Top 10 Absolute Worst Windows Applications in 2007
Think Windows Vista is bad? Well, the fact of the matter is that is largely a subjective perspective that is little open to dispute. However, when it comes down to what users can integrate with the operating system, the situation is a tad more severe.
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5.11.2007 Top Security Software of 2007
2007 has been a busy year when it comes to computer security, with all kinds of threats aiming to be deployed on people's computers.
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30.12.2007 300 Top Software Developers Worldwide in New Microsoft Development Center
Even as early as July 5, 2007, Microsoft announced that it was extending north of Redmond and into Canada.
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11.9.2008 Top 10 Vista Hacks
You've run Windows Vista, you've played around with the Aero interface, and maybe you've even mucked around a little bit in Vista's innards to see what makes it tick.
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17.4.2007 10 top Vista tweaks part 2
As I noted in the first installment of this series, some of my favorite productivity-enhancing techniques don’t involve custom code or registry edits.
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18.6.2008 Top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows 7
With the Windows 7 Release Candidate already leaked to the public, and the the official bits coming May 5, there's been a lot of hype surrounding Windows 7, with generally positive reviews from the community. Windows 7 is everything Vista wasn't... and some of what it should of been.
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28.4.2009 Top 10 Windows Freeware tools for 2005
As we head into 2005’s home stretch, I thought I’d do a round-up of my top 10 pieces of Windows Freeware for 2005. Some of these aren’t new, but certainly what I’d consider essential. Some on the other hand, are new. I’ve tried to avoid the instantly popular ones like Firefox and Opera, although I did give way to Winamp and Konfabulator in the end. But hey, it’s my top 10. If you don’t like it, post your own.
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Top 10 New Features in Windows Server 2008
There are a myriad of both subtle and fundamental differences in the basic architecture of Windows Server 2008, which could dramatically change not only the way it's used in the enterprise, but also the logical and physical structure of networks where it's the dominant OS.
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25.5.2007 Top 10 Microsoft Windows XP Tips of All Time
Despite all the hoopla about the introduction of Windows Vista, the truth of the matter is that the new OS isn't due for at least another seven to nine months.
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14.8.2006 Microsoft: Top 10 Reasons to Stay Away from Google Apps
Google Apps and the Microsoft Office 2007 System have been sicced one another as rivals and with both the Mountain View and the Redmond companies failing to share a common perspective on either the two solutions are indeed competing.
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11.9.2007 Microsoft Cites Top 10 Reasons Partners Should Pitch Vista
Microsoft cut the WinFS file system and PC-to-PC synchronization from Windows Vista, but the company says there are at least 10 key reasons for partners to push the upgraded desktop operating system to their SMB customers.
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11.7.2006 Tasty Morsels Found In Dogfood-Top 10 reasons Microsoft.com chose IIS7
Dogfood….yummmm! Yes it is true, Microsoft.com has been running Beta 3 of Windows Server 2008 in production since June 12, 2007. What does that mean?
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8.9.2007 Microsoft's worst nightmare - choices
There have been a couple of leaks of late in the ongoing Microsoft antitrust trial in the European Union that could spell bad news for the Softies if they’re true.
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8.6.2009 One of the worst operating system experiences ever encountered
VIRTUAL MICROSOFT employee, columnist Gary Krakow, says installing Vista Beta 2, "was one of the worst operating system experiences that I?ve ever encountered."
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26.5.2006 Opera 10 Beta Version 10.00b1 download
The well-known web browser, Opera has released its new Opera Browser 10 beta version, which features faster speeds, new enhanced tabs and automatic update. The new Opera Brower 10 beta comes with Opera Turbo for fast browsing on slow connections.
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26.6.2009 Forget about DirectX 10 - Introducing DirectX 10.1 Preview for Windows Vista SP1
Forget about Windows Vista's DirectX 10, Microsoft is delivering a preview of DirectX 10.1 associated with the first service pack for the operating system. The Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview is an integer part of the August 2007, DirectX Software Development Kit, and is designed to provide the evolution of the current Direct3D 10.0.
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30.7.2007 Top Vista Features
thepodest prepare great review of Best Windows Vista features on
his blog. thepodest wrote: I have picked what I think are the best features introduced in Windows Vista.
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1.6.2007 The Best of the Best: Microsoft Recognizes Top Vendors
Five of Microsoft’s vendors receive annual Excellence Awards.
Microsoft Corp. today announced the winners of the 2006 Microsoft Vendor Program (MSVP) Excellence Awards. This year’s five winners — Trammell Crow Co., GE Plastics, Taylor Nelson Sofres plc (TNS), MRM Partners Worldwide and Milligan Events — were selected from among more than 20,000 Microsoft vendors in the U.S.
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Internet Explorer comes out on top against Phishing
NSS Labs, an independent security research group, found that Internet Explorer 8 was the best browser tested at thwarting phishing attempts.
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14.8.2009 Your top Windows 7 questions, answered
Since Windows 7 launched on October 22, my e-mail inbox has been deluged with questions, comments, and pleas for help.
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17.11.2009 A Top-to-Bottom Review of Office 12
Releases of Microsoft Office over the past 6 years have been considered evolutionary upgrades, delivering new features with each new version making life a bit easier for authors of Office documents. The release of Office 2000 in 1999 introduced tighter integration with the Web, giving users the ability to flawlessly save documents in HTML format and distribute over the Internet or Intranet, adding stronger ways of accessing information.
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14.1.2006 Review: Top 5 Improvements In Vista RC1
When the CRN Test Center last looked at Microsoft Windows Vista, it was obvious the operating system was far from complete, which wasn't a surprise because it was still a beta version.
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8.9.2006 Top court rules for Microsoft on patent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday overturned a ruling that Microsoft Corp. should be held liable for patent infringement on copies of the Windows operating system sold overseas.
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1.5.2007 Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks
Today Microsoft is announcing some significant developments to the Windows Live platform that demonstrate Microsoft’s commitment to data portability and giving users a choice of how to use and control their information.
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25.3.2008 Top 6 Vista Application Incompatibility Reasons
Application incompatibility is one of the aspects that have managed to deliver extensive damage to the adoption rate of Windows Vista.
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24.5.2008 Office 2007 Downloads Top 200,000
In the first 24 hours since going live, Microsoft counted 200,000 downloads of Office 2007 Beta 2. While the company provided no estimates of how many users it expected to try the new release, Microsoft officials said they were excited by the numbers. BetaNews alone pushed over 5,500 downloads of Office 2007.
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26.5.2006 Ballmer: Windows Live Is Top Microsoft Priority
Windows Live is the most important initiative at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, told the audience at the annual Gartner Symposium and IT Expo here on Oct. 10.
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11.10.2006 Top Overlooked Features of Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 is on its way. With the first release candidate in the pipeline, it shouldn't be long before release to manufacturing and general availability.
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8.10.2007 Fixing Windows Vista 3 - Top Troubleshooting Tools
Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing.
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7.5.2008 Microsoft CEO sees Web services as top R&D priority
Microsoft Corp. plans to double spending on research and development at its MSN Internet unit as the company focuses on software services, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday.
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5.5.2006Top 10 worst IT disasters of all time
Following the loss of the personal records of some 25 million child benefit recipients by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs this month, the UK
government will be acutely aware of how quickly mismanagement of technology can lead to serious problems. While technology wasn't to blame per se
in the HMRC data loss, there are plenty of recorded examples where faulty hardware and software have cost the organisations concerned dearly, both
financially and in terms of reputation -- and resulted in some near misses for the public.
Here's our considered list of some of the
worst IT-related disasters and failures. The order is subjective -- with number one being the worst -- so feel free to comment using the Talkback
facility below if you disagree or have suggestions for disasters we may have missed.
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23.11.2007Microsoft's worst run project: Windows 2000
Microsofts Iain McDonald,
director of project management
for Windows Server, says the
worst run project at the
software giant was Windows
2000.
That tidbit
comes from an
interview
Mary Jo Foley just posted.
To folks that arent
familiar with the intricacies
of Microsoft this revelation
is a bit of a stunner. Was
Windows 2000 really a worse
run project than Vista, which
had a do-over in the middle of
the project? Windows ME? That
couldnt have been so hot. When
you ponder all of Microsofts
worst hits“and the projects
behind them“Windows 2000
doesnt instantly register. In
fact, Ed Bott gave Windows
2000 a 9 on a 10 scale in his
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04.07.2007Top 10 IT disasters of all time
Following the loss of the personal records of some 25 million child benefit recipients by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs this month, the UK
government will be acutely aware of how quickly mismanagement of technology can lead to serious problems.
While technology
wasn't to blame per se in the
HMRC data loss, there
are plenty of recorded examples where faulty hardware and software have cost the organisations concerned dearly, both financially and in terms of
reputation and resulted in some near misses for the public.
Here's our considered list of some of the worst IT-related
disasters and failures. The order is subjective with number one being the worst so feel free to comment using the Talkback facility below if you
disagree or have suggestions for disasters we may have missed.
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23.11.2007Neowin's Top 10 Windows applications
A little while back, Neowin news writer Andrew Lyle went ahead and asked the community about their favorite Windows Mobile and iPhone applications. It
seemed fitting to repeat this process, with a larger scale in mind; the top 10 favorite Windows applications. I'm not going to bore you with a
witty introduction or lame jokes, so let's just jump straight into it, starting from #10. #10: TuneUp Utilities 2009 TuneUp Utilities tends to be
the crowd favorite when it comes to performance optimization software. It has a crazy range of features, and it wraps them all up into a slick
interface. I use it myself, daily, and have done for years now.
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11.04.2009Microsoft ranked fifth worst spam service ISP
Microsoft is listed fifth in the Top 10 list of the worst spam service ISPs compiled by
Spamhaus.org.
Spammers are advertising links to sites that
"peddle fake pharmacy products, porn, and Nigerian 419 scams" on Microsoft's Live.com and Livefilestore.com sites because they know that the
Microsoft sites won't get blocked by antispam groups, writes Brian Krebs on his
Security Fix Blog at the Washington
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26.11.2008Top 10 reasons you shouldn't be a project manager
You've all seen top 10 lists of the best traits of a project manager or the top 10 skills of a project manager. However, project management is not
for everyone. Many people have some of the traits to be a good project manager, but they also have many traits that make them a bad fit for the
position. Here's my list of indications that you may not be well suited to be a project manager. Note: These are not in any ranked order.
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01.10.2007World's top 10 IT locations
PC Authority, the Australian Computer Magazine team has compiled a list of top 10 IT locations which it has found to be more IT friendly than the rest
of the areas in the world. Below are the top 10 IT locations in the world as mentioned by PC Authority: 1. Silicon Valley The Silicon Valley area
has been central to the development of the IT industry for nearly fifty years. The list of giant companies headquartered in the Valley goes on and on
like HP, Sun, Oracle, Apple, Cisco, Google, Yahoo, Intel, McAfee, Symantec, AMD, eBay etc., The intellectual quality of the local education here adds
much to the engineering and programming talent. 2.
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24.03.2009AMD confirms 10% workforce cut, declining outlook
The worst is not over by a long shot for AMD. This afternoon, the company confirmed it would have to make very painful cuts, the repercussions of
which are already being felt in terms of declining revenues...
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08.04.2008Trade group lists top 10 pirated software
The Software & Information Industry Association released its annual Anti-Piracy year in review this week, noting that it reached its largest piracy
settlement yet in a case against Florida Benchmark – which was found using unlicensed software and ended up paying $150,000 – and its
first settlement through its Corporate Content Anti-Piracy Program.
Among other things, the SIIA also made a list of the titles most
pirated by companies and titles most pirated via the internet, much of which consisted of security tools from Symantec and productivity and design
tools from Adobe – makes you wonder if Adobe’s high price points have anything to do with them being a prime piracy target. Check out the
lists in full after the jump.
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27.02.2008Neowin's top 10 iPhone apps you can't live without
Neowin and its members have compiled a list of their favourite applications that they can't live without. A list was compiled of the top 10
applications members require and keep on their iPhone. #10 Palringo: An application to keep in touch with friends with Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo,
AOL, Gadu-Gadu, AOL ICQ, XMPP / Jabber, Google Talk, and iChat. The applications lets users stay in touch from their iPhone by using a lot of the
features in the full version of the messenger clients.
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23.12.2008Top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows 7
With the Windows 7 Release Candidate already leaked to the public, and the the official bits coming May 5, there's been a lot of hype surrounding
Windows 7, with generally positive reviews from the community. Windows 7 is everything Vista wasn't... and some of what it should of been. If
you're using XP or Vista, there's no excuse not to upgrade to Windows 7. In no particular order, here are my top 10 reasons why: Virtual XP
Mode: Many users and businesses have been reluctant to upgrade past Windows XP, and who can blame them? Microsoft had to keep extending support for
Windows XP for this reason.
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28.04.2009ComScore: Google still serves more users, as CBS enters the Top 10
Two trends continue, as evidenced by this month's comScore Top 50 report, released this afternoon: One, Google's going nowhere but up. Two, it can
still go up when overall Internet use in the US is actually going down...
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16.08.2008Consumer Reports Warns Against the Top Seven Online Blunders
Consumers beware -- careless online behavior can lead to serious issues, such as a ruined computer or identity theft. In its September issue, Consumer
Reports identifies seven of the most common online errors and offers advice on what consumers can do to avoid a Web disaster. The worst missteps
include...
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05.08.2008Time's Top 10 Lists of 2007: iPhone, Halo 3 and Lemonade.com
Time has put together 50 top 10 lists of 2007 in five main categories: News; Arts & Entertainment; Science; Business, Tech & Sports; and Pop Culture.
The number one video game chosen was Halo 3, which is not a big surprise considering the records broken by Microsoft’s latest game in the
franchise. The number one gadget chosen by Time is the iPhone – which again isn't very shocking, considering Time also named the iPhone the
invention of the year. In the third category that us geeks care about, the top ten websites, Lemonade.com took the crown. I personally have never
heard of the site, but maybe another Neowinian has some input...
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12.12.2007ASUS best, HP worst for notebook reliability
A new study published by
SquareTrade revealed that the
smaller name brand notebook manufacturers are usually more reliable than their larger rivals. Of the top nine, ASUS has the lowest tracked breakdown
rate with fewer than 10 percent of its notebooks failing in the past two years. Toshiba, Sony and Apple also have better-than-average performance and
are either just over or under the same figure.
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18.11.2009Zelda game named 'greatest ever'
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina
of Time has topped a poll of
readers of Edge magazine and
industry experts to find the
top 100 games of all time.
The 10-year-old
videogame for the Nintendo 64
games console helped usher in
a new era of 3D gaming.
It is also one of only
five games ever to receive a
10 out of 10 review score from
Edge magazine. Five of the top
10 titles were made only for
Nintendo machines, including
Super Mario 64, in third spot.
The full list of 100 titles
has been compiled for a
special edition of Edge
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03.07.2007The top 8 worst Microsoft promo videos
Josh Lowensohn: You thought that
Microsoft Vista video from
earlier today was bad? Watch these.
Lest us forget the turgid history of some other horrifically bad promotional videos from
Microsoft that will forever burned into our brains. Here are some of my top picks...
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17.04.2008Top 10 Jobs in Information Technology
The next time you poke fun at the techies, consider that IT workers can expect starting salaries to increase an average of 5.3 percent in 2008,
according to the “2008 Robert Half Technology Salary Guide.” Base compensations in high-demand positions are also expected to rise as high
as 7.6 percent.
“Business expansion and the increased reliance on technology within all sectors has resulted in a competitive
environment for skilled IT professionals,” says Katherine Spencer Lee, executive director of Robert Half Technology. “Many companies are
raising base compensation for new hires and offering additional perks, including signing bonuses and equity incentives, to recruit and retain top
candidates.”
Thinking twice about a career in technology? Here are the top 10 jobs in IT, based on increases in salary offers,
according to the salary guide.
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10.03.2008Neowin's top 10 Firefox Add-ons you can't live without
Neowin and its members have compiled a list of their favourite Firefox add-ons they can't live without. The list was compiled out of the top 10
add-ons members have installed. #10 IE Tab: Even when users still use Firefox, they can't go without their beloved Internet Explorer. This
add-ons allows users to view web pages right inside Firefox as if they were using Internet Explorer, or link externally to IE itself, creating a quick
shortcut to opening the current page or highlighted link in Internet Explorer. Get this add-on #9 Glasser: This add-ons allows users to customize
their browser with a transperant Windows Aero look by making the Firefox toolbars turn transperant.
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17.08.2009Top 10 Web Platforms of 2008
2008 has seen a proliferation of new Web platforms, including a few major ones built using open standards. In this final instalment of our series of
top products of 2008, we choose the top 10 Web platforms of the year...
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