.

I believe the start menu and task bar will change before the official release. I’m working with Microsoft on fine tuning this setup. More to come.

Windows 7 RC 1 released -

Based on the email below I would bet that the RTM / release will be later this summer. Hold off on buying a PC if you can.

Also if your interested in purchasing Windows 7 systems preconfigured before the release date let me know. I'm currently working with Microsoft on the new version of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 testing it out on my 2009 line of workstations and servers to ensure the best compatibility. Once the RTM is release I'll be shipping out Windows 7 systems to clients that have preordered. All of my systems come with limited lifetime warrenty's.

From: Microsoft <Microsoft@newsletters.microsoft.com>
Date: Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Subject: Announcing Windows 7 Release Candidate
To: captaingeek - at - gmail.com

Caution be extremely cautious when doing business with creative labs and there web cam / audio hardware business. They have serious driver and software upkeep issues.  I have a lot experience with the Live! Cam Voice series as well as their sound blaster series of hardware. I've been tesing this unit for the past 6 months and have been using Creative hardware for the past decade.
 
Driver issues:
 
I've had a heck of a time getting their Live! Cam Voice working in Windows XP as well as Vista. Both 32 and 64 bit editions:
I saw this webcam at frys for about $35. Great deal for 640 x 480 30 fps video - but!
Needs to be plugged into and installed on only 1 usb port. If you move to another USB port the driver WILL NEED TO BE REINSTALLED!!! USB hub? forget about it!
 
Besides driver issues this webcam stinks! The software applications that come with it stink! Do not buy this cam!
 
When Windows 8 comes out they will no longer provide drivers on their web site. Are you going to have the install CD that came with your 2005 webcam in 2012? No you'll have to search around the net for it and find out that its no longer supported by Creative Labs and that you can't use it anymore.
 
I have lots of old perfectly good sounds blaster sound cards but can't use any of the due to drivers not being available for vista.
 

 
 
 
INTRODUCTION
The most powerful and the most perfect expression of thought and feeling
through the medium of oral language must be traced to the mastery of
words. Nothing is better suited to lead speakers and readers of English
into an easy control of this language than the command of the phrase that
perfectly expresses the thought. Every speaker's aim is to be heard and
understood. A clear, crisp articulation holds an audience as by the spell
of some irresistible power. The choice word, the correct phrase, are
instruments that may reach the heart, and awake the soul if they fall upon
the ear in melodious cadence; but if the utterance be harsh and discordant
they fail to interest, fall upon deaf ears, and are as barren as seed sown
on fallow ground. In language, nothing conduces so emphatically to the
harmony of sounds as perfect phrasing--that is, the emphasizing of the
relation of clause to clause, and of sentence to sentence by the
systematic grouping of words. The phrase consists usually of a few words
which denote a single idea that forms a separate part of a sentence. In
this respect it differs from the clause, which is a short sentence that
forms a distinct part of a composition, paragraph, or discourse. Correct
phrasing is regulated by rests, such rests as do not break the continuity
of a thought or the progress of the sense.
GRENVILLE KLEISER, who has devoted years of his diligent life to imparting
the art of correct expression in speech and writing, has provided many
aids for those who would know not merely what to say, but how to say it.
He has taught also what the great HOLMES taught, that language is a temple
in which the human soul is enshrined, and that it grows out of life--out