Greens: Vista means more dead PCs
The Green Party has claimed that Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, could lead to a mass upgrade of PCs that will result in old machines being dumped in landfill sites.
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30.1.2007 When cooler dead
Windows 7 Beta Is Dead
This is it! Today, August 1st, 2009 is the final expiration deadline for Build 7000, which is the first and only Beta development milestone of Windows 7.
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1.8.2009 MSN Premium releases 9.5 version, not dead yet
Much to our surprise, MSN released version 9.5 of MSN Explorer/MSN Internet Access to subscribers as an update on Friday. The release appears to fix a number of issues surrounding upgrades to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Live Messenger.
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21.11.2006 Apparently Microsoft Windows XP Is Far From Dead
At the latest budget meeting they “fine tuned the Vista/XP mix”.
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23.7.2007 The anti-spyware market that never existed is officially dead
If anyone needed evidence that the standalone anti-spyware market is official dead (if it ever existed), along comes Webroot Software with Exhibit A, B and C:
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29.10.2007 Windows XP Breathes Life into Dead Computers
Microsoft has chosen Windows XP over Windows Vista, its latest operating system to breathe life into dead computers.
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9.11.2007 Linux dead at hands of Windows 7? Horse puckey!
To listen to my fellow bloggers, Robin Harris and Michael Krigsman, you would think that it’s all over for desktop Linux, with the OS once again being relegated to the server room while Windows 7 is the be all to end all of desktop operating systems. To that I say, baloney!
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29.1.2009 Vista's dead: Microsoft kills an OS and no one cares
For anyone still burning a torch for Windows Vista, its time is rapidly approaching. Buy now or forever hold your peace.
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2.7.2009 Vista's dead: Microsoft kills an OS and no one cares
For anyone still burning a torch for Windows Vista, its time is rapidly approaching. Buy now or forever hold your peace.
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6.7.2009 Dead Cheap Windows 7 OEM/System Builder, Pricing Details Revealed
How would you like to buy Windows 7, all major editions, at prices half of those for the retail versions of the operating system? Sounds like a pretty sweet deal? Well, that’s because it is, with the exception of a few small downsides.
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3.9.2009 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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1.3.2008Is Vista dead in the water?
Analysts from Gartner said earlier this week that Windows is collapsing under its own weight. Talk in the blogosphere keeps pointing to a Windows 7
release date earlier than 2010. Is Vista already a lame duck?..
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12.04.2008Escaped spammer found dead in murder-suicide
"Spam King" Edward Davidson, who recently disappeared from the Colorado minimum security facility where he was serving 21 months for tax
evasion and e-mail fraud, was found dead yesterday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound...
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25.07.2008If Windows is a dead end, what's next?
The writing is on the wall. Despite a major push to sell the much-maligned Windows Vista, customers aren't buying. Nearly two years after
Vista's release, Windows XP remains the standard desktop OS in business, and Microsoft has extended its availability three times (currently to
August 2009) due to customer demand. Microsoft itself forecasts just 2 percent growth in Vista sales in early 2009, after lackluster sales in 2008.
And that's after forcing customers to buy Vista to get XP "downgrades."
So all eyes were on Microsoft's Professional Developer
Conference in Los Angeles last week as Microsoft finally took the wrap off Windows 7, the successor to Vista due in early 2010. But early reaction is
that Windows 7 is just a cleaned-up Vista. It's essentially the same kernel and the same OS, with a couple new technologies thrown in, such as the
Surface-based multitouch capabilities and the ability for developers to ribbon-bar-enable their own apps for better consistency with Microsoft's
new UI approach (one that people either seem to love or hate). "It's not anything radical," says Neil MacDonald, a Gartner analyst who follows
Microsoft. "It's a polished version of Vista."
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04.11.2008EA's dark comic Dead Space franchise headed to theaters
Game studio Electronic Arts is teaming up with movie studio Starz Media to create a new animated film that will be the prequel to EA's Dead
Space video game, due for release this October 31...
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22.03.2008Software engineer found dead in front of burnt computer
We have heard of exploding batteries and burning laptops but this may be the first potential laptop explosion that killed a person. A software
engineer working for Tata Consulting Services was found dead in the sitting position with a burnt computer in front of him. "Police said his charred
body was found in a sitting posture. ‘We are yet to ascertain the cause of the blast. The computer was completely damaged and the deceased was
charred,' a police officer told TOI." The victim had two roommates one of which "‘had gone to take bath.
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06.04.2009Apparently Microsoft Windows XP Is Far From Dead
At the latest budget meeting
they "fine tuned the Vista/XP
mix". This means that they
are expecting to make more
money off of the ostracized OS
than they had first predicted.
Initial expectations were of
an 85/15 split between Vista
and XP respectively. The new
numbers reflect a noticeably
higher number, 78/22.
Here's to hoping that
Microsoft realizes they have a
pretty good OS already, and
that all the eye-candy isn't
a good enough trade off for
the usability of XP. Maybe
they will change their mind
about the XP retailer sales
cut-off date that is quickly
approaching.
I for
one will cling dearly to my
precious copies of Windows XP,
I may begin venturing out and
exploring other operating
systems, but a lot is going to
have to change before I switch
to Vista.
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23.07.2007id on Steam allegations a "dead issue"
Allegations of unlawful use of
free technology in id Software
titles on Steam are now a
"dead issue," an id rep told
Next-Gen.biz.
Message board users over
the weekend found that older
id games on Valve Software's
Steam digital distribution
platform used the x86 emulator
DOSBox.
But the supposed issue
arose when users found that id
and Valve apparently didn't
give credit to the DOSbox
Team, which developed the
technology that allows old
DOS-based games to run on
today's computers.
According to id,
it's already water under the
bridge.
"It's a dead issue,"
the id rep said in a phone
interview. "...As soon as
this came to id's attention,
it was all immediately
corrected." She offered no
further comment...
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08.08.2007HD DVD is Dead: A Retrospective
The next-generation format war has been quite the bitter battle, but it’s obvious which format has come out on top. HD DVD is effectively dead,
much to dismay of its major supporters. This must also be a big pain to any early adopters, because that black box with a blue laser is pretty much
useless. Or at least it will be in a couple of months when the major studios stop releasing new movies in that format. Sucks to be you.
But
how did it come to be like this? How did the Sony-backed Blu-ray format manage to stomp all over the Toshiba-backed HD DVD? After all, the HD DVD
format came out of the DVD Forum, the same people that populated our homes with DVD movies. It was a tried and true name that people would recognize,
but it just wasn’t enough.
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22.02.2008DRM (on music) is dead. Long live DRM (on video)!
CES is best known for what seems like miles and miles of shiny consumer electronics, product demos, and expansive booths. But some of the most
interesting action takes place off the beaten track of the show floor, in meeting rooms where players from opposite ends of the tech world come to
discuss the issues of the day. Such was the case at this year's show. In a discussion called "The True Cost of DRM: What Can't We Do Now?"
moderated by Paul Sweeting of
Content Agenda, four panelists had different takes on impact
of DRM over the past decade, while managing to agree that, when it comes to music, DRM is indeed dead.
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08.01.2008The IT department is dead, author argues
The IT department is dead, and it is a shift to utility computing that will kill this corporate career path. So predicts Nicholas Carr in his new
book,
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from
Edison to Google .
Carr is best known for a provocative Harvard Business Review article entitled "Does IT Matter?"
Published in 2003, the article asserted that IT investments didn't provide companies with strategic advantages because when one company adopted a new
technology, its competitors did the same.
The Harvard Business Review article made Carr the sworn enemy of hardware and software
vendors including Microsoft, Intel and HP, as well as of CIOs and other IT professionals.
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07.01.2008RIP Ultimate Extras
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Back in
September of last year I wrote a piece about
how the Windows Ultimate Extras window from the RTM version of Windows Vista differed from the pre-release SP1 code that was floating about at the
time. Is Microsoft going to do right by Windows Vista Ultimate customers and start handing over the goodies or not? Looking at SP1, it seems that
Windows Ultimate Extras as good as dead.
OK, time for a little trip down memory lane. Heres what the Windows Vista Ultimate
screen looks like for Windows Vista Ultimate RTM...
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08.02.2008Expert: Legacy Java Development Is Dead
The legacy style of enterprise Java application development has given way to a new world of frameworks and modular componentry, according to Rod
Johnson, founder and CEO of Springsource. "It is pretty clear that the legacy approach to server-side Java development is done," said Johnson,
speaking at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas March 27. Johnson cites SpringSource's open-source lightweight Java development platform
Spring Framework as well as OSGi
as primary drivers of the change.
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Desktop PC not dead, just changing
The traditional desktop PC is not yet doomed, but is going through a transformation, according to HP.
While laptops are becoming
increasingly attractive to consumers and small businesses, the majority of sales to larger businesses are still of desktop PCs.
Speaking at the launch of a series of new products from HP in New York, Alberto Bozzo, the company's European personal systems group general
manager of commercial products, said: "The reality is the desktop is not dead -- it is transforming into something else."
Bozzo
said innovation would come in virtualised client technologies such as thin clients, blade servers and blade PCs. "This is where the desktop is going.
is small at the moment but it is an emerging technology -- small from a volume point of view, but promising," he said...
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Analysts: Vista SP1 delay won't hurt enterprises
Although Microsoft may not
have the first service pack
for Windows Vista ready at the
end of this year as some
expected, financial analysts
say that a delay should not
have a negative effect on
enterprise adoption of the OS.
Many large enterprise
customers have said they will
wait for the first service
pack for Vista to deploy the
software across their
companies. Some were expecting
SP1 before the end of the year
after Microsoft Senior Vice
President Bob Muglia said in a
published report last November
it would be released with
Windows Server, code-named
Longhorn, due by the end of
2007.
However, rumors
swirled last week that the
release of the pack would be
pushed into 2008 after
Microsoft said in a court
filing dated June 19 it would
only have a test version of
Vista SP1 out before the end
of the year.
UBS
Investment Research analyst
Heather Bellini tried to allay
investor fears in a research
note published Monday, saying
that the end-of-the-year
release of a beta listed in
the document "probably
represents a 'drop-dead'
date."..
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AGP is back from the dead. Again.
Thought AGP was dead? Well apparently not. In something not far estranged from a zombie B-movie where you just can't kill the bugger, it seems the
life of the antiquated interface is to be drawn out yet again by both AMD and Nvidia. Both companies plan to release cards on AGP in the coming
months.
AMD is planning to release AGP versions of its Radeon HD2600 and HD2400 GPUs but has reportedly encountered driver
instability issues with DirectX 10 and HDMI. It was noted that these problems should be alleviated by the end of the month, however in typical
release-date-speculation-fashion, we won't hold our breath.
Nvidia is currently having to redesign its bridge chip for the G8x
series, with the A05 silicon said to be currently working with the GeForce 8600 and 8400 GPUs as well as upcoming G92 and G98 products that will
arrive later in the year...
winbeta.org - 04.09.2007
Facebook announce memorial profiles for deceased members
Friends and families of deceased users on Facebook will soon be given the option to turn their profiles into memorials. The new feature will be
introduced as a result of several complaints regarding status updates and suggestions from deceased users, according to The Guardian. Information
that may be sensitive to relatives or friends of the deceased user, as well as status updates and contacts will be removed by Facebook after the
person is confirmed to be dead (either through news articles, obituaries or other proof of death). The newly introduced "Suggestions" feature will
no longer remind people to help their dead friend or relative either.
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neowin.net - 28.10.2009
Microsoft Max Killed Off
Yesterday Microsoft
announced Vista's final
RTM date - and yesterday they
killed the last bit of
Longhorn still in Vista.
Microsoft Max, the digital
media collaboration/sharing
and information visualization
is suit is officially dead.
What was Microsoft Max, and is
there still hope for a
media-based team collaboration
software? And if Microsoft Max
was already so far along, why
did it have to be
killed?
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Well, it’s official
at any rate. Contrary to what
you’ve heard, Windows
Vista will not be shipping
with any of the original
technologies, features,
capabilities, or subsystems
originally promised. First it
was the real Aero –
complete visual control over
one’s system. Amazing
graphics, sidebars that were a
part of the Windows Core, Aero
Diamond. Then it was NGSCB and
its amazing security features
– not DRM, but total
privacy control; your privacy.
Monad. Last we heard, it was
WinFS, the king-pin feature
that was promised to change
the way you think of
data… And now the last
one is gone: Microsoft Max is
dead.
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02.11.2006Does Vista's stunted growth hint at the death of the desktop?
Is the desktop metaphor dead, replaced by Web services like Google and Facebook? Or is Vista so bad that it's not worth buying?
New data points to the latter suggestion, leaving Microsoft with two options. It can either view its sagging Vista sales as a testament to the
incredible work of art that is Windows XP (gag). Or it can concede that Vista is a pile of potty.
Or perhaps, just perhaps, this
isn't a Windows thing at all but simply a recognition that
we may
have tapped out the "must-have" innovations on the fat-client desktop leading people to wait out upgrades until a hardware refresh makes the
choice a no-brainer.
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02.01.2008Microsoft: The desktop PC isnt dead
The desktop PC is not dead; its in the midst of a five- to ten-year-long makeover.
So says Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy
Officer Craig Mundie, who presented on February 26 to attendees of the Goldman Sachs Tech Investment Symposium.
(At an investor
conference, attendees typically look for tips on what a company has in the pipeline for the next few weeks or months. So Mundies talk, which focused
on
his mission of looking three to 20 years out, was rather atypical.)
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27.02.2008Debate: Is SOA dead, or 'just resting?'
Must a programming methodology be a philosophy in order to survive the corporate boardroom? Maybe, but when the philosophy itself doesn't tread water
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