Windows Vista RTM Best links
As Windows Vista hits the Release to Manufacturing milestone, Microsoft looks back at what it took to build the most heavily tested, highest quality and most secure operating system in the companys history.
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10.11.2006 Windows 7 public beta Official download links
We revealed that Microsoft would be posting a public beta of Windows 7 earlier this week and Microsoft has just made it available on it's TechNet channels.
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11.1.2009 Symantec Vista White Paper Links to PatchGuard Crack
In a curious decision on the part of a security software company, a white paper released today on the Web site of Symantec - whose opinions of Microsoft's implementation of PatchGuard protection on 64-bit Windows Vista are well known - contains the address of an independent research paper which includes a demonstration of defeating PatchGuard, complete with source code, in an early Vista beta.
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1.3.2007 Windows 7 32-Bit (x86) Direct Download Links
Windows 7 has been officially launched, but Microsoft never makes available official download links that allow retail customers to download setup installer or ISO image of Windows 7, despite digital downloads have been the sole distribution channel for many that purchases from online store or on MSDN or TechNet subscriptions.
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22.10.2009 Windows 7 64-Bit x64 Direct Download Links
User who only wants to download Windows 7 installation files via official and verified source can choose to download the ESD files instead, which contains setup1.box, setup2.box and a edition-specific Windows 7 setup installer, and not in ISO format, although its easy to make a bootable Windows 7 DVD or ISO with the unloaded Windows 7 setup files.
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25.10.2009 Make No Mistake About It, the XP SP3 RTM Direct Download Links Are Live
Make no mistake about it, the gold bits of Windows XP Service Pack 3 are available for download straight from Microsoft, contrary to what the company is claiming.
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1.5.2008 Leaked Windows 7 RTM Direct Download Links for Both x86 and x64 Flavors
The leaked direct download links for Windows 7 followed promptly the October 22nd general availability deadline, offering end users access to the latest iteration of the Windows client.
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26.10.2009 Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 Free Trial Version Direct Download Links
The leading developer of secure content management solutions, Kaspersky Lab has released the new version of its popular security application Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, where all the components implemented in earlier product versions have been improved and upgraded, including the firewall, heuristic analyzer, parental control module, and the anti-spam module.
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1.7.2009 Free Windows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation Installation ISO and VHD for Hyper-V Official Direct Download Links
Windows Server 2008 R2 is the next iteration of Windows Server operating system, which has been RTMed with build version 6.1.7600.16385 together with Windows 7. Microsoft is now officially releasing the ISO image for Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial Software, which allowing administrators and users to install Windows Server 2008 R2 to evaluate the new operating system for 180 days for free.
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17.8.2009 Windows 7 Enterprise Trial 32-bit and 64-bit ISO Direct Download Links
Microsoft has made available free download of Windows 7 Enterprise edition for interested corporate and business customers as trial evaluation software. Windows 7 Enterprise free download has pre-installed product key which lasts for 90 days (3 months) after activated. Activation has to be done within 10 days or else the computer will shut down hourly.
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3.10.2009 Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page.
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24.10.2006 Download Windows 7 MUI Language Packs - Official 32-bit and 64-bit Direct Download Links
Microsoft has released MUI (Multilingual User Interface) language packs for Windows 7 RTM. The Windows 7 language packs is available via Windows Update as optional update for Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions only.
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28.8.2009Google Sued Over Child Porn
Links
A New York politician sued
Google Thursday in the
state's Supreme Court over
allegations that it was
profiting from links to child
pornography. The suit says
Google's paid ads include
links to minors engaged in
lewd acts...
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05.05.2006Google tests ad placement in its Search Suggest
Google Search Suggest, the predictive text dropdown gadget that suggests search terms, will soon provide direct links, information, and sponsored
links...
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18.12.2008Google Child Porn Suit Dropped
A local New York county
politician that had sued
Google over links to child
pornography dropped his suit
earlier this week. Jeffrey
Toback of the Nassau County
Legislature had said the
search engine's paid
advertisements include links
to minors engaged in lewd
acts...
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26.06.2006Australian regulator takes Google to court over sponsored links
Australia's consumer watchdog
said Thursday it had launched
a world-first court action
accusing Internet giant Google
of misleading web users by
misidentifying sponsored links
on its search engine.
The Australian Competition
and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
said it wanted Google to stop
publishing search results that
fail to distinguish between
paid advertisements and
"organic" search results.
The ACCC said the
case arose in 2005 when
Google's search engine listed
two car dealerships from the
New South Wales city of
Newcastle as sponsored links,
which are paid for by
companies to attract Internet
users...
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12.07.2007Apple links iTunes to social networking through Bebo
Apple Inc. has made one of its
first overt attempts to tap
into web youth culture,
establishing links between its
iTunes Store and European
social networking site Bebo.
The Financial Times
reports that a deal with
Bebo.com will let the site's
nearly 9 million users in
Ireland and the UK jump
directly to Apple's online
music store through embedded
links in the profiles of
musicians, providing a
shortcut that displays their
albums and songs on the iTunes
Store.
Apple's deal
will potentially give it
access to as many as 500,000
musicians who maintain
profiles on the page and will
also serve as a vehicle for
pushing new artists for both
companies. A free Bebo single
of the week will operate
separately from the official
iTunes release to encourage
visiting Bebo itself and
buying the music. Mercury
artist Amy Macdonald will be
the first to have a free Bebo
single, according to the
report...
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13.06.2007Google goes to court in Australia over sponsored links
Google appeared in court today in Australia to fight charges of "
misleading and deceptive
conduct" regarding its sponsored links. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) told the judge that the search giant does not
do enough to differentiate sponsored links in its search results from regular search results.
"Google represents to the world
that its search engine is so good that it can rank, out of the multitudinous entries of the worldwide web, these entries in order of relevance of the
user's query," ACCC barrister Christine Adamson told the court,
according to AFP. "Part of that
(reputation is) that it's not influenced by money, it's influenced by relevance."
The ACCC isn't a fan of the company's
allowing sponsored links purporting to represent one company when, in fact, they point to a competitor. The group said that, in 2005, an Australian
car dealership called the "Trading Post" purchased sponsored links from Google with the names of two competing dealerships, Kloster Ford and
Charlestown Toyota. The ACCC
says that the Trading Post
violated sections 52 and 53(d) of the Trade Practices Act of 1974 and blames Google for allowing it to happen in the first place. The organization
asked for an injunction that would ban Google from publishing sponsored links representing a relationship between businesses that doesn't exist,
clearly distinguished sponsored link results, for Google to establish a trade practice and compliance program, and costs.
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11.09.2007McAfee: Search results can be dangerous
McAfee is reporting that some
web search companies are
better at filtering out bad
links than others: Google has
improved over the past year,
AOL has the safest search
results on the Web right now
and Yahoo is the riskiest. In
McAfee's latest study,
published Monday, the company
concluded that about 4% of
search results were found to
be risky, compared to last
year's 5%. Yahoo's poor
performance is due to a spike
in the number of sponsored
links that McAfee deemed
risky. When looking at organic
links alone, Yahoo actually
had the best results of any of
the five search engines,
returning risky links just
2.7% of the time.
Google returned risky
results 3.4% of the time,
compared to last year's 5.3%.
AOL on the other hand, gave
risky links 2.9% of the time,
an improvement over last
year's 5.3%. Yahoo, formerly
one of the safest engines
evaluated by McAfee, jumped
from 4.3% in 2006 to 5.4%.
Microsoft's MSN also took a
step backward, jumping from
3.9% in 2006 to 4.2% in 2007.
Ask.com went from 6.1% to
3.5%.
McAfee's
study looked at the first five
pages of search results
provided by AOL, Yahoo,
Google, MSN, and Ask.com for
about 2,300 widely used
keywords. It then compared
those links to its Web safety
database, which records sites
that are associated with
things like spam, online
scams, Web attacks, and risky
downloads. The most dangerous
subjects to search for are
words related to digital music
and tech toys, as they return
risky results nearly 20% of
the time.
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05.06.2007'Good' phishing tool uncovers weakest staff links
A US-based security consultancy plans to release software next month that it claims will help employers launch ethical phishing attacks against their
own employees.
The phishing software is designed to test how susceptible staff or customers are to phishing attacks, according to
its maker, Intrepidus Group.
The company claims on its Web site the software allows security testers to pull content from other
sites and drop it as a phishing e-mail, add e-mail addresses, set up attack schedules, and then track which staff are the weakest links.
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09.05.2008Google China Tests New Homepage
Google China is
testing a new home page which, unlike the current minimalist
design, filled with many links. The section under the searching field lists some of the most searched queries in different topics such as music, game,
sport and education. The sidebar contains links to useful tools, which includes Googles Pinyin IME and Toolbar, Internet speed test (FTW? I know
people still do it, but err), and a calendar. It wasnt all that bad until you reach the bottom of the page, which contains a HUGE list of links to
other sites, from
Google Daohang - Google Chinas
website directory.
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06.11.2007Mainsoft links Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Jazz
In partnership with IBM, Mainsoft on Tuesday will ship an integration package that links Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration platform and IBM's
Rational Jazz system for application lifecycle management, enabling business users to have their say in application development.
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17.03.2009Spammers Hijack Microsoft's SkyDrive Service
Microsoft's Windows Live SkyDrive, an online storage service for sharing files and links it launched in beta this past August, became a repository
for spammers to host links to their electronic junk mail.
McAfee's Avert Labs was first to point it out in an alert. Within a
day, Microsoft gave the e-pests the e-boot, but not before the spammers uploaded "tens of thousands" of files to the service, according to Avert.
"Services like Windows Live Skydrive are attractive to spammers for a number of reasons," said Chris Barton, lead antispam
researcher at McAfee Avert Labs, in a mass e-mailing to journalists. "These services are free, provide unique, long-lasting Web links, host almost
any kind of file and are relatively safe from blacklisting."
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10.01.2008Yahoo opening up home page to outside sources
Yahoo is changing its home page to add links to outside sites for the first time as part of its move toward more openness and focus on being the front
door to the Internet for most people.
The company "turned on" its new main page to the general public on Thursday. It looks the
same, except the items in the Featured section in the center of the page now include links to news and other items located on outside sites. The items
are chosen by editors.
In testing, the site has linked to The Wall Street Journal, NASA, Forbes, Time, among others, but could
link to any site on the Web. To avoid overwhelming smaller sites with traffic Yahoo may feature them as related links instead of using them as the
main story, says Tapan Bhat, vice president of front doors at Yahoo.
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26.10.2007Google officially quashes PageRank passing
Google has officially proclaimed that it doesn't like webmasters trying to hawk their lofty PageRank status to other sites.
In
an update to its Webmaster Guidelines, the world's largest search engine says that any attempt to "pass PageRank" could result in a PageRank
plummet.
"Some SEOs
and webmasters engage in the practice of buying and selling links that pass
PageRank, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites," the update reads. "Buying or selling links that
pass PageRank is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results."
winbeta.org - 04.12.2007
MPAA planning site to offer legit movie links
The Motion Picture Association of America has tried any number of tactics to fight piracy, but its latest scheme might actually prove useful to movie
consumers on the Internet. The group is supposedly working on a new website that will offer information on how to find legit sources of movies so that
users won't have to resort to copyright infringement.
winbeta.org - 28.07.2008
Threat Alert: Instant
Messaging Attacks
Worms disguised as harmless
links or attachments wriggle
through chat software...
pcworld.com - 30.09.2005
Microsoft, Cisco Team on VoIP
Pair will support a protocol
that eases links between
networks to boost Web
telephony in business...
pcworld.com - 12.11.2005
Time Warner Links Web Prices With Usage
Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much
data they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
The company, the second-largest cable provider in the United States, will start a
trial in Beaumont, Texas, in which it will sell new Internet customers tiered levels of service based on how much data they download per month, rather
than the usual fixed-price packages with unlimited downloads.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 18.01.2008
Froogle Adds Local Referrals
Google links online shopping
search with contacts for
brick-and-mortar retailers for
faster buys...
pcworld.com - 23.11.2005
Google slapped with libel claim
Google links to more than
11.5bn web pages - and it's
responsible for the content
posted to every single one
them. At least, Brian Retkin
thinks so.
The
48-year-old Londoner has filed
a defamation action against
the American search giant,
claiming that Google refuses
to remove links to sites that
libel his company, dotWORLDS.
Retkin's story was first reported
in The Independent ,
although the paper incorrectly
claimed that he had "sued"
the California-based outfit.
He and his lawyer have issued
a "pre-action protocol,"
threatening to sue if Google
doesn't comply with their
demands.
"They've
removed libel about us before,
but it has re-appeared on
their UK website,"Retkin told
The Register. "We believe
this leaves them open to
action."..
winbeta.org - 03.07.2007
New service eavesdrops on Internet calls
A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying
ads on the callers' computer screens based on what's being talked about.
For instance, a caller talking about going for dinner
might see ads to local restaurants and restaurant review sites, while someone pondering whether to buy a new computer might see ads for computer
stores. Relevant unsponsored links also appear.
That is, if the system works. It's notoriously difficult for computers to
recognize speech. A test of Puddingmedia's beta software was a mixed success: Relevant ads appeared when this reporter talked about restaurants and
computers, but the software was oddly insistent that he should seek a career as a social worker, showing multiple ads and links pointing to that
field...
winbeta.org - 24.09.2007
