MSN Hotmail hits 1GB storage limit
Microsoft Corp on Wednesday announced a global storage upgrade for MSN Hotmail accounts by increasing the storage limit from 250 MB to 1 GB. Also extended was the expiration period for inactive accounts from 30 days to 60 days for accounts that are more than two years old.
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17.11.2006 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Google vows to increase Gmail storage limit
People using Google Inc.'s Gmail service are sucking up storage space faster than the company can add it.
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13.10.2007 EU warns Microsoft to limit Windows Vista features
The European Union's top competition regulator has warned Microsoft Corp it won't be allowed to sell its new Vista operating system in Europe if it comes pre-loaded with certain features, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.
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29.3.2006 Disable and Remove Half-Open TCP Connections Limit (to Unlimited) in Windows 7 and Vista SP2 with EnableConnectionRateLimitin Registry Key
Officially, the incomplete half-open outbound TCP connection attempts allowed at any one time is now unlimited by default in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 (Service Pack 2), and Windows 7. Actually, the ability to limit or restrict number of half-open outgoing TCP connections system can create or establish is built into Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7, however it’s disabled by default.
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8.6.2009 First Microsoft Genuine Office Validation Download on Download Center
Microsoft has posted the first Office download which has Genuine Office Validation (not required yet). It is sounds.exe the download enables sound in Office 2000,XP and 2003.
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28.4.2006 Download Windows 7 MUI Language Packs - Official 32-bit and 64-bit Direct Download Links
Microsoft has released MUI (Multilingual User Interface) language packs for Windows 7 RTM. The Windows 7 language packs is available via Windows Update as optional update for Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions only.
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28.8.2009 Download Firefox 1.0.7
Firefox 1.0.7 was just released today. It's said that the only updates for this minor version change are security related.
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Download Fasterfox 0.7.9
Prefetch Links - Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Firefox's unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.
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Skype 2.0 download
Everybodys favourite free PC-calling software has just reached version 2.0. Skype now comes with free video calling (assuming two existing webcams) but also updates its older features.
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7.1.2006 WindowBlinds 5 download
Customize the look and feel of Windows XP with WindowBlinds. It's a Windows utility that enables users to personalize nearly every aspect of the Windows graphical user interface. It can "skin" your title bars, push buttons, Start bar, radio buttons, and nearly every other part of Windows.
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8.1.2006 IE 7 Beta 3 Now Download
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta 3 has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability.
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29.6.2006 MEMM 2.1 available for download now!
It's a Microsoft Excel Add-In with a collection of functions which can be useful in an Enterprise environment based on Microsoft Windows operating systems. The main functions are based on retrieving information from Active Directory, modifying Active Directory and getting information from computers through WMI. Although there are more free tools available nowadays (like ADModify), it can be quite convenient to perform certain tasks directly in Excel.
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20.7.2006 Safari 3.2.1 Download
The problem was almost instantly isolated and confirmed as incompatibility with third party software. Apple has now issued a new Safari update, for both Mac and Windows users, which delivers “stability improvements,” according to the Cupertino, Calif.-based Mac maker.
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25.11.2008 3 x DOWNLOAD Windows XP
DOWNLOAD Windows XP 9 IN ONE with service pack 2,
DOWNLOAD Windows XP Professional 64 Bit,
DOWNLOAD Windows XP Professional 32 Bit
This is Windows XP Unofficial Download page.
Windows XP is designed for businesses of all sizes and for home users who demand the most from their computing experience, Windows XP Professional delivers the new standard in reliability and performance.
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DOWNLOAD QUAKE 4 + Screenshots
Almost a decade ago, in 1996, Quake was first released. It brought with it a revolution in PC gaming. Actually, it was the first game in FPS genre that was really worth belonging there. It began the Epic that is the Quake series. The original game had both Single Player and Multiplayer and both were good.
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DOWNLOAD WindowBlinds Enhanced 5.0
WindowBlinds is a program that allows you to
completely change the look and feel of Windows to however you want it to look like. WindowBlinds allows you to completely customize your desktop look by changing the style of title buttons, bars and toolbars.
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7.12.2005 FireTune v1.0.9 Download
FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts.
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14.12.2005 Download ICQ 5.04
ICQ Lite has all the essential features of the full version of ICQ. You can message people, exchange files, send SMS messages, do voice chat, and meet people. It also includes multilingual support, the ability to save your chat histories, and a typing indicator that shows when a contact is typing you a message.
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22.12.2005 Download OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
The first update to OpenOffice.org has been released exactly two months after the launch of version 2.0. Five release candidates of 2.0.1 have been made available since that time, with the final build showing up on OpenOffice.org mirror sites early Tuesday.
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22.12.2005 nLite 1.0 RC5 download
nLite lets you choose which components to remove from your Windows 2000, XP or 2003 before installation. Removing unneeded components you gain on your system speed and security.
t supports removal of almost any component and few services. You can make a bootable ISO with it and even easy slipstream Service pack with a click of a button. Now added easy cd-key implementation so you don't need to enter it during setup..
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9.1.2006 Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Download Available
The Mozilla Corporation have today uploaded the follow-up to their hugely popular web browser, Firefox.
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23.10.2006 Windows PowerShell 1.0 download
Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell and scripting language helps IT Professionals achieve greater productivity.
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15.11.2006 Would you (legally) download Vista?
If Microsoft made Vista available for legal retail download, would the masses come? Looks like we'll soon find out.
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18.1.2007 Virus Disguised as IE 7 Download
Watch out for e-mails with a new virus disguised as a test version of Microsoft's current Web browser.
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31.3.2007 TweakNT 1.21 download
TweakNT is a utility that allows you to remove or readd the timebomb and change the
edition of any NT OS. Thanks to Hack4Crack for this download.
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25.4.2007 Free AVG 8.0 Download
Yesterday, Grisoft announced that a new version of AVG Antivirus Free would be released today, April 24, that was supposed to come with several new functions beside the
ones already included in the application
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24.4.2008 Zune 3.0 Upgrade Available for Download
Although it was announced as early as September 8, the Zune 3.0 upgrade was made available for download only today, September 16.
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16.9.2008 Free Nero 9 Available for Download
One year after the release of Nero 8, Nero has made available for download the next iteration of
the integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite.
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29.9.2008 Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 Available for Download
With Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 delivered in the first half of September 2008 and the feedback incorporated in the development process, Mozilla is gearing up for the next stage of Shiretoko.
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1.10.2008Windows 7 Beta: Here's where we stand
Brandon LeBlanc: Due to an enormous surge in demand, the download experience was not ideal so we listened and took the necessary steps to ensure a
good experience. We have clearly heard that many of you want to check out the Windows 7 Beta and, as a result, we have decided remove the initial 2.5
million limit on the public beta for the next two weeks (thru January 24th). During that time you will have access to the beta even if the download
number exceeds the 2.5 million unit limit.
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11.01.2009Comcast sets monthly bandwidth limit for customers
Comcast, the largest provider of cable-based broadband service in the U.S., will limit residential customers to 250GB of bandwidth a month beginning
Oct. 1, the company announced late Thursday. Comcast will contact customers who go above the 250GB limit and ask them to curtail their use, Comcast
said. If a customer goes over the monthly limit again during the following six months, Comcast will suspend service for a year.
Currently,
Comcast contacts high-bandwidth customers and will suspend their accounts if they don't curb their use, but it has not set a firm bandwidth limit
until now. Most customers contacted about their bandwidth usage agree to limit their activity, according to Charlie Douglas, Comcast's director of
communications.
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29.08.2008New Parental Controls Limit Xbox Time
As part of a new marketing blitz to promote the Xbox 360 as a "family friendly" video game console, Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a new
feature called Family Timer, which will let parents limit the number of hours their kids can play the Xbox on a daily or weekly basis...
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08.11.2007Broadband users reach their limit
One million UK consumers have exceeded or come close to exceeding their broadband usage limit, research from consumer group uSwitch has found.
So-called usage caps, where internet service providers limit the amount of bandwidth users can have in any given month, are standard
practice.
But the majority of users are still confused by the bandwidth curbs imposed on them, the research found.
For some who
go over their limit the penalty is disconnection.
"With so much reliance on broadband, having the service disconnected could feel to
someone as serious as having their electricity cut off," said Tim Wolfenden, spokesman for uSwitch.
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24.10.2008Sony PS3 to Feature Parental
Controls
Sony's PlayStation 3 will add
parental controls to limit
access to violent video games,
according to statements made
on Monday by the Entertainment
Software Association. Sony had
already offered some tools to
limit access to movies viewed
on the PlayStation 2...
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29.11.2005Windows 7 Starter Edition details confirmed
As was reported here on Neowin, there was speculation that Microsoft were planning to remove the application limit on Windows 7 Starter Edition.
According to The Windows Blog, Microsoft have confirmed that the "3 applications at a time" limit that hobbled earlier versions of the Starter
Edition has been removed for Windows 7. Now the only effective limit on the number of programs you can run concurrently is set by the amount of your
memory. Windows 7 Starter Edition will have other limits, however, in order to differentiate it from other versions of the OS. "Windows 7 Starter
does not include: * Aero Glass, meaning you can only use the "Windows Basic" or other opaque themes.
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30.05.20091 billion app download reached
After reporting about Apple updating their web site with a counter, counting up to 1 billion (1,000,000,000) the mark has finally been reached today
by someone named Connor Mulcahey, in just nine months. Connor Mulcahey, only 13 years old was the grand prize winner, downloading "Bump" a game
created by Bump Technologies, a simple application that allows users to share information by simply bumping their phones together, sending each other
information about them. The information can be selected to limit information sent to each user. For being the 1 billionth download, Connor will
receive a $10,000 gift certificate to iTunes, an iPod Touch, a Time Capsule and a MacBook Pro.
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25.04.2009Microsoft to Limit Capabilities of Cheap Laptops
Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs, one effect of which will be to limit the hardware
capabilities of this type of device, IDG News Service has learned.
Microsoft plans to offer PC makers steep discounts on Windows
XP Home Edition to encourage them to use that OS instead of Linux on ultra low-cost PCs (ULPCs). To be eligible, however, the PC vendors that make
ULPCs must limit screen sizes to 10.2 inches and hard drives to 80G bytes, and they cannot offer touch-screen PCs.
The program is
outlined in confidential documents that Microsoft sent to PC makers last month, and which were obtained by IDG News Service. The goal apparently is to
limit the hardware capabilities of ULPCs so that they don't eat into the market for mainstream PCs running Windows Vista, something both Microsoft
and the PC vendors would want to avoid.
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10.05.2008Toshiba: integrated HD DVD would 'limit' Xbox experience
Microsoft will not build an HD DVD drive into a future Xbox 360 because it doesn't want to "limit the user's experience", an insider at fellow HD
DVD backer Toshiba has said.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the next-generation optical disc format, you might think, but
there you have it it: buy HD DVD, limit your experience.
The comment comes from an unnamed Toshiba spokesperson
by way of Yahoo! News.
The commentator also dismissed recent claims that
Toshiba is
working on machine - possibly even an HD TV - with built-in Xbox 360 functionality.
"Its got nothing to do with us," the
spokesperson said. "But we know Microsoft doesnt want to include the HD DVD drive so as not to limit the users experience."
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24.10.2007Windows data copy limits exposed, sort of
Is there a limit how many files you can copy in one step? And if so, where is this limit? A post in the forums of a popular hardware site provides
more clues where this limit may be and which hardware is affected.
We found this information earlier this week in a
post on Aces Hardware
where a user reported his findings. Hirschma writes that he was unable to copy large numbers of files under certain Windows/hardware environments and
was confronted with an error 1450, causing an instability and requiring a system reboot. Depending on the Windows versions, he discovered varying
limits: 760,000 in Windows XP 32-bit and about 2.7 million in Server 2003.
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25.04.2008Microsoft ups cash limit, takes aim at MacBook Pros in new ad
Following a trio of TV ads that cast Apple's 13-inch MacBook line as impractical purchases for average consumers on a $1000 budget, Microsoft on
Thursday took aim at the company's professional line of notebooks in a fourth ad that doubles the spending limit of its role players.
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01.05.2009Windows Vista RC1 Download
Page Discovered
Only hours after Microsoft
released Windows Vista build
5536 to the public, their RC1
download page has been
discovered. The RC1 build,
which was, according to Paul
Thurrott, finalized yesterday,
is most likely
not there
yet, and since the download
ISO is approximately 3.12 GB,
it appears to be the Beta 2
version.
The page
is about the same as the
pre-RC1 download page but
removes the references to the
100000 copies limit, and, of
course, replaces the pre-RC1
terms for RC1.
Microsoft is expected to
make Windows Vista's first
Release Candidate available
broadly in early september,
and is already preparing it,
just after releasing its
preview build.
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29.08.2006Microsoft to Make Exceptions for Xbox Live Arcade Limitations
When Microsoft launched Xbox Live Arcade, it imposed a 50 MB
size cap on all releases on its service. The reason for this was to maintain
compatibility for Xbox 360 owners who do not own a model
with a hard drive.
At the time, a 64MB Memory Unit was the only
alternative,
explaining the need 50 MB limit. A year ago, Microsoft
released
a 512 MB Memory Unit, which
paved the way for the Xbox Live Arcade game
limit to
grow
to 150 MB. A 256 MB Memory Unit is
now standard issue on all
HDD-less
Xbox 360
consoles.
Even with the current Xbox Live Arcade limit three times what it used to be, some developers are finding 150MB
simply not enough to fit in all game assets, particularly those intended for 1080p resolutions.
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17.03.2008Windows 7 Starter editions odd "three app limit" behavior
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: I've spoken before about how Windows 7 Starter edition's
built-in artificial "three app limit" where users can only run a maximum of three applications at any one time could be a pain
for those looking for cheap netbooks (and could mean that they end up paying for an upgrade). But now I've had a chance to play with the Starter
edition of Windows 7 I'm more confused than ever as to how it works...
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31.03.2009Microsoft Pulls Vista RC2 Public Download
On Monday, just two days after
making Release Candidate 2
(RC2) of Windows Vista
available to the public
through the Customer Preview
Program (CPP), Microsoft
pulled the download,
confounding many users who
were hoping to get the last
public prerelease version of
the product.
But
despite rumors of problems,
Microsoft says its removal of
RC2 was all part of the
plan.
"Windows
Vista RC2 was an interim
release distributed for the
purposes of final testing by a
limited audience," a
Microsoft representative told
me late yesterday. "Once that
limit was reached and the
necessary feedback was
collected from the CPP
audience, Microsoft closed the
site. For now, Windows Vista
RC1 remains the primary
version for distribution and
ongoing use."
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13.10.2006Microsoft may adjust limitations on Windows 7 Starter
According to Paul Thurrott, Microsoft will be lifting the three running application limit for Windows 7 Starter Edition. Previously with XP and
Vista, Starter Edition was designed to run on low end equipment and be sold in what Microsoft called "developing markets." But for Windows 7,
Microsoft moved Starter Edition into the rest of the world and decided to sell Home Basic in the developing markets instead. Starter Edition is
expected to be sold on netbook class systems, so even if there isn't a software coded limit to how many applications you can run at one time, the
limited amount of processor and memory resources in the computer will continue to be the deciding factor.
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23.05.2009Hotmail Gets Storage Limit Bump, Other Upgrades
Microsoft announced today that
Hotmail would undergo some
major upgrades over the next
several weeks that should make
the service more attractive to
webmail users. The most
notable change is that the
company is bumping the storage
limit for Hotmail from 2GB
(for free account users) to
5GB, and from 4GB to 10GB for
paid users. This brings
Hotmail's storage limit above
that offered by Google-which
remains at 2.8GB for free
accounts and 8.8GB for the
lowest tier of paid
accounts.
That's
not the only upgrade the
webmail service is getting.
Hotmail program manager Ellie
Powers-Boyle wrote on the
Windows Live Blog that the
team has begun adding features
that the "more advanced"
users have been asking for.
Some of the more general
upgrades include performance
and quality of service
enhancements and an increase
to the amount of time junk
mail and deleted items are
kept on the server.
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15.08.2007Feel Free to Download 25 Million Songs - Legally
After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of
free and legal songs. With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing
technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can
download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks. The service has been endorsed by the very same record companies - including EMI,
Universal Music and Warner Music – that have chased file-sharers through the courts in a doomed attempt to prevent piracy. The gamble is that
fans will put up with a limited amount of advertising around the Qtrax website’s jukebox in return for authorised use of almost every song
available. The service will use the “peer-to-peer” network, which contains not just hit songs but rarities and live tracks from the
world’s leading artists.
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28.01.2008AT&T begins to choke iPhone purchases
It's another sign of the impending update to Apple's mobile phone: AT&T, the device's US carrier, has informed its retail staff to limit sales of
the iPhone to customers...
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16.05.2008Google vows to increase Gmail storage limit
Google Incorporateds Gmail Web-based e-mail service may have an incrementing storage space counter, but apparently it’s not going fast enough
– and so the search giant has announced plans to speed it up. " A few of you are using Gmail so much that youre running out of space, so
to make good on our promise, today were announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage ," said Google engineer Rob
Siemborski.
When it launched in 2004, Gmail offered free accounts with 1GB of storage and by April 2005 Google started gradually increasing
Gmail storage when the service turned one year old. Google got the ball rolling: this year Microsoft Corporation upped its free storage limit for its
Windows Live Hotmail service to 5GB in August, and Yahoo Incorporated started offering "unlimited" storage in May.
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