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According to Computer world Windows 7 adoption rate has been twice that of Windows Vista. According to the article Windows 7 gained 7.5% world market share in just 4 months. If the same trend continues then we can expect to see 90% adoption of Windows 7 in just 4 YEAR!!!!! 

While this might just be wishful thinking I think there are a number of factors will make Windows 7 adoption continue to grow.

1. The booming Netbook market almost exclusively loads Windows 7 Starter Edition
2. Many corporation have been sitting on Windows Vista (therefore Windows 7) capable hardware. This makes the capital cost for upgrade to Windows 7 much lower than before when Windows Vista almost demanded a hardware refresh.
3. Combined with number 2 is the pent up pressure of large organisations that decided to skip Windows Vista for whatever reason but now want to move to a more modern OS.
4. If 4+ gb ram systems are to take advantage of than the 4gb ram 32bit OS limit then they need to be running 64bit version of the OS. It would seem that the gaming community have already caught on this this fact as show by the ArsTechnica report that shows that the 64bit versions of Windows 7 is more popular than the 32bit. Probably because gamers are tech savvy enough to realise that to take advantage of the extra ram then need a the right OS to go along with it. While there was a 64bit version of Windows XP and Vista the lack of driver support greatly hindered their adoption. But with more and more computers now coming with greater than 4gb of ram as out of the box OEM’s have no option but to sell Windows 7 64bit.

One of the great side affect of this will also be the eradication of the now very old, quirky and insecure Internet Explorer 6 which will causes no end of grief for web developers and IT administrators. Hooray!

Source: Windows 7 early adoption beats Vista’s 2 to 1

9to5mac.com just published a video of the Safari browser in action on the iPad emulator…

Source: iPad Safari on iPhone 3.2 SDK Simulator Walkthrough

Microsoft Press have another bargain for everyone, this time they are giving away a eBook called “Understanding Microsoft Virtualization R2 Solutions”. This book pretty much give an overview of all the Microsoft Virtualisations technologies and how they can be used in your environment.

Here is a chapter overview of what you get in the book.

Chapter 1: Why Virtualization?
Chapter 2: Server Virtualization (Hyper-V)
Chapter 3: Local Desktop Virtualisation (Med-V & App-V)
Chapter 4: Remote Desktop Virtualization (VDI & RDS)
Chapter 5: Virtualization Management (SCVMM)
Chapter 6: Cloud Computing (Azure)

What is really nice is that you don’t need to register to download the books so to download all 466 pages of this virtualisation goodness click the links below.

PDF Version
XPS Version

Source: Microsoft Press : Free ebook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization R2 Solutions

LinkedIn has just released a connector for Outlook Social Connector you can get the connector from here. http://www.linkedin.com/outlook . They also announced that a connector will be coming soon for Facebook and MySpace.

See the video below for the announcement and a demo.

Someone needs to tell BNN that Windows 7 is not a phone operating system…

See it for yourself at http://watch.bnn.ca/the-close/february-2010/the-close-february-16-2010/#clip267305