Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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26.2.2008 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 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 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 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 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 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsoft’s announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP2
We are all well aware of the limping start of Vista on the OS market. Despite the fact that its launch had been highly anticipated for a good while, contrary to all Microsoft expectations, Vista was received with great reluctance and unwillingness on the part of XP fans.
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13.12.2008 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 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 PC buyers: 'Vista Capable' machines weren't Vista capable
How misleading was Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" campaign? Misleading enough for a judge to approve a federal trial.
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9.8.2007 Yes, You Can Turn 32-bit Vista into 64-bit Vista
Yes, you can turn the 32-bit SKUs of Windows Vista into the 64-bit editions of the operating system. But it will cost you...
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29.1.2008Can Vista SP1 help polish Vistas tarnished image?
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21.08.2007Can Vista SP1 help polish Vistas tarnished image?
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21.08.2007Vista 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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21.02.2007Yahoo's latest Messenger beta goes its own way
It's clearly not a button-down, businesslike IM client: Having experimented with a special Vista version that apparently didn't go over well, Yahoo
now is adding personalized polish to its latest free personal messenger, still in beta...
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03.06.2008Why has Microsoft photoshopped this?
Engadget spotted this earlier today, it appears Microsoft has photo-shopped an image on the polish version of its Business Productivity site. If you
visit the US business site you will see the image below (top) and if you visit the Polish site you'll see the same picture (bottom) but the man in
the middle is no longer black. Why has Microsoft done this? It's not only rather strange but in a world where racism is a touchy subject and
businesses strive towards equality, this kind of behaviour is slightly alarming.
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26.08.2009Understanding Windows 7 upgrade paths
Windows 7 has already earned itself a blue ribbon, and it isn't even in stores yet. Many Vista users will migrate to Redmond's latest and
greatest operating system in search of greener pastures, and countless Windows XP laggards will be lured from the woodwork by Windows 7's polish.
Microsoft will be granting both XP and Vista users the right to buy "Upgrade" versions of Windows 7 which run for considerably less money. But in
terms of how you can perform an upgrade on a machine already running Windows, for some the in-place upgrade option will make the experience seamless;
all your programs, files and settings will remain untouched coming from certain versions of Vista.
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03.09.2009Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Vista Sucks?
Gizmodo: We asked a simple question: what Microsoft product could have used a little more polish before release? The answer astounded us. We would
just like to thank Bill Gates for his honesty and his openness.
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10.01.2008Google sues Polish poets over gmail.pl
Izabela Krawczyk of GMAiL
(Grupa Młodych Artystów i
Literatów), which in English
translates to " Group of
Young Artists and
Writers ", told AFP that
Google had turned to the
country's IT and
telecommunications tribunal to
try to stop them using
http://www.g
mail.pl. Google claims
that the group of Polish poets
has no rights to the name,
which resembles the US firm's
email service
http://www.g
mail.com. Krawczyk said
that at the end of last year
her group was surprised to
discover that the domain was
available and decided to buy
the rights to the domain name
in order to raise the profile
of GMAiL, which publicises the
works of young unknowns who
have not yet found a
conventional editor.
Krawczyk, a poet and IT fan
based in the central Polish
city of Lodz, emphasized that
that the group is not looking
to make money by getting
Google to buy the domain off
of them: " We didn't buy
this name just to sell it to
Google. As a matter of pride,
we're refusing to give it up.
We bought the name legally,
with our own money. Nobody
gave it to us for free. We
refuse to be deprived of what
we consider is our property.
Our site has a use. There's
no financial gain involved.
And we're not competing with
the US company ." Krawczyk
also noted that Google had not
proposed a financial
settlement: " Their lawyer
told me that his client had no
intention of paying for
something which belonged to
him ."
Opinion:
I probably have a bias view on
this issue as I am Polish.
Still, here's my take. I do
not believe that GMAiL has
done anything wrong and I
believe they should not give
up the rights to the domain.
It is Google's fault for not
securing the domain name early
on. Also, the domain
googlemail.pl is open, so it
is not as if Google does not
have options. Finally, as in
German and in the UK, Google
can always offer Polish users
to use googlemail.com to sign
up for Gmail.
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18.02.2007Three-year-old JavaScript Bug Continues to Plague IE7
Last Friday, Polish researcher
Michal Zalewski reported
discovering an interesting
little JavaScript trick that
keeps a user stuck on a Web
page even though he's trying
to navigate somewhere else.
His discovery involves the
simple use of a JavaScript
event to make it appear as
though a browser is displaying
any particular URL, when it's
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28.02.2007Windows 3.1 installed on Nokia N95
Polish bulletin board FrazPC last night
received a post from developer and writer Marcin-PRV showing that he can successfully run Windows 3.1 simultaneously with Symbian S60 on a Nokia
N95.
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24.02.2009DirectX End-User Runtimes (August 2007) Available
This download provides the
DirectX end-user
multi-languaged
redistributable that
developers can include with
their product. The
redistributable license
agreement covers the terms
under which developers may use
the Redistributable. For full
details please review the
DirectX SDK EULA.txt and
DirectX Redist.txt files
located in the license
directory.
This package is localized
into Chinese (Simplified),
Chinese (Traditional), Czech,
Dutch, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Polish, Portuguese (Brazil),
Russian, Swedish, and
English.
Supported Operating
Systems: Windows 2000; Windows
XP; Windows Server 2003;
Windows Vista
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28.07.2007Microsoft provides latest Windows 7 roadmap
Microsoft has been releasing monthly updates to OEM's on their upcoming Windows 7 operating system.
Techarp has posted their latest update where Microsoft notes that
they are currently finishing product research based on feedback from OEM and end users. This will help them determine potential Windows 7 offerings /
SKUs. Microsoft aims to provide detailed Windows 7 SKU information sometime this month. The next OEM update is scheduled to be released around
November 13, 2008.
Interestingly, Microsoft has revealed the "Windows 7 Language Waves". Localised versions of Windows 7 will be released
over 101 days after RTM. These are not general release dates but dates that indicate when the various languages will be finalised.
Wave 0
- RTM - English, Spanish, Japanese, German, French
Wave 1 - RTM + 14 days - Italian, Dutch, Russian, Simplified Chinese
Wave 2 - RTM + 28
days - Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Korean
Wave 3 - RTM + 45 days - Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Czech, Portuguese, Hungarian
Wave 4 - RTM + 59 days - Danish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Finnish
Wave 5 - RTM + 73 days - Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Ukrainian
Wave 6 - RTM
+ 87 days - Thai, Romanian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Bulgarian
Wave 7 - RTM + 101 days - Estonian, Croatian, Serbian Latin, Latvian, Slovenian
In the OEM update Microsoft also detailed Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU). Like Vista, Windows 7 users will be able to upgrade to a "more
premium" version to unlock additional features. More details will be forthcoming in Novembers update presumably when Microsoft release SKU
information.
Microsoft is also planning a Windows 7 Tech Guarantee Program, where end users you purchase Vista systems will have the option
(for a limited time) of upgrading to Windows 7.
Eligible Editions : Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista
Ultimate
Eligible Languages : Wave 0 to Wave 4
Available Upgrade Paths : Like-to-like product paths only (e.g. from Windows Vista Home
Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium)
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08.11.2008Microsoft lifts shroud off Halo 3
Microsoft gave a sneak
peak at its "Halo 3" game on
Friday, presumably the final
chapter of the fast-paced
shooter trilogy that the
software giant is banking on
to help it fend off
competition from Sony and
Nintendo.
Gamers at the
invitation-only preview gave
mixed reviews.
"The
graphics can use some work ...
They're not much different
than the previous Halo," said
Nicholas Puleo, editor of
gaming news Web site
Evilavatar.com. "They've got
five, six months until
release, so they'll add some
polish ... When I compare it
to other things in the
platform, it's not
standout."
Microsoft staged previews
in New York and San Francisco
on Friday in advance of the
public test, or "beta," of
the game, which goes live next
Wednesday...
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13.05.2007Buy 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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28.03.2007The State of Skinning
Tweaking and customizing Windows is a major element of what people do with their PC. Neowin.net's own sidebar has an entire section dedicated to
Customization websites. There are about 50,000 posts on Neowin just about Windows customization.
As we do each year, we take a look at the
state of skinning. Where things stand, and where things are going.
Our conclusion: 2007 was not a great year. Windows Vista made it more
difficult to create customization software and content. Spotty support for Vista X64, and the fragmentation of Windows users between XP and Vista made
it hard for skinners to pick a target to support.
While there were some bright points last year, there were plenty of boo-boos.
Stardock's DesktopX 3.5 never materialized. The Windows Sidebar is a joke. Yahoo finished sucking the soul out of Konfabulator.
In
addition, skinning has become incredibly popular. It's not just mainstream these days, it's ubiquitous. As a result, talented skinners are
finding careers across the industry creating things for Adobe Air, Microsoft Silver Light, and countless other up and coming platforms.
In
2008, the transition to Vista in terms of software should be largely complete. X64 support should start to become more consistent. And the polish
factor should improve.
The full State of Skinning article is very long but goes over alternative shells, msstyles, WindowBlinds, etc. Note
that my day job is at Stardock so I'm obviously more familiar with what Stardock is doing than other companies but I've tried to cover
everything relevant.
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04.03.2008Windows 7 to add slideshow wallpapers, theme gallery and theme packs
Dont worry Windows 95 Plus! enthusiasts, Microsoft hasnt forgotten about you and your themes. A recently updated MSDN Library document shows that
Microsoft hasnt just brushed themes under the carpet, but instead dusted it off, added some new polish and is even putting it under the spotlight.
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06.08.2008Vote 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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02.09.2008Crysis & Army of Two Delayed
Well it looks like we will all
have to wait a bit longer to
get our grubby little hands on
Crysis and Army of Two:
During Electronic
Arts' quarterly financial
conference call, EA execs
confirmed that two upcoming
game will not be released in
their fiscal 2007 time period
that ends on March 31, 2007.
Both Crysis (the PC first
person shooter from developer
Crytek) and Army of Two (the
co-op themed console action
game) have been moved to
EA's fiscal 2008 year that
begins on April 1, 2007. No
other specific release dates
were revealed.
But look on the bright side,
now it gives us all time to
get that next big upgrade,
right? I know, that doesn't
make me feel any better
either. But hey, it gives
Crytek more time to polish
Crysis up for us, and make it
even better! Same goes for the
impressive looking Army of
Two, which you would think by
now would be announced for the
PC. Maybe they are waiting for
Vista, DX10? What do you
think?
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03.11.2006Windows 7 box art leaks
Potential Windows 7 box art leaked earlier this week from Polish site Centrumxp. Originally many speculated that these images were fake but blogger
Long Zheng has unearthed Microsoft using the same logo on the box art, elsewhere. Microsoft has created a Windows Lounge site for internal employees
to join a Facebook group for information, training and marketing for Windows 7. The group uses the following image for its logo: Compared to the
box art that was leaked it's too similar. It appears as though this could be concept or final box art for the Windows 7 packaging. Microsoft
officials have said "off the record" that Windows 7 will RTM in the Summer and be available for the Fall.
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12.05.2009Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7 in Vista: How Close?
Whatever Firefox 2.0 is, it
isn't "sweeping," and
nowhere does that fact become
more evident than in a Windows
Vista test environment. We
started up both IE7 and FF2 in
Vista, and were left
wondering, will Firefox users
be happy using their browser
in Vista without the
degree of changes they'd
experience with IE7?..
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