180 Million Vista Licenses Mean What?
Microsoft shipped about 40 million Vista licenses in the second quarter, or 180 million since the operating system's launch. But how many Vista licenses were on new PCs? Not nearly enough.
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12.8.2008 100 million Vista licenses sold!
Whether you love him or hate him, you won't want to miss his last CES Keynote, especially with announcements like Microsoft having sold 100 million licences of its latest OS.
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Vista Closes in on 150 Million Sold Licenses
With the wind of adoption blowing hard in the sales of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the latest Windows client from Microsoft is closing in on the 150 million sold licenses mark.
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2.4.2008 Microsoft Proves Vista Is Not a Failure with 180 Million Licenses Sold
Windows Vista might not be the top seller that Microsoft had forecast before the operating system hit the shelves at the end of January 2007, but the latest Windows client is by no means a failure.
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23.7.2008 Microsoft Trims Source Code Licenses
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it was reducing the number of Shared Source licenses it offered from more than 10 to just three. The new licenses will serve as templates for product groups within Microsoft to release source code and connect with developers.
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Dealer of forged Microsoft licenses goes to jail
A German court has sentenced a software dealer to nearly three years in prison for distributing Microsoft Corp. products with forged licenses.
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27.1.2007 Microsoft postpones Winhec 2008 to Fall 2008
Microsoft announced that WinHEC 208 will not be held in the spring as previous years, but in the fall (October probably) of 2008.
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17.11.2007 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 No Vista for 2008 Beijing Olympics
The IT systems supporting the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, will not be using Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system.
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30.5.2007 Windows Vista to Explode in 2008
2007 might not have been the Wow's year, but in 2008 Windows Vista will explode. All the starts are aligned for Vista adoption to go through the roof. As a matter of fact, 2008 will prove the first truly fertile year for the Wow from the household to the corporate environment.
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15.11.2007 "Avoid Microsoft Windows Vista until 2008"
New security features in Windows Vista will largely eliminate the need to run separate anti-spyware or firewall software, according to a new analyst report.
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8.5.2006 Users may need Vista to make most of Server 2008
Companies installing Windows Server 2008 may have to buy extra Microsoft software, such as Windows Vista, to use more advanced features, analyst firm Gartner has said.
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3.11.2007 The Best Windows Vista Blog Contest 2008
WinVistaClub, in association with Windows Vista Magazine, is organising a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista Blogs and Websites.
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13.8.2008 Windows Server 2008 is 20% faster than Vista
It seems Microsoft may have a successor (or replacement) for Vista after all and its already been released. Windows Server 2008 isnt easy to configure as a desktop operating system but when done correctly can be 20% faster than Vista while retaining most of the same features.
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12.3.2008 AutoCollage 2008 for Vista SP1 and XP SP3
AutoCollage 2008 is a project developed by Microsoft Research Cambridge and made available for download as of September 4, 2008.
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4.9.2008 Microsoft to launch new Vista-subscription trials in early 2008
Microsoft is readying a new Windows-Vista based version of its FlexGo hardware-software-services bundle aimed at emerging markets.
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17.5.2007 Vista SP 1 Ships in 2008, the First Beta Drops in 2 Weeks!
After a long period of Windows Omerta, in which Microsoft gagged all details related to the future development plans for the Windows platform, the company has come out and confirmed the availability dates for the first beta of Windows Vista SP1, as well as for the final release of the refresh.
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29.8.2007 Testers get SP2 Release Candidate for Vista and Server 2008
Microsoft has released the Release Candidate build of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to its testers. The build is slightly newer than the RC-Escrow build and contains 691 hotfixes.
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20.2.2009 Windows Vista ServicePack 1 RC1 Will Expire on June 30, 2008
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC1 Will Expire on June 30, 2008. Microsoft finally wakes up and points to Vista SP1 RC1.
Thanks to GypsyDavid for this news.
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21.12.2007 Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2 RTM
Since the introduction of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, the Redmond company has sold in excess of 10 million units of the package of solutions, and on September 15, the R2 version of MDOP 2008 was released to manufacturing.
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16.9.2008 Windows Vista & Server 2008 SP2 Beta released to testers
Microsoft have made available build v6002-16497 of Service Pack 2 for both Windows Vista and Server 2008 to testers late last night. The bits show a compile date of October 17th and weigh in on average around the 3 Gigabyte mark.
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2.10.2008 Microsoft to Release Windows Server 2008 RCO, Vista SP1 Beta
Microsoft is about to make available the first release candidate for Windows Server 2008, the first beta for Vista SP1 and a preview of Windows Server virtualization.
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25.9.2007 Microsoft releases Security updates for Beta Windows Vista, Server 2008
Microsoft releases Security updates for Beta Windows Vista, Server 2008!
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15.1.2008 Rearm and Extend Activation Grace Period in Windows Vista and Server 2008
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has free activation grace period which allows user to install and use the operating system for 120 days and 240 days without product key or product activation completed.
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8.6.2008 How to Install Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 Beta Build 16497
Microsoft has published a command shell script, which will add and set a registry key on the computer so that Windows Update, Microsoft Update or Automatic Updates will offer the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 the Service Pack 2 (KB version 948465) beta build 6002.16497.
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5.12.2008 XP SP3, Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 RC0 Available for Download Next week!
New test builds of Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 will be made available for download next week.
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7.9.2007 XP SP3 and Vista SP1 September 2008 Security Release ISO Image
Following the four security bulletins released on Patch Tuesday, September 9, 2008, Microsoft has bundled all the Windows updates into a single ISO image offered through the Download Center.
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10.9.2008 Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Security Release ISO Image December 2008
On December 9, Microsoft made available for download the last bouquet of security updates for 2008. the company released no less than eight security bulletins, six of them Critical and two rated as Important.
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11.12.2008 October 15, 2008: the Real Kill-Off Date of Vista SP1 Pre-Release Builds
Microsoft confirmed that there is still some life left into the pre-release versions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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11.7.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008Microsoft Trims Source Code
Licenses
Microsoft announced on
Wednesday that it was reducing
the number of Shared Source
licenses it offered from more
than 10 to just three. The new
licenses will serve as
templates for product groups
within Microsoft to release
source code and connect with
developers...
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20.10.2005Microsoft says it won't submit restrictive licenses for open-source approval
Microsoft Corp. clarified its
plans to seek open-source
certification for its
shared-source licenses on
Wednesday, saying it will
submit only the two licenses
that allow source code to be
used on any platform for
approval.
Microsoft announced last
week that it would offer its
shared-source licenses, which
it uses to release source code
for free use, to the Open
Source Initiative (OSI) for
potential ratification as a
legitimate method for
open-source developers to
share their work.
However, OSI
president Michael Tiemann said
in an interview published
Monday that not all of
Microsoft's five licenses
appeared to pass the OSI's
muster.
In particular, several
"limited" versions of the
licenses required that code or
applications run only on
Windows PCs. That, Tiemann
said, contravened one of the
OSI's fundamental tenets:
that the licenses not restrict
users' ability to run the
code in any way...
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02.08.2007Buy More Vista Licenses, Save 10%
Microsoft has launched the
appropriately named Windows
Vista Additional License
program, which will enable
customers to save a bit of
money if they want to install
Windows Vista on multiple
computers. Before, users had
to purchase a completely new
copy of Vista...
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28.03.2007Vista: 150 Million Shipped
Joe Wilcox: A month after the last numbers update, Microsoft ships 10 million more Windows Vista licenses.
Microsoft revealed
that 140 million licenses shipped during its fiscal 2008 third-quarter earnings announcement in late April. This evening, during the
D Conference in Carlsbad, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed the 150 million
figure. I'm here at the opening night event, which is still underway as I post. This year's conference, the sixth, is simply called D6.
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29.05.2008Microsoft Not So 'Open' After All?
The head of the open-source
group that will decide whether
to certify Microsoft Corp.'s
"shared source" software
licenses as open-source
licenses said that more than
half of Redmond's licenses
appear to automatically fail
the group's rules.
Michael Tiemann,
president of the non-profit
Open Source Initiative, said
that provisions in three out
of five of Microsoft's
shared-source licenses that
restrict source code to
running only on the Windows
operating system would
contravene a fundamental tenet
of open-source licenses as
laid out by the OSI. By those
rules, code must be free for
anyone to view, use, modify as
they see fit.
"I am certain that if
they say Windows-only
machines, that would not fly
because that would restrict
the field of use," said
Tiemann in an interview late
Friday...
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31.07.2007About those 100 million Vista licenses
Ed Bott: My colleague Mary Jo Foley
reported earlier today on Microsofts
claim that it has sold 100 million retail copies of Windows Vista. During Bill Gates keynote address last night I
heard him say, Im pleased to
say that weve got over 100 million people using Vista now.
Thats a stretch.
I tracked down a Microsoft
spokesperson today who was just as surprised as I was to hear that sentence coming from the keynote stage. The spokesperson confirmed for me that
those 100 million copies represent licenses, not confirmed users. And the total includes copies sold through all channels, including those
preinstalled on OEM computers, copies sold as retail upgrades or full packaged product (FPP), and volume licenses sold to corporate customers.
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08.01.2008Can Microsoft Truly Issue 'Open Source' Licenses?
Yesterday, publisher Tim
O'Reilly broke the news that
at his company's own open
source convention in Portland,
Oregon, Microsoft General
Manager of Platform Strategy
Bill Hilf is planning to
submit its existing Shared
Source Licenses to the Open
Source Initiative, for
certification as true
"Open Source
Licenses."..
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28.07.2007Office 2007: 120 Million Licenses Shipped
Vista may claim 180 million licenses shipped, but Office 2007 probably has more deployments.
Stephen Elop, president of
Microsoft's Business division, revealed the sales figures during the company's annual Financial Analysts Meeting today. There have been "120
million licenses sold since the launch of Office 2007," he asserted.
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25.07.2008Microsoft: No Near-Term Plans
to Seek Open-Source Licensing
Approval
While Microsoft Corp.
has no current plan to apply
for Open Source Initiative
approval of the new licenses
that will govern its Shared
Source projects going forward,
the Redmond, Wash., software
maker has not ruled this out
as a possibility going
forward.
A
s eWEEK first reported,
Microsoft has cut the number
of licenses it will use for
its Shared Source Initiative
going forward from more than
10 to just three template, or
core, licenses.
Several prominent
Webloggers on Wednesday jumped
the gun with expectations that
the OSI would designate the
new licenses as
OSD-compliant.
"Th
e big news today at EuroOSCON
is the fact that Microsoft has
posted new source licenses,
and a couple of them might
actually be OSD
[open-source-definition]-compl
iant!!" blogged Danese
Cooper, Intel's
self-professed "open-source
diva" on her personal Web
site. ..
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21.10.2005Microsoft says 140M Vista licenses sold
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that it has sold 140 million licenses of Windows Vista.
Colleen Healy, general manager of
investor relations, made the statement during a conference call with Wall Street analysts after Microsoft posted its third-quarter earnings. The
company pointed to strong PC sales for helping the much-maligned operating system achieve that number.
However, revenue from
Microsoft's client division, which overwhelmingly comes from sales of Windows Vista or XP licenses, was down 24% from last year's third quarter to
$4.03 billion. Chris Liddell, Microsoft's chief financial officer, attributed the decrease to strong sales a year ago immediately after Vista's
launch, plus increased software piracy in developing countries and other reasons.
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25.04.2008Vista SP1 to replace 'Reduced Functionality' with nagware
A service originally designed to compel unpaid Vista users to obtain genuine licenses is apparently being scrapped in Service Pack 1, to be replaced
with a more "in-your-face" approach...
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04.12.2007Despite Real ID, WV licensees may exclude photos from licenses
Religious fundamentalists in West Virginia are now being exempted from getting their digital photos emblazoned on their driver's licenses, after
objections over carrying around what they conceive as the biblical "mark of the beast."..
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09.08.2008Exclusive: Windows Vista SP2 RC released to general public
As expected, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 RC and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 RC is now available to general public for download. You can
download the SP2 RC for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 below: ISO for Windows Server 2008 x86/x64/ia64 and Windows Vista x86/x64x86 for
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista x86x64 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista x64IA64 for Windows Server 2008 ia64 The service pack is
delivered as a single release for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. There will be a single 32-bit standalone installer (302 MB to 390 MB)
for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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04.03.2009Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office 2007
This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint,
or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others.
The add-in downloads the Creative Commons license you designate from the Creative Commons Web site and inserts it directly into your
creative work.
To learn more about Creative Commons, please visit its web site,
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winbeta.org - 26.07.2008
Microsoft: 88 Million Copies of Vista Shipped
Despite frequent reports of Windows Vista being a failure, Microsoft Corporation has now shipped 88 million copies of its latest operating system,
almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of time at its launch. CFO Chris Liddell credited strong sales in emerging markets, due in
part to anti-piracy and legalization programs there. Microsoft had previously said that it had shipped 20 million copies of Vista in its first month,
40 million copies of Vista in the first 100 days, and 60 million in late July.
Three-quarters of the copies sold of Vista were Home Premium
editions. The 88 million figure mostly includes Vista-installed PCs bought by consumers and small businesses, as well as packaged copies of Vista sold
in stores or online. It does exclude the tens of millions of Windows corporate volume licenses. There, many enterprises continue to hold off on
deploying Vista, acknowledged CFO Chris Liddell, though he expects them to start deploying it when Vista Service Pack 1 arrives in the first quarter
of next year. Nevertheless, revenue from companies renewing their volume licenses for Windows, which gives them the right to upgrade to Vista, was up
27%.
neowin.net - 26.10.2007
IT Execs Say Vista Uptake Slow
Adoption of Windows Vista is lagging and will continue to do so as 2008 begins, channel and IT executives said Wednesday at the Raymond James IT
Supply Chain Conference in New York.
"That's been a disappointment. Our customer surveys tell us are adopting at a
slower rate than we -- or anyone else -- thought. Even those that have licenses and can move quickly are not," said John Edwardson, chairman and CEO
of CDW (NSDQ:CDWC ), Vernon Hills, Ill.
Customers still do not see the benefits of upgrading to Vista from XP, Edwardson added.
winbeta.org - 13.12.2007
Microsoft: Vista customer satisfaction climbs
Microsoft Asia Pacific has responded to researchers' claims that enterprise chief information officers "have not warmed to the Vista operating
system over the past year." The northern hemisphere researchers said that the CIOs they recently surveyed voted 11 to one against plans to implement
Vista. The researchers concluded that "CIOs and other heads of IT still believe there is little business value in migrating from XP to Vista,
especially in the current economic climate." Richard Francis, General Manager, Windows Client Group, Microsoft Asia Pacific, said that, overall,
sales of Windows Vista licenses have passed 180 million since launch, and at least 100 million Windows Vista users have actively hit Windows Update.
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neowin.net - 08.12.2008
Happy 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.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 31.01.2008
Office Add-in: Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office (v1.0.1)
This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using the popular applications: Microsoft Office Word,
Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their
works may be used by others.
The add-in downloads the Creative Commons license you designate from the Creative Commons Web site
and inserts it directly into your creative work. Creative Commons supports a number of languages.
To learn more about Creative
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the choices among the Creative Commons licenses, see http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses.
winbeta.org - 14.02.2008
Windows 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...
betanews.com - 12.11.2007
