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 Microsoft to support Chinese document standard
Microsoft is expanding its repertoire of document formats. The company on Monday is expected to announce that it is sponsoring an open-source project to create a converter between Ecma Open XML--a set of file formats closely tied to Microsoft Office--and a Chinese national standard called Unified Office Format (UOF).
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21.5.2007 Microsoft Did Censor Critical Chinese Blog On Spaces
A Microsoft representative has responded to allegations surrounding the closure of a popular Chinese blog, confirming that the company did take the blog offline on New Years Eve.
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6.1.2006 Chinese Windows 2000 attack crashes PCs
Security researchers have spotted malicious code that triggers a critical vulnerability in the Chinese version of Windows 2000, and warned non-Chinese users to expect attacks.
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16.4.2008 Windows 7 Build 7106 Chinese Version - x86 & x64 Leaked
Yesterday a rumor started floating on internet that Windows 7 build 7106 will get leaked in 24 hours. However no one took this rumor seriously as their was no evidence or screenshot from claimer
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12.4.2009 Over 10 Million Custom XP Downloads Get Chinese Pirates Jail Sentences
Chinese authorities cracked down on a group of four software pirates for offering a custom-built copy of Windows XP, which was downloaded in excess of 10 million times.
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24.8.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007 Microsoft isn't done with Vista yet
There is still more work to be done on Windows Vista, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, on the day the company's highly-anticipated operating system is officially released to enterprise customers.
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2.12.2006 Microsoft boxes up Vista
Although it is still working to finish the code for Windows Vista, Microsoft has reached a decision on which versions of the operating system to offer.
Microsoft has settled on six versions, including an Ultimate edition that will combine the best of the company's corporate and consumer features. The company is aiming to have all of the versions ready for launch in the second half of this year.
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27.2.2006 Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor
Windows Vista won't have a backdoor that could be used by police forces to get into encrypted files, Microsoft has stressed.
In February, a BBC News story suggested that the British government was in discussions with Microsoft over backdoor access to the operating system. A backdoor is a method of bypassing normal authentication to gain access to a computer without to the PC user knowing.
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5.3.2006 Vista Might be too Complex for Microsoft
It will not have escaped your attention that Microsoft is laboring to finish the next version of its Windows operating system, Vista. A version aimed at the corporate market is supposed to be ready for Christmas, with the consumer edition following some time later (missing the Christmas market, which has irritated computer manufacturers and retailers more than somewhat). Last week, Gartner, a leading IT consultancy, predicted that Microsoft would miss those shipping dates.
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12.5.2006 Microsoft Vista is still a mess
We've had the pleasure of using Vista since its very early builds. The first release candidate is now upon us, and was made available to download by TechBeta and Technology Adoption Program program subscribers last week.
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13.9.2006 Windows Vista at Microsoft
Last Friday I took the plunge and upgraded my main work laptop (Sony VGN-TX3XP 11" Ultra-Portable) to Windows Vista RTM.
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10.11.2006 Microsoft to Testers: After Vista, What Next?
Windows Vista isn't even quite out the door, but Microsoft is already soliciting testers to tell them what should be in the next versions of Windows.
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21.12.2006 Microsoft Vista slow to take off
Windows Vista has been on the market for nearly a month now, but enterprise users and industry experts agree that Microsoft's latest and greatest OS still isn't yet ready to replace XP.
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3.1.2007 Microsoft: Vista upgrades for everybody
Windows Vista is starting to look like those Persian rug stores which are always having a 'closing down' sale. 'Full' prices are set laughably high only to make you think you're getting an amazing discount, because no-one pays the marked price.
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27.4.2007 So Where is Microsoft Vista SP1?
The April 25 release of a feature-complete Windows Server "Longhorn" beta is a monumental milestone for Microsoft, perhaps more important than the launch of Windows Vista.
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1.5.2007 What to do if Microsoft locks you out of Vista?
"What to do if Microsoft locks you out of Vista?" - This is question of lot of our users in last time, so here are some advices.
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17.8.2007 What Microsoft doesn't want you to know about Vista SP1
Microsoft touts performance and reliability as the key benefits of Vista's SP1, but a close look at the beta shows a significant change Microsoft doesn't seem to want you to know about --- you can now easily change your default desktop search tool to Google Desktop Search, or any another one.
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2.10.2007 Microsoft Makes Its Own: 32-bit Windows Vista vs. 64-bit Windows Vista
With Windows Vista, Microsoft delivered both the 32-bit and 64-bit flavors concomitantly, a first for the company, whose Windows XP x64 Professional (April, 2005) was launched one year after Windows XP SP2 (August 2005) and four after the initial 32-bit Windows XP (2001).
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8.1.2008 Microsoft: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP – Definitely Vista!
As far as Microsoft is concerned there is only one choice possible in terms of desktop clients. But Windows Vista is also the clear option over Windows XP when it comes down to the Redmond company's preferred operating system for mobile PCs.
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6.9.2007 Microsoft Vista shuts out other OSes
When Microsoft's Vista arrives on machines, it looks like it may need a trusted platform model (TPM) chip to be present on the system.
That's just one element of what Microsoft dubs "multi tiered data protection", and the firm says that it will support full volume encryption to prevent disk access to files by other operating systems.
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Microsoft Ships Second Vista CTP
As expected, Microsoft has shipped the October Community Technology Preview of Windows Vista, embarking on what the company hopes will be monthly test releases of the operating system. Build 5231 first surfaced last week and brings changes to Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Vista's networking.
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Microsoft: No Sidebar Until Vista Beta 2
Testers and developers looking forward to playing with Vista's most prominent new feature over the holidays will have to wait a bit longer. Microsoft officials confirmed to BetaNews late Monday that the Windows Sidebar won't be delivered in a public build until Beta 2.
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20.12.2005 Microsoft to Skip Vista Beta 2
Redmond is planning to rely more on Community Technology Previews for Windows input, and has two new Vista test builds planned for the next two calendar quarters.
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28.1.2006 Microsoft Is Counting Its Vista Chickens
Microsoft has some lofty goals for Windows Vista. In the first 24 months the product is shipping, company officials are expecting to have it preloaded on 200 million PCs worldwide.
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7.2.2006 More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing
MICROSOFT appears to be in a state of panic, ordering 60 per cent of its new operating system to be re-written amidst a major shake-up of its troubled Windows division. The news follows another delay with reports of a staff revolt over the way that management has handled the development of the operating system.
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24.3.2006Microsoft sued over Chinese character conversion technology
Zhongyi Electronic Ltd., a small Chinese company, is suing Microsoft over a product which turns words typed in the Roman alphabet into Chinese
characters...
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18.01.2008AOL Testing Chinese Language
Portal
While it's not yet ready to
officially enter the Chinese
market like rivals MSN, Yahoo
and Google, AOL has launched a
beta test for a Chinese
language version of its Web
portal. The site is designed
to reach the Chinese speaking
community in the United
States, rather than the
growing number of Internet
users in China...
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14.02.2006New Chinese law finds Yahoo in copyright violation
Chinese courts handed the world's recording industry a significant victory Thursday, finding the search giant's Chinese music service was committing
copyright infringement...
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22.12.2007Google Censors Chinese Search
Results
Google on Wednesday launched a
Chinese version of its search
engine, with some concessions
in order to appease the
Chinese government. Searches
on the topics of human rights,
Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and
democracy now omit certain Web
sites and redirect to Chinese
government Web sites...
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25.01.2006New Chinese Involvement Could Trigger HD DVD Price Plunge
A consortium of Chinese university engineers and government officials, in cooperation with a Chinese video standards group that includes globally
recognized manufacturers, plus the DVD Forum, have come to an agreement on a standard specification for a blue-laser disc mechanism and format
specifically for the Chinese market. It means China could be producing low-price HD DVD mechanisms by this next summer...
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08.09.2007Sun's McNealy Proposes Merging ODF with Chinese Counterpart
In a trade conference convened
earlier this week by the
Chinese Ministry of Commerce,
Sun Microsystems Chairman
Scott McNealy suggested that
what he described as the
world's #2 and #3 office
document formats -
OpenDocument Format (ODF) and
the Chinese standard Uniform
Office Format (UOF) - could go
up against the #1 format from
Microsoft more effectively if
they were to be merged...
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19.04.2007Google targeted in Chinese Internet crackdown
Google, alongside other popular web portals, was warned on Monday that they must do more to block pornographic content from reaching Chinese users, in
the latest in a series of crackdowns on Internet content by the Chinese government. Chinese authorities published a list of 19 websites that have
failed to get rid of unsuitable material. The list includes American search giant Google and China's top search engine Baidu. According to the
BBC, one Chinese official said that the websites could be closed down if they fail to delete the offending material.
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06.01.2009Microsoft May Become First Defendant In Chinese Anti-monopoly Lawsuit
As China's first anti-monopoly law went into effect on August 1, 2008, Microsoft has been targeted by Chinese IT companies for suspected monopolistic
activities and may become the first defendant in a Chinese anti-monopoly lawsuit.
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03.08.2008Did Yahoo Help Send a Chinese
Journalist to Jail?
Group says the company gave
the Chinese government access
to the journalist's e-mail...
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07.09.2005Chinese Investors Weigh in on Microsoft's Yahoo Bid
Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet firm, will seek a stronger voice for its management team in Microsoft's talks to acquire Yahoo, Alibaba's
largest shareholder, a source said on Monday. Based on the original agreement with Yahoo, which owns 39 percent of Alibaba, the Chinese company is in
a very strong position to influence how shares would be transferred to any new owner, said the source, who is close to Alibaba.
The problem
is a perception by Beijing authorities that an important Chinese firm could come under the control of Microsoft Corp, which has a reputation of using
monopolistic tactics, said the source, who is familiar with a team of bankers and lawyers assembled by Alibaba to review its options.
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18.02.2008Google marked by Chinese company for trademark violation
A Beijing company has taken Google's Chinese division to court over the search company's Mandarin name...
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14.12.2007Symantec says Chinese offer a success, withholds numbers
Symantec Corp. declared its
compensation offer for Chinese
users who saw their computers
damaged by a bad software
update a success Sunday, but
declined to say how many users
had accepted the deal.
Symantec ran into trouble
May 18, when the company
issued a faulty software
update for its Norton
antivirus software that
wrongly identified two system
files in the Simplified
Chinese edition of Windows XP
as malware, and quarantined
them. That blunder rendered an
estimated 50,000 Chinese PCs
unusable, Symantec said.
The incident provoked an
angry outcry from Chinese
users, who demanded
compensation for the damage
wrought on their systems by
Symantec. At least two users
filed lawsuits against
Symantec over damage done to
their PCs. ..
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16.07.2007China: We're Being Spied On Via Net
Just a week after it was revealed that the Chinese may have been behind a cyberattack on the Pentagon in June of this year, the Chinese are now
claiming "massive damage" from spying on its own computers...
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13.09.2007Microsoft Shuts Down Chinese
Blog
Microsoft Corp. has shut
down the Internet journal of a
Chinese blogger that discussed
politically sensitive issues
including a recent strike at a
Beijing
newspaper.
The
action came amid criticism by
free-speech activists of
foreign technology companies
that help the communist
government enforce censorship
or silence dissent in order to
be allowed into China's
market.
Microsoft'
s China-based Web log-hosting
service shut down the blog at
the Chinese government's
request, said Brooke
Richardson, group product
manager with Microsoft's MSN
online division at the company
headquarters in Redmond,
Washington...
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06.01.2006Microsoft to Drop $900 Million
in China
One week after Chinese
President Hu Jintao made a
visit to the home of Bill
Gates before heading to the
White House, Microsoft has
announced it will invest $900
million into the country. The
spending includes plans to
purchase $700 million in
hardware from Chinese firms
over the next five years...
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27.04.2006Couple tried to name baby "@"
A Chinese couple tried to name
their baby "@," claiming the
character used in e-mail
addresses echoed their love
for the child, an official
trying to whip the national
language into line said
Thursday.
The unusual name stands
out especially in Chinese,
which has no alphabet and
instead uses tens of thousands
of multi-stroke characters to
represent words.
"The whole world
uses it to write e-mail, and
translated into Chinese it
means 'love him'," the
father explained, according to
the deputy chief of the State
Language Commission Li
Yuming.
While "@" is familiar to
Chinese e-mail users, they
often use the English word
"at" to sound it out --
which with a drawn out "T"
sounds something like "ai
ta," or "love him," to
Mandarin speakers...
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16.08.2007Chinese Government Turns to
Blogging
The Chinese government is
attempting to boost public
interest and support of its
Parliament by permitting
members to set up Web logs to
communicate with citizens.
While so far only eight of
some 5,000-plus delegated have
been approved to post, many
more have applied...
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06.03.2006MS: We Didn't ID Chinese
Journalist
Microsoft on Tuesday denied
any involvement in a case
where a Chinese journalist was
arrested for sending illegal
e-mails through a Hotmail
account. The government claims
he "fabricated, distorted
and exaggerated facts, incited
to subvert the state and
sought to overthrow the
socialist system."..
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07.03.2006Is China Messing With Google, Microsoft, And Yahoo?
Speculation is heating up on whether or not the Chinese government is hijacking Chinese Internet search traffic and redirecting it to Baidu, the
leading Chinese search engine. Google acknowledged the issue, but did not provide any insight on who is doing the dirty work: " Weve had
numerous reports that Google.cn and other search engines have been blocked in China and traffic redirected to other sites ," said a Google
spokesperson. Philipp Lenssen, who maintains Google Blogscoped, noted that all sites with the word "search" in their domain name all began
to redirect to Chinese search engine Baidu as of about 1 a.m. Beijing time Wednesday.
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19.10.2007Yahoo: We Followed Law in China Dissident Case
Defending its actions in disclosing the identities of Chinese dissidents, Yahoo on Monday said it acted with Chinese law in doing so. The company has
been roundly criticized for its involvement in several jailings...
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