Windows Vista SP1 at the Basis of the Optimized Desktop
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is at the basis of Microsoft's vision for the Optimized Desktop. Of course that the Redmond company is building a comprehensive strategy that involves additional resources and solutions on top of its Windows client.
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4.9.2008 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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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 – Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less – Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?
Microsoft’s announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can’t help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over.
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30.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP2
We are all well aware of the limping start of Vista on the OS market. Despite the fact that its launch had been highly anticipated for a good while, contrary to all Microsoft expectations, Vista was received with great reluctance and unwillingness on the part of XP fans.
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13.12.2008 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007 Windows XP SP3 Twice as Fast as Windows Vista – Leaves Vista SP1 in the Dust
Forget about Windows Vista. And forget about Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft's latest Windows client has been quite sluggish to begin with. This in both consumer adoption and in terms of the performance it delivers.
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27.11.2007 Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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1.2.2008 PC buyers: 'Vista Capable' machines weren't Vista capable
How misleading was Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" campaign? Misleading enough for a judge to approve a federal trial.
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9.8.2007 Yes, You Can Turn 32-bit Vista into 64-bit Vista
Yes, you can turn the 32-bit SKUs of Windows Vista into the 64-bit editions of the operating system. But it will cost you...
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29.1.2008Intel isn't saying 'no' or 'yes' to Vista completely
There may not ever be a planned, collective migration of Intel's company clients to Windows Vista. But as Intel told BetaNews today, there doesn't
have to be, since IT can make upgrade decisions on a case-by-case basis...
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26.06.2008Microsoft silent on true Vista figures
Microsoft is keeping mum on
sales figures of Windows
Vista, despite its chief
operating officer claiming
that 60 million units have
been sold.
The
software maker, however,
declined to confirm the figure
that Kevin Turner told
financial analysts last week,
throwing into confusion how
successful its latest
operating system has been.
But, approached
by ZDNet Australia's sister
site ZDNet.co.uk for
confirmation, Microsoft could
only confirm that it had sold
40 million, saying the last
figure is two months old.
If Microsoft's
figures are to be believed,
this means Vista sales are
flat. Turner's figures mean
that 20 million copies of
Vista have been sold, on a
wholesale basis at least, over
the last two months, with 40
million sold in the first four
months since the consumer
launch in January...
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31.07.2007Microsoft to offer subscription-based PCs in Russia
A Russian mobile-phone operator is the latest service provider to team with Microsoft to offer Windows-based PCs on a subscription basis through the
company's Unlimited Potential program.
A partnership with Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS), unveiled Wednesday at the Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona, is similar to ones that Microsoft already has in place in Mexico and Brazil as part of a plan to bring affordable technology to
developing countries.
Through the partnership, Microsoft in June will deliver PCs running Windows Vista that offer built-in
mobile broadband access to customers on a subscription basis, rather than requiring customers to pay for them outright. The two companies also are
working on a road map to introduce new mobile communications services that can be accessed on those PCs but did not specifically say what those new
services will be.
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14.02.2008Vista: Whatever happened to fast boot?
Anyone else remember when
Microsoft used to talk about
making Windows Vista (or
Longhorn, as it was then
known) a fast-booting
operating system. Fast, as in
cold boots
that were 50 percent faster
than those possible with
Windows XP?
Something obviously went
awry.
As
Computerworld is reporting, a
number of Vista users are
none too
happy about Vista boot-up
times. Some are
questioning whether Microsoft
is advocating that users just
put Vista into sleep mode, as
opposed to shutting down
systems on a daily basis, to
mask the sluggish boot up.
(And it's not just
boot up speeds that are
troublesome. Vista shutdown is
as slow as molasses, too,
Computerworld is reporting
users as saying. And
app-loading times are nothing
to write home about,
either.)
Microsoft
has been touting the
sleep/hibernate modes as the
preferred ways to "shut off"
Vista systems.
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12.04.2007Judge OKs Google's brief in Vista search beef
The federal judge in charge of holding Microsoft Corp. to a 2002 antitrust settlement decided this week to let Google Inc. file a brief spelling out
its objection to the June agreement between Microsoft and government regulators regarding desktop search features in Windows Vista.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly granted Google's request to file a friend-of-the-court brief in which the search
company questioned Microsoft's promise to change Vista's search capabilities. The brief, which Google first submitted June 25, is part of the
company's ongoing legal battle with its rival over search.
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the Court has no basis on which to conclude that the
resolution of the Google complaint agreed upon by the parties is not an appropriate resolution ... the Court shall grant Google's motion,"
Kollar-Kotelly wrote in an order filed Sept. 4.
Google's campaign started earlier this year when it complained to federal
antitrust officials that Vista discouraged customers from using other search software, including its own programs. In June, Microsoft agreed to
changes in how Vista handles search and promised that users would be able to select their preferred desktop search engine in Service Pack 1 (SP1),
which it would release in beta during 2007. ..
winbeta.org - 08.09.2007
Analysts: IPTV to keep thriving despite financial meltdown
Even the ravaged economy can't hamper the growth of IPTV on a global basis, according to an analyst report released today...
betanews.com - 02.02.2009
NBC Olympics on the Go download service is Vista only; online videos to require Silverlight
NBC announced two significant technology partnerships with Microsoft and Wavexpress today to provide 2008 Olympics coverage over the web. The new
initiatives embody a natural evolution for Olympics coverage considering the timesbut they're available only to users of Vista or Silverlight.
Powered by Wavexpress' TVTonic Internet video service and client, NBC Olympics on the Go will allow owners of Media-Center-capable
Windows Vista PCs (that's Home Premium and Ultimate) to download "up-to-HD" coverage on a sport-by-sport basis. Users can chose from a number of
channels in Wavexpress' TVTonic client that NBC's coverage of the Beijing Games will be categorized into, and the NBC Olympics on the Go client will
be able to access event coverage roughly 12 hours after an event ends. Ars Technica confirmed with Wavexpress that users will not be able to keep
downloaded coverage indefinitely, though videos will remain playable at least for the duration of the games.
winbeta.org - 24.06.2008
Atom-thick material runs rings around silicon
A leading contender to replace silicon as the basis for computing has made another step forward.
Transistors one atom thick and
ten atoms wide have been made by UK researchers. They were carved from graphene, predicted by some to one day oust silicon as the basis of future
computing.
For 40 years computing has been dominated by a rule of thumb named Moore's law, which predicts that the number of transistors on a chip will double roughly every two years.
winbeta.org - 19.04.2008
Netflix cans used DVD sales
Online movie rental service Netflix has been evolving on an almost daily basis. Following a number of developments in its streaming video category, it
announced yesterday it will soon cease selling previously viewed DVDs...
betanews.com - 05.11.2008
Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight;
Radical change needed
Microsoft’s Windows juggernaut is collapsing as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more
complicated by the minute. Meanwhile, Windows has outgrown hardware and customers are pondering skipping Vista to wait for Windows 7. If Windows is
going to remain relevant it will need radical changes.
That sobering outlook comes courtesy of Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neil
MacDonald. Half of a full room of IT managers and executives raised their hands when asked whether Microsoft needed to radically change its approach
to Windows. “Windows is too monolithic,” says Silver.
Silver also gave another anecdotal point to show the conundrum Microsoft
is in: Clients are calling him to ask whether they should skip Vista entirely and wait for Windows 7, which promises to be more modular and
potentially lightweight. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has also found an impact on
Vista from all of the Windows 7 chatter. Silver’s recommendation: Go with Vista but on an attrition basis. As XP PCs die, replace them with
Vista PCs
neowin.net - 10.04.2008
Microsoft Advises Double Checking Vista/XP for DST Change
Microsoft has set up a page to assist users with checking their Vista and XP system to make
sure they are in compliance with all the local Daylight Saving Time (DST) rules. In some cases, time zone settings may be incorrect, according to
Microsoft. There are no known issues with Mac OS X.
The Microsoft advisory says: "Observance of DST, and 'Summer Time' in much
of Europe, is often different around the world; many areas, countries and territories shift their clocks at different times throughout the year.
During these changes, clocks are usually shifted by one hour. Some locations follow a set of standard, uniform rules for the start and end dates of
DST, but some locations determine the dates on a much more dynamic basis.
winbeta.org - 07.03.2008
After month, no rush to adopt Vista
Windows Vista has been on the
market for nearly a month now,
but enterprise users and
industry experts agree that
Microsoft's latest and
greatest OS still isn't yet
ready to replace XP. The
problem is not with the
software itself -- by most
accounts, Vista is technically
solid -- but with myriad
peripheral issues that
Microsoft must work out to
take the pain out of using
Vista.
Take
patching, for example. On Dec.
12, Microsoft released an
Internet Explorer 7 fix that
improved the performance of
IE's phishing filter. The
software had been bogged down
by Web sites with a large
number of frames, and users
had been complaining.
Microsoft patched the problem
for Windows XP and Server 2003
users, but not for Vista. That
update will come after the
consumer release of Vista hits
the market some time in
January, according to a
spokeswoman for Microsoft's
public relations agency. And
although Microsoft is now
issuing security patches for
Vista, performance-related
updates such as the phishing
filter are being handled on a
case-by-case basis, she said.
Microsoft won't
say why it is holding off on
some Vista patches even though
the product is commercially
available for business
customers, but Russ Cooper, a
senior information security
analyst at Cybertrust, has a
theory. "I say Microsoft
never intended anybody to run
Vista prior to January," he
said. "What works on Vista,
beyond Office 2007?" he
asked. "I'm going to Vista
... when my VPN supplier tells
me that they have drivers that
work, and when my anti-virus
vendor tells me that they have
non-beta versions that work."
neowin.net - 28.12.2006
Sun expands its catalog of pay-by-the-hour service apps
To help companies and universities looking for computing power on an as-needed basis, Sun Microsystems today added 14 new applications and services to
its Network.com Application Catalog...
betanews.com - 15.02.2008
Class action lawsuit charges President, NSA with illegal surveillance
There's been no dispute that the National Security Agency cooperated with AT&T in a surveillance operation from its West Coast office. But its legal
basis has been a Presidential order, and a new lawsuit questions whether that is enough...
betanews.com - 20.09.2008
FISA amendments bill passes Senate, President likely to sign
The compromise legislation will enable a court to decide on a case-by-case basis whether telcos that cooperated with the US government will be granted
immunity from prosecution. Prominent Democrats were among those voting for the compromise...
betanews.com - 10.07.2008
Chris Pirillo Breaks up with Windows Vista
Pirillo: Windows Vista
I'm breaking up with you. No,
seriously. When I know I have
time, I'm "upgrading" from
Windows Vista to Windows
XP.
I stand by my
original assertion that the
shipping version of this OS is
late beta, at best. I realize
that other enthusiasts are
leaving Windows altogether
(and leaping instead to
Apple's OS X), but there's
not yet enough momentum behind
my willingness to do that.
I'll leave the installs of
Vista 32 and 64 on this PC,
but I'll spend most (if not
all) of my time back in
tried-and-true Windows XP.
I'll give Vista a
second chance when the first
service pack is released later
this year, but until then…- My scanner
doesn't really work. The
software hasn't caught up
yet, and won't be available
until SP1 time-frame. The
software works like a charm in
XP - amazingly well, as a
matter of
fact.
- Windows Movie
Maker crashes on a regular
basis.
- My IPFax
software doesn't work (the
driver will likely never be
updated to be
Vista-compliant). Never, EVER
caused me a problem in XP. I
need this software to work,
and dual-booting to use it is
not an option.
0
- Continue At
Source
neowin.net - 28.02.2007
AT&T Open to Offering TV
Per-Channel
AT&T has indicated it
would be open to allowing
cable subscribers to purchase
TV channels on an a la carte
basis, however it would be
dependent on whether the
company would be able to
obtain programming contracts
that would allow it to do so...
betanews.com - 03.12.2005
Most Malware Found on Trusted Web Pages, Report Says
Five seconds into reading this story, a Web page somewhere will become infected with malware or some other malicious code. That's one of the
conclusions of U.K.-based IT security firm Sophos in an IT security report released on Wednesday.
"We found that there is an average of 16,173 infected Web pages on a daily basis," said Sophos' Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley in
a phone interview from his office in London. "We arrived at this conclusion from our labs around the world. We look at millions of e-mails and Web
page transmissions on a daily basis and it averages out to one infected page every five seconds."
winbeta.org - 24.07.2008
Amazon's CloudFront to make content distribution more affordable
Today, Amazon entered beta with CloudFront, an expanded cloud service aimed at taking the company into the same league as Akamai and Limelight. As
with other cloud services, customers will be charged on a pay-as-you-go basis...
betanews.com - 19.11.2008
MSN Speaks Out About
Censorship
Microsoft on Tuesday set
guidelines for the removal of
content on its MSN Spaces
blogging platform, saying a
broader discussion on the
topic was needed to provide a
basis on which other services
could form their own content
policies when faced with
demands from local
governments...
betanews.com - 01.02.2006
