More Buyers home in on Office 2007
Before you get right down to the numbers regarding Office 2007 outselling Office 2003 (so far), Ill tell you why I think this is.
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14.2.2007 Diskeeper 2007 Home Server Trial Edition
Now this is pretty cool. Weve been tracking the development of Diskeeper for Windows Home Server over the past few months, since it was announced at CES in January.
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16.9.2007 Windows Home Server Dropping in August - September 2007?
Windows Home Server is a product designed to be implemented at the core of a home network. Delivering sharing, back-up, storage and remote access capabilities, Windows Home Server was introduced by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates at CES 2007 in early January.
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6.7.2007 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 WGA, OGA -When do we get UGA?
User Genuine Advantage, that?s when Microsoft actually lets you use the product you paid for without nag screens and prompts all over the place -ok, it doesn't exist, but I already feel a need for it.
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1.5.2006 WGA and OGA Servers Down
According to Ars Technica, the servers responsible for activating new installs of Windows and Office are currently down due to an unspecified reason.
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20.7.2008 OGA Patcher v1.7.111.0
This is the latest version of Office Genuine Advantage Crack. This Crack will replace OGACheckControl.DLL with a cracked on automatically
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30.3.2009 Office Genuine Advantage (OGA), Now Mandatory
If you don't like the mandatory anti-piracy checks that Microsoft now enforces for Windows, brace yourself. The Microsoft Office productivity and collaboration suite is about to get a similar program.
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27.10.2006 Disable and Remove OGA Office Not Genuine Notifications Uninstall KB949810
After installing Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) Notifications (KB949810) from Windows Update, OGA Validation will perform genuine test on installed Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010 software. If Office product is validated as not genuine, This copy of Microsoft Office is not genuine notification message will be displayed on notification area (system tray), at splash screen during Office program (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) startup, and at Offices toolbar or ribbon with extra Get Genuine Office tab or element.
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18.10.2009 Genuine Advantage Cracked WGA v1.9.40.0 & OGA v2.0.48.0
This Installer will resolve both WGA and OGA validation issues. Microsoft Genuine Advantage Validation Cracked, WGA v1.9.40.0 & OGA v2.0.48.0 Release Date: September 07, 2009
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16.9.2009 Uninstall Office Genuine Advantage Notifications Notifier (KB949810) with OGA Uninstaller
Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) is another initiative by Microsoft to stem the piracy and counterfeit copy of Microsoft Office business producitivity suite and applications.
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12.10.2009 Office Genuine Advantage Notifications OGA KB949810 v2.0.48.0 Released To More Markets
For users who are installing Microsoft Office 2007 productivity suite with Office 2007 Blue Edition or other illegal and pirated Office downloads, which make use of volume licensing product key (VLK) to activate (or bypass activation requirement of) Office 2007, beware of KB949810 Office Genuine Advantage Notifications update, which will inactivate Office applications and display the nagging not genuine notification messages.
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26.8.2009 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 Windows Vista, Office 2007, Exchange 2007 Business Launch
While it's not the retail launch date, today is the official business launch for the next generation of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows Vista.
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1.12.2006 Outlook 2007 users angry over Office 2007 HTML-e-mail changes
A quiet change Microsoft has made in the rendering engine used by Outlook 2007 is beginning to sink in among individuals who have gotten accustomed to having the Internet Explorer (IE) engine render HTML e-mail messages. And the reaction of many is one of anger and disbelief.
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13.1.2007 Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 Launched in The Netherlands
Today Microsoft launched Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 for Volume license businesses in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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29.11.2006 Microsoft Office 2007 to be released in 2007
Following on from the recent Windows Vista delays Microsoft has stated that it expects Microsoft Office 2007 to be available to businesses at year-end and OEM/Retail in early 2007.
Microsoft has a habbit of releasing products in one year but naming them a year ahead to keep them sounding up to date in the market.
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25.3.2006 The Piratebay returns home!
It looks like The Piratebay is back home again. The Piratebay had to move because the Swedish police raided their servers. But, after a short stay in The Netherlands the torrent tracker returned to their provider ?PRQ? in Sweden.
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15.6.2006 Home Server: The best kept secret ...
Windows Home Server was a secret for a long time. We had over 1,000 internal testers at Microsoft prior to announcing the product at CES 2007, some of these people used the product for over a year without leaking anything about it.
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26.7.2007 At Home with HomeGroup in Windows 7
Like many places weve spent the past few weeks under quite a bit of snow, which is pretty unusual for Seattle! Most of us on the team took advantage of the snow time to install test builds of Windows 7 on our home machines as we finalize the beta for early 2009I know I felt like I installed it on 7000 different machines.
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1.1.2009 Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium?
One of the most frequent questions I get these days comes from people whove been running the Windows 7 beta and RC and are planning to upgrade to the final version when its available on October 22. Which edition of Windows 7 do I need?
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1.7.2009 Microsoft Home of the future v2.0
In a teenager's bedroom of the future, the interactive wallpaper will combine images of friends, favorite bands and places to create something akin to an online MySpace page in the real world.
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2.10.2006 Microsoft's Testing New Home Page
The software giant is testing a new home page, and do I detect some AJAX?
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18.11.2006 Windows Home Server Preview
At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week Microsoft previewed its long-awaited Windows Home Server (WHS) product, a Windows Server 2003 R2-based server for consumers that dispenses with the complexities of most Windows Server versions and provides the core storage, sharing, and remote access functionality that digital media and home networking enthusiasts require.
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8.1.2007 New information on Windows Home Server
Joel Sider, Senior Product Manager, Windows Server PR Microsoft Corp. provided some new information about Home Server.
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17.1.2007 New Vista Home Page Launches
Microsoft has launched the new vista home page.
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29.1.2007 Windows Home Server Blog
The Microsoft Home Server Team started Blogging, some interesting facts from the first posts.
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5.2.2007 Microsoft WGA phones home?
Analysts over at the German web site Heise Online have uncovered a curious behavior with the latest Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) update.
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10.3.2007 Microsoft: Build Your Own Home Server
Microsoft this week released a beta software development kit for Windows Home Server, the company's newest operating system version for connecting multiple PCs and digital devices in a home.
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8.4.2007 Windows Home Server patch is out
Hewlett Packard now has its hands on the Windows Home Server (WHS) update for which it decided to delay its MediaSmart Home Server.
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20.9.2007Thief caught after stopping to check Facebook
A 19 year old Pennsylvanian man has been arrested after stopping to check his account on social networking website Facebook whilst burgling a house,
and then forgetting to log out again. According to The Journal of West Virginia, Jonathan G. Parker, of Fort Loudoun, PA, is alleged to have stolen
two diamond rings from the property, worth more than $3,500. The victim called police after noticing evidence of a break in through a bedroom
window and other signs that there had been an intruder looking around her home.
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19.09.2009Office Genuine Advantage (OGA), Now Mandatory
If you don't like the
mandatory anti-piracy checks
that Microsoft now enforces
for Windows, brace yourself.
The Microsoft Office
productivity and collaboration
suite is about to get a
similar program.
The company's Office
Genuine Advantage (OGA)
program will require mandatory
validation of Office software
starting October 27, the
software vendor quietly
disclosed today. After that
date, any Office Online
templates downloaded from
within the Office 2007
Microsoft Office System
applications will require
validation of legitimacy.
Similarly, starting in
January, users of Office
Update will have to validate
the legitimacy of their Office
software before they can use
the service, Microsoft
added.
Users
absolutely hated the first
iteration of the Windows
Genuine Advantage (WGA)
program, and their protests
pressured the company into
revising it about a year after
it launched in July 2005.
Microsoft said in a
press statement that the
validation process will be
"quick and simple" for
users. The OGA program,
currently in the testing
phase, is now available in 26
languages worldwide. OGA is a
sibling program to WGA; both
automatically check a user's
version of Microsoft software
to ensure it is not
counterfeit or pirated.
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27.10.2006WGA and OGA Servers Down
According to Ars Technica, the servers responsible for activating new installs of Windows and Office are currently down due to an unspecified reason.
The issue became apparent after several users attempted to activate Office 2003 with no avail, even as early as this morning, and a Microsoft
representative confirmed that the servers were offline. Fortunately, this seems to be simply a case of prolonged downtime, rather than an actual
activation error, as was this case in August of last year, when the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) software acidentally labelled legitimate installs
as pirated versions. Users affected by this issue can still take advantage of the built-in 30-day grace period until the servers are brought back
up.
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19.07.2008Microsoft to add the Genuine Advantage nag' to Office
Microsoft is set to begin a pilot of a new Genuine Advantage anti-piracy mechanism for Office that will add a “nag-like” feature, akin to
what is now part of Windows Vista, to Office.
Office already currently
includes an Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) validation mechanism (for Office XP and Office 2007), but Microsoft doesn’t do
a whole lot to “punish” those it deems to be running non-Genuine versions of Office. However, as part of a
new OGA notifications pilot program — which
Microsoft is launching in Chile, Italy, Spain and Turkey, according to an April 8 announcement buried in a Q&A on Microsoft’s Web site —
Microsoft is set to turn up the unpleasantness a notch.
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09.04.2008Microsoft clarifies WGA 'phoning home'
A
post has
been made to the Windows
Genuine Advantage team blog,
explaining why the latest WGA
Notifications package sends
install telemetry when
installed or canceled.
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13.03.2007Is Microsoft 'capable' of stopping Vista Capable lawsuit?
Microsoft would dearly love the Vista Capable lawsuit to just go away, but once the wheels of justice start grinding, can any amount of grease stop
the squeaky wheel?
Microsofts Vista Capable class action lawsuit is in the news again, this time because Microsoft wants an
appeals court to reverse the decision to have granted the case official class action status.
The whole situation bubbled up
because a number of consumers felt duped by the Vista Capable sticker that implied a computer with such a label would be able to run Vista, presumably
at least the Home Premium version of Vista with the fancy Aero graphics, instead of the Vista Home Basic version which had no such capability.
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11.03.2008Xbox 360 HD DVD drive gets the axe
Stopping short of saying it would produce a external Blu-ray drive, Microsoft has discontinued the accessory...
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26.02.2008Microsoft Announces Use of HDi Logo by Toshiba and Major Hollywood Studios
Microsoft Corp. today announced that its trademarked HDi(TM) logo will soon appear on all Toshiba HD DVD players. In addition, Universal Studios Home
Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment will include the HDi logo on packaging for HD DVD movie titles beginning in the fourth quarter of this
year.
HDi technology is Microsoft's high-performance implementation of the interactivity layer for the HD DVD format, which
has taken the movie-viewing experience to an entirely new level with such advanced features as network connectivity and community scenarios. HDi is
also a trademark of Microsoft, as recognized by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in its July 2007 notice of allowance for trademark.
As Microsoft's implementation of the mandatory interactive layer in HD DVD, defined as Advanced Navigation by the DVD Forum, HDi
immediately began delivering unprecedented and unique experiences for consumers when it was launched in April 2006. Early movie titles such as "The
Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," "Miami Vice" and "Mission: Impossible III" received immediate acclaim for their interactive HD DVD
experiences -- from picture-in-picture director's commentary to graphical interfaces with tailored movie specifications -- all available without
stopping the movie playback experience...
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20.09.2007CES 2006: Show-Stopping Photos
From Day 3
A motorized pool float
(really!), a KickButt
computer, an innovative Skype
headset, and plenty of iPod
accessories highlight today's
photo gallery...
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06.01.2006No fix for data corruption bug in Windows Home Server
Two months after acknowledging a serious data corruption bug exists in Windows Home Server, Microsoft has admitted it still has no fix. The latest
update to its knowledgebase entry essentially says, "
still workin' on
it". The bug relates to a little known, but frequently used, method of writing hidden data to NTFS file systems, which is incompatible with the
disk pooling strategy used in Home Server.
The software giant first acknowledged the problem on December 21 last year, providing a list of
programs that could cause data on a Windows Home Server to become corrupted, including Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery,
OneNote 2007, OneNote 2003, Outlook 2007, Money 2007, SyncToy 2.0 beta, QuickBooks and uTorrent.
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27.02.2008AOL to split its access and advertising businesses next year
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes confirmed yesterday that his company will split its Internet division into two components, while stopping short of
spinning either off or selling them as was expected...
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07.08.2008Trojans Get Agile with Web 2.0 Tricks
Security researchers have spotted Trojans that are using RSS feeds to communicate instead of their traditional method of "phoning home" to get
marching orders from command-and-control centers that security researchers have learned to track down and blacklist.
Yuval
Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer for
Finjan, told eWEEK that the security firm recently
detected three separate Trojans using blogs of limited popularity to receive orders from botnet herders or to feed stolen information back to identity
thieves.
The lure of using legitimate sites such as blogs or social networking sites is that attackers can hide behind the
legitimacy of Web 2.0 brands such as Google or Yahoo, Ben-Itzhak said.
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11.12.2007China's Baidu again in hot seat for MP3 search
The leading search engine in China is being sued by two music industry trade groups for alleged copyright violations, once again highlighting the
trouble Baidu has had stopping infringement...
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01.03.2008Windows Home Server, RC Next week?
Two bits of information on
Windows Home Server were
releaced at TechEd 2007 "Day
3".
First there are only going
to be two ways for people to
get the SKU. First is from an
OEM like HP the other method
will be from System Builders.
If you were hoping for picking
this up at your local big box
off the shelf, like me, we are
out of luck. there might be
one exception to this and that
could be the current beta test
population. He was hopeful
that they would be able to
provide RTM to the existing
beta testers, but as with all
things there is no guarantee.
The
second bit of really useful
information was that we might
see an RC version of Home
server as early as next week.
If you have been holing out
rebuilding your home server on
RC, like me, then with any
luck next week is what you
have been waiting for.
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09.06.2007Microsoft: Build Your Own Home Server
Microsoft this week released a
beta software development kit
for Windows Home Server, the
company's newest operating
system version for connecting
multiple PCs and digital
devices in a home. The SDK
will enable developers to
build custom applications for
Home Server, which could range
from system protection and
home security to media
sharing...
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07.04.2007Windows Home Server x64 Connector Announcement Coming at CES 2008
Good news is on the way for those of you who wish to use Windows Home Server with x64 home computers.
As many of you know, the
Windows Home Server Connector does not currently support x64 home computers, which has caused a lot of frustration and angst amongst early adopters of
the x64 platform. Microsoft have previously announced that they would provide x64 support for machines running Windows Vista (
check out our Q&A with
the WHS Team for more) - those of you running Windows XP x64 will have to upgrade, unfortunately.
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30.11.2007Going green with iGo by eliminating 'vampire power'
At CES this week, iGo will introduce a surge protector, a laptop charger, and an electrical outlet, all designed to conserve on power by temporarily
stopping the flow of electricity to plugged-in devices once they've been fully recharged...
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07.01.2009Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Home Computer Backup and Restore
WindowsÂŽ Home Server will automatically backup your home computers to the home server and allow you to easily restore the entire computer or an
individual file or folder to a previous point in time. The Windows Home Server Backup solution backs up only the data that has not already been backed
up. Even if you have several copies of the same data on different computers, the data is backed up only once on your home server and your home server
keeps track of what data was stored on each home computer on each day. This makes it efficient in the time it takes for backups to complete and the
amount of space that is used on your home server.
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21.11.2007Avast Anti-Virus for Windows Home Server - Beta Now Available
The worlds first anti-virus product for Windows Home Server is now in beta and available to download!
avast! WHS Edition is a
product designed specifically for antivirus protection of the upcoming Microsoft Windows Home Server platform. Besides providing the protection of the
WHS machine, it also supports simple management of other avast! products on the home network. This is performed directly through the WHS console, by
means of a new configuration page.
Note: This is a very short beta; the product is scheduled to be released in the first half
of November 2007, i.e. by the time the first WHS-based systems ship.
More Information and Download:
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11.10.2007Windows Home Server Update on the way...
Windows Home Server Team: Hi all. Next week on Tuesday, Nov 27 we will release a new update for Windows Home Server software. This is a scheduled
update - part of the ongoing process of continually enhancing the customer experience with Windows Home Server. The new functionality will be
downloaded via Windows Update and made available to existing Windows Home Server customers.
Details are available
here, but the main benefit of the
update is that it will improve the remote access experience for Windows Home Server users by providing them with a trusted SSL certificate for their
home servers. That means customers will be able to access their home server from outside the home more seamlessly, without any security warnings. The
Windows Home Server team worked closely with Windows Live Domains and GoDaddy, a leading provider of Web domain addresses, to provide the certificate
for the homeserver.com web pages customers use for remote access.
In addition, this months update provides a new Delete All
button to let users delete all home computer backups that are stored on the home server, as well as a few improvements to the Shared Folders and
Server Storage components of Windows Home Server.
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