Windows 7 OEM Named Partner RTM Information
Here is the correct current information as available for OEM's. Thansk to our fiend for report.
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22.7.2009 Where Should Microsoft Partner Next?
DEMOfall 08 is an autumn harvest of companies Microsoft should be partnering with.
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10.9.2008 Microsoft Launches Hosting Partner Program
Program provides hosting community with technical tools and resources to help lower costs and increase average revenue per user.
Microsoft Corp. today announced the Microsoft Hosting Program, a free offering that provides hosting companies with technical tools and resources to help them deploy and manage Microsoft? products.
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27.11.2005 Microsoft partner: Vista less secure than XP
Security company Kaspersky claimed that Vista's User Account Control (UAC), the system of user privileges that can be used to restrict users' administrative rights, will be so annoying that users will disable it.
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23.3.2007 Microsoft Announces New Partner Initiatives for Windows Vista
New Certified for Windows Vista logo program to label products optimized for Windows Vista; Windows Rally and native support for networked projectors will ease hardware setup and connectivity
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23.5.2006 Steve Ballmer Live Webcast at the Worldwide Partner Conference
Live Webcast On Tuesday, July 10th at 11:15 a.m. Mountain Time.
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11.7.2007 Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft
Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows & Office Programs available for download -- finding them all is extremely difficult . . . until now.
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2.1.2007 A Software Compatibility List for Microsoft Windows Vista RC 1
Iexbeta has a nic Wiki page with a huge list of software and its compatibility with Windows Vista.
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29.9.2006 IE 8's list of 2,400 incompatible sites - including Microsoft.com!
Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) is nearing the finish line, with a March release to manufacturing looking like a distinct possibility. But is IE 8 — or, more accurately — Web site developers and owners — really ready?
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18.2.2009 Microsoft can't afford to support OEM Vista?
Microsoft might have $7.6 billion in spare cash in the bank, but when it comes to supporting users who purchase Vista on a new machine, the software giant is all too ready to cry poor.
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15.5.2007 OEM licensing confusion starts at Microsoft.com
Last week, in the wrap-up for a post about WGA, I offered five suggestions I’d like to see incorporated into Vista and especially into Windows 7.
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9.9.2008 Microsoft Windows Vista OEM Preinstallation Kit available
The Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) OEM Presinstallation Kit is now available. Microsoft's Worldwide System Builder team would like system builders to experience the updated OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) tools which will be used to preinstall Windows Vista.
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16.10.2006 Microsoft: The Windows OEM License Dies with Its Computer
Licenses for Windows come in various flavors from Retail to Volume, but perhaps the most common of all is provided by original equipment manufacturers together with operating systems preloaded on new computers.
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17.6.2008 Microsoft Confirms Windows Vista OEM BIOS Crack
Microsoft confirmed the fact that hackers have developed a valid Windows Vista crack designed to exploit the operating system's OEM BIOS activation.
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11.4.2007 Microsoft blacklists leaked Lenovo OEM Windows 7 Key
According to Neowin, Microsoft has responded to the latest Windows 7 cracking scheme by blacklisting the Lenovo OEM master key on computers that are not manufactured by Lenovo.
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31.7.2009 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 Bill Gates' to-do list
NEW YORK--It's still a year before Bill Gates shifts from a full-time Microsoft worker to a part-timer. Which is good, because there's plenty he still wants to achieve.
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4.2.2007 Gates still has a long to-do list
For years, the Microsoft chairman has been a fiery advocate, inside the company and out, for the notion that computers should be controlled, not just by mouse and keyboard, but also by more natural means, such as voice, touch and digital ink.
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19.10.2007 List Of Windows 7 Leaks
We already mentioned that Windows 7 is probably the Microsoft operating system with the most leaks in history (read: Microsoft we have a leak).
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4.4.2009 Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list
Cynics see the new Engineering Windows 7 blog, which launched last week, as a pure PR play from Microsoft. Maybe it’s just a matter of setting expectations properly.
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20.8.2008 Windows 7 SKU feature list
Microsoft yesterday announced its plans for the Windows 7 SKU. Here is the feature list I created based on the information that is currently available.
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4.2.2009 Updated List of updates for Vista SP1
This guy Aaron Tiensivu keeps a VERY good list of non-critical Vista updates and this looks like it could be part of SP1.
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14.6.2007 Here’s the list of fixes in those new Vista fix packs
I linked to an AeroXP post this morning listing hot fixes for Windows Vista provided in two new Knowledge Base postings. The AeroXP post is gone now. Poof!
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30.7.2007 What about Windows 7 OEM pricing?
Microsoft still has yet to go public with its Windows 7 price list. But that hasn’t stopped customers and partners from publicly hoping for the best (cheaper than Vista) and fearing the worst (any kind of increase over the cost of Vista).
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16.6.2009 Bill Gates tops Forbes' list of billionaires
New York (NY) - Bill Gates leads Forbes' list of the world's richest people for the 13th time in a row. The Microsoft co-founder's wealth is estimated at $56 billion.
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11.3.2007 List of Google Search Strings for Finding MP3
This How-To will teach you how to use Google to find mp3s. This How-To will be highly pragmatic and will focus on the hows and not the wherefores of the various search strings.
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10.4.2007 Bill Gates Again Tops List of Richest Americans
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the richest person in America for the 14th year in a row, followed by investor Warren Buffett, according to Forbes magazine's latest list of the wealthiest Americans.
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21.9.2007 List of Available Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23041 ROMs
Ready to install cooked ROMs of Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23041 are now available for a variety of popular Windows Phones.
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3.9.2009 Windows Live to Get First OEM Bundle
Microsoft will imminently announce its first PC-bundling deal for Windows Live.
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14.3.2007 Windows 7 OEM Pricing Emerges
Windows 7 is set to be launched on the market in about three weeks from now, and those people considering choosing it as the platform on their computers are certainly interested in the costs the migration will imply.
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30.9.2009Windows 7 OEM prices unveiled, 50% off list price
ComputerWorld is reporting that online retailer Newegg.com has unveiled Windows 7 OEM pricing. Newegg.com has priced the OEM version of Windows 7
Home Premium at $99.99 which is a price reduction of 50% down from the recommended retail price of $199.99. Other savings are available for
Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate at $134.99 and $174.99, respectively. This is a saving of approximately 50% on each version from
the list price. OEM editions are priced lower as you typically do not get retail packaging, little official support and you're not able to
transfer the operating system license from one PC to another.
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29.09.2009Microsoft recruits Altech for OEM distribution in Australia
Microsoft has struck an OEM distribution agreement with Altech Computers for its Windows Vista, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Server products lines.
The OEM partnership is the vendor's first in nearly 10 years.
Microsoft SME and partner director, Pip Marlow, said the two
companies had partnered closely over recent years.
The new relationship would expand its scope and enable Microsoft to deliver
more support to the local system builder market, she said.
"Altech is the destination for small system builders - they do a
phenomenal job supporting that part of the channel," Marlow said. Altech now shares OEM distribution rights with Ingram Micro and Synnex.
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12.11.2007OEM Microsoft Office and OEM Microsoft Windows licensing
OEM Microsoft Office and OEM
Microsoft Windows licensing is
a topic that seems to again be
generating questions and there
are plenty of people out there
who are illegally taking
advantage of others to trying
to make a quick profit by
selling counterfeit or
unlicensed software.
Here are the facts
and answers to many of the
points of confusion around OEM
Microsoft Office and OEM
Microsoft Windows licensing so
you are informed and can
protect yourself from the
scammers out there...
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02.08.2007Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Timelines Shared at Computex
Steve Guggenheimers anniversary keynote address at leading OEM conference also highlights partner opportunities with upcoming Microsoft innovations...
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03.06.2009Windows 7 Ultimate cracked and activated with OEM master key
Windows 7 has yet to even be released officially to the general public, and already the dodgy folk on the Internet have fully cracked and activated
the Ultimate version, with help from a leaked Lenovo OEM DVD .ISO file. The news comes from website My Digital Life who state that you can already
pass Windows Genuine Advantage validation offline, OEM style. The leaked .ISO was originally posted on a Chinese forum, which was then downloaded in
order for people to get hold of the boot.wim, and in turn retrieving the OEM-SLP key, plus the OEM activation certificate. Microsoft uses the same
digitally signed OEM certificate, which has an .xrm-ms extension, as that in Windows Vista.
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29.07.2009July 1: No more Office 2003 for OEMs
Its only been six months since
Microsoft launched Office 2007
at retail. But as of July 1,
2007, Microsoft wont be
making the OEM version of
Office 2003 to its PC
partners, aka "OEMs."
Eric Ligman, Senior
Manager of Small Business
Community Engagement with
Microsoft, reminded OEMs and
customers of the pending
cut-off date in a blog posting
dated June 18:
"After June 30, 2007 ,
OEM
Microsoft Office 2003 will no
longer be availble from
Microsoft. Some authorized
OEM Microsoft distributors may
have some remaining inventory
left for a short time after
June 30th; however, Microsoft
will no longer be shipping OEM
Microsoft Office to
them." ..
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18.06.2007MS: It's Okay to Buy Vista OEM Software
Microsoft has given the go
ahead for users to buy the
low-cost OEM copies of Windows
Vista now appearing on sites
like Newegg.com; however, they
would be expected to adhere to
the licensing terms just like
any other computer
manufacturer...
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30.01.2007Microsoft blacklists leaked Windows 7 OEM key
Microsoft has responded to pirates by blacklisting the Lenovo OEM key that leaked earlier this week. On Tuesday Neowin reported that pirates were
able to modify their BIOS and activate copies of Windows 7 Ultimate with a Lenovo OEM master key. Microsoft have worked with Lenovo to blacklist the
master key before Windows 7 starts shipping with new PCs in October. According to Alex Kochis, Director of Genuine Windows at Microsoft: "we've
worked with that manufacturer so that customers who purchase genuine copies of Windows 7 from this manufacturer will experience no issues validating
their copy of Windows 7.
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31.07.2009Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 09 - Day 1 keynotes
Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) kicks off today at 8:30am CDT (see all time zones). Stephen Elop, president of the
Microsoft Business Division, will begin the keynotes at 8:30am CDT. Elop oversees the Information Worker, Microsoft Business Solutions, and Unified
Communications Groups. This division is responsible for the Microsoft Office system of programs, servers and software-based services. We expect Elop
to demonstrate the range of Office Web Applications and detail the Office 2010 private beta. Bill Veghte, senior vice president for the Windows
business, will also join Elop in the announcements. Veghte is responsible for Sales and marketing across Windows and Windows Live and OEM sales.
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13.07.2009Microsoft block Windows 7 OEM key hack
Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage team
have responded to this week's news that a Windows 7 Ultimate
licensing hack had been identified.
After a Lenovo OEM Windows 7 image leaked and was used to extract a license key, Microsoft have worked with the manufacturer to blacklist the rogue
key and replace it - on genuine Lenovo PCs bought with the new OS - with a working version.
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31.07.2009IBM's WAS CE open source app server gathers steam
IBM's open source application server is garnering more momentum with this week's introduction of a new OEM partner, Avada Software, plus a new
customer, international money transfer and transaction processing specialist Nexxar Group, Inc...
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05.02.2008Microsoft sends harsh reality check to OEMs
Last week, Microsoft sent
certified letters to its OEM
partners regarding Vista's
anti-piracy technology -- or,
more accurately, what happens
if they dare ship a system
with a "non-genuine" copy of
Vista.
The answer:
The system is crippled for 30
days, then hosed entirely
until you pony up for a
license. This is apparently
what Microsoft means when it
http://oem.microsoft.com/downl
oads/public/US/wgavista/genuin
e.pdf>warns of a "diminished
user experience."
This would be fine if
Microsoft were a reasonably
competent organization and
Windows Genuine Advantage
worked flawlessly. True
pirates deserve to be
punished. But Microsoft isn't
and WGA doesn't “ at least,
judging by the many letters I
got from Cringesters who
bought legit OEM copies of XP
from major manufacturers, only
to have WGA label them as
pirates. ..
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04.06.2007Microsoft Unveils New Opportunities for Partners at Worldwide Partner Conference 2007
Q&A: At the company's annual
worldwide partner gathering,
the head of Microsoft's
worldwide partner program
discusses how the evolution of
the companys software delivery
model opens new business
opportunities for partners...
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11.07.2007Microsoft demos from WPC
More than ever before, the
Worldwide Partner Conference
was a serious demo fest with
lots of cool technology shown
off during the keynotes.
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14.07.2007Google confirms Chrome OS will be free, reveals OEM partners
Yesterday, Google announced that they plan to release a Chrome based OS. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will
initially be targeted at netbooks. In a blog posting today, Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management at Google, confirmed that Chrome OS "will be
available to use at no cost". Google also revealed the list of companies it is working with:AcerAdobeASUSFreescaleHewlett-PackardLenovoQualcommTexas
InstrumentsToshiba Although Sony and Dell are both absent from the list Google did say "among others" before the list above so it's entirely
possible the company is still in negotiation with other OEMs. Company officials confirmed that Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM
chips.
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09.07.2009Microsoft can't afford to support OEM Vista?
Microsoft might have
$7.6 billion in spare cash in
the bank, but when it comes to
supporting users who purchase
Vista on a new machine, the
software giant is all too
ready to cry poor.
Conventional wisdom
holds that if you feel the
urge to upgrade to Windows
Vista, buying it pre-installed
on a new machine is the best
way to go. The advantages are
allegedly twofold: there
should be fresh and functional
drivers for all the built-in
hardware, and you get OEM
pricing (much lower than the
retail $400-$700 price range)
for your new OS.
That
discount pricing comes with a
nasty twist, however. Because
you've purchased an OEM copy,
Microsoft won't extend to you
the courtesy of a 90-day
support period for Vista,
which it does offer to
customers who struggle through
the upgrade process on their
existing machines. Instead, it
will direct you straight back
to your hardware manufacturer...
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15.05.2007Microsofts OEM chief defects to Lenovo
Mary Jo Foley: While so many of us Microsoft watchers were preoccupied with
the
hasty departure of former Microsfot CIO Stuart Scott, the resignation of the companys OEM chief slipped right by most of us.
Scott Di Valerio quietly left Microsoft at the
very end of October and has
resurfaced at Lenovo. Redmond Channel
Partner reported on di Valerios career moves in early November, but I missed their story.
Di Valerio is slated to start his new
job on December 3 as Lenovo senior vice president and president of the Americas Group. Di Valerio
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03.12.2007Microsoft Partners Head to New Orleans for WPC 2009
Product innovation and partner opportunity are focus of Worldwide Partner Conference, along with an expanded roster of executives and onsite
technology experts...
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13.07.2009Microsoft, HP Form Joint $300m Marketing Alliance
Calling Hewlett-Packard “the
most comprehensive partner we
have” among a list of over
640,000 such partners,
Microsoft announced this
evening, along with HP, the
formation of a joint marketing
alliance, in which both
companies would jointly market
Microsoft software implemented
on HP hardware...
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14.12.2006Microsoft Responds to Reported OEM BIOS Hacks
The WGA team have finally
provided a written response to
the reported OEM BIOS Hacks
regarding Vista:
I
know many of you are aware of
reports of hacks that attempt
to exploit our OEM BIOS based
activation. We're aware of
this type of hack and I wanted
to take a minute to describe
how these work and how we plan
to respond.
First, what is OEM BIOS
based activation?
Here's a little more
information on how OEM BIOS
based activation works. This
form of product activation is
also known as OEM Activation
or just OA, which is how
Microsoft refers to it and how
I will refer to it in this
post. Back at the launch of
Windows XP when Microsoft
introduced Windows Product
Activation, we recognized that
as easy as end-user activation
is, it still represented an
extra step.
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