I really dont want to use Windows anymore
Every week, more and more bits of malware seem to be making their way past commercial anti-virus, firewall anti-virus, and ISP anti-virus software.
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20.11.2008 Ballmer: We are not interested in Yahoo anymore
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the software giant has no intention of making a new offer for Yahooeven though the Internet company is on sale relative to its first offer.
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7.11.2008 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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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. Its about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 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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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer.
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19.1.2009Google to launch consumer health care service later this year
With a pre-announcement of a health care "cloud" initiative at a medical conference last week, Google took further steps into the health care
market. But some in the health care industry question Google's long-term commitment...
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06.03.2008Competitor to Digg has journalists ranking their own, others' stories
If you care about this story and think it's important, we invite you to submit its headline to Digg or one of the other many fine aggregators on the
Web. But if we care about this story, we may want to submit it to Publish2 instead...
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01.04.2008Bill Buxton to change Microsoft from within, hug Steve Ballmer
"Last year at the company meeting Steve Ballmer said quite clearly to 85,000 employees 'If you dont change and you dont go in this direction, were
dead, and I dont want to die.' I wanted to go hug him when he said that."
So says Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at
Microsoft, interviewed at the companys Remix 08 conference in Brighton where he gave a keynote. The Mix and Remix conferences are design-focused
events, part of Microsofts long-standing attempt to reshape its Windows and Web clients as a more designer-friendly platform, based on .NET and the
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
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20.09.2008New Visual C++ refresh has tools for Office, IE 'look and feel'
If you're an MFC developer for Windows, your applications won't have to look like they were made for Windows 95 anymore. The final edition of the
latest VC++ Feature Pack enables you to replace your toolbars with the Office ribbon...
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12.08.2008How will Microsoft's initiatives impact health care?
At a big medical conference last week, Microsoft dove deeper into an maelstrom of industry health care solutions aimed at meeting the demands of
government regulators, hospitals, insurance firms, and consumers. Can the team from Redmond swim the distance against competitors including IBM and
Google?..
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08.03.2008Windows Vista (In)capable
Robin Harris: What went wrong? Ill tell you what went wrong: Microsoft execs - starting with Steve Ballmer - dont care enough about their customers.
Which is too bad for the thousands of smart, hard working softies who do.
I went through the Vista Capable lawsuit Exhibit A
emails. Lots of warnings that Vista was a train wreck, that its requirements exceeded the market, that the continual changes and slips were killing
OEMs and that many peripheral vendors had simply given up trying to stay in sync.
Where was Steve?
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03.03.2008What will Microsofts loss in Europe mean to customers?
Word is out: Microsoft has lost its appeal of the European Commissions antitrust decision. So now what?
Theres no word yet if
Microsoft will appeal again, which it has two months to decide whether or not to do. If it doesnt, the company will be forced to pay the $700 million
fine, plus a big chunk of the ECs court costs. It also will have to finally find a way to make all of the server communications protocols and related
documentation that it has been ordered to provide available fto its competitors.
(Sun and Novell now both staunch Microsoft
allies were among those server vendors who were insisting on Microsoft making these protocols publicly available. Now that theyre enmashed in
patent/interoperability alliances with Microsoft, I wonder if they care anymore.)
My biggest question in all this is how will the
Courts September 17 ruling affect customers in Europe and elsewhere?
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17.09.2007Windows Live: Power Through Simplicity
Q&A: Brian Hall, general manager of Windows Live, describes how partnerships with global Web companies such as Digg, Facebook and MySpace are helping
to simplify the online experience and connect consumers with the activities and people they care about the most...
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21.04.2009IE8 and Privacy
As others have written here before, users should be in control of their information. Thats at the core of privacy. Privacy has two aspects: disclosure
and choice. Disclosure means informing users in plain language about the data collected about them and how its used. Choice means putting users in
control of their data and giving them tools to protect it.
Have you ever wanted to take your web browsing off the record?
Perhaps youre using someone elses computer and you dont want them to know which sites you visited. Maybe you need to buy a gift for a loved one
without ruining the surprise. Maybe youre at an Internet kiosk and dont want the next person using it to know at which website you bank.
What if you want to delete your browsing history after the fact, but you dont want to lose your preferences at websites that you use
frequently?
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26.08.2008Windows Live OneCare 2.0 Delivers All-in-One PC Care
Q&A: Microsoft releases beta
for the next version of the
online security service and
provides tools for managing
multi-computer environments...
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14.07.2007Walt Mossberg's Initial Impressions of the iPhone
Walt Mossberg, The Wall
Street Journals
personal-technology columnist,
picked up his review copy of
the Apple iPhone this morning,
and he gave his initial
impressions of the
much-anticipated gadget to
college leaders during a
speech at The Chronicles
Presidents Forum.
As
he pulled the phone from his
pocket and explained what it
was, oohs were heard from
several audience members.
I dont know whether Ill
give it a good review or not,
he said, noting that he will
use the phone for the next
couple of weeks before writing
his review. I can already see
some things I dont like about
it. I see some other things
that I do like a lot about
it...
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12.06.2007Microsoft Launches All-in-One PC Care for Home and Small Business Networks
Todays families increasingly have more than one PC at home, and with Microsoft internal data suggesting the average U.S. household now owns
approximately 2.5 PCs, households and small businesses have a strong need to simplify the way they provide security and care for all of their PCs.
With increased mobility and the rise of the home computer network, ensuring a stable, secure computing experience has become more complex, yet
important as ever before.
To address this complexity, Microsoft introduced Windows Live OneCare, one of the first software
products to provide a comprehensive PC care solution. Today, Microsoft announced the next version of Windows Live OneCare, which provides even greater
security for home or small offices, and delivers features that make it easy to back up data and manage multiple PCs.
PressPass
spoke with Amy Barzdukas, senior director for Windows Live OneCare, about the launch of Windows Live OneCare and how it can provide customers with an
easier way to manage their computers and protect their information.
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15.11.2007XP Media Center to Get Hotmail
Add-in
Microsoft's 10-foot Media
Center interface for viewing
video and pictures on the TV
is not just for digital media
anymore. Redmond developers
have created a new add-in for
the special edition of Windows
XP that provides users access
to their Hotmail accounts for
reading e-mail between
television shows...
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19.10.2005Green: Not just for Kermit and data centers anymore
Forrester: Stimulus spending will expand "green IT" beyond usual energy-and-waste milieu
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11.03.2009Microsoft wants to play doctor with your home network
With the release of version 2.0, Windows Live OneCare is no longer just for one PC; Microsoft now wants to inoculate entire home networks with its
computer care service...
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16.11.2007What will Microsoft's loss in Europe mean to customers?
Word is out: Microsoft has lost its appeal of the European Commission's antitrust decision. So now what?
There's no word yet if Microsoft
will appeal again, which it has two months to decide whether or not to do. If it doesn't, the company will be forced to pay the $700 million
fine, plus a big chunk of the EC's court costs. It also will have to finally find a way to make all of the server communications protocols and
related documentation that it has been ordered to provide available fto its competitors.
(Sun and Novell - now both staunch Microsoft
allies - were among those server vendors who were insisting on Microsoft making these protocols publicly available. Now that they're enmeshed in
patent/interoperability alliances with Microsoft, I wonder if they care anymore.)
My biggest question in all this is how will the Court's
September 17 ruling affect customers in Europe and elsewhere?
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18.09.2007AOL's Propeller not so Digg-like anymore after relaunch
AOL's social news property Propeller, which began as a part of Netscape.com revamp headed by Internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, has been
re-designed and re-launched under the same name...
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22.07.2008After relaunch, AOL's Propeller not so Digg-like anymore
AOL's social news property Propeller, which began as a part of Netscape.com revamp headed by Internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, has been
re-designed and re-launched under the same name...
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23.07.2008Hospital Operator Demos Health Care App For Microsoft Surface
Often, patients have a difficult time envisioning the complicated medical procedures doctors are trying to explain. A large Texas health care provider
is hoping that Microsoft's tabletop touch-screen Surface computers can help patients better understand their doctors...
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17.11.2008Two timesavers when Windows misbehaves
Windows occasionally gets into a weird state where, well, things just stop working - the start menu doesn't launch some apps anymore, clicking links
in Internet Explorer doesn't work, context menus stop working, etc.*
Instead of rebooting Windows to get things working again,
try logging out and logging back in. When Windows (and the apps that plug into the Windows shell) get into some weird state, you don't need to
reboot; a logoff shuts down the Windows Explorer, and a logon loads it again.
The system services in Windows generally don't get
into too weird a state. So they can just keep on running during your logoff/logon.
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