Windows Vista ReadyBoost Test Round-up
ActiveWin has posted up a review of 3 Windows Vista capable ReadyBoost USB sticks.
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15.1.2007 New Round of Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Vulnerabilities
Microsoft is cooking patches for a new round of vulnerabilities impacting its Windows client and operating systems and Server software, including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3.
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4.7.2008 Microsoft WinHEC 2006 round up
The first beta 2 copies of Windows Vista, the 2007 Windows Microsoft Office system and Windows Server "Longhorn"
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26.5.2006 New round of Windows 7 adverts begin airing
Earlier this month Neowin reported on some potential Windows 7 adverts. Last night Microsoft began airing these adverts.
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23.9.2009 Windows 7 to open another round in Apple-Microsoft rivalry
Will Windows 7 blunt some of Apples momentum? At least one analyst thinks its possible.
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3.6.2009 Secunia round 3: Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
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30.10.2006 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 - lets 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 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vistas tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vistas image is tarnished. And its corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 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 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?
Microsofts 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 cant 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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13.12.2008Nokia wins one round in Qualcomm IP battle
Just when it appeared Qualcomm finally had a fight on its hands after winning one round last month against Nokia, a judge has invalidated a good chunk
of Qualcomm's original injunction request against the handset maker...
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14.12.2007Sophos on Symantec's Vista Complaints
In an interview with BetaNews,
Sophos senior security
consultant Ron O'Brien talks
about PatchGuard, a new
Microsoft feature of Windows
Vista that is the subject of a
recent round of complaints by
security vendor Symantec.
While Symantec says PatchGuard
gives Microsoft a platform for
abusing its competitors,
Sophos says it doesn't see a
problem, for some compelling
reasons...
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29.09.2006So what's the business case
for Windows Vista?
[b]The next few weeks could be
crucial in the evolution of
Windows Vista, Microsoft's
next client operating system.
Microsoft engineers will
crunch through feedback from
500,000 beta testers who
evaluated the latest Windows
Vista Community Technology
Preview
(CTP).[/b]
At stake
is a "feature complete"
Windows Vista CTP due for
release in "early" 2006. At
last, after three years of big
promises and broken dreams, we
should be able to cut away the
hype and get a realistic idea
of Windows Vista's features
and
capabilities.
As
Microsoft decides what to put
into Vista, one thing has
become clear: after months of
glitzy presentations Microsoft
must explain in unambiguous
terms why exactly corporate IT
departments should bother
upgrading, instead of waiting
to receive the new software
when they buy their next round
of PCs...
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22.12.2005Microsoft begins second round of layoffs. More to come?
Remember when Microsoft first announced it was going to eliminate 5,000 jobs by June 2010? Well it looks like the second round of those lay offs are
starting today, and according to a memo by Steve Ballmer, there no ruling out the possibility of additional cuts. "With this announcement, we are
mostly but not all done with the planned 5,000 job eliminations by June 2010. We are moving quickly to reach this target in response to consistent
feedback from our people and business groups that it's important to make decisions and reduce uncertainty for employees as quickly as possible,
and so that organizations can concentrate their efforts and resources on strategic objectives.
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05.05.2009Windows 7 launch day round up
Yesterday Microsoft launched Windows 7 which is arguably the most anticipated OS launch of the last decade. To help keep you informed on all that
occurred, we have compiled a list of everything you need to know including recent news and forums topics.
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23.10.2009Update to Safari browser contains 11 patches for Windows
Today's round of updates to Apple's Safari contains just four patches that affect the Mac OS X edition, but eleven for Windows Vista and XP, several
of which would forestall some very familiar sounding exploits...
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14.11.2008New round of Windows 7 adverts begin airing
Earlier this month Neowin reported on some potential Windows 7 adverts. Last night Microsoft began airing these adverts. The first ever TV commercial
originally appeared earlier this month on US TV stations. In the new round of Windows 7 commercials the focus is on features. The first, named
"Personalization: Your PC, Your Style" demonstrates the customisation features in Windows 7. Next up is an advert focussing on Aero Shake, perhaps a
less used feature of the new Windows 7. The advert shows American footballers and shakes away the clutter around them. A Third advert shows off the
features of Xbox Media Center and the Xbox 360 extender.
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23.09.2009Microsoft Highlights Innovation in Second Round of Ingenuity Point Winners
The passion and development expertise of Microsoft Corp.s partner community was recognized today as the company announced the second round of Gold
Ingenuity Point winners in its worldwide contest for independent software vendors (ISVs). The three ISVs were chosen from entrants around the world
that submitted solutions to address needs in education, healthcare and clean technology.
The Ingenuity Point competition
provides ISVs with a platform to showcase their passion, their development expertise and the potential of software as they work on solutions that
improve peoples lives and the planet. The winners of this round are the following...
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22.04.2008Microsoft to Post 6 Patches Next Week
The next round of patching
will be coming up soon as
Microsoft implements another
round of patches to take care
of some issues which, in one
case, is already being
frequently exploited.
Microsoft Corp.
announced Thursday that it
will release six security
updates next week, including
at least one to fix a
vulnerability that attackers
are already actively
exploiting.
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12.11.2006Next Windows Vista CTP -
February 21st
Next release of Microsoft
Windows Vista CTP is set to
February
21st . This won't be
the Beta 2 yet, that is
planned somewhere in April.
The word is that the February
CTP is feature complete!
However, it is not
likely that in this CTP round
a Longhorn Server build will
be distributed.
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26.01.2006News Round-up for week ending December 7th
This week we'll be revisiting some of the more popular stories that were viewed and commented on, in-case you missed them the first time around.
This week saw new Windows 7 information hit the web due to the MSDN Developer Conference taking place in China, Apple conceding it really does need
Anti-Virus, and of course our massive HP Magic give-away competition that so far has received 75 member entries!
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05.12.2008Vista SP1 - Benchmarking round-up
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Given that Ive made numerous posts relating to benchmarking Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) on this blog over the past few
weeks I thought that many readers would appreciate a single post that pulled together all the individual posts and which drew together the thoughts,
findings and conclusions from the individual posts.
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03.03.2008TechSpot: 7-Way Intel P55 Motherboard Round-Up
One year after its introduction, Intel Core i7 processors remain unchallenged in the high-end desktop segment. However with the recent introduction of
the Core i5 and the LGA1156 platform, all of a sudden we no longer feel the need to stretch out the budget and look into buying a Core i7 920 one way
or the other. So, should you decide to go with the Core i5 750 processor, the next and possibly most difficult choice is which motherboard to
purchase. Already there are over 40 possible motherboard options to choose from and today we'll be taking a look at quite a few of the better
examples.
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18.11.2009Outpost Security Suite Pro 2008 for Vista is now in Beta 1
Agnitum has released the first
beta version of the
Vista-compatible Outpost
Security Suite.
While
there's a lot to be done yet,
its time to start gathering
the first round of feedback
from users, so that we know
what we need to do to make OSS
2008 the best it can possibly
be. As always, we would really
appreciate your help, so if
youre a Vista user, follow the
link below to sign up for our
beta program. We look forward
to hearing what you think!
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23.07.2007Inside CNET Labs: Windows Vista SP1 performance
The long-awaited Service Pack 1 update for Windows Vista brings with it a number of significant bug fixes and other improvements. Microsoft promises
that with it you will also see a number of noticeable performance improvements as well. In
our initial round of testing, we saw a mixed bag of results:
we saw a few notable performance improvements under some conditions as well as significant performance degradations in others. For the most part,
however, we saw little difference in performance between Vista and the Vista SP1 update.
As we dug a little deeper into
Microsoft's claims, we discovered that many of the performance improvements being touted aren't actually directly attributable to SP1. Many
of the claimed performance improvements, such as improved boot-time, are actually more a function of improved third-party drivers and applications
that are benefiting from a year's worth of programming for Vista and from the programmers getting continued feedback and guidance from Microsoft. So
as long as you have been diligent about keeping your Vista system current with the latest Windows updates and third-party drivers, you likely
already have many of the potentially performance improving enhancements.
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14.02.2008Live Spaces Vision - get blog updates in (near) real-time
So many blogs, so little time. There are over 112 million blogs on the Internet! How do you keep up? You can take
Live Spaces Vision for a spin! Yea really, a spin! Beware not to get dizzy
while this shows you all recently updated Windows Live Spaces. Watch that Virtual Earth globe go round and round and round....
You can watch in 2D or 3D, the first time you start 3D mode you will be asked to install Virtual Earth 3D. To tilt and rotate the map, hold the
'CTRL' key on the keyboard whilst pressing your left mouse button. Scroll the mouse to rotate the globe on its axis.
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16.05.2008Windows 7 launch NYC, Steve Ballmer round-up
Microsoft today unleashed their latest and arguably greatest operating system, Windows 7, to the world. Unless you've been living under a rock
recently then you may have heard of Windows 7 and more than likely some of you will be reading this from a Windows 7 computer. Microsoft has put a
huge amount of time and effort into Windows 7 and this was clear when Microsoft officials first introduced the OS at the Professional Developers
Conference nearly a year ago. At PDC, Microsoft developers introduced new features with excitement and then perfected them over the beta and release
candidate stages ready for today.
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23.10.2009Solid State Drive Comparison - Round 2
As a follow-up to our previous SSD coverage, today we will be looking at four popular mainstream SSD offerings which include the A-Data S592 128GB,
Corsair P Series 128GB, OCZ Agility 120GB and the OCZ Vertex Turbo 120GB. Although all these products are MLC flash-based and target the consumer
enthusiast market, they do vary in price, on-board controllers, memory chips, and cache sizes, which should make for some very interesting results.
With dozens of manufacturers now offering some kind of solid state drive, you should know there are only a handful of them you should concern yourself
with.
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21.08.2009Vista is greener and more secure, says Microsoft
Eighteen months after its launch, Windows Vista is growing in popularity because of its low power requirements and good security, a senior UK manager
for Microsoft has claimed.
Speaking at a round-table in London on Wednesday, John Curran, director of the Windows group for
Microsoft in the UK, said: "First and foremost, businesses like Vista for security". The operating system (OS) "has, since its launch, been the
safest operating system on the market with the fewest vulnerabilities of any OS available," he added.
Curran said that, after
security, the most important feature for corporate users was Vista's contribution to the "green agenda". The savings possible here "really help
drive down the carbon footprint and help drive down the costs in an IT environment", he claimed.
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25.05.2008Windows Vista ReadyBoost Test Round-up
ActiveWin has posted up a
review of 3 Windows Vista
capable ReadyBoost USB
sticks.
We have
been running a number of
Windows ReadyBoost tests on
various USB Drive Sticks that
have come out recently. Not
only do we have a list of
those that work, and those
that don't! We have also
started to go in-depth with
some of them. ReadyBoost is
designed to improve small
random I/O for people who lack
the expansion slots, money,
and or technical expertise to
add additional RAM. This
isn't a replacement for RAM
upgrades; it's simply the
chance to speed up your Vista
machine very slightly and very
easily.
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