OEM versions of Vista Ultimate available for pre-order
hardgiant spotted over at overclockers.co.uk that Windows Vista Ultimate 32/64 OEM discs have been added at just £114.99, which when converted to USD comes to $262.750 plus tax. The full retail version costs £352.49 a whopping $685.235 after tax.
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4.1.2007 Windows 7 pre order discount orders are now avaliable
As we reported earlier today, Microsoft would offer both Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional at a pre-order discount price of $49.99 and $99.99 respectively starting June 26th and going through July 11 while supplies last.
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26.6.2009 Windows 7 pre-order sales remain strong
After Microsoft started selling Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional upgrades at a discount, consumers were flocking to take advantage of these discounts resulting in strong sales, and according to Information Week, those pre-order sales continue to remain strong.
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8.7.2009 Want Windows 7 for 50 Percent Off? Order an OEM Copy
Missed out on the early preorder discounts? Popular retailer Newegg.com has listed the OEM prices for Windows 7, which will be offered at less than half what Microsoft will charge for a retail copy.
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26.9.2009 Windows 7 Family Pack Available for Pre-order Early Online
A special Windows 7 upgrade package for households with more than one PC is now available for pre-order online ahead of schedule and at a discount from Microsoft's previously announced price.
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31.8.2009 Authorities Order BitTorrent Pirate to Move from Ubuntu Linux to Windows
Scott McCausland, aka sk0t has seen better times, but as it appears, he is all out of luck lately. For McCausland it all went downhill with an illegal download of Star Wars: Episode III over a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
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25.8.2007 GameStop: Halo 3 Zune up for Pre-order
The Zune may be doing well according to Microsoft’s standards, but it sure isn’t putting a large dent in the mp3 player market.
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16.5.2007 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 Amazon.com offers Office 2007 Release Date & Pre-order
Windows Vista isn't the only forthcoming Microsoft Corp. software for which Amazon.com Inc. has apparently pre-announced availability.
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1.9.2006 Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Windows Vista – Leaves Vista SP1 in the Dust
Forget about Windows Vista. And forget about Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft's latest Windows client has been quite sluggish to begin with. This in both consumer adoption and in terms of the performance it delivers.
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27.11.2007 Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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1.2.2008 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 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 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 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 Genuine Windows Vista vs. Pirated Windows Vista
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Essentially there is absolutely no difference between a genuine and pirated copy of Windows Vista in terms of functionality. Sure, there is a very good chance that the counterfeit version of the operating system would contain malicious code and that the user experience would be gravely diminished because the fabric of the platform has been tampered with in the cracking process.
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12.9.2007 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008WinHEC 2006 Brings New Office,
Vista
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
kicked off the Windows
Hardware Engineering
Conference in Seattle Tuesday,
heralding the arrival of the
Beta 2 releases of Windows
VIsta, Office 2007 and
Longhorn Server. Both Office
and Vista betas will be
available for public download
in order to garner more
feedback as the products near
completion...
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23.05.2006Changing the SSL cipher order in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista
Recently, the question of using AES for SSL has come up in the newsgroups and at some conferences. When IE makes an HTTPS connection to a web server,
it offers a list of cipher supported cipher suites. The server then selects the first one from the list that it can match. The default order that IE
follows is this...
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07.11.2007Windows 7 more popular than Harry Potter in the UK
Boy wizard Harry Potter has been outsold by Windows 7, as Microsoft's latest operating system becomes the biggest pre-order of all time, according
to Amazon. More pre-orders of Windows 7 were sold within the first 8 hours of its availability than in Vista's entire pre-order period.
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21.10.2009Microsoft Announces IE7+ for
Vista
In order to differentiate
between Internet Explorer 7 on
Windows XP and Vista,
Microsoft on Friday announced
"IE7+." The special
branding is designed to
highlight the additional
features IE7 will receive in
Vista, including Protected
Mode, parental controls, and
improved network diagnostics...
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27.05.2006Vista Hardware Assessment Tool Addresses Upgrade Dilemmas
Perhaps the most oft-asked
question by consumers with
regard to whether they should
adopt Windows Vista is whether
their six-month-old or older
hardware is too obsolete for
Vista to make good use of it.
This morning, Microsoft
released for free download the
XP version of its Vista
Hardware assessment tool,
whose aim is to tell consumers
what they may need to upgrade
in order to put the best
polish on those heavily
anticipated exclamations...
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21.02.2007Windows 7 pre order discount orders are now avaliable
As we reported earlier today, Microsoft would offer both Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional at a pre-order discount price of $49.99 and
$99.99 respectively starting June 26th and going through July 11 while supplies last. But it looks like you don't have to wait any longer,
the Microsoft Store is now taking Windows 7 pre-orders at the discounted prices. Users can either pre-order Windows 7 as a download, a download plus a
disc, or just a disc. People are reporting that their Windows Live ID's aren't being accepted if they try to log in, but if they create a new
account with their e-mail address the order does go through.
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26.06.2009Microsoft: No Backdoor In
Vista, Ever
Microsoft late last week began
to publicly deny reports that
it was building a backdoor
into Windows Vista in order
for governments to gain access
to private files. A Microsoft
developer said the official
line is that the company does
not, and would not, create
backdoors...
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07.03.2006Neowin Giveaway: Windows Vista Ultimate Boxed (RED) Edition
As usual we have something to give away to all our members worldwide, Windows Vista Ultimate (RED) Edition. Vista (RED) is enhanced with (PRODUCT)
RED wallpapers, gadgets, and a unique screen saver and DreamScene. For more information on Windows Vista and Vista (RED) please head to
Microsoft's Website. In order to enter the competition you simply have to reply to this post, we will select a winner at random and multiple
posts will not count so no need to go crazy folks. The competition opens NOW and ends on Wednesday 25th February at 23:59 GMT. The competition is
open to all members worldwide.
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23.02.200910 Things I Warned Microsoft About Windows Vista
Joe Wilcox: I worked as an analyst when Microsoft developed Windows Vista. Execs asked for my advice, and they got it. Did they listen?
The imminent real release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is reason enough to broach the question. SP1 is an important milestone for an
operating system that bloggers and other critics consistently ridicule. Oh, yeah, the channel and enterprises aren't exactly loving Vista either.
These 10 things are in no particular order of importance.
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17.03.2008As Windows XP Deadline Looms, OEMs Turn To Vista Downgrade Rights
Microsoft may be preparing to discontinue sales of Windows XP, but some OEMs have found a way to circumvent the software giant's June 30 deadline.
In yet another sign of the market's resistance to Windows Vista, Dell Computer, Hewlett Packard, and Sony on Wednesday all
confirmed plans to exercise the downgrade rights Microsoft offers with OEM versions of Windows Vista Business and Vista Ultimate in order to continue
offering XP-equipped PCs to their customers.
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24.04.2008Top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows 7
With the Windows 7 Release Candidate already leaked to the public, and the the official bits coming May 5, there's been a lot of hype surrounding
Windows 7, with generally positive reviews from the community. Windows 7 is everything Vista wasn't... and some of what it should of been. If
you're using XP or Vista, there's no excuse not to upgrade to Windows 7. In no particular order, here are my top 10 reasons why: Virtual XP
Mode: Many users and businesses have been reluctant to upgrade past Windows XP, and who can blame them? Microsoft had to keep extending support for
Windows XP for this reason.
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28.04.2009Microsoft bails on virtualization licensing changes for Vista
Microsoft almost tweaked its
licensing terms for Windows
Vista yet again this time in
order to ease virtualization
restrictions that irked a
number of customers and
partners. But in the eleventh
hour, company officials
decided against the move,
resulting in Microsoft
cancelling its planned
announcement.
Microsoft officials were
preparing to announce
officially on June 20 that
Microsoft had a change of
heart and would allow users to
run all versions of Windows
Vista in a virtualized
environment. Microsoft
prebriefed a number of news
and blogging outlets,
including me, about the
planned change under
non-disclosure.
Currently, Microsofts
end-user license agreement
(EULA) specifies that users
can run only the Business and
Ultimate versions of Vista in
virtual machines from
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20.06.2007Vote For The Best Windows Vista Website!
WinVistaClub, in association with 'Windows Vista - The Official Magazine', has organised a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista
Blogs and Websites.
The following 10 websites have been being declared by the Judges, as the Top 10 Vista websites and have been put up
for a public vote.
MintyWhite Windows Guides
Vista Revisited
Windows Vista Update
Windows Vista For Beginners
Tweaking With Vishal
MaximumPCGuides
Windows Vista Forums
The Road To Know Where
Windows Vista Weblog
Vista & XP Media
Center Support Community
Click
HERE to cast your vote for your
favourite Windows Vista Website, and in the process also get to know some other real good ones !
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02.09.2008Are You Ready for Windows Vista?
Columnist Stuart Mudie
describes how to make the move
to Windows Vista using Windows
Vista Upgrade Advisor and
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29.09.2006Is Your PC 'Vista Capable'?
The Answer is Maybe
Microsoft will start rolling
out in April new
"Vista
Capable" logos for
PCs, despite the fact that it
still has yet to release the
final hardware specs for
Windows Vista. As noted over
on the InsideMicrosoft blog,
"The Vista Capable page at
Microsoft TechNet explains
that PCs that are Capable must
pass the current Windows XP
certification, and then meet
certain CPU/RAM/GPU
requirements in order to bear
the logo." But a Microsoft
spokesman added this caveat:
"The Windows Vista Capable
program does not represent
minimum hardware requirements
for the different versions of
Windows Vista ? we look
forward to providing
additional information
regarding minimum hardware
requirements for Windows Vista
and the Windows Vista logo
program in the coming
months."
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01.04.2006Windows Vista CTP Program Ends
It has been revealed, by
visiting the Windows Vista
Beta Pre-Registration page,
that the Windows Vista
Community Technology Preview
(CTP) program, which provided
download access to the CTP
builds, has now come to an
end. This could well mean that
we can expect public betas in
the near future.
Though the preview program
has ended, Microsoft are
continuing to offer valid
registration codes for
enterprise customers, ISVs,
SIs, LARs/VARs, and SBCs.
These select codes can be used
to receive a replicated copy
of the latest CTP version in
the mail.
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30.04.2006Windows 7: Seven Developments you Should Know About
One stone-cold fact about Windows 7 is that we need more stone-cold facts in order to understand the new operating system that is likely to arrive in
early 2010.
The company has said some of those facts will come in late October and early November during two of its major conferences
— the Professional Developers Conference (October 27-30) and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (November 5-7).
What is
known beyond the Windows 7 code name is that Microsoft is building the operating system on the Windows Vista code base in order to avoid the sort of
application-compatibility problems that plagued Vista early in its release. The new interface will feature the Ribbon toolbar throughout, and the
server version will add the much-anticipated live migration feature to the virtualization capabilities.
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24.09.2008Why installing Vista SP1 might fail via Windows Update
When you try to install Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update you can get error: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is not available for installation from
Windows Update and is not offered by Automatic Updates.
To help ensure a positive update experience, Windows Update will temporarily not
offer Windows Vista SP1 to systems that have the following device drivers. In some cases, these device drivers are problematic on Windows Vista-based
computers when you update to Windows Vista SP1. By installing updated device drivers, you will resolve the issue and enable Windows Update to offer
Windows Vista SP1.
Click read more to view a list of drivers that don't work well with Vista SP1:
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20.03.2008Microsoft announces Win 7 pricing, special pre-order price
Microsoft has finally announced the pricing and it is good news to the consumer, with prices for its most popular product, Windows Home Premium,
receiving about a 10% price drop. With a drop in price Microsoft is hoping to regain customers after the less than desirable launch of Windows Vista.
This prices are very similar, but not identical, to those we reported back in February. Microsoft will also be offering pre-order upgrades with
aggressive prices never seen by Microsoft before. These prices are identical to those we reported back in early June, from a leaked Best Buy memo.
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25.06.2009Last chance to win: Vista Ultimate Boxed (RED) Edition
The competition closes in 1hr 30mins so this is your last chance. Good luck Vista (RED) is enhanced with (PRODUCT) RED wallpapers, gadgets, and a
unique screen saver and DreamScene. For more information on Windows Vista and Vista (RED) please head to Microsoft's Website. In order to enter
the competition you simply have to reply to this thread, we will select a winner at random and multiple posts will not count so no need to go crazy
folks. The competition opens NOW and ends on Wednesday 25th February at 23:59 GMT. The competition is open to all members worldwide.
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