Microsoft is currently moving onward with the development of Windows 7, having passed Milestone 3 with the operating system. windows - comments - 15.11.2008
Forget about the WGA! 20+ Windows Vista Features and Services Harvest User Data for Microsoft - From your machine! Thanks to odeeee for this post. windows - comments - 1.7.2007
In November 2006 and in January 2007, Windows Vista came to plug the gap that stretched all the way back to the late 2001 release of Windows XP. windows - comments - 12.11.2007
Windows Vista has managed to deliver an experience at the opposite pole of the Wow, becoming in this context a bitter disappointment for Microsoft. windows - comments - 29.11.2007
Well, Internet Explore 8 is not even barely out the door and there has already been talk about Internet Explorer 9... The fact of the matter is that IE8 is not out the door at all. microsoft - comments - 20.12.2007
Should old, abandonned operating systems just fade away? Or is there some way to breathe new life into them – without running afoul of the copyright police? windows - comments - 27.10.2006
USB memory keys are compact little devices that can store and transfer anywhere from 128MB to 8GB of data, all it takes is a USB slot. windows - comments - 27.8.2007
Now that Windows XP is no longer being sold by Microsoft, PC users will be stuck with Windows Vista. Here's a roundup of PC World's best tips for making Vista easier to use. windows - comments - 3.7.2008
At the start of October 2008, during a presentation at CIGREF – Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises in Paris – Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer stressed the need for a new operating system beyond the Windows server and client platforms. windows - comments - 9.10.2008
Undoubtedly it is the ecosystem of third-party software solutions that make Windows the platform that it is today, sharing the operating system's success. windows - comments - 12.11.2008
Quartics, based in Irvine, California, plans to link monitors to computers via wired or wireless USB connections. The company expects its partners to come out with USB monitors sometime in February 2007. common - comments - 9.1.2007
It's pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system. common - comments - 31.10.2007
A future core antimalware solution will replace Windows Live OneCare, which, considering the price of a one year subscription, has already qualified for an alternative to free security software, come mid-2009. windows - comments - 25.11.2008
Microsoft revealed that Windows is the only choice when it comes down to the offer of operating systems available on the market. windows - comments - 23.8.2007
Blogger Paul Thurrott has written a couple of interesting posts about the difference between “simple” and “easy” in the context of Windows 7. windows - comments - 4.12.2008
As netbooks continue their inexorable rise up the wish lists of gadget hounds, businesses and ordinary folk alike, the clamor for Apple to join the market continues to increase from all sides. common - comments - 5.3.2009
Why do we like Google? Is it because they are the “do no evil” company? Is it because they are not Microsoft? Is it because they make our lives easier through their search, email, and other services? The fact of the matter is that a lot of people from users, to developers, to workers, and to investors like Google. Heck, even I like google! (Look at the ads.) common - comments - 3.8.2006
Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging features are set for a major upgrade to incorporate a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Amazon.com, according to various sources. microsoft - comments - 26.1.2006
Companies installing Windows Server 2008 may have to buy extra Microsoft software, such as Windows Vista, to use more advanced features, analyst firm Gartner has said. windows - comments - 3.11.2007
Microsoft, seeking to expand offerings on its Xbox 360 console, has reached an agreement with a company headed by Peter Safran, the veteran Hollywood producer and talent manager, to produce original shows for distribution on the system. microsoft - comments - 31.3.2008
Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last. A "Microsoft insider" was asked which other products and services Microsoft would host and the reply was: "Everything. Hosted Office. Everything hosted." microsoft - comments -
Microsoft has confirmed that the U.S. government agency best known for eavesdropping on telephone calls had a hand in the development of the Windows Vista operating system. microsoft - comments - 12.1.2007
Such is the reasoning behind a step Microsoft plans to announce Thursday: it will submit its HD Photo image format to a standards body. microsoft - comments - 8.3.2007
It has been "Issues Week" all week for Microsoft, and Thursday, the company took on the dreaded interoperability issue. But its choice of message was called into question a bit yesterday after Microsoft boasted of having signed up its first official customer for its communications and interoperability IP licenses: Quest Software, the manufacturer of the Toad data modeling system. microsoft - comments - 10.3.2007
With Windows Vista already a firmly entrenched product in many homes and some businesses, and with Windows Server 2008 cruising toward a final release in the second half of this year, Microsoft may feel it's time for its many partners and developers with an interest in Windows' success to stand and deliver. microsoft - comments - 4.6.2007
How badly does Microsoft want to promote the Zune? Not badly enough to think of anything particularly ingenious. Unique? yes. Succesful? No. microsoft - comments - 15.2.2007
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1. windows - comments - 1.2.2008
Back in 2007, because of the ubiquity of 32-bit architectures, and the market's slow migration pace toward 64-bit computing, Microsoft announced that the next version of the Windows client, Windows 7, would be delivered in both x86 and x64 flavors. windows - comments - 15.8.2008
Companieslots of themare still buying Windows Mobile smartphones, and Microsoft doesnt want to let iPhone-mania make them forget.
325 enterprises purchased at least 500 Windows Mobile phones in Microsofts most recent fiscal year, with many buying many more, said Scott
Rockfeld, group products manager for the mobile communications business at Microsoft, in a Friday interview.
Forget another five-year wait
for the next version of
Windows. Microsoft has shared
a few details of its
next-generation operating
system, tentatively named
"Windows 7," due in
2010... betanews.com - 23.07.2007
I have a confession to make, I used Windows Millennium Edition and I liked it. That doesn’t stop me making fun of it however.
At a
time where there was still a separation between consumer and enterprise operating systems, Windows Me was at the top of its class.
What a
lot of people forget or don’t even recognize to begin with is that Windows Me is actually a rather innovative and forward-looking operating
system. Instead, almost everyone focuses on its reliability problems which can be largely attributed to the flaky and inherently unstable Win9x
kernel.
With the first public preview
release of Internet Explorer
7, Microsoft has outlined its
plans to bring RSS into the
core of Windows, opening up
APIs and a "Common Feed
List" for all applications
to access. The advantage, the
company says, is an end to
bothering with OPML thanks to
a unified storage for feed
data... betanews.com - 02.02.2006
Microsoft isn’t
opening brick-and-mortar Microsoft stores. Instead, this holiday season, Microsoft will be hiring 150 or so
Microsoft-trained “Windows gurus” to work in retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help explain how Windows, Windows Live
services and Windows Mobile PCs and devices work. The gurus will “assist PC buyers, similar to the Nordstrom model of ‘personal
shoppers,’ where the focus is more on informing and supporting the customer than on the actual sale,” according to Microsoft.
Half the reason we like the Eee PC is that mods to it just keep getting further out there. The latest, and greatest, is a
touchscreen. Jkkmobile's 4G is loaded up with Windows XP, but not the tablet version, so it's admittedly more of an interesting way to browse the
web and play around with your fingers than a certifiable productivity booster, but we think it's pretty cool anyway. <jkkmobile via jkOnTheRun>
The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg gives Windows 7 a big thumbs up in his latest column, a significant endorsement from the
country's leading tech reviewer.
In a video on the All Things D blog, Mossberg says that the new operating system is the "best
version of Windows ever" and is "highly competitive" with Apple's Mac OS.
Forget about a price cut for
the PlayStation 3 in the near
future. Sony's president
Ryoji Chubachi said the
company currently has no plans
to reduce the price of the
console in an interview with
Reuters ... betanews.com - 06.07.2007
It took some time, but our poll has hit the 1000 vote mark, so it's time to shut it down and start anew.
Our poll for the last few
months has been Which edition of Windows 7 do you plan on buying? The results are in...
Windows 7 Home Premium: 237 Windows 7 Professional: 208 Windows 7 Ultimate: 555
The results aren't really surprising, and we were
certainly expecting that most people will simply want the most complete SKU. Of course we have to remember that Windows 7 Ultimate is supposedly going
to be available in very limited quantities, so there's a good change that the above results are a fairly poor representation of the success Windows
7's various SKUs are going to face. That being said, it's always fun to get your opinion!
Don't forget, we have plenty of ongoing
discussions regarding Windows 7 taking place in our community
forums. Don't miss out!
We should have a new poll up and running on Monday. Thanks for your votes everyone!.. jcxp.net - 05.04.2009
Microsoft's transition from one big Windows version to another is always entertaining to watch, as executives start to distance themselves from the
product they've been trumpeting for years, preparing to tout its successor as the one people really need to get. That phenomenon was on full
display this week at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans...
Conflipper at ppcgeeks has managed to get his hands on the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 build 21159 ROM, which is loaded with the latest My Phone,
Marketplace and Outlook Live! Here is the screenshot showing the new applications Windows Media Player has a new look! The menus are enlarged
and moved off the side The Scroolbar looks lot easier to handle than the current ones! Conflipper reports that the new honeycomb interface and the
sliding panels are working but extremely slow for now and are not effective at this time Oh, did I forget this (cute) bird? Images Courtesy:
PPCGeeks
With the release of MacOS X Leopard, the comparisons between Vista and Leopard are out in force. Windows Vista had a rough start and has taken its
share of beatings on-line including here at Neowin.net.
But after 9 months of availability, Vista has shaped up nicely and SP1 looks to
massauge most of the remaining complaints with Microsofts new OS.
Moreover, it is often easy to forget just how big of a release Windows
Vista really was. While Leopard claims "300 new features" most of those features are minor in nature (Lets face it, MacOS X is so good that
its in the enviable position of only needing to evolve, Windows Vista, by contrast, had to play a lot of catch-up). Windows Vista has closer to
10,000 new features when one adds both major and minor updates to the mix.
WinCustomize has an article outlining 10 examples of minor
features that rarely get discussed and yet make a small but noticeable improvement to the Windows experience over Windows XP.
AirmanPika posted on the OSx86
Project forums yesterday that
he managed to get a beta copy
of Windows Vista working on
his Intel Mac (one of the
Intel CPU based iMacs). He had
trouble installing some
drivers, which doesn't
surprise me since Boot Camp is
currently made to work with
Windows XP. Beta testers (with
PC's, not Macs) already have
enough trouble getting devices
to work on Vista that would
normally work just fine with
XP installed.
How did he do it? Using Boot
Camp and according to
Cringley: " Microsoft LOVES
Boot Camp and I am sure
they'll say that shortly.
After all, Boot Camp sells
more copies of Windows without
threatening more sophisticated
products like Microsoft's own
Virtual PC.
Windows Vista changed so much within the world of Windows, as Microsoft threw that red headed step child out there for the world to see. Not all of
those changes were good. Your mind is flooding with obvious jokes after reading that, I know, but it's true in ways many people tend to forget.
Vista, in many ways, did to the skinning community what The Buggles claimed video did to the radio star: Killed it. Windows XP was ugly. There was no
way around that fact. The default Luna interface looked as though it was drawn by a crayon on a crumpled up napkin. Nothing about it was clean or
polished.
With Windows Vista already a
firmly entrenched product in
many homes and some
businesses, and with Windows
Server 2008 cruising toward a
final release in the second
half of this year, Microsoft
may feel it's time for its
many partners and developers
with an interest in Windows'
success to stand and deliver.
Will they be willing to make
changes in their development
strategies? We may find out
next week at TechEd 2007 in
Orlando... betanews.com - 02.06.2007
A recent essay by Google's chief Internet evangelist has BetaNews' Scott Fulton thinking about the meaning behind all this content, and whether the
evolution of the Internet has made its creators forget the need for meaning... betanews.com - 27.09.2008
A 96-page report released Monday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies paints a gloomy picture of where America stands in the matter
of infowar. (Hint: "Stands" may be too optimistic a verb.).. betanews.com - 09.12.2008
We've seen Microsoft patch vulnerabilities in Windows that we swear we'd seen before, and sometimes they all look so much alike that they tend to
run together. But this one really is a classic: a buffer overrun triggered by a fake image file.
Who can forget the tumultuous
days of 2004, when what was then considered a major threat to Windows loomed large: a way to easily trigger a buffer overrun in GDI+, Microsoft's
once-improved Graphics Device Interface library? While patches were finally distributed that September, it seemed the company's eventual solution --
a completely new graphics foundation, WPF -- couldn't come too soon.
In a big win for Windows Mobile, LG -- the world's third largest mobile handset maker -- has agreed to make Microsoft's struggling and aging
operating system the primary for all its smartphones... betanews.com - 17.02.2009
Windows 7 – 20 Features to Make Users Forget Vista SP1/SP2 and XP SP3