What would you change in Windows?
If you were hired by Microsoft to make the Windows experience less annoying, what would be on your to-do list?
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30.4.2008 Can Dell change the Linux market?
After a lot of hemming-and-hawing, Dell has decided to accept the verdict of its IdeaStorm users and sell pre-installed Linux.
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26.2.2007 Exec says new Windows head will change culture
Sinofsky comes to the Windows group, which has not shipped a new product in nearly five years, with a reputation within Microsoft as an effective taskmaster and a track record of on-time new software releases delivered in regular intervals.
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27.3.2006 Change Office 2007 Product Key
When Office 2007 was RTM'ed and downloadable on MSDN I used Office Professional 2007. For my new course, SharePoint BI, which I'm writing at the moment I needed InfoPath as well.
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1.1.2007 Microsoft: We Didn’t Change Automatic Updates
Software giant says users are responsible for the modifications that generated claims of unauthorized patch installs.
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20.10.2007 How to Change Windows Vista Boot Screen
Some of you remember how it was possible to change the boot logo screen of Windows 95/98. I'm not sure why anyone would go into the trouble of actually doing it, but it seems that it is possible to do the same for Windows Vista.
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19.11.2007 Change Logon Background in Windows Vista
I caught this via Steve Clayton (who caught it via Jeff Sandquist showing off his home) - Stardock has a really neat application called LogonStudio that allows you to change the background of your logon screen in Windows Vista. I absolutely love the space background.
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2.12.2007 Microsoft Details IE 8 Security Default Change
The company will enable DEP/NX (Data Execution Prevention/No Execute) by default in IE 8 when running on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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11.4.2008 XP: Get Updates No Matter What or Change your Product Key
If your windows installation has issues, or for some other unmentionable reason is unable to get updates from the windows server, this is what you need to do.
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27.3.2006 Popular Instant Messenger, Gaim, Forced to Change Name
It was announced, yesterday, that the popular multi-headed instant messaging client, Gaim, has undergone a name change. The new name, Pidgin, comes after years of secret discussions and legal issues with internet giant, AOL.
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8.4.2007 Microsoft agrees to change Vista desktop search
Microsoft agreed Tuesday to make changes to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista in an effort to assuage Google and head off a further antitrust battle with U.S. regulators.
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20.6.2007 Microsoft to change Vista to satisfy Google antitrust complaint?
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) has agreed to modify its new Vista operating system in response to complaints that its desktop search function puts Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) and other potential competitors at a disadvantage, a source familiar with the case told Reuters on Tuesday.
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20.6.2007 Vista: the Gender Challenged OS, After the Longhorn Sex Change
Windows Vista is a Microsoft gender-challenged operating system, after it has survived the Longhorn sex change. Just bear with me, it will all make sense in the end, I promise.
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22.3.2008 Set and Change Windows 7 Registered Owner & Organization with SetOwner
It may happen that you have bought second hand laptop or computer with preinstalled Windows operating system and you are looking for the way to change ownership information.
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20.11.2009 The Man Who Would Change Microsoft: Ray Ozzie's Vision for Connected Software
Ray Ozzie has a long and storied history of technological innovation, with accomplishments that include creating Lotus Notes and founding Groove Networks.
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14.4.2007 Prevent 1.0 - Stop Unauthorized Copy, Delete, Move & Change of Settings
I am sure everyone has faced the situation where either their friends, colleagues, family member of kids renaming, deleting important files or changing settings like wallpaper, screen resolution etc. this is typical with younger sibling.
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17.9.2009 PC login Now - How To Change a Windows XP Limited User Account Into a Computer Administrator
One of the place that I work at has a few hundreds of computers and it is shared by students.
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12.7.2008 Change and Speed Up the Read and Write Speed for DVD Writers - MediaCodeSpeedEdit
Before continue reading today’s article, I’d like to warn you that this is for advanced users and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you CAN damage your DVD drive and will void your warranty.
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8.8.2008 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 Windows XP LogonUI Changer - Change Windows XP Logon Background
Windows 7 has got built-in feature to change Windows 7 Logon background and we have already covered Logon Changer & LogonUI background changer for Windows 7. For Windows Vista & XP Logonstudio is best tool to use.
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12.8.2009AT&T Decides to Prorate Termination Fee
Following a similar move by Verizon Wireless in January of last year, AT&T said Wednesday that it will change its policies to reduce early termination
fees and change their contracts without penalty...
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17.10.2007Protest rally against Australian government plan to censor broadband
A new, left-of-center politician seizes power in a wave of change against an unpopular right-winger who supported the war in Iraq. With him comes
sweeping new policies that could change the fabric of society. But this isn't America...
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16.12.2008With the petaflop barrier broken, is it time to change the benchmark?
The Roadrunner supercomputer now runs more than 1.1 thousand trillion floating-point operations per second. But what's an "operation" really?
By the time the next Top 500 list comes out, the definition could change...
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21.11.2008PDC 2008: Will multitouch change the Windows application?
The research and resources that Microsoft has invested in its Surface project will soon pay off for everyday Windows users, with new multitouch
functionality being added to Windows 7. But how soon will Windows apps feel the change?..
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31.10.20082007 to 2027: The shapes of things to come in IT
Gerald M. Weinberg: The one thing I've learned from a half-century in the computer industry is that we can predict anything but the future. In other
words, I predict that the future will surprise us, so to prepare for the future, we'd better stay adaptable.
Though the question
"What's coming?" seems to imply change, I feel somewhat safer predicting certain things that won't change in the next 50 years because they
haven't changed in the past 50. First and foremost, human beings won't change. They'll continue to blunder around emotionally, failing to do what
they know they ought to do when building and supporting computer systems. For that reason, the need for effective managers will not change, but it
will grow more critical.
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01.10.2007Bush admin. official: IT back-offices 'centers of enormous waste'
Speaking at an official United Nations function in New York this morning on technology and climate change, a DOE official denounced the world's data
centers for their role in contributing to global climate change...
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27.11.2007Microsoft, G4C Team Up to Encourage Global Problem-Solving Through Digital Gaming
Microsoft Corp. and Games for
Change (G4C) today announced a
joint commitment to explore
new ways to bring together the
world of digital gaming with
the world of social change at
the fourth annual Games for
Change Festival at Parsons The
New School for Design.
As part of the
announcement, Microsoft
outlined an all-new socially
minded global gaming
competition, Xbox 360 Games
for Change Challenge, to drive
awareness for games based on
social themes. This worldwide
competition, set to launch
this summer to participants in
more than 100 countries, will
challenge college students to
come up with the best game
based on the theme of global
warming.
Jeff Bell,
corporate vice president of
global marketing for the
Interactive Entertainment
Business at Microsoft, made
the announcement during the
2007 Games for Change Festival
Expo Night, following an
introduction from Bob Kerrey,
the president of The New
School and a former Nebraska
senator...
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11.06.2007How Merrill Lynch Plans To Virtualize Half Its Desktops
"Once the world figures this stuff out, this is going to be a huge change to the corporate landscape," Merrill Lynch chief architect Jeff Birnbaum
predicts.
The stuff Birnbaum's talking about is "stateless" desktop virtualization, which promises cost savings from
delivering the software that PCs need over a network using one-off virtual machines spun up in the data center. That should make it much cheaper to
manage, since IT departments can change, say, a setting on the Windows operating system once, and all employees get the change as soon as they access
their virtual desktops, rather than IT having to push the change to tens of thousands of PCs.
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04.05.2008Obama's new 'Change.gov'
It would seem that President-Elect Barack Obama has already started to usher in change. Today marks the launch of a new website which seems to have
the goal of merging the gap between citizen and government.
The website contains a newsroom, blog, and even a section entitled
'agenda', under which lists several sections to browse through the various issues of importance. Selecting one will show what the government
of Obama/Biden intend to do and how they intend to do it. There is also a section of the website called the 'American Moment' where visitors
may post their concerns, opinions, and hopes for the future.
Change.gov offers a unique way of having citizens become involved in the
political system of their country, it is still fairly new and thus we'll have to wait to measure its success.
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07.11.2008TiVo Institutes 1 Year Service
Contracts
A recent change made to
TiVo's customer agreement has
opened up the door to allow
the company to institute
service contracts. Although it
is unclear as to why the
change has been made, TiVo has
recently endeavored to market
the DVR service to new
customers and contracts would
keep those users from
canceling...
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24.09.2005The Buzz: Winds of Change at
Microsoft
The big news Wednesday
involved two memos from
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
and chief technical officer
Ray Ozzie. The missives detail
what Gates calls "a sea
change" and why Microsoft
risks being left behind in the
Web 2.0 movement. Read on to
see what analysts and bloggers
had to say about the news, and
tell us what you think...
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11.11.2005YouTube goes widescreen
YouTube rolled out an exciting change to all of its users today, by expanding the width of their videos to widescreen (16:9), from the previous
standard format (4:3), making the player 960 pixels wide. A post, in the YouTube Blog, confirmed that all previous 4:3 aspect ratio videos will all
still be watchable, and play just fine. This highly anticipated update to go widescreen comes as a surprise to many, as some dislike the change to the
player going widescreen, where most think the change was needed to the aging player. This update could be the start of more changes to come, after
YouTube announced it will be selling keyword searches to users and businesses.
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25.11.2008The new Whitehouse.gov
Shortly prior to Obama's inauguration the official White House website was updated with a new layout and new features. Already seen has been the
new administration implement Change.gov which was widely met with satisfaction amongst users. With its launch it brought a new type of
interconnectedness between government and citizen. The new Whitehouse.gov resembles Change.gov in that it holds a wealth of various information and
displays it in an easily accessible format. It takes the place of Change.gov and will be the new platform in which the Obama administration hopes to
provide further involvement of citizens and government. The site contains information on the plans for several initiatives and topic, as well as
information regarding American politics in general.
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20.01.2009IBM Supercomputer Studies Climate Change
The National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
has turned to an IBM
supercomputer to improve its
climate change research.
Called "Blueice," the
computer is capable of a peak
speed of 12 teraflops and a
sustained speed of 2
teraflops...
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03.11.2006Amazon, eBay, Apple worst on climate change list
Bad news for environmentally
conscious people who want an
iPhone: Apple is near the
bottom of a new list that
rates companies based on their
efforts to stop climate
change.
While it
doesn't have quite the cache,
Motorola would make a better
choice of cell phone if you
care about efforts the vendor
is making to improve its
carbon footprint, according to
the Climate Counts
list.
Motorola got a score
of 60, compared to Apple's 2,
meaning it has set goals to
reduce its energy use and has
already succeeded in doing so.
The highest score a company
can get is 100.
Climate Counts, a new
nonprofit organization, plans
to update the list every year
and encourages consumers to
base their buying decisions on
companies' climate change
efforts. ..
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21.06.2007Intel's Larrabee to Change the market?
The head of BFG Technologies, a well-known Nvidia-exclusive supplier of graphics cards, admitted in an interview that Intel Corp.’s highly
anticipated code-named Larrabee graphics processing unit (GPU) would change the market of graphics processors, however, he still said that Nvidia
would be able to remain on top.
“Next year we’re going to see a completely different competitive landscape and it will change
how people buy graphics cards,” said Scott Herkelman, the president of BFG Technologies, said in an interview with Hexus web-site.
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25.06.2008Mozilla wants Windows ballot screen changed
Last week Neowin reported that Microsoft had made changes to the Windows browser ballot screen, which will make selecting a browser for consumers much
easier. Mozilla was not happy with their placement on the browser ballot screen, and has purposed Microsoft change the screen once again, placing them
first selection. All companies need to submit final purposes before November 9 before any more changes can be made. Mozilla purposed a change today
that would change the current ordering of the browsers, currently in alphabetical order of manufacture, to order of market share, with the exception
of IE. The reordering of the browsers would place Firefox in the first slot, followed by Chrome, Opera and Safari.
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16.10.2009Microsoft Concedes to Google and States, Will Change Vista Search
In agreeing to make what could
be described technically as a
minor change to the way it
handles its options for
consumer desktop search,
Microsoft last night may have
made its most symbolically
significant statement to date
with regard to its current
stance in the technology
market: It backed down, in
response to a complaint from
Google that its placement of
desktop search capabilities
within Windows Vista
constituted a breach of its
antitrust settlement agreement
with the US and states'
governments regarding
middleware...
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20.06.2007HP Power to Change Initiative
Whether you believe in global warming or not, I think we can all agree that reducing waste and minimizing the negative impact that we have on the
environment is a good thing. Most communities in the US have recycling programs at every level, from the home consumer to the corporate giant, and
many offer financial incentives for participating, some even penalize for not participating.
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09.06.2009Course Change for OpenDocument Developers Seen as Emerging Rift
A presentation made two weeks ago by two members of OASIS' OpenDocument technical committee, and founding members of the OpenDocument Foundation,
made it clear that the foundation would be turning its attention away from developing the ODF format and translators for it. Instead, in a course
change instigated as far back as last May, the Foundation is steering back toward a project launched in 1995 by the World Wide Web Consortium, in
hopes of recapturing the momentum toward document interoperability for all existing word processor users...
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