Microsoft Sets 2008 Launch Plans
Microsoft's chief operating officer says that Windows Server 2008--formerly code-named Longhorn Server--will be launched next February along with upgrades of SQL Server and Visual Studio.
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17.7.2007 XP SP3 and Vista SP1 September 2008 Security Release ISO Image
Following the four security bulletins released on Patch Tuesday, September 9, 2008, Microsoft has bundled all the Windows updates into a single ISO image offered through the Download Center.
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10.9.2008 February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch
Microsoft announced at its partner conference on July 10 that it will launch Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 together in a single launch on February 27, 2008, in Los Angeles.
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10.7.2007 Microsoft Backpedals on its Post-Vista Plans
Microsoft Corp. Friday declined to comment on post-Vista plans by releasing a comment -- a move bloggers attributed to buzz about a list of most-asked-for features to Vista's successor. The list was yanked from a Microsoft forum earlier this week.
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17.7.2007 Microsoft Still Plans October 2006 Vista Release
According to sources at Microsoft, the company plans to ship Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) in early September.
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15.8.2006 Microsoft: Pay no attention to post-Vista plans
Microsoft declined to comment Friday on post-Vista plans by releasing a comment -- a move bloggers attributed to buzz about a list of most-asked-for features to Vista's successor. The list was yanked from a Microsoft forum earlier this week. Thanks pacpis to for this news.
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14.7.2007 Microsoft denies plans to give 'reparations' for Vista, Office 2007 delays
August 11, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Microsoft Corp. said reports that it secretly plans to offer "reparations" to corporate customers hurt by delays in the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007 are inaccurate.
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13.8.2006 Windows Vista SP1 Beta Available for Download in September
Via TechNet, not the pre-beta, but the actual Vista SP1 Beta! The first beta build for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will be made available for download in September via TechNet. As of yet, Microsoft has failed to reveal the actual release date of the beta build for the service pack of Windows Vista. pacpis report this too in our forum.
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23.8.2007 Microsoft to kill Hotmail via Outlook Express on September 1
If you're still using Outlook Express for checking your Windows Live Hotmail, listen up.
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4.6.2009 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 Microsoft September 2006 Security Releases ISO Image
These ISO-9660 CD image files contain the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on September 12th, 2006.
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13.9.2006 News from Microsoft Land: 24th 28th September 2007
Everybody admits that Windows is the most popular operating system in the world because it is installed on millions of computers from every corner of the planet.
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30.9.2007 Microsoft Plans to Combine 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista After SP1
A clue for the development strategy of Windows Seven? Thanks to odeeee for this post. Although it has downplayed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as just a standard refresh, Microsoft in fact plans to combine 32-bit and 64-bit versions of its latest operating system.
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16.6.2007 Microsoft postpones Winhec 2008 to Fall 2008
Microsoft announced that WinHEC 208 will not be held in the spring as previous years, but in the fall (October probably) of 2008.
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17.11.2007 Microsoft leaks its own search plans
A Microsoft employee has posted details about planned changes to Microsoft's Live Search, ahead of an event next week where the company was slated to unveil the changes to reporters.
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21.9.2007 Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009
Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and most are delaying any plans to upgrade until 2009 at the earliest.
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29.11.2007 Microsoft Details a Few Office 12 Plans
Microsoft on Monday talked up a few features of its next-generation Office release, due next year, which revolve around the concept of "business intelligence." A major focus of Office 12 will be on improving the way users access data in existing applications, thereby making business intelligence (BI) more pervasive.
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Microsoft outlines IE7 security plans
Microsoft is tightening up the way its Internet Explorer browser handles HTTPS for version 7, which is used to secure online transactions, in an attempt to give people more protection online.
In a posting on the Microsoft Internet Explorer blog, IE program manager Eric Lawrence said that IE7 would support the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol by default.
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Microsoft sets plans to go 64-bit only
Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft Server and Tools, announced at the IT Forum being held in Barcelona, Spain that while the first release of the upcoming next-version Windows Server family code-named Longhorn will be both 32-bit and 64-bit, the future update release to that, known as Windows Server "Longhorn" R2, will bring the complete transition to 64-bit-only hardware.
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18.11.2005 Microsoft Plans Office Genuine Advantage
Despite the criticism leveled at Microsoft Corp. after its recent rollout -- and partial rollback -- of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), that tool was just the first phase in the company's latest antipiracy effort.
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28.7.2006 Microsoft Plans Nine Security Updates for Next Week
Security Patches include six critical updates for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and the company's Visual Basic development software.
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10.8.2007 Microsoft plans to divorce viruses for free!
Ever heard of "Morro"? Neither had I until today. It appears the boys and girls at Microsoft have been planning a nice surprise for consumers.
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18.11.2008 OEMs Unveil Their Windows Vista Upgrade Plans
The leading OEMs have unveiled their Vista upgrade plans, and so far Dell is the only vendor planning to charge some customers who buy certain PCs this holiday season for the move.
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27.10.2006 Microsoft plans 500 retail spots in 8 cities
Microsoft on Thursday said it will set up 500 retail points in eight cities across India, to drive revenues from the home user segment.
"We will set up points of sale in 500 stores in eight cities in another six months to increase our reach among the consumer segment," Neelam Dhawan, managing director, Microsoft India said.
The eight cities would include Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune and Ahmedabad.
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26.11.2005 Microsoft Confirms WMF Vulnerability, Plans for Patch
Microsoft has issued a Security Advisory (912840) concerning the recent WMF vulnerability exploit. Microsoft also confirmed the REGSVR32 workaround as a viable solution to protect your PC until they have had time to fully research the vulnerability and issue a patch. The following is a quote from the Microsoft Security Advisory.
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30.12.2005 Microsoft Plans to Release IPod Rival for Christmas
Microsoft Corp. is planning to have a portable music and video player out by Christmas in a challenge to Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod.
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6.7.2006 Microsoft plans big Vancouver, B.C., software center
Microsoft announced this morning that it will open a software development center this fall in the Vancouver, B.C., area, with room for hundreds of workers.
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6.7.2007 Microsoft Plans to Add Rootkit Detection to Windows Live OneCare
Windows Live OneCare is right on track to getting an anti-rootkit upgrade. Microsoft plans to added rootkit detection capabilities to its line of security products, but not only OneCare will be impacted by the change.
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20.3.2008 "Avoid Microsoft Windows Vista until 2008"
New security features in Windows Vista will largely eliminate the need to run separate anti-spyware or firewall software, according to a new analyst report.
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8.5.2006 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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14.7.2009Rumored New Vista plans
Paul Thurrott is launching an
interesting rumor today, this
time about Windows Vista's
release date. According to
him, the RC1 version of Vista
would be released in early
september, as opposite to
other rumors which said RC1
was around the corner and was
due anytime soon. RC1 would be
in this case, build 5520,
which has been placed into
escrow recently.
The most interesting rumor
he reports is about Windows
Vista RTM, which is set to be
escrowed in september, setting
at the same time an RTM
release on October 25.
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15.08.2006IT managers share Windows Vista install plans
Few Windows shops had plans for Windows Vista migrations in 2007, and it appears that there may also be little interest well into next year.
Of more than 200 responses from IT managers to an online survey conducted by SearchWinIT.com, 37.3 % said they had no plans whatsoever in
place to install Vista, while 7.6 % said they would begin adding the new desktop OS in the first quarter of 2008, and 8.5 % expect to begin the
upgrade in Q2 2008.
Application compatibility was the primary concern for the IT shops, with 55.2 % citing it as the biggest
Vista upgrade issue. This was in line with the runner-up concern, third-party application support, which 48.5 % said is stalling their migration
plans.
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30.11.2007Microsoft France exposes Vista
release date
Microsoft has revealed the
projected release dates of
Windows Vista and Internet
Explorer 7 in a phone
conversation with
vnunet.com's French sister
publication SVM, the
publication
claims.
"Beta
2 of Windows Vista,
Microsoft's future operating
system, is slated for release
in the first week of December
2005 at best," a posting
dated 29 August said. "The
final release has been pushed
back until September or
October 2006."
Beta 2 of IE 7 is
set for September 2005
followed by the release of the
final version in December, the
story continues. The product
launch will coincide with
Vista beta 2. Vista beta 1 was
released to testers in
July.
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06.09.2005WinFX Becomes .NET Framework
3.0
Following through on plans
reported during PDC 2005 last
September, Microsoft at TechEd
2006 in Boston officially
renamed WinFX to .NET
Framework 3.0. The
next-generation programming
model extends version 2.0 with
Vista-specific additions...
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12.06.2006Vista build 5536 for RC1?
Paul Thurrott:....inside the
software colossus, work
continues toward an early
September RC1 release for
Vista.
However, the
build previously planned for
RC1--build 5520--had two major
problems, so Microsoft had to
move on to a newer
version--build 5536--for RC1.
The company plans to ship
build 5536 internally today,
according to my sources...
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03.09.2006February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch
Microsoft announced at its
partner conference on July 10
that it will launch Windows
Server 2008, Visual Studio
2008 and SQL Server 2008
together in a single launch on
February 27, 2008, in Los
Angeles.
Microsoft
officials have been saying for
a few months now that while
the company planned to release
to manufacturing Windows
Server 2008 (the product
formerly known as Longhorn
Server) before the end of
2007, it planned to launch
Windows Server 2008
officially some time in early
2008.
(According to
my sources, Microsoft is
planning to RTM Windows Server
2008 as well as Windows Vista
Service Pack (SP) 1 in
November. All Microsoft will
say publicly about its Windows
Server 2008 RTM schedule is
its on track to RTM before
the end of the year. It wont
say anything on its plans for
Vista SP1 RTM.)
Meanwhile, Beta 2 of
Visual Studio 2008 (code-named
Orcas) is expected some time
this summer with the RTM due
sometime in either late 2007
or early 2008. Microsoft also
recently released a private
Community Technology Preview
release of SQL Server 2008,
code-named Katmai. Earlier
this year, Microsoft said to
expect SQL Server 2008 to RTM
some time in 2008.
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11.07.2007Microsoft F# September 2008 CTP
The F# September 2008 CTP provides all the tools and resources needed to develop applications with the F# programming language.
F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework. It combines the succinct, expressive and compositional style of functional
programming with the runtime, libraries, interoperability, and object model of .NET.
F# is well suited to a spectrum of
development tasks - from interactive, explorative scripting to component and large-scale software development. The CTP release of F# provides further
support for explorative development using F#, as well as improved Visual Studio integration to enable large-scale, tool-based software development.
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30.08.2008Research indicates Windows Server 2008 could flop
Research indicates that Windows Server 2008 could be just as big a flop in the enterprise as Windows Vista. In a survey of 687 IT professionals
conducted by Network World, half of them said that they have no plans whatsoever to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 at any time after it launches in
February.
This compares to 13 percent that said they would upgrade in the first 12 months after its release; 9 percent that plan
to upgrade 13 - 24 months after release: a mere 8% that say they'll roll out Windows Server 2008 after they finish rolling out Vista; and 19% that
say they have just begun to think about their plans.
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01.12.2007Survey: Vista Adoption Weakens, as IT Pros Eye Apple
A KACE-sponsored survey on Windows Vista adoption represents more bad news for Microsoft's flagship operating system, even as Microsoft prepares to
pour
an estimated $300 million into a new Vista marketing campaign -- news that
was announced at Microsoft's 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference.
<...> This survey found a slip in Windows Vista deployment
plans, with 60 percent of respondents saying that they had "no plans to deploy Vista at this time," compared with 53 percent in the 2007 survey.
The respondents also appeared to reject the "common wisdom" that people were simply waiting for Service Pack 1 to deploy Vista,
with the idea that initial bugs and incompatibilities would be worked out by then. A solid 92 percent of survey respondents said that "Vista Service
Pack 1 has not changed their plans for Vista deployment."
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24.07.2008Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009
CIO Jury: "It could be a long wait"
Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows
Vista operating system and most are delaying any plans to upgrade until 2009 at the earliest.
One year after the business launch
of Vista, only one of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they had plans to move to the new OS in 2008.
Most
plan to stick with the stability of Windows XP and implement Service Pack 3 for that OS before they even start thinking about Vista.
Adrian Hughes, head of IS for insurance company Amlin, said: "We are sticking with XP and look to take XP SP3 in 2009. Vista not until 2011,
unless there is a good reason to migrate, by which time the next OS may be out so we would then skip a generation."
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29.11.2007The Vista Sales Numbers: Anatomy of a Wash
The abundant mix of both
upward and downward slopes
that have characterized
Microsoft Windows Vista sales
projections since last
September, has led many
experts to ask: Has Windows
evolved out of its shell as a
consumer product, into the
homogeneous commodity that
Microsoft simultaneously hoped
and feared it might become?..
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20.02.2007Microsoft releases Windows Vista SP2 and Server 2008 SP2
Microsoft has released a standalone installer for Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 today. The software giant posted some things to know
about the service packs last month, one of the warnings is if "vLite" was used to customize your Windows Vista installation, you may have removed
required system components which prevent Service Pack 2 from installing. Microsoft has a workaround for this issue. Microsoft is expected to post the
bits to Windows Update in the coming weeks but if you are eager to install SP2 today then the download links are listed below. Download: Vista
SP2/Server 2008 SP2 32 bit Download: Vista SP2/Server 2008 SP2 64 bit
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26.05.2009Microsoft Details Office 2008 Mac Versions
Microsoft further detailed its plans for Office 2008 for Mac on Tuesday, saying that it plans to release three versions of the product including one
with a Macintosh version of its Expression suite...
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26.09.2007MS to Showcase Vista, Office 12 at PDC
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that its 2005 Professional Developers Conference, which begins September 13 in Los Angeles, has completely sold out. The four day event will give developers a long-awaited taste of Windows Vista and a look at the next release of Microsoft Office...
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17.08.2005Microsoft: 1 in 10 Vista printer driver installations fail
At a WinHEC session in Los Angeles last week, bloggers report, just during last September, of the driver installations for Windows Vista automatically
reported back to Microsoft, over 11% of install attempts for printer drivers failed...
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11.11.2008Exclusive: Windows Vista SP2 RC released to general public
As expected, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 RC and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 RC is now available to general public for download. You can
download the SP2 RC for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 below: ISO for Windows Server 2008 x86/x64/ia64 and Windows Vista x86/x64x86 for
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista x86x64 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista x64IA64 for Windows Server 2008 ia64 The service pack is
delivered as a single release for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. There will be a single 32-bit standalone installer (302 MB to 390 MB)
for both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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04.03.2009MS To Show Off Vista To
Hackers
According to PCWorld,
Microsoft plans to give a
hacker conference in Asia an
inside look at Windows Vista
later this year. That is
either the most confident
thing ever done or the
stupidest. I guess only time
will tell us which one is
which.
"Companies know that fixing
vulnerabilities in already
released products is always
going to be much more
expensive than finding and
squashing them during the
development stage," said
Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran,
organizer of the 6th annual
Hack In The Box deep knowledge
security conference
(HITBSecConf2006) set for
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in
September.
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13.07.2006Microsoft: Pay no attention to post-Vista plans
Microsoft declined to comment
Friday on post-Vista plans by
releasing a comment -- a move
bloggers attributed to buzz
about a list of most-asked-for
features to Vista's
successor. The list was yanked
from a Microsoft forum earlier
this week.
The
company's statement,
attributed to Kevin Kutz,
director of the Windows client
team, was among the shortest
on record from the company.
"The launch of
Windows Vista was an
incredibly exciting moment for
our customers and partners
around the world, and the
company is focused on the
value Windows Vista will bring
to people today," Kutz said.
"We are not giving official
guidance to the public yet
about the next version of
Windows, other than that
we're working on it. When we
are ready, we will provide
updates." ..
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14.07.2007Windows Vista RC1 via CPP
Soon?
It seems that Microsoft are
preparing to launch Release
Candidate 1 (RC1) of Windows
Vista via the Customer Preview
Program (CPP) shortly. A page
has been discovered, which
although returns an error, is
labelled with "Thank you
for your interest in Windows
Vista RC 1.". This surely
suggest that Windows Vista RC1
will be released very shortly.
Update: 64-bit
Download Link added.
Update 2: An E-mail has
recently been sent to
participants of the Office
2007 Beta, in which it is
revealed that apparently,
Windows Vista RC1 will not
reach public availability
until September...
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26.08.2006Microsoft Hints at Six Vista
Editions
A Windows Vista help page has
provided some insight into
Microsoft's packaging plans
for the next-generation
Windows release due out later
this year. While the company
has yet to make any official
announcement, Microsoft is
ostensibly preparing six
different editions of Windows
Vista...
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