Microsoft to Kill Windows XP Blue Edition
Microsoft is attempting to kill the “Blue Edition” of Windows XP. In mid-2008 the Redmond company discontinued the availability of retail and OEM licenses of Windows XP, with the exception of copies of the operating system going onto ultra-low-cost laptops and desktops.
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4.12.2008 Blue death on my hand :)
Microsoft's Blue Hat Shows It's Serious About Security
For critics of Microsoft Corp.'s software, 2003 was a very good year. The appearance of the Slammer and Blaster worms was evidence?if any were necessary?that things had gone badly awry at the Redmond, Wash., software giant.
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At the Roots of Windows Blue Screen of Death
Unfortunately for Microsoft, one of the aspects of its proprietary operating system that has grown to become associated by default with the Windows brand is the Blue Screen of Death. BSOD, for short, is the result of a critical system error that will stop the operating system dead in its tracks and lead to a reboot.
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17.7.2008 Blue Badge patch for Windows 7 unlocks additional features
On November 2, Rafael Rivera, announced that his indications that the Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801 has some locked additional options, were right.
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11.11.2008 Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 price in Japan
TOKYO - Microsoft is slashing Xbox 360 prices in Japan by about 13 percent as the price war among video game consoles heats up around the world ahead of the key year-end shopping season.
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22.10.2007 Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 price in Japan
Refusing to give up on the game console market in Asia/Pacific, Microsoft has cut the price of its Xbox 360 console in Japan, and is also adding a new model.
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2.9.2008 Microsoft Confirms Over 50% Windows Vista Price Cut – and WGA Failure
Microsoft confirmed independent reports revealing that Windows Vista prices will be cut in half. On August 1, Zan Xiaoqin, representing 8844.com, a Beijing Federal Software online software distributor, indicated that the Redmond company will take drastic measures in China in order to boost Windows Vista in the competition with local pirated copies of the operating system.
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3.8.2007 Microsoft makes Xbox360 price drop official, announces 60GB sku
The worst kept secret just before the E3 show, is now official: Microsoft Corp. is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck.
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14.7.2008 Apple twice the price of PCs
Research by analyst house NPD has shown that, on average, Apple users pay twice as much in the shops as PC users.
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11.8.2008 Playing the Windows 7 Price Is Right
Pricing is one of the last details that Microsoft is yet to unveil for the next iteration of the Windows client.
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9.6.2009 Remove and Uninstall Microsoft Office Activation Assistant - Fix Office Must Be Installed Error
On most OEM computers running Microsoft Windows operating system, regardless of it’s a desktop, notebook or laptop PC, now comes with pre-loaded trial version of Microsoft Office 2007, primarily Home and Student Edition, which is a time-limited product for evaluation if use without proper activation.
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17.8.2008 Xbox 360 price drop on the way soon?
If a promotion in a printed UK advertising catalogue is anything to go by, the cost of the Xbox 360 Premium console with wireless controller and 20Gb hard drive is set to fall to the cheaper cost of the Xbox 360 Core system, just in time to spoil the launch of the PS3.
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20.2.2007 Microsoft confirms Office 12 will be Office 2007
Microsoft announced today the lineup for Microsoft Office Suites 2007.
Alongside the product branding, Microsoft has also revealed pricing for the different versions of Office 2007.
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16.2.2006 Samsung Pays $300m for Price Fixing
Samsung accepted terms of a plea agreement Thursday that finds the electronics company guilty of conspiring with other manufacturers to artificially inflate the cost of computer memory, thus unnecessarily increasing the prices consumers paid.
As part of the agreement, Samsung would pay a $300 million fine in exchange for prosecutorial immunity for both the company and most of its employees. Seven people, including president of the semiconductor division Y.H. Park, were excluded from the settlement and could still face prosecution.
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1.12.2005 Hard drive price war coming
According to reports, we may witness a price war in the hard drive business industry. At least this is what Seagate Technology CEO Bill Watkins said on Wednesday. Seagate is currently the world's largest hard drive manufacturer and competes with such companies as Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung and Toshiba.
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13.8.2006 Xbox360 Core Price Drop In UK
Yesterday the Xbox360 Core pack received an official price drop of Ł10 in United Kingdom, and now costs Ł199.
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27.8.2006 The high price of creating free ads
From an advertiser's perspective, it sounds so easy: invite the public to create commercials for your brand, hold a contest to pick the best one and sit back while average Americans do the creative work.
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28.5.2007 Windows 7 in Europe: no upgrades, no IE, up to 2X the price
According to Computer World, things are not looking good for European fans of Windows 7 and Internet Explorer.
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29.6.2009 Windows 7 in the UK sells for half the US price
Looks like the United Kingdom won’t be affected by the strange Windows 7 pricing scheme set in the European Union.
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20.8.2009 Xbox 360 Elite Price Drop
Starting Friday, August 28th (tomorrow) the price of the Xbox 360 Elite is getting a one-hundred dollar price cut in the United States.
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27.8.2009 Sony chops price on Blu-ray player
Sony has announced its plans to slash the price of high definition, according the Associated Press. At a New York press conference, Sony talked up its forthcoming BDP-S300 Blu-ray player. The big selling point? Its $599 price.
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27.2.2007 HP and Acer Start Netbook Price War
Hewlett-Packard and Acer have lowered prices of their netbooks as the back-to-school sales season kicks into gear in the U.S., offering bargains for users.
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26.8.2008 O2 wins Apple iPhone deal - at a hefty price
Mobile operator O2 is preparing to unveil Apple's much anticipated iPhone in the UK tomorrow. But serious questions are being raised in the City about how much ground it has had to give away to Apple in order to clinch the deal.
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18.9.2007 Xbox 360 HD DVD Player price drop
Now US $129.99! The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player price has dropped from $179.99 to $129.99 (U.S. MSRP.)
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6.2.2008 Walmart Ad Has Xbox 360 Price Drop Coming August 8th?
Without seeing the alleged Walmart ad with my own eyes, this is still in BIG RUMOR form.
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29.7.2007 Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade (WAU) and Family Pack Price Details Leak
Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU), which first introduced for Windows Vista is a sales program from Microsoft to allow customers with cheaper, lower-end and lesser-features editions of Windows 7 to upgrade to more premium edition of Windows 7.
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9.7.2009 Office 2003 and Office 2007 Genuine Patch
And again one article from Steve Jobs’s blog. Well, since a few weeks, most of the known Office 2007 keys do not pass the Genuine test anymore. Most likely you will be able to use it as normal and update your Office 2007, however those downloads which require Genuine Validation won’t pass.
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29.5.2007 Office 12 NOT BRANDED Office 2007
Well I saw Office 12 demo's at IT Forum where the apps were named Office 2007, also as mentioned earlier on Bink.nu, the name change of all office apps now have the name Office in them. So "Microsoft Office Word" and not "Microsoft Word"
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25.1.2006 Office 2007 vs. Office 2008 – Packagings
Office 2008 is the equivalent of the Office 2007 System, but a product designed exclusively for the Mac platform, and the Mac OS X operating system, unlike its alternative for Windows.
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8.10.2007Customers get a supercomputer on the cheap
IBM ratcheted the world of
supercomputing up a few
notches in June with the Blue
Gene/P, a system nearly three
times as fast as its
predecessor at a cost of
US$1.3 million per rack.
But in
anticipation of the Blue
Gene/P, IBM dropped the price
of the Blue Gene/L, to about
$800,000 late last year,
prompting sales of the older
supercomputer to more than
double during the first half
of this year compared to the
second half of 2006, says Herb
Schultz, IBM's deep-computing
marketing manager.
At its highest price, the
Blue Gene/Lcost $1.3 million
per rack, same as the P's
current price.
"It's still a very
viable platform," Schultz
says. Among universities,
"we've had some really big
sales." He named Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in Troy,
NY and the State University of
New York at Stony Brook as two
new L-model customers...
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01.08.2007Office 2007 Gets Themes, UI
Tweaks
Microsoft continues to tweak
the user interface for Office
2007, and has added a new
silver theme to go along with
the current blue and black
color schemes. Office UI head
Jensen Harris posted a
screenshot of the new designs
in his Web log Monday...
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18.07.2006New IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
IBM has devised a new Blue
Gene supercomputer--the Blue
Gene/P--that will be capable
of processing more than 3
quadrillion operations a
second, or 3 petaflops, a
possible record. Blue Gene/P
is designed to continuously
operate at more than 1
petaflop in real-world
situations.
Blue
Gene/P marks a significant
milestone in computing. Last
November, the Blue Gene/L was
ranked as the most powerful
computer on the planet: it
topped out at 280 teraflops,
or 280 trillion operations a
second during continuous
operation.
Put
another way, a Blue Gene/P
operating at a petaflop is
performing more operations
than a 1.5-mile-high stack of
laptops. ..
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26.06.2007Review roundup: Moving into a new office suite
Whether you're using a
Macintosh or a Windows
computer, Microsoft Office is
a staple throughout the world.
While that doesn't mean
everybody uses it, it does
mean that almost everybody has
to find something that works
with it. And yet there are
several reasons you might not
want to get a copy of
Microsoft Office itself.
One of those is the price.
Few of us can happily afford
to shell out $400 for the
Standard edition of Office.
Even the educational price of
$150 is pricey, especially if
you're a student trying to
make ends meet.
Perhaps your PC doesn't
have enough resources to
handle Office, which is a
notorious memory hog. Or maybe
you have a second computer
that you or other family
members use only occasionally
for document creation, and you
don't want to shell out for
another Office license.
Whatever the reason, it's
good to know there are
alternatives out there -- all
cheaper than Microsoft's
standard, and a couple that
are even free. We sorted
through nine contenders, some
for Mac and some for PC (and a
couple for both), to find out
the best non-Office office
suites available.
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26.07.2007New Chinese Involvement Could Trigger HD DVD Price Plunge
A consortium of Chinese university engineers and government officials, in cooperation with a Chinese video standards group that includes globally
recognized manufacturers, plus the DVD Forum, have come to an agreement on a standard specification for a blue-laser disc mechanism and format
specifically for the Chinese market. It means China could be producing low-price HD DVD mechanisms by this next summer...
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08.09.2007Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained
Picture this: Its late at night, youre sitting at your computer playing a game or working on a project when, suddenly, Windows freezes completely. All
your work is gone, and you find a blue screen full of gibberish staring back at you. Windows is dead, Jim, at least until you reboot it. You have no
choice but to sigh loudly, shake your fist at Bill Gates and angrily push the reset button. Youve just been visited by the ghost of windows crashed:
The blue screen of death.
Also known as the BSoD, the Blue Screen of Death appears when Windows crashes or locks up. Its actually
a Windows śstopť screen, and is designed to do two things: tell you the reason for the error, and to calm your nerves, hence the use of the color blue
(studies show it has a relaxing effect on people). Though Blue Screens are difficult to decipher, all the information you need to figure out what
caused it is right there in front of you in blue and whiteand thats where we come in. Were going to show you how to dissect the blue screen error
details, so you can fix the problem thats causing them.
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01.05.2009True blue for OLED screens discovered
Blue, the color that has been holding back OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen technology may be one giant step closer to production.
Previously scientists were only able to reproduce red and green OLED's but had stumbled upon finding a material for true blue OLEDs. No longer is
that the case as a group of researchers in Korea have claimed to have discovered the true blue OLED. This means that we will hopefully have consumer
OLED products on the market sooner rather than later. Why is having OLED on the market important? OLED products have greater field of vision,
better color quality and require less power. Overall it's a better value for the consumer and the environment.
Read full story.....
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24.11.2008Microsoft reduces Office price to combat Kenyan piracy
Microsoft East Africa announced a 40 percent reduction in cost of its home and student office suite amid complaints of rampant software piracy in the
Kenya.
"This special offer for Africa will enable more tools that will help them work more productively and accomplish more in
developing presentations," said Ian Joule, Microsoft channel manager for East and Central Africa.
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30.08.2008Zune 120GB price leak? And…flash Zunes in blue?
A
pre-order link at bhphotovideo.com was spotted advertising the 120GB Zune for $249.95.
The first information we've seen on pricing for the new Zune.
Furthermore, just under that listing an 8GB Zune flash player available in
blue!
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03.09.2008Hi-fi mic producer Blue breaks into consumer electronics
Not a company frequently seen in the CE field, Blue made its reputation in the professional recording category. Today it has pulled away from its
niche market, announcing an HD Webcam and a software-less microphone attachment for iPod...
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07.11.2008Official Pricing and Packaging
for Office 2007
Microsoft has announced today
that what we had previously
known as "Office
12" is now
officially named
"Office
2007" .
Also, Microsoft has also
released the
lineup for
this new product:
* Microsoft Office
Enterprise 2007
(Available through Volume
Licensing, no price
announced)
*
Microsoft Office
Professional Plus
2007 (Available
through Volume Licensing, no
price announced)
*
Microsoft Office
Professional 2007
(Retail $499, Upgrade
$329)
*
Microsoft Office Small
Business 2007 (Retail
$449, Upgrade $279)
*
Microsoft Office
Standard 2007 (Retail
$399, Upgrade $239)
*
Microsoft Office Home
and Student 2007
(Retail $149, no upgrade
available)
*
Microsoft Office Basic
2007 (Available
through OEMs, no price
announced)
Thanks to zeyansoft for contributing to this
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16.02.2006Medical Data CD Recovered in Philadelphia
Clients of Empire Blue Cross
and Blue Shield can breathe a
little easier as a CD earlier
reported missing has turned up
in Philadelphia, the New York
Times reports...
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15.03.200775,000 Affected by WellPoint Data Loss
WellPoint, a health insurance
company that handles coverage
for Empire Blue Cross and Blue
Shield disclosed Wednesday
that a CD containing medical
records and other personal
data may have been lost...
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15.03.2007LG GGW-H10NI Super Multi Blue optical drive review
Call this a preview of even better things to come...
The fact is we have had the LG GGW-H10NI Super Multi Blue drive in our hands for a couple of
months now, however we did not know in full what to do with it. In one hand, the GGW-H10N is the most advanced optical drive you can get for the PC
today, with the capacity of reading and rewriting Blu-ray discs, reading HD DVD discs, and handling all other standard media tasks with DVDs and
CDs.
Sounds good so far? Well, the problem with the GGW-H10NI is in part what makes it great.
LG amused us with the announcement
of a hybrid optical drive capable of handling both next-generation formats back in January during this year's CES trade show. However, the GGW-H10NI
did not appear in store shelves until June for a staggering $1,200, which of course reduced its appeal to a more select few willing to pay the
premium for this first generation wonder. Furthermore, only one month later, during July they announced an improved drive that would sell for less
money, slated for release in late September (it's now October so obviously it has taken them a bit longer, but it should be out any day now).
But just like Steve Jobs blatantly put it recently when he announced price cuts for the iPhone: "that's what happens in technology." Today,
the GGW-H10NI is still available for a reduced price of $850, while many are still waiting for its successor, the GGW-H20LI which will carry a
more appealing price tag of $500.
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05.10.2007Best Buy launches collectively customized 'Blue Label' laptops
How would you describe your 'ideal laptop'? Starting with new Toshiba and HP models, Best Buy is now offering an exclusive line of CE products --
based on people's answers to questions like these -- under its new 'Blue Label" program...
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10.10.2008IBM 'Blue Gene' Gets New
Applications
IBM released new commercial
applications for its Blue Gene
supercomputer on Friday, which
it says will put
supercomputing power in the
hands of those who may have
not been able to afford it
previously. Separately, the
company also broke its record
for the world's fastest
computer...
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29.10.2005Fiat Puts Windows Mobile in
New Cars
Italian automaker Fiat has
joined forces with Microsoft
to unveil a voice-activated
in-car communications system
called Blue&Me at the
Geneva Motorshow this month.
Blue&Me is based on
Windows Mobile for Automotive
and offers a wide range of
functionality, along with
connectivity to wireless
devices...
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04.02.2006The red/blue split for online voters is not 50/50, survey finds
A Pew Research survey released Sunday indicates that nearly half of all Americans have used electronic media to get or spread information about the
presidential election. And those active Web users are looking more blue than red...
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18.06.2008Office Online Page Revamped
With Office 2007 due to hit
release to manufacturing
anytime now, Microsoft is
already preparing customers to
its release, through, in the
first place, a visual update
to the Office Online website,
which is now designed to
resemble as closely as
possible the new "Ribbon"
interface introduced in the
upcoming version of the
productivity suite.
The website now also
features blue-ish colors to go
with the default theme. The
"ribbon" featured at the top
is separated in different
tabs, just like the actual
application suite.
Thanks to Emexci for
the heads up!
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02.11.2006How to create a Blue Screen of Death
Feeling nostalgic about the Microsoft Blue Screen of Death, which used to plague desktops in the bad old days of Windows? No need to keep those
feelings locked away. This handy guide will show you how to force your PC to recreate the infamous error.
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