Vista SP1's File Sharing Subsystem to "Benefit" from Thousands of Inbound Concurrent Connections
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are "aligned" operating systems despite the client and server side separation. In this context, the first service pack for Windows Vista, directly dependent of Windows Server 2008, will feature evolution in various aspects, as generated by the development of Microsoft's last 32-bit server operating system.
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13.12.2007 Disable and Remove Half-Open TCP Connections Limit (to Unlimited) in Windows 7 and Vista SP2 with EnableConnectionRateLimitin Registry Key
Officially, the incomplete half-open outbound TCP connection attempts allowed at any one time is now unlimited by default in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 (Service Pack 2), and Windows 7. Actually, the ability to limit or restrict number of half-open outgoing TCP connections system can create or establish is built into Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7, however it’s disabled by default.
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8.6.2009 EU warns Microsoft to limit Windows Vista features
The European Union's top competition regulator has warned Microsoft Corp it won't be allowed to sell its new Vista operating system in Europe if it comes pre-loaded with certain features, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.
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29.3.2006 Free Microsoft Architect Connections Event
Please join us for the first annual Microsoft Architect Connections event, ?Enabling the Service Oriented Enterprise,? to be held at The Omni Los Angeles at California Plaza.
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11.5.2006 MSN Hotmail hits 1GB storage limit
Microsoft Corp on Wednesday announced a global storage upgrade for MSN Hotmail accounts by increasing the storage limit from 250 MB to 1 GB. Also extended was the expiration period for inactive accounts from 30 days to 60 days for accounts that are more than two years old.
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17.11.2006 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Google vows to increase Gmail storage limit
People using Google Inc.'s Gmail service are sucking up storage space faster than the company can add it.
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13.10.2007 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 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 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsoft’s announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007PSU Researchers Create Worm Speed Trap
A new method to detect and
help stop worm attacks being
developed by researchers at
Penn State University is using
the speed of connections to
detect the attacks. The system
also uses other algorithms to
limit the number of false
positives..
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15.02.2007Overview of the Windows Server 2008 Firewall with Advanced Security Part 2
In the first part of this three part series on configuring the Windows Server 2008 Firewall with Advanced Security, we went over some of the global
configuration settings that apply to the firewall. In this article, well take a look at the inbound and outbound firewall rules that you can create to
control incoming and outgoing connections to and from the Windows Server 2008 computer.
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10.06.2008Microsoft Connections in Communications Magazine
The third issue of Microsoft Connections in Communications magazine is now available.
Microsoft Connections in Communications is
a global publication designed to inform, educate and capture the minds of readers. The magazine is targeted to business and technology decision makers
in the telecommunications, hosting, and media and entertainment industries.
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04.12.2007Comcast sets monthly bandwidth limit for customers
Comcast, the largest provider of cable-based broadband service in the U.S., will limit residential customers to 250GB of bandwidth a month beginning
Oct. 1, the company announced late Thursday. Comcast will contact customers who go above the 250GB limit and ask them to curtail their use, Comcast
said. If a customer goes over the monthly limit again during the following six months, Comcast will suspend service for a year.
Currently,
Comcast contacts high-bandwidth customers and will suspend their accounts if they don't curb their use, but it has not set a firm bandwidth limit
until now. Most customers contacted about their bandwidth usage agree to limit their activity, according to Charlie Douglas, Comcast's director of
communications.
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29.08.2008Analysts: Internet connections, cell phones are failing consumers
Internet connections lead the pack at 44 percent among technologies that are not working for home users, says a study released today. In one
intriguing result, cell phones pose more problems for 18-to-29-year-olds than for senior citizens...
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17.11.2008New Parental Controls Limit Xbox Time
As part of a new marketing blitz to promote the Xbox 360 as a "family friendly" video game console, Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a new
feature called Family Timer, which will let parents limit the number of hours their kids can play the Xbox on a daily or weekly basis...
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08.11.2007Overview of the Windows Server 2008 Firewall with Advanced Security Part 1
Windows Server 2008 introduces a new and improved firewall; the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. The new Windows firewall introduces many
improvements and is very similar to the firewall that was included with Windows Vista. Features included with the new Windows Firewall with Advanced
Security include:
- Granular inbound access control
- Granular outbound access control
- Tight integration
with the Windows Server 2008 Server Manager, with automatic configuration of the firewall when services are installed using the Server Manager
- Highly improved IPsec policy configuration and management, and a name change. IPsec policies are now referred to as Connection Security Rules
- Improved monitoring of firewall policy
- Improved monitoring of IPsec policies (now called Connection Security Rules)
- Improved centralized monitoring of Main and Quick Mode Security Associations
There are many configuration options included with the
Windows Firewall, so this article will be split into three parts, this first part is about basic general configuration options for the firewall and
for IPsec policies. The second part will focus on how to create inbound and outbound rules, and the third part will hone in how to create connection
security rules.
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28.05.2008Broadband users reach their limit
One million UK consumers have exceeded or come close to exceeding their broadband usage limit, research from consumer group uSwitch has found.
So-called usage caps, where internet service providers limit the amount of bandwidth users can have in any given month, are standard
practice.
But the majority of users are still confused by the bandwidth curbs imposed on them, the research found.
For some who
go over their limit the penalty is disconnection.
"With so much reliance on broadband, having the service disconnected could feel to
someone as serious as having their electricity cut off," said Tim Wolfenden, spokesman for uSwitch.
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24.10.2008Sony PS3 to Feature Parental
Controls
Sony's PlayStation 3 will add
parental controls to limit
access to violent video games,
according to statements made
on Monday by the Entertainment
Software Association. Sony had
already offered some tools to
limit access to movies viewed
on the PlayStation 2...
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29.11.2005Microsoft to Limit Capabilities of Cheap Laptops
Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs, one effect of which will be to limit the hardware
capabilities of this type of device, IDG News Service has learned.
Microsoft plans to offer PC makers steep discounts on Windows
XP Home Edition to encourage them to use that OS instead of Linux on ultra low-cost PCs (ULPCs). To be eligible, however, the PC vendors that make
ULPCs must limit screen sizes to 10.2 inches and hard drives to 80G bytes, and they cannot offer touch-screen PCs.
The program is
outlined in confidential documents that Microsoft sent to PC makers last month, and which were obtained by IDG News Service. The goal apparently is to
limit the hardware capabilities of ULPCs so that they don't eat into the market for mainstream PCs running Windows Vista, something both Microsoft
and the PC vendors would want to avoid.
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10.05.2008Yahoo Launches New Messenger
Beta
Yahoo late Tuesday released a
beta version of Yahoo!
Messenger 7.5, which includes
the new inbound and outbound
calling features it detailed
last week. The client now
allows users to place phone
calls to over 180 countries,
costing a penny per minute in
the US and two cents to over
30 other countries...
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14.12.2005Windows 7 Starter Edition details confirmed
As was reported here on Neowin, there was speculation that Microsoft were planning to remove the application limit on Windows 7 Starter Edition.
According to The Windows Blog, Microsoft have confirmed that the "3 applications at a time" limit that hobbled earlier versions of the Starter
Edition has been removed for Windows 7. Now the only effective limit on the number of programs you can run concurrently is set by the amount of your
memory. Windows 7 Starter Edition will have other limits, however, in order to differentiate it from other versions of the OS. "Windows 7 Starter
does not include: * Aero Glass, meaning you can only use the "Windows Basic" or other opaque themes.
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30.05.2009Microsoft Vista SP2 beta: Nothing new has been added (yet)
If you install the beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) expecting to see visible changes to your version of Vista, you'll be sorely
disappointed. At least in this initial beta, all the changes are under the hood, and even they are far from earth-shaking. Microsoft says that it has
fixed compatibility problems with the third-party Spy Sweeper and ZoneAlarm security applications, enhanced hardware support for Direct X, improved
Wi-Fi connections after a system resumes from sleep, improved Windows Search, added support for the newest Bluetooth specification (2.1) and rolled up
all previous Vista updates.
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09.12.2008Microsoft may adjust limitations on Windows 7 Starter
According to Paul Thurrott, Microsoft will be lifting the three running application limit for Windows 7 Starter Edition. Previously with XP and
Vista, Starter Edition was designed to run on low end equipment and be sold in what Microsoft called "developing markets." But for Windows 7,
Microsoft moved Starter Edition into the rest of the world and decided to sell Home Basic in the developing markets instead. Starter Edition is
expected to be sold on netbook class systems, so even if there isn't a software coded limit to how many applications you can run at one time, the
limited amount of processor and memory resources in the computer will continue to be the deciding factor.
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23.05.2009Microsoft Tightens Vista Transfer Rights Under New License
Microsoft said today it will
limit the number of machines
to which users can transfer
the Windows Vista OS licenses,
to just one system beyond the
original PC.
When
Windows Vista is available,
consumers will be able to
transfer the OS license they
purchase to only one machine
other than the one for which
they originally buy Vista,
says Shanen Boettcher, a
Windows general manager at
Microsoft. He says Microsoft
thinks the change makes sense
because "lifetimes for PCs
are getting longer." Most
likely, a user will not need
to transfer an OS license to
more than one computer during
the time that OS is the latest
one available, Boettcher
says.
"It's a fit
for what most customers do,"
he says. Boettcher adds that
XP did not have a specific
limit for the number of times
the license was transferable,
but that Microsoft wanted to
be "specific" about transfer
rights with Vista.
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17.10.2006Lotus Notes Goes Web 2.0
The next generation of the
Lotus Notes client will
integrate with the new range
of Web 2.0-inspired
technologies released with
IBM's social software, dubbed
Lotus Connections.
Lotus regional executive
for Australian and New Zealand
Jonathan Stern said Notes 8
will be released later this
year and have a "radically
improved user interface"
built in the open source
Eclipse framework.
Lotus Connections has
adopted a lot of communication
technologies consumers now
know as "Web 2.0", like RSS
feeds, blogs, and wikis.
Connections is an
integrated suite that pulls
together Profiles, which is
inspired by IBM's BluePages
user directory; Dogear, a
bookmark-sharing application;
Activities, a sophisticated
to-do list; Communities, for
pulling together groups of
users; and Roller, an open
source blog server developed
within the Apache Software
Foundation...
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21.07.2007Microsoft eyes a meaner, 'greener' P2P for Windows 7
Windows Vista already includes a P2P-enabling technology known as Teredo. But for the forthcoming Windows 7, Microsoft is contemplating adding such
features as metered connections, distributed hash tables, and something called 'green P2P.'..
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17.03.2008Testing IE8's Connection Parallelism
Ryan Breen: A few weeks ago,
I discussed
IE8's improved connection parallelism, specifically the increase from 2 concurrent connections per host to 6. One open question was the total
number of connections allowed my speculation was that the IE team would stick with a max of 6 rather than triple that value as well.
I was wrong. The new max is an astonishing 18 (!) concurrent connections...
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19.03.2008Toshiba: integrated HD DVD would 'limit' Xbox experience
Microsoft will not build an HD DVD drive into a future Xbox 360 because it doesn't want to "limit the user's experience", an insider at fellow HD
DVD backer Toshiba has said.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the next-generation optical disc format, you might think, but
there you have it it: buy HD DVD, limit your experience.
The comment comes from an unnamed Toshiba spokesperson
by way of Yahoo! News.
The commentator also dismissed recent claims that
Toshiba is
working on machine - possibly even an HD TV - with built-in Xbox 360 functionality.
"Its got nothing to do with us," the
spokesperson said. "But we know Microsoft doesnt want to include the HD DVD drive so as not to limit the users experience."
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24.10.2007EU victory leaves questions for Vista
European antitrust regulators' victory over Microsoft was a resounding smack at the software maker's old business practices, but it left analysts
divided as to how the company's new businesses, including Windows Vista, might be affected.
Last year, Microsoft faced
complaints from rivals about the way the pending Vista operating system handled search, antivirus security and certain document formats, among other
things.
European Union antitrust chief Neelie Kroes told Microsoft in March 2006 that she, too, was worried features in Vista
could limit customers' choices and competitors' ability to develop programs that run smoothly on Windows.
Ahead of Vista's
November 2006 launch to businesses, Microsoft said it made changes that solved EU and competitors' concerns. Regulators, however, did not give
Microsoft the green light, saying it should know how comply with antitrust law...
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