At NASA, Windows Vista Isn't Ready For Launch
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the latest federal agency to put a hold on PC upgrades to Windows Vista. NASA has decided against deploying Microsoft's five-month-old operating system anytime this year.
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26.4.2007 NASA to take close look at shuttle shield damage
A pair of rookie spacewalkers floated outside the International Space Station on Saturday to bolt an extension onto the orbital outpost's frame while NASA made plans to inspect potentially troublesome damage to the shuttle Endeavour's heat shield.
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12.8.2007 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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10.6.2009 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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9.8.2007NASA finally abandons Mars Phoenix Lander
NASA has finally given up on trying to resurrect the Phoenix Mars Lander. As of early last week NASA stopped sending signals to the rover who is
fighting the intense winter temperatures on Mars. It was hoped that a variation in the weather would allow NASA to establish a connection with the
ill fated rover but there was no success. NASA hopes that when spring rolls around and the tilt of Mars changes that the sunlight will be able
restart the rover's computers. That is only if the rover is able to survive the winter. The little rover that could has already lived a
remarkable life.
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05.12.2008Google Joins NASA for Space
Research
Google announced late
Wednesday it had signed a
memorandum of understanding
with NASA that would allow it
to collaborate on research
projects with the space
agency, as well as build a new
one million square foot office
complex at the NASA Ames
Research Center...
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29.09.2005NASA to release high resolution film of first moon walk
Neowin recently reported that footage of the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk had been recovered after being lost for nearly 40
years. When NASA said that it was a hoax and nothing had been found many were left disappointed. Fortunately, NASA was either covering up the
discovery or the person who made the announcement was uniformed. At 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, July 16 NASA will hold a press conference and release
the recently found footage.
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14.07.2009[Updated] NASA releases high resolution film of moon walk
Updated: The videos are now online and can be viewed here. Neowin recently reported that footage of the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11
moonwalk had been recovered after being lost for nearly 40 years. When NASA said that it was a hoax and nothing had been found many were left
disappointed. Fortunately, NASA was either covering up the discovery or the person who made the announcement was uninformed. At 11 a.m. EDT on
Thursday, July 16 NASA will hold a press conference and release the recently found footage.
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16.07.2009NASA to explore strange, new virtual worlds
The Learning Technologies Project Office of NASA is actively considering hopping on the video game bandwagon by releasing its own massively
multiplayer online game...
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21.01.2008Google founders pay NASA $1.3 million to land at Moffett Airfield
Google Inc.'s founders will carry scientific equipment for NASA on their private Boeing 767 as part of a deal that grants them landing rights at
Moffett Federal Airfield, near Mountain View, NASA and local officials said.
The agreement gives Larry Page and Sergey Brin use
of the former naval air station, from which civilian aircraft are normally barred, in exchange for allowing the space agency to place instruments on
board their planes for research into the Earth's atmosphere and beyond.
NASA confirmed the contract on Monday, nearly a week
after a 767-200 owned by Google's founders was first spotted at Moffett Field. The response appears to be aimed at placating local officials and
residents who had raised concerns about noise from any new flights and who had asked NASA for additional information...
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13.09.2007NASA sends the Beatles across the Universe
February 4th will mark the first time NASA beams a song directly into deep space. Quite appropriately, the song in question is The Beatles'
"Across the Universe". The transmission, which will be sent at 7 p.m. EST, is being aimed at the North Star, Polaris, which is located 431 light
years away from Earth. The song will travel across the universe at a speed of 186,000 miles per second. The transmission over NASA's Deep Space
Network will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the day The Beatles recorded the song, as well as the 50th anniversary of NASA's founding and the
group's beginnings. February 4 has been declared "Across The Universe Day" by Beatles fans to commemorate the anniversaries. As part of the
celebration, the public around the world has been invited to participate in the event by simultaneously playing the song at the same time it is
transmitted by NASA.
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01.02.2008NASA may sell Space Shuttles, BIN 42 Million
When NASA sets to retire its space shuttles in 2010 they may be interested in selling off the old orbiters. NASA is currently in the information
gathering stage but selling off three shuttles for 42 million a piece (the 6 million dollar cost for shipping is included) would help to continue
funding the next generation of space shuttles. The Smithsonian is reportedly interested in the purchase but one would wonder where else the shuttles
would go? The shuttles would be stripped of key components before being sent off and would not be in an operable state.
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18.12.2008NASA Mars Rovers hits 5-year anniversary
NASA's Mars rovers have been on the red planet for five-years now. The rovers were originally planned to stay on the planet for only 90 days has
turned into much longer than anticipated. NASA has put together a video to celebrate the anniversary. The rovers have made important discoveries
about wet and violent environments on ancient Mars. They also have returned a quarter-million images, driven more than 21 kilometers (13 miles),
climbed a mountain, descended into craters, struggled with sand traps and aging hardware, survived dust storms, and relayed more than 36 gigabytes of
data via NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. To date, the rovers remain operational for new campaigns the team has planned for them. News source: Tech
Fragments
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04.01.2009Nasa and Microsoft bring Universe to Web
Microsoft today announced a new partnership with NASA to bring images & data of moon and Mars to Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope (WWT) for
Internet viewing. Through a Space Act agreement, Microsoft and NASA will jointly develop the technology and infrastructure necessary to make NASA
content available including high-resolution scientific images and data from Mars and the moon for viewing through WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft's
online virtual telescope. The above image shows the Proctor Crater on Mars. The bright, small ridges are sand ripples, and the larger, darker
bedforms are sand dunes. We will get to see more interesting images in WWT later this year, as part of a joint Space Act Agreement.
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25.03.2009NASA finds lost high resolution film of first moon landing
When NASA put a man on the moon it was a triumph of achievement for the US as it showed its technical capabilities and its dedication to space
exploration. NASA spent years planning for and developing specialized equipment for the mission. One such piece of equipment was a high resolution
video camera that would send back images to Earth. Because of the lack of technology at the time the video feed from the moon actually had to be
compressed and scaled down to work on televisions across the world. After the initial recording of the high resolution stream from the moon the film
went missing after its shipment back to the US.
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30.06.2009NASA to Use Microsoft Photosynth for Shuttle Launch
Microsoft said Monday that it
had partnered with NASA to
give an unprecedented look at
the Endeavour Shuttle launch
through Photosynth, its
platform that uses standard
camera images to create
navigable 3D views...
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06.08.2007Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again)
Viruses intended to steal passwords and send them to a remote server infected laptops in the International Space Station in July, NASA confirmed
Tuesday.
And according to NASA, this wasn't the first infection.
"This is not the first time we have had a
worm or a virus," NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said. "It's not a frequent occurrence, but this isn't the first time."
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27.08.2008NASA: It would cost $370 million to convert to metric
The shuttles that NASA uses to fly to space currently use measurements in the form of pounds and feet as opposed to the more widely adopted meters and
newtons. The upcoming shuttle replacement will continue to use the imperial measurement system because it would cost NASA $370 million dollars to
convert to the "'International System' of units". In 2009 a launch to put a shuttle into orbit costs approximately $759 million dollars
and to spend half the budget of a launch to convert units of measure can not be justified because it will produce no gain for the agency or the
shuttle occupants. To convert to a new system of measurement is not as easy as it sounds.
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25.06.2009NASA to stream daily video feed from ISS
Streaming digital video showing activities inside and outside the International Space Station and the view of Earth from up there will now be
available for about twelve hours every day, according to NASA. The feed will also contain audio of communications between Mission Control and the
astronauts, including (for instance) live video of maintenance activities outside the station during today's prep for the incoming space shuttle.
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10.03.2009NASA space tests 'interplanetary internet' protocol
NASA has announced successful space tests of its new purpose-designed interplanetary communications networking protocol, which it calls
Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN). Famed TCP/IP pioneer Vint Cerf was instrumental in the space net's design.
"This is the
first step in creating a totally new space communications capability, an interplanetary Internet," said Adrian Hooke, at NASA Headquarters in
Washington.
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19.11.2008Groundbreaking Digital Experience for Endeavour Shuttle Launch
For the first time, people
around the world can view 3-D
images of the space shuttle
Endeavour and surrounding
buildings at the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida before it
launches into space, through a
collaboration between
Microsoft Corp. and NASA.
Microsoft Live Labs and NASA
developed the environments
using hundreds of photographs
and a photo-imaging technology
called Photosynth. Photosynth
uses hundreds of standard
digital camera images to
construct a 3-D view of an
environment that can be
navigated and explored in a
highly intuitive manner.
Online
viewers can go to
http://media
.labs.live.com/photosynth/nasa
/default.htm to access 3-D
images of details such as the
shuttle boosters, interior and
exterior of the Vehicle
Assembly Building, and
launchpad. By clicking and
dragging their mouse, visitors
to the site will be able to
explore parts of the shuttle
launch, zooming in to see the
smallest decorative detail or
zooming out and panning 360
degrees to place the shuttle
in a wider context.
śThis
collaboration with Microsoft
gives the public a new way to
explore and participate in
Americas space program,ť said
William Gerstenmaier, NASA
associate administrator for
Space Operations. śWe are
looking into ways of using
this new technology to support
future missions.ť..
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06.08.2007NASA to put image archive into Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
Microsoft's window into space is about to get more interesting. NASA will put large volumes of high-resolution images and other planetary data into
the Redmond company's WorldWide Telescope online application under an agreement announced this morning...
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24.03.2009NASA: it snows on Mars
When NASA sent two rovers to Mars they were not quite sure what all they would find. What they ended up finding far exceeded expectations and has
proven that the possible foundations for life do exist on other planets. The scientists were eventually able to conclude that cloud formations do
form on the planet and they can, in fact, make it snow on Mars. Scientists were able to observe this phenomenon using the LIDAR instrument (Light
Detection and Ranging). "But the really amazing data came from the LIDAR instrument, which was able to track the formation of the clouds at the
atmosphere's boundary layer.
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06.07.2009Google Seals Deal For New Offices At NASA Center
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - In the latest sign of its ambitious growth plans, Google Inc. has signed a 40-year lease to secure space for a huge office
complex that will be built on a federal government research center near the Internet search leader's Silicon Valley headquarters.
The
1.2 million-square-foot campus announced Wednesday fulfills a vision that Google first laid out with the NASA Ames Research Center in 2005. The NASA
center is within a 10-minute drive of Google's headquarters in Mountain View.
Google anticipates needing the additional space for the
thousands of workers it expects to hire as tries to mine more profits from the Internet's advertising market and expand into other areas of
technology and media.
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