How To Make a Custom Vista Disc AIO
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26.1.2007 Windows Vista Custom PC Design
Microsoft and Dell recently partnered up to create a super-cool custom PC in celebration of Microsoft releasing Windows Vista to manufacturing earlier this month.
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21.11.2006 How To Make a Custom Vista Disc AIO
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26.1.2007 How to: Create custom wallpaper collections in Windows 7
Do you love customizing your Windows desktop? If you do, you'll love this trick!
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28.7.2009 Windows Live Custom Domains - Free Email Hosting
A new service was added to the Windows Live Beta family today - Windows Live Custom Domains. The basic idea is that anyone with a domain can now point their MX record to the Live servers. What that means is that users can have Microsoft's servers hosting their own domain's email accounts for free.
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20.11.2005 Custom PC makers finally get Windows 7 preinstallation kit
On October 12, Microsoft provided system builders with the Windows 7 OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) tools and related documentation they need to preload and customize Windows 7 on multiple new PCs.
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13.10.2009 Over 10 Million Custom XP Downloads Get Chinese Pirates Jail Sentences
Chinese authorities cracked down on a group of four software pirates for offering a custom-built copy of Windows XP, which was downloaded in excess of 10 million times.
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24.8.2009 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 - lets 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 Vistas tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vistas image is tarnished. And its 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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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsofts announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I cant help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007It's Another Vista TCO Study
Microsoft is flaunting a new Windows Vista total cost of ownership study thatno surprisepresents rosy findings.
Wipro
Technologies and GCR Custom Research produced the report, which findings Microsoft presented in a conference call this afternoon. Microsoft's PR
agency dispatched the wrong dial-in number, causing the meeting to start considerably late. My afternoon was packed, so I snatched a PDF of the
LiveMeeting PowerPoint and moved on to other things. A fuller white paper is now available.
The report focuses on Vista TCO
benefits for mobile PCs. GCR concluded that Vista would reduce mobile PC TCO by $605 annually, or 14 percent, compared to Windows XP.
Reports of this type are always suspect, because they are custom commissioned by vendors. When I was an analyst, I worked on several custom
reports used by companies for internal purposes, meaning to improve the business strategy. External custom reports have an inherent bias because the
client is paying for them for a broader marketing objective.. Would Microsoft promote a commissioned report that found Vista TCO to be less than
Windows XP or, gasp, Linux? The answer is obvious.
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06.09.2007Debugging a Per-User Installation Error on Windows Vista
Chris Jackson: Yesterday, a friend asked for some assistance debugging an issue with Windows Installer. It was one of those situations where you've
looked at the problem so closely, so many times, that you just needed another set of eyes. (They're close to shipping, so they've been doing nothing
but look at bugs, probably for a while.)
Some background:
What they're doing is a rather interesting use of
Windows Installer. They're using it to drop a setup.exe and then run it. So, they have a custom action of type 0xC02, which is a deferred custom
action, promoted to not use impersonation, which runs as an exe. This custom action spawns another version of itself (with different arguments), and
then the process exits so the installer can complete. The second version of this custom action then wants to uninstall the msi, as well as launch the
setup.exe. So, the msi is just a way to package up the setup.exe.
And, with UAC, it was breaking.
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25.10.2007Google Rolls Out Custom Search Engine for Businesses
Google on Tuesday plans to
make its Custom Search Engine
available to business users.
Custom
Search Engine Business
Edition offers the same
Web site search technology
present in Google's free
Custom Search Engine, except
with no ads.
Google's custom search
allows the creator or
administrator to limit queries
to a certain set of documents,
such as those on one (or more)
Web sites. The service, free
and supported by ads for
consumers, costs businesses
anywhere from $100 per year to
$15,000 per year or more at
Web sites that field lots of
queries.
Custom
Search Engine Business Edition
also includes an XML
application programming
interface (API) for
customizing search result
presentation, technical
support, and the ability to
display search results under
the company's own logo rather
than Google's familiar red,
yellow, blue, and green...
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17.07.2007Desktop Security: Create Custom Login Experiences With Credential Providers For Windows Vista
Credential providers in
Windows Vista allow you to
customize the logon experience
and integrate the
authentication methods that
best meet your organization's
needs. With this article,
learn how to write your own...
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27.01.2007AOL to Offer Free Custom
E-Mail Domains
Following in the footsteps of
Microsoft and Google, AOL said
Wednesday that it would begin
providing a custom e-mail
domain services for its
customers beginning in
September. Like its
competitors, AOL My eAddress
would be provided at no
charge...
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09.08.2006AOL to Launch Custom Domain
Service
AOL has plans to offer a
custom domain service,
BetaNews has learned. The
offering, called AOL
MYeAddress, will begin as a
beta test later Thursday, with
an official launch coming this
summer...
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19.05.2006Microsoft's Domain Service
Goes 'Live'
Microsoft said late Tuesday
that its Custom Domains
service had officially
launched, making it the third
Windows Live project to come
out of beta. The service
allows a customer to use a
custom domain name with
Windows Live Mail and Hotmail...
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28.06.2006Workaround Discovered For "Clean Install" With Vista Upgrade
DailyTech has posted a 7-step
workaround courtesy of Paul
Thurrott (via Microsoft
internal documents) on how to
perform a clean install with a
Windows Vista Upgrade DVD. Per
Microsoft's new licensing
requirements for Vista, users
are required to install a
Windows Vista Upgrade from
within Windows XP and to make
matters worse, the Windows XP
license is forfeited. The
process may be tedious, but
few will argue when they
compare the price differences
between the upgrade and retail
versions. Here we go:
- Boot from the
Windows Vista Upgrade DVD and
start the setup
program.
- When prompted
to enter your product key, DO
NOT enter it. Click "Next"
and proceed with setup. This
will install Windows Vista as
a 30-day trial.
- When
prompted, select the edition
of Vista which you have
purchased and continue with
setup.
- Once setup has
been completed and you have
been brought to the desktop
for the first time, run the
install program from within
Windows Vista.
- This
time, type in your product key
when prompted.
- When
asked whether to perform an
Upgrade or Custom (advanced)
install, choose Custom
(advanced) to perform a clean
install of Vista. Yes, this
means that you will have to
install Vista for a second
time.
- Once setup has
completed for the second time,
you should be able to activate
Windows Vista normally. You
can also delete the
Windows.old directory which
contains information from the
first Vista
install.
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31.01.2007Another Windows Vista SP1 Feature From TechEd
In one of the later session
during TechEd last week I
learned of another very cool
feature coming to Windows
Vista with Service Pack 1.
During his talk Wes Miller,
who is writing a ton for
TechNet magazine these days
mentioned that setup will now
be able to run either 32-bit
or 64-bit installs.
What does this mean?
Well basically a lot less
work for anyone who has to
deal with both 32-bit and
64-bit images. After SP1 you
will be able to deploy either
version of the OS from a
single DVD.
So
what?
Well the
reason this is a big deal is
if you are doing anything
custom with Windows PE then
you currently have to maintain
two boot wims (one 64 and one
32) and in extreme cases where
you have custom code you have
to maintain to codebase sets
because 64-bit WinPE doesn't
support 32bit code due to the
lack of WOW support .
It wasn't clear if WDS
would also offer this
capability, but it would make
sense.
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15.06.2007Microsoft Seeks Ultimate Windows Media Center Installation
Calling all custom installers! Microsoft Corp. is searching for the custom installation industrys innovators to submit distinctive installations for
the Windows® Media Center Ultimate Install Contest. The first of its kind, this design contest seeks to recognize the residential custom electronics
systems installation business that best utilizes Windows Media Center in a custom installation solution.
Increasingly, Windows
Media Center is being implemented in solutions for the custom channel, so Microsoft is challenging industry professionals to present their most unique
and creative installations using the technology. The contest was announced at CEDIA EXPO 2007.
This is a chance not only to show
the amazing things custom installers can do with the Windows Media Center platform, but also to have some fun, said Scott Evans, group manager in the
Entertainment and Devices eHome Division at Microsoft. Our partners in the custom channel are taking our software and building incredible digital
home solutions, so we decided now was a great time to give them the chance to showcase their best work and compete to be recognized as the ultimate
MCE installer.
Official rules and eligibility requirements are available at
http://www.microsoft.com/ceinstaller.
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05.09.2007Beautiful Windows Vista icons a double-edged sword
I admit it. I'm an iconphile. Back in the Windows 3.0 days, I used to go and change all my Windows icons by hand. I thought this was pretty
impressive. Admittedly, it didn't help me pick up women for some reason.
Since then, icons have come a very long way. A VERY long way.
With Windows Vista, the end-user icon experience out of the box is beautiful. But from an icon creator's point of view, the lack of backward
compatibility and effort to support has gone up tremendously. As a result, we've seen a lot fewer custom icons made for Windows Vista than one might
have expected.
Microsoft made three decisions with Windows Vista that will forever affect the way we look at icon making on Windows.
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24.08.2007Windows Vista for Embedded Systems Information Available
Now, I didn't even know this
existed - I knew XP Embedded
had been around for a while,
but I wasn't sure that
Microsoft were actually going
to produce an Embedded version
of Windows Vista sometime
soon, but they have, and you
can get all the details from
http://www.microsoft.com/windo
ws/embedded/eval/vista/default
.mspx>here.
The great
thing is, even though you are
using Vista technology on
these small, and sometimes
custom devices, you can still
get many of the benefits of
the full blown Vista, such as
built-in protection against
malicious software,
intelligent warnings around
hardware failure and
sophisticated backup
technologies, and with the
Ultimate version (Business and
Ultimate are the 2 options
available), you even have
BitLocker, and the
Multi-Language User Interface.
This site is your
perfect launch pad to more
http://www.microsoft.com/windo
ws/embedded/eval/vista/default
.mspx>information - I'd
highly recommend checking it
out.
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04.06.2007Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) screencast Build a Custom Bootdisk
Chris Henley just released a new screencast on his
Blue blog.
This time our master storyteller has created a screencast on Windows PE. In the
screencast Chris shows you how to get up
and running in 17 minutes on a topic thats a bit tricky the first time you do it. Chris has more information in the subject in his blog post at
http://blogs.technet.com/chenley/archive/2008/08/27/custom-win-pe-images.aspx. Theres a direct link there to the video in
case you want to download it and watch it offline.
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28.08.2008New Google Site Search lets Web sites shape search results
Tuesday, Google launched Site Search, a rebranded overhaul of "Google Custom Search Business Edition" that gives Web site owners tools to
influence the search results that appear on their sites' custom search pages...
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04.06.2008Windows Live Custom Domains renamed to Admin Center - New features added
Windows Live Custom Domains has today undergone its Wave 2 update that sees it renamed as
Windows
Live Admin Center, though the old url of
domains.live.com still works. This name change
reflects the wider array of features now offered by the service, which has transitioned from a hosted email service into a more complete Windows Live
package. The update now allows those who manage a domain to redirect a subdomain to a Windows Live Space, a Windows Live Map of a location you
specifiy, a Live Search page complete with custom macros or even a customised live.com page. To see what this means, check out the urls we've
redirected...
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10.11.2007Windows Live Custom Domains Manager 1.4
Windows Live Custom Domains is
perfect for individuals and
groups who want personalized
e-mail addresses for their own
domain name. If you own a
domain name, Windows Live
Custom Domains will host your
mailboxes for that name.
Windows Live Custom
Domains Manager is a
Windows-based Management
Console that helps you setup
and maintain your domain
e-mail settings, you can use
to perform the following
tasks:
- Verify Service
Status
- Verify MX
Configuration
- Add New
Users
- Delete Users
- Import Existing Users
- Evict Existing Users
- Import User List
-
Export User List
-
Manage Multiple Domains
-
Log off (Switch
Users)
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12.12.2006Microsoft Extends XP Life Again
Windows XP has risen from the grave so many times, it now has more in common with Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees than it does with other PC
operating systems.
Though its successor Windows Vista has been on the market for over two years and yet another Windows version, Windows
7, will ship in just months, Microsoft has again extended the time frame for consumers who wish to continue using the seven-year-old XP. This time
around, the company is allowing custom PC builders alternatively called "system builders" and "white box PC makers" to continue ordering XP for
their PCs through May 30, 2009.
The previous deadline was January 31, 2009, so the extension gives custom PC builders an extra four
months to get their XP orders in. After that time, they can continue selling PCs with Windows XP only for as long as their XP stock lasts.
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23.12.2008Announcing the Windows Vista Coach Tour
Nick White has written up a
blog entry regarding a road
trip planned between January
16 and 24, 2007. The trip is
regarding the "Wow" starts
now campaign for Microsoft
Windows Vista.
"I
and a few Windows community
influencers will hop on a
custom-wrapped Windows Vista
bus and visit major cities on
the East coast of the United
States: Nashville, Lexington,
Cincinnati, Columbus,
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington DC,
Charlotte, Savannah,
Jacksonville, Orlando,
Gainesville, Atlanta and
places in between. We'll then
return to Nashville to wrap up
the tour."
You can
catch the Windows guys in the
cities as well as on the road.
Why would you want to? First
off, there will be a custom
designed coach bus based
around the Windows Vista
"energy" theme (Vista's
default wallpaper). This
isn't just Microsoft we're
talking about; AMD will be
part of the branding too. The
coach will be equipped with
free Wi-Fi so that you can
fully utilize, in the very
comfortable lounge area, the
numerous systems running
Windows Vista. An Xbox 360
will be present along with
refreshments, not that you
won't have anything to do:
the team is only too happy to
answer your Windows Vista
questions.
Secondly, features such as
Ultimate Extras, speech
recognition, Tablet
functionality, and the way
Media Center works with the
Xbox 360 as an extender will
all be showed off. Thirdly,
and what people are probably
most interested in, there will
be various prizes to give
away. Videos and still photos
of the trip will be available
on the Windows Vista Team Blog
on a day-to-day basis. For
those who already have the
Vista Sidebar, a gadget will
be available for tracking the
group on the road.
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16.01.2007Windows Live Custom Domains
Manager updated!
Frameworkx have just released an
update to their well known
Windows Live Custom Domains
Manager software. Windows Live
Custom Domains Manager is a
desktop application that lets
you manage your Custom
Domains, a Custom Domain being
a special e-mail address which
lets you access any Windows
Live Service.
LiveSide
received the following e-mail
about the update:
"I just wanted to let
you know, that I updated the
Windows Live Custom Domains
Manager tool.
First of all thanks for
published the original article
about WLCD Manager on
LiveSide. Also I have received
nearly 400 emails of people
just sending me feedback on
it, and the vast majority came
back positive.
In fact 40% percent of the
emails I got were from people
that wish I added a new
feature to the tool. They
wanted to ability to "Switch
logged in Users" or "Log
Off" to log in with a
different user account. I
implemented this new feature
and published on the website
as build 1.1, however it seems
that a lot of people
bookmarked the download link
for 1.0, which download
numbers continues to grow by
an average of 200 downloads
everyday.
Can
you help me disseminate the
fact that there's a new build
of the
application?"
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23.05.2006Despite deadlines, Windows XP to be sold a few more years
June 30 of this year and Jan. 31, 2009, may be the deadlines for U.S. retailers and custom system builders, respectively, to sell Windows XP. But, due
to exceptions Microsoft has made, the operating system will be available for at least the next two years for those who purchased business and Ultimate
versions of Vista, as well as for customers in certain geographies.
Microsoft has made it widely known that it will stop
distributing XP to U.S. manufacturers and retailers on June 30, while custom system builders can put XP on hardware until Jan. 31, 2009. But what is
probably less known -- and not because Microsoft has been hiding the fact -- is that Windows XP Starter Edition, a scaled-down version of the OS for
emerging markets, will be available until June 30, 2010.
Moreover, business and end-users who have purchased Windows Vista
Business or Ultimate licenses either at retail or through enterprise agreements with Microsoft have indefinite "downgrade" rights to XP as part of
their license agreements, according to a Microsoft spokeswoman.
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