Security in Microsoft Products
Join Mike Nash, Vice President for the Microsoft Security Business Unit, and his team of security experts each month. Microsoft is working hard to improve security and Mike and his team invite you to join them in a candid Q&A session.
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12.1.2006 Is Microsoft sabotaging its own products?
No, this cannot be the case. Perhaps is is an accident, or a coincidence. But is Microsoft really highlighting links to websites that have references to cracks
for Windows Vista? And you wonder why the piracy of Microsoft software is blooming.
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8.3.2007 Microsoft announces six new products in development
Microsoft today announced new products in development and is giving everyone a chance to test them. Here's a quick run-down as to what the new products are and how to beta test them for free!
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Security in Microsoft Products Chat
Join Mike Nash, Vice President for the Microsoft Security Business Unit, and his team of security experts each month. Microsoft is working hard to improve security and Mike and his team invite you to join them in a candid Q&A session.
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Microsoft products roadmap for FY08 and beyond
Oh boy, a Microsoft roadmap, haven’t seen one of these in a while. This is extracted from Steve Ballmer’s Powerpoint presentation at Microsoft Show and Tell (Financial Analyst Meeting) 2007 yesterday.
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2.8.2007 New Microsoft products for enterprise and small business
Microsoft touted two product rollouts on Monday, one a service pack aimed at attracting large corporate customers with remote offices; the other a licensing and services promotion for small businesses.
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Microsoft Unveils Details of First Products Under Zune Brand
Available this holiday season in the United States, Zune includes a 30GB digital media player, the Zune Marketplace music service and a foundation for an online community that will enable music fans to discover new music.
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15.9.2006 Microsoft Fixes Critical Flaw in Security Products
Software patches include critical fixes for bugs in Microsoft Office and the scanning engine used by the company's security products.
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14.2.2007 Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Microsoft Products for the Year 2006
Overview
The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held during March 2006 in Melbourne Australia. Several Australian states including New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania, have changed the Daylight Savings transition end dates to the first Sunday of April 2006.
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20.12.2005 Microsoft: Turn Pirated Windows Copies into Genuine Products!
Microsoft is providing users with the means to turn their pirated copies of Windows into genuine products. However, the offer is only available for Windows XP, and not for Windows Vista.
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2.10.2007 Microsoft, ISVs Set To Ship Vista-Ready Security Products
Microsoft said this week that its security unit and top security ISVs -- including Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro -- plan to release Windows Vista-ready products and services on Jan. 30, when the operating system is due to become generally available.
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18.1.2007 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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5.2.2008 2 Office products enhanced
Microsoft looks to expand market by adding features
Microsoft Corp. is trying to expand the potential market for two of its Office programs for businesses, increasing its competition with Oracle Corp., SAP, IBM Corp. and others that make corporate software.
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22.1.2006 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year
Web apps that transcend the Web. PCs that redefine what a PC can do. And oh yeah, a certain cell phone you may have heard of. We pick 25 breakthroughs that you can get your hands on right now.
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29.12.2007 Windows Embedded Server Products Evaluation
Wow finally you can download evaluation versions of Windows Embedded products like Storage Server, normally only approved OEMs could get it.
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27.7.2008 Windows 7 RTM Already Has 9,000 Logod Products
At just approximately a month after the general availability deadline of Windows 7, the operating system enjoys strong support from hardware and software companies worldwide.
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20.11.2009 MSN Beta Team Recruiting for Windows Live Products
The MSN Beta team is currently recruiting likely candidates to test an array of new services and products from the Windows Live family.
Successful applicants may be asked to test MSN Messenger 8 (Windows Live Messenger) or future versions of Messenger. The countries range from Afghanistan to Turkey so everyone will be able to get involved.
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22.11.2005 New Windows Server 2008-Based Server Products Available
Windows Essential Server Solutions are basically designed as a bundle of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, along with additional Microsoft technologies, set up as an all-in-one IT offering for small and midsize customers.
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13.5.2008 Downgrading Apple - the Windows Brand vs. the Windows Products
Microsoft is without a doubt diversifying the collection of resources behind the new $300 million Widows marketing campaign created by advertising agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky.
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21.9.2008 Microsoft releases free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you'll encounter.
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12.4.2006 Microsoft makes OneCare free for some
Microsoft is preparing to roll out its Windows Live OneCare security product, it is offering some people the $49.95-a-year service for free
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26.4.2006 Microsoft takes on the free world
Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.
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14.5.2007 A free $300 just for beta testing for Microsoft
Dear Beta tester:
At Microsoft?, we are committed to building software that helps our customers realize their potential. This commitment requires getting important feedback from our customers. We appreciate the input you gave us on Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 and would like to invite you to be part of a select group to test our next version of our software and give us your feedback. Qualified testers will receive a $300 gratuity and complimentary Microsoft software.
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Microsoft Building New Free Mail Client
Internet Explorer isn't the only application to enjoy a resurgence in Windows Vista -- Microsoft is readying a new desktop e-mail client that will be integrated into Windows Live and eventually replace Outlook Express. Dubbed Windows Live Mail Desktop, the product is currently in beta testing.
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11.3.2006 Free Microsoft Architect Connections Event
Please join us for the first annual Microsoft Architect Connections event, ?Enabling the Service Oriented Enterprise,? to be held at The Omni Los Angeles at California Plaza.
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11.5.2006 Microsoft to License Office 'Look and Feel' for Free
With Office 2007 radically reorganizing the way users think and work with applications -- hopefully more for the better than for the worse.
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25.11.2006 Microsoft to Sponsor Free Zune Concerts
Microsoft is hoping some of the top names in hip-hop will generate some buzz for its Zune digital music efforts this summer.
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9.7.2007 Microsoft plans to divorce viruses for free!
Ever heard of "Morro"? Neither had I until today. It appears the boys and girls at Microsoft have been planning a nice surprise for consumers.
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18.11.2008 Free Windows 7 at Microsoft Launch Events - US Only
Starting September 28 through November 4 Microsoft is hosting free Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010 launch events across the United States as part of the "New Efficiency" marketing campaign.
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16.8.2009 Microsoft Security Essentials is Now Available for Free Download
Microsoft today has released the final version of their free antivirus/antispyware solution for Windows 7, Vista and XP.
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29.9.2009MS to Offer Free Support to
Rivals
Microsoft will offer free and
unlimited technical support to
its rivals who are interested
in making their products work
with the company's server
products, it said Wednesday.
The proposal is Microsoft's
latest effort to comply with a
European Union antitrust
ruling...
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22.03.2006FTC hands down sanctions against 'free product' spammer
The agency said this week that it had settled with a spammer who had failed to tell consumers they actually had to spend money to receive
"free" products...
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01.02.2008Microsoft ends free software for monitoring giveaway
Microsoft pulled the free software offer from its Web site Tuesday, which made free copies of Vista and Office among other applications available in
exchange for feedback...
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12.12.2007Free AVG Anti-Virus Now Works
on Vista Beta 2
Grisoft, the maker of the
popular free antivirus
software AVG has announced
that Microsoft has fixed a bug
that was preventing AVG from
installing on Vista Beta 2.
You need to get an update
though.
Peter
Cameron of Grisoft?s
Australian distributor
Avalanche Technology said
Vista Beta 2 users should
obtain the Microsoft patch via
Windows Update. ?After
application of the update, AVG
products can be installed and
used without any further
problems or restrictions,? he
said.
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14.07.2006Microsoft Freebie Vista Offer "sold out"
It sounded like a scam: visit
this website, watch a few
videos and get a free copy of
Windows Vista or Office 2007.
But the
PowerTogether.com website was
a legitimate Microsoft-run
site. Aimed at software
developers and architects, the
site offered free copies of
both titles to those who
watched at least three
web-based seminars on each of
the new products.
Unfortunately, for those
looking to score their free
copy, Microsoft said it has
already received sign-ups from
the 30,000
people it had hoped to
register for the program. The
site now says "sold out"
when people come to register
for the giveaway.
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05.12.2006Legacy Microsoft Products Get Security Support
Shavlik Technologies is
offering a free download of
its network solution to detect
security misconfigurations and
missing critical updates in
older installed Microsoft
products. The solution is for
networks running legacy
Microsoft software that is not
supported by Microsoft Update,
according to an announcement
issued by Shavlik.
Shavlik's NetChk Protect
Limited searches for critical
security patches and spyware.
However, the free version does
not install patches or remove
spyware, according to the
product's Quick Start Guide
posted on Shavlik's Web site.
Shavlik offers an
upgrade to the free program
that has additional tools,
such as "automated
remediation, intelligent patch
targeting, and granular policy
and compliance reporting,"
the announcement stated.
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09.05.2007Free Office 2007 Training
The 2007 Office system is
designed to increase
individual impact, simplify
collaboration, streamline
business processes and content
management, and improve
business insight. Microsoft
Learning can help you examine
the new products by providing
you, for a limited time, free
training, e-learning, books,
and skills assessments.
Classroom training is also
available for IT professionals
and Home and Office
workers.
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25.05.2006Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta
The Web Platform Installer (WebPI) is a simplified download/install experience for all of Microsofts free web products. It includes everything that
you need to get up and running to build your web solutions “ from servers, tools, and technologies, including the most recently updated products.
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13.04.2009Hyper-V Server now available as a free download
It isn't like Microsoft to give away an entire operating system for free, but beginning today, it will: A stand-alone server whose sole purpose is to
be a hypervisor platform for virtualized guest operating systems, is now available free of charge...
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02.10.2008Microsoft Targets Lotus Notes,
Domino
Microsoft said Tuesday it
would set its sights on Lotus
Notes and Domino customers,
providing new tools to assist
in the migration to Microsoft
Office products. As a further
incentive, these tools would
be available on the company's
Web site as a free download...
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17.01.2006Turn one PC into two for free
How do you like the sound of taking one machine, and having two people logged into it simultaneously? Sounds pretty neat to me “ and its free too,
which is always a tick in the right box.
Canadian company Userful markets Linux-based desktop multiplier and public access
computing solutions “ effectively turning one system into an X Window server supporting up to ten terminals. Theyre giving away a
free 2-user copy of their PC Multiplier software, which lets you have two
people simultaneously connected to a single system, but running separate sessions.
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29.12.2007Ex-Microsoft employee: Free software will kill the company
CIO has posted an article about a man named Keith Curtis, a previous programmer for Microsoft, who has come out with the dramatic statement that free
software will be the downfall of the Redmond company. Curtis, who was with Microsoft for 11 years, believes that free and open source software is
technically superior to the proprietary alternative because it lets developers collaborate and innovate.
Read full story.....
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27.05.2009I.B.M. to Offer Office Software Free in Challenge to Microsofts Line
I.B.M. plans to mount its most ambitious challenge in years to Microsofts dominance of personal computer software, by offering free programs for word
processing, spreadsheets and presentations.
The company is announcing the desktop software, called I.B.M. Lotus Symphony, at an
event today in New York. The programs will be available as free downloads from the I.B.M. Web site.
I.B.M.s Lotus-branded
proprietary programs already compete with Microsoft products for e-mail, messaging and work group collaboration. But the Symphony software is a free
alternative to Microsofts mainstay Office programs Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The Office business is huge and lucrative for Microsoft, second only
to its Windows operating system as a profit maker.
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18.09.2007Visual Studio Express to
Remain Free
Microsoft said Wednesday it
had decided to extend the free
availability of Visual Studio
Express Edition indefinitely,
citing the immense response
from customers that amounted
in the tool being downloaded
over 5 million times. VS
Express was initially going to
be offered free for just one
year...
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19.04.2006Visual Studio Gallery announced
The Microsoft Visual Studio Ecosystem team has officially launched the new Visual Studio Gallery site at
http://visualstudiogallery.com/. This new web site is a resource center for all Visual Studio extensions and includes everything
from free VS PowerToys like tools to VSIP products. Any developer can post information and a link for their Visual Studio extensions. Our goal for
this website is to give developers an easy way to find extensions for Visual Studio. Visual Studio extensions might include products and free
applications in the form of macros, add-ins, packages, project templates, or other types of extensions to Visual Studio that are packaged up and ready
to use by the developer to improve their development experience.
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28.02.2008Pepsi and Amazon promote Free Non-DRM Music
First Amazon MP3 became the first (and currently only) retailer to offer customers DRM-free MP3s
from all four major music
labels, and now Amazon.com is launching, with the help of PepsiCo Incorporated, a campaign to promote its iTunes store competitor. Starting on
Super Bowl Sunday, Justin Timberlake will kick off a yearlong $1 billion giveaway of MP3s, CDs, videos, consumer electronics and other products
from Amazon. It should be noted that Pepsi and Apple had a similar deal in 2004, which consisted of giving away 100 million free iTunes downloads.
Amazon will spend more on its "Pepsi Stuff" advertising campaign than on any past marketing effort.
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15.01.2008Update from Microsoft on 'free' TechNet subscription
Yesterday Neowin posted instructions on how to obtain a free Microsoft TechNet subscription. It's now clear that the free subscriptions were
meant for a small and limited amount of people as part of an offer from Microsoft. Unfortunately this was not clear at the time of posting and the
sign up links were public on Microsoft owned servers. Microsoft has currently disabled all accounts that were created using the method posted. Thanks
to Neowin member Kristan Kenney's blog we may have a final confirmation on how Microsoft will handle the keys produced from these subscriptions.
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05.06.2009The Danger of Free
Everyone loves to get stuff for free. We line up to get a free drink, we sign up for free checking accounts, and we're happy to get a free gift
with the purchase of our next car. We love free stuff, even though we all know and understand that free is an illusion. After that free drink, we pay
for the next three. The bank is making money by investing what we put in that checking account. The car dealer can afford to give away a small gift
because the profit on the car is large. But none of this seems to bother us - free things still have a certain allure. But is the concept of free
taking us down a dangerous road?
Marketers long ago figured out the attractiveness of free. For decades companies have been playing tricks
using free to lure naive customers. But recently, our obsession with free has given rise to a new phenomenon - where the customer is never asked to
pay. How? Because the business makes their money on advertising. Marketers are happy to pay for access to customers, who in turn love not having to
pay. So the web plays the glorious role of middle man. Are we heading into dangerous territory? The paths that we are taking lead to confused
customers at best; and monopolistic practices at worst. A culture where consumers think that increasingly more and more services should be free is not
healthy.
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16.01.2008Update on 'free' TechNet subscription, accounts coming back?
Yesterday Neowin posted instructions on how to obtain a free Microsoft TechNet subscription. It's now clear that the free subscriptions were
meant for a small and limited amount of people as part of an offer from Microsoft. Unfortunately this was not clear at the time of posting and the
sign up links were public on Microsoft owned servers. We apologise that the possibility Microsoft had made a mistake wasn't highlighted more in
our article until we updated it later when it became clear. Microsoft has currently disabled all accounts that were created using the method posted.
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05.06.2009Order Your Free Partner Product DVD
The Visual Studio partner team has put together a resource DVD with products and information from over 90 Visual Studio partners. Its loaded with more
than 100 add-ins and packagesfull and trial versions. Youll get tools, languages, and components that can help you develop applications for Windows®,
Web services, and mobile devices.
From these examples you can find out just how flexible & extendable Visual Studio is.
You can order their own DVD, free of charge, at:
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