I Run Windows 7 Big in Japan
Microsoft is in the final stages of the development process for the next iteration of the Windows client. With RTM planned by the end of July 2009 and worldwide General Availability scheduled for October 22, the Redmond company has unveiled a set of initiatives designed to build up to Windows 7 hitting the shelves.
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6.7.2009 Microsoft: Bots a Big Problem for Windows
Malicious bots are becoming quite common, with six out of every ten computers scanned by the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool found to be infected, Microsoft said Monday. Altogether, the application has removed malicious bots from about 3.5 million PCs.
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13.6.2006 Internet Explorer 7 a Disappointment as Big as Windows Vista?
Is Internet Explorer 7 matching Windows Vista in the level of disappointment delivered to end users? Well, such an answer lies ultimately within you. But at the same time, IE7 has not been submitted to the same barrage of fire that Vista had to face throughout 2007.
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28.12.2007 The big Digg rig
Digg became one of the top sites for tech news because it lets Web-savvy geeks decide what's newsworthy, offer up stories they like and vote on their favorites.
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5.12.2006 Vista = Big Brother?
PC users around the globe may find driver software is stopped from working by Vista if it detects unauthorised content access. Peter Guttman, a security engineering researcher at New Zealand's university of Auckland, has written A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection.
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2.1.2007 iPod Nano May Have Some Big problems
What some analysts have billed as the "top MP3 player this fall" may have just hit a potentially damaging roadblock - its own frailty.
Complaints have begun to circle on both Web logs and Apple's own support forums surrounding an issue with the polycarbonate plastic that covers the front of the iPod Nano. Some users claim the player scratches extremely easily, enough that it makes the screen difficult to read.
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Office Upgrades to Have Big Impact
The number of corporate PCs using Microsoft Office that have to be upgraded due to a patent-infringement settlement might not be so small after all, according to a new survey.
AssetMetrix Research Labs said 22 percent of the 600,000 corporate PCs it surveyed that run Office with Access must be upgraded with Office 2003 SP2 and a special patch.
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8.2.2006 BIG Comparison of 27 BitTorrent clients
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of BitTorrent clients. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.
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Microsoft's Big Bet: Win Within the Web
Although the latest version of Microsoft Windows is more than six months from shipping, company brass already have christened Vista as the best and biggest Windows release since Windows 95.
The company is making bold predictions, claiming Vista will be preloaded on as many as 200 million new personal computers in the first 24 months that the product is available. Windows 95 shipped on a mere 67 million new PCs during its first two years. These numbers are important. The prospects of nearly every product Microsoft makes ride on maintaining the ubiquity of Windows, which has in excess of 90 percent of the PC operating system market. It's been five years since the current Windows version was released, and Windows XP now is looking rather dated.
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15.3.2006 Microsoft to spend big on Zune marketing
Microsoft to spend big on Zune marketing, Zillions? Well, millions at least.
Microsoft is ready to take the fight to Apple in the digital music market by flexing its financial muscle.
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28.7.2006 Microsoft's Last 'Big Bang' Operating System?
Despite forays into Web software with Windows Live and Office Live -- collections of e-mail, instant messaging, and Web publishing apps -- Microsoft's core franchises remain wedded to the PC.
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12.4.2006 Gates Predicts Big Technological Leaps
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he expects the next decade to bring even greater technological leaps than the past 10 years.
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16.3.2008 NVIDIA Unleashes Big Bang II
A few months ago, NVIDIA announced its plans to release a GeForce R180 series of drivers meant to bring new features and technology innovations to its graphics cards.
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23.10.2008 Ballmer Analyzes Microsoft's 'One Big' Vista Mistake
Microsoft's CEO blames the company's "Big Bang" approach for leading to Vista's delays. He says it tried to do too much, too fast with all the core components.
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2.8.2006 Microsoft plans big Vancouver, B.C., software center
Microsoft announced this morning that it will open a software development center this fall in the Vancouver, B.C., area, with room for hundreds of workers.
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6.7.2007 Microsoft's Ballmer outlines his seven big bets for 2009
For the past few Februaries, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes the trek to Wall Street to provide analysts with an annual “Strategic Update” overview, in which he covers the areas where Microsoft plans to invest and why.
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24.2.2009 Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost
I downloaded the release candidate of Vista Service Pack 1 yesterday and was prepared to wait till its public debut next week before writing about it.
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6.12.2007 Vistas big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd...
Not anymore. A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year. Eight percent.
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17.6.2008 Big review of Vista December 2005 CTP (Build 5270)
I think people are going to be surprised by how good the Windows Vista December 2005 Community Technical Preview (CTP, or build 5270) really is. After years of painful delays and an uncertain couple of months since the last CTP, Microsoft shipped a near-feature-complete Vista build to testers this week, and the prognosis is extremely positive.
From what I can see, Vista has turned the corner. The December CTP is an exciting release, stable and full of new features. In this review, I'll examine those new features, and the features that have changed since the previous CTP, build 5231.
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21.12.2005 Windows Seven and Office 14 Just as Big as Windows Vista and Office 2007
Microsoft has reiterated its commitment to the desktop. Building on its co-founder Bill Gates' vision of a PC on every desk in every home, Microsoft will continue to focus on delivering desktop products. And in this context, nothing will change when it comes down to the development of the company's main cash cows.
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12.7.2007 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008The Dell Debacle: How Serious is the Damage?
At his press conference
yesterday afternoon, Dell CFO
Don Carty tried to paint a
picture of a company where
little men made little
adjustments to meet little
targets, in the context of a
big manufacturer with a big
customer base and a big number
of outstanding shares. But he
also came clean with some
serious revelations that raise
much bigger questions: Just
who has Dell been fooling, and
for how long?..
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17.08.2007Next Patch Tuesday has few security updates, big Vista reliability fix
In its monthly advance notice the weekend before the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft said it will only be addressing four security issues this
time around, two dealing with Windows. But a surprisingly big Vista bug fix is under way...
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04.07.2008Keyboard, mouse to get company in Windows 7
Ina Fried: I still don't know much about what Windows 7 will do or what it will look like, but I can tell you that you won't have to rely on a
keyboard and mouse to use it.
After decades of investing in things like speech technology and handwriting recognition, Microsoft
Chairman Bill Gates said that users appear ready for new ways of interacting with machines. And, he said, advances in those areas and in touch-based
gestures will find their way into the next version of Windows, known as Windows 7.
"The version after Vista is a big step
forward in terms of speech," Gates said in an interview following his speech at Stanford University. "It's a big step forward in terms of ink.
It's a big step forward in terms of touch."
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20.02.2008Microsoft Office 12: Big
Changes, Big Learning Curve
Our hands-on look at latest
beta of the most significant
revision in a decade for
venerable office suite...
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07.12.2005We knew the web was big...
Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj: We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000
the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there.
Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find
new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!
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26.07.2008Is Microsoft/Yahoo about Windows' server platform failure?
Before my whiney enemies all get up in arms about yours truly once more beating up on Microsoft, I'd like to point out that the idea of Microsoft
buying Yahoo being a tacit admission that Windows can't cut the mustard as a top Internet server platform didn't originate with me. No, the
credit, or blame if you prefer, goes to Marcelo Carvalho, an IT manager in San Francisco and Damien Hocking, a Linux-Watch reader who brought
Carvalho's thoughts to my attention.
Carvalho, in a talkback on CNN/Money wrote, "I do not know if anybody … has understood
the layer beneath a Microsoft Corp. -Yahoo Inc. deal." Caravalho continued, "Microsoft runs on the Windows platform and it has proved inadequate to
run big Internet companies. There is not one big Internet company—and I mean "BIG" like Google Inc. , Yahoo, Amazon.com Inc. , eBay Inc. and
such—that runs on Windows besides Microsoft. Its software platform has been a disaster supporting its search engine, email and other free
services."
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15.02.2008Helmut Buhler's big day: An everyday programmer finds a critical Windows hole
Someone who isn't even a security researcher is being credited with the latest solution to an ongoing Windows API problem.
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11.03.2009Google's new interest-based ads look less like 'Big Brother' than 'big bother'
If Google's only interest in its AdSense users boils down to content categories, then there may not be that much for anyone to worry about.
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11.03.2009Windows Live Spaces, the next big social network?
The sleeping giant is finally awaking on the front of Social Networking. The one area where Microsoft has failed to get into was Social Networking.
Microsoft has been building Windows Live profiles over the past years, with some major changes to its design and functionality. The giant already has
many features other social networks have, but will finally put all the pieces together. Microsoft wishes to get into the Social Networking game
along beside giants like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and many others people use to stay in touch with family, friends and others they wish to talk to.
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14.11.2008Nokia: Mobile TV Will Be Big
by 2008
Handset manufacturer Nokia
said Thursday that it was
placing its bets on mobile
television as becoming the
next big thing, saying it
would reach mass appeal within
two years. According to the
company, consumers are willing
to pay as much as $11 a month
for such a service...
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03.03.2006FCC commissioner: Deregulation promotes big media breakups
As the FCC considers a plan being devised by its chairman to offer channels 'a la carte' in an effort to promote diversity, opponents in and outside
the Commission are arguing it should leave big media alone...
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20.11.2007Sharp stays (mostly) on point at lunchtime CES event
A very big room, journalists on the feedbag, and the tricky task of pitching big pretty TVs in an ugly economy made the Sharp press conference at CES
2009 something of a tangled affair...
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08.01.2009Google Ad Manager enters beta amid DART acquisition
The plan has been for Google to become the full-service advertising platform supplier on the Internet, and DoubleClick is a big piece of that puzzle.
But the company's big goals have always started small, and today's new beta is just one more example...
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13.03.2008LG posts a big quarterly loss, plans restructuring
South Korean Consumer Electronics maker LG posted a big loss in its fourth quarter 2008 earnings report this morning, and like Samsung last week, the
company will restructure its business...
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22.01.2009Local online advertising to become big business in next decade
A host of research firms are saying that local ads are the next big thing, with the latest being Jupiter Research saying it will be a $9 billion
business by 2012...
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19.01.2008Windows Media Center Edition
Gets Big Update
Few new features, lots of bug
fixes...
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14.10.2005Microsoft Big Brains: Mark Russinovich
The Microsoft Big Brains Series continues. This week's profile is of Mark Russinovich, known as one of the foremost experts on Windows inside or
outside of Microsoft... and someone who is key to the evolution of Microsoft's core OS platform.
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10.03.2009Broadcom's Android alternative: An SoC supporting Symbian, Linux, WM6
In an attempt to blockade Google's Android platform at the big Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, Broadcom is putting forth a chip with
some real ammunition behind it, supporting the existing big three mobile OSes all at once...
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11.02.2008Windows Server 2008 Versions Announced, with Few Changes
The breakdown for the various editions of Windows Server 2008 was revealed this morning by Microsoft, and the big news there is the almost total lack
of change: Retail server software editions for the next Windows Server will fall right in line with the current Windows Server 2003 R2 editions,
including the number of client access licenses (CALs) provided in the basic package...
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12.11.2007MySpace adds big-label music to free downloads, will sell tickets and merch
While a lot of music sites on the Web only offer tunes from big name labels, a new joint venture unveiled today will eventually bring together music
from Sony, Warner, and Universal recording artists with that of lesser known talents on MySpace...
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