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26.1.2007 Windows Vista Custom PC Design
Microsoft and Dell recently partnered up to create a super-cool custom PC in celebration of Microsoft releasing Windows Vista to manufacturing earlier this month.
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21.11.2006 Vista SP1: Create a recovery disc
One of the new administrative tools Windows Vista Service Pack 1 provides is the ability to create a recovery disc. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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1.10.2007 First 50GB Blu-ray Disc to Debut
Sony Pictures plans to make available the first 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray disc on Tuesday when it releases Adam Sandler's latest flick, "Click."
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10.10.2006 How to: Create custom wallpaper collections in Windows 7
Do you love customizing your Windows desktop? If you do, you'll love this trick!
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28.7.2009 Download Windows 7 System Recovery Disc
Most of the users are impressed with Microsoft latest operating system Windows 7 thanks to aggressive marketing by Microsoft.
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14.10.2009 G.E. puts 500GB on a disc - Blu-ray killer?
General Electric says its researchers have achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology that will allow standard-size discs to hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs.
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27.4.2009 Windows Live Custom Domains - Free Email Hosting
A new service was added to the Windows Live Beta family today - Windows Live Custom Domains. The basic idea is that anyone with a domain can now point their MX record to the Live servers. What that means is that users can have Microsoft's servers hosting their own domain's email accounts for free.
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20.11.2005 Blu-ray Disc Sales Surpass HD DVD
Data from Nielsen indicates that sales of Blu-ray media for the first time has outpaced that of HD DVD; however, as expected, both camps in the high-definition format war have different ways of interpreting the data.
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24.2.2007 Custom PC makers finally get Windows 7 preinstallation kit
On October 12, Microsoft provided system builders with the Windows 7 OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) tools and related documentation they need to preload and customize Windows 7 on multiple new PCs.
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13.10.2009 ReadyBoost in Windows Vista: Does it Make a Difference?
USB memory keys are compact little devices that can store and transfer anywhere from 128MB to 8GB of data, all it takes is a USB slot.
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27.8.2007 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 Last OS Standing: Make the Most of Windows Vista
Now that Windows XP is no longer being sold by Microsoft, PC users will be stuck with Windows Vista. Here's a roundup of PC World's best tips for making Vista easier to use.
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3.7.2008 MS Vista to make official debut in Israel
Microsoft Windows team development head Steven Sinofsky will unveil Vista at Tech-Ed Israel 2006. windows -
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4.4.2006 NSA Helped Microsoft Make Vista Secure
Microsoft has confirmed that the U.S. government agency best known for eavesdropping on telephone calls had a hand in the development of the Windows Vista operating system.
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12.1.2007 Over 10 Million Custom XP Downloads Get Chinese Pirates Jail Sentences
Chinese authorities cracked down on a group of four software pirates for offering a custom-built copy of Windows XP, which was downloaded in excess of 10 million times.
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24.8.2009 Windows 7 – 20 Features to Make Users Forget Vista SP1/SP2 and XP SP3
Microsoft is currently moving onward with the development of Windows 7, having passed Milestone 3 with the operating system.
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15.11.2008 Do not make Win 7 too Mac-like
Blogger Paul Thurrott has written a couple of interesting posts about the difference between “simple” and “easy” in the context of Windows 7.
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4.12.2008 Why Apple does not make a netbook
As netbooks continue their inexorable rise up the wish lists of gadget hounds, businesses and ordinary folk alike, the clamor for Apple to join the market continues to increase from all sides.
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5.3.2009 Is Google going to make Microsoft look good?
Why do we like Google? Is it because they are the “do no evil” company? Is it because they are not Microsoft? Is it because they make our lives easier through their search, email, and other services? The fact of the matter is that a lot of people from users, to developers, to workers, and to investors like Google. Heck, even I like google! (Look at the ads.)
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3.8.2006 Microsoft Blogs Make Room for Ads
Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging features are set for a major upgrade to incorporate a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Amazon.com, according to various sources.
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26.1.2006 Hollywood to make shows for Xbox 360
Microsoft, seeking to expand offerings on its Xbox 360 console, has reached an agreement with a company headed by Peter Safran, the veteran Hollywood producer and talent manager, to produce original shows for distribution on the system.
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31.3.2008 Microsoft to eventually make Office a web application
Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last. A "Microsoft insider" was asked which other products and services Microsoft would host and the reply was: "Everything. Hosted Office. Everything hosted."
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Microsoft: Make our HD Photo format a standard
Such is the reasoning behind a step Microsoft plans to announce Thursday: it will submit its HD Photo image format to a standards body.
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8.3.2007 Microsoft Gambles One EU Customer Will Make its Case
It has been "Issues Week" all week for Microsoft, and Thursday, the company took on the dreaded interoperability issue. But its choice of message was called into question a bit yesterday after Microsoft boasted of having signed up its first official customer for its communications and interoperability IP licenses: Quest Software, the manufacturer of the Toad data modeling system.
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10.3.2007 TechEd 2007 Preview: Now It's Developers' Turn to Make Changes
With Windows Vista already a firmly entrenched product in many homes and some businesses, and with Windows Server 2008 cruising toward a final release in the second half of this year, Microsoft may feel it's time for its many partners and developers with an interest in Windows' success to stand and deliver.
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4.6.2007 Ultimately, Touch Will Make the Killer Windows 7 Applications
Undoubtedly it is the ecosystem of third-party software solutions that make Windows the platform that it is today, sharing the operating system's success.
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12.11.2008 Microsoft Promotion: make MSN Your Homepage & Win a Zune
How badly does Microsoft want to promote the Zune? Not badly enough to think of anything particularly ingenious. Unique? yes. Succesful? No.
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15.2.2007 How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard, make OS X a little less smug
It's pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system.
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31.10.2007 OneCare Death to Make Room for Free Morro Antivirus for Windows 7
A future core antimalware solution will replace Windows Live OneCare, which, considering the price of a one year subscription, has already qualified for an alternative to free security software, come mid-2009.
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25.11.2008More Windows Vista Packaging and Disc
Take a look at how the Windows
Vista packaging will open up
to reveal the media inside.
Also, it is our first peak at
what the Windows Vista discs
will actually look like.
I like what they've
done with the disc. The design
on the disc is unique and
fresh. Microsoft has adopted
pretty much the same looking
holographic CD/DVD's since
Windows 2000 and its nice to
see it be given a fresh new
look - which seems to be a
reoccurring theme with the
Windows Vista packaging in
general.
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02.11.2006LG Promises New, True Hybrid High-Def Disc Player
At the CEDIA custom electronics show in Denver, LG Electronics is showing off a new prototype high-definition video disc player that it claims will
play both iHD and BD-J interactive content, and will sell for $999. Is this one, finally, at long last, for real?..
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06.09.2007Windows Vista Recovery Disc Download
If you're like most PC users, you got Windows Vista with a new PC or laptop. And if you're like 99% of the population, you get your new machine
from one of the major manufacturers. Dell, Acer, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo, all have one thing in common: they don't give you a real Windows Vista
installation disc with your purchase. Instead, they bundle what they call a "recovery disc" (that's if you're lucky - otherwise you'll have a
recovery partition instead).
It doesn't matter that you just paid a thousand dollars for a machine that comes with a
valid Windows Vista license - they just don't want to spend the money (or perhaps take on the responsibility) of giving you a Windows Vista
installation DVD to accompany your expensive purchase.
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19.01.2008Buena Vista Announces Blu-ray Plans
Buena Vista Entertainment said
Monday that it would be
releasing its first Blu-ray
day-and-date release title in
December, as well as its first
50GB disc in November. The
studio exclusively supports
Sony's high-definition video
disc format...
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24.10.2006Download: Windows Vista x64 Recovery Disc
NeoSmart: Ever since we
first made available the Windows Vista
Recovery Disc for download back in January, we've been inundated with requests for
an
x64-compatible version. Flash-forward to three months later, and it's finally here!
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08.04.2008Pioneer now says it can add four more layers to its Blu-ray disc
With the optical disc industry upping the ante last month, raising its goals for optical disc-based storage to a half-terabyte, Pioneer returned to
testing a possible multi-layer BD, and now says it can squeeze more capacity onto one disc...
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07.08.2008Windows Vista Packaging and Disc
Take a look at how the Windows
Vista packaging will open up
to reveal the media inside.
Also, it is our first peak at
what the Windows Vista discs
will actually look like.
I like what they?ve
done with the disc. The design
on the disc is unique and
fresh. Microsoft has adopted
pretty much the same looking
holographic CD/DVD?s since
Windows 2000 and its nice to
see it be given a fresh new
look - which seems to be a
reoccurring theme with the
Windows Vista packaging in
general.
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02.11.2006Recover "Create a recovery disc" on Vista SP1 RTM
Long Zheng: During the betas, one of the few new functionality Windows Vista Service Pack 1 added was the ability to
create a Windows recovery CD with an easy-to-use GUI interface. Up and
until then, it was slightly harder but still possible to do so through a command line.
Whilst all Vista install DVDs include the
recovery functionality natively, it’s probably useful to burn yourself a spare copy to take with you. You can also
download an ISO from NeoSmart.net but you might not have bandwidth to
spare...
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24.03.2008Google Rolls Out Custom Search Engine for Businesses
Google on Tuesday plans to
make its Custom Search Engine
available to business users.
Custom
Search Engine Business
Edition offers the same
Web site search technology
present in Google's free
Custom Search Engine, except
with no ads.
Google's custom search
allows the creator or
administrator to limit queries
to a certain set of documents,
such as those on one (or more)
Web sites. The service, free
and supported by ads for
consumers, costs businesses
anywhere from $100 per year to
$15,000 per year or more at
Web sites that field lots of
queries.
Custom
Search Engine Business Edition
also includes an XML
application programming
interface (API) for
customizing search result
presentation, technical
support, and the ability to
display search results under
the company's own logo rather
than Google's familiar red,
yellow, blue, and green...
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17.07.2007Infra Recorder 0.40
Infra Recorder is a free
CD/DVD burning solution for
Microsoft Windows. It offers a
wide range of powerful
features; all through an easy
to use application interface
and Windows Explorer
integration.
Main
Features
- Create custom data, music
and mixed-mode projects and
record them to physical
compact discs or disc
images.
- Create and
record disc images.
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Create direct disc copies, on
the fly or by using a
temporary disc image.
- Erase (blank) rewritable
discs using four different
methods.
- Import
session data from
multi-session discs and append
more sessions to that kind of
discs.
- Fixate discs
(write lead-out information to
prevent further data from
beeing added to the disc).
- Scan the SCSI/IDE bus
for devices and collect
detailed information about
their capabilities.
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Display detailed disc
information.
- Read
and save audio and data tracks
to files (wav. and .iso)
- Scan selected tracks for
errors.
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23.12.2006Vista SP1: Create a recovery disc
Long Zheng: One of the new administrative tools
Windows Vista
Service Pack 1 provides is the ability to create a recovery disc. At first, the name might fool you into thinking the
type of discs system manufacturers provide to you when you purchase a new
computer to restore your computer to a factory state, but this is not that. A more appropriate name would be śWindows repair discť.
To be blunt, this tool creates merely a slimmed-down Windows installation disc. It takes a normal Windows installation disc image and strips out
all the śinstallationť functionality leaving only the repair tools and common system files.
What a lot of people dont know (or
need to know) is that their Windows Vista DVDs are in fact running
Windows PE, an extremely lightweight version of Windows that can be booted from removable media for the purpose of system
maintenance. Up until now, creating a Windows PE image was not an easy task. This tool basically simplifies it down to just two clicks.
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29.09.2007Mempile preps terabyte optical disc
An Israeli firm called Mempile
is developing an optical storage technology that will cram a terabyte of data onto a single disc. The key to this high storage
capacity is a disc made from a custom polymer that is essentially transparent to the laser used by the drive. This allows Mempile to pack roughly 200
virtual layers onto a single 1.2mm disc, with each of those layers capable of storing 5GB of data.
Mempile estimates that its
disc technology will retain data for 50 years, but prototypes aren't expected for a year and a half. Drives and discs wouldn't be available to
consumers until a year after that.
Soaring hard drive capacities have made backup via optical media difficult at best, so the
prospect of terabyte recordable media is certainly tantalizing. However, by the time Mempile gets its TeraDisc technology out the door,
terabyte-capacity might not be as impressive as it is today. You can read more about Mempile's TeraDisc
here.
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23.08.2007The XP alternative for Vista PCs
While Microsoft is still pushing Vista hard, the company is quietly allowing PC makers to offer a "downgrade" option to buyers that get machines
with the new operating system but want to switch to Windows XP.
The program applies only to Windows Vista Business and Ultimate
versions, and it is up to PC makers to decide how, if at all, they want to make XP available. Fujitsu has been among the most aggressive, starting
last month to include an XP disc in the box with its laptops and tablets.
"That's going to help out small- and medium-size
businesses," Fujitsu marketing manager Brandon Farris told CNET News.com.
Hewlett-Packard also started a program in August for
many of its business models. "For business desktops, workstations and select business notebooks and tablet PCs, customers can configure their systems
to include the XP Pro restore disc for little or no charge," HP spokeswoman Tiffany Smith said in an e-mail. She said it was too soon to gauge how
high customer interest has been. "Since we've only been offering (it) for about a month, we don't really have anything to share on demand." ..
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22.09.2007It's Another Vista TCO Study
Microsoft is flaunting a new Windows Vista total cost of ownership study thatno surprisepresents rosy findings.
Wipro
Technologies and GCR Custom Research produced the report, which findings Microsoft presented in a conference call this afternoon. Microsoft's PR
agency dispatched the wrong dial-in number, causing the meeting to start considerably late. My afternoon was packed, so I snatched a PDF of the
LiveMeeting PowerPoint and moved on to other things. A fuller white paper is now available.
The report focuses on Vista TCO
benefits for mobile PCs. GCR concluded that Vista would reduce mobile PC TCO by $605 annually, or 14 percent, compared to Windows XP.
Reports of this type are always suspect, because they are custom commissioned by vendors. When I was an analyst, I worked on several custom
reports used by companies for internal purposes, meaning to improve the business strategy. External custom reports have an inherent bias because the
client is paying for them for a broader marketing objective.. Would Microsoft promote a commissioned report that found Vista TCO to be less than
Windows XP or, gasp, Linux? The answer is obvious.
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06.09.2007NHK Pushes Optical Disc Speed Limit up to 15,000 RPM
Engineers at the Science and
Technical Research
Laboratories (STRL) of
Japan's public broadcaster,
NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai), are
working on an optical disc
recording system based on
consumer Blu-ray Disc
technology that can spin as
fast as 15,000 rpm without
these problems and
demonstrated it last week.
It's needed because
broadcast quality HDTV signals
of the type NHK records stream
at 250M bps (bits per second)
making a fast-spinning optical
disc a necessity. A 1X Blu-ray
Disc records at 36M bps so the
new system is equivalent to 7X
speed.
NHK has gotten
around the stress problem by
making a flexible disc that is
just 0.1 millimeters thick.
The disc, which was
co-developed with Ricoh Corp.,
is essentially the recording
layer from a Blu-ray Disc
without the 1.1 millimeter
plastic substrate that is used
to give the disc rigidity. It
won't break apart at higher
speeds but is not rigid enough
to be useful in a drive at any
speed...
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30.05.2007First 50GB Blu-ray Disc to Debut
Sony Pictures plans to make
available the first 50GB
dual-layer Blu-ray disc on
Tuesday when it releases Adam
Sandler's latest flick,
"Click." Although
Blu-ray movies have been
available since June, none
have employed a second layer
of data, which doubles the
disc's capacity...
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09.10.2006Debugging a Per-User Installation Error on Windows Vista
Chris Jackson: Yesterday, a friend asked for some assistance debugging an issue with Windows Installer. It was one of those situations where you've
looked at the problem so closely, so many times, that you just needed another set of eyes. (They're close to shipping, so they've been doing nothing
but look at bugs, probably for a while.)
Some background:
What they're doing is a rather interesting use of
Windows Installer. They're using it to drop a setup.exe and then run it. So, they have a custom action of type 0xC02, which is a deferred custom
action, promoted to not use impersonation, which runs as an exe. This custom action spawns another version of itself (with different arguments), and
then the process exits so the installer can complete. The second version of this custom action then wants to uninstall the msi, as well as launch the
setup.exe. So, the msi is just a way to package up the setup.exe.
And, with UAC, it was breaking.
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25.10.2007Warner Files for Hybrid HD
Disc Patent
Last month, three optical disc
engineers now identified as
working for Warner Bros.
applied for a U.S. patent for
a three-layer optical disc,
which would be capable of
potentially enabling DVD,
Blu-ray and HD DVD content to
co-exist...
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20.09.2006Another Windows Vista SP1 Feature From TechEd
In one of the later session
during TechEd last week I
learned of another very cool
feature coming to Windows
Vista with Service Pack 1.
During his talk Wes Miller,
who is writing a ton for
TechNet magazine these days
mentioned that setup will now
be able to run either 32-bit
or 64-bit installs.
What does this mean?
Well basically a lot less
work for anyone who has to
deal with both 32-bit and
64-bit images. After SP1 you
will be able to deploy either
version of the OS from a
single DVD.
So
what?
Well the
reason this is a big deal is
if you are doing anything
custom with Windows PE then
you currently have to maintain
two boot wims (one 64 and one
32) and in extreme cases where
you have custom code you have
to maintain to codebase sets
because 64-bit WinPE doesn't
support 32bit code due to the
lack of WOW support .
It wasn't clear if WDS
would also offer this
capability, but it would make
sense.
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15.06.2007Burn your Windows Vista DVD
ISO's slowly
Microsoft has warned public
beta testers to burn
downloaded Vista ISOs to disc
at speeds as slow as 1X or 2X
in order to get a reliable
burn.
It says a
key reason behind installation
failure of Vista is that many
DVD burners cannot reliably
burn a disc at high
speed.
The
interesting tidbit was
included in the release notes
for the interim update to
Vista Beta 2 (build 5456.5;
not publicly available) and
sheds light on the magnitude
of the problem of unreliable
DVD burns.
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