News - 10/22/2009 - Windows 7 launches

Windows 7 is available in the marketplace as of today, October 22, 2009. WildBlue engineers are completing their testing, and we are preparing KB articles around Windows 7 this week. We will make this content live just as soon as we have the final approval for this operating system. We'll have articles on:

• DHCP
• Renewing an IP address
• Configuring a dial-up connection
• Enabling an ethernet adapter

The lists of supported operating systems will also be updated.

Here's a link to Microsoft's Windows 7 Home page.  There are comparisons between XP, Vista, and Windows 7, as well as some video tours to get an idea on what this new operating system looks like.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/home?os=nonwin7 

Technical agents will want to check the new KB articles (coming soon) about configuring DHCP and Ethernet cards. Windows 7 now offers a short cut, near the system tray, that opens Network and Sharing Center in one step. See the screen shots below.

   

F-secure 

Customer running Windows 7 and F-Secure Anti-virus will need to upgrade to version 9. The F-secure download article now delivers version 9.

Optimizer

Engineering is continuing their testing on the current versions of Optimizer in Windows 7. We will know more this week.

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