Cheap Upgrade Versions of Win 7 Top Amazon Sales Charts
Microsoft's half-price promotion for Windows 7 upgrades have attracted the attention of Amazon shoppers, according to the company's sales rankings.
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28.6.2009 Win 7 Anytime Upgrade prices announced, EU & UK ripped off
Microsoft today unveiled pricing for Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU) and the Windows 7 Family Pack.
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31.7.2009 Power Pack 3 for Home Server announced, inc Win 7 support
Microsoft has announced Power Pack 3 (beta) for Windows Home Server today which adds important Windows 7 support to the list of features.
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17.7.2009 Do not make Win 7 too Mac-like
Blogger Paul Thurrott has written a couple of interesting posts about the difference between “simple” and “easy” in the context of Windows 7.
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4.12.2008 Win 7 changes coming in the next build
Windows 7 testers wanted more feedback from Microsoft. It looks like they’re getting it.
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26.2.2009 The 5 Reasons Why Blu-Ray Will Win
This week Stephen Speicher and his engadget column The Clicker discusses the five reasons why he believes Blu-Ray will win the battle against HD-DVD. Some of the major points made are format security, computer manufacturer support, and overall capacity.
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Why Windows 7 will win the netbook war
There’s been much debate recently on whether Linux will be able to strive in the netbook war once Windows 7 is released.
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2.2.2009 Businesses to get final Win 7 in July
Microsoft officials have said the company expects to release Windows 7 to manufacturing before the end of this month.
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10.7.2009 Netbook users not happy with Win 7?
Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU General Public License.
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10.11.2009 Microsoft's Big Bet: Win Within the Web
Although the latest version of Microsoft Windows is more than six months from shipping, company brass already have christened Vista as the best and biggest Windows release since Windows 95.
The company is making bold predictions, claiming Vista will be preloaded on as many as 200 million new personal computers in the first 24 months that the product is available. Windows 95 shipped on a mere 67 million new PCs during its first two years. These numbers are important. The prospects of nearly every product Microsoft makes ride on maintaining the ubiquity of Windows, which has in excess of 90 percent of the PC operating system market. It's been five years since the current Windows version was released, and Windows XP now is looking rather dated.
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15.3.2006 Win an Exclusive PGR100 Xbox 360!
Microsoft and www.oxm.co.uk are working together to allow fans to win a limited edition black PGR100 Xbox 360!
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3.4.2006 Microsoft starting to win over Linux servers
Microsoft is showing some early signs of success with a version of Windows geared for a technical computing market that Linux dominates today.
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10.4.2007 New improved Win 7 Logon screen chenger
This app will auto resize you image to fit you current screen resolution. Must be run as admin. Works great.
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19.3.2009 Nine of 10 corporate PCs can run Win 7
According to a survey carried out by Softchoice, 88% of corporate PCs in the US are capable of running Windows 7.
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19.10.2009 Malware breaks Win 7 UAC defenses
A recently conducted test by malware researchers reveals that eight out of ten malware samples used in the test, successfully bypassed Windows 7’s default UAC (user access control) settings.
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7.11.2009 Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Win 7?
Yesterday there appeared an interview with a Microsoft group manager who claimed that Microsoft copied the “Mac look and feel in terms of graphics” in Windows 7.
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12.11.2009 Microsoft and Linux set to win smartphone war
Year-to-year growth in the smartphone market in 2005 exceeded 70 per cent and will continue to grow "robustly" for the next several years, with Linux and Microsoft emerging as the dominant platforms, In-Stat predicted today.
However, the analyst firm warned that the risk remains of consumers perceiving these devices as just very expensive feature phones.
In-Stat noted that a major problem affecting the appeal of smartphones is that many users do not download applications that make them more useful after they leave the store.
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28.1.2006 WGA notches win for Microsoft in piracy bust
Microsoft’s anti-piracy effort may be annoying to some Windows users, but it has notched a big win catching the bad guys.
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25.7.2007 Microsoft Promotion: make MSN Your Homepage & Win a Zune
How badly does Microsoft want to promote the Zune? Not badly enough to think of anything particularly ingenious. Unique? yes. Succesful? No.
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15.2.2007 Update on Win 7 RTM availability, MSDN and TechNet August 6
Microsoft has just sent word that MSDN and TechNet customers will be able to get hold of Windows 7 RTM on August 6.
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21.7.2009 Critical security patch for IE released, Win 7 RC affected
Microsoft has released an out of band security patch (MS09-034) to fix remote exploits in Internet Explorer.
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28.7.2009 Apple attempt to gatecrash Win 7 launch with product updates
Apple unveiled several new products today, some of which have been rumored for quite some time.
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20.10.2009 Microsoft courts open-source vendors to support Win Server 2008
When Microsoft officially launches Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 in one fell swoop on February 27, it will have a cadre of software, hardware and services partners backing its play.
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27.2.2008 Microsoft plans to issue non-update update for Win 7
Microsoft will spit out dummy updates for Windows 7 beta testers next week that will probe the forthcoming operating system’s updating abilities.
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20.2.2009 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 Upgrade Windows Home Server From RC to RTM 1.0
I have been searching high and low looking for a leak of WHS RTM 1.0(thats how I found the previous article)and today on the Unoffical Windows Home Server blog "We Got Served", there is a nice article on how to upgrade to RTM.
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16.9.2007 Home Computer - Home Network - Home Server
In the 1960s & 70s the idea of a home computer was unheard of outside of science fiction circles. Before the late 1980s home networks were unheard of.
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2.12.2007 Windows 7 E Full Version at Upgrade Prices, but No Upgrade SKU
With a new edition of Windows 7 tailored especially for Europe, Microsoft revealed that with this release of its Windows client, it was doing things differentially.
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25.6.2009 Windows Vista Home Basic vs. Home Premium vs. Business vs. Ultimate
Microsoft applauded shipping in excess of 60 million Windows Vista licenses in the operating system's first six months of general availability. However, the Redmond company is right on track to correct this little slip up.
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20.8.2007 Vista Smoker Pro 1.1
Vista Smoker Pro allows you to change various settings in the Windows Registry.
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26.2.2007Pre-CES Giveaway: Win Vista Ultimate, Adobe CS3, Zune and more
In preparation for CES 2008, which kicks off in Las Vegas on Sunday, we have decided to give away a number of products that have been gathering dust
around the office. All you need to do to win is come up with a good question...
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03.01.2008How to Build (or win) a Tiny Windows Home Server
Donavon from Home Server Hacks has put together
instructions on how to build a tiny little Windows Home
Server using an ARTiGO Pico-ITX kit. It's an interesting read and an especially good pick if your main concern is low power consumption - the Pico
uses a staggering 13-watts of power at idle. While the board isn't the most plug and play compatible hardware out there for Home Server, this will
show you how to make it work.
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07.01.2009Power pack for Home Server announced, inc Win 7 support
Microsoft has announced Power Pack 3 (beta) for Windows Home Server today which adds important Windows 7 support to the list of features. Full
Image-based Backups of Windows 7 PCs. After the Windows Home Server Connector is installed on your Windows 7 PCs, Action Center should no longer
display that your files are not being backed up.Windows 7 Libraries Support. Music, Photos and Videos shared folders from your Windows Home Server
will be added to Windows 7 Libraries. Content saved to these shared folders will be able to be quickly accessed through your Windows 7 Libraries.
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17.07.2009Win 7 Anytime Upgrade prices announced, EU & UK ripped off
Microsoft today unveiled pricing for Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU) and the Windows 7 Family Pack. Windows Anytime Uprade WAU allows users who
purchase machines with Home Premium or Starter to move up to a higher edition of Windows 7. After Windows 7 is released to market on October 22nd,
you will be able to buy a retail package that contains an upgrade key from retail outlets.
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31.07.2009Apple tries to gatecrash Win 7 launch with new commercials
In the light of Microsoft releasing their brand new operating system, Windows 7, Apple did not stay quiet. Apple released three new "I'm a Mac,
I'm a PC" advertisements, focusing on users switching from Windows to Mac, in an attempt to pick up some more market share from upgrading
consumers. The advertisements focus more on consumers who are looking to upgrade their home PC, to go buy a Mac, rather than the usual commercials
that depict the faults of Windows. The first of the advertisements attempt to bash Windows 7 on launch day, saying it will have the same problems as
previous versions of Windows.
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23.10.2009Apple attempt to gatecrash Win 7 launch with product updates
Apple unveiled several new products today, some of which have been rumored for quite some time. This was a significant update for Apple especially
considering that they didn't hold a special event to announce these products. The timing is suspicious considering Microsoft is due to launch
their new Windows 7 operating system in just two days time. The biggest change was that the MacBook line has adopted the unibody look that the
MacBook Pro uses. The model looks very similar to the Pro line but is in the traditional white color. The laptop can be outfitted with an
LED-backlit display, new glass multi-touch track pad, and a built-in battery with 7 hours run time.
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20.10.2009Win X Hosting Now Open.
Win X Hosting Open To Day. We
Do Windows And Linux Hosting
Plus Reseller Web Hosting...
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31.10.2006Microsoft: Win experiences money can't buy
Microsofts latest advertising
ploy, in the UK:
Quote -
Enter the UK prize draw
today and you could win an
incredible "Wow" experience.
- Walk the red
carpet of a world
premiere;
- Go on safari
with a professional
photographer;
- Visit
the Home of the Future at
Microsoft Campus in
Redmond.
For your
chance to win these prizes and
more simply watch the demos
and register your details.
Plus, someone will win the
Ultimate Experience, which
you'll only find out about if
you play the prize
draw.
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28.02.2007MSN Launches 'Search and
Win' Contest
MSN has come up with a new
plan to draw users away from
Google: free stuff. The
company launched a contest on
Monday that will give users a
chance to win prizes simply by
using the service's search
engine. Over $1 million in
prizes will be available
during the months of February,
March and April...
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13.02.2006Microsoft 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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25.06.2009Microsoft honing its 'better together' story for Windows 7 and Office 14
Now that the Windows 7 Beta and
Office 14 alpha are both out there, word is beginning to
trickle out about some of the ways the two are being designed to "work better together."
Microsoft isn’t planning to
integrate Win 7 and O14 to anywhere near the degree that it is integrating Windows Live and Win 7, sources say. But officials are looking for ways
that users who buy both of these new products will be able to take advantage of how O14 “lights up” on Win 7.
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15.01.2009Microsoft Launches "Connect & Win" Sweepstakes
To mark the release of Grand Theft Auto IV for PC, Microsoft has launched a "Connect & Win" weekly sweepstakes promotion.
Every day,
from now until January 19th, Microsoft will be awarding registered users who connect to the Live system through any Games for Windows Live PC title
with an entry into the weekly sweepstakes. You will be awarded one entry per day that you play.
Some of the prizes include Grand Theft
Auto IV prize packs, Microsoft Points, a copy of Fallout 3 Survival Edition, 17" Alienware Area-51 m17x laptops, and a trip for two to the 2009 San
Diego International Comic Con.
Unfortunately, only residents within the US, UK, Germany and France are eligible for these sweepstakes.
For full details and to register your gamertag for the sweepstakes, see the Connect & Win sweepstakes homepage below.
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03.12.2008Counter-'tock:' AMD fires back at Intel with everything it's got
This may be it. If AMD has one trump card left in its deck, it could be the ability to deliver a system that balances attractive performance with a
measurably lower price. Today at CES, AMD is making its one shot to win back the enthusiast...
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08.01.2009Microsoft Offers Up MacBooks,
iPods
In a seemingly strange twist,
Microsoft has announced a
"Spring Cleaning"
contest that is offering users
the chance to win Apple's new
MacBook Pro laptops, iPods,
Cinema Displays and more. The
contest is being held by
Microsoft's Mac Business Unit
to breathe some life into
Office 2004 for Mac...
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22.02.2006Intel confident of appeal win in EU anti-trust case
Intel President Paul Otellini has said the company is confident of winning its appeal against the record $1.45 billion fine which was imposed by
EU anti-trust regulators in May this year. Speaking to the BBC following his keynote address at the company's annual developer forum, Mr Otellini
said, "I can't wait to get our side of the story out in the public. I continue to believe and assert they (the European Commission) have got it
wrong. We have appealed and we will win on appeal." AMD first complained about Intel's business practices in 2000, but it wasn't until
high-profile raids were conducted on Intel offices in July 2007 that the company was charged with breaching competition rules.
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24.09.2009Microsoft Promotion: make MSN Your Homepage & Win a Zune
How badly does Microsoft want
to promote the Zune? Not badly
enough to think of anything
particularly ingenious.
Unique? yes. Succesful? No.
Apparently, Microsoft has
decided that every user who
sets MSN as their home page
will be entered to win one
of 50 Zunes. Step one: set
your home page to MSN. Not
using Internet Explorer? No
problem, Microsoft has
a page that
explains how to do it in
Firefox, Opera, Netscape and
Safari. Step two: enter
your e-mail address so that
you can be contacted ...
if you win. Of course
you can change it right back
(or not change it at all?),
but Microsoft hopes the
majority of users will fall in
love with the site right away.
Sure, many people will enter
the contest and avoid MSN for
the rest of their lives, but
many fools will be convinced
that keeping MSN as their home
page will get them a Zune,
someday. What are the chances
that those ignorant people
even know what a Zune is?
Giving away free
Zunes? Sure, that gets them
off the shelves. Microsoft
seems confident that if they
get enough units into
circulation, the devices may
start raising eyebrows.
Someone should tell Microsoft
that a first generation
product never gets far in a
saturated market. Oh yeah, and
free Zunes don't generate
much revenue. It probably
comes down to advertisements
on MSN's page. I guess the
company just wants to push
this model for as long as they
can, before they start
shelling out new ones. Instead
of bothering with this useless
marketing move, they could go
ahead and hire more engineers
and think of something to beat
the clickwheel. But why do
that when you can do something
that needs less effort? Oh
well, this may actually do
some good. Maybe some users
won't have spyware sites as
their home page anymore.
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15.02.2007Win a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate
Readers of Microsoft's
Exploring Windows newsletter
can win a copy of Windows
Vista Ultimate in a free prize
draw expiring on 14 August
2007. Entrants are required
to answer a number of
survey
questions.
To sign up to receive
Exploring Windows,
sign into
the Profile Centre using
your Windows Live ID and tick
the box next to the newsletter
name in Subscribe to
Communications.
You can also
enter our
prize draw on Small
Business Centre to win a Dell
laptop with Microsoft Office
2007 Small Business Edition
and Windows Vista Business.
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31.07.2007Caption Contest Winners Selected!
After scouring through over
800 comments with suggested
captions for our contest to
win Windows Vista Ultimate and
Office 2007 Home and Student,
we have selected two winners.
If you weren't chosen, worry
not, we will have more
giveaways shortly! And the
winners are.....
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03.02.2007MP3 Blogs Offer File Sharing Even the RIAA Could Love
Although the term "file sharing" has all sorts of ugly connotations, it's not necessarily a bad thing. In some cases, it's even a win-win-win
situation for the recording industry, music lovers -- and Google.
There are countless MP3 file-sharing sites that don't look
anything like BitTorrent or Lime Wire. They're low-key, homegrown blogs that don't host illicitly copied music, but do provide links to third-party
sites, or storage lockers, such as
Megashare, where pirated music is stored. These
bloggers do it for the love of the music, they say, but it doesn't hurt that they make a little money from advertising along the way.
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04.12.2007Making sense of Windows' irrational pricing and licensing
Ed Bott: A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced it was
cutting the price of
retail, shrink-wrapped copies of Windows Vista. The new suggested price for an upgrade edition of Windows Vista Ultimate is $219, down from $299. The
cost of an upgrade edition of Vista Home Premium drops to $129 from $159. Those price cuts were effective with the release of Vista Service Pack 1 in
mid-March, and the actual prices that people pay (the so-called street price) will invariably be lower: Amazon, for example, is offering discounts on
the upgrade editions of Vista Ultimate and Home Premium for $195 and $95, respectively. The full versions are $300 and $216.
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