WGA and OGA Servers Down
According to Ars Technica, the servers responsible for activating new installs of Windows and Office are currently down due to an unspecified reason.
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20.7.2008 Vista Downloads Maxing Out Its Servers
Order the DVD instead, Microsoft says, as downloads of Windows Vista Beta 2 cause the company's servers to experience extremely high demand.
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13.6.2006 Intel inside again for new Google servers
Intel, armed with a custom-designed motherboard, has reclaimed Google as a server customer after a year watching the search powerhouse give its business to Advanced Micro Devices, CNET News.com has learned.
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27.1.2007 Microsoft WGA servers are fixed, but..
no word on what went wrong. Microsoft has fixed whatever caused a massive worldwide outage of its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) system that seemed to last just under 24 hours.
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26.8.2007 Microsoft starting to win over Linux servers
Microsoft is showing some early signs of success with a version of Windows geared for a technical computing market that Linux dominates today.
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10.4.2007 Intel 2-way servers to get 45nm boost in 4Q
The 2-way server market can expect a boost of holiday season cheer in the fourth quarter as Intel is lining up to launch 12 new processors based on its latest 45nm designs, according to sources at server makers.
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1.9.2007 Reduce the Load MSNBot Delivers to Servers
Microsoft is currently rolling out a range of improvements to its Windows Live platform of services and applications.
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21.4.2008 Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked
Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government -- have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in Microsoft Windows to install malicious software on visitors' machines.
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28.4.2008 Microsoft Ships Early Betas Of 'Cougar' And 'Centro' Servers
Microsoft has released early beta versions of its "Cougar" upgrade of Small Business Server and "Centro," a new integrated server suite for midsize businesses.
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3.1.2007 Silverlight 3 in 2009
Having made available for download version 2 of its Adobe Flash killer, Microsoft is already moving onward to the next iteration.
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18.11.2008 Windows 7 - the End of 2009
As much as Microsoft is trying to make the availability date for the next iteration of the Windows client ambiguous, officially pointing to a development process scoped for 2010, Windows 7 is actually dropping at the end of 2009, were we to believe Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.
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28.5.2008 Windows 7 Available on September 1, 2009
As Microsoft is making its way to the release to manufacturing milestone of Windows 7, the company confirmed that the gold build of the operating system would be made available to customers months ahead of October 22, 2009, the official launch deadline.
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14.7.2009 Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009
With Vista just out the door, Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components.
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10.2.2007 Internet Explorer 8? 2008? 2009?
Internet Explorer 8 followed by a question mark and an interrogatory tone is about all that can be said about the successor of Internet Explorer 7 at this point in time.
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1.10.2007 Norton 2009 tackles whitelisting
Symantec has adopted whitelising techniques in an effort to dramatically improve the performance of its upcoming Norton 2009 security suite, according to the company's vice president of consumer engineering, Rowan Trollope.
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12.9.2008 FIFA 2009 Demo Released
Electronic Arts is getting ready to launch the most anticipated soccer related game of the year, FIFA 2009, and they are preparing gamers for the shock by releasing a demo.
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14.9.2008 Windows Live Messenger 2009
Due to a request from Microsoft, this download has been removed temporarily. However, Windows Live Messenger 9 will be available for download here as soon as it is oficially published. Check back often to ensure you don't miss it!
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19.11.2008 Windows 7 RTM in October 2009
Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing in 2009, more precisely in the third quarter of this year, with information from a leaked product roadmap pointing to the first half of October 2009.
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25.2.2009 Messenger Plus! Live 2009 contest
Patchou has announced his 2009 Messenger Plus! Live contest with no less than 1,000 prize packages up for grabs.
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12.7.2009 Patch Tuesday for September 2009
Microsoft's Security Bulletin for September contains five critical bulletins for release on Tuesday to block Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems.
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5.9.2009 September 2009 Security Patches
This month MS released five critical bulletins to address vulnerabilities in Windows and protect customers from two types of threats.
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9.9.2009 Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009
Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and most are delaying any plans to upgrade until 2009 at the earliest.
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29.11.2007 Keep Windows XP Until 2009, Analysts Tell Microsoft
Microsoft may have pushed a too-aggressive XP transition schedule because of how long it took to release Vista, an analyst suggests.
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9.2.2008 Ballmer: Office 14 will not be released in 2009
During his annual “Strategic Update” briefing with Wall Street analysts on February 24, CEO Steve Ballmer said Office 14 won’t be shipping in 2009.
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24.2.2009 MMS 2009: System Center Roadmap
During the 2nd keynote on the Microsoft Managemetn Summit Brad Anderson gave an update on the Roadmap for System Center. Seems like 2011 will be a year with major updates for System Center products.
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3.5.2009 Windows 7 RTM in Late July 2009
Speculation on the deadline at which Microsoft will release Windows 7 to manufacturing not only abounds but also continues.
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9.7.2009 Windows 7 touch comes to life at PDC 2009
All week long, Neowin is live at PDC09 and we found some interesting demos of the future of multi-touch screens.
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17.11.2009 Office 14 slated for a 2009/2010 Release
The codename for the upcoming release of Office, currently slated for a 2009/2010 release timeframe, is Office “14.”
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15.2.2007 Windows Server 2008 R2 planned for 2009....
Microsoft is sticking to their promise of delivering a minor release after a major Windows Release.
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16.5.2007 Windows 7 debut in 2009? Another reason to skip Vista
If Windows 7 really is scheduled to make an appearance during the second half of 2009, does this mean that making the move to Vista is now a pointless effort?
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18.1.2008Sun Servers are Slow to Ship
Galaxy-class Sun Fire servers
ease into market; eight-core
Niagara servers to follow...
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04.11.2005Sun Launches New Low-Cost
Servers
Sun launched a new line of
servers on Monday that it
claims perform one-and-a-half
times better that its current
systems, while using only a
third of the power and costing
half as much as competing
products. The multi-core
servers use AMD Opteron
processors...
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13.09.2005IBM to debut Power6 servers Tuesday
IBM will introduce a
new generation of Unix servers
Tuesday, the first using its
Power6 processors, according
to sources familiar with the
plan.
Better
late than never. In 2004, IBM
said the Power6 processor was
supposed to ship in 2006.
IBM will likely release
only one Power6-based
mid-range server in the first
half of the year, said
sources, and follow with more
models in the second half.
Power6 servers can hold more
chips than those using the
Power5+. Power6 servers can
contain 64 chips; Power5+
servers maxed out at 32. ..
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18.05.2007More BetaPlace Servers Comming
Soon
Since the release of Microsoft
Office 2007 Beta 1 Technical
Refresh, Microsoft's
BetaPlace servers have been
swamped with anxcious beta
testers just waiting to get
their hands on the new build.
Although, there were more
users than Microsoft was
expecting.
Because of the traffic, the
servers have been running at
extremely slow speeds making
it very difficult for users to
access the page and the
product downloads.
Microsoft received
numerous reports of this
problem from users and are
currently adding more servers
to the BetaPlace site. The ETA
for the IT team installing the
new servers is 4-6 hours.
So good news
for all the testers, you will
soon be able to get your
download and once again have
fast access to BetaPlace..
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16.03.2006IBM Unveils Dual-Core Small
Business Servers
Redundancies, hot-swap
capabilities bolster new
Xeon-powered servers...
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28.09.20051000 Machines Find the Results for a Google Query
How many servers process a Google query and serve the top search results?
Google Fellow Jeff Dean says that more than a thousand machines
are necessary to obtain the search results in less than 200 milliseconds...
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19.02.2009Google reveals their once-secret servers
Google is relatively quiet when it comes to the way it operates, but a recent conference on Wednesday has had the company reveal the data servers they
use, and how they are put together. This may sound boring initially, but read on; Google certainly takes special care when it comes to data center
efficiency. CNet has reported this unveiling, as well as an interview with the creator of these servers. As you may know, many companies buy servers
from others companies like Dell and HP, but Google designs and builds their own unique computers. So how exactly are these special? Firstly, each
server has a 12-volt battery supply built into it, in case any power issues arise.
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03.04.2009Creating and Managing Local Groups on Servers and Desktops
How many Windows desktops does your company support? How many servers does your company have to house applications, files, printers, etc? Now,
consider that on all of these desktops and servers you must control the local groups that reside on them. I am sure that most of you answered well
over 1000 desktops and servers. That is a staggering number, considering that some of the servers might be in remote locations and some of the
desktops might be laptops which roam throughout the US or world. If you wanted to create a local group on all of these computers, how would you get
that done? Script? What if you wanted to ensure that the local Administrators group to have specific domain groups, such as the Domain Admins? How
long would it take to ensure that these settings are complete? With new Group Policy Preferences, these tasks are easy and certain to apply to all of
the desktops and servers that are designed to receive the settings.
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01.10.2008Cisco's new blade servers to compete with existing partners
Cisco Systems is going to go in direct competition with their existing partners such as IBM and HP with the release of their new blade server line.
Previously content to offer network connectivity solutions like routers and switches, Cisco is now going to provide multifunction computer servers
designed to cut IT costs while reducing energy usage. The new servers will use Intel CPUs and they will run Microsoft's Hyper-V technology and/or
VMWare's virtualization software. Blade servers are designed to minimize space and energy usage and, when combined with virtualization software,
will provide the technology that will allow these servers to perform multiple functions at once.
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17.03.2009IBM to Unwrap First Dual-Core
Xeon 'Paxville' Servers
Two 64-bit dual-core servers
are set to launch on Monday
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06.10.2005Downloaders declare open season on OpenOffice 3.0 servers
Flattened by popular demand: Servers hosting the final version of OpenOffice 3.0, released yesterday, have been struggling to keep up with would-be
downloaders...
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15.10.2008'Tukwila' Itanium servers due early next year, Intel said
Intel will start shipping a quad-core version of its Itanium processor to system vendors in about six months, with the first servers based on the chip
due in early 2009, Intel said Monday. Intel said the new chip, code-named Tukwila, will roughly double the performance of the current, dual-core
version of Itanium. Aside from the additional cores, Tukwila includes 30MB of on-chip cache memory -- about 15 percent more than its predecessor --
and Intel's QuickPath Interconnect technology, which should speed data transfer between components.
Intel won't say yet what
clock-speeds the chip will be offered at, except that it will launch at up to 2GHz. It will be manufactured using a 65-nanometer process, a step up
from the current Itanium. Itanium is designed for high-end servers running large databases, data warehouses, and transaction-heavy business
applications. Intel positions it as a substitute for RISC-type processors like IBM's Power and Sun's Sparc, and as a lower-cost alternative to
mainframes. Most Itanium servers are sold by Hewlett-Packard, although they are also offered by Fujitsu, NEC, and others.
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19.05.2008Software makes virtual servers a moving target
Carefully managed virtual servers can make the job of attackers more difficult by reducing the time that any one version of a server is exposed to the
Internet, according to a George Mason University professor who has developed software that phases virtual servers in and out of use.
By limiting how long virtual servers remain online and synchronizing their replacement with fresh servers, businesses can cut the damage hackers
inflict, says Arun Sood, a computer science professor at the school.
His software, called Self Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance, or
SCIT, resides on physical servers and coordinates the life cycle of the virtual servers. Sood has started privately funded SCIT Labs to create a
commercial SCIT product.
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20.06.2008Ten thousand servers hit in SQL injection hack
A brute force SQL injection onslaught that began on May 13 has infected a reported 10,000 servers, infecting thousands of Chinese and Taiwanese sites
with malware...
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20.05.2008The horror: 'Ghost servers' that haunt your bottom line
The problem may not rival the movies Poltergeist or The Amityville Horror for sheer terror, but CIOs and data center managers are still well advised
to deal decisively with so-called ghost servers. Like celluloid zombies, these forgotten pieces of equipment are dead when it comes to improving the
bottom line, but they are very much alive when it comes to eating up IT budgets.
The unproductive -- and usually undocumented --
servers take up valuable real estate, consume increasingly expensive electricity and, in some cases, absorb ongoing maintenance and lease payments.
"You can find ghost servers in a lot of enterprises," says John Phelps, an analyst at Gartner Inc. "And the larger and more
diverse the company, the harder it can be to have a single group or technology platform that provides control over all corporate assets."
Sun Microsystems Inc., through case studies of two large corporate data center operations and anecdotal analysis of efforts with many
customers, believes that 8% to 10% of all servers in large corporations have no identifiable function. In the two data center studies, 150 ghost
servers were found in an installation of 1,800 servers, and 354 ghost servers were found in an installation of 3,500 servers.
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26.09.2007Sun Introduces Eco-Friendly
Servers
Sun on Tuesday ushered in a
new era for the company by
introducing a line of servers
using its UltraSparc T1
processor, code-named Niagara.
Rather than focusing on
megahertz, Sun says,
developers instead looked to
pack more throughput onto each
piece of silicon...
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07.12.20052007 Microsoft Office Servers SP2 Available
The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides customers with the latest updates to all of the 2007 Office System servers (the
products that are affected by this update are listed below). This download includes two types of fixes:
- Previously unreleased fixes
that were made specifically for this service pack.
- In addition to general product fixes, this includes improvements in
stability, performance, and security.
- You can find out more information in Knowledge Base Article 953334, where product-specific changes are described.
- All of the
Public Updates, Security Updates, Cumulative Updates, and Hotfixes released through February 2009.
Before installing this service
pack, you are strongly encouraged to read
953334, which describes some big improvements
introduced by SP2, and also calls out some important information that you should be aware of before installing.
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28.04.2009HP MediaSmart Servers display demo with exclusive discount
One of the HP exhibits that caught my eye today wasn't one of the flashiest, didn't have a swag line a mile long, but what it did have was two
very interesting pieces of equipment representing a technology that I think more and more consumers are finding very appealing for their home. I'm
talking about a Windows Home Server, but more specifically the HP MediaSmart Servers lineup. HP MediaSmart Servers come in two lineups, the EX series
and LX series. As you can see the product lines feature solutions based on different needs of different consumer levels.
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17.06.2009Downtime
As you may have noticed,
JCXP's forums are currently
inoperable due to temporary
problems with our SQL
servers.
We are
not yet sure when the servers
will be returning to normal
function, however we have had
this problem in the past and
it should not be too
long.
Sorry for
the inconvenience and thank
you for your patience.
-JCXP Staff..
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18.04.2006HP shows more success in PCs, servers and storage than in printers
Hewlett-Packard is off to a great start for 2008, on the whole, turning in first quarter results that show growth across PCs, storage, servers, and
most other product categories...except, surprisingly enough, printers...
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