Microsoft to Kill Windows XP Blue Edition
Microsoft is attempting to kill the “Blue Edition” of Windows XP. In mid-2008 the Redmond company discontinued the availability of retail and OEM licenses of Windows XP, with the exception of copies of the operating system going onto ultra-low-cost laptops and desktops.
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4.12.2008 Blue death on my hand :)
Hack windows home edition cd into professional edition
Easy way how to spare some money. Raymond found this hack from Technipages and think it's pretty cool. It enables the features found in Windows XP Professional on your Windows XP Home Edition installation with this hack. It will allow you to turn your Windows XP Home CD into a Windows XP Professional CD.
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27.12.2006 Microsoft's Blue Hat Shows It's Serious About Security
For critics of Microsoft Corp.'s software, 2003 was a very good year. The appearance of the Slammer and Blaster worms was evidence?if any were necessary?that things had gone badly awry at the Redmond, Wash., software giant.
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At the Roots of Windows Blue Screen of Death
Unfortunately for Microsoft, one of the aspects of its proprietary operating system that has grown to become associated by default with the Windows brand is the Blue Screen of Death. BSOD, for short, is the result of a critical system error that will stop the operating system dead in its tracks and lead to a reboot.
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17.7.2008 Blue Badge patch for Windows 7 unlocks additional features
On November 2, Rafael Rivera, announced that his indications that the Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801 has some locked additional options, were right.
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11.11.2008 Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition
Enjoy stunning screen savers and themes, play exciting games, and do more with photos, music, and home movies. Plus! SuperPack combines Plus! for Windows XP and Plus! Digital Media Edition into a single SuperPack!
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17.1.2006 Microsoft promotes Vista Starter edition
Budget Windows targets emerging economies. Microsoft has starting promoting a stripped-down version of Windows Vista to emerging economies in a bid to reach a billion new customers.
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28.10.2006 1. april: Microsoft Announces Halo 3 P.I.M.P. Edition
REDMOND, Wash. — April 1, 2007 — Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios today announced a new Halo 3 edition targeted to true, hardcore Halo fans. Thanks to rosco4140 for this post.
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1.4.2007 Microsoft Adds Ultimate Edition of Office 2007
After already announcing plans for an Ultimate edition of Windows Vista, Microsoft confirmed this week that it also plans an Ultimate edition of Office 2007.
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26.5.2006 Microsoft to Sell Windows XP Starter Edition in Africa
Microsoft Corp. is targeting Africa with a lower-priced operating system, a Windows "Starter Edition" that will work on cheaper machines and have Africa-themed screensavers and background wallpaper among its features.
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28.4.2006 Chinese Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition build 5840 Screenshot
This seems to be the current build that is in Escrow.
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24.10.2006 Violating Microsoft, Selling Windows 7 Ultimate Party Pack Edition On Ebay
Looks like some of the hosts for the Microsoft Windows 7 Launch Party aren’t as happy with the signature edition of Windows 7 Ultimate. One of the hosts happens to be selling it on Ebay.
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8.10.2009 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition Server Tools
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition (SQL Server Mobile) is the compact database for rapidly developing applications in both native mode and the .NET Compact Framework that extend enterprise data management capabilities to devices.
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26.11.2005 Go Green! - Edition 1
With technologies and society vastly advancing, we as humans are experimenting with ways to help cut down the amount of resources we use.
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2.8.2008 What's really in each Windows 7 Edition?
Over the course of its Windows 7 development effort, Microsoft has been incredibly controlled about releasing details, pursuing an agonizingly deliberate disclosure plan.
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5.6.2009 Which edition of Windows XP is right for you?
Five editions of Windows XP compared
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Visual Studio Gets Database Edition
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new addition to the Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Team Edition for Database Professionals. The product is designed to promote collaboration when building database driven applications, and is another step on the road to Visual Studio "Orcas."
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1.6.2006 How to Upgrade to another edition of Windows Vista
If you want more features in Windows Vista, you can upgrade to another edition. You can either buy an upgrade disc at a retail store or use Windows Anytime Upgrade to buy the upgrade online, and then use your Windows Anytime Upgrade disc or the Windows installation disc to complete the process.
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21.1.2 AVG Free Edition 7.5.487a1130
AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers.
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13.9.2007 Differences between the XP Home and Professional Edition !
Windows XP is based on Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 technology. Microsoft is positioning the Windows XP Professional Edition to replace Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 Professional. In addition, the Windows XP Home edition will be replacing Windows 95/98/ME.
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Windows XP USB Stick Edition
Thanks to ecko to report this download in our forum. Ever want to boot up into Windows XP via a USB memory key? Well, now you can.
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25.2.2007 avast! Windows Home Server Edition
avast! antivirus WHS Edition has the same ICSA Certified scan engine as all avast! antivirus products, offering best-in-class protection against the latest and legacy virus, malware, trojan and spyware risks.
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23.12.2007 SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition 4.15.1000
VirtuaWin is an Open Source, virtual desktop manager for Windows which can organize applications over several "virtual" desktops.
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3.6.2008 Windows 7 Starter Edition details confirmed
As was reported here on KezNews, there was speculation that Microsoft were planning to remove the application limit on Windows 7 Starter Edition.
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30.5.2009 Japan-only 20th Anniversary Edition Windows XP
Localization be damned, since Microsoft has decided to release a special edition of Windows XP only in Japan to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first Windows. Finding details about what has changed versus previous XPs is difficult (probably because nothing changed), but we do know that it will feature a special ?20th anniversary edition? desktop theme. Err, does that even count?
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22.11.2005 Windows Vista: ultimate confusing mess edition?
APCMag.com has explored Vista's dependence on user-specified metadata and concluded that once you delete Microsoft's perfectly tagged set of sample document files from the Vista beta, things start falling to pieces.
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10.8.2006 Windows Vista Enterprise Edition appears on Select
Microsoft appears to have published Office 2007 and Vista keys to Select licenced customers.
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2.11.2006 Amazon features signature edition Vista upgrade
Ever wanted a copy of Windows signed by the Chairman himself? Now Amazon is giving you that chance.
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6.1.2007 Vista Starter Edition Also Due Jan. 30
When Vista launches on Tuesday, Microsoft will simultaneously release a version of the operating system aimed at developing markets. The operating system would be designed for lower-end processors and include tutorials for those who may be using their first computer.
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28.1.2007New IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
IBM has devised a new Blue
Gene supercomputer--the Blue
Gene/P--that will be capable
of processing more than 3
quadrillion operations a
second, or 3 petaflops, a
possible record. Blue Gene/P
is designed to continuously
operate at more than 1
petaflop in real-world
situations.
Blue
Gene/P marks a significant
milestone in computing. Last
November, the Blue Gene/L was
ranked as the most powerful
computer on the planet: it
topped out at 280 teraflops,
or 280 trillion operations a
second during continuous
operation.
Put
another way, a Blue Gene/P
operating at a petaflop is
performing more operations
than a 1.5-mile-high stack of
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26.06.2007Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained
Picture this: Its late at night, youre sitting at your computer playing a game or working on a project when, suddenly, Windows freezes completely. All
your work is gone, and you find a blue screen full of gibberish staring back at you. Windows is dead, Jim, at least until you reboot it. You have no
choice but to sigh loudly, shake your fist at Bill Gates and angrily push the reset button. Youve just been visited by the ghost of windows crashed:
The blue screen of death.
Also known as the BSoD, the Blue Screen of Death appears when Windows crashes or locks up. Its actually
a Windows śstopť screen, and is designed to do two things: tell you the reason for the error, and to calm your nerves, hence the use of the color blue
(studies show it has a relaxing effect on people). Though Blue Screens are difficult to decipher, all the information you need to figure out what
caused it is right there in front of you in blue and whiteand thats where we come in. Were going to show you how to dissect the blue screen error
details, so you can fix the problem thats causing them.
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01.05.2009True blue for OLED screens discovered
Blue, the color that has been holding back OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen technology may be one giant step closer to production.
Previously scientists were only able to reproduce red and green OLED's but had stumbled upon finding a material for true blue OLEDs. No longer is
that the case as a group of researchers in Korea have claimed to have discovered the true blue OLED. This means that we will hopefully have consumer
OLED products on the market sooner rather than later. Why is having OLED on the market important? OLED products have greater field of vision,
better color quality and require less power. Overall it's a better value for the consumer and the environment.
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24.11.2008Hi-fi mic producer Blue breaks into consumer electronics
Not a company frequently seen in the CE field, Blue made its reputation in the professional recording category. Today it has pulled away from its
niche market, announcing an HD Webcam and a software-less microphone attachment for iPod...
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07.11.2008Medical Data CD Recovered in Philadelphia
Clients of Empire Blue Cross
and Blue Shield can breathe a
little easier as a CD earlier
reported missing has turned up
in Philadelphia, the New York
Times reports...
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15.03.200775,000 Affected by WellPoint Data Loss
WellPoint, a health insurance
company that handles coverage
for Empire Blue Cross and Blue
Shield disclosed Wednesday
that a CD containing medical
records and other personal
data may have been lost...
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15.03.2007Best Buy launches collectively customized 'Blue Label' laptops
How would you describe your 'ideal laptop'? Starting with new Toshiba and HP models, Best Buy is now offering an exclusive line of CE products --
based on people's answers to questions like these -- under its new 'Blue Label" program...
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10.10.2008IBM 'Blue Gene' Gets New
Applications
IBM released new commercial
applications for its Blue Gene
supercomputer on Friday, which
it says will put
supercomputing power in the
hands of those who may have
not been able to afford it
previously. Separately, the
company also broke its record
for the world's fastest
computer...
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29.10.2005Fiat Puts Windows Mobile in
New Cars
Italian automaker Fiat has
joined forces with Microsoft
to unveil a voice-activated
in-car communications system
called Blue&Me at the
Geneva Motorshow this month.
Blue&Me is based on
Windows Mobile for Automotive
and offers a wide range of
functionality, along with
connectivity to wireless
devices...
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04.02.2006The red/blue split for online voters is not 50/50, survey finds
A Pew Research survey released Sunday indicates that nearly half of all Americans have used electronic media to get or spread information about the
presidential election. And those active Web users are looking more blue than red...
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18.06.2008How to create a Blue Screen of Death
Feeling nostalgic about the Microsoft Blue Screen of Death, which used to plague desktops in the bad old days of Windows? No need to keep those
feelings locked away. This handy guide will show you how to force your PC to recreate the infamous error.
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21.08.2008Customers get a supercomputer on the cheap
IBM ratcheted the world of
supercomputing up a few
notches in June with the Blue
Gene/P, a system nearly three
times as fast as its
predecessor at a cost of
US$1.3 million per rack.
But in
anticipation of the Blue
Gene/P, IBM dropped the price
of the Blue Gene/L, to about
$800,000 late last year,
prompting sales of the older
supercomputer to more than
double during the first half
of this year compared to the
second half of 2006, says Herb
Schultz, IBM's deep-computing
marketing manager.
At its highest price, the
Blue Gene/Lcost $1.3 million
per rack, same as the P's
current price.
"It's still a very
viable platform," Schultz
says. Among universities,
"we've had some really big
sales." He named Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in Troy,
NY and the State University of
New York at Stony Brook as two
new L-model customers...
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01.08.2007Sharp Attempts Rescue of HDTV with New Blue Lasers
In an effort to end the
industry-wide shortage of blue
laser diodes that occurred as
a result of staggering
underproduction by Sony and
Nichia, the world's first two
suppliers, Sharp Electronics
today said it's ready to step
up the mass production of
diodes it's been making on a
trial basis since just last
month...
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20.12.2006Microsoft talks about Office
2007 Ultimate
For those who don't know
about it yet, Microsoft Office
2007 Ultimate Edition is, as
Ultimate Edition, a sum of
every features of the product.
The actual Ultimate edition
contains the following
products:
-Word
-Excel
-PowerPoint
-Outlook
-Publisher
-OneNote
-Groove
-Access
-InfoPath
But
all those features have a
price, which is already
mentioned: 679 US$. We
currently don't know if it
will offer special services
like those that will be
available to Windows Vista
Ultimate Edition users.
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27.05.2006IBM floats 'Blue Cloud' data servers
Giving a nod to the privacy concerns of enterprise customers, IBM today is launching Blue Cloud, a "cloud computing" manifestation enabling
companies run data-intensive Web 2.0-class applications directly with their own data centers...
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15.11.2007Windows 7 Starter Edition details confirmed
As was reported here on Neowin, there was speculation that Microsoft were planning to remove the application limit on Windows 7 Starter Edition.
According to The Windows Blog, Microsoft have confirmed that the "3 applications at a time" limit that hobbled earlier versions of the Starter
Edition has been removed for Windows 7. Now the only effective limit on the number of programs you can run concurrently is set by the amount of your
memory. Windows 7 Starter Edition will have other limits, however, in order to differentiate it from other versions of the OS. "Windows 7 Starter
does not include: * Aero Glass, meaning you can only use the "Windows Basic" or other opaque themes.
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30.05.2009Microsoft Launches Blue Monster Wine Label
It's ironic that, a couple of days after the head of Mozilla Europe castigated Microsoft's attitude to Open Source and innovation in a TechCrunch
interview, Microsoft today launches its own-label wine designed to promote innovation inside the company.
The FT has the story today of how
Brit blogger, cartoonist and ‘Marketing 2.0′ guy Hugh Macleod, and Steve Clayton, chief technology officer at Microsoft's UK Partner Group
managed to convince the higher-ups that the Redmond giant had to start getting a bit groovier. Clayton has been at the forefront of the "Blue
Monster" movement, which promotes a more open attitude to geeks and tech for Ballmer's baby. Steve uses the image on his business card and is the
administrator of the Friends of Blue Monster Facebook group.
To this end they've created the Blue Monster Reserve, exclusively for
Microsoft and its employees. I understand the pair also had some spiritual support from Microsoft's PR group Edelman, which committed to buying some
bottles off Stormhoek. Microsoft is not bank-rolling the wine, but has given its approval for the label to go out. Alas, the wine will only be
available to people who belong to the Friends of Blue Monster Facebook group, and geek dinners we're attending and/or sponsoring. Booo!
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19.09.2007Microsoft invites hackers back for Blue Hat
On Wednesday, members of the
hacking community willing to
give Microsoft a hand arrived
at Redmond, Washington, to
show the software giant where
it's gone wrong. This time
the company's latest Blue Hat
conference, typically held
twice a year, targeted mobile
security, hardware hacking,
Microsoft's security tools,
and the underground
vulnerability economy.
Microsoft began hosting these
events two years ago as a way
to foster dialogue between the
company's security team and
external security researchers,
many of whom have been
critical of the company's
approach to security. The name
Blue Hat derives from the
Black Hat security conferences
- the "Blue" part comes from
the color of badges that
Microsoft staffers wear on
campus.
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11.05.2007Apple releases iTunes 8 update to fix Vista blue screen of death
UPDATED Apple has released an updated version of iTunes 8 to correct the blue screen of death problems some users have been experiencing after
installing the software. The issue relates to a driver that conflicts with Windows Vista...
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13.09.2008Blue Pill virtualisation rootkit freely available
Rootkit specialist Joanna
Rutkowska has
provided
open access to the source
code of a new version of the
virtualisation rootkit Blue
Pill, which has been rewritten
from scratch. She presented a
prototype of the rootkit at
the Black Hat conference in
Las Vegas in 2006.
The new version of
Blue Pill has not just been
revised, it also offers new
functionality and, according
to the description, relies on
the virtualisation support
offered by modern processors
(HVM, hardware virtualised
machines).
It is claimed that the new
Blue Pill can migrate Windows
into a virtual environment
whilst it is running; without
restarting, and invisibly to
the user. This would make it
undetectable from within the
system using current detection
methods. The rootkit supports
AMD's SVM/Pacifica
virtualisation to infiltrate a
hypervisor into Windows whilst
it is running, but is not yet
able to utilise Intel's VT-x
virtualisation. Blue Pill now
also includes several
functions specifically aimed
at hindering recognition by
rootkit detectors. It is
apparently able to support
nested hypervisors and to
manipulate Time Stamp Clock
Register (TSCR) readings to
thwart detection of stolen CPU
cycles: a technique known as
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