Windows 7 top feature request list leaked to the public
With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do.
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18.11.2007 Windows 7 top feature request list leaked to the public
With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do.
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27.1.2008 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 Microsofts vendors receive annual Excellence Awards.
Microsoft Corp. today announced the winners of the 2006 Microsoft Vendor Program (MSVP) Excellence Awards. This years 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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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 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 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 Microsofts 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 10 top Vista tweaks part 2
As I noted in the first installment of this series, some of my favorite productivity-enhancing techniques dont 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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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 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 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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5.5.2006 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 Top Rated Windows Vista Cracks - When WGA Fails
inuyasha62....Is now Famous (Softpedia). There is little tangible proof of the success of the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism. Microsoft itself has only statistics as the palpable sign of the fact that the WGA is hard at work.
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30.5.2007 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 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 Ten Reasons to use Windows Small Business Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 is designed for businesses like yours. It is a complete, affordable network solution that helps you stay connected with your customers and run your business more efficiently. And it helps secure your network by automatically protecting your information to keep your business up and running.
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2.3.2006 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 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 Windows 7 pre-orders claim Amazon's top sales spots
Now that Windows 7 pre-orders are being sold for a big discount, Computer World is reporting that buyers are flocking to take advantage of these discounts, and that Windows 7 pre-orders already claimed Amazon's top sales spots for software.
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26.6.2009Vonage Retrial Request Denied
The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit has denied
Vonage's request that a
patent infringement ruling
against it be vacated and the
case sent back to the lower
court for a retrial. The
company can, however,
reference the matter in its
appeal brief, due next
Wednesday...
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04.05.2007Tiscali Rejects Record
Industry Request
Internet service provider
Tiscali on Tuesday rejected a
request by the British record
industry to hand over
information on 17 subscribers
accused of illicit file
sharing. Tiscali refuted the
British Phonographic
Industry's claims that IP
addresses were solid proof...
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12.07.2006Grant of AT&T Request by FCC Could Set Back Net Neutrality
AT&T's request for relaxing of regulation of some of its broadband services was partly granted late yesterday by the FCC. As a result, the company
the Commission acknowledges as dominant in its field has a little more leeway now to charge business broadband customers more negotiable rates -
leeway which net neutrality advocates may not want to see...
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12.10.2007Vongo Video Downloads to Support More Media Center Devices
In response to what its parent company today called the top request voiced by its "passionate customer base," video download service Vongo
announced today the 2.0 revision of its software, which now supports more Windows Media Center Extenders...
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26.10.2007Microsoft Research request for proposals for 'Cellphone as a Platform for Healthcare'
Microsoft Research has announced a new worldwide Request for Proposals (RFP): Cellphone as a Platform for Healthcare.
Submission deadline
The RFP due date is October 29, 2007, Noon, PDT (-8 UTC/GMT)
Awards
The
total amount available under this request for proposals (RFP) is $1,000,000. Microsoft anticipates making approximately 10-12 awards averaging
$80,000, with a maximum of $100,000 for any single award.
Full details can be found
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10.09.2007Top holiday sellers could be top polluters
Environmental watchdog group Greenpeace believes this holiday's top-selling consumer electronics devices are produced by the least environmentally
conscious companies...
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28.11.2007FastCGI Extension for Internet Information Services 6.0
The FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 enables popular application frameworks that support FastCGI protocol to be hosted on the IIS web server in a
high-performance and reliable way. FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), a standard way of
interfacing external applications with Web servers that has been supported as part of the IIS feature-set since the very first release.
CGI programs are executables launched by the web server for each request in order to process the request and generate dynamic responses that
are sent back to the client. Because many of these frameworks do not support multi-threaded execution, CGI enables them to execute reliably on IIS by
executing exactly one request per process. Unfortunately, it provides poor performance due to the high cost of starting and shutting down a process
for each request.
FastCGI addresses the performance issues inherent to CGI by providing a mechanism to reuse a single process
over and over again for many requests. Additionally, FastCGI maintains compatibility with non-thread-safe libraries by providing a pool of reusable
processes and ensuring that each process will only handle one request at a time.
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11.11.2007Microsoft Application Request Routing for IIS 7 CTP1 Released
Application Request Routing for IIS7 is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to content servers based on HTTP headers and server
variables, and load balance algorithms. Application Request Routing can be used to:
- Increase application availability and
scalability.
- Better utilize content server resources.
- Facilitate application deployment including pilot management and A/B testing.
- Lower management costs and create opportunities for shared hosters.
Application Request Routing relies on URL rewrite module to
inspect the incoming HTTP requests to make the routing decisions, and therefore, the URL rewrite module is required to enable Application Request
Routing features.
Download the modules:
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09.07.2008Europe still awaits Apple response to antitrust charges
Apple and four of the biggest
record companies have until
Wednesday to submit their
written response to antitrust
charges that they restricted
online sales of music in
Europe.
The deadline
originally expired at the
beginning of June, but was
extended by two weeks at the
request of Apple and three of
the record companies, European
Commission competition
spokesman Jonathan Todd said
Monday.
The
Commission is still waiting
for replies from these four
companies. The one record
company that didnt request an
extension has already
submitted its written
response, Todd said...
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19.06.2007Microsoft Files 'Emergency Motion' to Ship Word
Several days after a judge ordered Microsoft to halt sales of Word, the software giant has moved to stop the ban.
Microsoft on
Friday filed an emergency motion to request that the court waive the requirement for Microsoft to post a bond against the judgment while the case is
appealed, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Monday. The actual document was filed under seal, so the full contents of the request have not yet been made
public.
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18.08.2009FCC lukewarm on networks' request to delay white space vote
The Federal Communications Commission says it will consider a broadcaster plea to delay its
November 4 vote on whether to authorize unlicensed white space devices
(WSDs). But judging from the Commission's initial response, the agency doesn't sound crazy about the idea.
"We just
received their request and are reviewing it," FCC spokesperson Rob Kenny told Ars Technica on Sunday. "It is, however, important to note
that this proceeding has been open for several years and recently included multiple rounds of testing in the lab and field, which were open to the
public and provided all interested parties with ample opportunities to comment and provide input."
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20.10.2008Bebo to send friend request to aliens
Social network Bebo has teamed up with RDF Digital to create a digital time capsule to send personal messages and pictures to the nearest planet that
could hold life. The information will be beamed 120 trillion miles into space to Gliese 581C, considered to be the nearest planet that could
potentially contain life similar to our own.
As part of the 'A Message From Earth' project, Bebo users can create their own images
or text via an application and vie for a spot in the final 500. The messages to be sent will be chosen via a web vote, which runs until 30 September
2008.
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04.08.2008FCC fires back at Obama's DTV delay request
FCC chief Kevin Martin has fired back at the Obama camp for its recommendation for a delay in the DTV transition. As previously reported on Neowin,
the Obama office wants the FCC to delay the transition to DTV from analog on February 17th. The FCC fired back and made it clear that a delay is
unlikely to happen and provides credible reasoning as to why it should not happen. "
e've spent a lot of time and energy getting ready for the
February 17 date," Martin said during a CES Q&A.
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neowin.net - 12.01.2009
Microsoft Research Explores Robots Among Us
Eight recipients of the human-robot interaction request for proposal awards examine the growing role of robots in society..
microsoft.com/presspass - 16.05.2008
Not-So-Unified Communications: Microsoft Losing Edge In Patent Dispute
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has rejected nearly half of Microsoft's requests for patent re-examination against unified communications and
videoconferencing vendor Avistar Communications.
Microsoft's request for re-examination called into question Avistar's patents
in the field of instant messaging, videoconferencing and online collaboration, all key elements in unified communications, which Microsoft has
recently highlighted as a top priority.
winbeta.org - 05.06.2008
Windows, IBM Top Server
Rankings
Windows has narrowly edged out
Unix as the top server
operating system in terms of
revenue, and IBM has surged to
the top spot in the Unix
market for the first time in
nearly a decade. The findings
were part of research firm
IDC's quarterly and year-end
Server Tracker report issued
Wednesday...
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Man charged for attempting to hire a hit man online
The month of love does not always end happily for everybody. One such case of an unhappy ending is that of Karim Emara. Reports have surfaced which
state that Emara has been charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault after an online posting requesting a hitman to attack his ex-girlfriend
was discovered by the NYPD. Emara posted online a request for a hit man to brutally assault his former lover. The request was quite specific as well,
stating that whomever was to take the job would be expect to "hit the woman in the knee with a blunt object, preferably a baseball bat and
permanently scar her face". The payment was to be for the sum of $5,000.
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neowin.net - 28.02.2009
Dell Won't Fight AMD Request
for Intel Documentation
Declaration made in court
documents filed in AMD's
antitrust case against Intel...
pcworld.com - 09.09.2005
'Sex' is Favorite in Newest
Top Domain
European Union opens
registration for names under
new top-level domain, .eu...
pcworld.com - 08.12.2005
Dutch police request Malware removal How-To?
The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit identified a large botnet when they arrested a 19 year old Dutch man last week. The Unit asked Kaspersky Lab, a leading
developer of secure content management solutions, to provide the victims with instructions on how to neutralize the malware on their systems;
neutralizing the malware ultimately brings down the botnet. This is an excellent example of the close co-operation which exists between the antivirus
industry and law enforcement.
At the request of the Dutch police, Kaspersky Lab created detailed instructions on how to remove the malware.
The Dutch police have pointed victims towards a page on the Kaspersky Lab website which contains the removal instructions, and also to a website which
gives victims the opportunity to make a formal complaint to the police. Eddy Willems, Security Evangelist with Kaspersky Lab Benelux, who worked
closely with the High Tech Crime Unit, believes this case clearly illustrates how the security industry can help law enforcement in the fight against
cybercrime. A spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service agrees: "The Public Prosecution Service and the police worked together with Kaspersky
Lab on this case with full contentment".
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neowin.net - 13.08.2008
