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

Microsoft hints at "porn browsing" feature in IE

One of the most interesting feature that didn’t quite make it into the final release of Firefox 3 is “Private Browsing”, a.k.a. porn mode.
microsoft - comments - 20.8.2008

Bloke wants 100% federal tax on internet porn

INTERWEB portal Netscape.com surprised me this morning by linking to a story titled "What's the effect of Porn?".

Apparently, some people still don't know, we guess. The story is based on a poll done last month by research firm Harris.
common - comments - 17.11.2005

'Porn' Worm Sent to 50,000 after Google Blunder

Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra email worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video email group.
common - comments - 9.11.2006

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.
common - comments -

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

Download and discuss:here

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jcxp.net - 05.09.2009

"Extreme" porn illegal in UK from 26 January

On 26 January, a new law will go in force in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland to make it a criminal offence to possess so-called "extreme" porn. But what is "extreme" porn?

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neowin.net - 25.01.2009

New Trojan Swaps Porn for Koran

Koran message chastises user when browser title bar shows something 'objectionable.'..
pcworld.com - 07.09.2005

Man pins child porn accusations on pet cat

Child porn is, understandably, a very serious offense; so much so that there's an entire TV show dedicated to catching those willing to have sex with a minor, thus potentially also guilty of the first crime. As you can expect, people will do near anything to escape charges, though sometimes they end up getting themselves into worse trouble than they initially were. One such example is a 48 year old man named Keith Griffin, as NBC Miami reports, who told police that his cat was the one behind the 1000+ child porn images on his computer.

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neowin.net - 08.08.2009

Windows Vista SP1 Beta Install Fair

The Windows Vista SP1 Deployment Team wanted me to pass along notice of an upcoming Install Fair being held here in Redmond at month's end; we've held events like this before and they've always been well received. You're welcome to drop by if you qualify and you're in the neighborhood.

Windows Vista SP1 Beta includes changes to improve performance, reliability, security and application compatibility.

• Date: 27 October 2007 from 9:00am to 3:00pm
• Location: Redmond Campus / Microsoft Conference Center (Building 33), McKinley Room
• Audience: Microsoft employees, friends & family
  Timeslots:
  • There are 2 timeslots with a maximum of 90 openings each for desktops
  • 9:00am to 12:00pm
  • 1:00pm to 3:00pm
  • There is 1 timeslot with a maximum of 20 openings for laptops
  • 9:00am to 3:00pm

Microsoft internal registrations: Install Fair Sign-up (first come, first served) (site is MS internal-only)
Public registrations must be made via email: Windows Vista SP1 Install Fair Registration (vsp1reg@microsoft.com). Please indicate a preferred timeslot.


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neowin.net - 03.10.2007

NeowinCAST News Edition for January 12th, 2007

Neowin.net & PowerUser.TV present the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of January 12th 2007. This week our panel consists of bangbang023, LOC, and Rob. To sum it all up, the sound quality is better, Rob swears, the group talks about pornography and laugh a bit more than usual. Also, Todd recommends his game of the week and Rob kicks off his new "HTML Tag of the Week". The topics discussed this week include:

• Apple's iPhone
• AOL's Personal Media Player
• The Porn Industry Chooses HD-DVD
• LG's Blu-ray/HD-DVD player hits a major speedbump

Enjoy and remember to leave your comments about the show


neowin.net - 13.01.2007

YOOWALK: Walk around the web

YOOWALK is a representation of the worldwide web as a 3D world where you can:

• Browse the web in 3D with your avatar
• Build a 3D version of your website
• Have your own room in 3D
• Meet people and hang out with them

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neowin.net - 08.01.2008

PDC 2008 Live Blog & Stream

Today marks the beginning of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2008 in sunny Los Angeles.

As it is PDC day 1 this will be "cloud day" and Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson will all be holding keynotes this morning to reveal Microsoft's plans for cloud computing and their software+services of Windows 7 coupled with Windows Live.

There are several ways you can keep up to date and thankfully at Neowin we have them all covered. The keynote kicks off at 8:30am ET.

• Microsoft's Video Stream
• Neowin is liveblogging with several others
• Neowin is live streaming via QIK (bandwidth permitting)

For all the links and out intergrated liveblogging and QIK feed please go to our PDC section


neowin.net - 27.10.2008

Hachamovitch: Please don't mistake silence for inaction

Dean Hachamovitch has posted an update on the IE Team Blog in reaction to Bill Gates mentioning IE8 at the Mix ‘n Mash event on the Redmond campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some bloggers about IE.Next and called it IE8.

So, yes, the version after IE7 is IE8. We looked at a lot of options for the product name. Among the names we considered and ruled out:

• IE 7+1
• IE VIII
• IE 1000 (think binary)
• IE Eight!
• iIE
• IE for Web 2.0 (Service Pack 2)
• IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet (the marketing team really pushed for this one ;-)

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neowin.net - 06.12.2007

IIS 7.0: Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

The latest release of IIS introduces a modular and extensible platform with improved support for common deployment and management scenarios, enabling significant performance improvements. In the latest issue of TechNet Magazine, Mike Volodarsky looks at 10 key areas in IIS 7.0 that provide these improvements.  He discusses these topics:

• Leaner Web Servers
• Build on a Lean OS
• Specialized Application Topologies
• Improved Application Support
• Increase Application Density
• Bandwidth Reduction from Compression
• Media Bit Rate Throttling
• Output Caching
• Converting ISAPI Code to IIS 7.0 Modules
• Server Extensibility

For an in-depth look at these 10 key areas of improvement, check out our article at TechNetMagazine.com.




winbeta.org - 21.08.2008

Welcome to the New Visual Studio 2008 Sites on MSDN

Laurie Moloney: To support the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 release to manufacturing, we've reorganized the Visual Studio site on MSDN into several developer centers, which provide easy access to the community of your fellow developers and the technical information you need. In addition, we've created product sites that provide the product information you need when considering your options for software development tools. Now you will have easy access to new information for 2008 while still being able to find all the Visual Studio 2005 content on the Visual Studio 2005 Developer Center and Team System Developer Center. 

Here are the new developer centers for Visual Studio 2008:

• Visual Studio 2008 Developer Center


• Team Suite 2008 Developer Center



• Team Foundation Server 2008 Developer Center

Here are the new products sites for Visual Studio 2008:

• Visual Studio 2008 Development System


• Visual Studio 2008


• Visual Studio Team System 2008


• Visual Studio 2008 Extensibility

In the coming weeks, we will be launching new developer centers for Extensibility and the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Editions, so stay tuned.

Get Visual Studio 2008

If you're itching to try out Visual Studio 2008, download one of the trial versions. MSDN Subscribers can get it now on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. You can also download the Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions from the new Visual Studio 2008 Express Developer Center.

Enjoy!

winbeta.org - 21.11.2007

Google Apps goes global

Google is announcing a number of updates for Google Apps, our customizable package of hosted communication and collaboration applications for businesses, schools, and other organizations. Several features and components previously available only to English users and administrators of Google Apps are now available in other languages, too. Here's a quick rundown of what's new for non-English speakers:

• Google Apps Premier Edition for companies and organizations needing an uptime guarantee for email service, 10 gigabytes of email storage per user, integration APIs and multi-lingual telephone support for critical issues (support experts are available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch). Also, for a limited time, you can try Premier Edition for free for 30 days.
  
• Google Apps Partner Edition for ISPs and portals that want to offer Gmail and other applications to their subscribers.
  
• Google Docs & Spreadsheets, which lets Google Apps users create and collaborate in real time, right from their browsers.
• The Start Page, a central place for Google Apps users to preview their inboxes, calendars and documents, access their organizations' essential content, and search the web.
• A more user-friendly control panel interface for Google Apps administrators.
• Mail migration tools for administrators who want to switch from a different email system (available with Premier and Education Editions only).

Not only are we adding these features to the languages Google Apps already supports; we're also rolling Google Apps out in six more languages. Here's the full list: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian< /a>, Danish, Finnish, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian< /a>, Czech, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Thai, Vietnames e, Arabic, Hebrew, Indonesia n, Hungarian< /a>, UK English and US English



winbeta.org - 01.08.2007

41 Employees Fired For Porn Surfing

Washington DC - 41 Washington DC workers have been fired or suspended after they accessed thousands of porn sites on city computers. Nine employees were fired while the other 32 were suspended. Both male and female employees were disciplined after the month-long investigation.


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neowin.net - 26.01.2008

System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Release Candidate Now Available

J.C. Hornbeck: The release candidate for Service Pack 1 for Operations Manager 2007 is ready for download from https://connect.microsoft.com/systemcenter.  If you haven't already registered you'll need to do so before the RC is available under 'Available Connections.'

The high level themes of this service pack are:

• Address critical customer initiated issues including roll-up of all hotfixes
• Make the product easier to support
• Make the product easier to use
• Make the product easier to deploy

Key things to note:

• Read the accompanying release notes and upgrade guide and carefully follow the instructions.
• This is a fully supported release - support is available via the standard Microsoft Support channels and also via our public Newsgroups Microsoft.public.opsmgr.sp1
• The release candidate will be fully upgradable to the final RTM release of SP1 (currently scheduled for mid-February 2008)

winbeta.org - 05.11.2007

First Look: Windows Phone 7 Series Hands on Demo

This is it! What you've all been waiting for: your first look at Windows Phone 7. Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone Program Management Joe Belfiore gives us a full demo of the announcements being made today at Mobile World Congress, including:

• The new user experience


• Integration with social networks like Facebook


• Internet Explorer


• Photos, videos, and music


• E-mail and texting



• GPS and maps


• Search integration


• Hardware standards

winbeta.org - 15.02.2010

Microsoft Applications using .NET Framework

Two of my ISVs were asking about Microsoft applications which use the .NET Framework. When I had a quick look on the web I found a very good but quite old post from Daniel on this area (still very much worth a read)



I think it is probably time for an update.



Code sizes:

• Visual Studio 2005: 7.5 million
  
• SQL Server 2005: 3 million lines
  
• BizTalk Server: 2 million lines
  
• Visual Studio Team System: 1.7 million lines
  
• Windows Presentation Foundation: 900K lines
  
• Windows SharePoint Services: 750K lines
  
• Expression Blend: 250K lines
  
• SharePoint Portal Server: 200K lines
  
• Content Management Server: 100K lines
  
• Dynamics SL has 3.4 million Lines

And some more...

• Card Space
  
• Microsoft Business Portal
  
• Dynamics CRM
  
• Microsoft Student 2005 (Encarta 2005) has innovations based on .NET
  
• Office Accounting 2007
  
• Office SharePoint Server 2007
  
• Outlook Calendar Printing Assistant
  
• SQL Reporting Services
  
• Widnows Live OneCare
  
• Windows Live toolbar
  
• Windows Live for TV
  
• Windows PowerShell
  
• Windows XP Media Center Edition (eHome is a managed application)
  
• Windows XP Tablet PC Edition (part of the shell is managed)
  
• XPS

And undoubtedly others which I have forgotten.




winbeta.org - 27.09.2007

EA announces no less than 30 games in development for PS3

EA announced today that is has more than 30 games in development for Sony's Playstation 3. Of course for the launch of the system, we already know that Madden 2007, Tiger Woods 2007, and Need for Speed Carbon will launch with the Playstation 3 (NBA Live 2007 is "supposed" to be a launch title) but EA dropped a big one today by saying they have over 30 games in development for the system, and that between 8 and 10 are for release between the PS3 launch and March 2007.   The games currently listed for the Playstation 3 - not always with an actual release date, as as follows:

• Arm y of Two - 2007
• Battle field Bad Company - 2007
• Burnou t 5 - Q1 2007
• Def Jam: Icon - March 2007
• Fight Night Round 3 - December 12th 2006
• Madden NFL 2007 - November 17th 2006
• Medal of Honor Airborne - Q1 2007
• NBA Street Homecourt - TBA
• Need for Speed Carbon - November 17th 2006
• SKATE - 2007
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007 - November 17th 2006

Once I get more titles listed, or release dates, you can be sure I'll post them up for you guys to gawk at and drool over!  
neowin.net - 20.10.2006

Microsoft consolidates explicit Bing content to new address

When Neowin reported last week about Bing allowing users to watch porn videos and browse pornographic material using its search, businesses, schools and other large corporations complained that Bing maybe a gateway to free porn. Bing was blocked by some companies to prevent porn surfing during work hours, where Microsoft instantly became to form a solution to the problem.

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neowin.net - 16.06.2009

Hidden Zune API's?

Coding4Fun: Over at SOA pit stop, they found a very interesting find that I didn't even know existed.  Some hidden Zune API's you can develop against.



They mention there are a few objects you can get to.

• ZuneLibrary
• ZuneQueryList
• ZuneQueryItem

Which lets you do stuff like

• QueryDatabase
• GetAlbumsByArtists
• GetTracksByAlbum
• GetTracksByPlaylist

So you can do this AND develop games for your Zune with XNA!




winbeta.org - 05.03.2008

Paul Thurrott: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Not Coming

The title for this newspost is easily the most significant of all 12 Short Takes Paul Thurrott has put together for the week of April 9. " If you were looking for any glimpse into the mind of Microsoft, this is it: The company has completely abandoned Windows XP, and it has absolutely no plans to ever ship an XP SP3 ." The majority of the Short Takes have already been posted up on our front page, the rest are simply speculation on Paul's part. Here are the individual headlines:

• Microsoft Considers Near-Free Zune Model
• Microsoft Releases Home Server SDK
• Hungarian Notation Creator Heads to Space
• Microsoft Threatens Poster of Vista SP1 Info
• The Truth About Vista SP1
• And What About Windows XP Service Pack 3?
• Microsoft Preps Longhorn Server Beta 3
• In Wake of Lawsuit, Microsoft Changes Vista Logo Branding
• Microsoft Moves Hotmail Plus to 4 GB as Yahoo! Goes Unlimited
• Acer Notebook Sales Surge
• Sony Cuts PSP Price
• Microsoft Improves Xbox 360 Warranty... Again

neowin.net - 07.04.2007