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Microsoft released the financial results for the second quarter that included a 14% increase in revenue and a 60% increase in profit from the same quarter last year. Microsoft reported EPS (earnings per share) of $0.74 that surprised Wall Street with most analysts predicting $0.59. The improved results were helped by "Exceptional demand for Windows 7," according to Microsoft CFO Peter Klein. In fact, Microsoft says that it sold over 60 million Windows 7 licenses since the launch on October 22nd which make it the fastest selling operating system in Microsoft history.

The latest edition of the "Seven Behind Windows 7" series featuring Microsoft employees focuses on Aaron Dietrich's job on the Windows Client Performance team. Focused purely on performance, the Windows Client Performance team works in conjunction with other teams to help analyze and resolve issues.

According to a new report by comScore the number of searches on Microsoft's Bing search engine increased 70% last year. The number of searches increased by 1.6 billion to just over 4 billion in total. Global search counts increased by 46%. Google is still in first place with a massive lead of 87 billion searches.

The tweak of the day everyone is talking about is the so called Windows 7 "God Mode." Simply create a new folder, call it GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and you will have a shortcut to every setting on your computer. Sounds great right? The problem is no new features or settings are exposed. Only a list of tasks that can be accomplished within Control Panel that Windows 7 and Vista use for start menu and control panel search.

According to Rafael at the Within Windows blog Microsoft may preparing to test Windows 7 SP1 with external testers. Similar to Windows Vista service pack beta tests, a special registry key is set on computers eligible to receive the beta service pack via Windows Update. While the registry key has been identified the value (secret download ID) is unknown.

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