Get Free Windows 7 Ultimate Signature Edition with Party Pack By Hosting Win7 Launch Party
In a new campaign to promote Windows 7, Microsoft is giving chances to Windows 7 enthusiasts around the world to be part of Windows history by hosting a house party to mark the official launch of Windows 7.
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4.9.2009 Hack windows home edition cd into professional edition
Easy way how to spare some money. Raymond found this hack from Technipages and think it's pretty cool. It enables the features found in Windows XP Professional on your Windows XP Home Edition installation with this hack. It will allow you to turn your Windows XP Home CD into a Windows XP Professional CD.
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27.12.2006 Windows 7 Build 7004 Is Win7 Beta 2?
The whole world is eagerly awaiting the official public release of Windows 7 Beta 1, widely speculated to be build version 6.1.7000.0 (or simply build 7000) in early January 2009, which may be as soon as within days.
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4.1.2009 Incoming - Real and fake Win7 patches
Microsoft has made available a patch to a Windows 7 bug in the Release Candidate (RC) and is preparing to roll out some “fake” test patches to verify Windows 7’s automatic-updating abilities this week.
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13.5.2009 Microsoft readies Win7 netbook specs
Microsoft is readying a set of maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks –or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, “small notebooks” — that will likely dictate which PCs will qualify for lower per-copy Windows 7 pricing.
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22.5.2009 Microsoft readies Win7 netbook specs
Microsoft is readying a set of maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks –or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, “small notebooks” — that will likely dictate which PCs will qualify for lower per-copy Windows 7 pricing.
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26.5.2009 Leaked memo hints at Win7 prices
Microsoft officials may not be ready to share the date of the Vista-to-Windows 7 upgrade program they preannounced this week. But Best Buy is.
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5.6.2009 Windows 7 E (Europe) Build 7264 Win7 RTM x64 English DVD
Microsoft Windows 7 E Build 7264 Win7 RTM x64 English DVD
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8.7.2009 Go Green! - Edition 1
With technologies and society vastly advancing, we as humans are experimenting with ways to help cut down the amount of resources we use.
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2.8.2008 What's really in each Windows 7 Edition?
Over the course of its Windows 7 development effort, Microsoft has been incredibly controlled about releasing details, pursuing an agonizingly deliberate disclosure plan.
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5.6.2009 Which edition of Windows XP is right for you?
Five editions of Windows XP compared
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Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition
Enjoy stunning screen savers and themes, play exciting games, and do more with photos, music, and home movies. Plus! SuperPack combines Plus! for Windows XP and Plus! Digital Media Edition into a single SuperPack!
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17.1.2006 Visual Studio Gets Database Edition
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new addition to the Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Team Edition for Database Professionals. The product is designed to promote collaboration when building database driven applications, and is another step on the road to Visual Studio "Orcas."
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1.6.2006 How to Upgrade to another edition of Windows Vista
If you want more features in Windows Vista, you can upgrade to another edition. You can either buy an upgrade disc at a retail store or use Windows Anytime Upgrade to buy the upgrade online, and then use your Windows Anytime Upgrade disc or the Windows installation disc to complete the process.
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21.1.2 AVG Free Edition 7.5.487a1130
AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers.
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13.9.2007 Differences between the XP Home and Professional Edition !
Windows XP is based on Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 technology. Microsoft is positioning the Windows XP Professional Edition to replace Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 Professional. In addition, the Windows XP Home edition will be replacing Windows 95/98/ME.
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Microsoft promotes Vista Starter edition
Budget Windows targets emerging economies. Microsoft has starting promoting a stripped-down version of Windows Vista to emerging economies in a bid to reach a billion new customers.
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28.10.2006 Windows XP USB Stick Edition
Thanks to ecko to report this download in our forum. Ever want to boot up into Windows XP via a USB memory key? Well, now you can.
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25.2.2007 1. april: Microsoft Announces Halo 3 P.I.M.P. Edition
REDMOND, Wash. — April 1, 2007 — Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios today announced a new Halo 3 edition targeted to true, hardcore Halo fans. Thanks to rosco4140 for this post.
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1.4.2007 avast! Windows Home Server Edition
avast! antivirus WHS Edition has the same ICSA Certified scan engine as all avast! antivirus products, offering best-in-class protection against the latest and legacy virus, malware, trojan and spyware risks.
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23.12.2007 SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition 4.15.1000
VirtuaWin is an Open Source, virtual desktop manager for Windows which can organize applications over several "virtual" desktops.
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3.6.2008 Windows 7 Starter Edition details confirmed
As was reported here on KezNews, there was speculation that Microsoft were planning to remove the application limit on Windows 7 Starter Edition.
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30.5.2009 Japan-only 20th Anniversary Edition Windows XP
Localization be damned, since Microsoft has decided to release a special edition of Windows XP only in Japan to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first Windows. Finding details about what has changed versus previous XPs is difficult (probably because nothing changed), but we do know that it will feature a special ?20th anniversary edition? desktop theme. Err, does that even count?
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22.11.2005 Microsoft Adds Ultimate Edition of Office 2007
After already announcing plans for an Ultimate edition of Windows Vista, Microsoft confirmed this week that it also plans an Ultimate edition of Office 2007.
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26.5.2006 Windows Vista: ultimate confusing mess edition?
APCMag.com has explored Vista's dependence on user-specified metadata and concluded that once you delete Microsoft's perfectly tagged set of sample document files from the Vista beta, things start falling to pieces.
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10.8.2006 Windows Vista Enterprise Edition appears on Select
Microsoft appears to have published Office 2007 and Vista keys to Select licenced customers.
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2.11.2006 Amazon features signature edition Vista upgrade
Ever wanted a copy of Windows signed by the Chairman himself? Now Amazon is giving you that chance.
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6.1.2007 Vista Starter Edition Also Due Jan. 30
When Vista launches on Tuesday, Microsoft will simultaneously release a version of the operating system aimed at developing markets. The operating system would be designed for lower-end processors and include tutorials for those who may be using their first computer.
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28.1.2007 AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.463a1000d
AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool.
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22.4.2007 XP Black Edition USA 2007 DVD
Thanks to odeeee and other posters to for this download. No Viruses....Cracks....for the programs it comes with.....Falsly reported as Viruses....Coz they R Crackz.
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7.5.2007Microsoft on Win7 UAC: 'Take the emotions out of the discussion'
The latest blog posts from Windows 7 engineers reveal this quandary: If the whole point of accelerating Win7 was to eliminate the Vista complaints,
and the tool to accomplish that is generating more complaints, what do they do?..
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06.02.2009HD DVD Makes American Pitch to European Consumers
With an estimated 85% market
share in Europe, HD DVD's
supporters are working to
cement its presence in the
European mindset. Today, those
supporters announced the
formation of that continent's
edition of the HD DVD
Promotional Group, to be led
by Toshiba, Microsoft,
Universal, and French movie
producer Studio Canal...
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16.03.2007Vista promotional registration site now fully operational
betanews.com - 03.02.2009
Microsoft promises the return of its Vista promotional registration site
A representative for Microsoft told Betanews Monday evening that a site intended to enable recipients of promotional copies of Windows Vista Ultimate
-- folks who are guests at Microsoft-hosted seminars and conferences, for instance -- to register and activate their copies, will be reinstated later
this week.
winbeta.org - 27.01.2009
Ballmer: Yes on Windows 7 for netbooks, but maybe not a specific SKU
Did the Microsoft CEO really say what the financial press says he said about netbooks and Win7? Not really.
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betanews.com - 09.03.2009
Tech support firm expects bump in business from Win7
With Windows 7 in the wings, on-demand tech support firm iYogi is expanding its staff to accommodate an anticipated run on its services, especially
from those moving off XP.
The New York-based firm, which offers remote technical support to consumers and small businesses, has
increased its staff by more than 200 people. The company, which has 90,000 users around the globe, says it is anticipating that XP users will have the
most trouble and the most questions.
winbeta.org - 17.09.2009
Novell CTO: Let's 'Make Patents a Non-Issue'
The company that last year
notoriously partnered with
Microsoft to form a covenant
that protects its customers
from being sued for copyright
violations, today announced
it's partnering with the
Electronic Frontier Foundation
in a three-year-old effort to
challenge the validity of
patents for relatively
ubiquitous technologies...
betanews.com - 24.05.2007
RIM BlackBerry Could Face
Shutdown
A federal judge refused to
enforce a $450 million
settlement between Research In
Motion and NTP on Wednesday.
Also, a request by the
BlackBerry maker to stay
proceedings until the U.S.
Patent Office rules on the
validity of NTP's patent was
denied, which could mean
trouble for the popular
wireless service...
betanews.com - 01.12.2005
Microsoft says yes, will augment UAC in the next Win7 RC
In a stunning and maybe unprecedented accedence to public opinion this morning, Microsoft has announced it will take the emotion out of its
discussion, and simply do something its users are asking for...
betanews.com - 06.02.2009
NTP Fires Back at RIM,
Trademark Office
A day ahead of a hearing that
could decide the future of
BlackBerry service in the
United States, patent holding
company NTP broke its silence
on Thursday. The company said
it was doing so to address
"mischaracterizations"
of the validity of its
patents, while accusing the
USPTO of wrongdoing...
betanews.com - 23.02.2006
Appeals court upholds validity of open source licenses
When a developer distributes a modified version of open source code as his own without attribution to the original author, is that a copyright
violation? Earlier, a district court said no. Yesterday, an appeals court strongly disagreed...
betanews.com - 14.08.2008
Windows 7 testers should upgrade their IE8
Though there is no IE8 release candidate for Win7, there's now another way for testers to apply critical bux fixes.
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betanews.com - 25.02.2009
Leaks indicate Microsoft is un-rethinking the Win7 taskbar
During last week's touring WinHEC conference in Beijing, attendees were treated to the latest Windows 7 build running in a virtual machine. Trouble
is, someone apparently pilfered a copy of the VHD, and now it's loose...
betanews.com - 09.12.2008
Microsoft talks about Office
2007 Ultimate
For those who don't know
about it yet, Microsoft Office
2007 Ultimate Edition is, as
Ultimate Edition, a sum of
every features of the product.
The actual Ultimate edition
contains the following
products:
-Word
-Excel
-PowerPoint
-Outlook
-Publisher
-OneNote
-Groove
-Access
-InfoPath
But
all those features have a
price, which is already
mentioned: 679 US$. We
currently don't know if it
will offer special services
like those that will be
available to Windows Vista
Ultimate Edition users.
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jcxp.net - 27.05.2006
US Patent Office to Try 'Open Source' Approach
Last week, the US Patent and
Trademark Office announced its
official support of a Web site
whose purpose will be to
encourage citizens to assess
the validity of patent
applications for themselves,
and issue challenges where
necessary. The notice gives
the go-ahead to a New York Law
School project to build an
open-source-like patent review
community...
betanews.com - 12.06.2007
E-mail Patent Holder NTP Pursues AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint
The patent holding company that successfully produced a $612.5 million patent infringement settlement with BlackBerry producer Research In Motion even
while the US Patent and Trademark Office was doubting the validity of its patents, has filed suit against the US' four leading wireless carriers for
infringement of what are believed to include some of the same disputed patents...
betanews.com - 12.09.2007
A peek at an early build of the new Win7 taskbar
One of Mac OS X's most successful features has been its zooming apps dock, which has been mimicked in third-party utilities for Windows. Windows 7's
new taskbar looks more similar, but its changes are already themselves being changed...
betanews.com - 05.11.2008
Blu-ray site hacked to redirect to promotional HD DVD address
Over the weekend, visitors to the official Blu-ray Disc website were sent to the official HD DVD website instead, apparently the work of a
format-biased hacker.
According to media reports, at around 4:00 PM Eastern time on Friday, Blu-raydisc.com was not accessible.
Instead, Web surfers who pointed their browsers to that site were sent to lookandsoundofperfect.com, the official website of the HD DVD Promotional
Group. HD DVD's slogan is "the look and sound of perfect".
winbeta.org - 26.12.2007
Windows 7 Starter Edition details confirmed
As was reported here on Neowin, there was speculation that Microsoft were planning to remove the application limit on Windows 7 Starter Edition.
According to The Windows Blog, Microsoft have confirmed that the "3 applications at a time" limit that hobbled earlier versions of the Starter
Edition has been removed for Windows 7. Now the only effective limit on the number of programs you can run concurrently is set by the amount of your
memory. Windows 7 Starter Edition will have other limits, however, in order to differentiate it from other versions of the OS. "Windows 7 Starter
does not include: * Aero Glass, meaning you can only use the "Windows Basic" or other opaque themes.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 30.05.2009
'The cow goes moo,' 2008 edition
Speakaboo this week rolled out its holiday edition, which simultaneously allows you to bond with the kid in your life, contribute to a worthy cause,
and have Principal Skinner tell you a story. How's that for multitasking?..
betanews.com - 10.12.2008
