Vista vs. XP in Performace Test
Our user thepodest on
his blog compare performance tests of Windows Vista and Windows XP on his computer. Here are the results.
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22.5.2007 Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync
Today, the FolderShare Team is shipping a Beta Refresh of both the Windows Live FolderShare website and client that offers some great improvements to the Windows Live FolderShare service at http://www.foldershare.com/.
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11.3.2008 IE7 Virtual PC Image and IE6 Virtual PC Image Refresh
From the IEBlog: Hello! Just wanted to give you a quick update that we’ve dropped two new VPC images that you can use with the free copy of Virtual PC 2007.
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19.4.2007 Windows Onecare Now Available for Anyone to BETA Test
So what's Windows OneCare?
It's the new antivirus, firewall and and backup solution being provided by Bill.
The BETA version is now available to everyone that speaks english
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16.12.2005 XP Minimal-Requirement-Test
The target of this project was to find the weakest system where you can run Windows XP.
Keep in mind, that Microsoft official requirements are a CPU with 233 MHz an 64 MB of RAM.
But that had to be beaten!
First try: Socket 5, Pentium 100 MHz and 64 MB RAM
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29.1.2006 Windows 7 beta 1 performance test
How does Windows 7 beta 1 compare to Vista and XP in terms of performance? That’s a question that’s been hitting my inbox regularly over the past few weeks. Let’s see if we can’t answer it!
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2.1.2009 Microsoft Expands OneCare Beta Test
Microsoft is expanding its Windows OneCare beta program, opening the door for more testers to trial the company's comprehensive PC protection and maintenance package. Initially OneCare will include antivirus and firewall protection, an automated PC tune-up, and backup and restore functionality.
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Windows update without Microsoft Genuine test
Two weeks ago, I posted simple javascripts to circumvent the dreaded Windows Genuine Advantage system for the sake of my and others clicky-finger. It was this day, or maybe a few days later, that Microsoft's PR looneys acknoledged the fact it can be worked around and will be patching up the holes in the "next version".
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Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive
Overview
The Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive includes essential tools that can help you transform the way you create, share, and manage ideas and information using all four Office 2004 for Mac programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage. After you install the Test Drive, you can use it for 30 days. It includes almost all of the features found in Office 2004. For details about the Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive, see the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive Read Me.
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4.12.2005 New Windows Vista Test Drive Website
"The Windows Vista Business test drive allows you to try this latest operating system from Microsoft..."
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6.1.2007 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 Microsoft OneCare fails virus test
Independent security certification body Virus Bulletin tested 15 security suites on Windows Vista against a set of malware from the WildList database.
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6.2.2007 Hard disk test 'surprises' Google
The impact of heavy use and high temperatures on hard disk drive failure may be overstated, says a report by three Google engineers.
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19.2.2007 Google Launches Test Of AdSense For Video
The system lets publishers insert streaming video ads in online video content on their Web sites.
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23.5.2007 New Test Version of Windows Vista SP1 Available
But you won't get a download! Microsoft made a new test version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available. The Redmond company is in full throttle with the development of the first service pack for Vista as the refresh will be delivered for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers by mid September.
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4.9.2007 Test drive the new Windows Live suite
You’ve probably already read about some changes we’re making to Windows Live, and have seen some of your services change over the past few weeks. Starting later today, you'll be able to test out the new suite of Windows Live software at http://get.live.com/wl/all.
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5.9.2007 Want to test Vista SP1? Anyone can, starting next week
As you heard here last week, Microsoft is making the Release Candidate (RC) test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers this week and to the general public the week of December 10.
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5.12.2007 Internet Explorer 8 Passes Acid2 Test
Microsoft has let the world know that Internet Explorer 8 will support web standards.
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19.12.2007 New Vista SP1 test build public
After saying it planned to make its latest test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers only, Microsoft has done an about-face and made the code available to the public.
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12.1.2008 Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista
Though Windows 7 edged out Vista in our lab tests, you may not notice much of a difference.
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7.5.2009 Windows 7 Upgrade Paths Test Matrix
Microsoft ripped through the last translucency veil covering Windows 7 and made the pricing details for the operating system public.
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27.6.2009 500 Hour Test of Tomorrow's Windows Vista
Only Nine More Months Until Windows Vista Goes Live?
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1.6.2006 Microsoft invites hackers to test Windows Vista
After suffering embarrassing security exploits over the past several years, Microsoft Corp. is trying a new tactic: inviting some of the world's best-known computer experts to try to poke holes in Vista, the next generation of its Windows operating system.
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3.8.2006 Microsoft's OneCare improves antivirus test ranking
But top-dog NOD32 detects nearly 5 times more new threats than 14th-place OneCare..
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6.6.2007 Windows Server 2008 public test build available
On December 5, Microsoft made available for download the Release Candidate (RC) 1 version of Windows Server 2008. Microsoft is making the RC1 bits available for download from the Windows Server evaluation site on Microsoft.com.
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5.12.2007 XP SP3: The test-build parade continues
Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 is done. But Microsoft’s other major Windows service pack, Windows XP SP3, continues to wind its way through the testing process.
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8.2.2008 Windows 7 RC to receive test updates on May 12th
Those involved with Windows 7 will remember a while back the beta received test updates, to check if how well the update system worked within Microsoft's new operating system.
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11.5.2009 Test Drive Google Android OS on Windows 7
XDA-Developers forum member xda2_haseeb has managed to extract and run Android Emulator on Windows which comes as a part of Google Android SDK package.
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2.9.2009 Microsoft Debuts Project 2010, Beta Test Soon
Microsoft today is expected to unveil key details of the next version of Project, which will roll in key improvements while strengthening its ties with other Office software. The new edition of Project will feature the Office "ribbon" user interface, as well as a new timeline view and the ability to sync with SharePoint task lists.
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16.9.2009 Microsoft Ends Week of Delays With a New Vista Test Build
It's not the next Community Technology Preview build, slated to go to two million testers. But Microsoft is releasing Friday to selected testers a brand-new build of Vista on which testers are counting for more stability.
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26.3.2006Beta test a new wireless headset for the office and your PC
Best test firm Centercode is looking for people in the workplace who spend a significant amount of time on the telephone. The product being tested is
unlike any other in that it not only connects to the desktop phone system at your office, it also works with your PC...
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24.10.2008Vista’s UAC Catches Rootkits Before Installing
Looks like Vista’s much-maligned User Access Control or UAC has one benefit for a savvy user: it can detect rootkits before they install. AV-Test.org
conducted a test of popular antivirus programs to see how well they detected rootkits and the tester had to turn off UAC on the Vista test systems
because it detected every rootkit used in the test.
Once on a PC, rootkits can bury themselves quietly, but they have to get to that
point first. As long as users interpret prompts from the UAC system attentively, or those messages haven't in some way been spoofed, rootkits
struggle to jump to the PC without drawing attention to themselves.
HardOCP..
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26.05.2008Address Redirection Cause of IE7 Issue
In a test conducted by
BetaNews on a fresh
installation of the release
version of Internet Explorer
7, on a "clean"
environment set up within
Virtual PC 2004, the browser
failed the MHTML content
retrieval test. The issue
involves redirecting the Web
browser to a local resource...
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21.10.2006Connect an A/V receiver to
your Media Center PC
Software Test Engineer Nishant
Murarka takes you one step
closer to having an amazing
home theater setup in your
living room with your Media
Center PC...
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04.01.2006Latest Firefox beta passes Acid2 test, IE8 claims to pass also
After a screenshot on MSDN appeared to show an IE8 beta passing an accepted Web standards test, some came to the only conclusion they could: that the
test had to be broken...
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21.12.2007Use Your Cell Phone Instead of
Your Credit Card
It's possible, but current
services are limited. PC World
puts some to the test...
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19.09.2005Yahoo to test running Google ads alongside its search results
In what appears to be a very carefully considered, strategically phrased statement this afternoon, Yahoo said it will actually test carrying Google's
ads on its own pages, calling the test a "strategic alternative."..
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10.04.2008Microsoft Expands OneCare Beta Test
Microsoft is expanding its Windows OneCare beta program, opening the door for more testers to trial the company's comprehensive PC protection and maintenance package. Initially OneCare will include antivirus and firewall protection, an automated PC tune-up, and backup and restore functionality...
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02.09.2005Microsoft Stalks Super
Spammers
Takes legal action after test
PC is bombarded by 18 million
spam messages in three weeks...
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28.10.2005Microsoft Auctions Beta Test
Gig
Want to test Windows Live
Messenger? Put in a bid on
eBay...
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21.12.2005IE8: More Web Standards tests submitted to the W3C
Earlier this year when Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate was released, the IE team submitted 3784 new test cases to the CSS 2.1 Working Group for
inclusion into the CSS 2.1 test suite. And today, the IE team announced that it is submitting 196 new test cases to the CSS 2.1 Working Group for
inclusion into the CSS 2.1 test suite. "Today, the IE Team is submitting 196 new test cases to the CSS 2.1 Working Group for inclusion into the CSS
2.1 test suite. These cases were developed since IE8 RC. This brings Microsoft's contribution to the CSS 2.1 Test Suite to 7201 tests.
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21.03.2009Microsoft to Test Classified
Ad Service
Software giant to test a
Craigslist.org-type service by
year's end...
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01.12.2005Yahoo indicates it's pleased with its Google test
There may have been a little extra cash flow in Yahoo's direction from its beta test of Google's AdSense in its own search pages. But whether you
take that as a sign of a deal in the works depends on how you read the carefully phrased speculation...
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17.04.2008Test Drive Unlimited PC Beta On Fileplanet!
Upset that Xbox 360 users have
Test Drive Unlimited already?
Upset that PC users have to
wait months after the 360
version is released to play
it? Well be upset no longer,
as Atari brings the Test Drive
Unlimited beta to Fileplanet!
This is a subscriber only beta
(for now, as usual) and be
prepared this is an absolutely
HUGE file to
download - if you get in the
beta that is. The installer is
3.5 GB in size, I'm not
kidding.
The
game, for those of you who
don't know, is a free roaming
racing game. And by free
roaming - I mean you have
about 1,000 miles to race on
Hawaiian roads. Cars from
companies such as Audi,
Mustang and Lamborghini are
represented among many others.
There are about 120 cars in
the game, so I'm sure you
will find one to suit you. You
can "pick up" and play
against anyone at pretty much
anytime. You just drive around
the island, and can turn any
stretch of road into a race
with someone else. Of course
as you win races and get money
you can buy upgrades and all
that good stuff we are used
to. More or less Test Drive
Unlimited is a MMOCG
(massively multiplayer car
game) but without the insane
gnoll grinding!
So head on over to Fileplanet
and sign up for the beta, and
hopefully you will get
accepted and enjoy yourself on
the big road!
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07.12.2006Test Updates for Windows 7 Beta Users
Brandon LeBlanc: Starting February 24, we will be releasing up to 5 test updates to PCs running the Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) via Windows Update.
These updates allow us to test and verify our ability to deliver and manage the updating of Windows 7. We typically verify servicing scenarios during
a beta...
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20.02.2009id's Tech 5 is not meant to push graphics cards to the limit
In an interview with
IGN, Tim
Willits, co-owner of id
Software, developer of some of
the most famous and advanced
for their time 3D engines,
says that his companys latest
engine was not created with
the goal to make latest PC
graphics cards beg for mercy.
This time, the engine is
definitely tailored for
consoles and the PC, whereas
id used to create PC engines
and let its licensees handle
console ports down the lane.
At this years E3
Media and Business Summit, id
only demonstrated its long
since announced Enemy
Territory: Quake Wars, a game
currently in beta test.
Nonetheless, the Texan ISV did
not mind talking a bit about
it long awaited and recently
presented technology, Tech 5.
With these E3
interviews, we learn that ids
engine and new IP were not
promised to be high end PC
showcases, but we also learned
about the current state of the
engine across the three
platforms it currently
supports...
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15.07.2007Free XP for IE6 web
development
Today saw the announcement by
the Internet Explorer
development team of a free,
downloadable, pre-activated
Windows XP SP2 image with
Internet Explorer 6 installed.
Now that Virtual PC is also a
free download, users no longer
have to purchase an additional
Windows XP license in order to
test their sites in Virtual
PC.
The image is
time-bombed to expire in April
2007, but new versions
(including images where
Internet Explorer 5 is
installed) are expected to be
released.
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04.12.2006Google opens up a lab for others to test new Gmail features
With Gmail finally nearing the end of its nearly four year long beta, Google is looking to test out a few new features before it goes live...
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06.06.2008Sprint, Samsung Ink WiMax Deal
Sprint announced on Friday
that it had agreed to work
with Samsung's
telecommunications division to
test out the 802.16e, or the
WiMax standard, and develop
advanced services. The two
companies will test terminals
and equipment to make future
implementations of the
technology possible...
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17.09.2005First Test of GPL in US as BusyBox Developers Sue Monsoon
In what their lawyers are characterizing as the first test of the legal mettle of the General Public License in the US, the developers of a
multipurpose UNIX-style utilities package have sued Monsoon Multimedia - which makes a competitive product to SlingBox called Hava...
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