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Nearly 50% of Windows 7 PCs run 64-bit versions

Posted Jul.09, 2010 under Microsoft, Windows 7

Microsoft said on Thursday that nearly half of all Windows 7 PCs are running 64-bit versions of the operating system.

Early indications that 64-bit adoption rate was much higher than 32 began earlier this year. Statistics, released in January, from Valve’s steam gaming software, showed that 64-bit Windows 7 was popular amongst gamers. Microsoft confirmed on Thursday that as of June, 46% of all PCs worldwide running Windows 7 are running a 64-bit edition of Windows 7. “Compared to Windows Vista at 3 and a half years after launch, only 11% of PCs running Windows Vista worldwide are running 64-bit,” said Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc.

Microsoft’s success with Windows 7 began before the product was even widely available. Released in October 2009, the operating system has received praise from consumers, businesses and the media. In November 2009, Windows 7 managed to surpass Apple’s Snow Leopard market share in just two weeks. In early February it was revealed that Windows 7 had reached 10% market share in just three months. To further cement its success, Microsoft announced that Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history, selling over 150 million licenses to date. The company is projected to sell 300 million by the end of 2010, a goal that Microsoft could easily achieve.

Windows 7 has also driven an uptake of 64-bit computing. According to ChangeBASE research, conducted with senior IT decision makers, more than 65% of businesses hoped to migrated to Windows 7 within 12 months of its release. Over 50% of those migrating will be choosing the 64-bit route.

Screenshots of a Windows 7 post RTM build showed up on the web in February, fueling speculation that Microsoft is compiling early Windows 8 builds. The successor to Windows 7 will likely be available in 2011 as an ex-Microsoft worker penned July 2011 as the RTM date for Windows 8.

Microsoft is currently readying its first Service Pack for Windows 7. Technical beta testers recently received build 7601.16562.100603-1800. A public beta version will be available in July with a final release expected in September this year.

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Microsoft confirms new 64-bit Windows 7 vulnerability

Posted May.19, 2010 under Microsoft, Windows 7

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is investigating a publicly reported vulnerability in the Windows Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll) affecting 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

The flaw resides in the Canonical Display Driver, used by desktop composition to blend the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) and DirectX drawing. The issue affects Windows 7 x64, Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, and Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium systems.  It is possible that the vulnerability could allow code execution, although successful code execution is unlikely due to memory randomization. If a malicious user were able to exploit the flaw it would “likely cause the affected system to stop responding and restart” according to a Microsoft spokesperson.

The flaw only affects systems running Windows Aero, which is disabled by default on Windows Server 2008 R2. “We’re currently developing a security update for Windows that will address the vulnerability”, said Jerry Bryant – Manager of Response Communications at Microsoft. Bryant also advised that Windows 7 users could disable Windows Aero as a workaround to protect against potential threats.

Microsoft has issued a Security Advisory with full information on the vulnerability. According to security researchers Secunica, the flaw was originally discovered in April 2009 on an Irfanview forum. Secunica is rating the issue as “less critical”.

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Windows 7 64-bit adoption rate higher than 32-bit for gamers

Posted Feb.08, 2010 under Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

It’s well known now that Windows 7 has made a big splash in the operating system market, surpassing all expectations of consumers and even Microsoft.  There is also another interesting surprise, and that is from gamers, according to a Steam hardware survey.

Gamers that are familiar with Steam know that you can take a hardware survey which assists developers to learn gamers latest hardware trends.  Each month Steam posts their statistics on the average specs for gamers, along with detailed information about the most popular hardware and software brands, including operating systems, like Windows 7.

Based on Steam’s January 2010 information, Windows 7 64-bit is used by 19.50% of all Steam users compared to 9.03% for Windows 7 32-bit.  Windows 7 managed to take 28.53% of all users, up +5.47% from last month.  Windows XP is still dominant with 42.78%, down 2.63% from last month.

All other Windows based operating systems including Vista (64-bit/32-bit), Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 are all down from last month.

The average Steam user is running an Intel chip (69.06%) which has 2 CPU’s (56.93%), using a DirectX10 (48.94%) NVIDIA graphics card (65.01%).  The average user has 2GB of RAM with a primary resolution of 1280 x 1024.

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µTorrent 2.0 Build 16546 Beta Released

Posted Sep.21, 2009 under Other Technology, Windows

µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients. With µTorrent, you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth. Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

Changelog:

  • Fix: fixed crashes in setup guide
  • Fix: graying out custom toolbars with transparency
  • Change: Disable Ask for unsupported 64-bit Windows

News source: Official website
 Download: µTorrent 2.0 Beta

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