There Is a Good Reason to Get Vista SP1
Microsoft plans to do away with that nasty 30-day off switch. Maybe some IT organizations should rejoice and take a few darts out of their pictures of Bill Gates.
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4.12.2007 The Real Reason Why Windows Vista Was Delayed
Last night, during my dinner with Jim Allchin, we discussed the reasoning for delaying the consumer launch of Vista until January. Up until now, conventional wisdom would say that this is a bad move ? missing the precious holiday season sales. In fact, Microsoft has been slammed by most tech journalists about the delay. Of course, there?s always more to the story ? and Jim let us know it.
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25.5.2006 Windows 7 debut in 2009? Another reason to skip Vista
If Windows 7 really is scheduled to make an appearance during the second half of 2009, does this mean that making the move to Vista is now a pointless effort?
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18.1.2008 I Still Believe in a Microsoft Phone
Michael Gartenberg says I'm wrong about the Microsoft phone. Not so fast, Michael.
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27.11.2008 One More Reason to Upgrade to Vista: 6-Minute XP Hack Is Frightening!
Six minutes... that is all it took to hack Windows XP, and to completely take over the operating system. Nick McGrath, Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft U.K., witnessing the XP hack first hand, described the effortless attack and compromising of the platform as "enlightening and frightening.
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13.11.2007 Microsoft My Phone beta
Coming soon. Microsoft® My Phone syncs information between your mobile phone and the web, enabling you to.
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7.2.2009 Microsoft, MCI Plan PC-To-Phone Service again
Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo and America Online allow instant messaging users to receive calls from conventional phones as well as to call out.
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13.12.2005 Microsoft, MCI plan PC-to-phone service
VoIP service will allow with outbound calling during tests
Microsoft Corp. and MCI Inc. said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones.
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14.12.2005 Microsoft clarifies WGA Notifications "phone home"
Microsoft responds to "WGA Phones home" issue, on the MSDN blog.
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9.3.2007 Microsoft unveils hardware for Web phone push
Microsoft Corp. introduced on Sunday phones, headsets and other devices to work with its software that aim to replace the traditional office phone and deliver e-mails, instant messages and phone calls over the Internet.
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14.5.2007 Microsoft Wins 500,000 Phone-Software Order
Microsoft Corp. won its biggest-ever contract for mobile-phone software, an order from the U.S. Census Bureau that covers 500,000 handsets.
Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, plans to unveil the deal today, general manager Scott Horn said in an interview.
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5.4.2006 The Linux phone
With thousands of phones in the market, companies are looking for ways to cut costs to give the users the best overall experience, along with a cheap price tag to attract a user base.
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9.2.2009 Office 12 Coming to a Smart Phone Near You
From Microsoft Watch:
Office 12 Beta 1 is due to hit any day now. We still don't know which pieces of the next-gen Office family will go to testers, or even how many Office 12 SKUs are likely to debut when the product goes gold in the latter half of next year.
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15.11.2005 Samsung SPH-G1000 Gaming Phone
Samsung has recently launched the SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 gaming phones in Korea. These phones are powered by powerful industry-leading 3D accelerator and vibration capability, make them quite promising for gamers. Controls which include a dedicated gaming joypad and a multi-key which operates in 8 directions are ergonomic and comfortable. For more detail, check out the specs below.
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24.11.2005 Google First Android Phone Released in New York
Yesterday, the highly anticipated launch of the Android phone took place in New York. Google's first-born “baby” phone was officially named G1, and is manufactured by HTC.
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24.9.2008 First Android phone in stores today and tomorrow
While I like the fact that T-Mobile let us existing customers pre-order the T-Mobile G1 the day it was announced last month, the benefit of pre-ordering seems to have lost that huge advantage I was thinking we were gaining.
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21.10.2008 Samsung To Release 10 Megapixel Camera Phone
Samsung Electronics will put a 10-megapixel camera phone on the market in South Korea shortly. The mobile phone was first shown at Cebit in Germany in March this year and was originally due to launch in the second quarter.
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11.10.2006 Zune phone? Ballmer says focus is Windows Mobile
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer answered questions Thursday night at a USA Today CEO Forum on the University of Washington campus, and at one point interviewer David Lieberman of USA Today asked about Microsoft's plans for a Zune phone.
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26.4.2007 Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
A man in London was arrested for using an open Wi-Fi network from someone’s unsecured broadband link from a nearby house. Similar arrests have happened in the US and this makes me wonder: Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
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23.8.2007 Put Windows Live on your Windows Mobile phone
Windows Live for Windows Mobile is now available to download for your Windows Mobile phone. Windows Live for Windows Mobile lets Windows Mobile users sync their email from Windows Live Hotmail as well as their Windows Live Contacts.
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14.5.2008 Microsoft releases free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you'll encounter.
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12.4.2006 Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 in an enterprise environment. Availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds are built for enterprise-level monitoring. Both local and remote connectivity checks help ensure database availability.
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5.6.2006 Microsoft Pre-Release Software Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 - September CTP
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly known as WinFX), is the new managed code programming model for Windows. It combines the power of the .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have visually compelling user experiences, seamless communication across technology boundaries, and the ability to support a wide range of business processes.
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24.9.2006 Podcasts: Microsoft IT Showcase: How Microsoft IT Architects and Configures DFS Replication
Edit: Something close to my heart! I sure hope the R2 changes to DFS are as good as they sound in all the marketing documents!
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25.2.2006 Microsoft Showcases Platform Advancements in the 2007 Microsoft Office System
Second annual Microsoft Office System Developers Conference highlights opportunity for custom solutions development utilizing innovations in the 2007 release.
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23.3.2006 Microsoft set to beta Microsoft Security Essentials June 23
Microsoft confirmed today that they plan to release a public beta of Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly codenamed Morro) on June 23.
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18.6.2009 Microsoft is 30 years old today! have a look at the Microsoft Timeline
It's hard to believe that Microsoft is already 30 years old. The company that made Redmond, Washington, a household name was actually founded in 1975 in another city by two young Seattle men, one of whom was a college dropout. From this inauspicious beginning came an equally improbable vision: A personal computer on every desk and in every home. Thirty years later, it seems so obvious. But at the time, when only a handful of people knew what a personal computer was, it was a great leap of faith and daring.
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Microsoft Windows Microsoft Application Verifier 3.2.0038
Application Verifier is a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that assists in quickly finding subtle programming errors that can be extremely difficult to identify with normal application testing.
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26.7.2006 Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!
Microsoft doesn't want you to pirate their software, but if you must choose between illegally installing Windows or a competitor's operating system, Microsoft would prefer that you choose them.
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15.3.2007 Microsoft releases new Ultimate Extras - Microsoft Tinker
Microsoft has silently released 3 updates for Windows Ultimate users today.
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23.9.2008Cell Phone Includes Internet
Telephony Capability
UTStarcom's GF200 could be
great for consumers, but cell
phone companies have reason to
fear it..
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07.01.2006Microsoft My Phone First Impressions
Microsoft unveiled its new service called My Phone, a service to sync text messages, photos, video, contacts and more to the Web, at the Mobile World
Congress. The My Phone service helps users to automatically upload photos and video from their Windows phone directly to the My Phone service. The My
Phone service is currently available in a limited invitation-only beta Once you get access to the My Phone service, you can download and install the
My Phone installer cab to your Windows phone.
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17.02.2009Microsoft My Phone update and feature request(s)
Microsoft My Phone Team has announced that an update is available for My Phone application to address some of the known issues. Users will receive a
prompt to download and install the update the next time their phone syncs with their online account. The update can also be obtained by visiting the
My Phone installation page from the phone's browser. My Phone service will stop working if the update is not installed within 7 days of receiving
the prompt. Meanwhile in another blog post by the My Phone team, the team has acknowledged some of the great feedbacks discussed on the forums.
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04.03.2009Microsoft announces new My Phone Web syncing service
Earlier we reported about the sight of the new SkyBox website going live for some time and later it turned out to be that it was indeed one of new
Microsoft's offering - Microosft My Phone Web Service Microsoft has now officially responded to jkOnTheRun website about the new My Phone web
service: Today, Microsoft's My Phone Web site went live prior to its scheduled debut. However, we are excited about the new Microsoft My Phone
service, which will be available as a limited, invite-only beta. This is a significant milestone for Microsoft as it connects the phone to the PC and
Web, making mobility a key pillar for the company's software+services strategy.
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07.02.2009A Microsoft smartphone: No. A Microsoft phone chassis: Yes
Microsoft is not going to introduce a Microsoft-branded phone at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona later this month. Not a Microsoft-branded
Zune phone. Not any kind of Microsoft-branded phone. Period.
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06.02.2009Microsoft My Phone beta sign in found
It appears that Microsoft is about to unveil its much rumored My Phone Service beta for the Windows Mobile Platform. Microsoft has yet to officially
update the main My Phone page but it is expected that the beta service will launch this week. For those that have been following the My Phone
service they will know that the "sign in" button has yet to appear but there is a back door way into the beta. If you're looking to jump into
the experience you can follow the link here.
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16.02.2009New EU rules to slash mobile phone calls abroad come into force
New rules aimed at slashing
the price of mobile phone
calls made abroad in the
European Union came into
effect on Monday, with EU
regulators promising to
monitor whether companies are
complying.
Mobile operators must now
offer EU subscribers tariffs
of no more than 49 euro cents
(66 US cents) a minute for
cross-border calls within the
27-nation bloc, while
receiving a call could cost no
more than 24 cents.
Mobile phone operators
had until Monday to offer the
new rates and by September
must bring them into effect
whether customers request them
or not.
The
impact of the new Eurotariff
will vary widely among the
European Union's 27 member
states because rates differ
greatly from one country to
another, which was the main
reason the caps were deemed
necessary...
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30.07.2007Microsoft Demos PC, Cell Phone
Combo
Microsoft is currently
developing a new cell phone
operating system that it would
market as low-cost computing
alternative in developing
nations. Called FonePlus, the
current iteration of the
product is essentially the
WebTV platform running on a
mobile phone...
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29.07.2006Verizon, BlackBerry Introduce Dual-Mode Phone
RIM on Wednesday introduced a
new phone for the Verizon
Wireless network that would
allow the carrier's customers
to use the phone overseas.
Included in the phone is a
dual-mode chip compatible with
both CDMA and GSM...
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25.04.2007Yahoo Ready to Launch Phone
Service
Yahoo revealed on Wednesday
that it had two new VoIP
services in the works for its
Yahoo Messenger client, which
would allow users to place and
receive phone calls. Called
Phone In and Phone Out, the
additions would allow Yahoo to
compete with companies like
Skype in the growing VoIP
market...
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09.12.2005Users: Outage no reason to abandon Skype
When the Internet phone company Skype went offline for nearly two days last week, Tim Legrand was frustrated and inconvenienced. But he has no plans
to switch back to a traditional telephone line.
The Birmingham, England, graduate student, who ditched his old phone service a
year ago, says Skype's low cost and flexibility outweigh the headaches caused by the outage.
He's not alone. Although millions
of users were angry, analysts say the outage is unlikely to cause customers to hang up on the service.
If anything, the reaction
may be a sign that Internet telephony - or Voice over Internet Protocol - is coming of age, said Richard Levick, chief executive of Levick Strategic
Communications, which provides crisis guidance for companies...
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24.08.2007Nokia N91 Music Phone Pushed
to 2006
Nokia on Tuesday officially
said it was delaying the
much-anticipated N91 music
phone until the first quarter
of next year, citing the
desire to make the phone work
with as many music providers
as possible and hold thousands
of songs. Motorola's ROKR
iTunes phone can store up to
100 songs...
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21.09.2005Palm's past is Pre-logue for a buzzworthy phone
It's a phone. It's a phone that didn't even arrive on Earth shooting out of Steve Jobs'...shirt pocket. So what about the reveal of the Palm Pre
proved so intoxicating on Thursday to CES attendees and press?..
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09.01.2009Microsoft OneApp Connects Emerging Markets to Popular Mobile Phone Apps
New mobile phone application makes it possible for ˜feature phone users to access popular apps and social networking sites now enjoyed by smartphone
users...
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25.08.2009Kadoink dials up music over the phone
A carrier-agnostic platform for sending music over the phone, has launched a beta in the United States. If it all works out, it could convert the cell
phone into a music promotional tool...
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07.12.2007Global Mobile Phone Use to Pass Record 3 Billion
Global mobile phone use will
pass the 3 billion
markequivalent to half the
world's populationfor the
first time in 2007 as cell
phone demand booms in China,
India and Africa, a survey
said on Wednesday.
From African farmers to
Chinese factory workers,
mobile operators will have
notched up more than 3.25
billion mobile phone
subscriptions worldwide by the
end of the year, according to
a report by UK-based telecoms
analysis company The Mobile
World.
Along with the
Internet, the mobile phone has
revolutionized communication.
The mobile phone has spread
from city whiz kids to
Brazilian slum dwellers. ..
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27.06.2007WSJ: Google Phone Within Two Weeks?
Google is apparently close to unveiling its phone platform within the next two weeks, but still has the considerable hurdle of convincing carriers to
sign over some of the control of the phone itself...
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30.10.2007Sanyo offloads cell phone arm to Kyocera, but brand will survive
You'll still be able to get a cell phone with Sanyo's name on it, if that's what you want. But now, the troubled Japanese electronics manufacturer
will be selling its mobile phone business to Kyocera for around $374 million...
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22.01.2008Microsoft to release Nvidia powered phone?
Following on from the recent announcement of Windows Mobile 6.5 comes fresh rumours regarding Microsoft entering the mobile phone market themselves.
For years Microsoft has provided the operating system for use on a wide range of handsets by different manufacturers. This might be about to change.
If you believe recent rumours, then Microsoft is allegedly going to launch a mobile phone based on Nvidia's new Tegra CPU which would be annoucned
at the forthcoming GSMA Mobile World Congress in February 2009. Microsoft has used the annual event to introduce previous versions of Windows Mobile.
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27.11.2008New Sony Ericsson phone rips straight from CD player
Sony's latest Ericsson phone, the Sony Ericsson Premier 3 Walkman, is a rather unique phone, in that it can be plugged into CD players and can
copy music played onto the phone. In order to record music, simply plug in a 3.5mm plug from the phone's remote into the CD player and you're
good to go. The phone has a 3" 480×854 pixel display, 3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, GPS, Infrared, but questionably, Sony chose to include a
mere 50mb memory. The phone does have a Micro SD card slot, but this can only support up to 2gb cards.
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