Microsoft confirms Windows 7 to launch by December 2009
Good news from the kingdom of Redmond, fellow geeks; we've finally been given a more precise (though still not as precise as one could get) release date for Windows 7, the next operating system to come from Microsoft.
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11.5.2009 Windows 7 RTM December 2009 Cumulative Time Zone Update
Microsoft has made available for download a new Cumulative Time Zone Update for all currently supported Windows platforms, designed to implement time-zone changes that reflect modifications introduced around the world.
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18.11.2009 Microsoft security updates for December
On 12 December 2006 Microsoft is planning to release: Security Updates.
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8.12.2006 Microsoft Security Updates: December 2005
Microsoft has just posted their security patch builletin for the month of December. As usual all required patches for your PC can be found on
Windows Update.
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13.12.2005 What’s New in Microsoft Land: 17-21 December, 2007
The Ingenuity Point Competition had its first round of winners announced on Monday. Independent software vendors from all over the world are taking part in Microsoft’s competition that focuses on recognizing software solutions that are to make a meaningful difference in the areas of education, healthcare and environmental sustainability.
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22.12.2007 Microsoft knew of Windows .ANI flaw since December 2006
A private security research outfit says it notified Microsoft about the animated cursor (.ani) code execution vulnerability since December 2006, a full four months ahead of yesterday’s discovery of Internet Explorer drive-by attacks.
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2.4.2007 Microsoft to launch test build of Internet Explorer refresh in December
Following its August settlement of a long-standing patent dispute with Eolas, Microsoft is readying a refresh of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser that will remove an interim “Click to Activate” control setting.
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8.11.2007 WinInfo: Week of December 12
The man who just 'knows' has spoken out on the December CTP build & possible dates of delivery. Testers were sadly disappointed last month when Microsoft failed to deliver the November CTP build (that would of been 5259) touting that it had 'issues' and it was probably better to wait for a 'better more feature complete version' in December. According to Thurrott the December build won't be the feature complete build all testers were hoping for, almost, but not quite. Whatever that means. Oh, and heres 2 short takes from Wininfo for your enjoyment.
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11.12.2005 Vista December CTP Due Monday
Sources at Microsoft have told me that the eagerly-awaited December Community Technical Preview (CTP) build of Windows Vista will be delivered to beta testers on Monday. According to my sources, the CTP is build 5270 (5270.x86fre.winmain_idx03.051212-1830).
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16.12.2005 Windows Vista December CTP Today!
Paul apparently knows that beta testers will get this today, since he posted this last wednesday and hasn't updated it since it will be interesting to see if he's correct.
Taken from WinInfo: Sources at Microsoft told me that the eagerly awaited Community Technology Preview (CTP) build of Windows Vista will be delivered to beta testers on Monday. According to my sources, the CTP is build 5270 (5270.x86fre.winmain_idx03.051212-1830).
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19.12.2005 Windows 7 Beta 1 available for download on December 2008
The constant wave of Windows 7 Beta chatter from Redmond, even without an official confirmation from Microsoft, is a clear indication that the company is gearing up to move the next iteration of the
Windows client beyond the development milestone (M) stages.
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11.9.2008 WinInfo Short Takes: Week of December 12
The man who just 'knows' has spoken out on the December CTP build & possible dates of delivery. Testers were sadly disappointed last month when Microsoft failed to deliver the November CTP build (that would of been 5259) touting that it had 'issues' and it was probably better to wait for a 'better more feature complete version' in December.
According to Thurrott the December build won't be the feature complete build all testers were hoping for, almost, but not quite. Whatever that means. Oh, and heres 2 short takes from Wininfo for your enjoyment.
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9.12.2005 Full Review: Windows Vista December CTP
Love-him-hate-him Paul Thurrot has released a four part in-depth review of Vista's December CTP. "I think people are going to be surprised by how good the Windows Vista December 2005 Community Technical Preview (CTP, or build 5270) really is.
After years of painful delays and an uncertain couple of months since the last CTP, Microsoft shipped a near-feature-complete Vista build to testers this week, and the prognosis is extremely positive. From what I can see, Vista has turned the corner. The December CTP is an exciting release, stable and full of new features. In this review, I'll examine those new features, and the features that have changed since the previous CTP, build 5231"
Part 1 |
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Part 3 |
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26.12.2005 Hack claims Vista to ship on December 5th
Veteran Zdnet hack and exiled Evertonian Colin Barker reports that Microsoft has lined up a surprise 5 December "general release date" for the consumer version of Windows Vista.
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14.10.2006 New Beta Builds of Vista SP1 and XP SP3 in December?
Microsoft is hard at work hammering away at the two service packs designed to refresh the Windows XP and Windows Vista clients.
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9.11.2007 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 Big review of Vista December 2005 CTP (Build 5270)
I think people are going to be surprised by how good the Windows Vista December 2005 Community Technical Preview (CTP, or build 5270) really is. After years of painful delays and an uncertain couple of months since the last CTP, Microsoft shipped a near-feature-complete Vista build to testers this week, and the prognosis is extremely positive.
From what I can see, Vista has turned the corner. The December CTP is an exciting release, stable and full of new features. In this review, I'll examine those new features, and the features that have changed since the previous CTP, build 5231.
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21.12.2005 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 Microsoft unveils Windows Embedded Standard 2009
Microsoft has announced the immediate availability of Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Community Technology Preview.
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5.6.2008 Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2009: six bulletins
Microsoft will release six security bulletins this Tuesday. Three are rated as "Critical" and the other three are marked "Important."
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5.11.2009 Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Security Release ISO Image December 2008
On December 9, Microsoft made available for download the last bouquet of security updates for 2008. the company released no less than eight security bulletins, six of them Critical and two rated as Important.
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11.12.2008 Microsoft to Wrap up New Windows 8 Testing Infrastructure by Mid-2009
With Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 out of the way in the first half of the year, Microsoft is focusing on Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server, the next iterations of the Windows client and server platforms.
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2.7.2008 Microsoft readying RC of Vista SP2 for February 2009
Citing a source at Microsoft, Techarp has revealed that Microsoft is targeting a release candidate (RC) version of Windows Vista SP2 for February 2009.
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24.11.2008 Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 - Release Candidate - DVD ISO Image File
Commerce Server 2009 (formerly known as Commerce Server 2007 code name “Mojave”) delivers the ability to increase your business reach by making it possible to sell via multiple channels using an out-of-the-box shopping site, SharePoint Commerce Services, and the Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation.
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16.1.2009 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 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 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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12.9.2008Microsoft Affiliates Network gets a facelift
As we all know, Microsoft Affiliates Network was closed on December, 15th 2008. In an email sent to me yesterday, Microsoft Affiliates Manager Melissa
Witt wrote about the new offers which will be available in early 2009 when Affiliates Network will re start its services: The Microsoft Affiliate
Network is transiting to a new service provider and after December 31, 2008 you will no longer be able to login to the Affiliate console. Please
download any reports you may need from this console before January 1, 2009. New offers will be available early in 2009 and your new affiliate
managers will notify you when the network is ready.
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21.12.2008Microsoft kills Encarta, Wikipedia to blame?
According to the Encarta FAQ page, Microsoft is killing off the encyclopaedia--the 2009 versions, it would seem, will be the last. The MSN Encarta
websites will, with the exception of the one serving the Japanese market, all be taken down on 31 October 2009 (the Japanese version will come down on
31 December 2009). Microsoft Student and Encarta Premium will cease to be sold by June 2009. Customers with subscriptions to online content will be
reimbursed. According to Wikipedia, the first edition of Encarta was released in 1993, and in the years that followed the number of articles grew and
grew, with the 2008 version of Encarta Premium boasting more than 62,000.
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31.03.2009Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 - December 2008 CTP
Commerce Server 2009 (formerly known as Commerce Server 2007 code name "Mojave") delivers the ability to increase your business reach by making it
possible to sell via multiple channels using an out-of-the-box shopping site, SharePoint Commerce Services, and the Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation.
The new out-of-the-box shopping site leverages SharePoint Commerce Services, which provides a gallery of ASP.NET 3.5 Web Parts, a comprehensive
e-commerce shopping feature-set, and technology integration between Commerce Server and SharePoint technologies. The Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation
provides a new unified, extensible run-time programming model for Commerce Server, including new run-time e-commerce capabilities.
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19.12.2008Apple offers Snow Leopard upgrades for $9.95
Want to buy a new Apple system but thinking about holding off until Snow Leopard is released in September? Apple is now offering an "Up-to-Date
Program" to give you Snow Leopard for only $9.95. You must purchase a qualifying computer or Xserve between June 8 and December 26, 2009, that
does not include Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and complete the order form and return it to Apple within 90 days of the date of your purchase or by December
26, 2009, whichever is earlier. The $9.95 includes shipping and handing fee, but does not cover tax for U.S. customers. This offer is good only in
the United States and Canada.
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16.06.2009YouTube to begin reinforcing restricted API access on Dec. 2
Since July of 2008, the Terms of Service for YouTube have restricted implementations of the technology on TVs utilizing the APIs. The means of gaining
YouTube access, such as video scraping technology, weren't approved, and now the company will begin fully restricting those who can access it,
starting on December 2. The December 2 deadline was said to have first shown up here, on the blog of the COO of Popcorn Hour. The message stated,
"As of Wednesday, December 2, 2009, YouTube will no longer be available to Popcorn Hour users," and warned users that this was no technical issue.
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22.11.2009Motorola to cut 4,000 more jobs in 2009
Mobile handset maker Motorola Inc. says it will cut 4,000 more jobs in 2009, in addition to 3,000 it announced in December.
The
company says the move will save about $700 million a year starting in 2009, totaling $1.5 billion in annual savings when combined with the previous
cut.
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15.01.2009Patch Tuesday for December 2008
Microsoft will release another 8 patches this coming Tuesday December 9 to block Remote Code Execution in a number of its own software, including
Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and Visual Basic. 6 are labeled as critical, and 2 labeled at important. Microsoft will also release an update
of its Malicious Software Removal Tool. This is to be the last release of patches for the 2008 year. This brings the total number of bulletins to 69
for the year end.
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06.12.2008Microsoft Releases December
Vista CTP
In a conference call Monday
afternoon, Shanen Boettcher of
the Windows Client group
announced the availability of
the December Windows Vista
CTP, numbered build 5270. The
CTP focuses on improving
security, performance and
mobility aspects of
Microsoft's next Windows
release, but still lacks the
Sidebar...
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20.12.2005Wii continues video game dominance in December
The Wii continued to lead video game console sales in December, but the Xbox 360 wasn't far behind. Also, the PS3 showed significant improvement...
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18.01.2008Longhorn Server December CTP released
On the evening of December 20
(EST) Microsoft released to
testers the December Community
Technology Preview (CTP) build
of Longhorn Server.
Microsoft has posted the
new Longhorn Server bits to
the Microsoft Connect site for
download. The December CTP is
what was slated to be the
November CTP of the next
version of Windows Server.
Thebuild number
of the December CTP is
6001.16406. Both 32- and
64-bit versions are available.
Microsoft is
planning on one more Longhorn
Server CTP (possibly in
January) before releasing the
next major milestone, Beta 3,
in the early part of 2007. The
final Longhorn Server release
is slated to ship in the
latter half of next year.
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22.12.2006Xbox 360 Coming November 22
Microsoft has solidified a
launch date for the Xbox 360,
announcing the system would
hit store shelves on November
22 across North America,
December 2 in Europe, and
December 10 in Japan. Details
of the launch date were
announced on the eve of the
Tokyo Game Show...
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15.09.2005.eu Domains to Launch on
December 7
EURid, the European
organization tasked with
managing the .eu top-level
domain name, has announced it
will begin offering
registrations on December 7.
To prevent cybersquatting,
public bodies and trademark
holders will be the first to
register until February 7,
2006, when company names and
artistic names can be claimed...
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05.10.2005Analysts: Online video viewing up 13% in December
Maybe the cold weather had something to do with it, and maybe the ever worsening economy. In any case, online video viewing increased a record 13% in
December versus November of last year, according to analysts at comScore. During December, viewers watched 14.3 million videos online, with YouTube
accounting for 49% of the incremental gain.
In fact, considerably more videos (41%) got viewed on Google Sites than anywhere else, with 99%
of the viewing on those sites happening on YouTube. Fox Interactive Media took second place, at 3.1%, followed by Yahoo Sites at 2.3%, and Viacom
Digital at 2.0%. Microsoft Sites and Hulu.com tied for fifth place, each with 1.7%. Also placing in the rankings were AOL with 1.4%, Turner Network,
1.3%; Disney Online, 1.0%; and ESPN, 0.7%...
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06.02.2009Six Apart buys Pownce, plans to shut it down on December 15
Pownce was started in June 2007 as a closed beta and was fully released to the public in January 2008. Today it was announced that Six Apart the
owners of such services as Live Journal and Typepad will acquire and shut down the service on December 15. Pownce co-creators Kevin Rose and Daniel
Burka will stay on as advisers according to Six Apart's blog entry on the acquisition. So where did it go wrong for Pownce? Well you could look
at the Pownce structure.
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02.12.2008Microsoft confirms Windows 7 to launch by December '09
Good news from the kingdom of Redmond, fellow geeks; we've finally been given a more precise (though still not as precise as one could get)
release date for Windows 7, the next operating system to come from Microsoft. Word comes from a PressPass article, and while it may be vague, it's
still official.
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12.05.2009PlayStation 3 Barely Eclipses Two-Thirds of Sales Goals
The December sales numbers
from industry analyst firm NPD
Group for game consoles have
just come in, and they aren't
pretty. Sony, beset by supply
problems, reduced its initial
August prediction of 2 million
down to 750,000, and in the
end didn't even make that -
the company sold 490,700 units
in December, for a total of
687,300 since launch...
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12.01.2007Microsoft Windows Vista
December Community Technology
Preview Released To Testers
The December
Microsoft? Windows Vista???
Community Technology Preview
(CTP) is the third in a series
of early Windows Vista builds
being released to an extensive
technical community. The CTP
program is designed to involve
customers and partners in the
various stages of Windows
Vista development by
facilitating timely and
relevant feedback. Microsoft
Corp. is on schedule to have
the majority of Windows Vista
features code-complete by the
end of 2005, and the CTP
program will help enable
Microsoft to provide testers
with a feature-complete
version of the product sooner
than for any previous
Windows?
release.
T
he December CTP will be
distributed to testers in the
Windows Vista Technical Beta
Program, and is available to
more than half a million
Microsoft Developer Network
(MSDN?) and TechNet
subscribers. The December CTP
offers developers, IT
professionals, and Windows
enthusiasts an opportunity to
review and test some of the
operating system???s
significant security and
performance enhancements and
innovations. It also showcases
progress on the overall user
experience and design elements
in Windows Vista.
As with the
previous CTPs, the December
CTP is intended for use by
developers, IT professionals
and the technical community.
Given the nature of software
development and the feedback
process, many of the features
in this CTP will continue to
evolve throughout the
development cycle. End users
interested in testing
pre-release versions of
Windows Vista should continue
to wait until the beta 2
version becomes available. ..
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20.12.2005Microsoft Expression Blend 2 December Preview Free Trial
We are pleased to present our next preview of Microsoft
® Expression Blend
™ 2. The Expression Blend 2 December Preview
lets you
create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications as well as Microsoft Silverlight
™-based
applications. Additionally, you can export content from
Microsoft Expression® Design in a format that you can use in Silverlight-based applications
created in the Expression Blend 2 December Preview. You may also find
Microsoft Expression Encoder to be helpful when you are working with video, Silverlight,
and the Expression Blend 2 December Preview. Learn more about
Silverlight and its
community today.
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07.12.2007Microsoft adCenter Analytics Beta to close
The Microsoft adCenter Analytics team has announced that the adCenter Analytics beta program has been closed and the program will remain available to
current users until December 31, 2009. "Our objectives at the outset were to serve the needs of small and midsize self-service customers, as well as
evolve the Microsoft strategy to address the Web analytics space. You've helped us work towards making an informed decision about building a
general Web analytics solution, and despite the end of life plan, the beta was very much a success.
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24.03.2009Microsoft Provisioning System SDK December 2007
ISVs and Hosters can use this MPS SDK to develop applications that are enabled for multi-tenancy capability. Create providers and namespaces specific
to provisioning and hosting that allow your applications to be used by many users simultaneously.
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