Windows Search, 84% Faster on Vista SP1 and 26% Faster on XP SP3
Back at the start of June 2008, Microsoft introduced an upgrade for the search infrastructure of its Windows client and Server operating systems.
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20.11.2008 Deciphering the Windows Experience Index
Microsoft's new Windows Experience Index hopes to simplify your software purchases.
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28.1.2007 Google, Yahoo, Microsoft adopt same Web index tool
Search engine rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are teaming up to make it easier for Web site owners to make sure their sites get included in the Web indexes, the companies are expected to announce Thursday.
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16.11.2006 Engineering the Windows 7 Windows Experience Index
We’re busy going through tons of telemetry from the many people that have downloaded and installed the Windows 7 beta around the world.
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20.1.2009 Building a Windows Home Server - the easy way!
So, you’re thinking about building your own home server based on Microsoft’s latest OS, Windows Home Server and want some pointers as to the best hardware to use. You’ve come to the right place!
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19.11.2007 Building a High Performance Windows 7 PC
With Windows 7 release candidate just around the corner, the other day I was asked to spec out a high performance PC suitable for Windows 7 64-bit, This system would also be a great Vista system.
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15.4.2009 Windows 7 on multicore: How much faster?
San Francisco - Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system is receiving raves in its pre-release testing.
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20.10.2009 Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista
Though Windows 7 edged out Vista in our lab tests, you may not notice much of a difference.
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7.5.2009 Building Vista buzz with a puzzle
It started with a cryptic ad on an official Internet Explorer blog, and it quickly led curious puzzle players to what may be one of the most ambitious interactive sweepstakes in history.
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13.1.2007 Windows Server 2008 is 20% faster than Vista
It seems Microsoft may have a successor (or replacement) for Vista after all and it’s already been released. Windows Server 2008 isn’t easy to configure as a desktop operating system but when done correctly can be 20% faster than Vista while retaining most of the same features.
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12.3.2008 Microsoft Building New Free Mail Client
Internet Explorer isn't the only application to enjoy a resurgence in Windows Vista -- Microsoft is readying a new desktop e-mail client that will be integrated into Windows Live and eventually replace Outlook Express. Dubbed Windows Live Mail Desktop, the product is currently in beta testing.
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11.3.2006 Google building Pacific fibre cable
Google is reportedly in negotiations to build a fibre optic cable across the Pacific to link its US operations with Asia.
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25.9.2007 Remove Unnecessary Startup Entries To Boot Windows Faster
Sometimes it's very frustrating when your computer is booting up Windows very slowly especially when someone calls you up to check something on your computer, and you need to call back because your computer takes ages to boot.
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5.5.2007 Building a Core 2 Duo gaming system for under $1000
When it comes time to build a new computer or upgrade an existing platform most of us will be doing it according to a set budget, always hoping to get the best bang for our buck.
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3.1.2007 The next generation of Microsoft application building and Web authoring tools
What are these new tools?
The Microsoft Office and Server & Tools teams are proud to announce the introduction of two great new tools for application building and Web authoring in 2006.
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11.4.2006 Vista SP1 up to 86% faster
Is Vista SP1 really the shot in the arm your Vista system needs? We've spent many hours strapped to our benchmarking system in a caffeine and pizza fuelled haze to uncover these very interesting results.
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5.3.2008 Intel says new chips about 40 pct faster
Intel Corp. said a new line of computer processors due out later this year will be about 40 percent faster than current chips when running computer games, videos and other heavy workloads.
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18.4.2007 Fixing Vista: Faster, smarter search
In previous installments of this series, I discussed the virtues of a clean Vista install, some useful User Account Control workarounds, top tools for troubleshooting, and the wisdom of shutting off Windows system services.
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6.6.2008 Building Windows Vista: A Podcast Interview with Microsoft's Sven Hallauer, Director of Windows Release Management
We were recently able to catch up with Sven Hallauer, Director of Release Management for Windows Vista, to ask him a few questions regarding the build process of Windows Vista. Sven is the master of all Windows builds.
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2.9.2006 Windows Server 2008 Is 45 Times Faster Than Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is no leas than 45 times faster than its predecessor, Windows Server 2003, in terms of network transfer speeds.
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22.11.2007 64-bit Vista SP1 Runs Faster than 32-bit Vista SP1 and 32-bit XP SP3!
The 64-bit edition of Windows Vista delivers not only support for larger quantities of system memory, with the high-end editions supporting as much as 128 GB of RAM, but also some extra horse power hidden under the hood.
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29.4.2008 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008Windows Mobile browser claimed "five times" faster
Japanese firm Ibis has released a new mobile Web browser claimed to be five times faster than Internet Explorer. The IbisBrowserDX supports
touchscreen-enabled Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices, but lacks support for Flash and Javascript.
IbisBrowserDX was written in C++ for high performance, and loads Web
pages an average of 5.5 times faster than the mobile edition of Internet Explorer (IE), Ibis says. In addition, scrolling to the bottom of a page
averages 7.4 times faster, according to figures published by the company.
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08.01.2008Fire may have damaged key Apple R&D building
A three-alarm fire swept through a building at the Cupertino company, damaging the roof and the second floor of the building known as "Valley
Green Six."..
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13.08.2008Microsoft campus mystery lives on
A new-hire hazing
ritual and other employee
pranks at Microsoft's Redmond
campus may live on, thanks to
some good-humored building
planners at the
company.
The
jokes revolve around the
mysterious building seven. The
Seattle area has 116 Microsoft
buildings and the buildings on
the Redmond campus are
numbered sequentially except
for the number seven. There
isn't one.
The
missing building is fodder for
various commonly executed
employee pranks (or at least
regularly boasted-about
jokes).
Perhaps the
best known is when Microsoft
managers send new hires to
meetings in building number
seven, so that they can
snicker while the new kid on
the block scrambles to find
the building. Or another good
one entails making an
anonymous call to the new hire
late in the day and telling
them to report to building
seven within 20 minutes to
pick up a security badge...
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16.05.2007Safari 4 beta released, Apple claims speed boosts
Apple has been working on the next major upgrade to their Safari web browser for both Mac and Windows PC to improve speed, reliability, and stability.
The browser is announced to be up to 3 times faster than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla's Firefox 3. Safari 4 comes loaded with
the new Nitro Engine for javascript to help browsers execute scripts faster. Apple announced the web browser can execute
javascript 30 times faster than IE7 and 3 times faster than Firefox 3. The browser can also load HTML pages 3 times faster than IE7 and 3
times faster than Firefox 3.
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24.02.2009Facebook testing "Lite" version - similar to Twitter and FF
Facebook has turned on a new feature for select groups of Facebook users (mainly in India) called "Facebook Lite" which is essentially a cut down,
faster loading edition of Facebooks user interface that scarily looks more and more like twitter (or even friendfeed). Users who are being offered a
place in the beta are receiving the message: We are building a faster, simpler version of Facebook that we call Facebook Lite. It's not finished
yet and we have plenty of kinks to work out, but we would love to get your feedback on what we have built so far. The site for the feature is
http://lite.facebook.com.
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14.08.2009Understand and improve your computer's performance using the Windows Experience Index
Columnist Stephanie Krieger
has been working extensively
with Windows Vista over the
past year. In this article,
she gives you the facts you
need to reap the benefits of
the new Windows Experience
Index...
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22.12.2006MacBooks Get a Slight Speed Bump
Apple on Thursday quietly pushed updates to its MacBook line of laptops, giving them integrated video, a faster front side bus, and slightly faster
processors...
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01.11.2007Microsofts cool new research building, a photostory
Robert Scoble: Yesterday Kevin Schofield, general manager of Microsoft Research, invited Rocky and me over to tour Microsofs cool new research
building which opened three months ago.
Building 99. Well have a video of this tour up on March 3, as part of the opening of FastCompany.tv.
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15.02.2008Microsoft opening Windows Cafe in Paris to promote Windows 7
With the release of Windows 7 coming up very soon, Microsoft is doing its best to help build excitement; from Windows 7 parties to marketing
campaigns, the software giant is sure showing the world how to promote a product. They're not stopping yet, however, as TechCrunch has reported
that they're now building a Windows themed café in Paris to help further the promoting. Microsoft France is building the café to
help show off products from the company, such as the Xbox, as well as mobile devices, but none of these will be available for purchase. Being a
café, the only things up for sale will be food and drinks, though these have yet to have their names revealed.
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24.09.2009Report: Shareholder Unrest Building at Sprint
Recently, a shareholder revolt
caused major changes at gaming
company Take-Two. Could
momentum for a similar change
be building at telecom Sprint
Nextel?..
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12.04.2007Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview
Nick White: <...> The Windows Search Team is making available
Windows Search 4.0
Preview - a preview of the next version of desktop search for Windows.
Windows Search 4.0 introduces several improvements
I'd like to call out making search even better in Windows Vista:
- With Windows Search 4.0, the Windows Search Team has fixed
most of the reported bugs causing a majority of distractions users have seen since Windows Vista RTM - many of those bugs were reported by you.
- Great improvements have been made with regards to performance.Even now as Preview, Windows Search 4.0 has query response time about 33%faster
than search queries in Windows Vista RTM.
- The Windows Search Team has extended Remote Index Discovery for PC-to-PC search to work onevery
supported version of Windows. This makes finding information on other PCs running Windows Search 4.0 quick and less resource-consuming. Now Windows
Search can find information shared on a remote PC by accessing an index on that PC - and you will open files only when relevant to your search. This
will also work if the user's profile is redirected.
- The Windows Search Team has implemented Rollback Recovery where your search index
will roll back to the last known good state (this is good in handling disc write errors). If an error occurs, your index isn't rebuilt from scratch;
only the newly changed files are added to the index, making recovery from system errors not as disruptive to the machine or the user
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28.03.2008Engineering the Windows 7 "Windows Experience Index"
Steven Sinofsky: We're busy going through tons of telemetry from the many people that have downloaded and installed the Windows 7 beta around the
world. Were super excited to see the excitement around kicking the tires. Since most folks on the beta are well-versed in the hardware they use and
very tuned into the choices they make, weve received a few questions about the
Windows Experience Index (WEI) in Windows 7 and how that has
been changed and improved in Windows 7 to take into account new hardware available for each of the major classes in the metric. In this post Michael
Fortin returns to dive into the engineering details of the WEI.
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19.01.2009Faster page loads for Opera Mini 4.2
The launch two weeks ago of a new server park in the US gives graphical mobile browser users the promise of faster performance. Since that time, the
makers of Opera have been finalizing their 4.2 edition for various smartphones...
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26.11.2008Pranksters breathe a sigh of relief: There will never be a Building 7
It is a longstanding prank at Microsoft's main Redmond campus to
send an unsuspecting new employee to building 7 under the pretense of
having a meeting or needing to pick up something.
There
is no such building on the main Microsoft campus.
This nonexistent building has also been used as a sort of inside joke.
For example, if
somebody invites you to
a meeting in Building 7,
they're
probably inviting you off campus to take a break from work.
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01.04.2008Cleaner, Faster: First impressions of "Windows Live 2008"
Well it's taken a while to get here, but it looks like Windows Live is becoming a better defined and somewhat unified set of services. Of course
there's still a lot of work left to do, but today's debut of the Windows Live Suite and unified installer is definitely a big step in the right
direction. So lets jump right in...
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06.09.2007Building brand loyalty requires more creative tactics for the Web
Ad agencies are in the brand-building business, but sometimes their efforts transcend the kind of process automation that intermediaries such as
Google and MSN introduce to Web advertising. How can online creativity be bottled and distributed?..
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30.01.2008Cisco Becomes a Microsoft Competitor
With two new Cisco buyouts
this week -- storage appliance
producer NeoPath Networks on
Tuesday, and collaboration
software developer WebEx this
morning -- Cisco appears not
just to be building up but
building out . And
today, analysts believe
Microsoft may be on notice...
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16.03.2007Next-generation FireWire finalized, but USB 3.0 will be faster
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recently approved IEEE 1394-2008, a faster version of the standard known to most simply as
FireWire and used for connecting PCs with digital video devices or external hard drives...
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02.08.2008Microsoft Building 'Containerized' Data Center
Microsoft is in the process of building the industry's first container-based data center.
Microsoft first said a year ago that
it was considering the idea, and now the concept is coming to fruition, Michael Manos, Microsoft's senior director of Data Center Services, said
April 1 in a keynote address at the AFCOM Data Center World conference here.
The new center will be located in Northlake, Ill.,
near Chicago. Microsoft is also building new data centers in San Antonio; Quincy, Wash.; and Dublin, Ireland. The Chicago facility will be the only
one with a "containerized" floor.
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02.04.2008Nvidia G70 Ultra cancelled
NVIDIA cancels its upcoming
G70 Ultra
Card
Nv
idia knows that ATI cannot
ship many R520 XT's running
at 600/1400MHz and therefore
won't get into relaunching a
new faster clocked G70 chip.
The G70 Ultra was supposed to
be a faster version of G70
card based on existing 110
chip, just clocked
faster.
Nv
idia G70 ultra would likely be
very competitive to R520 XT
but it would hurt G70, Geforce
7800 GTX sales and therefore
Nvidia won't release it. So
all of you who have been
waiting for 7800 Ultra you can
just forget about it.
Business wise
it's better to ship many GTX
and GTs and sell them in
quantities than to release a
limited but faster Ultra. We
learned that Nvidia shipped a
few tens of thousands of GTX
and GTs already and it has
been shipping in numbers ever
since. Last thing you want is
to upset people with releasing
Ultra, a card that would be
marginally faster than G70 and
likely to create more problems
than solve them...
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