Vista's dead: Microsoft kills an OS and no one cares
For anyone still burning a torch for Windows Vista, its time is rapidly approaching. Buy now or forever hold your peace.
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2.7.2009 Vista's dead: Microsoft kills an OS and no one cares
For anyone still burning a torch for Windows Vista, its time is rapidly approaching. Buy now or forever hold your peace.
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6.7.2009 When cooler dead
Windows 7 Beta Is Dead
This is it! Today, August 1st, 2009 is the final expiration deadline for Build 7000, which is the first and only Beta development milestone of Windows 7.
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1.8.2009 MSN Premium releases 9.5 version, not dead yet
Much to our surprise, MSN released version 9.5 of MSN Explorer/MSN Internet Access to subscribers as an update on Friday. The release appears to fix a number of issues surrounding upgrades to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Live Messenger.
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21.11.2006 Greens: Vista means more dead PCs
The Green Party has claimed that Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, could lead to a mass upgrade of PCs that will result in old machines being dumped in landfill sites.
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30.1.2007 Apparently Microsoft Windows XP Is Far From Dead
At the latest budget meeting they fine tuned the Vista/XP mix.
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23.7.2007 The anti-spyware market that never existed is officially dead
If anyone needed evidence that the standalone anti-spyware market is official dead (if it ever existed), along comes Webroot Software with Exhibit A, B and C:
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29.10.2007 Windows XP Breathes Life into Dead Computers
Microsoft has chosen Windows XP over Windows Vista, its latest operating system to breathe life into dead computers.
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9.11.2007 Linux dead at hands of Windows 7? Horse puckey!
To listen to my fellow bloggers, Robin Harris and Michael Krigsman, you would think that its all over for desktop Linux, with the OS once again being relegated to the server room while Windows 7 is the be all to end all of desktop operating systems. To that I say, baloney!
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29.1.2009 Dead Cheap Windows 7 OEM/System Builder, Pricing Details Revealed
How would you like to buy Windows 7, all major editions, at prices half of those for the retail versions of the operating system? Sounds like a pretty sweet deal? Well, thats because it is, with the exception of a few small downsides.
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3.9.2009 Bill Gates' to-do list
NEW YORK--It's still a year before Bill Gates shifts from a full-time Microsoft worker to a part-timer. Which is good, because there's plenty he still wants to achieve.
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4.2.2007 Gates still has a long to-do list
For years, the Microsoft chairman has been a fiery advocate, inside the company and out, for the notion that computers should be controlled, not just by mouse and keyboard, but also by more natural means, such as voice, touch and digital ink.
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19.10.2007 List Of Windows 7 Leaks
We already mentioned that Windows 7 is probably the Microsoft operating system with the most leaks in history (read: Microsoft we have a leak).
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4.4.2009 Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list
Cynics see the new Engineering Windows 7 blog, which launched last week, as a pure PR play from Microsoft. Maybe its just a matter of setting expectations properly.
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20.8.2008 Windows 7 SKU feature list
Microsoft yesterday announced its plans for the Windows 7 SKU. Here is the feature list I created based on the information that is currently available.
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4.2.2009 Updated List of updates for Vista SP1
This guy Aaron Tiensivu keeps a VERY good list of non-critical Vista updates and this looks like it could be part of SP1.
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14.6.2007 Heres the list of fixes in those new Vista fix packs
I linked to an AeroXP post this morning listing hot fixes for Windows Vista provided in two new Knowledge Base postings. The AeroXP post is gone now. Poof!
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30.7.2007 Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft
Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows & Office Programs available for download -- finding them all is extremely difficult . . . until now.
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2.1.2007 Bill Gates tops Forbes' list of billionaires
New York (NY) - Bill Gates leads Forbes' list of the world's richest people for the 13th time in a row. The Microsoft co-founder's wealth is estimated at $56 billion.
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11.3.2007 List of Google Search Strings for Finding MP3
This How-To will teach you how to use Google to find mp3s. This How-To will be highly pragmatic and will focus on the hows and not the wherefores of the various search strings.
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10.4.2007 Bill Gates Again Tops List of Richest Americans
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the richest person in America for the 14th year in a row, followed by investor Warren Buffett, according to Forbes magazine's latest list of the wealthiest Americans.
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21.9.2007 List of Available Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23041 ROMs
Ready to install cooked ROMs of Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23041 are now available for a variety of popular Windows Phones.
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3.9.2009 A Software Compatibility List for Microsoft Windows Vista RC 1
Iexbeta has a nic Wiki page with a huge list of software and its compatibility with Windows Vista.
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29.9.2006 Windows 7 top feature request list leaked to the public
With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do.
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18.11.2007 Windows 7 top feature request list leaked to the public
With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do.
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27.1.2008 IE 8's list of 2,400 incompatible sites - including Microsoft.com!
Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) is nearing the finish line, with a March release to manufacturing looking like a distinct possibility. But is IE 8 or, more accurately Web site developers and owners really ready?
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18.2.2009 View Windows 7 Startup Program List With Portable Starter
If you have tight control over auto starting applications on startup then you can stay safe from malicious programs, worms and viruses without any antivirus software.
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13.10.2009 First actual pictures of Xbox 360 Arcade bundle leaked, with packing list
Here it is, straight from our super-secret inside source. A few things are now confirmed: the system will come with a composite cable, both the system and the controller are still white, and a Pac-Man and Uno game are coming with the system.
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13.10.2007 Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell Top List of IT Influencers
Gates was named by 84% of the participants, Jobs by 73%, and Dell by 53% of CompTIA voters.
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7.11.2007ZFS filesystem for Mac OS X is dead
Apple's official project of porting ZFS to Mac OS X has been cancelled. In a simple message posted by MacOS Forge, Apple stated only "the ZFS
project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly." ZFS is an advanced file system and logical volume
manager originally created by Sun Microsystems. The file system boasts features such as support for high capacity storage devices, continuous
integrity checking, automatic repair and integration of file system and volume management. Apple's interest in ZFS stemmed back to initial
discussions with Sun to use ZFS as a file system in Mac OS X.
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24.10.2009Google confirms Chrome OS will be free, reveals OEM partners
Yesterday, Google announced that they plan to release a Chrome based OS. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will
initially be targeted at netbooks. In a blog posting today, Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management at Google, confirmed that Chrome OS "will be
available to use at no cost". Google also revealed the list of companies it is working with:AcerAdobeASUSFreescaleHewlett-PackardLenovoQualcommTexas
InstrumentsToshiba Although Sony and Dell are both absent from the list Google did say "among others" before the list above so it's entirely
possible the company is still in negotiation with other OEMs. Company officials confirmed that Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM
chips.
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09.07.2009Novell: 'The Stand-alone OS is Dead'
The future of the stand-alone operating system is not particularly bright. At least, that's according to Nat Friedman, chief technology and strategy
officer for open source at Novell, which yesterday officially announced the company's entry into the Linux appliance space.
Novell's effort, the SUSE Appliance Program, aims to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with an appliance-friendly version of Novell's
SUSE Linux, so they can create integrated software appliances.
The move follows similar pushes by rPath Linux and Red Hat to
deliver software appliances based on Linux, angling for a share of a market that IDC predicts could be worth as much as $700 million by 2011.
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18.04.2008Escaped spammer found dead in murder-suicide
"Spam King" Edward Davidson, who recently disappeared from the Colorado minimum security facility where he was serving 21 months for tax
evasion and e-mail fraud, was found dead yesterday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound...
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25.07.2008Vista Continues to Gain Acceptance
In spite of the heavy and widespread criticism, Microsofts latest operating system, Windows Vista, managed to once again increase its popularity in
August, leaving behind not only outdated Windows 2000, but also outstripping Apples Mac OS.
In August the share of Windows
Vista-based computers used to browse the Internet was 6.26%, up considerably from June and July, according to data collected by
Net Applications, a provider of Web tools. The shares of Windows
2000 and Windows XP operating systems decreased slightly to 3.66% and 80.48%, respectively, which is quite natural as old computers are replaced with
new ones and a lot of systems nowadays come with Windows Vista operating system.
It is interesting to note that currently the
share of Windows Vista-based personal computers is even higher than that of Mac OS-based systems, which are used by 6.15% of users. Still, Apple is
also gaining popularity slowly but surely, something which cannot be said about other operating systems, namely outdated Windows versions, Linux
OSes and so on, which have been losing market share for many months now and are used in 3.44% of systems that are used for Internet browsing.
In late July Microsoft said it had managed to sell 60 millionth copy of Windows Vista operating system (OS) late in June and that the
install base of Vista eclipsed the whole install base of Apple computers in the first five weeks of sales.
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10.09.2007EA's dark comic Dead Space franchise headed to theaters
Game studio Electronic Arts is teaming up with movie studio Starz Media to create a new animated film that will be the prequel to EA's Dead
Space video game, due for release this October 31...
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22.03.2008Apple Updates Mac OS X to
10.4.7
Apple has released the seventh
major update to Mac OS X 10.4
Tiger, adding a slew of
improvements to Mail, iChat,
Safari and a number of other
applications. Also on the long
list of changes are networking
enhancements, along with bug
fixes for Finder, Aperture and
iTunes...
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28.06.2006Keeping Tabs on Web 2.0
Even with consolidation going
on left and right, the galaxy
of sites that make up what we
call "web 2.0" is expanding
at a frantic rate (or perhaps
that elusive goal of being
snapped up by a bigger fish is
helping to drive it). So how
do you keep up with this ever
growing array of web 2.0
sites? The answer: via the
ever growing array of web 2.0
lists.
A little over
a year ago, Richard MacManus
posted his
List of Web 2.0
Lists. Just 13 months
later a lot of those links are
dead, or no longer being
updated, and there is a whole
crop of new sites that we can
now add to our arsenal. Below
I will endeavor to update
Richard's list with new sites
and those that are still in
business.
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26.06.2007Apparently Microsoft Windows XP Is Far From Dead
At the latest budget meeting
they "fine tuned the Vista/XP
mix". This means that they
are expecting to make more
money off of the ostracized OS
than they had first predicted.
Initial expectations were of
an 85/15 split between Vista
and XP respectively. The new
numbers reflect a noticeably
higher number, 78/22.
Here's to hoping that
Microsoft realizes they have a
pretty good OS already, and
that all the eye-candy isn't
a good enough trade off for
the usability of XP. Maybe
they will change their mind
about the XP retailer sales
cut-off date that is quickly
approaching.
I for
one will cling dearly to my
precious copies of Windows XP,
I may begin venturing out and
exploring other operating
systems, but a lot is going to
have to change before I switch
to Vista.
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23.07.2007If Windows is a dead end, what's next?
The writing is on the wall. Despite a major push to sell the much-maligned Windows Vista, customers aren't buying. Nearly two years after
Vista's release, Windows XP remains the standard desktop OS in business, and Microsoft has extended its availability three times (currently to
August 2009) due to customer demand. Microsoft itself forecasts just 2 percent growth in Vista sales in early 2009, after lackluster sales in 2008.
And that's after forcing customers to buy Vista to get XP "downgrades."
So all eyes were on Microsoft's Professional Developer
Conference in Los Angeles last week as Microsoft finally took the wrap off Windows 7, the successor to Vista due in early 2010. But early reaction is
that Windows 7 is just a cleaned-up Vista. It's essentially the same kernel and the same OS, with a couple new technologies thrown in, such as the
Surface-based multitouch capabilities and the ability for developers to ribbon-bar-enable their own apps for better consistency with Microsoft's
new UI approach (one that people either seem to love or hate). "It's not anything radical," says Neil MacDonald, a Gartner analyst who follows
Microsoft. "It's a polished version of Vista."
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04.11.2008Software engineer found dead in front of burnt computer
We have heard of exploding batteries and burning laptops but this may be the first potential laptop explosion that killed a person. A software
engineer working for Tata Consulting Services was found dead in the sitting position with a burnt computer in front of him. "Police said his charred
body was found in a sitting posture. ‘We are yet to ascertain the cause of the blast. The computer was completely damaged and the deceased was
charred,' a police officer told TOI." The victim had two roommates one of which "‘had gone to take bath.
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06.04.2009Microsoft Confirms: WMP for
Mac Dead
Microsoft has confirmed to
BetaNews that it will no
longer develop Windows Media
Player for Apple's Mac OS X
operating system. Support will
also no longer be offered to
Mac users. The decision means
Apple customers will have no
chance to play DRM protected
Windows Media content...
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13.01.2006Finding cell phone signals with SignalMap
Cell phone signals are pretty
easy to catch now. Major
providers have boosted their
signals, and troubleshooted
hard to reach areas, but every
once and a while we hit a dead
spot and the dreaded "hello?,
hello? Are you there? hello?"
kicks into play.
SignalMap hopes to
alleviate any pain in this
area. They have used the
Google Maps API and mapped up
a user generated list of cell
phone signals by major service
providers, mapping dead spots
and comparing signal
strengths.
There are
a lot of mapped signal areas,
but it is not by any means a
comprehensive guide at the
moment. However, it's
building into a great site to
check before heading out on
business or pleasure to check
if you might be heading into a
bad area. To help the
directory grow users can add
their signal strengths, phone
type and carrier to the list.
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04.07.2007Apple Plugs 25 Mac OS Security Holes
Apple on Thursday released its
fourth security update of the
year, patching 25 security
holes in its operating system,
24 specifically affecting the
latest version of Mac OS X
version 10.4. Among the
extensive list of fixes is a
wireless network patch for
older systems...
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20.04.2007id on Steam allegations a "dead issue"
Allegations of unlawful use of
free technology in id Software
titles on Steam are now a
"dead issue," an id rep told
Next-Gen.biz.
Message board users over
the weekend found that older
id games on Valve Software's
Steam digital distribution
platform used the x86 emulator
DOSBox.
But the supposed issue
arose when users found that id
and Valve apparently didn't
give credit to the DOSbox
Team, which developed the
technology that allows old
DOS-based games to run on
today's computers.
According to id,
it's already water under the
bridge.
"It's a dead issue,"
the id rep said in a phone
interview. "...As soon as
this came to id's attention,
it was all immediately
corrected." She offered no
further comment...
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08.08.2007HD DVD is Dead: A Retrospective
The next-generation format war has been quite the bitter battle, but it’s obvious which format has come out on top. HD DVD is effectively dead,
much to dismay of its major supporters. This must also be a big pain to any early adopters, because that black box with a blue laser is pretty much
useless. Or at least it will be in a couple of months when the major studios stop releasing new movies in that format. Sucks to be you.
But
how did it come to be like this? How did the Sony-backed Blu-ray format manage to stomp all over the Toshiba-backed HD DVD? After all, the HD DVD
format came out of the DVD Forum, the same people that populated our homes with DVD movies. It was a tried and true name that people would recognize,
but it just wasn’t enough.
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22.02.2008Unused Domain Name for U.S. Isles Gone
The organization behind
".um", the University of
Southern California's
Information Sciences
Institute, decided the domain
wasn't worth the effort.
Since it wasn't being used
anyway, the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers unanimously
decided last week to eliminate
it entirely, bringing the list
of domains to 264. The
public's opinion on how to
revoke outdated suffixes is
being taken into consideration
in order to trim the domain
list down. Domains tied to
countries that no longer exist
are the prime target. Soviet
Union's ".su" is the
leading candidate for deletion
but a Google search still
displays more than 3 million
".su" sites. Recent new
domain names include ".eu"
and ".travel" while ".xxx"
is still under ICANN
review.
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24.01.2007Could Mac OSX run Windows apps natively?
Once Intel chips landed inside Macs and Boot Camp made its debut, it got a lot harder to blame rumor mongers for making a certain leap: Mac OS X could
one day run Windows apps sans-Windows. Indeed, projects like the open source Wine have facilitated some of this functionality, albeit in a limited
fashion, for some time now. But a new discussion on a Wine mailing list could refresh hope for those looking to get their Frankenstein on with Mac OS
X and Windows computing.
The discussion begins with a mailing list message called Interesting Behavior of OS X, in which Steven Edwards
describes the discovery that Leopard apparently contains an undocumented loader for Portable Executables, a type of file used in 32-bit and 64-bit
versions of Windows. More poking around revealed that Leopard's own loader tries to find Windows DLL files when attempting to load a Windows
binary.
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03.12.2007DRM (on music) is dead. Long live DRM (on video)!
CES is best known for what seems like miles and miles of shiny consumer electronics, product demos, and expansive booths. But some of the most
interesting action takes place off the beaten track of the show floor, in meeting rooms where players from opposite ends of the tech world come to
discuss the issues of the day. Such was the case at this year's show. In a discussion called "The True Cost of DRM: What Can't We Do Now?"
moderated by Paul Sweeting of
Content Agenda, four panelists had different takes on impact
of DRM over the past decade, while managing to agree that, when it comes to music, DRM is indeed dead.
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08.01.2008Blu-ray: Early adopters knew what they were getting into
Blu-ray may have taken a commanding lead in the next-generation format war, but the company has a big problem looming with outdated players...
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