Until now, Microsoft has remained pretty tight-lipped on Windows 7 SP1, and the only information we have thus far on it is the leaked info from an array of sources, primarily Russian enthusiast site WZOR. However, today, amongst a flurry of virtualization-related chatter, Microsoft said a little something about SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

On the Windows 7 front, nothing much ..

On Thursday, Microsoft has announced that Windows XP Mode no longer requires hardware virtualization technology to run; this means that if you happen to have an older system with a CPU incapable of supporting virtualization, and this prevented you from making the switch to 7 as you or your business needed applications that would only work through XP Mode, you can now upgrade to 7 and take advant..

While we haven’t had the largest coverage because of the lack of staffers being able to attend the conference, we have been doing what we can to get some of the most important highlights of MIX here at GeekSmack, but at the time of this writing, MIX is over, and here’s what we saw this year.

Windows Phone 7 in detail

While we got a little look of Windows Phone 7 at Mobile World Congress in Febr..

Portuguese site Livebetas has managed to get their hands on the Wave 4 beta of the Windows Live Essentials applications. Unfortunately, the have only released some screenshots of the apps instead of actually leaking the goods.

The build, 15.2.2585.0122, provides us with a peek to what it will all look at later on (the author suggests that the public beta will launch in May).

As ..

If you’re waiting to get your grubby hands on the newest build of Internet Explorer, now’s your chance. At MIX ‘10 Microsoft announced that IE9 will be available for developers to test and develop upon.

The new release, as highlighted before brings some welcomed additions to the IE Platform:

GPU Acceleration HTML5 Support CSS3 Support Dynamic Imaging (via HTML and SVG) SunSpi..

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Upon going to check my email as I usually do, when confronted by the WL login page, I noticed that it looked a little different. It appears that Microsoft are rolling out a new logon page for the Windows Live suite of services. This isn’t Wave 4 though, as, upon logging in, it’s still the same ol’ Wave 3 suite of services. This new logon design is not only on Hotmail, but als..