I’m sure everyone already knows about, but the event is so big that I’m going to post it here anyway.  Windows 7 has finally officially been released today for the general public!  That means anyone can now purchase Windows 7 and begin using the glorified savior of the MS operating systems.  We all know that Vista was a flop and XP is over a decade old, so now we can finally celebrate the new!  Hooray!

And I bring to you Nanami Madobe – the character who is featured in the first 7777 copies of Windows 7 Ultimate DSP edition in Japan.  The first OS-tan marketed by the company themselves.

And for all of you college students out there (like me), you can go get yourself a copy of a $29.99 windows 7 home premium or windows 7 professional upgrade.  You can pretty much use this upgrade as long as you have some sort of windows on your computer already, so don’t sweat the small details (or just check out the requirements for upgrade over buying the full retail – I personally am upgrading from Windows 7 RC).

[$29.99 Upgarde]

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Google’s Chrome Frame is an open source plugin for Internet Explorers 6, 7, and 8 that essentially replaces the built in rendering engine with WebKit and Chrome’s Javascript VM.

Get it here.

What’s the point? The only reason anyone ever uses IE is to download another browser or view web pages that were foolishly designed for it.

I think we’ll be seeing this pushed in Google Pack or suggested by GMail, YouTube, etc. alongside Chrome. According to the Google Code page,  developers need to do as little as add a single tag to direct IE users to the Chrome Frame download page. If someone’s too reluctant to use Chrome, adding a plugin to Microsoft’s bulky browser might be a little more painless, from the user’s perspective, and it lets Google control exactly how its applications are displayed.

Update: Although it’s written on the download page, it’s important to note Chrome Frame is for “Windows Vista and XP SP2.” I’ve tried it on both Windows 7 and Windows XP SP3, and it didn’t work in both cases (Windows simply used Trident, even after a reboot, despite Chrome Frame being active in the plugins manager).

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So what’s really creating problems for Microsoft right now?  It’s the users who do not want to give up on their dated machines that are still running Windows XP.  With 71.8 percent of the market share still running XP, things look pretty bleak at the moment.  This means 71.8% of all people with computers are still using an OS that was released about 8 years ago.

Fortunately, with Windows 7 around the corner, there is hope!  Recently usage of XP has been dropping in favor Vista and 7.  When Windows 7 does finally get released for the general public on October 22, we’ll see what actually happens though.

[Contents via ComputerWorld Blogs]

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Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling Microsoft Word, which is its word processor that is included with MS Office.  It was found that the software had violated i4i Inc’s patent on “manipulating a document’s content and architecture separately,” or in other words, the ability to open documents containing custom XML.  In addition to not being able to sell Word any longer, Microsoft also has to pay $240 million dollars in damages to i4i.

Frankly this doesn’t surprise me all that much, I am sure Microsoft still has software that violates many patents but none of course which have been banned from sales.  Microsoft have appealed and a higher court will probably overrule this.

More details about what custom xml here [ZDNet]

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