Mac OS X and Linux Continue to Erode Windows' Install Base
Apple's Mac OS X and the open source Linux operating systems continue to erode the install base of Microsoft's proprietary platform. According to statistics made available by Net Applications, Windows accounted for a market share of no less than 93.06% back in August 2007.
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2.9.2008 Video of Windows 7 Installed on Netbooks
Following Microsoft's release of its Windows 7 Beta operating system, a number of PC users were keen on finding out just how fast the new OS developed by the Redmond, Washington-based software giant was.
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15.1.2009 Vista SP1 Installed System Memory RAM
One of the aspects that Service Pack 1 changes for Windows Vista is the way that the operating system reports the amount of installed system memory.
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13.6.2008 Vista SP1 with Antivirus Installed on Multiple CPU Systems Eats All Resources
Microsoft has warned customers of a problem affecting both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1, where the two operating systems in combination with some antivirus software, and running on machines with multiple processors, can eat all the system resources available to them.
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10.8.2009 Remove and Uninstall Microsoft Office Activation Assistant - Fix Office Must Be Installed Error
On most OEM computers running Microsoft Windows operating system, regardless of it’s a desktop, notebook or laptop PC, now comes with pre-loaded trial version of Microsoft Office 2007, primarily Home and Student Edition, which is a time-limited product for evaluation if use without proper activation.
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17.8.2008 Silverlight 3 in 2009
Having made available for download version 2 of its Adobe Flash killer, Microsoft is already moving onward to the next iteration.
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18.11.2008 Windows 7 - the End of 2009
As much as Microsoft is trying to make the availability date for the next iteration of the Windows client ambiguous, officially pointing to a development process scoped for 2010, Windows 7 is actually dropping at the end of 2009, were we to believe Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.
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28.5.2008 Windows 7 Available on September 1, 2009
As Microsoft is making its way to the release to manufacturing milestone of Windows 7, the company confirmed that the gold build of the operating system would be made available to customers months ahead of October 22, 2009, the official launch deadline.
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14.7.2009 Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009
With Vista just out the door, Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components.
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10.2.2007 Internet Explorer 8? 2008? 2009?
Internet Explorer 8 followed by a question mark and an interrogatory tone is about all that can be said about the successor of Internet Explorer 7 at this point in time.
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1.10.2007 Norton 2009 tackles whitelisting
Symantec has adopted whitelising techniques in an effort to dramatically improve the performance of its upcoming Norton 2009 security suite, according to the company's vice president of consumer engineering, Rowan Trollope.
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12.9.2008 FIFA 2009 Demo Released
Electronic Arts is getting ready to launch the most anticipated soccer related game of the year, FIFA 2009, and they are preparing gamers for the shock by releasing a demo.
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14.9.2008 Windows Live Messenger 2009
Due to a request from Microsoft, this download has been removed temporarily. However, Windows Live Messenger 9 will be available for download here as soon as it is oficially published. Check back often to ensure you don't miss it!
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19.11.2008 Windows 7 RTM in October 2009
Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing in 2009, more precisely in the third quarter of this year, with information from a leaked product roadmap pointing to the first half of October 2009.
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25.2.2009 Messenger Plus! Live 2009 contest
Patchou has announced his 2009 Messenger Plus! Live contest with no less than 1,000 prize packages up for grabs.
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12.7.2009 Patch Tuesday for September 2009
Microsoft's Security Bulletin for September contains five critical bulletins for release on Tuesday to block Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems.
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5.9.2009 September 2009 Security Patches
This month MS released five critical bulletins to address vulnerabilities in Windows and protect customers from two types of threats.
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9.9.2009 MAC meeting?
Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009
Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and most are delaying any plans to upgrade until 2009 at the earliest.
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29.11.2007 Keep Windows XP Until 2009, Analysts Tell Microsoft
Microsoft may have pushed a too-aggressive XP transition schedule because of how long it took to release Vista, an analyst suggests.
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9.2.2008 Ballmer: Office 14 will not be released in 2009
During his annual “Strategic Update” briefing with Wall Street analysts on February 24, CEO Steve Ballmer said Office 14 won’t be shipping in 2009.
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24.2.2009 MMS 2009: System Center Roadmap
During the 2nd keynote on the Microsoft Managemetn Summit Brad Anderson gave an update on the Roadmap for System Center. Seems like 2011 will be a year with major updates for System Center products.
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3.5.2009 Windows 7 RTM in Late July 2009
Speculation on the deadline at which Microsoft will release Windows 7 to manufacturing not only abounds but also continues.
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9.7.2009 Windows 7 touch comes to life at PDC 2009
All week long, Neowin is live at PDC09 and we found some interesting demos of the future of multi-touch screens.
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17.11.2009 Get a Mac Mini for free!
With the popularity of Mac Mini's, people are snatching them up quickly before they are all gone. We've done this offer for a free one and so should you! The quickest way to get your free Mac Mini it to sign up to the Rhapsody service through the link below (it will only cost you 99 cents) and follow the directions.
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Windows XP on a MAC?
Apple has formally given its thumbs-up to attempts to install and run Windows XP on Intel-based Macs. It has posted a tool called Boot Camp that allows iMac, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini owners to run the Microsoft OS more easily. The company also confirmed the next major Mac OS X release, Leopard, will integrate the twin-OS technology.
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5.4.2006 Apple's "Get a Mac" attack
Apple Computer may have broken bread with the Wintel camp, but that doesn't mean it's finding the closer association easy to swallow.
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5.5.2006 Mac clones to rise again?
I remember fondly the heady days of the Mac clones. Cloner Power Computing promoted their 225MHz PowerPC tower at Macworld Expo in Boston by offering free bungee jumps off a 225 foot crane tower outside the Hynes Convention Center.
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14.4.2008 Do not make Win 7 too Mac-like
Blogger Paul Thurrott has written a couple of interesting posts about the difference between “simple” and “easy” in the context of Windows 7.
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4.12.2008 Windows 7 on a Mac Mini
Finding myself with some free time on Tuesday, I decided to try and see whether and how Windows 7 would install using Boot Camp on a Mac.
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29.1.2009Apple refreshes its Mac desktops with Intel Nehalem CPUs
The latest Mac desktops will include a new Mac Mini, iMac, and Mac Pro, as well as a new dual band Airport Extreme Wi-Fi base station and Time
Capsule.
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03.03.2009Adobe claims 100 million AIR installs...Where's Silverlight?
Yesterday at a conference in Japan, Adobe announced it has received an independent assessment of the worldwide installed base for its Web platforms.
A Millward Brown survey estimates that
Flash has been installed on 99% of the world's Internet-enabled PCs, leading Adobe to estimate that Flash Player 10 by itself will break the 80%
penetration mark by the end of Q2 2009.
Some 100 million PCs are believed to have successfully installed Adobe's AIR runtime platform -- and
by "successfully," the company means, it's running and active and without trouble. That's based on the company's own statistics about
downloads...
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29.01.2009NPD: U.S. Mac Ownership Grows, But Nearly 85% of Mac Households Also Own Windows PCs
According to market research firm NPD's 2009 Household Penetration Study, approximately 12% of U.S. computer-owning households have an Apple
computer, up from 9% in last year's study. But of these Mac-owning households, nearly 85% of them also own at least one Windows PC.
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05.10.2009Apple's Mac OS X, Safari register share gains in September
Apple's share of the worldwide computer installed based rose to over 6.6 percent last month, helped largely by growth of Intel-based systems,
according to just-released data from market research firm Net Applications. At the same time, the company's Safari web browser also posted healthy
share gains.
For the month of September, the percentage of Internet users running the Intel version of Apple's Mac OS X
operating system grew more than 14.5 percent to 3.23 percent, up from 2.82 percent in August. Some of those users appear to have upgraded from systems
running the PowerPC version of Mac OS X, which saw its share dip slight to 3.33 percent from 3.38 percent.
When combined,
however, Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac systems accounted for more than 6.61 percent of the worldwide computer installed base in September, according to
Net Applications. That represents a 40 percent surge from the same time a year ago, when both flavors of the Mac OS combined for just a 4.72 share. It
also represents a 7.5 percent increase from August, when both versions combined for a 6.15 percent share.
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01.10.2007Mac users set to receive Picasa
Google is planning to release a beta of the popular photo editing/viewing program Picasa on the Mac today. According to Jason Cook from Picasa the
features you will be seeing in the beta will be the most of the features you currently see in the Windows version. They are going to try to implement
more features like geotagging in the coming weeks. The question is how many Mac users will use the program? Picasa think the fan base will be big
with many Mac users requesting the program, "We have many Mac users, and we think they'll be excited about this. It makes the Picasa Web Albums
experience better" said Cook.
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06.01.2009Microsoft: Expect Windows installed base to hit 1 billion by mid-2008
The Windows installed base
will hit the 1 billion mark by
the end of Microsofts fiscal
2008 (which ends on June 30),
according to Steve Ballmer,
Microsoft CEO.
śThere will be more PCs
running Windows than
automobiles at that point,ť
Ballmer told attendees of the
companys annual Financial
Analyst Meeting (FAM) in
Redmond on July 26.
Ballmer addressed
invited Wall Street analysts
and media about how Microsoft
has been driving shareholder
value and continues to do so
in the coming months/years.
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26.07.2007Rumor: New Mac Mini coming to Macworld 2009
Apple will launch an upgrade to its low-end desktop, the Mac Mini, at January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, according to an Apple corporate
employee who contacted Wired.com. The source, who wished to remain anonymous (to keep his job), could not disclose details about the Mac Mini other
than its upcoming announcement at Macworld Expo, which begins Jan. 5. That's where CEO Steve Jobs traditionally launches major products during his
famous keynotes (assuming he does indeed show up). Here's what Wired.com believes will be in the next Mac Mini, based on trends seen in
Apple's latest products: Similar to the MacBooks, the Mac Mini will sport a silver enclosure composed of a block of aluminum.
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16.12.2008Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' makes a video appearance
Screenshots and user-uploaded videos of the next version of the Mac operating system have been popping up as the first quarter of 2009 inches ever
closer...
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29.12.2008Mac Trojan hits pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop
Although Apple's Macintosh environment has long been touted by its fans as "more secure" than Windows, a Trojan enabling remote control of
Mac machines struck a second time this week.
Earlier found only in illegal copies of Apple's iWork Suite, the Trojan has now turned up in
pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop for Mac OS X. Actually, the Trojan doesn't even exploit any OS vulnerability. Instead, it disguises itself as part
of the installer package for the application, so it is installed along with the application. Once installed, the malware launches a back door program,
thereby allowing an attacker to remotely conduct misdeeds such as copying data.
A tool for detecting and removing specifically this Trojan is
now available from
SecureMac.com...
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29.01.2009Word for Mac Exploit in the Wild
Symantec is warning about a new security exploit making the rounds that takes advantage of a flaw in Office 2004 for Mac. A maliciously crafted Word
file could lead to malware and rootkits being installed on a vulnerable system, including Windows PCs running older versions of Office...
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13.10.2007Mag names Mac Pro 'fastest PC in UK'
Apple's four-core Intel-based
Mac Pro desktop has been named
the UK's fastest PC after it
was lined up against a
top-of-the-line Windows
machine by British magazine PC
Pro.
According to
the publication's upcoming
November issue, out in two
weeks' time, the 3GHz Mac Pro
was run alongside a Pentium
D-based machine. The Mac Pro
has two dual-core Xeon 5160
CPUs, 4GB of DDR 2 memory
mounted on FB-DIMMs, a Quadro
FX 4500 graphics card and
1.75TB of hard disk capacity.
Windows XP was installed on
the Mac using Apple's Boot
Camp utility.
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05.10.2006Mac OS X worm maker raps Apple on security
The anonymous researcher who
claims to have crafted a Mac
OS X worm said Tuesday that he
or she will report his
findings to Apple Inc., but
added that the Cupertino,
Calif. company "has a very
long way to go" on security.
Identified only as
the researcher behind the
Information
Security Sell Out blog, he
or she on Sunday announced
that a still-unpatched bug in
mDNSResponder, a component of
Apple's Bonjour automatic
network configuring service,
could be exploited by a worm.
Apple's May security update,
dubbed 2007-005, included a
fix for the mDNS bug.
"
is in the same
code base, obviously, but that
is where the similarity to the
recently patched issues
ends," said the Info Sec
researcher in an e-mail
interview. "When Apple fixed
the previous issues, they did
not take care of the entire
code base and there are a lot
of bugs there...some are
exploitable, like the one I am
using, while others are not.
But the fact remains that
Apple did a horrible job in
fixing this package." ..
winbeta.org - 18.07.2007
Mac clone maker wins legal round against Apple
A federal judge last week ruled that Psystar Corp. can continue its countersuit against Apple Inc., giving the Mac clone maker a rare win in its
seven-month-old battle with Apple.
He also hinted that if Psystar proves its allegations, others may then be free to sell
computers with Mac OS X already installed.
winbeta.org - 09.02.2009
TiVo Delivers Major Series3 Update
TiVo pushed a major update to
a small segment of its
installed Series3 base on
Monday, bringing many popular
new features of the Series2
console to the next-generation
set-top box for the first
time...
betanews.com - 13.02.2007
Windows 7 Upgrade Program shifts to June 26, 2009
TechARP has come up with a new revised schedule of Microsoft's Windows 7 Upgrade Program. The Upgrade Program shifts to an early date from June
28, 2009 to June 26, 2009 now. According to the new schedule, end users who purchase PCs pre-installed with Vista between the dates June 26, 2009 to
January 31, 2010 are eligible for a free Windows 7 upgrade. According to TechARP, this slight adjustment was done at the request of many OEMs to allow
for better sales over the first weekend of the Program. It is not possible for Windows XP users to upgrade to Windows 7 unlike Windows Vista users.
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neowin.net - 25.03.2009
Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) Due in Q1 2009?
Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard spoke at LISA '08 last week. LISA (or Large Installation System Administration Conference) is a technical conference targeted at
engineers and system administrators. This year's conference invited
Apple's Jordan Hubbard to speak about the evolution of Mac OS X from large servers to embedded platforms. While technical readers may find the
content of Hubbard's presentation slides (PDF) quite
interesting, the most surprising revelation is a more specific target date for Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard): 1st Quarter 2009.
winbeta.org - 19.11.2008
Psystar wins legal round against Apple
In an interesting twist, Computer World is reporting that a federal judge ruled last week that the Mac clone maker Psystar can continue its
countersuit against computer maker and Mac OS developer Apple Corporation. Psystar is (in)famous for legally battling Apple for the last seven
months, calling them out for breaking antitrust laws, and the Judge hinted that if Psystar can prove its allegations, other manufacturers may be able
to sell computers with Mac OS X pre-installed. This is bad news for Apple, as currently they are the only company legally allowed to sell computers
with Mac OS X, but many people criticize them for charging an "Apple tax".
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neowin.net - 09.02.2009
Dell to Sell Windows XP Professional with PCs Through 2009
In a letter to some of Dells customers, they said that " XP Professional is available for OEM installation on your Dell PC purchases through at
least 2009 and likely longer." The "official" OEM and retail end date from Microsoft is June 30, 2008, just a few weeks away. There has been
much talk of whether Microsoft would bow to the demand of the consumers to keep XP alive, and with this it is still hard to tell if Dell bought a
years stock of licenses ahead of time, or if this is the precursor to an announcement from Microsoft.
Dell's plan for users is to have
Windows XP Professional installed on their machines, but include the Vista install disk for when they are ready to upgrade. "With XP installed,
we will send media for both Vista and XP with each PC so that when you are ready to migrate to Vista you may at no addition upgrade cost." The
demand seems high, so let's hope others follow suit to allow companies the time and resources to fully upgrade.
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neowin.net - 10.06.2008
Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) due Q1 2009
Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies, Jordan Hubbard, spoke at Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA) '08
last week. LISA, co-sponsored by USENIX and Sage, generally runs six days: six days of full-day and half-day tutorial training sessions, three days of
technical sessions, and two-day vendor exhibitions. LISA is targeted at engineers and system administrators and is a very in depth technical
conference. At this years conference, Hubbard held a talk about the evolution of Mac OS X from large servers to embedded platforms. You can find the
presentation slides here.
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neowin.net - 19.11.2008
Mac Mojo: Audio/Video support in Messenger for Mac next year
One of the nifty features missing in the Messenger for Mac is Audio/Video (A/V) support. It is not possible to do a video or audio chat using the
Messenger for Mac. The recent update, Messenger for Mac 7 added A/V support for corporate services (works with Office Live Communications Server 2007)
but not for personal services(Windows Live Services). Mac Mojo, the Office for Mac team announced today that A/V support for personal services will be
available next year as an update on Messenger for Mac. Mac Mojo team said that the new release of Windows Live Messenger, which is currently in beta
delivers a new A/V protocol which makes easier to deliver A/V support in Messenger for Mac.
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neowin.net - 19.12.2008
