Changes to TCP/IP in Windows Vista
Unless you've been living under a rock, you no doubt know by now that Microsoft is currently working toward releasing the next version of the Windows operating system, Windows Vista. As you would probably expect, Windows Vista will be loaded with new features. One thing that caught me by surprise though was that Microsoft has made some major changes to the way that TCP/IP is implemented.
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23.11.2005 IE7 Coming Through on WSUS, Blocker Toolkit or Not
Larry Seltzer here, pointing you to this recent Knowledge Base article with Microsoft's announcement that Internet Explorer 7 will be distributed through WSUS (Windows Software Update Services) on Feb. 12, 2008, which is the next Patch Tuesday. It will appear as an "Update Rollup."
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22.1.2008 Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit - Block Vista SP2 Automatic Upgrades
Microsoft is offering Windows Vista SP1 users the chance to block automatic upgrades to Service Pack 2. In addition to making available Vista SP2 RTM as a standalone download, DVD ISO image, the bits are also released to Windows Update, and subsequently served to Vista SP1 users who have Automatic Updates enabled.
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3.7.2009 Next Generation TCP/IP Stack in Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 1 and Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 1 include a new implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite known as the Next Generation TCP/IP stack. The TCP/IP protocol stack provided with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 was originally designed in the early 1990s and was modified and enhanced over time to meet the needs of home and enterprise users. The Next Generation TCP/IP stack in Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" is a complete redesign of TCP/IP functionality for both Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) that meets the connectivity and performance needs of today's varied networking environments and technologies.
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Hide IP 3.4.2 Platinum
Hide IP is the software you are looking for! Keeping your privacy is simple and easy: the only thing you need to do is open Hide IP. Hide IP will find the proxy server available to you and set it as your proxy server automatically.
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4.5.2007 Resolve TCP/IP Network Configuration Issues in Windows Vista
Microsoft has set up the networking infrastructure in Windows Vista in such a manner that it requires only minimal user interaction, especially when the operating system has to interact with a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server.
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7.10.2007 Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Blocker Tool Kit Draws Close to Expiration
Soon, there will be nothing standing between Windows XP and Windows Vista users and the automatic distribution of the latest service packs for the two operating systems. Microsoft provided a heads up related to the imminent expiration of the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit, a tool that is designed with the sole purpose of blocking the delivery and installation of Service Pack 3 for XP and SP1 for Vista through Windows Update and Automatic Updates.
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24.4.2009 Microsoft: No IP Talks with Red Hat
Microsoft and Red Hat are no closer to a deal involving intellectual property cooperation, Microsoft has confirmed.
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16.7.2007 Windows Update Blocker Tool Kit - Block Automatic Windows Vista SP2 Update
After availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 for public download I am sure many users would have already installed Vista Service Pack 2 to see the performance improvements and its advisable to install Windows Vista sp2 as it has many noticeable changes and also includes all the fixes released after Vista sp1.
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27.5.2009 TCP-Z 2.4.0.46 - Best TCP/IP Patch
The TCP-Z application was designed to be an TCP half open limited patcher and monitor.
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8.6.2009 Windows 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 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. It’s 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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3.11.2007Windows Server 2003 SP2 Blocker Tool to be removed from Windows Update and Automatic Update
Ward Ralston: Just a reminder - It has been a little over a year since we released
Windows Server 2003 SP2. When we release a Service
Pack at Microsoft, we want to make sure that IT professionals and system administrators have ample time to assess the service pack and choose when to
deploy it.
As with other service packs, we offered support for Windows Server 2003 SP2 within the
Windows Service Pack Blocker
Toolkit. This allowed administrators to block the automatic deployment of Windows Server 2003 SP2 for a period of one year.
Now that time has expired, organizations should be aware that over the next month, support for Windows Server 2003 SP2 within the blocker tool
will be phased out Windows Server 2003 SP2 will then be automatically offered, downloaded and/or installed (depending on user or administrator
settings) through standard mechanisms including Windows Update and Automatic Update.
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28.05.2008Expiration dates for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 blocks announced
If you're an IT professional and currently using Microsoft's Service Pack Blocker, the software giant recently announced that the current
blocks for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 are going to expire in a few months. The Service Pack Blocker Tool only temporarily prevents Windows from the
installation of a Service Pack via Windows Update, and the block is only effective for one year after the Service pack is released to the market via
Windows Update. Effective April 28th, 2009, Windows Vista SP1 will no longer be blocked by the tool and will be delivered via Windows Update. The
same goes for Windows XP SP3, but the block will be lifted on May 19th, 2009.
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30.01.2009Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit
A blocking tool is available for organizations that would like to temporarily prevent installation of Service Pack updates through Windows Update.
This tool can be used with:
- Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (valid through March, 2008)
- Windows XP Service Pack
3 (valid for 12 months following general availability)
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (valid for 12 months following general
availability)
This toolkit contains three components. All of them function primarily to set or clear a specific registry key that is
used to detect and block download of Service Packs from Windows Update. You only need to use the component which best serves your organizations
computer management infrastructure.
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07.12.2007Apparent IP routing vulnerability affects Vista, not XP
A change in the way the Windows client enables IP routes to be amended manually is the target of a potentially serious exploit for Vista users only,
that Microsoft may now have no choice but to address...
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24.11.2008MS Strengthens IP Protection
for Mobile Partners
Microsoft on Thursday
strengthened its intellectual
property protection for its
partners developing devices
based on the Windows Embedded
and Mobile platforms. The
expansion now offers these
OEMs comparable IP protection
to those offered for other
Microsoft products...
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09.02.2006TCP/IP Fundamentals for Windows “ PDF download available
This online book is a structured, introductory approach to the basic concepts and principles of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP) protocol suite, how the most important protocols function, and their basic configuration in the Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008,
Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 families of operating systems. This book is primarily a discussion of concepts and principles to lay a conceptual
foundation for the TCP/IP protocol suite and provides an integrated discussion of both Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol
version 6 (IPv6).
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02.06.2008ICANN finally begins updated IP standard rollout
Today, the non-profit organization in charge of the Internet's fundamental naming structure finally began migrating its root servers to IP version 6...
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05.02.2008Microsoft: We won't sacrifice original IP
As the overarching economic conditions continue to bite, much has been said about the plight of original IP - and that it's under threat as consumers
spend on what they know best, and publishers look to reduce risks on unknown quantities.
But Microsoft has no intention of
sacrificing its "focus on exciting IP" and will continue to invest in innovation in order to emerge from any ongoing recession in a "healthy"
state...
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09.02.2009Don't Want To Upgrade?
Just a reminder for Internet
Explorer 6 users, if you do
not wish to upgrade to
Internet Explorer 7, it is
recommended that you install
the Internet Explorer 7
Blocker Toolkit on your system
or network before the end of
the month.
Internet Explorer 7 will be
made available via Automatic
Updates towards the beginning
of Novemeber and will
automatically be installed on
all systems unless the toolkit
is installed.
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30.10.2006Microsoft's IP chief: 'Information wants to be free' is a 'disaster'
Blasting Google as, if not the perpetrator, then certainly the beneficiary of the failure of the online content industry, Microsoft's chief IP
attorney called upon British publishers to bring about change they can believe in...
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20.11.2008Analyst: After the MP3 Reversal, the IP Valuation Landscape Changes
It was perhaps the biggest
"Undo" ever done on
Microsoft's behalf: Monday's
dramatic reversal of a $1.53
billion judgment against it in
a critical patent infringement
case involving the use of MP3
technologies in Windows Media
Player. BetaNews spoke with
analyst Carmi Levy, not just
about bad, bad IP litigants
but about the implications of
this stunning turnaround on
the information economy...
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09.08.2007Microsoft IP Ventures Launches Irish Startup
Microsoft's IP Ventures program made its first-ever business launch, InishTech, a Dublin-based technology company that will handle Microsoft's
Software Licensing and Protection (SLP) Services. In addition to Microsoft, other tech companies such as Google and Intel also have substantial
venture-capital arms devoted to investing in an array of new technologies and startups.
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09.06.2009EU Official: IP Addresses are Personal Information
IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the
European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday. Germany's data protection commissioner, Peter Scharr, leads the EU group
preparing a report on how well the privacy policies of Internet search engines operated by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others comply
with EU privacy law. He told a European Parliament hearing on online data protection that when someone is identified by an IP, or Internet protocol,
address "then it has to be regarded as personal data." His view differs from that of Google, which insists an IP address merely identifies the
location of a computer, not who the individual user is - something strictly true but which does not recognize that many people regularly use the same
computer terminal and IP address.
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22.01.2008Cisco: Video, P2P use will almost double IP traffic every two years
Video will drive a 21%
compound annual growth rate in
business IP traffic across
WANs from 2006 to 2011,
according to a forecast on
global IP traffic released
this week by Cisco.
That and consumer
traffic, which will surpass
business IP traffic in 2008,
will cause overall IP traffic
to almost double every two
years through 2011, the Cisco
report finds. Total IP traffic
will nearly quintuple in the
five-year period from 2006 to
2011, driven by high
definition video and high
speed broadband penetration,
the firm says.
Ciscos report is
based on its own estimates
plus projections from 10
market analysis firms on the
number of Internet users,
broadband connections, video
subscribers, mobile
connections, and Internet
application adoption.
On the business
side, Cisco found that
business IP traffic -- all
fixed IP WAN or Internet
traffic generated by
organizations -- will grow
fastest in developing markets
and Asia-Pacific. North
America, Western Europe and
Japan will have slower growth
rates.
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16.08.200760 FPS, 1080p Decode Coming to Set-top Boxes Near You
Silicon Image has announced
that CeRoma, a leading
designer and manufacturer of
system-on-a-chip (SoC)
solutions for digital video
broadcasting, will integrate
Silicon Images Multistandard
High-Definition Video Decoder
(MSVD-HD) IP core in a chip
for set-top boxes and DTVs.
Silicon Image claims
that its MSVD-HD is the only
IP core currently available on
the market that is able to
decode a 1080p at 60 frames
per second video stream at low
clock speeds.
śThe
MSVD-HD IP core is capable of
decoding two different HD
video streams concurrently, so
now, only one IP core is
required in the set-top-box,
video player or digital TV
SoC,ť said Ron Richter,
director of HDMI IP Products
at Silicon Image. śSilicon
Image can now provide
semiconductor companies with
immediate access to the latest
video standards using our
MSVD-HD IP core technology,
enabling quick time-to-market,
low-cost and low-power
implementations.ť..
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31.05.2007China running out of IP addresses
Chinese officials are calling for a mass migration to IPv6 after disclosing that they have only 830 days' worth of IPv4 resources left.
The disclosure was made by Li Kai, director of IP of the China Internet Network Information Center.
Li explained at a conference that,
without a rapid changeover to IPv6, internet users in China will start having problems getting online.
"We held seminars almost everywhere
to tell operators to apply for the remaining IP addresses as soon as possible, and to prepare the new IP addresses from IPv6 for internet users," he
said, according to state media.
Around 80 per cent of China's IPv4 resources have now been taken up. The country's IP allocation
recently exceeded Japan's, making it the second largest in the world behind the US.
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25.09.2008Save battery life, time, the world! Use a script blocker
Admittedly, its not difficult to imagine a scenario where less CPU cycles result in less power drain and this method isn’t going to magically
extend your battery life by much but its nice to see the theory tested to the extreme.
SecTheory.com took a notebook PC, a couple
of browsers and measured the battery drain on the Top 100 Alexa sites. They then took the worst offenders, that is, the ones that took the most power
drain, and blocked script and ads using
NoScript and
AdBlock Plus. The results were quite significant...
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03.12.2008Infoblox offers management for Microsoft DNS, DHCP servers
IP address management vendor
Infoblox Monday introduced an appliance that the company says
will help IT managers tackling DNS and DHCP on Microsoft Windows servers reduce manual labor, support compliance efforts and improve operational
efficiencies around managing IP space.
Infoblox IPAM WinConnect is an appliance designed to help customers managing IP addresses
using Microsoft management DNS and DHCP servers. The product sits in the data center and communicates with the Windows DNS and DHCP servers via the
network, providing IT managers with a common view into both environments as well as automation and administrative features. The product would augment
a customer's existing Windows IP address management tools, according to industry watchers, who say many customers depend on out-of-date and
insufficient tools to manage IT addresses.
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15.10.2007Wikipedia bans Scientology
Yesterday, in an unprecedented decision, Wikipedia's court-like body ArbCom handed down a project-wide ban of all IP addresses owned by
Scientology for disruptive editing and coordinating their edits to maintain their status quo including "persistent point-of-view pushing and
extensive feuding over sources on multiple articles" This is the first time that an entire organization's IP address block has been banned from
editing Wikipedia, despite individual IPs being blocked in the past from other organizations, such as the US DoJ in 2008. Arbitrators voted 10 to 0
(with one abstention) in favour of the ban, however individual editors may request IP block exemption if they wish to contribute from the blocked IP
addresses.
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29.05.2009Sprint eyes common IP platform for three wireless networks
Sprint's traditional CDMA network, the iDEN architecture inherited through Sprint's Nextel acqusition, and the future 4G WiMAX network known as
Xohm, may all be implemented under an IP-based "unified service architecture."..
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