Windows Vista Pricing too High
In a poll conducted here at neowin.net, many members found the proposed pricing of Windows Vista Ultimate which is rumored to cost $450 at the launch early next year too pricey. At the time of posting, 442 of a total of 1388 votes found $299 a fair price, while 861 found it a better idea to pick it up on the street for 10 bucks.
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14.6.2006 High quality image Vista boot screen
Some people found a way to change that black boot screen of Windows Vista RTM to a high quality one, the one that was supposed to be in before it was cut from the final version.
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19.11.2006 High-Fashion Ultimate Windows Vista Computers
Microsoft is gearing up for the personal computer "catwalks" of the future. The era when a computer was judged exclusively by what it featured under the hood is well gone.
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8.1.2008 The Online High School
The BBC News website has published an article about the first ever online school, where pupils attend virtual classes by simply logging on.
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29.9.2006 Windows 7 High Definition Model
While Microsoft is still mute when it comes down to communicating details related to the first Beta of Windows 7, reportedly due either at the end of October or in mid-December 2008, the company is addressing issues such as the high definition model of the operating system.
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16.8.2008 Windows 7 High Color Support
Windows 7 plays nice with rendering content beyond the 8 bit limit, taking users into the visual territory of High Color, namely display capabilities involving high precision, High Dynamic Range, and support for gamuts superior to sRGB.
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26.11.2008 Microsoft Xbox High-Definition Videos
What's even better than reading about the latest E3 news and games? Seeing it! Here's your one-stop destination for video coverage of the biggest gaming event of the year?straight from E3 to you.
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21.4.2006 The high price of creating free ads
From an advertiser's perspective, it sounds so easy: invite the public to create commercials for your brand, hold a contest to pick the best one and sit back while average Americans do the creative work.
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28.5.2007 Building a High Performance Windows 7 PC
With Windows 7 release candidate just around the corner, the other day I was asked to spec out a high performance PC suitable for Windows 7 64-bit, This system would also be a great Vista system.
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15.4.2009 Nvidias High-End Chipset Under Fire for Problems
Nvidia Corp., a leading designer of graphics processor and core-logic sets, is about to face criticism from enthusiasts for the problems that occur with the companys latest premium-class chipset.
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16.12.2006 MSN Direct Goes High Def with Clear Channel
Companies collaborate to deliver rich data services on HD digital radio format to smarten everyday objects.
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10.1.2007 Microsoft Readying High-End Xbox 360
Several news outlets are citing various sources saying Microsoft plans to release the Xbox 360 Elite, a high-end limited edition console that would retail for $479 USD and include an HDMI connector, IPTV capabilities, and a 120GB hard drive.
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27.3.2007 AMD Cuts Prices on High-end Processors
AMD has cut prices on its high-end dual-core desktop processors after the launch of Intels quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6800. AMD also announced its new restructuring plans to compensate for reduced quarterly revenue today.
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11.4.2007 High-tech titans strike out on immigration bill
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft have led a parade of high-tech executives to Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to provide more visas for temporary foreign workers and permanent immigrants who can fill critical jobs.
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25.6.2007 Microsoft Halo 3 wins high marks from reviewers
Halo 3, the highly anticipated video game from Microsoft, won high praise on Sunday from game reviewers who gushed over the lush settings, cinematic feel and array of multiplayer features.
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24.9.2007 Windows 7 DirectX11 High-Fidelity Graphics Enhancements
DirectX debuted back in 1995, and, with the upcoming Windows client, the underlying graphics technology of the operating system will evolve to the next level.
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1.12.2008 120 Original Windows 7 High Resolution Wallpapers
Windows 7 has included several hidden regional themes which target different geographical areas.
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27.4.2009 Microsoft sets sail with high-seas Net access
Just the thing for the ideal boating experience? High-speed Internet access.
As part of Microsoft's attempt to make the Web omnipresent, the company announced a new service Thursday that will connect boaters to the Internet. Seafaring Web surfers can stay connected 25 miles from land thanks to a partnership struck between Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft and antenna maker KVH Industries.
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17.2.2006 More than 160 high-definition Xbox 360 games and a host of new accessories
Three Locust Hordes, Two Race Cars and a Piata in a Pear Tree. From naughty to nice, Xbox 360 has something for everyone this holiday season: more than 160 high-definition games and a host of new accessories make up the best 12 days ever.
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16.11.2006 Western Digital Launches High-Performance 7200RPM 2TB Drives
Western Digital has announced today that it will be shipping 7200 RPM 2TB drives: the WD RE4 (WD2003FYYS) which is targeted towards servers and enterprise systems, and the 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black (WD2001FASS) for desktop systems
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1.9.2009 Will AMD Barcelona kill off high-margin AMD CPUs?
AMD was riding high a year ago dominating sales in the dual-processor Server market and virtually owned the multi-processor (4+) Server market.
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8.9.2007 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009VeriSign Purchases Weblogs.com
In the second major
blogging-related acquisition
in as many days, VeriSign on
Friday said it purchased
Weblogs.com, a service that
alerts users when Web logs are
updated. The Web site was one
of the original "ping
servers" and was developed
by Dave Winer, most known for
his work in creating RSS...
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07.10.2005High-End Vista Comes at a High
Price
A glitch on the Microsoft
Canada Web site has apparently
let slip Microsoft's planned
prices for Windows Vista,
indicating the Redmond company
intends to charge as much as
$299 CDN for its
top-of-the-line upgrade to
Ultimate Edition, and $499 CDN
if users wish to purchase the
full version...
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29.08.2006Microsoft admits "high impact issues" in Vista -- SP1 coming
Microsoft has admitted -- in a
roundabout way -- that Vista
has "high impact issues". It
has put out a call for
technical testers to
participate in testing of
Service
Pack 1, due out later this
year, which will address
"regressions from Windows
Vista and Windows XP,
security, deployment blockers
and other high impact
issues."
It's
hard to know whether to be
reassured that Service Pack 1
is coming, and thus that
there's now a sensible
timeframe for considering
deployment of Vista within
businesses, OR to be alarmed
that Microsoft is unleashing
an OS on the world with "high
impact issues" remaining in
it.
In other news
there's a battle raging over
the top 10 reasons
to
get /
not to
get Vista. (And
a
rebuttal.)
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23.01.2007Microsoft acknowledges Vista SP1 Refresh 2 = RTM
Which build of Vista SP1 became the release to manufacturing (RTM) edition? This was definitely a topic of high speculation in the last few weeks,
even before SP1 hit the RTM milestone. Many were adamant that SP1 RTM was, or would be, different from the final release candidate, while those on the
other side grasped at straws to prove their suspicions. The Microsoft Watcher, also known as Mary Jo Foley, has finally received confirmation from
Microsoft that the Vista SP1 RTM build (6001-18000) is none other than Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2. The latest official statement from the software giant
is:
"RC Refresh 2 code is the same as RTM. In final stages of a product Microsoft likes to get as much validation as possible before
releasing. The release candidate ended up being a high enough quality to be approved to release to manufacturing."
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08.02.2008No HD DVD or Blu-ray in 32-bit
Vista
Microsoft disclosed at TechEd
2006 in Sydney Thursday that
32-bit versions of Windows
Vista would never support
high-definition protected
content, including HD DVD and
Blu-ray movies. The new
formats will require 64-bit
systems running the x64
edition of Vista...
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26.08.2006Microsoft Clarifies Vista HD
Movie Stance
Microsoft is endeavoring to
put out fires caused by what
it says was a misstatement by
a senior program manager who
claimed 32-bit versions of
Windows Vista would not
support high-definition
protected content, including
HD DVD and Blu-ray. Nothing
has changed, the company says...
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26.08.2006Microsoft better at patching XP than Vista?
A Microsoft security executive
released data Thursday showing
that, six months after
shipping Windows Vista, his
company has left more publicly
disclosed Vista bugs unpatched
than it did with Windows XP.
In total, Microsoft has
patched 12 out of 27 disclosed
Vista vulnerabilities in the
six months after it first
shipped last November. During
XP's first six months,
Microsoft's security team
patched 36 out of 39 known
bugs. The data was published
by Jeff Jones, a Microsoft
security strategy director,
who said that overall, Vista
was doing better than XP.
"Windows Vista continues to
show a trend of fewer total
and fewer high-severity
vulnerabilities at the six
month mark compared to its
predecessor product, Windows
XP," he wrote.
Jones didn't address the
larger number of unpatched
vulnerabilities, but he did
note most of the unpatched
Vista bugs were not critical.
Microsoft had left only one
high-severity Vista
vulnerability unpatched during
the period. At the end of
XP's first six months, there
were two high-severity bugs
that were unpatched. Microsoft
patched 23 high-severity XP
bugs during its first six
months, compared with only one
high-severity Vista flaw.
Jones argued that Vista had a
lower number of
vulnerabilities than
competitive operating system
products such as Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and Mac OS X.
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23.06.2007Windows Vista UX Guidelines
Available for Download
Microsoft have made available
a preliminary draft of the
Windows Vista User Experience
Guidelines (or ???UX Guide???
for short). These guidelines
contain information on
What???s New in Windows Vista,
design principles, guidelines
for controls, text, windows,
and aesthetics. They will help
designers and developers
create high quality,
consistent Windows Vista
applications.
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12.09.2005Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines
This download contains a preliminary draft of the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines (or UX Guide). These guidelines contain information on
whats new in Windows Vista, design principles, and guidelines for controls, commands, text, interaction, windows, aesthetics, and the Windows
environment. They help designers and developers create high-quality Windows Vista applications with a consistent "look and feel."
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27.10.2007Buena Vista Announces Blu-ray Plans
Buena Vista Entertainment said
Monday that it would be
releasing its first Blu-ray
day-and-date release title in
December, as well as its first
50GB disc in November. The
studio exclusively supports
Sony's high-definition video
disc format...
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24.10.2006Happy first birthday Windows Vista!
365 days and 100 million licenses later, enthusiasm for a safe, reliable and engaging Windows Vista experience is high.
Since the worldwide
release of Windows Vista one year ago today, people are doing more and getting more out of their Windows experience. From pictures and videos, to
games and family safety settings, users are finding out that they can do more with Windows Vista.
We commissioned independent studies from
IPSos and NPD to explore the attitudes of users about the operating system not only in the U.S., but also in China, France, Germany, Japan, and the
UK. According to NDP, 70 percent of these users say it's an improvement over their previous operating system.
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31.01.2008The Windows 7 Effect
First, there was the wait for Windows Vista. Then there was the wait for Windows Vista SP1. Now many pundits are claiming that enterprise users will
hold off migrating to Windows Vista and wait for the release of Windows 7.
How can Microsoft counter this? By leaking information
about Windows 7 of course!
Microsofts been having a tough time of late convincing people (important people, such as system admins
and those with their hand on the check book) that Windows Vista is the future. Part of the problem is that Windows Vista has been dogged by high
profile issues relating to compatibility, speed and reliability things that people consider important in an operating system.
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20.02.2008Windows Vista No Longer Matters
Make no mistake: Microsoft has moved beyond Windows Vista, which will become all too apparent during this week's Professional Developer
Conference. Windows 7 is the future, and in many ways it's the present, too. Contrary to ridiculous assertions recently made by Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer, Windows Vista is a flop. If businesses aren't buying Vista, after waiting six (now seven) years, it's no success. Yet, during
the last day of the Gartner 2008 expo 10 days ago, Steve asserted that Vista "has been extremely successful."
A few days earlier, Steve
boasted: "Vista is our best-selling product ever. So, if that takes too much getting over—we're not going to have products that are much
more successful than Vista has been. We sold over 180 million copies in the first 18 months, quite successful." Really?
But who's
buying this "best-selling" product ever? "We have 180 million users, mostly on the consumer market," Steve said in an Oct. 2 speech. Oh? According
to Gartner analysts Neil MacDonald and David Smith, only about 10 percent of enterprises have adopted Windows Vista. That's not a high number,
particularly in context of the approximately six years between Windows XP and Vista.
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27.10.2008At WinHEC 2007, Microsoft vigorously defends Vista
To counter flagging
expectations around Windows
Vista, Microsoft added a last
minute keynote this morning
from Mike Nash, Corporate Vice
President Windows Product
Development, at this year's
WinHEC, Microsoft Windows
Hardware Engineering
Conference in Los Angeles.
Nash used
his thirty minutes to talk
about the number of device
drivers included in the
Windows Vista box and
available online, and also
about the number of compatible
or certified for Vista
hardware products on the
market 100 days after release.
While the numbers are high,
certainly higher than 100 days
after the release of Windows
XP, many feel they should be
higher. Nash said that vendors
are continuing to work with
Microsoft on this. "Windows
Vista gets better over time,"
Nash concluded.
On
Monday, Microsoft employees
bristled at comments from the
press that users were unhappy
with Windows Vista. With
regard to User Account Control
(UAC), Nash told reporters
that the process is the same
in (Mac) OS X...
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16.05.2007Hands-On: Alienware High Definition Media Server
When is a home server not a home server? When you blow $7000 on the Alienware High Definition Media Server, running Windows Vista Home Premium, you
can call it whatever you please! Richard Hay is the lucky guy who got hands on with the unit for We Got Served - read his full review to see what kind
of performance that money buys.
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29.05.2008Windows XP vs. Vista: The Benchmark Rundown
Toms Hardware Labs has put
together a comprehensive look
at how Windows XP compares to
Windows Vista.
This
article deals with basic
application execution under
Windows Vista Enterprise,
which is representative of the
other editions. We put
together a high-end test
system and performed a
comprehensive benchmark
session both with Windows XP
Professional and with Windows
Vista Enterprise to see if
there are differences. And
indeed, we found that there
are some...
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30.01.2007Windows 7 vs. Vista: high-end cards put to the test
ATI rolled out a unified driver for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows
7 Beta last week, intimating Vista-matching performance for the new
operating system whose release candidate is scheduled for the end of
May 2009.
Windows 7 uses an updated driver model,
WDDM v1.1, and ATI's confident
that its drivers are up to scratch right now.
href="http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=17630&page=1">We
took a look at Vista
and 7 performance on an ultra-high-end Radeon HD
4870 X2 2GB
card,
finding that, in our gaming suite at least, ATI's claims were borne
true.
Choosing the
twin-GPU 'X2 as a worst-case driver scenario, comparing it
against the GeForce GTX 295, ATI's performance was more consistent.
However,
these £300-plus cards are few and far between, so,
today, we take another look at Vista vs. 7 performance, but with a
Radeon HD 4870 1GB
vs. GeForce GTX 260 896MB - with both cards now shipping
at around £175.
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28.03.2009Two major high-def streaming providers become partners
While Blu-ray and HD DVD have missed their window of opportunity for resolving the high-def format dilemma, CES 2008 could see two of the biggest
names in the high-def streaming field demonstrating a realistic, connected alternative...
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04.01.2008Microsoft denies Software Assurance exodus
Contrary to reports that
indicate a high level of
dissatisfaction, Microsoft
claims that it is seeing
record high renewal rates of
its enterprise software
agreements.
In
a
posting
on the company website, Joe
Matz, corporate vice president
of Worldwide Licensing and
Pricing said that renewal for
the company's Enterprise
Agreements "exceeded the high
end of our historic range of
66-75 per cent".
Enterprise Agreements are
Microsoft volume licensing
program for large companies.
The programme includes a
mandatory subscription to the
Software Assurance program.
The latter entitles customers
to free upgrades for their
software at a fee of 29 per
cent of the original license.
A user who paid $200 for his
copy of Windows Vista for
instance will have to pay $58
each year thereafter for
potential updates.
Both Forrester Research
and Gartner recently have
pointed his rates of customer
dissatisfaction with the
Software Assurance program.
Given the large delays in the
release of Windows Vista, many
contracts have expired without
the user ever having the
benefit of receiving an
upgrade...
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31.07.2007MusicGiants launches high-quality video service
The high-quality music download service is making the logical progression into high-quality downloadable video with the launch of VideoGiants...
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