Daughter named after Windows Vista
Thanks to thepodest for reporting this funy story
in his blog. Daughter named after Microsoft codenames.
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24.6.2007 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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3.10.2007 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?
Microsoft’s 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 can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP2
We are all well aware of the limping start of Vista on the OS market. Despite the fact that its launch had been highly anticipated for a good while, contrary to all Microsoft expectations, Vista was received with great reluctance and unwillingness on the part of XP fans.
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13.12.2008 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007 Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Windows Vista – Leaves Vista SP1 in the Dust
Forget about Windows Vista. And forget about Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft's latest Windows client has been quite sluggish to begin with. This in both consumer adoption and in terms of the performance it delivers.
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27.11.2007 Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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1.2.2008 PC buyers: 'Vista Capable' machines weren't Vista capable
How misleading was Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" campaign? Misleading enough for a judge to approve a federal trial.
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9.8.2007 Yes, You Can Turn 32-bit Vista into 64-bit Vista
Yes, you can turn the 32-bit SKUs of Windows Vista into the 64-bit editions of the operating system. But it will cost you...
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29.1.2008Mother's ire puts Ballmer on defense over Vista
For a few minutes during Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer's appearance at the Gartner Inc. Symposium ITxpo conference here, emotionless
management-speak gave way to a mother's frustration with the Vista operating system.
"I'm one of those early adopters of
Vista," said Yvonne Genovese, an analyst who was interviewing Ballmer along with fellow analyst David Smith on stage at a conference forum. "My
daughter comes in one day and says, 'Hey Mom, my friend has Vista, and it has these neat little things called gadgets -- I need those.'"
Said Ballmer: "I love your daughter."
"You're not going to like her mom in about two minutes," said Genovese,
while the crowd laughed.
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11.10.2007Microsoft's GarageBand called
Monaco
Taking a page from Apple's
playbook, Microsoft is
preparing a new application
for creating music in the same
vein as GarageBand for Mac OS
X, according to the Microsoft
Watch newsletter. The program,
code-named Monaco, would be
designed specifically for
Windows Vista and take
advantage of the operating
system's Avalon user
interface...
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10.04.2006A Mac-to-Vista Switcher in Pink
This weekend, my 13 year-old daughter and I set out to replace her first-generation MacBook. She instead picked a pink Sony VAIO running Windows Vista
Home Premium. I bought her the MacBook on launch day, May 16, 2006, at one of Apple's two Bethesda, Md., retail stores. The computer came
configured with a 2GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 512MB of RAM (which I upgraded to 1GB), 64MB dedicated integrated graphics memory, 60GB hard drive,
DVD burner, 802.11b/g wireless and Bluetooth. She does lots of video editing, which was getting increasingly difficult because of the puny hard disk,
system RAM and graphics memory.
My daughter also had some interest in Windows Vista, because of certain applications not available for Mac
OS X. We went to Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego looking at a new MacBook or a pink VAIO VGN-CR290EAP. The VAIO would mean a switch from the Mac. The
mall has Apple and Sony Style stores.
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03.12.2007Teen sends 10,000 texts with no messaging plan
It's not uncommon for teenagers to have cell phones as it seems nearly everyone has one these days. When a loving parent gave his teenage
daughter a cell phone he thought was doing the right thing. His daughter managed to send 10,000 text messages and receive about the same amount in
one billing cycle. Most of the text messages were sent during school hours which equates to about 300 per day during an 8 hour period. "She went
from A's and B's one semester to F's in two months," and after receiving a $4,756.25 cell phone bill the father took a hammer to his
daughters phone and grounded her for the rest of the school year.
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09.04.2009'Avalon' Extended to Mac,
Web Devices
At this week's Professional
Developers Conference, a lot
of the focus has been on
making the user experience
within Windows better.
However, Microsoft is also
aiming to extend that same
user experience across
platforms and devices through
"Windows Presentation
Foundation Everywhere," or
WPF/E...
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17.09.2005Wal-Mart Zune Comes With Free Porn
It's not the first time, nor
the last, that people will
find porn on (supposedly) new
or recycled consumer
electronics. This time it
happened to a family in
Southside Chicago who
purchased Microsoft's Zune
from the local Walmart for
their 12 year-old daughter.
The daughter, who
says the box looked like it
had been opened (the charger
was missing) discovered that
her player contained porn.
When confronted, the Walmart
store manager initially blamed
Microsoft for the pre-load.
Later, a Walmart spokesman
said they would investigate
the matter and provide the
couple with a full refund plus
a ษ gift card, presumably
to pick up a copy of "My Two
Daddies" to help the mother
explain to her daughter why
the "5 men were having sex
with each other." Uh, "join
the social" Microsoft?
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20.12.2006Bill Gates eye on kids' computer time
Just because you're the
daughter of Bill Gates does
not mean you get to play on
your computer all day
long.
The
Microsoft founder said his
10-year-old daughter, his
oldest child, was not a
hard-core Internet and
computer user until this year,
when she started at a school
where the students use tablet
computers for almost
everything.
"She became very avid and
discovered a lot of computer
games, including one that runs
on the Xbox 360 called Viva
Pinata, where you take care of
your garden," he told a
business audience in
Ottawa.
"She could spend two or
three hours a day on this Viva
Pinata, because it's kind of
engaging and fun."
Gates said he and
his wife Melinda decided to
set a limit of 45 minutes a
day of total screen time for
games and an hour a day on
weekends, plus what time she
needs for homework.
Microsoft's new
Vista software enables parents
to control the Web sites their
kids go to but also includes
an audit log that records
sites they have visited and
whom they've been Instant
Messaging.
"Up to some age, to be
determined, it's very
appropriate for a parent to
get a sense of what they're
seeing out there and be able
to have conversations about
it," he said.
"My son said,
'Am I going to have limits
like this my whole life?',
and I said, 'No, when you
move away you can set your own
screen limits'," Gates
recounted, to audience
laughter.
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22.02.2007Microsoft Rechristens WinFX as
.Net Framework 3
In the name of dispelling
confusion, Microsoft has
decided to rechristen WinFX as
.Net Framework 3.0. We're
still not 100% sure this
rebranding will achieve
Microsoft's goal, given that
the branding (and rebranding)
around .Net has been pretty
darn confounding.
It's official:
Windows Communications
Framework (Indigo) + Windows
Presentation Framework
(Avalon) + Windows Workflow
Foundation (WinOE) + InfoCard
(now known as Windows
Cardspace) = .Net Framework
3.0. If you want a shorthand
way of describing .Net
Framework 3.0, it's the new
Windows programming model that
commences with Windows
Vista.
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10.06.2006EFF Sues Universal Music Over Yanked Baby Dancing Video
The Electronic Frontier
Foundation is defending a
Pennsylvania mother whose
YouTube video of her daughter
dancing in her kitchen to a
Prince song during the last
Super Bowl halftime show, was
yanked in response to a fair
use complaint. Ms. Stephanie
Lenz is suing Universal Music
Group, with EFF's assistance,
demanding reparations...
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26.07.2007The Five Pillars of Windows 7
The old idea where Microsoft bases an operating system on central pillars? It's back, and with a complete refocus of priorities. Looking back, the
original pillars of Longhorn were Avalon (WPF), Indigo (WCF), and WinFS, as well as the pseudo-pillar which was referred to as "Fundamentals."
No longer does Microsofts basis for an operating system focus on key architectural developments such as the various frameworks of
yore. Now, it seems, pillars are at least tentatively being redefined as design and usability concepts upon which to build the operating system.
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02.04.2008WGA Update Goes Phishing
The message uses a little Windows Genuine Advantage fear mongering to cajole end users to download a fake update that realy is a backdoor Trojan. The
message warns: "Please update your P.C. in maximum 12 hours otherwise your Windows will be Expired." Windows is going to expire alright, after it
has been eaten by RATs, as in remote-access Trojans.
Microsoft doesn't solicit updates via e-mail. But how many people won't know
this? Now that my teenage daughter is doing MySpace, I've reduced her Vista privileges. She gripes about my having to enter in administrator
passwords, but malware-spiked MySpace pages and phishing e-mails like the aforementioned one have me concerned.
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22.01.2008Apple tried to silence family over exploding iPod
According to a report by The Times, Apple attempted to silence a father and his daughter after the child's iPod exploded and the family sought a
refund from the company. Ken Stanborough said "It made a hissing noise. I could feel it getting hotter in my hand, and I thought I could see
vapour". As a precaution, he threw the device out of his back door, where "within 30 seconds there was a pop, a big puff of smoke and it went 10ft
in the air". He contacted Apple and Argos, where he had bought the device for £162.
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04.08.2009Microsoft to move graphics
outside OS kernel
Microsoft will move
the graphics for its next
version of Windows outside of
the operating system's kernel
to improve reliability, the
software giant has told
Techworld.
Vista's graphics subsystem,
codenamed Avalon and formally
known as the Windows
Presentation Foundation, will
be pulled out the kernel
because many lock-ups are the
result of the GUI freezing,
Microsoft infrastructure
architect Giovanni Marchetti
told us exclusively
yesterday.
The
company has already announced
to developers that most
drivers, including graphics,
will run in user mode - which
means that they don't get
access to the privileged
kernel mode (or Ring 0). At
this level, a process can do
anything it likes, including
overwriting memory that
doesn't belong to it. The
result of such overwriting by
(usually) buggy code is often
a system crash. So the move
should result in greater
reliability, because crashing
drivers cause some 89 per cent
of system crashes in Windows
XP, according to Microsoft.
When run in user mode, they
won't be able to bring down
the entire system...
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15.12.2005Apple tries to silence owner of exploding iPod with gagging order
Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the childs iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from
the company.
The Times has learnt that the company would offer the family a full refund only if they were willing to sign
a settlement form. The proposed agreement left them open to legal action if they ever disclosed the terms of the settlement.
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03.08.2009Buy More Vista Licenses, Save 10%
Microsoft has launched the
appropriately named Windows
Vista Additional License
program, which will enable
customers to save a bit of
money if they want to install
Windows Vista on multiple
computers. Before, users had
to purchase a completely new
copy of Vista...
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28.03.2007What the heck was Xbox 360 Project Helium? A Hybrid Xbox 360 Windows PC
I have a quick little note about something that very few outside of Redmond knew about and that is Xbox 360 Project "Helium". It was a concept to
combine a high-end gaming Windows PC with a Xbox 360 motherboard as a daughterboard. It never was even remotely implemented and moved off the drawing
boards but the idea was for a third party manufacturer to license and include a daughter board made by Microsoft that would be housed in a desktop PC
to add an Xbox 360 functionality to the PC. Instead they went with
Games For
Windows LIVE.
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23.01.2008Vote For The Best Windows Vista Website!
WinVistaClub, in association with 'Windows Vista - The Official Magazine', has organised a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista
Blogs and Websites.
The following 10 websites have been being declared by the Judges, as the Top 10 Vista websites and have been put up
for a public vote.
MintyWhite Windows Guides
Vista Revisited
Windows Vista Update
Windows Vista For Beginners
Tweaking With Vishal
MaximumPCGuides
Windows Vista Forums
The Road To Know Where
Windows Vista Weblog
Vista & XP Media
Center Support Community
Click
HERE to cast your vote for your
favourite Windows Vista Website, and in the process also get to know some other real good ones !
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02.09.2008Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7 in Vista: How Close?
Whatever Firefox 2.0 is, it
isn't "sweeping," and
nowhere does that fact become
more evident than in a Windows
Vista test environment. We
started up both IE7 and FF2 in
Vista, and were left
wondering, will Firefox users
be happy using their browser
in Vista without the
degree of changes they'd
experience with IE7?..
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26.10.2006Update: "Vista Capable" trial
The ongoing "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit against Microsoft took an interesting turn the other day when an expert witness for the plaintiffs
claimed that the Redmond company made more than $1.5 billion through their "Vista Capable" marketing campaign. The origins of the trial itself
are to be found in the months prior to Vista's release when many computers were sold with Windows XP and the promise that they would be capable of
running Vista. However, many of these PCs, which sold at a premium and bore the "Vista Capable" label, turned out to be only capable of running
Vista Basic. Hence, Microsoft is being sued for what many would call false advertising.
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06.01.2009Improved startup repair tool, media throttling among Vista SP1 changes
To reassure customers that it really has been addressing consumers' concerns about Vista, Microsoft has made its change log to Windows Vista SP1
publicly available early...
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