Microsoft Prepares to Harvest Windows 7 Beta Feedback
Just as is the case today with Windows Vista and Windows XP, Microsoft is preparing to harvest end user feedback from the first Beta build of Windows 7.
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11.9.2008 Are you Windows 7 compatible?
Microsoft has officially launched the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and the Windows 7 Compatibility Center. If you haven't installed Windows 7 yet, and are planning to, go ahead and make sure you're compatible.
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20.10.2009 Windows 7 to have only one "compatible" logo
The Register is reporting on an interesting story from WinHEC about how Microsoft is planning to change how it will run the compatible with Windows 7 logo program.
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6.11.2008 Nero 9 Compatible with Windows 7 Drops in October 2009
Nero was one of the companies that failed to hesitate in the least when it came down to jumping aboard the Compatible with Windows Vista wagon, and the same is valid when it comes down to the latest iteration of the Windows client.
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13.8.2009 'Compatible with Windows 7' Logo Sees Strong Momentum
Windows 7 was released to manufacturers about a week ago, and Microsoft also made it available to MSDN and TechNet users as of today.
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6.8.2009 Early Vista-Longhorn: Compatible Or Not So Much?
Sources cite interop problems between early versions of client and server OS.
There may be more going on behind the scenes with Vista and Longhorn than even the wildest conspiracy theorists have thus far surmised.
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20.5.2006 Microsoft's List Of 800 Windows Vista-Compatible Apps Excludes IBM, Adobe
Microsoft has released
a list of 800 applications that should run properly on its new Windows Vista operating system.
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25.2.2007 Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 may not be Vista-compatible
Microsofts own Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack (SP) 1 a first beta of which went live on September 26 may not work correctly with Windows Vista.
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27.9.2006 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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9.3.2008Windows 7: Major announcements in the coming weeks
PC Pro is reporting that, in a briefing at Microsoft's London headquarters, Microsoft's Windows OEM Manager, Laurence Painell has told there
will be a couple of additional, quite major announcements regarding Windows 7 in the coming weeks. Painell claimed 99% of the top 200 software titles
are already compatible with Windows 7 and that most of the applications compatible with Windows Vista will be compatible with Windows 7.
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04.04.2009Vista is Watching You
Are you using Windows Vista?
Then you might as well know
that the licensed operating
system installed on your
machine is harvesting a
healthy volume of information
for Microsoft.
In
this context, a program such
as the Windows Genuine
Advantage is the last of your
concerns. In fact, in excess
of 20 Windows Vista features
and services are hard at work
collecting and transmitting
your personal data to the
Redmond company.
Microsoft makes no secret
about the fact that Windows
Vista is gathering
information. End users have
little to say, and no real
choice in the matter. The
company does provide both a
Windows Vista Privacy
Statement and references
within the End User License
Agreement for the operating
system. Combined, the
resources paint the big
picture over the extent of
Microsoft's end user data
harvest via Vista.
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02.07.2007Windows 7 to have only one "compatible" logo
The Register is reporting on an interesting story from WinHEC about how Microsoft is
planning to change how it will run the “compatible with Windows 7” logo program.
Microsoft seems to have learnt its lesson
after the disaster that was the Vista compatible program which had 4 different logos and would eventually see Microsoft ending up in court facing a
class action lawsuit.
Microsoft confirmed to partners on Wednesday that there would only be a single sticker that covers all PC’s
peripherals and software that has been certified to work with Windows 7 when it’s released.
The changes are timed to coincide with
Microsoft’s continued push towards Windows 7, helping partners to start developing products earlier than with Vista, which had only a relatively
small number of compatible programs ready when it launched.
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06.11.2008Levi Creates iPod Compatible
Jeans
iPod, meet Levi Strauss. The
133-year-old denim brand
announced Tuesday at Macworld
in San Francisco that it would
be the first to offer
consumers "iPod
compatible" jeans. The
RedWire DLX line, due out in
fall 2006, will be compatible
with iPod's plug and play
technology...
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11.01.2006Attackers Harvest FTP Credentials With New Crimeware Toolkit
Securiity researchers discovered that new malicious code spread through the black market is making its way onto some of the largest corporate Web
sites in the world. San Jose-based Finjan, a security company specializing in Web gateway solutions, announced today that it uncovered a database
containing more than 8,700 harvested FTP account credentials, including usernames, passwords and server addresses, spread through a malicious toolkit,
which cyber criminals use to harvest the information.
The information was available for blackmarket trade, along with the NeoSploit
version 2 crimeware toolkit, a malicious application specifically designed to abuse and trade stolen FTP account credentials from numerous legitimate
companies. The malware is subsequently distributed to other criminals who use the malicious code on high traffic Web sites for their own financial
gain. The findings were discovered by researchers at Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center with the company's Web analysis tool and
published in its monthly report. The analysis showed that a standalone application was found at the backend of the malicious server, which enabled
behind-the-scene information trading.
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28.02.2008Bioshock score - yours for free!
The musical score for the very well received Bioshock has gone up for free download and it would be rude not to...
Here's the
blurb right from 2K:
Composer Garry Schyman created the orchestral masterpiece that serenades you through your journey into the
heart of Rapture. Today, we are releasing the 12 tracks that create the eerie string compilation in Rapture so that you can take the world of Bioshock
wherever you go.
We have archived these 12 mp3s into a zip file for you for easy download. Grab it and take a listen -- and
remember the first moment setting eyes upon the sunken city, your first battle with a Splicer, when you first battled a Big Daddy, or the time you
decided to save (perhaps harvest?) a Little Sister.
Harvest...
Grab the sounds
here and read our review if you haven't already
here.
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27.08.2007ZoneAlarm Security Suite 7.1 Adds Vista Support
Check Point Software today
released ZoneAlarm Internet
Security Suite 7.1, a
Vista-compatible version of
its flagship security suite.
Vista-compatible versions of
ZoneAlarm Antivirus and the
popular free ZoneAlarm
Firewall are also available.
Past versions of
ZoneAlarm's products have
relied on Microsoft's TDI
(Transport Device Interface)
to track network behavior.
Windows Vista retains support
for TDI, but introduces the
new Windows Filtering Platform
(WFP). While porting to Vista
using TDI would have been
easier, Check Point chose to
support WFP for this
Vista-compatible version. When
installed on Windows 2000 and
XP, however, version 7.1 will
still use TDI.
Check
Point is the first major
security vendor to make use of
the Vista-specific Windows
Filtering Platform. Company
representatives explained that
Microsoft will stop fixing
problems with TDI in the
future, so by utilizing WFP,
users can be prepared for
Vista threats...
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14.06.2007Google to Purge Personal Data from Logs
In a significant change to
company policy, Google
announced late yesterday it
will begin systematic purges
of personally identifying data
from its search logs at least
18 months after it's
collected. The move could
quash some consumers' -- and
some governments' -- concerns
about its intentions to
harvest its now-colossal
database of personal
information...
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15.03.2007Learn how to build SideShow-compatible devices and drivers at Driver DevCon (DDC) 2008
Windows SideShow Team: Interested in learning more about how to use the new Universal Driver for Windows SideShow, or how to build a device driver to
SideShow-enable your existing devices? If so, you may want to attend Microsoft Windows Driver Developer Conference 2008 (September 29 - October 1,
2008 in Seattle, WA). Come and meet the experts, and learn how you can more easily and cost-effectively build drivers for and implement
SideShow-compatible devices. This conference is intended for advanced driver developers and testers, and will focus on 300 to 400-level technical
sessions. Registration is limited and by invitation only; please contact us at sshowext _at_ microsoft.com for instructions on how to sign-up. We
hope to see you there!
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17.09.2008Windows Vista Application Compatibility Downloadable List for IT Professionals
The Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals is a Microsoft Office Excel-based spreadsheet containing software applications which have
earned the status of Certified for Windows Vista or Works with Windows Vista.
Additionally, this list contains applications
with a status of Compatible. "Compatible means that the application has been reported by the publisher as compatible with, or supported on,
Windows Vista. These applications have not gone through the Microsoft Windows Vista Logo Program.
The Application Compatibility
List for IT Professionals is current as of July 31,2008 and published as of the Date Published, noted in Quick Details, above.
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09.10.2008Windows PowerShell to Be Compatible with Vista
It seems that the new Windows
PowerShell command-line shell
and scripting language will be
compatible with Vista in time
for the product's launch next
week.
Windows PowerShell, which
was released to the Web last
November, is the new
command-line shell and
scripting language designed to
help IT professionals become
more productive and more in
control of system
administration.
There was a bit of
a stir when customers and the
press found out that
PowerShell, along with a
number of other Microsoft
products, was not compatible
with Vista, and Microsoft has
certainly done the right thing
by ensuring that it now is.
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25.01.2007SDK for the November 2005
WinFX Runtime Components CTP
Available for Download
This version of the
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Windows SDK is intended to
support only the Microsoft?
Pre-Release Software WinFX?
Runtime Components - November
Community Technology Preview
(CTP) on Windows? XP and
Windows Server? 2003 SP1
only.
Whil
e this version of the Windows
SDK also contains pre-release
content for Windows? Vista,
the Win32-related content is
not compatible with publicly
available versions of Windows.
This release of the Windows
SDK is compatible with the RTM
version of Microsoft? Visual
Studio 2005.
The
Windows SDK includes content
for the APIs in Windows Vista,
including the WinFX
technologies: .NET Framework
2.0, Windows? Presentation
Foundation, Windows?
Communications Foundation, and
Windows? Workflow Foundation.
Because the Windows SDK now
contains the WinFX SDK
content, the WinFX SDK will no
longer be released
separately.
This
edition of the Windows SDK
contains pre-release
documentation, samples, and
tools designed to help you
develop managed applications
and libraries using WinFX, the
managed programming model for
Windows. In future versions of
the Windows SDK, the download
and custom installation
options will allow you to
select Win32 or WinFX only
content if you desire one or
the other. ..
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19.11.2005Microsoft Tests OneCare Beta for Vista
Microsoft has released a beta
of Windows Live OneCare
version 1.5, which most
notably adds support for
Windows Vista. The original
iteration of the PC protection
and maintenance suite was only
compatible with Windows XP...
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11.10.2006Windows SideShow Device SDK for .Net Micro Framework 1.4
Windows SideShow is a feature of Windows Vista that enables users to access information from their PCs on auxiliary displays. The Microsoft .NET Micro
Framework 2.0 SP1 is the efficient runtime that powers todays most popular SideShow-compatible devices.
The Windows SideShow
Device SDK enables developers to build SideShow-compatible devices using the .NET Micro Framework 2.0 SP1. It includes sample code; portrait and
landscape SideShow UI for QVGA displays (320x240); USB and Bluetooth connectivity; and the SideShow device simulator, which allows developers to test
their firmware without physical hardware.
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23.01.2008Windows 7 supports search plugins
When Vista was released, its search features were significantly better than XP's. It's time to take a look at what Microsoft is planning to do for
search for Windows 7; according to information Microsoft has released to developers, search in Windows 7 can go beyond a local network:
"Windows 7 supports searching for documents beyond the user's own PC. Developers and IT professionals can enable their search engines, document
repositories, web applications, and proprietary data stores to be searched from Windows 7 without needing to write and deploy client code. This
enables end users to search their corporate intranet or the web as easily as they can search for their local filesall from within the same familiar
Windows interface."
Furthermore, developers can add Windows 7 compatible OpenSearch support to any existing searchable web application
by adding RSS or ATOM output (the desktop client can then have a Search Connector for the service). SharePoint Search Server can also query these
compatible OpenSearch services (as shown at PDC 2008).
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30.11.2008Windows 7: More than a Service Pack
According Bill Veghte, Vice President of Microsoft's Windows Division, Windows 7 is a lot more than a service pack-like release. It has a lot more in
store.
He clarifies it specifically in the area of compatibility. It's a "minor release" in terms of compatibility, because most
software and hardware compatible with Vista will be compatible with 7.
In terms of features, it's a "Major Release". Aspects such as
easier networking through the "Direct Access" feature, multi-touch capabilities, and an improved taskbar just underline some of the new features of
Windows 7.
Rumors about 7 being a "minor release" may have been started or agitated by Microsoft's designation of the next Windows
Server version as "Windows Server 2008 R2". R2 releases are usually very small compared to others; with the server variant of Windows being released
as an R2 build, it may have sparked some confusion and/or rumors from the tech community that Windows 7 will share the same description.
However, Microsoft stresses that, despite the confusion being spread, it's easy to see that Windows 7 will be a major release, and most definitely
a worthwhile upgrade for both consumers and businesses alike.
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03.12.2008Windows Live Messenger Goes
Public
Microsoft opened up the
Windows Live Messenger to the
public Tuesday, as well as
introducing Windows Live Call
in six additional markets.
Uniden and Philips have also
launched phones compatible
with the Live Call service,
the company said...
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09.05.2006European Nokia Phones to Get Windows Live
Nokia and Microsoft said late Wednesday that they had partnered to bring the Redmond company's suite of Windows Live services to Nokia devices. Those
using compatible S60 devices will be able to download the specially customized application that provides access to Hotmail, Messenger, Contacts, and
Spaces...
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24.08.2007Microsoft Helps IT Pros Achieve Stellar Clusters
Microsoft partners with hardware vendors to ensure that server configurations are compatible with Windows Server 2008 failover clustering technology...
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19.06.2008Windows Vista Story: Windows Vista Application Development Requirements for User Account Control
Provides information to help
application developers ensure
that their applications are
User Account Control (UAC)
compatible...
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