Emergence Day Revealed: Critically Acclaimed Xbox 360 Title “Gears of War” to Surface Nov. 12, 2006

Countdown begins for the most anticipated game of 2006 as gamers eagerly await the flagship title from Microsoft Game Studios and Epic Games.
microsoft - comments - 3.8.2006

ATITool 0.27 Beta 1

ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI video cards. Design target is to write a light-weight application for the enthusiast - so no questionable registry tweaks.
download - comments - 28.2.2007

BIG Comparison of 27 BitTorrent clients

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of BitTorrent clients. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.
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Windows Home Server, officially available August 27

If there’s one computing server product every enthusiast and home-user should be excited about, that would not be Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition for Itanium-Based Systems..
windows - comments - 17.8.2007

27 Vista SP1 Copies Running Simultaneously on the Same Machine

Microsoft never contested the fact that Windows Vista's hardware requirements qualified the latest Windows client as resource hungry, but at the same time, the company did point out that, given the right system, the platform would deliver quite a performance.
windows - comments - 9.6.2008

February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch

Microsoft announced at its partner conference on July 10 that it will launch Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 together in a single launch on February 27, 2008, in Los Angeles.
microsoft - comments - 10.7.2007

MS Office 2010 Build 14.0.4417.1000 Download Link and Screenshot Gallery

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jcxp.net - 05.09.2009

April 4, 1975: Bill Gates, Paul Allen Form a Little Partnership

1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-soft. It will grow into one of the largest U.S. corporations and place them among the world's richest people.



Gates and Allen had been buddies and fellow Basic programmers at Lakeside School in Seattle. Allen graduated before Gates and enrolled at the University of Washington. They built a computer based on an Intel 8008 chip and used it to analyze traffic data for the Washington state highway department, doing business as Traf-O-Data.




winbeta.org - 04.04.2008

Paul Allen wants to clean your Outlook in-box

It's been quite a while since Paul Allen worked to make Microsoft's products better, but he's doing just that.



While he hasn't rejoined the software maker he left more than 25 years ago, Allen is backing an effort to improve Microsoft Outlook. Allen's Vulcan Ventures announced on Monday the launch of its Xiant subsidiary and a beta of its first product, Xiant Filer. It is available as a free, 60-day trial, and Vulcan plans to eventually sell downloads of the product directly as well as through other Web sites.




winbeta.org - 23.06.2009

The happiest Vista customers: Mac users?

Microsoft blogger Joshua Allen has a post over on the Microsoft VisitMix blog that already has raised some Mac users hackles.



In a post entitled, œOur Newest Vista OEM: Apple,� Allen cites a few stats that are interesting (though, so far at least, not independently verifiable from what I can tell from the post). Allen said:

• Vista runs great on Macs
  
• Ten percent of all new Vista licenses are sold to Macintosh owners
  
• Mac owners are more satisfied with Vista than average

Why are Mac users allegedly happier with Vista? Allen suggested a few theories that he mentioned in the comments on the original post. (His comments are not currently working; not sure if he closed them intentionally or this is just a temporary error.)




winbeta.org - 28.11.2007

Paul Allen Files Patent Lawsuits Against Entire Web ¦ Except Microsoft

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has filed far-reaching patent lawsuits against Google, Apple, Yahoo, Netflix, Facebook, AOL and eBay, among others, alleging the companies violated patents owned by his now-defunct idea lab Interval Research.



The four patents at issue allegedly cover basics of online commerce, including recommending products to a user based on what they are currently looking at, and allowing readers of a news story to see other stories based on the current one. Two other patents relate to showing other information on a web page, such as news updates or stock quotes...




winbeta.org - 28.08.2010

Paul Allen applies to bid in U.S. wireless auction

A venture led by Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) co-founder Paul Allen has applied to bid in an upcoming U.S. auction of coveted wireless airwaves, according to auction documents released late on Tuesday.



Allen was listed with an entity called Vulcan Spectrum LLC among the applicants who filed to bid in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction of 700-megahertz spectrum, which is scheduled to begin on January 24.




winbeta.org - 19.12.2007

Microsoft First Office Up for Sale

I sense a Neowin member with a lot of cash donating us a piece of history with our newly crowned Neowin HQ in the US.

According to property retailers Commercial Association of Realtors New Mexico, the first office where Bill Gates and Paul Allen made Microsoft a reality will set you back a cool $82,950 for 1,185 square feet of office and storage space

The description is as follows: Own a piece of history, the original building where Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed Microsoft is now For Sale. Property offers a variety of floor plans for retail, office or warehouse uses. Condominium Association rules apply. Value priced and centrally located to NE and SE Heights and New Mexico State Fair grounds (EXPO New Mexico).


neowin.net - 27.11.2007

Gates talks Buffett, Allen at award dinner

At a dinner to honor friend Paul Allen this evening, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates noted that he was talking to Warren Buffett on a daily basis to understand the shaky markets.



"Over the last two weeks, I've talked to my friend Warren Buffett most days to figure out what's going on," Gates said.



He then deadpanned a Buffett joke...




winbeta.org - 31.10.2008

8 laptop bags that will speed you through airport security

While no one questions the need to properly scan laptops when going through airport security, the requirement to remove them from their protective cases is a different story. "Naked" notebooks can easily get dropped, damaged, forgotten and even stolen outright. One study done for Dell estimated that about 12,000 laptops are lost in U.S. airports every week -- a claim that has been challenged by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Whatever the numbers are, you don't want your machine, with all its precious data, to become a statistic.




winbeta.org - 12.09.2008

First Woman named Winner of Prestigious Computing Award

For the first time since its debut in 1966, the A.M. Turing Award, which is granted by the Association for Computer Machinery, has been awarded to a woman. Frances Allen, a 74-year-old IBM Fellow Emerita at the T.J. Watson Research Center, started her career as a computer scientist in the 1950s. Allen has been the recipient of several other industry honours over the years; she has been honoured for her significant contributions in compiler design and program optimization (her work led to advances in parallel and high-speed computing including techniques still used today). However, of all her contributions to computing, Allen says she is " particularly delighted " about how her work led to simulated testing of nuclear bombs, " rather than exploding " the real thing.

Currently, Allen is retired but still has an office at IBM, where she continues to mentor both women and men. She was educated in mathematics and says her career began at a time when computer science degrees were rare and women were a more prevalent presence in early technology work. The shortage of women today in IT " is getting worse, that wasn't always the case ," she says. Today, women with strong aptitude in math and science are more drawn to professions in biology and medicine rather than IT because women often perceive " more social good " in those other careers, she says. However, as high-performance computing continues to evolve, especially in areas such as health care and medical research, Allen says she's hopeful more women will be drawn to the tech field. Along with the prestige of the Turing award, Allen will receive a $100,000 cash prize funded by Intel at a ceremony in June. She plans to establish a fund for educating young girls in remote areas of the world where the opportunity to go to school is slim or nonexistent.


neowin.net - 23.02.2007

Google Presentations gets embeddable slide shows

The Google Docs team, has posted on their blog about the availability of a few new features for Google Presentations to start off the new year. The most significant of the new features is the ability to embed slide shows in web pages. It's not a surprise that Google decided to go this route, given the huge success of embeddable video with YouTube and other embeddable content around the web.








winbeta.org - 06.01.2008

New web threat takes advantage of iFrame vulnerability, making its way to the U.S.

Security firm Trend Micro said that it has discovered a new threat that is currently making the rounds on the Internet. The threat is based on an iFrame vulnerability in webpage code to plant a keylogger to steal user passwords, or turn computers into proxy servers for various other attacks.

Trend Micro said that the threat could have originated from a computer Trojan-making kit and relies on a scenario in which website owners are unaware that they are compromised, and website users are unaware that surfing through seemingly legitimate pages can actually be part of an infection process. This process, according to the security firm, involves a malicious IP address that is inserted into the HTML code (HTML_IFRAME.CU), a download of malicious Trojans (TROJ_SMALL.HCK, TROJ_AGENT.UHL, TROJ_PAKES.NC, PAKES) from another URL via a JavaScript routine.

TrendMicro said that the threat was initially detected in Italy, but apparently is making its way to the U.S.


winbeta.org - 19.06.2007

Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) screencast “ Build a Custom Bootdisk

Chris Henley just released a new screencast on his œBlue� blog.  This time our master storyteller has created a screencast on Windows PE.  In the screencast Chris shows you how to get up and running in 17 minutes on a topic thats a bit tricky the first time you do it.  Chris has more information in the subject in his blog post at http://blogs.technet.com/chenley/archive/2008/08/27/custom-win-pe-images.aspx.  Theres a direct link there to the video in case you want to download it and watch it offline.




winbeta.org - 28.08.2008

Obama inauguration: potentially the 'most viewed event' in history?

betanews.com - 19.01.2009

Microsoft Announces Game for Nintendo DS

Although we probably wont ever be seeing Mario on the Xbox, one of Microsofts latest franchises will be hitting a Nintendo system.


Microsoft announced at Comic Con that Viva Piñata is headed to the Nintendo DS. The title will be based off the current title for Xbox 360 (also slated for the PC later this year) rather than the Party Animals mini-games package. The Microsoft-owned game developer studio Rare will be handling the development of this title in-house.


Rare describes the upcoming title in a news update on its website, œThis is a full-size Viva Piñata game in your pocket, featuring not only the entire range of paper beasts from the Xbox 360 title but also a few new ones thrown in to spice things up for those familiar with the established cast.�..
winbeta.org - 31.07.2007

Patent troll or not, Paul Allen finds a friend in Steve Wozniak

Is there some kind of secret brotherhood of lesser-known Microsoft and Apple founders? Steve Wozniak, the Apple co-founder better known as Woz, is voicing some surprisingly strong support for Paul Allen and the Microsoft co-founder's patent litigation against Google, Apple, Facebook and other tech giants.



Asked about the lawsuit during a video interview with Bloomberg News, Wozniak says he's "not at all against the idea of patent trolls," and he believes Allen's suit represents the fact that inventors have rights under the U.S. patent system...




winbeta.org - 01.09.2010

AMD shows sunny side of Barcelona

Advanced Micro Devices is ready to start fighting back against Intel with silicon, but Intel has an answer in the waiting.

AMD demonstrated its Barcelona quad-core server chip for reporters and analysts here Monday, comparing its performance to one of AMD's dual-core Opteron processors. This marked the first time AMD shared Barcelona performance information with anyone outside of its server partners and internal folks, said Randy Allen, corporate vice president for server and workstations at AMD.

The company is on track to ship Barcelona in production volumes sometime around the middle of this year, Allen said. Server vendors already have samples of the quad-core chip, and systems are expected to start arriving in the third quarter, he said.

Barcelona represents AMD's current hope for returning to profitability by stabilizing its server processor prices. The company has been forced to dramatically cut the prices of its dual-core Opteron processors to compete with Intel's quad-core server processors, which have been on the market since last November...
winbeta.org - 22.05.2007

Report: Adobe CS3 to Debut March 27

An analyst with Merrill Lynch says that Adobe will likely introduce Creative Suite 3 around March 27, with a ship date that would follow shortly afterwards. Most important to this refresh would be native support for Intel processors on the Macintosh platform...
betanews.com - 21.02.2007

AMD Readies Shanghai to Battle Nehalem

Advanced Micro Devices is making it clear that its upcoming 45-nanometer processor for servers—"Shanghai"—will compete against what Intel brings to market with its new line of processors based on the upcoming "Nehalem" microarchitecture. According to AMD Senior Vice President Randy Allen, the chip will ship in Q4 2008, and his company will be ready with its server products before Intel. " They won't be factoring our 45-nanometer Shanghai product and be making shipments of that by the end of the year ," Allen said.

However, despite much talk about how Shanghai will be competing against Nehalem, there was a notable absence of details about Shanghai during Allen's press conference, held on the eve of the Intel Developer's Forum, including specifics on performance improvements. AMD has previously said Shanghai will contain 6MB of Level 3 cache compared with the 2MB of L3 cache in the company's current crop of quad-core Opteron processors. Something AMD has in its favor is that the Shanghai chips will be compatible with the current group of Opteron chips. With BIOS update, users can upgrade their systems fairly easily, which should help AMD move the products into the marketplace.


neowin.net - 17.08.2008

CNET.com Announces First "Webware 100" Award Winners

CNET.com today announced the winners of its first ever "Webware 100" Awards. The Webware 100 winners were picked by users from a group of finalists that were selected by the editors of Webware.com, a CNET site. The "Webware 100" Awards recognizes the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovations.



"True to the Web 2.0 revolution, the innovative sites and services in the Webware 100 were chosen by a community of users and our editorial team," said CNET Editor at Large, Rafe Needleman. "By leveraging the expertise of our editors, and the passion of our users, were able to recognize the companies that are redefining how we use computers and the Internet."

These are the results: the top 100 Web apps, 10 in each of 10 categories, determined by Webware readers and the fans of the sites that made the final cut.


winbeta.org - 19.06.2007