Bill Gates tops Forbes' list of billionaires
New York (NY) - Bill Gates leads Forbes' list of the world's richest people for the 13th time in a row. The Microsoft co-founder's wealth is estimated at $56 billion.
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11.3.2007 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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18.1.2008 Microsoft unveils Windows Embedded Standard 2009
Microsoft has announced the immediate availability of Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Community Technology Preview.
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5.6.2008 Vista SP2 and Windows 7 by the End of June 2009
The evolution of the Windows client, involving both Windows Vista (now with Service Pack 1) and Windows 7, appears to be closer than Microsoft is ready to acknowledge officially.
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18.10.2008 Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) Beta Refresh
The Windows Live Messenger for Facebook update delivered at the end of the past week was just a preview of the evolution of the desktop instant messaging client.
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17.12.2008 Windows 7 Beta Available for Download as Early as January 5, 2009
The fully-fledged Beta for Windows 7 could be made available for download as soon as January 5, 2009.
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18.12.2008 Windows 7 RTM in October 2009 via Product Roadmap
According to a blog post on the Microsoft Sweden partner blog, Windows 7 should be ready by Q3 2009, with an RC coming in three months.
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2.2.2009 Norton Removal Tool for Windows 2009.0.5.26
Freeware - Norton Removal Tool will remove a failed installation or a damaged Norton product.
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16.2.2009 Microsoft's Ballmer outlines his seven big bets for 2009
For the past few Februaries, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes the trek to Wall Street to provide analysts with an annual “Strategic Update” overview, in which he covers the areas where Microsoft plans to invest and why.
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24.2.2009 Microsoft confirms Windows 7 to launch by December 2009
Good news from the kingdom of Redmond, fellow geeks; we've finally been given a more precise (though still not as precise as one could get) release date for Windows 7, the next operating system to come from Microsoft.
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11.5.2009Gates Regains Top Spot on Forbes List as Billionaires Dwindle
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates regained the title of worlds richest person on Forbes magazines annual ranking of billionaires worldwide, as the
global recession slashed the size of the list by 30 percent...
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12.03.2009Symantec opens Norton 2009 products in public beta
This week, Symantec opened the public betas of both Norton Internet Security 2009 and Norton Antivirus 2009, products which the company claims run
faster and consume fewer resources...
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17.07.2008Gates regains Forbes rich list top spot
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has found himself back at the top of Forbes magazine's list of the richest billionaires as the worldwide economic
downturn takes its effect on the wealth of many of the world's richest people. 332 people have been wiped off the list completely after their
fortunes have fallen below the $1 billion mark, according to BBC News, leaving just 793 total places. One of those booted off the list, also
loosing the title of world's youngest billionaire, is the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg.
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12.03.2009CeBIT 2009 Report
It took some days longer than expected but our report of CeBIT 2009 is finally here.
CeBIT 2009 took place from March 3 to March 9 in
Hannover, Germany and featured around 4300 exhibitors from 69 countries.
Members of the WinBeta Team were attending the event and have been
taking a lot of pictures for our readers...
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23.03.2009Windows 7 #7032 @ CeBiT ASUS Stand
We here at WinBeta have discovered Build 7032 at the demo pc's @ cebit 2009 asus stands.
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08.03.2009An attempt at resurrecting E3 for 2009
After two years of diminished excitement from both the publishers and players of video games about E3, the gaming convention's strict invitation-only
rules will be slackened a bit for 2009...
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22.10.2008Windows XP pauses again in its shuffle out the door
Microsoft is making an accommodation through a flexible inventory program that will allow distributors to place their final orders by January 31, 2009
and take delivery against those orders through May 30, 2009...
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23.12.2008Invitation to final beta test of Ad-Aware 2009 edition
The makers of one of the Internet's first and most respected anti-adware products are on schedule to release their 2009 edition next month, though
they need some help from registered testers to make it happen...
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19.12.2008Windows 7 Upgrade Program shifts to June 26, 2009
TechARP has come up with a new revised schedule of Microsoft's Windows 7 Upgrade Program. The Upgrade Program shifts to an early date from June
28, 2009 to June 26, 2009 now. According to the new schedule, end users who purchase PCs pre-installed with Vista between the dates June 26, 2009 to
January 31, 2010 are eligible for a free Windows 7 upgrade. According to TechARP, this slight adjustment was done at the request of many OEMs to allow
for better sales over the first weekend of the Program. It is not possible for Windows XP users to upgrade to Windows 7 unlike Windows Vista users.
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25.03.2009Warren Buffett Tops BusinessWeek's Annual Ranking of 'The 50 Most Generous Philanthropists'
For the second consecutive year, Warren Buffett tops BusinessWeek's annual ranking of "The 50 Most Generous Philanthropists." Bill and Melinda
Gates, George Kaiser, George Soros, and Gordon and Betty Moore round out the top five.
Whittling down a lifetime of earnings -- a
prospect most of us would like to avoid -- is the goal of many of the billionaires and multimillionaires in BusinessWeek's annual ranking of most
generous givers. If their megagifts to causes ranging from cancer research to civil rights to the prevention of meth addiction are any indication,
they're making good progress. Sixteen of the 50 U.S. philanthropists on the list gave north of $100 million this year, nine donated $200 million or
more, and one towered above them all with $723 million in gifts.
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16.11.2007IE 8 RTM expected in the week of March 16, 2009
TechARP reported earlier that Microsoft will finalize its IE 8 RTM schedule on March 5 and the RTM version of IE 8 will be released during the final 2
weeks of March. Now TechARP has reiterated the dates a bit. According to the latest update by TechARP, Microsoft will RTM IE 8 in the week of March
16, 2009. The specific RTM date for the IE 8 will be announced in the week of March 9, 2009. TechARP is not sure whether this announcement would be a
public announcement, or an internal one. IE 8 is currently in RC1 and reached its RTM milestone on the 21st of February.
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05.03.2009HTC's full 2009 line-up leaked
wmpoweruser is reporting that HTC's full 2009 line-up of mobile devices has been leaked online. Next month sees the Mobile World Congress 2009
where we expect to hear more about Windows Mobile 6.5 and some new 6.5 powered HTC devices. So far 25 new HTC device photos have been leaked and the
most notable Windows Mobile ones can be found below. HTC Diamond 2? New HTC Excalibur, T-Mobile Dash? Athena 2 A new media centric device:
Touch Pro HD? For all the HTC products please checkout PPCgeeks.
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12.01.2009CES 2009 to keep rocking on, regardless of the economy
At a press event this evening, officials promised that, despite the gloomy economy, CES 2009 will continue to mix business with pleasure, with events
ranging from a new green computing area to a live performance by Diana Ross...
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12.11.2008Analysts: Wireless HDTV slated for CES 2009 still 'incipient'
At CES 2009, companies will talk up at least four different standards aimed at transmitting HDTV wirelessly over home networks. But a lot of this
technology isn't yet ready for prime time, some analysts say...
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12.12.2008Microsoft kills Encarta, Wikipedia to blame?
According to the Encarta FAQ page, Microsoft is killing off the encyclopaedia--the 2009 versions, it would seem, will be the last. The MSN Encarta
websites will, with the exception of the one serving the Japanese market, all be taken down on 31 October 2009 (the Japanese version will come down on
31 December 2009). Microsoft Student and Encarta Premium will cease to be sold by June 2009. Customers with subscriptions to online content will be
reimbursed. According to Wikipedia, the first edition of Encarta was released in 1993, and in the years that followed the number of articles grew and
grew, with the 2008 version of Encarta Premium boasting more than 62,000.
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31.03.2009More details on HTC's 2009 line-up of Windows Phones
Following the show up of HTC's full 2009 line-up of Windows Phones in January, sina.com has got more details on the different models of upcoming
HTC devices as noticed by wmpoweruser. Our focus remains on the notable Windows Phone models here.
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05.03.2009Did Yahoo Bid Cost Bill Gates "World's Richest" Title?
Dan Frommer: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man,
according to Forbes
magazine. The new leader: Berkshire Hathaway boss Warren Buffett, worth an estimated $62 billion. Gates fell to third place -- after Mexican
telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu -- and is now worth an estimated $58 billion.
Not that Gates cares, but did Microsoft's (MSFT)
$44.6 billion bid for Yahoo (YHOO) cost him the title?
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06.03.2008Office 14 to be named Microsoft Office System 2009?
Microsoft is currently developing the successor to Office 2007, Office codenamed "14". There has been little to no information on the upcoming
Office version and many have speculated we might not see the product until 2010. Microsoft failed to provide any solid information at last years PDC,
choosing to focus on its Office Live offerings. Eagled eyed Microsoft enthusiast and blogger Stephen Chapman has spotted what appears to be an
internal software roadmap from Microsoft. The roadmap reveals a milestone of year end 2009 but the dates aren't very clear: In the roadmap you
can see that Office 14 is clearly identified as Microsoft Office System 2009.
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07.01.2009LG to launch 3G cellphone watch at CES 2009
LG has confirmed that they will debut its first ever 3G cellphone watch at CES 2009. The tiny device, labeled as GD910 (Announced at last years
CES), features a 1.43 inch touchscreen. Some features announced include Blutooth compatibility, voice dialling, a speakerphone, speech recognition,
TTS (Text to Speech), and an MP3 player. It is also waterproof, for those of you who can't keep your cellular devices out of your hands while in
the shower. The price for this new device hasn't been announced yet, but is said to go on sale in Europe sometime in 2009.
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29.12.2008Microsoft readying RC of Vista SP2 for February 2009
Citing a source at Microsoft, Techarp has revealed that Microsoft is targeting a release candidate (RC) version of Windows Vista SP2 for February
2009. Microsoft sent invites to testers in mid October asking them to take part in the SP2 beta. Build 16489 was released to special group of testers
in late October but Microsoft has been quiet since then. TechArp also believes the RTM of Vista SP2 will be in April 2009. Microsoft is readying SP2
so there are additional incentives for customers to upgrade to Window Vista now, instead of waiting for Windows 7.
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