Keznews Dangerous MS Update Early Warning System
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this post in our forum. Steve Jobs wrote:
15 May 07 - Since a few days, most of the known Office 2007 keys do not pass the Genuine test anymore.
You can still use them to install your Office 2007 and change the key later.
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17.5.2007 Windows portal RSS feeds
Windows portal prepare for our visitors RSS feeds:
Windows portal - All articles rss feed
and other.
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7.1.2006 Is Microsoft Attempting to Patent RSS?
According to patent applications recently made public, it now appears that shortly before Microsoft publicly announced integrated RSS support within Internet Explorer and Windows Vista, it filed for two patents with the US Patent and Trademark Office surrounding Web-based feed readers.
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26.12.2006 UniveRSS, A 3D RSS Reader from Microsoft
In an email from MSDN Microsoft silently mentions the UniveRSS reader. After a look i actually was quite surprised. Microsoft took the RSS possibilities from IE7 and put them into a really stunning 3D interface!
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4.12.2006 Google buys RSS company FeedBurner
Google has acquired another medium for its advertising engine by purchasing FeedBurner, a company that distributes syndicated content for blogs and other media Web sites, the companies said Friday.
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2.6.2007 Microsoft Responds On RSS Security Concerns in Windows Vista
After a Black Hat presentation called the potential of RSS feeds as an attack vector into question, Microsoft described steps they have taken to mitigate this.
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9.8.2006Vista Activation Cracked By Brute Force
Thanks to voidunknown
for submitting this to the
Front Page.
It
appears that Keznews forum
member Snooza has discovered a
method that effectively
obtains a Windows Vista key
which can then be activated.
The idea is a simple brute
force attack: the software
generates keys and when it
finds one, you manually have
to check if it activates. The
8-step method can take
anywhere from two minutes to
two days. Members of the forum
have verified the strategy and
claim it works. This technique
should worry Microsoft, not
because they are losing
customers to piracy again, but
because the customers who are
actually spending the money on
the latest Windows version may
start being unable to activate
the software with a legally
purchased key. It seems that
the main issue is time, and
with today's modern PCs, it
really isn't that much of a
problem. Evidently, pirates
would rather wait a couple of
hours, than go to work and
make the money needed to
purchase a legal copy. The
author of the article over at
Keznews has a disclaimer which
emphasizes that, " under no
circumstances should anyone
sell the key that they
generate. I do not support
Piracy, this was simply an
experiment in which i used to
practice my vbscripting. This
was just for fun and was a
complete accident! I strongly
encourage everyone to purchase
windows vista, and be a
genuine customer! "
That hasn't stopped
him from offering his crack as
a public download.
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02.03.2007Find the right RSS reader for
you
Galan Bridgman explains how to
find and use an RSS reader to
subscribe to and read RSS
syndications...
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04.01.2006Betanews Alpha is now on RSS
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19.01.2009Scoble: MS Has No Plans to Rename RSS
In an interview with IDG, Microsoft technical evangelist Robert Scoble said that Microsoft has never had plans to rebrand RSS, and was trying to work with the community to build some consensus on how RSS should be referred to within Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7...
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19.08.2005NewsGator Chomps Up
NetNewsWire
Adding to its repertoire of
RSS software, NewsGator this
week purchased popular
Macintosh feed reader
NetNewsWire. The company had
previously bought
Windows-based RSS tool
FeedDemon in May. The
acquisition means NetNewsWire
will add NewsGator syndication
features for sharing and
syncing RSS feeds...
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06.10.2005Gmail Adds RSS, Attachment
Viewing
Google has upgraded its Gmail
service with a few new
features, including a built in
RSS reader and address
shortcuts. RSS feeds appear as
"Clips" on the top of
the Gmail screen and users can
choose from random popular
feeds or input their own.
Yahoo added a similar feature
to its private Mail Beta last
week...
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09.12.2005Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax
Thanks to dw2003 for
submitting this to the Front
Page.
KezNews forum
member Computer User ,
quickly infamous for releasing
his Brute Force Keygen to the
world, has confessed the piece
of software isn't all it was
hyped up to be. " Fact is
the brute force keygen is a
joke, I never intended for it
to work. I have never gotten
it to work, everyone should
stop using it! " This is
quite a shocking statement for
the simple reason that many
have already reported that
they have found keys which
activate just fine.
" Everyone who said they
got a key a probably lying or
mistaken! " Either the
author of the program has
decided he does not want to
get in trouble, or he is
genuinely telling the truth.
In short, the generator does
work, but it is a very
impractical crack.
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04.03.2007Yahoo Adds RSS Feeds into Web
Mail
Taking a different approach
than Google, which launched a
separate Web RSS reader last
month, Yahoo on Wednesday
rolled out an update to its
Yahoo! Mail Beta that
integrates RSS feeds directly
below e-mail folders. Feeds
can be synched from My Yahoo!
or added manually...
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30.11.2005NewsGator drops all charges, releases RSS clients for free
The maker of some of the most popular RSS and Atom tools for both Windows and Mac stunned everyone yesterday by declaring all of its consumer-grade
software to be available free-of-charge...
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11.01.2008RSS Feeds at Risk From
Attackers?
Security researchers are now
warning that RSS feeds can be
used to launch attacks against
unprotected computers. Hackers
could insert malicious
JavaScript in the feeds, which
in turn would be delivered to
the user...
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05.08.2006Darn that pesky euro! RSS feed problem traced to currency character
Well, as soon as we start publicizing our RSS feeds -- and we have one new one just for Betanews Alpha -- we get reports of problems with them. I'm
able to corroborate some of what many Firefox users are reporting: With some Firefox installations, our RSS feeds have been coming up blank. Some,
though not all.
One thing we noticed: On systems where Firefox is installed along with a separate RSS news reader, our RSS feed pages
do
not turn up blank in Firefox. In fact, they look fine. On systems where no separate RSS reader is installed, our feed pages
do turn up
blank.
Our infrastructure man -- or perhaps better put, "InfraMan," Eric Steil -- discovered the problem this afternoon: Believe it
or not, it has to do with the character for the euro, the European currency. I won't type that character here because it may cause the problem, up
until Eric installs the solution. Believe it or not, for Firefox browsers that rely on Live Bookmarks, the inclusion of the euro character in the page
causes the whole feed to come up blank. Anyway, we've tracked down the problem, and we're implementing the fix right away...
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20.01.2009Is Microsoft Attempting to Patent RSS?
It now appears that shortly
before Microsoft publicly
announced integrated RSS
support within IE7 and Windows
Vista, it filed for two
patents with the US Patent
Office surrounding Web-based
feed readers, public documents
indicate...
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22.12.20062007: The Year in RSS
Marshall Kirkpatrick: This past year was a big one for RSS. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, was the backbone of all early developments in the new
era of the internet. It made blogs readable, podcasts subscribable, wikis trackable and search persistent. While explicit, knowing adoption of RSS
is often said to be dismal ("it's too complicated, it's just more info overload" etc.) - I think we may be underestimating the extent of adoption.
Here's my list of highlights from 2007, what's yours?
Three years after
a 2004 Pew study found that 1 out of 20 people online said they used an RSS aggregator to read content online (in 2004!) -
RSS was in 2007
the 3rd most searched for "what is" term on Google all
year. Only "love" and "autism" were looked up more and RSS beat out both "emo" and "HPV."
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25.12.2007Microsoft Proposes RSS
Extension
Microsoft Chief Technical
Officer Ray Ozzie said this
week that his company is
working on a new extension to
RSS that would help users with
different contact and calendar
software and services
synchronize each other's
information. The specification
is called Simple Sharing
Extensions...
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23.11.2005IE7 to Use Firefox's RSS Feed
Icon
Since the announcement that
Internet Explorer 7 would add
built-in support for RSS news
feeds there has been much
discussion over two key
points: what to call them and
what icon to use. Microsoft
developers shared conceptual
designs in October, but have
now settled on a preexisting
icon -- Firefox's...
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15.12.2005IE8 is the last Internet Explorer - Gazelle to replace it (Exclusive)
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Companies Tap RSS to Tame Info Overload
As employees struggle to read an increasing amount of work-related material, some companies have turned to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology
to improve productivity.
With RSS servers and readers designed for workplaces, IT departments set up internal information feeds
that employees can subscribe to, a delivery mechanism that, for some information, can be more precise and effective than e-mail.
"The first problem we see addressed regularly with enterprise RSS systems is e-mail overload. Most knowledge workers these days are just about
completely fed up with e-mail," said Oliver Young, a Forrester Research analyst.
An enterprise RSS system is ideal for
delivering the type of information employees need to know about, but not necessarily act on right away, Young said.
winbeta.org - 31.10.2007
RSS Guru Niall Kennedy Quits
Microsoft
RSS guru and former Technorati
engineer Niall Kennedy
announced through his personal
blog Tuesday that he was
leaving Microsoft effective
August 18 out of apparent
frustration with the
company's handling of Windows
Live...
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Interview: Microsoft Exec
Talks IE7, RSS
Following a decision to
release a standalone version
of IE7, browser development at
Microsoft has come fast and
furious. BetaNews this week
sat down with Gary Schare,
Director of IE Product
Management, to discuss the
changes coming in IE7,
Firefox's growth, and how
Microsoft will bring RSS to
the mainstream...
betanews.com - 18.02.2006
NY Times Beta Testing RSS
Service
The New York Times is holding
a closed beta test for a new
site it calls "My
Times," which will enable
users to create a personal
news page from a variety of
RSS feeds. USA Today and
Newsweek have launched similar
sites through a partnership
with Newsgator...
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