How to download and install Windows 7 Language Packs - MUI Internet Explorer (IE8) RTW MUI Language Packs 16 Windows Vista MUI Packs for 32 bit Versions 16 Windows Vista MUI Packs for 64 bit Versions All 35 official Vista Ultimate MUI Packs x32 & x64 Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Packs for Windows Vista SP1 Updated Windows 7 RTM Multilingual User Interface MUI Packs Download and Installation Vistalizator - Install Multiple Languages MUI on Vista Home, Basic & Starter Edition How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03 34 Vista Ultimate MUI Language packs for Ultimate SP2 via HTTP from MS Download Windows 7 MUI Language Packs - Official 32-bit and 64-bit Direct Download LinksWorld War II Week begins today on Steam with new product, a Red Orchestra Free Weekend, and limited-time discounts on the leading WWII action games offered via Steam.
The special week long promotion kicks off with the release of Activision and Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Warchest. An incredible value, the CoD: Warchest includes Call of Duty, Call of Duty: United Offensive, and Call of Duty 2 all for a regular price of just แ.95. But, during WWII Week, CoD: Warchest will be offered for 10% less than the regular price.
Also set for deployment this week, the second Free Weekend trial of Red Orchestra, which now features the new content Tripwire has delivered in the RO Fall Update. The RO Free Weekend starts at 1:00 pm PST Thursday December 7, and will come home at 1:00 pm PST Sunday December 10. No purchase is required to enlist in the Free Weekend.
In addition to the Free Weekend, Tripwire is now offering RO for just ร.95. And those who purchase Red Orchestra before December 14, 2006 will receive an additional 10% savings.
Finally, Valve is offering 20% off Day of Defeat: Source for those who purchase before December 14, 2006.
Please visit www.steamgames.com for more information.
neowin.net - 07.12.2006Siemens Raided on Suspicions of Embezzlement, Bribery
Reports
have shown that police and
prosecutors have raided
Siemens AG in Munich and
Erlangen, Germany. The raid is
a part of an investigation
into acts of fraud suspected
at the company's fixed
networks business. Siemens AG,
the world's largest
electronics company was raided
by approximately 200 police,
prosecutors and tax inspectors
at around 30 locations, some
of them private homes.
A total of
ten Siemens employees, which
included top executives
Michael Kutschenreuter and
Andy Mattes, and two other
non-Siemens workers are still
undergoing investigation for
involvement in €20 million
(USษ.5 million) to front
companies and bank accounts in
"Whether and to
which degree these funds were
used for paying bribes must
still to be
investigated," said
Reports say that company executives created a secret slush fund with the purpose of paying bribes to secure contracts, customers and design-wins. The tactic, though illegal, is not uncommon in tech companies and may lead the way for several other investigations of the same manner.
neowin.net - 20.11.2006Garry's Mod Gets Steamed On November 29th
November 27th, 2006 - Independent Software developer Garry Newman and Valve today announce an electronic distribution agreement for Garry's MOD, the popular software utility downloaded by hundreds of thousands to create mini-games, many of the most popular movie shorts on web sites such as YouTube.com, and more.
"The new version has been created from scratch so almost everything has been revised and re-invented," said Garry Newman, creator of Garry's MOD. "It has a bunch of new tools to play with (winches, hydraulics and hoverballs), totally new spawn menu and a few new Post Processing effects to play with. The great thing about Steam is that I can update really regularly, really easily - which is something I plan on doing - so expect more tools/gamemodes/stuff to come."
The first commercial release of Garry's MOD will be made available on November 29, 2006. Since a Source-based product is required to run Garry's MOD, Valve will be offering a special bundle of Garry's MOD plus Counter-Strike: Source for just ศ.95. For those who already own a Source-based game, Garry's MOD will be sold separately for just ű.95.
neowin.net - 28.11.2006Windows XP Service Pack 3 Timeline Update
Update: The build number for the final version of SP3 is 5512.
Nick MacKechnie: Windows XP SP3 has been released to manufacturing as of April 21st (US Time)
with the release to web planned for April 29th (US Time). The detailed schedule by channel is below.
Windows XP SP3 - detailed by channel schedule
| Channel / Release Vector | Planned dates (US) |
| RTM (release to manufacturing) | Apr-21 |
| OEM Channel | Apr-21 |
| Windows Update | Apr-29 |
| Download Centre | Apr-29 |
| MSDN/Technet Download | May-02 |
| Windows XP SP3 Fulfillment Media | May-19 |
| VL Customers via download | Jun-01 |
| Automatic Updates | Jun-10 |
In terms of how we protect the sites, we utilize (starting at the outside edge of the network and working in)...
Iâ€
™m Jeremy Mazner, Group
Manager of the Windows Vista
platform evangelism team (the
same folks behind www.seewindowsvista.co
m), we
make sure early adopters of
the Windows Vista platform
have the information they need
about UAC. While
we most often work 1:1 with
partners, we recently asked
Ian
Griffiths to
record some short screencasts
to share this information with
the dev community at
large. Check
out How To: Tell Vista's
UAC What Privilege Level Your
App Requires
(24 minutes, but worth it!)
and How To: Use Vista's
UAC Feature To Avoid Always
Requiring Admin
Rights (18
minutes) to see Ian walk
through the code needed to
embed a UAC manifest, and
refactor an application so
that the main executable runs
as standard user, and calls an
elevated COM object when it
needs to do administrative
tasks.
(An
d if you’re doing Windows
Vista development, you might
also enjoy How To: Use Vista's
Power Management APIs to Be A
Good Laptop
Citizen and
How-to: Query Vista
Search From Your
App)
-
Jer
emy
(Comments disabled on this thread because it was getting deluged with spam.)
Thanks to
everyone for joining the
webcast on Tuesday and to
Chris Corio for helping to
answer questions. People asked
a lot of good questions, so we
wanted to share the transcript
with others who may have
similar ones. For
those who missed it, you can
watch the
replay here.
I always start my webcasts with a poll asking attendees what percentage of their users has admin rights today. Here is that data:
microsoft.com/windowsvista - 29.05.2007XP NAP Rude Q and A
Jeff Sigman: Since I spend nearly 1/3 of my week answering (or ignoring :->) emails about the XP NAP Client, I thought it might be smart to give a
very concise Q&A. Here goes:
| Questions | Jeffs (brilliant) Answers |
| How do I get a copy of the BETA? | While it is on MSConnect, it is easier just to
email me to get a copy. I have US-English and Language Neutral versions from the April 2007 Beta release. Remember, this is a BETA
and is not officially supported (i.e. no QFEs); see XP SP3 info below. |
| How will
this actually release officially? | ONLY via Windows XP Service Pack 3. |
| When will XP
SP3 RTM? | |
|
Will you please ship it outside of
SP3? | I am sorry, no. |
| Why wont you ship it outside of
SP3? | In
brief, the risk and cost to Windows was too high. NAP on XP changes 19+ core OS files (e.g. RAS, Wireless, EAP, etc) and we wouldnt get the same
testing coverage outside of SP3. Also, OOB releases are notoriously expensive to sustain. The code base would have to be maintained, orthogonally to
XP itself, for 10+ years (i.e. MSRCs). Wow. |
| How does the XP client compare with
Vista? | Read my cool blog post. |
| Is it true that you brought all the great Vista Wired 802.1x features to
XP? | Very
true. Many customers have wanted Group Policy configuration for Wired 802.1x on XP. NAP gave us the needed business justification to pull it off in XP
SP3. |
| Will the NAP Client release for any other Microsoft
O/Ss? | Not at this time. No support for Windows Bob, 3.x, 9x, ME, 2000 and/or 2003. |
| What about Linux, Mac,
etc? | Oh yeah
baby, we have Linux right
now. Mac is nearly here. This is the dude making it all happen. |
| What
administration tools are available in the XP Client? | Only the command-line (netsh.exe nap). The MMC was written in managed code and isnt available
on XP. Also, our assumption is that Group Policy / script is good enough for XP. |
| What Active Directory
schema changes are required, if any? | NAP, in general, does NOT require any AD schema updates. NAP fits in well with existing Server 2000/2003 deployments and
simply requires a minimum of ONE Server 2008 computer (NAP Server / NPS). However, in order to manage Vista (and XP SP3) Wired 802.1x settings a schema
update may be required. If you are using Server 2008 AD, it is included. Server 2003 AD requires an updated
schema. |
|
Will XP NAP honor my GP
configuration settings just like Vista NAP (i.e. NAPAgent, QECs, etc)? | Yup! |
I have a few DVDs left that I want to share with UAC blog readers so that you can see the progress on the prompt reduction work we’ve been doing since Beta 2. This build also has the new ActiveX Installer Service.
The first 75 people who
send e-mail to
Thanks to everyone for reading and for your comments. We hope to do more giveaways in the future.
- Alex
Critical to the
success of User Account
Control is having software
that works well for standard
users and administrators,
without excess prompts. Since
User Account Control is such a
central part of Windows Vista,
User Account Control
compatibility is one of the
key requirements to display
the Certified for Windows
Vista Logo on software.
v 1.1
of the Certifie
d for Windows Vista Software
Logo Technical
Requirements is available
now. Our
goal in sharing this
information on our blog is to
make sure that any ISV’s
reading this are aware of the
requirements so that they have
ample time to make their
product compliant and to give
our customers confidence that
there will be a great supply
of software that works well
for standard users and UAC.
Some of
the key requirements that
relate to User Account Control
and running as a standard
user:
·
Make
sure the application works
well for standard users,
unless it is something truly
designed to be run only by
system administrators such as
disk partitioning
software. If the
program has admin and
non-admin components the main
application should still be
run as a standard user and
administrative features should
be moved to a separate
executable.
·
Every
.exe file included with an
application must have an
embedded manifest that defines
its execution level. Such
as:
<requestedExe
cutionLevel
level="asInvoker|highestAvail
able|requireAdministrator"
uiAccess="true|false"/&g
t;
Note,
including the manifest file
will disable File and Registry
Virtualization for the
application. So the
application has to work well
for a standard user without
relying on virtualization.
·
Executable files
with .EXE, .DLL,
.SYS, .DRV, .OCX, .CPL, or
.SCR extensions must
be signed with an Authenticode
certificate.
·
Installers must not
assume that the person who
starts the installation is the
one who finishes the
installation. For example if
your program allows per user
and all user installations, a
standard user should be able
to start the install, but it
should prompt for admin
credentials if the user
chooses the all users option.
·
If the
installer uses a
boostrapper/chainer, it must
include an embedded manifest
that designates the desired
execution level for the
installer.
Another
big change in the Certified
for Windows Vista logo
requirements is that
applications must be
independently tested by a
Microsoft approved testing
vendor before they are granted
logo certification. A
draft of the test cases that
will be used to verify
compliance are posted here.
We’ve
also provided a number of
resources to help developers
make their software Windows
Vista and User Account Control
compatible,
including:
·
Develo
per Best Practices and
Guidelines for Applications in
a Least Privileged
Environment
·
Microsoft Standard
User
Analyzer
·
Windows Vista
Jumpstart
Toolkit
Learn
more about the Certified for
Windows Vista Software Quality
Logo program including how to
enroll your company’s
software at http://www.isvinnovationporta
l.com/windowsvista.
When develo
pers release software that
meets the Certified for
Windows Vista requirements,
users will experience even
fewer User Account Control
prompts than they are seeing
on beta versions today. And
the Windows Vista team will
continue to minimize the
number of OS-generated prompts
and help make as many legacy
programs as possible work
without prompting to ensure a
good User Account Control
experience in the final
release.
- Alex
Heaton
User Account Control
Product Manager