AutoCollage 2008 for Vista SP1 and XP SP3
AutoCollage 2008 is a project developed by Microsoft Research Cambridge and made available for download as of September 4, 2008.
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4.9.2008 Windows Vista ultimate serial
A lot of people are searching for some solutions, ni last days is one of most searched phrases
"windows vista ultimate serial".
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12.2.2007 Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5 Free Download With License Serial Key
Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5 is a well-known tweaking and optimizing software for Windows operating system that provides clean, optimize and tune functions to ensure maximum PC performance.
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4.8.2009 Microsoft postpones Winhec 2008 to Fall 2008
Microsoft announced that WinHEC 208 will not be held in the spring as previous years, but in the fall (October probably) of 2008.
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17.11.2007 The Best Antivirus in 2008
A new year... A new beginning... And the inevitable security solution smackdown. In this context, AV-Test has thrown together in the same arena no less than 24 antivirus products from the heavyweights of the security market.
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29.1.2008 Windows Server 2008: Need to Know
After many months of waiting, Microsoft finally released the Beta 3 version of Windows Server 2008 (previously codenamed "Longhorn"), a major milestone pre-release version of the next version of Windows Server.
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31.7.2007 What to expect from Microsoft in 2008
The famous Bink.nu "expect list" is back! Just as previous years, I made a list of what releases we can expect from Microsoft. 2005 and 2006 turned out to be pretty accurate, the only things wrong weren't my mistakes but delays or change of plans.
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20.12.2007 Pristy Utils 2008 1.0.7
This suite of applications will help you manage your computer and will improve its performance for Windows XP/Vista.
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21.2.2008 European Zune delayed until 2008?
Ahh man this rules out me having one shortly after my birthday (Nov. 9th) gifts welcome Anyway my mate Patrick of OSNN picked up on this article over at Reg Hardware..
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1.11.2006 Office 2008 for Mac to come this year
Putting lingering questions about update timing to rest, Microsoft has announced that the new version of Office for Mac will arrive in the second half of this year.
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9.1.2007 No Vista for 2008 Beijing Olympics
The IT systems supporting the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, will not be using Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system.
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30.5.2007 SQL Server 2008 CTP3 available
Finally, another version of SQL Server 2008 has been launched and is available for download.
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29.6.2007 Gates Will Keynote 2008 CES
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® announced today that top executives from Microsoft, Panasonic and Intel will deliver keynote addresses at the 2008 International CES®.
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7.7.2007 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 Will 2008 Be Vista's Golden Year?
Despite months of rumors and innuendo suggesting that sales of Windows Vista were lackluster, Microsoft last week turned in its best first quarter in eight years.
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31.10.2007 Windows Vista to Explode in 2008
2007 might not have been the Wow's year, but in 2008 Windows Vista will explode. All the starts are aligned for Vista adoption to go through the roof. As a matter of fact, 2008 will prove the first truly fertile year for the Wow from the household to the corporate environment.
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15.11.2007 Office 2008 Hits RTM
Here’s the latest official word – Office 2008 for Mac has Released to Manufacturing (RTM)!
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15.12.2007 Microsoft in 2008: 10 Predictions
It's pundit prediction time again. Here are ten predictions about what I think we'll see in Microsoft land in 2008.
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18.12.2007 SUPER 2008 Build 24
SUPER is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file,without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need.
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21.1.2008 What will run on Windows Server 2008 — and when
Now that Microsoft has released to manufacturing Windows Server 2008, the next obvious question is which applications will run on it — and when?
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4.2.2008 What’s New in Microsoft Land: 4 – 8 February, 2008
The whole week was pretty slow when it came to what everybody expected to come true, Yahoo! accepting the offer that Microsoft put on its table, so everything else kind of remained in this deal’s shade
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10.2.2008 What’s New in Microsoft Land: 3 – 7 March, 2008
Microsoft debuted the week on a strong note, slapping Google in the forehead with its own version of web-based office tools, dubbed Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta.
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9.3.2008 The Best Windows Antivirus – 2008 Editions
The search for the best antivirus of 2008 has advanced one step further, courtesy of security solution testing lab AV-Test.org. All the best available 2008 security suite editions were thrown against in excess of 1.1 million samples of malicious code on an arena of Windows XP SP2.
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13.3.2008 The myth of Windows Workstation 2008
For a few months now I’ve been hearing stories from people who claim to be getting a much better Windows experience by ditching Windows Vista and adopting Windows Server 2008 as a desktop operating system.
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17.7.2008 Microsoft Q4 2008 by the Numbers
For the fiscal 2008 fourth quarter, Microsoft revenue topped $15.84 billion, or an 18 percent year-over-year increase. Operating income was $5.68 billion, or 46 cents per share. Respectively, year-over-year growth was 42 percent and 48 percent.
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22.7.2008 "Avoid Microsoft Windows Vista until 2008"
New security features in Windows Vista will largely eliminate the need to run separate anti-spyware or firewall software, according to a new analyst report.
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8.5.2006 Windows XP SP3 Delayed until 2008
As I predicted, another delay and watch when in 2007 they will cancel the SP completely.
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19.10.2006 XP SP3 is still on the schedule for Q1 2008
Thanks to rosco4140 for this post. rosco4140 wrote: I"ve got to admit that I wouldn't be surprised to see Microsoft table Service Pack (SP) 3 for Windows XP, as Windows expert Paul Thurrott claims the Redmondians have done.
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11.4.2007 SQL Server 2008 CTP Released
Microsoft on Monday released the first community technology preview of SQL Server 2008, the official name for what was initially codenamed "Katmai." The announcement was made here at the Microsoft TechEd Conference in Orlando.
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6.6.2007 One billion PCs worldwide by end of 2008
More than one billion PCs will be in use worldwide by the end of 2008, fuelled by high growth rates in emerging markets such as the Bric bloc of countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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11.6.2007Microsoft Research Releases AutoCollage 2008
Today Microsoft Research has released a super-neat application that allows you to take a group of photos and easily create a collage within minutes -
called AutoCollage 2008 .
AutoCollage 2008 is the result of research out of
Microsoft Research Cambridge as well as research from other Microsoft Research Labs. The
AutoCollage 2008 release marks the first incubation released directly to consumers from Cambridge's Microsoft Research Lab.
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04.09.2008AMD and Seagate demo 6Gbps Serial ATA
Today AMD and Seagate are teaming up to demonstrate the next-generation Serial ATA specification. Dubbed SATA 6Gbps, the new spec will offer twice
the disk-to-host bandwidth of the existing 3Gbps Serial ATA standard. Although the fastest Serial ATA hard drives on the market have a rough time
maintaining transfer rates
higher than about 110MB/s, they can typically push smaller burst
transfers from their caches at over 250MB/s. Those caches are growing, with the latest desktop models packing 32MB memory chips. And let's not
forget solid-state drives like Intel's X25-E Extreme, which has no problem
sustaining over
200MB/s for reads
and writes.
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09.03.2009iWork '09: No Serial Required
iWork '09, released roughly two weeks ago, has been reported in an Apple support document to not require a serial number for activation unlike its
preceder, iWork '08. Activating downloaded trial versions still do require a serial that can be purchased for $79.
This feature however
is not unique to iWork, iLife and OS X have never required activation in the past.
iWork '09 and iLife '09 were announced on January
6th and are currently available for purchase and pre-order on Apple.com. iWork.com, also announced at MacWorld, is currently available as a free
public beta accessible within the iWork applications.
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21.01.2009Microsoft launches vainglorious Wave site
Microsoft Wave is now online to show off the "cool" software and hardware Microsoft
develops. That includes
Live Mesh,
Photosynth,
pptPlex,
Songsmith,
WorldWide Telescope,
AutoCollage,
DeepZoom,
Tag,
Surface,
Xbox Project Natal and some Xbox games...
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28.07.2009Intel Readies New Triple-Channel Memory Controller for Nehalem Chips
Intel's code-named Nehalem
processors have been discussed
for nearly five years now, but
Intel was tight-lipped enough
in order not to disclose
details of the new
micro-architecture itself as
well as implementation
peculiarities. Nevertheless,
recently Intel started to
inform its partners about the
future platforms, which means
that at least some
peculiarities of the new chips
have come to light.
It is known that Nehalem
as well as Westmere central
processing units (CPUs) will
use a new platform
architecture and while the
company does not directly
state it, the new platform
will hardly use processor
system busses, but rather will
feature point-to-point serial
bus (which is currently
referred to as Common Serial
Bus or CSI) similar to
Hyper-Transport or PCI
Express.
The new
CPUs due in late 2008 will
feature so-called dynamically
scalable architecture, which
means that Intel will be able
to tailor its processor
designs according to needs of
various market segments. ..
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11.06.2007FireWire Interface to Get Speed Boost
Universal Serial Bus 3.0 is just around the cornet, but it does not mean that its brother IEEE 1394 standard (also known as FireWire and iLink) has
ceased its development. In fact, this month the 1394 trade association said that it had ratified the 1394-2008 specification, which significantly
improves bandwidth of the interconnect.
The 1394-2008 high performance serial bus standard updates and revises all prior 1394 standards
dating back to the original 1394-1995 version, and including 1394a, 1394b, 1394c, enhanced UTP, and the 1394 beta plus PHY-Link interface. It also
incorporates the complete specifications for S1600 version with 1.6Gb/s bandwidth) and for S3200 version, which provides 3.2Gb/s speed.
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31.07.2008Microsoft Store - We finally have one!
Engadget reported earlier today, that an online Microsoft Store that should have been around a long time ago, is finally here.
On the
software side, they sell all versions of Windows Vista (Server 2008 as well), Office 2007, Office 2008 (Mac) both box and download versions. They also
have smaller suites like Microsoft Works 9, Autocollage 2008, and OneCare available.
For developers and designers, they have Visual
Studio, Expression Blend, Visual FoxPro 9.0, and many more.
Gaming hasn't been left out either - they sell three versions of their XBOX
360 console, as well as some PC Games
- Flight Simulator X (4 versions)
- Halo 2 (Vista)
- Gears of War
- Zoo Tycoon 2
- Quite a few more titles
And no, Microsoft's store doesn't stop there - they have Zunes and Zune Accessories galore! 4 colors
of 8GB Zunes, and accessories such as a leather case, an AC adapter, and a "Zune Car Pack" for your enjoyment.
They have all their
latest mice and keyboards available for purchase as well as fingerprint readers and their webcams.
So whether you're a gamer, need a
webcam to stream yourself across the web, or you simply need to design a WPF application, Microsoft's here for you 24/7.
Enjoy!
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14.11.2008Nvidia "Patches" Serial ATA Issue For the Third Time
Nvidia Corp., a leading
chipset developer, and EVGA, a
supplier of graphics cards and
mainboards, have released more
BIOS versions that should
correct the already well-known
issues with Serial ATA storage
devices and mainboards powered
by Nvidia's latest
core-logic. Some EVGA
customers using the EVGA
nForce 680i SLI motherboard
have reported experiencing
disconnect or write error
issues with Serial ATA disk
drives. To address this, we
have worked with Nvidia to
release a BIOS update for this
motherboard that eliminates
this bug," said Joe Darwin, a
spokesman of EVGA.
The new BIOS version P23
beta 2 that was available
through EVGA forums and the
final BIOS version P23 are
supposed to correct the Serial
ATA problems that users were
experiencing with mainboards
featuring Nvidia's latest
nForce 680i core-logic set.
The previous release - BIOS
version P23 beta 1 - did not
correct issues with Serial ATA
storage devices for all end
users.
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23.12.2006Seagate releases 2TB enterprise-class drive
Seagate Technology LLC today
launched
its first 2TB enterprise-class disk drive as part of a new family of near-line SAS and SATA drives.
The new Constellation
2.5-in. and Constellation ES 3.5-in. drives come in Serial Attached SCSI 6Gbit/sec. or Serial ATA 3Gbit/sec. models and include a feature that allows
them to shut down when not in use to save power.
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03.02.2009Seagate shows off 6Gbps SATA3 hard drive transfer speed
Partnering up with AMD, on Monday Seagate announced the latest Serial ATA specification: SATA3. The new specification offers hard drive transfer
speeds of up to 6Gbps, which is around 600MBps. This new specification was developed by the Serial ATA International Organization, in order to
provide a hefty upgrade from today's SATA2 specification. So just how much of an upgrade is it? Your average SATA2 drive today can offer hard
drive transfer speeds of up to 3Gbps, which is roughly 300MBps, so in theory SATA3 will be twice as fast. As CNET notes, it's important to know
that software and hardware holds back these speeds, so in reality they're about 100MBps less than they could be.
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09.03.2009Intel's CSI to outperform
AMD's Hypertransport
Intel has an answer
for AMD's Hypertransport and
thinks its technology stacks
up pretty well. In fact, Intel
is telling customers that it
has AMD beat, starting in
2008.
Inte
l's CSI high-speed serial
interconnect was first meant
to appear in a Xeon chip
code-named Whitefield. That
processor, however, met an
untimely death as Intel India
mucked up the CSI
implementation and forced
Intel to rework its plans. As
of last check, Intel will now
introduce CSI in the Tukwila
version of Itanium due out in
2008.
Our sources
indicate that an inexperienced
Indian staff and not the
technology itself was to blame
for the Whitefield CSI miss.
Intel has been telling
customers that CSI will
deliver all of the benefits of
Hypertransport. And it will be
found on chips with integrated
memory controllers, putting
Intel back on par with AMD...
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13.12.2005Creative MP3 Players Ship With Virus
Creative's Japanese arm has apparently shipped several thousand of its Zen Neeon players infected with the Wullik.B worm. The affected players have serial numbers between 230528000001 and 1230533001680. The problem is localized to the Asia-Pacfic region...
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01.09.2005Intel throws 65nm at embedded NOR Flash
Intel announced today it will extend its NOR Flash memory products for embedded spaces down to the 65nm process node. The move will allow more flash
products to be created with lower manufacturing cost for that market. Embedded markets typically involve consumer electronics devices such as wired
communications equipment like TVs, DVDs, modems, etc.
Those products often have life cycles that do not see the high turnover
rates found in cell phones, PDAs and other higher-end personal appliances. Intel already has products for those high-turnover markets being
manufactured on this 65nm process.
Intel's NOR embedded offerings include both parallel and serial products. Their StrataFlash
embedded memory solution is a single-chip, low-cost-per-bit product with high-density and high-performance. Existing embedded applications can also
utilize Intel's legacy support products which offer drop-in compatible upgrade paths to save prior work investments. Intel's Serial flash memory
has a lower pin-count interface potentially saving board space...
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22.08.2007TiVo Owners Uncover Storage Hack
Owners of Series3
high-definition TiVos will
soon be able to expand the
amount of programming they can
store on the digital video
recorder using an external
Serial ATA hard drive. While
the SATA ports have been on
the TiVo since the beginning,
a hack to activate them only
surfaced over the weekend...
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08.05.2007Hitachi Officially Shipping 1TB Drive
Hitachi this week announced it
has ramped up production on
its 1 terabyte hard drive,
shipping the unit to retailers
across the United States.
Pricing for the drive, which
spins at 7,200 RPM and
features a Serial ATA
interface is set at $399 USD...
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27.04.2007SuperTalent intros $699 120GB solid-state drive
Notebook makers like Apple and Lenovo have shown that solid-state drives can be superior alternatives to hard drives for ultra-thin laptops, thanks to
their small footprint, low power consumption, and high performance. However, with your typical 64GB SSD costing around a grand, SSD-based notebooks
remain prohibitively expensive for the most part.
This is where Super Talent comes in. The memory maker
has released five new 2.5", Serial ATA SSDs with prices that one could almost call reasonable. The new MasterDrive MX line
includes 30GB, 60GB, and 120GB SSDs priced at a respective $299, $449, and $699. Super Talent says all three drives can hit 120MB/s in sequential
reads and 40MB/s in sequential writes through a 300MB/s Serial ATA interface.
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07.05.2008New 160 GB 1.8-inch drives could revive HDD-based small devices
Toshiba today announced plans to launch two new 1.8-inch serial ATA hard drives that will ship as much as 160 GB -- the first in that form factor with
such a high storage capacity, the manufacturer claims...
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12.06.2008Toshiba to Deliver 200GB
Laptop Drive
Toshiba has announced a new
2.5-inch hard drive for
notebook computers that boasts
200GB of storage space on only
two disk platters thanks to
new perpendicular recording
technology. The company
expects to begin mass
producing the Serial ATA
drive, which spins at 4,200
RPM, in August...
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06.06.2006WD Ships 320GB Laptop Hard Drive
Filling the growing demand for larger mobile storage options, Western Digital announced Wednesday it has begun shipping a 320GB 2.5-inch hard drive
for laptops and portable devices. The drive features a Serial ATA interface with transfer speeds of 3Gb per second...
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31.10.2007Fujitsu Unveils 300GB Laptop Drive
Fujitsu continues to push the
limits of moble storage,
announcing Monday 250GB and
300GB 2.5-inch laptop hard
drives that utilize
perpendicular magnetic
recording technology. The
Serial ATA drives spin at
4200RPM and have low power
consumption, while improving
shock tolerance...
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