Vista SP1 Beta Download Next Week? Windows XP SP3 Missing in Action
Microsoft is hard at work cooking the upcoming releases of Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2008 RC 0, formerly codenamed Longhorn.
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21.9.2007 Windows 7: Action Center Overview
Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Internet Explorer 8, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements.
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9.1.2009 Get Ready for Vista SP1 RTM Action Pack
Concomitantly with the general availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RTM, Microsoft will also start offering the new Action Pack complete with the SP1 gold bits. The Action Pack has evolved since the initial offering came out, associated with the RTM build of Vista, in order to allow company partners to perform full installations (bare metal deployments) of the service
pack.
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17.3.2008 Subscription-Based Windows 7, via the Microsoft Action Pack
Come January 2009, the Redmond giant plans to start serving Windows 7 Beta via its Microsoft Action Pack.
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23.12.2008 Class Action Lawsuit Claims 'Vista Capable' is Misleading
A lady in Washington state who apparently purchased a computer in late 2006 bearing the "Vista Capable" sticker, and who only later discovered it was only capable of running Vista Home Basic, has filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft in her home state, seeking in excess of $5 million.
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4.4.2007 Vista Capable lawyers push to revive class action
As expected, lawyers for the plaintiffs in the long-running "Vista Capable" lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. have asked a federal judge to reinstate the case's class-action status.
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1.3.2009 Nvidia Hit With New Class Action Threat Over Windows Vista Glitches
A New Yorker is seeking support for a class action suit against the video card manufacturer because he says drivers for the company's high-end 8800 card have caused him problems.
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25.4.2007 Vista Downloads Maxing Out Its Servers
Order the DVD instead, Microsoft says, as downloads of Windows Vista Beta 2 cause the company's servers to experience extremely high demand.
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13.6.2006 Microsoft Is Gearing Up for Windows 7 Downloads
Even with Microsoft increasingly opening up on Windows Vista's successor, the hunger for Windows 7 details is far from being satiated.
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20.8.2008 Free Windows 7 Downloads Discontinued
The free Windows 7 ride is now truly and indisputably over! And, if you have failed to get on board this far, chances that you’ll be able to do so moving onward are very slim. On August 20th, 2009 Microsoft discontinued the free downloads of Windows 7 Release Candidate Build 7100.
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21.8.2009 Free Opera Hits 1 Million Downloads
Just 48 hours after Opera Software removed the ads and license fee from its popular Web browser, Opera 8.5 has been downloaded by over 1 million people, the company said Thursday. The number is double Opera's previous download record, which it achieved in April with version 8.0.
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Firefox Tops 200 Million Downloads
The Mozilla Corporation on Monday celebrated the 200 millionth download of its open source Firefox Web browser, with the community planning parties to commemorate the event. The milestone was hit one year and nine months after the debut of Firefox 1.0.
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3.8.2006 Windows Server 2008 RC0 Downloads
Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate helps IT professionals to increase the flexibility and reliability of their server infrastructure while offering developers a more robust web and applications platform for building connected applications and services.
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26.9.2007 Microsoft: Vista SP1 RTM Downloads Available, but Not for You!
Only for MSDN subscriber! Make no mistake about it. The final bits of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are available for download, but this does not mean that end users can get their grabby hands all over the service pack.
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15.2.2008 Office 2007 Downloads Top 200,000
In the first 24 hours since going live, Microsoft counted 200,000 downloads of Office 2007 Beta 2. While the company provided no estimates of how many users it expected to try the new release, Microsoft officials said they were excited by the numbers. BetaNews alone pushed over 5,500 downloads of Office 2007.
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26.5.2006 Microsoft Limits Windows Vista Beta2 Downloads
The demand for the Windows Vista Beta2 faced by the US giant has overcome the capabilities of the servers reserved for the online delivery of the recently released operating
system by the sheer amount of the simultaneous downloads.
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13.6.2006 Firefox reaches 2 million downloads in 24 hours
Mozilla recently posted that just 24 hours after releasing Firefox 2.0 to the public on 24th October.
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29.10.2006 Windows Vista SP2 RC official downloads
The download pages and TechNet website are now updated with the SP2 RC information.
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4.3.2009 Microsoft claims E3 record for Xbox Live downloads
Following the gaming mayhem at last week's E3 expo in the US, Microsoft has claimed that over 1.5 million gamers connected to its Xbox Live service at the event.
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19.5.2006 Windows Server Evaluation Editions Free Downloads Bonanza
Microsoft is usually mute when it comes down to critics related to its product and traditionally quiet when it comes to reports thrashing Windows Vista.
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28.7.2008 Windows Server Evaluation Editions Free Downloads Bonanza
Microsoft is offering a veritable bonanza of Windows Server evaluation editions free downloads. Packaged under the label Windows Embedded Server Products Evaluation Software, a number of no less than ten products are offered at no charge for evaluation purposes only.
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29.7.2008 DirectX 9.0 and 10.1 Downloads for Vista SP1 and XP SP3
August 2008 has been synonymous with three separate releases of DirectX for a variety of Windows operating systems. The DirectX refreshes are tailored to Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1, but also to Windows Server 2003.
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Windows 7 Release Candidate downloads will end August 15th
Still on the Windows 7 Beta,? You need to move to the RC and fast. Starting July 1st, the Beta will start to reboot every 2 hrs and expire Aug 1st.
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23.6.2009 Free Windows Vista and XP SP2 Downloads Updated and up for Grabs
This week, Microsoft has updated the set of offerings which permit end users to access free copies of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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21.3.2008 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 Microsoft: Some Free Vista (+SP1) to Go Along with the Free XP SP2 Downloads?
Free downloads of Microsoft's operating systems have been made available throughout 2007, and the Redmond company is ready to take it one step further.
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5.2.2008AT&T settles suit over third-party ringtone downloads
AT&T has agreed to settle a class action suit issued against it in Georgia, for allowing third parties to charge customers on unclear or wholly
undisclosed terms for downloads...
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04.06.2008Another Laptop with Vet Info
Missing
The Department of Veterans
Affairs disclosed Monday that
a laptop containing data on up
to 38,000 veterans has gone
missing. The loss of the data
is the result of a possible
theft of a laptop from
third-party contractor Unisys...
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08.08.2006Google launches free, legal music downloads in China
Google Inc on Monday launched free downloads of licensed songs in China, while sharing advertising revenue with major music labels in a market rife
with online piracy.
Lee Kai-Fu, president of Google in greater China, said one reason Google lagged in the mainland search market
was because it did not offer music downloads, the missing piece to its strategy in a market where it trails leader Baidu.com Inc.
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30.03.2009New service tracks missing laptops for free
Lose your laptop these days and you lose part of your life: You say good-bye to photos, music, and personal documents that cannot be replaced, and if
it's a work computer, you may be the source of a very public data breach. But now, researchers at the University of Washington and the University
of California, San Diego, have found a way to give you a shot at getting your life back. On Monday, they plan to launch a new laptop tracking service,
called Adeona that is free and private.
Named after the Roman goddess credited with guiding children back to their parents, Adeona uses
software that has been under development for the past year. Here's how it works: A user downloads the free client software onto a laptop. That
software then starts anonymously sending encrypted notes about the computer's whereabouts to servers on the Internet. If the laptop ever goes
missing, the user downloads another program, enters a username and password, and then picks up this information from the servers, specifically a free
storage service that has been around for several years, called OpenDHT.
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15.07.2008Settlement reached at last in VA data breach
Nearly three years after data on 26 million veterans went missing in the wake of a Maryland house burglary, the Department of Veterans Affairs and a
group of suing vets have reached an agreement on the class-action suit filed by the latter. It's now up to a judge to ratify the settlement...
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29.01.2009Live Labs kills Deepfish; suspends Volta downloads
What's going on over at
Microsoft Live Labs, the
incubation unit that mashed up Microsoft researchers and MSN team members to help speed the delivery of Microsoft innovations to market?
Microsoft has quietly killed off one of its touted Live Labs projects, Deepfish, as
my ZDNet blogging colleague Matthew Miller recently noted. And another of the Microsoft incubator’s projects the Volta toolkit is missing in
action.
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02.10.2008Big Chunk Of The Universe Is Missing -- Again
A bit off-topic but nevertheless very interesting...
Not only has a large chunk of the universe thought to have been found
in 2002 apparently gone missing again but it is taking some friends with it, according to new research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
(UAH). The new calculations might leave the mass of the universe as much as ten to 20 percent lighter than previously calculated.
The same UAH group that found what was theorized to be a significant fraction of the "missing mass" that binds together the universe has
discovered that some x-rays thought to come from intergalactic clouds of "warm" gas are instead probably caused by lightweight electrons.
If the source of so much x-ray energy is tiny electrons instead of hefty atoms, it is as if billions of lights thought to come from
billions of aircraft carriers were found instead to come from billions of extremely bright fireflies.
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06.11.2007Pints of Guinness all 'round! 8.3 million Firefox 3 downloads
The early estimates from the Mozilla organization show its servers (when they were up and running) cranked out enough bytes to cover 11.07 million
downloads of Firefox 3.0, and were registering as many as 283 downloads per second...
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19.06.2008Firefox 2: 2 Million Downloads in a Day
Mozilla said that downloads
for the second version of its
Firefox browser reached two
million in the first 24 hours,
or more than 30 downloads per
second. Microsoft recently
announced that IE7 was
downloaded 3 million times in
four days...
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30.10.2006Look for Visual Studio 2008 Downloads on Top Subscriber Downloads early next week
Visual Studio 2008 is anticipated out early next week, with availability for Subscribers. Check out the "Top Subscriber Downloads" area on
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/subscriptions for VS 2008 downloads.
You will also be able to access these downloads by clicking on the Subscriber Downloads and Product Keys links that take you to all of your
downloads.
We are using two different platforms to make these downloads available - to improve discoverability and reliability,
and to balance demands on the systems.
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17.11.2007OpenOffice.org 3.0 scores strong first week
OpenOffice.org 3.0
was downloaded 3 million times in its first week, with about 80% of the downloads by Windows users, an official with the group said in a
blog post on Monday.
The successful
introduction of the open source office suite came despite
the group's download servers being temporarily
overwhelmed by demand for the new software last week.
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21.10.2008AppStore to offer ready-made ringtones
The AppStore has been missing a few features from their online store for the iPhone, one of those is ready-made custom ringtone versions of songs,
used for incoming calls.. Apple will be revealing the ready-made ring tones next week at their press conference, only if they are able to get them
ready in time. The custom ringtones have been missing from the iPhone since its debut, limiting consumers to a selection of preloaded ringtones
featured on the iPhone. Currently consumers have to edit their own ringtones through third-party software or use iTunes to edit their own music to
create ring tones for their device.
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03.09.2009Are you missing some icons?
So you downloaded the new
8.0.0689 refresh, you sign in
and all is well. You sign out
and then sign in again some
time... but wait, where did
some of your icons go?
The WLM Beta team
received several reports from
users that some of their
dashboard icons and features
were missing when signing in
the second time and every time
after.
The
problem was a result of errors
within some of the programs
entry points which caused them
to vanish. However, the
problem was fixed by the team
and a fix has been sent out.
For the fix to apply, you must
sign out of WLM and sign back
in. If your icons are not
back, you have to wait about
30-60 more minutes and then
try again as it takes time for
the fix to reach every
country.
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05.05.2006Scientists Create Missing Fourth Circuit Element (Memristor)
Researchers at HP Labs have built the first working prototypes of an important new electronic component that may lead to instant-on PCs as well as
analog computers that process information the way the human brain does.
The new component is called a memristor, or memory resistor. Up
until today, the circuit element had only been described in a series of mathematical equations written by Leon Chua, who in 1971 was an engineering
student studying non-linear circuits. Chua knew the circuit element should exist -- he even accurately outlined its properties and how it would work.
Unfortunately, neither he nor the rest of the engineering community could come up with a physical manifestation that matched his mathematical
expression.
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03.05.2008How to fix Vistas Security Center from reporting missing or duplicate programs
The Windows Security Center which is included with Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista is a nice way of seeing the security status overview of your
system but sometimes it makes mistakes after you have uninstalled one or more programs and replaced them with others. Heres how to correct those
problems with Security Center.
Sometimes, after you have uninstalled a firewall, antivirus or malware detection program the entry
remains because the uninstaller failed to remove the entry from the Security Center either by design or just sloppy coding. Either way, you are not
stuck and this is easily fixed.
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09.01.2008TechNet Plus Subscriber Downloads is changing
Kathy Dixon: I just wanted to share with you that in the next few weeks we will implement a change to the TechNet Plus Subscriber Downloads
experience. It is about to get easier to the get to the product downloads and access the related product keys with a better organization and
layout.
Take a peek at
TechNet Plus
Subscriber Downloads and Product Keys walkthrough for a preview of the changes.
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08.02.2008Millions of L-drivers' data lost (UK)
The details of three million candidates for the driving theory test have gone missing, Ruth Kelly has told MPs. Names, addresses and phone numbers -
but not financial data - were among details on a computer hard drive which went missing in the US in May. It belonged to a contractor to the Driving
Standards Agency, the transport secretary told MPs. It is the latest in a series of data losses since discs with 25m people's details on were lost
by HM Revenue. Earlier the chancellor told MPs there was no evidence of fraud after the loss of the child benefit data by Revenue and Customs in
October. Alistair Darling has been given an interim report into that loss, but said conclusions would be outlined in a full report out next year.
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17.12.2007Verizon soon to face the biggest class action lawsuit yet
Yesterday, a class action suit four years in the making was certified against Verizon Wireless over the company's unfair early termination fees...
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30.01.20081 billion Firefox downloads served
Mozilla has celebrated a milestone from its great hit Mozilla Firefox, reaching 1 billion downloads. The open source browser released its first
version in 2004 with nearly 3 million people already using it before it was able to achieve version 1.0. Firefox has been through dozens of official
releases and countless number of nightly builds, a compile of the latest builds, sometimes unstable at night. The browser has seen tremendous success
over the last 3 years, bringing in over 30% market share, receiving dozens of awards from IT specialists and software review web sites, and even
setting a Guinness World Record for the most number of downloads in a 24 hour period of 8,000,000 downloads.
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01.08.2009Class action suit hits Facebook and affiliates with breach of privacy
The biggest and most significant legal action against now-leading social network Facebook was filed on Tuesday, and will actually test the theory of
whether its Beacon behavior sharing program constituted a criminal conspiracy...
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