Microsoft Releases First Batch of Updates for Vista
Microsoft has made the first batch of updates for Vista available via the built-in Windows Update client. If you don't see the 22 updates, manually "Check for updates".
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30.1.2007 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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24.3.2006 Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 now?
Paul Thurrott writes in is weekly edition of shortakes that "the Vista Beta 2 build candidate is up to build 5384.3", he also notes that "you never know if a last-minute change could cause it to jump to the build 5385 range. "
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20.5.2006 Microsoft may delay Windows Vista, again
Microsoft's release of the upgrade to its flagship Windows operating system will likely be delayed again by at least three months, research group Gartner Inc. said on Tuesday.
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3.5.2006 Microsoft To Shut Off Vista Beta 2
Microsoft plans to close the Windows Vista Beta 2 test to new users after Friday, a company executive said Thursday..
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2.7.2006 Microsoft releases new build of Vista
On Monday, Microsoft released a new build of Windows Vista, the successor to the aging Windows XP, to technical beta testers, TAP customers, and MSDN subscribers.
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17.7.2006 Microsoft: Vista RC1 Coming Soon
Brushing off feedback from testers and pundits to push back the first release candidate of Windows Vista and issue a third beta instead, Microsoft confirmed Thursday that RC1 was on the way.
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16.8.2006Microsoft Releases First Batch of Updates for Vista
Microsoft has made the first
batch of updates for Vista
available via the built-in
Windows Update client. If you
don't see the 22 updates,
manually "Check for
updates".
Here's
the breakdown:
- 5
Updates for both 32bit and
64bit flavours of Vista
(KB930857), (KB928089),
(KB929427), (KB931573) &
(KB929735)
- 15 Language
Packs (Chinese Hong Kong,
Chine Simplified, Danish,
Dutch, Finnish, French,
German, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish,
Swedish)
- 2 Ultimate
Extras (BitLocker and EFS
enhancements & Hold Em Poker
Game)
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30.01.2007More inside dirt coming in Vista suit?
Microsoft is huddling with hardware makers this week to prepare for the next Windows version, but the company's lawyers are still dealing with the
legal aftermath of Windows Vista's 2007 launch. A federal judge in Seattle could rule any day now on a series of pivotal issues in the class-action
lawsuit over Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" program.
One of those issues: Whether to unseal another big batch of
internal documents turned over by Microsoft in the case.
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05.11.2008Gaming Performance: Windows Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3
Even as Microsoft tries to shove Windows Vista down the collective and unwilling throat of computer users worldwide, the company is still perfecting
the well-aged and well-loved Windows XP. The latter of the two operating systems just received its third (and evidently last) service pack.
<...> Of course, with the release of a new service pack comes a huge, pressing question: How does it compare to Windows Vista and its own
recent update, Service Pack 1, in the game performance department? Vista, of course, has been plagued by criticism that games run on it don't perform
as well as they do in Windows XP, even though most of the problems were due to early graphics drivers and have gradually been worked out.
Come with us as we install XP SP3 and take it for a test drive, and more importantly compare it to Vista SP1 with a batch of performance
tests. Though DirectX 10 is Vista-only, many a gamer has sworn not to upgrade; will XP SP3 cement their decision, or has Vista and its drivers matured
enough to change a few minds?
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12.05.2008Rumor mill: Wave of Ultimate Extras to come in 2008
Neowin reader nX07 claims that a "friend of a friend who works for Microsoft" has first hand knowledge that a batch of Ultimate Extras will be
released in late Q2 or early Q3 of 2008. Below is his post from the forums.
I brought up Vista Ultimate and its "extras", and he told me
that because of the ''unexpected" flood of Vista issues Microsoft had to divert it's resources elsewhere and have SP1 cover more than
internally-planned. Also, believe it or not, supposedly the Driver and Application Compatibility issues (Which technically was not Microsofts'
fault and thus didn't need to do anything) made Microsoft very unhappy since it gave many software/hardware developers more than enough time to
prepare, and basically forced Microsoft basically play hound-dog to all those companies.
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21.12.2007Google Docs security hole may have exposed private documents
If you thought you made all your docs and presentations private in one batch, you might have received a little notice over the weekend.
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09.03.2009MobileMe mail service goes down for the count again
A new batch of problems for the already plagued service seem to have started in the late morning for some, including intermittent timeouts and issues
accessing the accounts on desktop mail...
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12.08.2008No Quad Core Scaling in Crysis?
Last week, Electronic Arts released a single player demo for Crytek's long-awaited first person shooter, Crysis. Crysis pushes the edge of the
envelope in terms of graphics features, including insane levels of detail and DirectX 10 support.
However, we were curious about
CPU performance. Granted, this is a pre-release demo, and it's very possible that the final version will contain further optimizations. Still, we
wanted to check out how well the CPU performed. Crysis installs two batch files in its bin32 folder, one of which is a CPU benchmark. In this test,
your character runs around a village and blows lots of stuff upit's essentially a glorified physics test. Lots of debris and particles fly through
the air. The batch file runs this demo four times. The typical scenario is that the first result is low, while the last three are roughly the same.
We ran the Crysis CPU test on five different Intel CPUs, all of which run with a 1333MHz front-side-bus: the E6550, E6750, E6850,
QX6850, and the brand spanking new Core 2 Extreme QX9650. We ran the tests on our ASUS P5E3 system with DDR3-1333 memory. The OS used was Windows
Vista Home Premium.
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30.10.2007Vista SP2 Build 16489 released to testers
Microsoft has released an early beta build of Vista SP2 to testers according to those familiar with the beta program.
In a posting to
The Hotfix forums, members have claimed that Microsoft have
released a batch file which enables the SP2 download from Windows Update. The download weighs in at over 290MB and references the
support article placeholder put online 2 weeks ago.
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24.10.2008Windows Command Reference
The Windows command-line tools are used to perform various tasks related to Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008.You can use
the command reference to familiarize yourself with new and enhanced command-line tools, to learn about the command shell, and to automate command-line
tasks by using batch files or scripting tools.
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08.03.2008YouTube Increases Upload Limits, Provides Batch Uploader
YouTube announced yesterday that it had increased the size limit for videos to 1 GB, and also introduced new software that allows users to
simultaneously upload multiple videos...
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10.11.2007Vista attacked by 13-year-old virus
A batch of laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium was found to have been infected with a 13-year-old boot sector virus.
Those of you with a long memory will vividly recall the year 1994: Nirvana's lead singer Kurt Cobain died, South Africa held its first
multi-racial elections, and Tony Blair became leader of the Labour party. Oh, and Microsoft's operating system was the quaint, pre-NT Windows for
Workgroups.
But it was a year that also saw the arrival of a boot sector computer virus known as Stoned.Angelina which moved the
original master boot record to cylinder 0, head 0, sector 9.
It would appear that this teenage virus has not yet been consigned
to the history books.
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17.09.2007Fix for Vista Automatic Updates to Ship Via Automatic Updates
A curious problem cropped up last month: Windows Vista users reported that the program that manages their Windows services (SVCHOST) would crash after
having downloaded and installed a batch of updates.
Microsoft recently issued a
manual fix for this problem, though users who don't
want to have to learn the equivalent of heart surgery should soon be able to download a patch for the Background Intelligent Transfer Service
(BITS)...assuming it works.
"I'm running Vista Ultimate 32-bit," related one user
to one of Microsoft's support forums last month, "and every time I enable the BITS service, it crashes
svchost.exe and causes Windows Aero to go all funky (looks like Windows Classic style in some aspects)."
While support personnel
were able to provide this user with a working solution, Microsoft soon afterward published another set of manual fixes to the BITS problem. But what
was highly unusual about that fix was that, in order for it to work, the symptoms of that problem (SVCHOST crashing) should not have manifest
themselves yet.
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30.08.2007Barcelona: Quad-Core Opterons Now Feature Virtualization Support
The latest batch of 8300 series and 2300 series Quad-Core Opteron processors, formally announced by AMD today, will feature hardware-based library
support for software to be able to run virtualized environments...
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10.09.2007Toshiba to Push Back HD DVD
Players
Following news that Warner
Home Video has delayed the
release of its initial batch
of HD DVD movie titles by
three weeks, Toshiba said
Thursday it will hold off on
launching the first HD DVD
players until next month. The
company initially targeted a
March debut of the
high-definition DVD format...
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24.03.2006What would you like to see in Vista Power Toys?
Microsoft has a long tradition
of releasing power toys for
Windows. These are invariably
unsupported (although the
batch
written for Windows XP
were pretty polished) and
generally pretty darn
useful.
Power toys
tend to come out when you
least expect them, often
starting out as a hobby
project for a Microsoft
programmer (
Raymond
Chen, author of the
original Tweak UI, would be
the first member of my Windows
Hall of Fame). I suspect it
takes some pushing to get
Microsoft's semi-official
blessing and be released as
unsupported code, so we might
not see them until after
SP1.
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21.03.2007Microsoft won't ditch Vista until at least 2011
Even after the release of Windows 7, it looks like Microsoft won't be quick to ditch Vista according to Computer World. Microsoft plans to
continue selling Vista until January 2011. However, they will drop support for Vista in less than 3 years. This seems to go against an earlier hint
by a Microsoft General Manager that the company would get rid of Vista as soon as Windows 7 was released. However, Microsoft not ditching Vista as
soon as Windows 7 is released shouldn't come as a surprise. It's a company policy to keep an OS in distribution for 4 years after its debut.
So what do you think, Neowin?
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05.05.2009Buy More Vista Licenses, Save 10%
Microsoft has launched the
appropriately named Windows
Vista Additional License
program, which will enable
customers to save a bit of
money if they want to install
Windows Vista on multiple
computers. Before, users had
to purchase a completely new
copy of Vista...
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28.03.2007Windows 7 Screenshots Hit the Web
It certainly didn't take long. A lot of news regarding Windows 7, Microsoft's next operating system, has been surfacing recently and it was only a
matter of time before the first batch of screenshots leaked to the eyes of the public.
The screenshots appear to have originated
from thinknext.net, a Chinese technology news site. The batch of screenshots show various changes across the operating system, which confirm earlier
leaked "reviews" of 7.
Some of the changes include various minor tweaks to the interface, including a slightly redesigned
taskbar, what appears to be a redesigned system tray and a new interface in the control panel.
But enough talk, see the
screenshots for your self at the link below.
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25.01.2008CES: Where Vista Wasn't
Windows Vista was everywhereand yet nowhere at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.
Vista was everywhere, because the
operating system was on most PCs. But it was nowhere, in terms of branding and marketing. Microsoft banners and other promotional material reverted to
"Windows" branding with no "Vista." Where Microsoft had Vista, something else accompanied it, like Windows Live, Media Center or Windows Media
Extender.
Now what does that say about Vista, the brand and Microsoft's commitment to Windows XP's successor? Has
Microsoft given up on Windows Vistaas a brand, at least? The answer is perhaps yes.
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11.01.2008Microsoft Relaxes Vista License Terms
Responding to a wave of
criticism following news that
the licensing terms in Windows
Vista allowed the operating
system to be moved to another
computer only once, Microsoft
has changed its position and
relaxed the restriction for
retails copies of Vista...
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