Microsoft Puts Limits on Vista Virtualization
Virtual Windows Vista users will have to pay for the high-end OS. With the release of Windows Vista on Tuesday, the final end-user licensing agreement (EULA) is reaching the eyes of the masses – for those who actually care to read through it instead of blindly clicking “next.”
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2.2.2007 Microsoft Limits Windows Vista Beta2 Downloads
The demand for the Windows Vista Beta2 faced by the US giant has overcome the capabilities of the servers reserved for the online delivery of the recently released operating
system by the sheer amount of the simultaneous downloads.
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13.6.2006 Microsoft limits Longhorn's Itanium job duties
Microsoft's Longhorn Server version of Windows will support Intel's Itanium processor, but only for a limited number of higher-end jobs, the software company said on Friday.
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Vista SP1's File Sharing Subsystem to "Benefit" from Thousands of Inbound Concurrent Connections
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are "aligned" operating systems despite the client and server side separation. In this context, the first service pack for Windows Vista, directly dependent of Windows Server 2008, will feature evolution in various aspects, as generated by the development of Microsoft's last 32-bit server operating system.
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13.12.2007 Service Offers File Sharing Over Gmail
P2P users have found a creative way to fill up the more than 2 gigabytes of e-mail storage offered by Google's Gmail: file sharing. A new service created by Dutch student Robbie Groenewoudt taps into Gmail and creates an index of files that can be accessed by other users.
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27.11.2005 File-Sharing Winners and Losers of 2005
The year 2005 was an excellent year, depending of course on your point of view. For the tech industry, BitTorrent soared to new heights while Steve Jobs enjoyed record breaking iPod sales. Yet not everyone shared this success. The RIAA continued its fight against P2P networking with little effect, as Sony-BMG disgraced itself and the DRM concept.
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26.12.2005 Windows Live moves into video sharing
Windows Live Video. As the name suggests, it provides a place for users to share their own video content with the world and will compete with existing services such as Google Video and YouTube.
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13.3.2006 Microsoft to Add Wireless Video Sharing to the Zune
Microsoft's portable media player, the Zune, has just been released and already talks have started about future updates to the device.
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14.11.2006 Microsoft Nabs First Licensee in Code Sharing Deal
Microsoft on Thursday signed its first software licensee under a nearly three-year-old arrangement with the European Union. Microsoft said signing up Quest Software -- a company that helps businesses manage their different IT systems -- was an important part of its efforts to comply with regulators' demands.
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11.3.2007 Microsoft puts brakes on Soapbox video sharing
Microsoft has put the brakes on its Soapbox video-sharing site while it implements new technology to detect videos uploaded by users that could have copyright restrictions.
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24.3.2007 Office 14 to add more online document sharing
Microsoft won’t be turning Office 14 into a completely Web-ified productivity suite, a la Google Docs.
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13.2.2008 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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1.3.2008Twitter sets 'following' limits to combat spam
Twitter's new limits, which some are discovering just today, seems to have been made effective since the middle of last month, but don't appear to
be fixed in stone...
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13.08.2008Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory
Mark Russinovich: This is the first blog post in a series I'll write over the coming months called Pushing the Limits of Windows that describes how
Windows and applications use a particular resource, the licensing and implementation-derived limits of the resource, how to measure the resources
usage, and how to diagnose leaks.
To be able to manage your Windows systems effectively you need to understand how Windows
manages physical resources, such as CPUs and memory, as well as logical resources, such as virtual memory, handles, and window manager objects.
Knowing the limits of those resources and how to track their usage enables you to attribute resource usage to the applications that consume them,
effectively size a system for a particular workload, and identify applications that leak resources.
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22.07.2008That's Going To Hurt: Italy Passes Law Allowing P2P Music
Just when they thought they were a step closer to halting the sharing of music, Italy goes and screws things up. The Italian parliament passed a new
copyright law in both houses that would allow citizens to share noncommercial and degraded music over the internet freely. But alas, it turns out all
music sold on most download sites is degraded. MP3 and AAC files at 192kbps and 128kbps, respectively, fit in the downgraded category.
Though the law limits file sharing to śeducational or scientificť use, there will be more difficulty in prosecuting those who use it for
other purposes. The law adds a broad definition of what is considered legal and illegal in this context.
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03.02.2008Symantec: MS Making Vista Insecure
Microsoft's partners are
continuing to cry foul over
the decision to lock down the
Windows Vista kernel with a
feature called PatchGuard,
claiming an announcement about
sharing security APIs is
simply a "red herring"
to fool the press...
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18.10.2006Grouper Betas Video Sharing
Service
California-based software
company Grouper unveiled a
free video sharing service on
Wednesday, which would allow
for the easy editing, sharing
and transfer of user-created
videos. Grouper is moving away
from its previous incarnation
as a private P2P network to
focus on video...
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08.12.2005Report: Mashboxx May Acquire
Grokster
Mashboxx is in talks with
file-sharing service Grokster
over a possible puchase, a
move that could be seen as an
attempt to keep the embattled
file-sharing service alive.
The Wall Street Journal
reported on Monday that the
deal likely surrounds some
kind of revenue sharing model
for the current owners of
Grokster...
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20.09.2005Oracle Readies Free Database
10g Express Edition runs under
Linux, 32-bit Windows (with
some limits)...
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02.11.2005Gordon Moore Predicts 15 More Years for his Law
Moore's Law, one of the most widely known laws in the computing world, may not have much longer to live. According to Gordon Moore, co-founder of
Intel and best known for his theory predicting that transistor sizes would decrease by 50% every 18 to 24 months, fundamental physical limits will
prevent engineers from further chip shrinkages within the next 15 years. He announced this prediction at the Intel Developer Forum.
" In
another decade, decade and half or something, we will hit something that is fundamental, " Moore said when asked if there would be an end to his
'law'. But he also pointed out that there always have been fundamental barriers that prevented chip technologies from further advancing. " There
really are some fundamental limits. It's been amazing to me how the technologies have been able to keep pushing those out ahead of us. As long as I
can remember, the fundamental limits are two, three generations out. So far we have been able to get around them. "
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20.09.2007Warner Signs Agreement with imeem, Drops Suit
Warner Music Group said
Thursday that it had dropped
its lawsuit against video
sharing site imeem, as the two
sides agreed on a revenue
sharing deal...
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12.07.2007Sharing folders vulnerable to buffer overflow
Even though the recent webcam vulnerability in MSN/Windows Live Messenger was only just addressed, another exploitable bug has already surfaced. This
time it's a buffer overflow error that affects the Sharing folders feature in Windows Live Messenger 8.1 (and maybe other versions) running on
Windows XP.
The safety of the Sharing folder feature got questioned before, but we now have a concrete example of how it can be abused. A
Spanish security expert going by the name of Lostmon Lords has discovered that an attacker can cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) or even execute
arbitrary code in Windows Live Messenger 8.1 by means of a specially crafted jpg, wmf, gif, ico or doc-file.
The attacker can "Create a
sharing folder" for its victim and then put the malformed file into the physical location of that folder on his hard drive (My Computer > My Sharing
Folders > victim@hotmail.com). Note that if the attacker would drag & drop the file directly into the Messenger window, his own client would crash.
Considering that the victim has accepted the sharing folder, the attacker can simply click the sharing icon to crash Windows Live Messenger, or even
Windows XP entirely when the process isn't terminated in time. The victim then needs to delete the sharing folder entirely to cease the
exploitation.
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27.09.2007Overclocker pushes AMD Phenom II to absolute limits
The world of overclocking is a relatively vast one, when you start getting into it, and it attracts many people with the promise of higher speed and
bragging rights as well as the allure of gaining new life out of older hardware. An overclocker by the name of Brian McLachlan, or chew*, has set
record 3DMark '06 scores, using stock AMD Phenom II X4 955 processors, using all sorts of methods ranging from air to dry ice and liquid nitrogen.
His initial post about his results can be found over here, and we have included a YouTube video about it below. If you're interested in the
results then have a gander below.
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10.05.2009Qtrax hits roadblock in effort to launch legal P2P
The self-proclaimed legal file sharing service is either not so legal or not so sharing: None of the big four music labels have agreements with the
service, according to news reports...
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29.01.2008File Sharing Security Pitfalls
If youre a mobile PC user, you probably have a network at home. Maybe you only have one other computer connected to your home network (or maybe you
have 5 more, like me), but youd probably like to be able to share information between your various computers (for instance, sharing MP3 music files
from your desktop to your tablet PC). A common way to accomplish the task is to enable file sharing. Both Windows and Mac make it easy to access files
on one computer from another using their own flavor of file sharing. The catch, for the mobile user especially, is setting up file sharing
securely.
In the late 90s hackers developed and released various scanning tools to help them find computers connected to the
Internet with file sharing enabled. If the detected file shares were not password protected (called śopen files sharesť), the hacker tool could
automatically access the files and, in some cases, change or delete them...
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26.10.2007Unusually apathetic response from Google to 'sharing' complaints
An experiment started two weeks ago by Google to leverage its Talk application as a way of sharing news feeds from Google Reader, has been met with
some derision. What may be more surprising, though, is the company's response...
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26.12.2007Thomas mistrial raised in file-sharing defense
After last month's mistrial in the proceedings against accused copyright infringer Jammie Thomas, a defendant in a similar file-sharing cases is
using the decision as a precedent for retrial...
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20.10.2008F-Secure Security Suite
Tackles Spyware, Rootkits
Finnish anti-virus
specialist F-Secure has dived
headfirst into the crowded
anti-spyware market, rolling
out a new consumer-facing
security suite that promises
to detect unwanted programs
before a PC becomes
injected.
F-Secure Corp.'s new F-Secure
Internet Security 2006 offers
technology to tackle the
problem of inadvertently
installed spyware and adware
programs that sneak onto
computers via file-sharing
networks.
F-Secure,
known mostly for its
anti-virus, network
encryption, desktop firewall,
intrusion prevention and
anti-spam product line, said
the new suit has also been
fitted with a new "new child
time lock feature" to allow
parents to filter Internet
sites with questionable
content and define sensible
time limits for kids to surf
the Internet...
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30.09.2005Death to the Start Menu “ Part I
Viral Tarpara: So I have been playing around with Vista SP1 RC and so far it has been a much more enjoyable experience from a usability perspective.
The number UAC prompts are down, network performance regarding file sharing is now what it should have been at release time and stability is much
better. I always thought the UI in Vista was better than its predecessor though it did take a few weeks getting used to especially with the initially
annoying Network and Sharing Center. Since switching to my Mac for personal use a few years ago prior to joining Microsoft, Ive had to go through the
pain of using the Start Menu again *learned a lot about usability in the process*.
śStart Menu, pain? Surely you jest,ť you might
be thinking. Actually, it is my opinion that the Start Menu is one of the most outmoded concepts that makes Windows, well um¦Windows...
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27.12.2007Setting a price (and limits) on software sales
The industry isn't sure how much to charge (yet) for SaaS applications. We know that. But the uncertainty's even helping to wreck pricing for
traditional software, according to a new report...
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04.11.2008Office 2007 Also Has Kill Switch
Apparently Microsoft is
putting the same kind of
'kill switch' into Office
2007 that is reportedly being
used by Vista. The kill switch
limits the program's
functionality once activation
has been bypassed a certain
number of times.
But now Microsoft's
intentions are clear: Just as
it is doing with Vista,
Microsoft plans to incorporate
what basically amounts to a
'kill switch' into Office
2007. Office 2007 users who
can't or won't pass
activation muster within a set
time period will be moved into
"reduced-functionality
mode", according to
Microsoft's Knowledge Base
article.
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21.11.2006AP Finds Comcast Blocks File Sharing
An Associated Press reporter ran a test of two computers connected to the Internet with Comcast cable modems in Philadelphia and San Francisco,
in order to see if reports of the cable provider blocking file sharing programs were true...
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