Happy Birthday Windows
Windows 1.0, the original 16-bit operating system, was released on 20 November 1985 and today marks its 23rd Birthday.
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20.11.2008 Happy Birthday Google - 8 Today
There I was using google for my own personal search algorithms, and noticed it's now 8-years old.
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27.9.2006 Happy Birthday Windows Smartphone
The SPV released 4 years ago by Orange was the first commercially available Windows Powered Smartphone using the HTC Canary reference design.
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24.10.2006 Happy Birthday Windows XP
5 years ago today Windows XP was launched worldwide after it had RTM'd a month earlier.
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27.10.2006 Happy Birthday Windows Vista!
I was e-mailed this and thought everyone should have a go, if they dear..... Happy Birthday Windows Vista! Thanks to r0chelle for this news.
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23.12.2007 Windows 7 Office 14 - Happy together?
Now that the Windows 7 Beta and Office 14 alpha are both out there, word is beginning to trickle out about some of the ways the two are being designed to “work better together.”
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15.1.2009 Netbook users not happy with Win 7?
Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU General Public License.
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10.11.2009 Microsoft hopes Vista keeps businesses happy
Bill Hartnett got accustomed to the screaming. As Microsoft Corp.’s manager of software sales to financial services companies, Hartnett used to get pelted with complaints about the security and reliability of Microsoft’s products.
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6.12.2006 Happy Easter says Rapidshare - No Waiting Periods
To keep things sweet and brief. The next time you visit rapidshare you might notice that there is now, no longer a waiting period. Just choose your mirror and download.
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7.4.2007 OSC not happy with BBC's Windows 7 coverage
The Open Source Consortium (OSC) is getting its knickers in a twist about the BBC's recent Windows 7 coverage.
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10.11.2008Happy 40th Birthday Unix!
This August, Unix is celebrating it's 40th birthday, and it's worth noting that an operating system that old, has been used every decade of
it's existence - and still is. In fact, Unix is gathering more and more attention as the years go by. Unix was conceived at Bell Labs after AT&T,
MIT and GE stopped production on a major project that was an attempt to create an operating system called Multics. Unixs' purpose was to make
better use of mainframe computers and to have them serve many PC's at one time.
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25.08.2009Happy 9th Birthday Neowin!
It's that time of the year again, the 1st of October, where we can celebrate a successful 9 years online! I'm happy to announce that this past
year has seen a vast improvement to our news reporting. In October last year we moved from mainly syndicated news, to original news and paid staff to
realise this. As a result our footprint on the Internet has improved and we're now being quoted on many of our competitors in the field.
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01.10.2009Happy 40th birthday to the Internet!
Today, September 2, is the Internet's 40th birthday! On this day, 40 years ago, in a test lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two
computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable - it was then called the ARPANET. One month later Stanford Research Institute had also joined.
By the end of the year, UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah had joined, thus creating the "internet". The Web, as we know it, was invented
by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, when he invented the "World Wide Web" or "WWW".
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03.09.2009Happy Birthday Windows
Windows 1.0, the original 16-bit operating system, was released on 20 November 1985 and today marks its 23rd Birthday. 55 programmers developed the
system in a year, making the 1st edition a break from the norm in terms of usability. It enabled users to use a mouse to navigate the system and use
its various functions and applications that were included. Applications included were a set of desktop applications (MS-DOS File Management Program),
a calendar, card file, notepad, calculator, clock and telecommunications programs allowing users to manage their day-to-day activites much like a PDA
does today. It also allowed users to switch between programs without needing to quit and restart them.
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20.11.2008Happy Birthday mouse
The original mouse invention which is now in use on every office and home PC turns 40 next week. Looking like something that could take your
fingers clean off, the wooden block with a single red button on top was unveiled to the world 40 years ago. Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse and
worked with Bill English to build the device. In 1967, Engelbart applied for, and in 1970 he received a patent for the wooden shell with two metal
wheels. In 1981, Xerox included a mouse with their Star computer system, and a few years later Apple offered one with their Macintosh system.
Microsoft then made it the standard device for their Windows operating system.
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01.12.2008Happy first birthday Windows Vista!
365 days and 100 million licenses later, enthusiasm for a safe, reliable and engaging Windows Vista experience is high.
Since the worldwide
release of Windows Vista one year ago today, people are doing more and getting more out of their Windows experience. From pictures and videos, to
games and family safety settings, users are finding out that they can do more with Windows Vista.
We commissioned independent studies from
IPSos and NPD to explore the attitudes of users about the operating system not only in the U.S., but also in China, France, Germany, Japan, and the
UK. According to NDP, 70 percent of these users say it's an improvement over their previous operating system.
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31.01.2008Happy 20th birthday to the World Wide Web
Twenty years ago today, on March 13, 1989, sparked the revolution of one of the greatest inventions of a life time, that being the World Wide Web.
The purposed idea was to help connect people together using the World Wide Web using the once popular ViolaWWW web browser, which was eventually
replaced by Mosaic web browser back in 1993. Tim Berners-Lee was the man behind "Information Management: A Proposal" leading the way for what we
now consider the Internet. In a quote from Tim Berners-Lee said: "We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality
and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.
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14.03.2009The Windows 7 Taskbar
Steven Sinofsky: Happy Birthday Windows! Given all the interest in the most used user-interface of Windows we thought it would be good to take a look
back and see how we got to Windows 7.
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21.11.2008Google's 9th Birthday
Two weeks ago, AFP informed us that "Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet. Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine
has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos." That's true, except
that Google is 9 years old. Even if Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the google.com domain in 1997, Google was officially launched one year
later.
"Google opened its doors in September 1998. The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years,
depending on when people feel like having cake," says Google's help center. You can read more about it directly from Google. In the recent years,
Google's birthday has been celebrated on September 27th with a doodle displayed on the homepage. Happy birthday, Google!
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28.09.2007Happy birthday SMS: 15 today
It is 15 years today since the first commercial text was sent over the Vodafone network by Airwide Solutions engineer Neil Papworth.
Today
marks the 15th anniversary since the first commercial short message service (SMS) text was sent.
That first message, which read "Merry
Christmas," was sent by Neil Papworth, an engineer at Airwide Solutions, via the Vodafone network to a colleague at the mobile operator who was
enjoying the festivities of a staff Christmas party.
Papworth sent the text on 3 December using a PC terminal and traditional keyboard,
while the recipient, Vodafone's Richard Jarvis, received the message using an Orbitel 901 handset.
"I can remember the event,
being there, typing
in and getting confirmation that it had got through. But I wasn't the chosen one or anything like that.
Eventually the time came when we had to take the system down to Vodafone to plug it in and get it working on the live network. Because I'd been
working on the interface stuff it made sense for me to go down and do it," Papworth said.
neowin.net - 03.12.2007
Happy Birthday, Windows. Well, sorta
Monday marked 25 years since the unveiling of Windows 1.0 -- the official beginning of the PC operating system that has come to define Microsoft's
business. However, as Wired and Gizmodo note, calling it a birthday might be a bit of a
stretch...
winbeta.org - 11.11.2008
How to become a happy iPhone developer
Although some Apple developers are airing a lot of frustration lately, mDialog's Greg Philpott wants it known that he's basically happy about
creating software for Apple platforms...
betanews.com - 27.10.2008
25 years ago Bill Gates showed off Windows 1.0
Twenty-Five years ago Bill Gates gave the world Windows 1.0. No one knew
at the time what would become of Windows but looking back it's quite incredible what it has become.
Bill boasted about a graphical
user interface, or as he called it then, the 16-bit graphical operating environment, was a step up for the computer industry. The feature list was
long and distinguished for its time but seems trivial by today's standard.
Regardless of what you think about Windows you can't
deny the fact that it changed the landscape of our culture in every fashion. Who knows what OS we would be all running today if Windows 1.0 never saw
the birth of light ( Fun fact, Bill Gates wanted to
call Windows 1.0 "Interface Manager").
Windows has defined today's modern computing. From Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 we all owe
Microsoft a little due diligence. Hats off to you windows and enjoy your birthday :)
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neowin.net - 11.11.2008
DNS celebrates 25th birthday
The internet's Domain Name System is 25 years old this week. Paul Mockapetris, chairman and chief scientist at Nominum, is credited with inventing
the DNS in 1983. Mockapetris shared his thoughts on the technology during a ceremony at the Oxford Internet Institute, discussing how it came to be,
its impact on the internet and where it is headed.
What started as a small project that few thought would be such an important aspect of
communication, the DNS is now part of the internet's underlying infrastructure and provided an alternative to typing numerical IP addresses for
every domain name.
neowin.net - 30.01.2008
Google's New Open Stack Expanding - Sans Facebook, Microsoft
ReadWriteWeb: A couple of weeks ago we celebrated the first birthday of
Google's OpenSocial project, an open API framework for social networks and websites. Google's OpenSocial Blog recently presented some statistics, including that OpenSocial now
reaches nearly 675 M registered users and there are 7,500 applications.
winbeta.org - 02.12.2008
Storm is celebrating its birthday
Light up some candles, since you've just missed Storm's birthday. To those of you who don't know what Storm is, well, it is the virus with the
biggest botnet (essentially, a group of zombie computers controlled remotely) since a lot earlier in the decade. It is assumed that Storm's botnet
has at least 1,000,000 PCs.
Storm was unleashed upon the world in November 2006, by the name of Nuwar, due to the spam mail by
which it came, which dealt with an unavoidable nuclear war between the USA and Russia. This spam mail contained an attachment which would turn
computers into bots. The botnet would engage in mass-mailing penny-stock-fraud spam.
winbeta.org - 26.11.2007
Happy Christmas!
From all the staff at
Neowin.net we'd like to wish
everyone a Happy Christmas.
For those that
celebrate it differently, we
wish you all the best whatever
your belief's may be.
Heres hoping for an
even better 2007 for everyone
neowin.net - 25.12.2006
Microsoft hints at "private browsing" feature in IE
One of the most interesting feature that didn’t quite make it into the final release of Firefox 3 is “Private Browsing”, a.k.a. porn
mode. The only other browser with this feature built-in today is Safari (another reason to try it in case you haven’t), however, Microsoft may
also be building a similar feature into Internet Explorer 8 if two trademark filings are any indications.
Although “private
browsing” can be easily associated with viewing particular genres of media content, the Mozilla foundation argues “while viewing
pornography may be a popular use case due to the nature of content on the Web, assuming that this is the only reason that users need private browsing
trivializes the overall feature. For instance, users may wish to begin a private browsing session to research a medical condition, or plan a surprise
vacation or birthday party for a loved one.”
If indeed Microsoft is rolling out such a feature in Internet Explorer 8, I can imagine
it becoming very popular with surprise birthday planners across the world. Oh those birthday people are in for a treat.
neowin.net - 20.08.2008
Survey: Beta testers more happy with Windows 7 than Vista
PCWorld reports that in a recent poll conducted, Windows 7 Beta testers are 4 times more happy with Windows 7 than the early users of Windows Vista,
the reason due to which more than half of the companies plan to dump Vista adoption plans. A recent poll conducted by ChangeWave Research, a market
research company revealed that 44% of the 68 Windows 7 Beta testers were very satisfied with Windows 7 beta. A similar survey by ChangeWave in
February 2007 conducted few weeks after Vista's launch found just 10% of the respondents expressed satisfaction.
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neowin.net - 08.04.2009
Happy birthday, x86! An industry standard turns 30
Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding "the dawn of a new
era." Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the 8086 was slow to take off, its underlying architecture -- later referred to as x86 -- would
become one of technology's most impressive success stories.
"X86" refers to the set of machine language instructions that
certain microprocessors from Intel and a few other companies execute. It essentially defines the vocabulary and usage rules for the chip. X86
processors -- from the 8086 through the 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486 and various Pentium models, right down to today's multicore chips and processors
for mobile applications -- have over time incorporated a growing x86 instruction set, but each has offered backward compatibility with earlier members
of the family.
winbeta.org - 05.06.2008
