Windows 7 UAC, the Evolution
One of the aspects of Windows Vista that is going to evolve in Windows 7 is the User Account Control.
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9.10.2008 Windows 7 RTM Support, the Evolution
Windows 7 is an evolutionary Windows client release, according to Microsoft, and it was also fit that support for the OS would also be an evolution compared to what was available for Windows Vista.
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30.10.2009 DirectX 10.1 in Windows Vista SP1 – The Evolution
As Windows Vista brought to the table the exclusive DirectX 10, the first service pack for the operating system will evolve Microsoft's graphics technology to version 10.1.
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31.10.2007 DirectX 10.1 in Windows Vista SP1 – The Evolution
As Windows Vista brought to the table the exclusive DirectX 10, the first service pack for the operating system will evolve Microsoft's graphics technology to version 10.1.
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19.11.2007 The Evolution of the Windows XP SP3 Activation Architecture
With the availability of the third and final service pack for Windows XP in early 2008, Microsoft will introduce a series of modifications to the operating system's fabric.
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28.12.2007 Internet Explorer 9, the Evolution
While just a single month into the development of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has opened up to participants at the Professional Developers Conference 2009 in Los Angeles, and subsequently to the world, revealing the first details about the next generation of IE.
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19.11.2009 From Windows 95 to Windows Vista SP1 RC1 - the Evolution of the Start Menu Button
From Windows 95 to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate 1 one item of the Windows operating system is a virtual landmark in the platform's graphical user interface landscape: the Start menu button.
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6.1.2008 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD – more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can – and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. It’s about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008Sony acquires MotorStorm developer Evolution Studios
Sony has acquired MotorStorm developer Evolution Studios along with Pursuit Force subsidiary Bigbig Studios.
And
GamesIndustry.biz can reveal that co-founders of Evolution Studios, Martin Kenwright and Ian Hetherington are to leave the company, with managing
director Mick Hocking taking on the role of group studio director responsible for Evolution Studios, Bigbig Studio and Sony's Liverpool Studio.
"Our strategy with our studios is to create the best games by working with the best talent," said Michael Denny, vice president of
SCE Worldwide Studios,
speaking exclusively to
GamesIndustry.biz.
"We've enjoyed a highly productive and commercially successful relationship with Evolution and Bigbig and
now there's a great opportunity in bringing them into part of the family to share further in terms of technology, production methodology and creative
goals to make the experiences that these teams are creating even better."..
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21.09.2007Evolution of Microsoft Word
Nathan Weinberg:
This blog has a
screenshot and commentary collection, looking at Microsoft Word over the last twenty years. Its more amazing how many things were in place already
in 1989, including the familiar toolbar layout, and how long it took some things to change. You can see Microsoft made the right move with Office
2007, given how the only major changes in the previous several versions all focused on that stupid Clippy character.
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10.03.2008'Darwin chip' brings evolution into the classroom
A new "Darwin chip" could make evolution as easy as pressing play.
Researchers have created an automated device that evolves a
biological molecule on a chip filled with hundreds of miniature chambers.
The molecule, which stitches together strands of RNA,
became 90 times more efficient after just 70 hours of evolution.
"It's survival of the fittest," says Brian Paegel, a
biochemist at the Scripps Research Institute, in La Jolla, California, who led the study with colleague
Gerald Joyce.
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09.04.2008Worst Windows flaws of the past decade
June 25, 1998, and June 30, 2008, marked two important milestones in Microsoft's evolution of the Windows OS -- the passing of the torch from Windows
95 to Windows 98, and the less seemly
transition
from XP to Vista.
In the 3,659 days between, users of Windows have been forced to bear witness to another evolution of
sorts: bugs that left Windows open to exploits that appeared almost as fast as you could say, "On the Origin of Species."
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06.10.2008Konami and Reebok Team Up For Pro Evolution Soccer
Konami has teamed up with
sportswear giant Reebok to
cross-promote brands ahead of
the release of Pro Evolution
Soccer 6 in Europe later this
month. As well as the Reebok
brand appearing in-game, the
two companies will work
together on a range of
marketing and promotional
campaigns.
"Pro
Evolution Soccer 6 is an
outstanding football
simulation and Reebok is
delighted to be involved with
a game that is so highly
regarded in both the gaming
community and the youth
marketplace as a whole," said
Roy Gardner, Reebok's Euro
marketing director. Konami's
Euro marketing and PR boss,
Martin Schneider, added:
"Reebok's efforts at working
closely with target age groups
akin to those of Pro Evolution
Soccer 6 makes them a perfect
partner for Konami."
"We are delighted to be
working closely with them to
extend awareness of both
brands in a partnership that
perfectly fits with both
companies," he added. Pro
Evolution Soccer 6 is due for
release across Europe on PS2,
Xbox 360 and PC, October
26th.
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12.10.2006Pro Evolution Soccer 6 Hits Stores Early
Brits love their footie, so
when family retailer
Woolworths released Pro
Evolution Soccer 6 two days
early they should have
expected at least a little bit
of fuss to be made about it.
After reading about the early
release on Gamespot this
morning I headed off into the
dangerous place that is Luton
Town centre on a bank holiday
week and low and behold, Pro
Evo 6 is on sale, pretty much
everywhere.
Obviously Konami are a
little annoyed at this leak,
which they say is unfair on
stores that haven't yet
received their shipments of
the game with a Konami rep
stating, "The situation could
escalate into retail and chart
chaos, this is not something
we condone." "It leads to
anarchy in the market, and
some retailers who do not yet
have stock or are unable to
react quick enough will be
disadvantaged."
Pro Evolution Soccer 6 is
officially released tomorrow,
but if you have time you can
still venture into your own
chav infested town centre and
attempt to pick one up
today.
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26.10.2006The Windows 7 Taskbar
Steven Sinofsky: Happy Birthday Windows! Given all the interest in the most used user-interface of Windows we thought it would be good to take a look
back and see how we got to Windows 7.
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21.11.2008DirectX 10.1 in Windows Vista SP1 - The Evolution
As Windows Vista brought to the table the exclusive DirectX 10, the first service pack for the operating system will evolve Microsofts graphics
technology to version 10.1. DirectX 10.1 is already available to over 12,000 testers via the first beta of Vista Service Pack 1, concomitantly with
the official release of Build 6001.16659. Although the testing milestones of Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP SP3 Beta, are officially
limited in terms of access, a hack is available designed to permit the download of Windows Vista SP1 Beta Build 6001.16659 straight from Microsoft,
and simultaneously test drive DirectX 10.1.
However, Vista users have to understand that DirectX 10.1, as well as DirectX 10 is a
technology intimately connected with the underlying graphics card, such as the upcoming ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series. According to an AMD whitepaper
focused on the implementation of DirectX 10.1 in the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series, the latest application programming interface from Microsoft, manages
to "unlock the state of the art in GPU technology."
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31.10.2007Windows 7 to support DivX natively
One of the new features announced at the recent Windows 7 Reviewers Workshop in LA is that Windows 7 will natively support a number of popular media
formats, so that users don't have to worry about finding, installing and downloading third-party codecs. This is an evolution in media support
which is similar to the inclusion of native MPEG-2 playback in Windows Vista, providing the DVD playback functionality which was missing in Windows
XP. News source: Source
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04.01.2009So 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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22.12.2005Konami Talks Pro Evolution
Soccer 6
Konami today released further
details on Pro Evolution
Soccer 6, confirming that the
title will be making its
next-generation debut on the
Xbox 360.
Boasting
improved visuals, enhanced
animations and a plethora of
gameplay additions, the Xbox
360 version will be joined by
the PlayStation2, PSP,
Nintendo DS and PC versions,
all scheduled for release in
October.
With the
sixth title in the series,
Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka
and his team have incorporated
a variety of new features and
improvements, ranging from
player AI enhancements to
advancements to the physics
engine, resulting in players
working to turn defenders as
they receive the ball, and
defenders standing slightly
off to prevent such moves.
Pro Evolution Soccer 6
also features an improved
shooting technique, which
introduces a greater selection
of snap shots and re-worked
volleys and half-volleys.
Players can also retain
control of the ball with a
sliding tackle (thank you
Konami), along with all-new
feints and tricks courtesy of
the reworked dribbling
system.
More
importantly, Konami have
continued to secure licenses
for Pro Evolution Soccer 6,
which will feature the
fully-licensed kits for the
Czech, French, Australian,
English, Italian, Argentinian,
Spanish and Swedish national
sides. The French Championat
league has also been added, in
addition to agreements with
Bayern Munich, Sporting
Lisbon, Olympiacos and
Manchester United.
Finally the online aspects
of the PlayStation2 and PC
version have been tweaked,
implementing a new system that
allows up to eight players to
compete via four linked
systems.
"Pro
Evolution Soccer 6 is one of
the most eagerly-awaited games
of the year, and we are
delighted to be able to come
to the Games Convention with
so many exciting advances to
announce," commented Martin
Schneider, Sales and Marketing
Director for Konami in
Germany. "As we show the
first Next Generation version
of the game for Xbox 360, we
are sure that visitors to the
Konami stand will see that the
future of the Pro Evolution
Soccer series is very bright
indeed."
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26.09.2006Mundie: Future software to exist in the cloud and on your PC
For all the talk about
future software leaving the
desktop and running
exclusively from services on
the Internet, Microsoft chief
research and strategy officer
Craig Mundie doubts this will
be so.
Speaking in Los Angeles at
WinHEC 2007, Mundie's keynote
speech, "The evolution of
computing," described, in
part, the future of software.
He admitted desktop software
has reached a road bump;
faster apps will require
faster CPUs on the PC and
that's becoming harder to
accomplish--the old way.
Mundie talked on Tuesday
morning about the evolution of
multicore processor
architecture on desktops and
laptops. He said that the 3Ghz
dual core processor on
today's PCs will soon give
way to 3Ghz quad core and then
3Ghz 8 cores down the road.
The new processors will
require new software
languages. The new programming
languages will run programs in
parallel and on multiple
platforms--PC, mobile, and the
Internet. ..
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16.05.2007Rage over 'Spore' DRM turns into class action suit
EA has been sued in the Northern District of California over DRM software placed in its evolution simulator game Spore , developed by Will
Wright and Maxis...
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25.09.2008How the default Windows 7 wallpaper evolved
Gizmodo tracked down Chuck Anderson, the creator of Windows 7's box art, default wallpaper and login screen. In an exclusive overview of the
evolution of the Windows 7 wallpaper and login screen, the gadget lovers managed to secure some rare development shots of how Microsoft came to the
wallpaper that is now used worldwide. Chuck Anderson is a 20 something digital media artist living in the US. Both the login screen and wallpapers
took approximately four months, start to finish according to Gizmodo. They were achieved by a mix of pen and paper, wacom tablet and Photoshop.
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06.11.2009Technology. Evolution or De-evolution?
With technology having grown to be as widely-used and widely-recognized as it is now, its emergence was bound to have profound effects on human
life.
The Internet, for example, has given us access to news from around the world, new mediums of entertainment, social networking, etc.
It has, to some extent, given human beings the power to transcend their current societies and create new societies online. With such a great power, is
there a responsibility attached?
Marshall McLuhan taught us all that the emergence of new mediums would have to, by definition, render some
previous method obsolete. What happens when the method being rendered obsolete is something that is foundational to human beings?
As an
example let's briefly look at communication as a medium for a brief moment. Can you imagine a future where people speak without voices? Imagine a
more efficient method of speech, perhaps if advancements in technology render speech in its current form obsolete, will we tend to see our naturally
created faculty being rendered obsolete by a subsequent human creation? Over a period of time, just as bats have a reduced faculty of eyesight that
has been caused by their environment, will human beings then lose the ability to speak in the ways we utilize speech presently?
Certainly
civilization in its present form would seem strange if showed to someone from a vastly different time. There are electronic wheelchair machines which
assist in the movement of people with a challenged physical faculty, and do so in a manner that would probably be considered more efficient than the
organic method of walking or running. Why then do human beings choose to walk?
An assumption I'm willing to make is that if there were
to exist, for example, a technology that would bathe and dress us in the mornings with increased efficiency, we would gladly utilize such. Furthermore
and progressively I assume that other methods that increase efficiency would be adopted as well, eventually leading to a redefinition of all our
natural organic faculties.
Such a world may be almost impossible to imagine, a world in which human beings have replaced all that nature
has given them with better, created systems. My question to you is whether or not it is as impossible, for example, as the concept of the Internet
would have seemed in the late 1800's.
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08.11.2008Prepare for the Evolution: New Xbox Experience to Invite Everyone in on Nov. 19
Get ready. The evolution is coming. Microsoft Corp. today announced at the Tokyo Game Show 2008 that the New Xbox Experience, a transformation in home
entertainment, will launch on Wednesday, Nov. 19. On that day, millions of Xbox 360 owners worldwide will experience a completely new Xbox 360 that is
fun, social and simple to use and puts more entertainment at their fingertips than any other device connected to the TV.
Not one
of the millions who already have the Xbox 360 at the heart of the family room? No problem. Microsoft also announced that beginning this month, buy any
Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system, and games are free.
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09.10.2008Dell: many users will skip Vista, śgo straight from XP to Windows 7ť
Dell Computers founder and CEO Michael Dell says that Microsoft is eager to avoid repeating the mistakes of Vista by working more closely with the PC
industry, including his own company, on the evolution of Windows 7.
śWeve been been involved (with Microsoft) from a very very
early stage and are much more pleased with the way the co-operation (around Windows 7) is occurringť Dell told APC at an international media briefing
in Shanghai last week.
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03.11.2008Russia beats the US to an HTC 4G WiMAX phone
In an exclusive deal with Russian carrier Scartel's Yota network, HTC has premiered its first GSM/WiMAX handset, indicating how rapidly the evolution
of the world's communications infrastructure may be leaving the US behind...
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14.11.2008Verizon Wireless to move toward LTE as its 4G platform
Proving it still had some fireworks left over from Monday, Verizon Wireless announced this afternoon its corporate parents will be steering its
communications platform evolution away from the path it was already on...
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30.11.2007A response to Vint Cerf: Enough of the content, already
A recent essay by Google's chief Internet evangelist has BetaNews' Scott Fulton thinking about the meaning behind all this content, and whether the
evolution of the Internet has made its creators forget the need for meaning...
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