Windows 7 – Lost in Translation
Windows 7, Microsoft's next iteration of the Windows client and the successor of Windows Vista, is nothing short of lost in translation.
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14.7.2008 Microsoft Launches Translation Service
Microsoft launched a service for automatic translation called Windows Live Translator. The site lets you translate a text limited to 500 words or a web page from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.
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9.9.2007 Google falters: Packets lost
We’re getting various reports via that Google services are down or at least sucking some serious wind. The service appears to be back as of noon-ish EDT in New York City. Google cites a “traffic jam” in Asia for the outage.
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14.5.2009 No Vista Ultimate upgrade: has Microsoft lost the plot?
Microsoft as predicted months ago finally announced last week that it would allow PC buyers from now until March when Windows Vista is released to the public to upgrade for a substantial discount or for free, depending on the version.
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30.10.2006 What Does Microsoft's Lost Antitrust Battle in Europe Mean for Windows Vista?
The European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg announced that it was upholding the European Commission’s decision on Microsoft's abuse of its dominant market position with the Windows operating system initially delivered in March 2004.
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17.9.2007 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 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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29.9.2008Sun's Scott McNealy: Lost in translation
Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy said he was misquoted in a South Korean newspaper earlier this week as saying
Sun and cell phone maker Samsung Electronics are working on an
iPhone-killer.
McNealy, who stopped in New York Thursday on his way back from South Korea to deliver a speech at the World
Business Forum, said that the newspaper must have misunderstood a translation of what he had said.
"I never said that," he
said. "I'm not really sure where they got that. I think it was a translation problem."
When pressed further during an
interview with CNET News.com, McNealy remained tight-lipped on any news.
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12.10.2007Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available
The Microsoft Translator team is excited to announce the new translation bot for Windows Live Messenger! This Messenger bot does translations for you.
Just add
mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts and start chatting. You can have one-on-one conversations with
the bot, or you can invite a friend and chat in different languages with the bot translating for you. As usual, remember that machine translation
isnt perfect “ slang especially will give the engine trouble.
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03.09.2008Intel E-mails Lost Due to IT Manager Error, Lawyer States
In a meeting of corporate
attorneys at the Argyle
Executive Forum in New York
last Wednesday, Bloomberg News
reported over the weekend,
Intel's general counsel
stated that e-mails for 151
employees who were to have
been instructed to retain them
as possible evidence in the
AMD antitrust trial were lost
by virtue of a single IT
manager misreading a
spreadsheet...
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19.03.2007Google Switches to Its Own Translation System
Google switched the translation system from Systran to its own
machine translation system for all
the 25 language pairs
available on the site. Until now, Google used its own
system only for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.
"Most state-of-the-art commercial machine translation systems in use today have
been developed using a rules-based approach and require a lot of work by linguists to define vocabularies and grammars. Several research systems,
including ours, take a different approach: we feed the computer with billions of words of text, both monolingual text in the target language, and
aligned text consisting of examples of human translations between the languages. We then apply statistical learning techniques to build a translation
model,"
explains Franz Och.
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23.10.2007Microsoft rolls out translation bot for Live Messenger
Microsoft announced today a new translation bot for Windows Live Messenger, allowing users to translate strings of text to one of 12 different
languages by simply sending a message to the bot. Users can take take advantage of this feature by adding "mtbot@hotmail.com" to their contact
lists.
If you've got a friend in your contacts that a speaks a different language, you can invite them to a chat, include the mtbot,
and translation will be performed for you on the fly. However, the team behind the project warns "because machine translation isn’t perfect,
slang especially will give the engine trouble."
Currently available are English to/from: Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional,
Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian (to English only), Spanish. Also available are Chinese Simplified to/from
Chinese Traditional. They plan to add additional languages over the next few months.
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09.09.2008Microsoft Launches Translation Service
Microsoft launched a service for
automatic translation called
Windows Live Translator. The site lets you translate a text
limited to 500 words or a web page from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.
Microsoft uses
Systran to produce most of the translations, but also offers an
option to translate computer-related texts using
a machine
translation system developed in-house. Microsoft's translation technology has been used to translate technical materials, including
MSDN Library.
"Recent research in
Machine Translation (MT) has focused on data-driven systems. Such systems are self-customizing in the sense that they can learn the translations of
terminology and even stylistic phrasing from already translated materials. Microsoft Research MT (MSR-MT) system is such a data-driven system, and it
has been customized to translate Microsoft technical materials through the automatic processing of hundreds of thousands of sentences from Microsoft
product documentation and support articles, together with their corresponding translations."
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09.09.2007Microsoft's new translation tool keeps Web users on same page
A new translation widget from Microsoft Research lets Web developers offer their sites in alternative languages on their own pages, without shifting
users to a different site. A technology preview of the free widget
was released today at the
company's Mix conference in Las Vegas...
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19.03.2009Apple Intros Video iPod,
Strikes Deal With ABC
Five network shows, including
Lost, will be available in a
$1.99 ad-free download from
iTunes...
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13.10.2005Dell Moves to Regain Lost Ground
Dell announced a host of
changes to its device lineup
and introduced several new
products in an effort to
retake some of the ground it
has lost in the consumer
market, as well as make itself
more attractive at retail...
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26.06.2007Girls lost in drain rescued due to Facebook status update
When two girls, aged 10 and 12, were lost in a storm drain in South Australia last night, most people would have expected them to have called the
emergency services immediately, seeing as they had their mobile phones with them. However, that was not the case with the two lost girls. Instead of
ringing the emergency services, the two girls decided to make a Facebook status update stating that they were lost, which, luckily for them, caught
the attention of one of their male friends who called for help. The two girls were eventually rescued from the storm drain in Hackham, in the south
of Adelaide, by the fire service, according to ABC news (via TechRadar).
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07.09.2009Windows Live Translator now with Office integration
Windows Live Translator is coming to Office 2003 or 2007 as a Research pane option. According to the
MSR-MT Team Blog, the new feature
will be coming out soon as an automatic update to Office:
We have officially handed over our code to the Microsoft Office team
for the integration of the translation tool directly in the Research Task Pane. Once they have finished their own testing and "flipped the
switch" on their side, the feature will auto-update in existing versions of Office. I'll blog about that here again when that happens -
at that point, no additional setup steps will be necessary.
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08.08.2008Google Brings Cross-Language Translation to Search Appliance
An experimental feature lets Google Search Appliance translate documents in 34 languages. Search engine giant Google is looking to stimulate more
international interest in its GSA search device, a rare piece of IT infrastructure hardware Google offers to businesses. The idea is to help Google's
enterprise search gain favor over offerings from Microsoft Fast, Endeca, Autonomy, Vivisimo and other vendors.
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18.12.2008Apple: Oops, some MobileMe e-mail lost forever
In its recently created status blog for MobileMe, which has struggled with downtime since its launch earlier this month, Apple admits it lost some
e-mails during a four-day period at the height of the outage...
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28.07.2008Microsoft: No Plans for Zune Outside US
Correcting a translation error
that sparked a number of
reports stating Microsoft
planned to release its Zune
portable music player in
Europe, but not until 2008,
the company now says it has no
set timeframe. The confusion
came in a response Steve
Ballmer made to a German
magazine.
In the
proper translation, Ballmer
said that "we decided not to
enter new markets so far" and
will not do so until "after
we have reached some of the
goals outlined. When this will
be the case, I cannot tell you
today." Zune product manager
Cesar Menendez further
clarified the situation,
stating, "We will not expand
the device family or our
geographical footprint until
we are positive that we can
provide the best experience
from the start."
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05.06.2007Job gains and losses in IT: The latest numbers
Although the telecom industry lost 3,400 jobs from August through September of this year, the computer manufacturing business lost virtually none, and
"computer systems design and related services" picked up 8,500 more employees...
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08.10.2008Lost And More Hitting Xbox LIVE Marketplace In February
Microsofts latest Marketplace deals, announced back at CES, are ready to make their grand entrance on the service. Starting right now you can pick up
the first three seasons of Lost in standard and high definition. This coincides with the premiere of the latest season on ABC this week. Also,
you can pick up the season four premiere for free today in case you missed it.
Other TV shows coming to Marketplace this week are
Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives and Greys Anatomy . Essentially the big guns from ABC, and new episodes will be available within 24
hours of airing on TV. The Disney deal also extends to shows like Hannah Montana and High School Musica l. Tell yourself its for your
kid, but I can just tell you want to rock out to some teenage singing and dancing.
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01.02.2008Facebook users translate the site again, this time to German
The translation project that was only announced at the beginning of the year for Facebook has already made massive progress with only the help of
volunteers...
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04.03.2008Microsoft: $1 of piracy = $5.50 in "lost opportunities"
Each dollar lost to software piracy equals $5.50 in lost opportunities, claims Microsoft. A new white paper released by IDC and funded by the software
giant looks at how copyright infringement affects the software ecosystem as a whole, not just how it affects a single corporation. IDC claims that, if
Microsoft were to make back each of those lost dollars, partner companies would gain $4.37 in increased revenues and $1.13 in lower operational costs.
That's assuming, however, that the Business Software Alliance's estimated losses due to piracy are correctan assumption that IDC makes in this
report, despite having admitted in the past that the numbers are misleading.
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10.07.2008Now you can find your cell phone...when it screams, 'I'm lost!'
The next time you lose your cell phone, you might hear it scream something like "I'm stolen!" or "I'm lost - take me home," through
new location-based technology now under development by a company called Yougetitback.com...
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11.07.2008The Pirate Bay found guilty, jail & $3.6 million fine
The Pirate Bay, notorious for providing BitTorrent files of all things copyrighted and illegal have lost a trial in Sweden today. The news first
surfaced from founder Peter Sunde who used Twitter to break the news. Sunde said ""according to leaked information from the court we lost (got the
news last night). Trustworthy source as well." Sunde is also insisting "nothing will happen to TPB, us personally or file sharing what so ever.
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