Decorating the Trees theme

Bringing a note of holiday cheer to forest and garden, these festive ornaments brighten trees’ winter robes of snow and ice. Download this free Windows 7 theme to decorate your desktop for the season.

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Decking the Halls theme

Fa-la-la-la-la! ‘Tis the season to be jolly, join the chorus, and don your most festive apparel. And don’t forget to decorate your PC with colorful ornaments, gold ribbon, and candles for this joyous time by downloading this free holiday Windows 7 theme for your desktop.

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Additional Sources:

• 50 Christmas And New Year Desktop Wallpapers [Hongkiat]
• Roundup: 40 HD Christmas Wallpapers [Crispme]
• Desktop Wallpapers: Christmas Edition [Smashing Magazine]

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Windows Phone official demo page is specially meant for non-Windows Phone devices, so that other mobile platform users can virtually have hands-on with the interface and basic functions of Windows Phone OS. The demo also works perfectly on Google Chrome browser, allowing everyone to test it without owning an actual Windows Phone (WP7) device. Alternatively, you can chose to install Windows Phone SDK that includes Windows Phone Emulator, in case you’re interested in having a detailed demo of the same.

The WP7 demo page offers access to the default Metro UI home screen with main phone widgets actively working such as Phone, Messaging, Calendar, Pictures, People, etc. You can continue checking other options and functions by tapping the blue button or swiping between screens. The interface look simply awesome, just give it a try out!

Link - http://aka.ms/wpdemo

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Trick or Treat theme

Dress up your desktop for Halloween with the cheerfully glowing jack-o’-lanterns and sweet candy treats in this free Windows 7 theme.

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Ticket to Fear theme

The theme packs a total of 8 fearsome wallpapers and also an Autumn sound theme.

Open the creaking door to a virtual haunted house with this free Windows 7 theme. These ghastly ghouls are guaranteed to send a Halloween shiver up your spine, so don’t blame us if you scream!

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We wish all our spooky readers a Happy Halloween in advance.

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The Forza Motorsport 4 is an incredibly awesome theme for Windows 7 that comes packed with a collection of 17 fantastic desktop backgrounds featuring some the best and super cars like McLaren F1, Jaguar XFR, Mercedes Benz SLS AMG. All the wallpapers have a high-resolution of 1920×1200, so you can easily use them on big monitors.

List of 16 Car Wallpapers included in ‘Forza Motorsport 4’ Theme Pack -

• 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa
• 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport
• 2010 Jaguar XFR
• 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
• 2002 Ferrari Enzo
• 2011 Koenigsegg Agera
• 2010 Mosler MT900S
• 1993 McLaren F1
• 2011 AlfaRomeo Giulietta
• 2012 BMW M5
• 2011 Ruf Rgt8
• 2008 Lamborghini Reventon
• 2011 Mini Clubman
• 2010 Aston Martin V12 Vantage
• 2011 BMW 1M Coupe
• 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia

Download Forza Motorsport 4 Theme

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Key Features include:

- With push email get messages on your phone without delay
- Synced calendar and contacts
- View your folders in Hotmail, including sub folders
- Send pictures from your phone using Hotmail
- Supports multiple Hotmail accounts
- Send, receive and view attachments

Requires Android 2.1 and above.

Download Here [Market link]

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Below is an excerpt from the official press release:

Windows Server 8: The Cloud-Optimized Server Operating System

Windows Server 8 applies Microsoft’s experience building and operating the Windows Azure public cloud to provide a cloud-optimized operating system focused on delivery of applications, interoperability within today’s diverse IT environments, high-performance virtualization and strong links to public clouds.

Windows Server 8 provides multi-tenant infrastructure for cloud services with significant enhancements to help reduce the costs of high availability and to automate service management. As an open application and Web platform that shares common management, identity and development tools with Windows Azure, Windows Server 8 empowers developers and IT professionals to deliver services across their choice of private and public cloud environments, or a combination of both.

The Windows Server 8 Developer Preview is available to MSDN subscribers. Download here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/

Check ‘Windows Server 8: An Introduction’ for more details.

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MSDN subscribers can download the preview today as well as the new release of .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview. The general availability is on Friday, September 16.

Visual Studio 11 provides an integrated development experience that spans the entire lifecycle of software creation from architecture to code creation, testing and beyond. This release adds support for Windows 8 and HTML 5, enabling you to target platforms across devices, services and the cloud.  Integration with Team Foundation Server enables the entire team to collaborate throughout the development cycle to create quality applications.

Visual Studio 11 includes a set of templates that get you started quickly developing Metro style applications with JavaScript, C#, VB or C++.

.NET 4.5 has focused on top developer requests across all our key technologies, and includes new features for Asynchronous programming in C# and Visual Basic, support for state machines in Windows Workflow, and increased investments in HTML5 and CSS3 in ASP.NET.

• Download Visual Studio 11, NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview, and Team Foundation Server 11 [For MSDN Subscribers]

• Friday 10:00 AM PDT general availability for Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 can be downloaded.

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Source: Announcing Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview [MSDN Blogs]

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“We reimagined Windows,” said Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft, in his keynote address to the thousands of developers in attendance. “From the chipset to the user experience, Windows 8 brings a new range of capabilities without compromise.”

MS has decided to offer Windows 8 in 4 milestones just like they did with Windows 7, i.e. Developer Preview, Beta, RC and RTM. Soon, Windows 8 Developer Preview would be officially available for download both for 32-bit and 64-bit systems. It is a Free download that developers and testers can get to have first impressions of Windows 8 early build. Anyone can download the Windows 8 Developer build without requiring a MSDN or TechNet account. Moreover, you also don’t need to have a Live ID to get it.

Just visit ‘Windows Dev Center’ (http://dev.windows.com/) at 8 PM PT (8:30 AM IST). From there, you can download the Windows 8 Developer Preview and developer tools. You’ll also get the Windows Developer Preview guide, samples, forums, docs and other resources to build on Windows 8.

Windows 8 Test version doesn’t requires an activation and offers no support. Also, Windows 8 preview build requires a clean installation, you cannot upgrade or install it on your current Windows 7 installation.

Note: This is a developer release that is not meant to be used for daily usage as it may encounter bugs and wont be completely stable.

Update: The preview build does not include every feature shown in the Build Keynote.  The Developer Preview release DOES NOT include the Windows Store, Windows Live Metro style apps, and some of the user interface features. The focus of the preview is the API and development tools for building Metro style apps.

Windows 8 Developer Preview English ISO [Direct Download Links]

• 32-bit (x86) [Size: 2.8 GB]
• 64-bit (x64) [Size: 3.6 GB]

Download Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64) (4.8 GB)

System Requirements: Works great on the same hardware that powers Windows Vista and Windows 7:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
• Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch

>> Download Windows 8 Developer Preview Fact Sheet, Sep 2011

References:

• Welcome to Windows 8 – The Developer Preview
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