Windows Vista Blog: "It's Time" video
A simple two word blog post was made minutes ago, on the offical Windows Vista Blog:
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9.11.2006 The Best Windows Vista Blog Contest 2008
WinVistaClub, in association with Windows Vista Magazine, is organising a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista Blogs and Websites.
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13.8.2008 Windows Performance Blog
As I said in yesterday’s introduction, my job as an engineer on the Windows Vista team is to improve performance. I wanted to look at a study that measure a key area that we focused on for Windows Vista – consistent responsiveness during the times that matter most to users (when starting up their machine, after being idle, and when you are under the gun running tons of apps, etc.).
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29.12.2006 New Outlook Team Blog
Hi! You’ve found the new home of the Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog, your one-stop-shop for tips, tricks, and rants directly from the Outlook product team here at Microsoft.
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15.6.2007 Official Windows 7 Blog soon
Get ready for a unique source of information focused exclusively on the next iteration of the Windows client.
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27.6.2008 Windows Home Server Blog
The Microsoft Home Server Team started Blogging, some interesting facts from the first posts.
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5.2.2007 Official Windows 7 blog goes live
Thanks Emil for pointing out that the Windows 7 Engineering blog has gone live.
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14.8.2008 Microsoft Did Censor Critical Chinese Blog On Spaces
A Microsoft representative has responded to allegations surrounding the closure of a popular Chinese blog, confirming that the company did take the blog offline on New Years Eve.
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6.1.2006 Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page.
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24.10.2006 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007The Windows Vista Activation Forum
Do you have questions or issues regarding Windows Vista Activation? Then the
Windows Vista Activation forum is the thing
for you. The forum offers a new dedicated resource to assist in answering both technical and licensing questions regarding MAK, VAMT, KMS, planning,
deployment, operations and other aspects of Volume Licensing Activation v 2.0 in Windows Vista.
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23.09.2008Top Windows Vista Tweaks You Can Find
Love it or hate it, Windows Vista is here to stay as the default operating system for those buying PC laptops on the market today. We all know Vista
requires more hardware power, such as 2GB of RAM being almost a necessity to get decent performance, but are there Vista OS and software tweaks you
can do to improve performance without buying better hardware? There certainly are, and our forum members are working together to collect them all.
A major Thanks goes to
forum member flamenko
for starting the "
Top Vista Tweaks You Can Find". This
article is a mere summary of what Flamenko and other forum members have come up with so far as recommendations for greatly improving your Windows
Vista Experience, but keep checking the thread in the future as the
NotebookReview.com
community is working to make it grow.
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14.09.2007The Best Windows Vista Blog Contest 2008
WinVistaClub, in association with Windows Vista Magazine, is organizing a contest to recognize some of the Best Windows Vista Blogs and Websites.
If you run a blog or a website, which primarily focuses on Windows Vista you can submit your blog and participate. It could focus on Tips,
Tutorials, Support, Customization, Themes, News, Views, or anything which may interest a Windows Vista user.
The Panel of Judges comprises
of Steve Sinchak (MVP of TweakVista.com), Steven Bink (Bink.nu), John Barnett (MVP of VistaSupport.mvps.org), Kerry Brown (MVP of VistaHelp.ca),
Barney Tormey (Global Moderator at Neowin.net), James Stables (Windows Vista Magazine), Emil Protalinski (Arstechnica), Aryeh Goretsky (MVP of
Lockergnome.com), and myself (HappyAndyK).
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13.08.2008Revised IE7 Naming in Windows
Vista
Below I have quoted an article
written on the IE Blog;
"I had mentioned a
while back that we planned to
call the version of IE7 in
Windows Vista "Internet
Explorer 7+".
Well, the feedback we got on
the blog was overwhelming ?
many of you didn't like it.
So, as we've said on our
website, we heard you. I'm
pleased to announce that
we're switching the name back
to "Internet Explorer 7". No
plus. No dot x. Just
"Internet Explorer 7".
Specifically, here
are the official full
names:
-For
Windows XP: "Windows Internet
Explorer 7 for Win XP"
-For Windows Vista:
"Windows Internet Explorer 7
in Win Vista"
Big thanks to BoyToy for
the heads up
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06.08.2006Microsoft Answers Forum Launched.
Microsoft has launched Microsoft Answers. Till now the only avenue for the average Vista user for support from Microsoft, was to go over to Technet
or MSDN Forums for help. All that will now change with the launch of the Microsoft Answers forum! Microsoft Answers will be a no nonsense, non
technical forum for real users to get real answers. The site is intended to dramatically improve the self-help experience for Home PC users by
enabling the same kind of rich online communities – for support, learning, sharing and engaging with Microsoft – that have long been
available for Developers and IT Pros, via MSDN & TechNet.
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16.12.2008Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source
Computer scientist Peter Gutmann made a name for himself when he published his paper ś
A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protectionť and got
worldwide attention for outlining some serious concerns about Windows Vista DRM mechanisms. But Peter Gutmann admittedly doesnt use Windows Vista and
hes publicly asked for others to confirm his theories and based many of his key assertions on web forum postings as his source.
Note: As of April
2007 on Gutmanns website, Gutmann stated: śCan others confirm this? I dont run Vista yet, but if this is true then it would seem to disconfirm
Microsofts claims that the content protection doesnt interfere with playback and is only active when premium content is presentť. Peter Gutmann has
recently removed this embarrassing admission from his paper hosted on his website after Ed Bott pointed out that Gutmann admitted to never having run Vista and thus couldnt have done any experiments. An older
version of the PDF can be found here which still contains that
admission.
Gutmann makes the following key assertions based on forum postings...
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02.09.2007Microsoft Responds to Re-discovery of Vista Network Slowdowns
A curious network performance reduction noticed by many Windows Vista users of the 2CPU forum that became the talk of Slashdot last week has been
identified as having been caused not by DRM, as Slashdot users expected, but by a curious prioritization "feature" of Vista that's
intentionally biased toward Media Player at the expense of network and system resources...
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28.08.2007Gates: I'd Be Glad to Delay
Vista
Speaking at a forum in South
Africa regarding a plan for
Microsoft to make major
technology investments in the
country, Bill Gates said there
was an "80 percent
chance" Windows Vista
would by ready for its planned
January launch. He also had no
qualms about delaying the OS
further if necessary...
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11.07.2006New Windows Vista Media Center mail, RSS and videophone applications from OABSoftware
Aaron Stebner from
Microsoft's Media Center team
recently noticed a few posts
on the
http://thegreenbutton.com/foru
ms>Green Button forums
announcing some new and
updated Windows Vista Media
Center applications from
http://www.oabsoftware.nl/>OAB
Software. He posted some
information about them in case
you didn't see those forum
posts. This information is
summarized from the product
information pages for each
product and the forum posts.
Media Center Outlook
1.0
Media Center Outlook
is a new application for
Windows Vista Media Center.
It allows you to read email,
view your calendar and task
list, view information about
your contacts, read your
notes. It retrieves this
information from Microsoft
Outlook and displays it within
Windows Vista Media Center.
One important note -
Media Center Outlook cannot be
used on a Media Center
extender because it is not
possible to configure
Microsoft Outlook for the user
account that is used by the
extender...
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16.06.2007Microsoft Assessment and Planning Beta Refresh Available
Baldwin Ng: For those of you who are considering the migration of your desktop and server infrastructure to Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008,
we have good news for you!
As we've
announced at TechEd IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona last November, the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team
is going to release the expanded version of Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.1 called
Microsoft Assessment and Planning 3.0 (aka MAP).
In short,
MAP is an automated agent-less
network-wide inventory and assessment tool that can quickly determine if your organization's desktops and servers are ready for migration to Windows
Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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28.01.2008Microsoft was advised not to brand Home Basic as Vista
A key area of controversy in an ongoing lawsuit is whether Microsoft misled consumers by allowing computer makers to label PCs as "Vista Capable"
when they could only run the most basic version of the Vista operating system, known as Vista Home Basic. Turns out Microsoft was advised to not put
the Vista name on Home Basic computers at all.
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22.01.2009Microsoft.com Engeneering Operations Forum Is Now Live
Microsoft.com Operations: We are pleased to announce that the
Microsoft.com Engineering Operations Forum is now live on TechNet.
Come join us in discussions that are focused on Engineering Operations. Ask questions, give us your insights,
help us build the community of folks that are engaged in real-world systems engineering. Log in with your Windows Live ID and be a part of the
discussions.
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12.03.2008Gates: 20 Percent Chance of
Vista Delay
Speaking at a forum in South
Africa regarding a plan for
Microsoft to make major
technology investments in the
country, Bill Gates said there
was an "80 percent
chance" Windows Vista
would by ready for its planned
January launch. He also had no
qualms about delaying the OS
further if necessary...
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12.07.2006Format war fanboys shut down AVS Forum
Anyone who's ever visited
AVS Forum--probably the largest online forum for audio/visual
discussion--knows that people can get carried away. And anyone who has dared to venture in the
HD DVD and Blu-ray forum is well aware of rampant fanboy flame
wars--the kind that used to be reserved for game consoles.
Well apparently a couple of the AV geeks have gone too far, which has
led to AVS Forum moderators to completely shut down the HD DVD and Blu-ray forums until the end of the week. And in case you think it's an
overreaction, check out this quote from
the letter they
posted to AVS members...
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08.11.2007Reminder - Windows Vista SP1 RC Builds Expire soon
Quick reminder for all of you out there who helped test Windows Vista SP1 and may still be running Release Candidate builds (any build less than
6.0.6001.18000). The RC builds will expire on June 30th - so if you happen to running one, be sure to uninstall it before the end of the month.
More info is available in the
SP1
Forum.
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14.06.2008Windows Vista SP1 RTM Released
Mike Nash from the Windows Product Management group at Microsoft has today announced the release of Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista.
His
post on the official Windows Vista Blog states that SP1 will be available to the general public via Windows Update in mid-March for the first set of
five languages - English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese, and that the remaining languages will RTM in April.
"Service Pack 1
is a very important milestone because it addresses many of the key issues that our customers have identified with Windows Vista over the last year
both, directly and through programs like the Customer Experience Improvement Program. With Service Pack 1, we have made great progress in
performance, reliability and compatibility. One of the great things about my job is that I get to play with the latest builds of our products --
I've personally been running Windows Vista SP1 pretty exclusively for a few months and I've noticed that my systems run faster and more reliably
than they did with the 'Gold' release of Windows Vista." jcxp.net -
06.02.2008Check it out: Speech@Microsoft
Nope, it's not a new email address -- it's a new blog. The team responsible for incorporating speech technology into Windows Vista, among other
products, has a
new blog called Speech @ Microsoft. Their blog started just this
month and inaugural posts cover such topics as using speech APIs (COM or .NET) in applications and which languages are supported by Windows Speech
Recognition and TTS (text-to-speech) in Windows Vista. If you're interested in
Windows Vista's speech recognition capabilities (you
did know that it's present in all editions of Windows Vista, didn't you?), then keep this blog on your radar.
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20.09.2007HP Technology Forum & Expo
Next week Neowin will be attending the HP Technology Forum & Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. The HP Technology Forum & Expo is the largest event for IT
professionals using HP technologies. Customers and partners from around the world gather for learning in key technology areas and an in-depth look at
the newest IT solutions and emerging technologies. Neowin will be joining the ranks with sites and bloggers from around the world to bring you
information from the various sessions and the expo floor.
Read full story.....
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10.06.2009E-mails: Vista specs changed to help Intel
Filings unsealed in the Vista Capable case Thursday appear to bolster plaintiffs' claims that Microsoft loosened the requirements needed for a PC to
get a 'Vista Capable' sticker in order to help Intel sell its chipsets.
Read one of the filings
here (PDF).
As the Vista
Capable program was initially drafted, computers with Intel's 915 chipset would not qualify for a 'Vista Capable' sticker because it did not work
with Vista's most advanced graphics.
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14.11.2008Power Management in Windows Vista
Eliot Graff: Stephen, a program manager on the Windows Kernal team, posted a response to a question in the
General Windows Vista Development Issues forum, and I thought it
could bear repeating here.
The original question was about how to control the processor
throttle in Windows Vista. Apparently, some of the calls that used to work in an application geared to Windows XP were not acting the same way in
Windows Vista. Here's Stephen's response...
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