Vista SP 1 Ships in 2008, the First Beta Drops in 2 Weeks!
After a long period of Windows Omerta, in which Microsoft gagged all details related to the future development plans for the Windows platform, the company has come out and confirmed the availability dates for the first beta of Windows Vista SP1, as well as for the final release of the refresh.
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29.8.2007 Microsoft Hands out XP SP3 beta – Final SP for XP
In an email sent to selected testers telling them they have been accepted to begin testing XP SP3, Microsoft has also informed them that this will be the final Service Pack for the now aging OS.
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5.10.2007 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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9.8.2007Microsoft promises SP 'milestone' for Visual Studio 2008
First, it was Windows XP SP1. Then Windows Vista SP1. Now its the Visual Studio and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, due by the end of summer. The connection?
Microsoft's service packs keep growing in importance as a means of updating key products between official releases.
Promoting
the first SP for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5, officially launched just six months ago, Microsoft has said SP1 - like its predecessors -
is no ordinary SP.
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02.08.2008Mary Jo Foley Will Windows Service Pack History Repeat Itself?
Mary Jo Foley: One of my editors at Redmond magazine -- the ever-doubting Ed Scannell -- recently posed an interesting hypothetical question about the
future of Windows. Might Microsoft yank some features planned for Windows 7 and put them into a Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 2 that would include
not just fixes, but also new features?
In other words: Could Windows history repeat itself, with Vista SP2 taking the form of a
whole new operating system release -- in everything other than name -- a la Windows XP SP2?
Microsoft officials said last year
not to expect Vista SP1 to be anything like XP SP2. Vista SP1 was designed to be a collection of fixes and patches, aimed at improving security,
reliability and performance. But the 'Softies haven't said anything about their thinking in regard to Vista SP2. Might Microsoft use the next Vista
SP to deliver some of the features that otherwise might have to wait for Windows 7, currently slated for 2010?
As tasty as that
option might sound to some, I'd give it a very low likelihood for a few reasons.
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03.06.2008No Vista SP1 bits for users until mid-March
Mary Jo Foley: Customers who’ve been waiting for Microsoft to release
the final Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 bits are going to have to wait another month or two to actually get their hands on them at least through legal
channels.
In a posting to the Windows Vista team blog, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management Mike Nash explained
how and when users can get
the Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 bits. Microsoft released
Vista SP1 and Windows Server
2008 to manufacturing on February 4.
According to Nash, the schedule looks like this:
Mid-March:
Microsoft releases SP1 to Windows Update in five languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) and to the download center on
microsoft.com. “If Windows Update determines that the system has one of the drivers we know to be problematic, then Windows Update will not
offer SP1,” Nash explained. “Since we know that some customers may want to update to SP1 anyhow, the download center will allow anyone who
wants to install SP1 to do so.”
Mid-April: Microsoft begins delivering Vista SP1 via Automatic Update. “That said,
any system that Windows Update determines has a driver known to not update successfully will not get SP1 automatically,” Nash explained.
“As updates for these drivers become available, they will be installed automatically by Windows Update, which will unblock these systems from
getting Service Pack 1.” (And remember, there is a Vista SP blocking tool available for users who don’t want SP1 to install
automatically.)
April: SP1 will RTM for the remaining languages.
PC makers are getting the Vista SP1 bits
this week and will be able to start preloading Vista SP1 on new systems once they’ve sufficiently tested it. That could be weeks to a month,
based on previous track records.
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04.02.2008Vista Service Pack 1: It lives
With all the
Microsoft-created confusion
out there around when — and
even whether — the company
plans to deliver the first
service pack (SP) for Windows
Vista, it’s nice to see some
concrete proof that Vista SP1
does exist.
The
http://www.winfuture.de/news,3
1801.html>WinFuture.de folks
managed to grab a quick
snapshot of a machine running
a build of Vista SP1 during
one of the Rally talks at the
Windows Hardware Engineering
Conference (WinHEC) in Los
Angeles this week. Plain as
day, it says: “Windows Build
6001 Service Pack 1, v113.”)
I also saw a
PowerPoint slide mentioning
the existence of Vista SP1
during a WinHEC chalk talk on
“The Future of Input” at
this week’s show. (The
context: A shim for the
kernel-mode driver foundation
version of the digitizer
driver will ship as a Windows
Driver Kit sample in Vista
SP1. That was it.)..
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17.05.2007Report: One-third of businesses to begin Vista deployments by mid-2008
Forrester Research has issued a new study in which it predicts that at least one-third of enterprises will begin to deploy Windows Vista
enterprise-wide by mid-2008.
Driving Vista adoption will be an increase in applications certified as Vista-compatible and new PC
form factors which are śready to run Vista smoothlyť and at śprice points will make compatible machines more affordable than they are today,ť the
Forrester researchers said in their
śHow Windows
Vista Will Shake Up The State Of The Enterprise Operating Systemť report, released on November 12.
Forrester acknowledged
that a number of businesses are waiting for Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 before starting their Vista deployment rollouts. But according to current
schedule, Vista SP1 is set to roll out in the first calendar quarter of next year.
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14.11.2007Are service packs really passe?
Are there any real reasons other than psychological ones to wait for a first service pack (SP) of Windows Vista before deploying?
Microsoft’s position, since the company released Vista to manufacturing last year, has been that users didn’t need delay their
deployments until the delivery of SP1 because the team would
push out new updates and fixes
continually via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and other patching mechanisms. Just this week, in fact, Microsoft delivered
via Windows Update
two mega hotfix packs (performance and compatibility) for Windows Vista
that include many of the fixes that will be part of
Vista Service Pack (SP) 1, which now is due
in Q1 2008.
But some say service packs still do matter. Over on the Windows Connected blog, Josh Phillips has a list of
why some users still prefer to wait for
a service pack before deploying.
First on Phillips’ list: Service packs are more thoroughly and rigorously tested than
individual udpates. There’s also the convenience factor. For enterprise users, a single update like a service pack is much easier to manage in a
controlled way than are lots of incremental updates.
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30.08.2007Wanted: New information on XP SP3
If Microsoft officials don't
want you to know about Vista
Service Pack (SP) 1, you can
be darn well sure they really
don't want to talk about
Windows XP Service Pack (SP)
3. But customers definitely
want to discuss it.
XP users who still
aren’t crazy about the
idea of moving to Vista are
quite interested in the status
of the long-promised update to
Windows XP. (Microsoft
released the most recent XP
update, XP SP2, way back in
the summer of 2004.) I get
queries from readers weekly
about when XP SP3 will hit and
what it will likely include.
There was a flap
earlier this year regarding
Microsoft
possibly changing the due date
for XP SP3. Microsoft
officials have been saying for
the past few months that the
company would not provide the
final XP SP3 until some time
in the first half of 2008. In
late May, however, there was
a
mention in a Microsoft press
release that XP SP3 would ship
"some time later this
year." Microsoft's
official response was that the
2007 date was a typo. (Yeah,
tha
t "typo" defense again.)
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19.07.2007Whats coming with Windows? Even the insiders arent sure'
Sometimes you find fascinating little tidbits of Microsoft news buried in obscure places, tossed in as throwaway remarks. Todays case in point comes
from
a post
at the Windows Installer team blog, which tries to explain why some references to Windows Installer 4.1 appeared on an MSDN and then were
removed.
The explanation provides an interesting factoid and also illustrates a larger principle about how Microsoft works.
First the factoid.
From the
post (with emphasis added):
The back story here starts about this time last year when we were finishing up Windows Installer 4.0 in Windows
Vista and asking ourselves śWhats next?ť. At that time, we didnt know the bar for features in Windows Vista SP1 and next major release of Windows.
<¦>
Knowing none of the feature and release criteria, our best guess at the time was that Windows Vista
SP1 would ship first, an out of band release would ship next, and then the next full version of Windows would be our focus.
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he new guard in Windows had a very different bar for the Vista SP than had been in practice for previous releases (at
least in my memory). Generally there is lip service to no large feature work in a SP but this time folks listened. Big feature adds were heavily
scrutinized. The items we wanted to fix in the SP, UAC tweaks, were big feature by the new bar.
When the UAC tweaks were
rejected for Vista SP1, the justification for 4.1 faded as there were no new features in the Windows Installer in Vista SP1.
The good news to
all of you who have been complaining about UAC is that your protests have not been falling on deaf ears. The bad news is that whatever work is being
done will not appear in SP1.
So when will it appear? I found it fascinating that this team of developers at Microsoft, working on
core technology, had to guess at the timeline and feature set for future versions of Windows, including a crucial service pack. Let that be a lesson
for those who believe that Microsoft, in Borg-like fashion, ruthlessly coordinates its activities. The reality is theres a lot of internal debate
within the halls at One Microsoft Way, and even insiders are confused over whats coming up in the Windows road map.
Now, can we
talk about that out-of-band release¦?
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02.10.2007Google complains (again), asks for final release date of Vista SP1
A week after Microsoft
announced it would amend
Windows Vista so that its
integrated Instant Search
functionality wont hamper the
performance of third-party
desktop-search programs,
Google has complained to the
government again.
In
a
new,
seven-page amicus brief a
copy of which Seattle
Post-Intelligencer reporter
Todd Bishop links to Google
is asking the U.S. Department
of Justices antitrust division
to force Microsoft to go
further.
From Googles
brief:
ś(F)rom what
Google understands of the
remedies, it appears that more
may need to be done to provide
a truly unbiased choice of
desktop search products in
Vista and achieve compliance
with the Final Judgment.ť
Google wants
Microsoft to have to provide a
firm date for the final
release of Windows Vista
Service Pack (SP) 1 since all
Microsoft has committed to
publicly so far is a first
beta before the end of
calendar 2007. (Ill second
that request!)..
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26.06.2007Select group of testers get new builds of XP SP3, Vista SP1
Microsoft released yet more test builds of both Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 and Windows Vista SP1 this week.
Microsoft made
the newest test build of XP SP3, which it is calling XP SP3 Release Candidate (RC) Refresh 2, available to 15,000 testers on January 23, Microsoft
officials said. It also released a new refresh of its Vista SP1 build, known as Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2, to the same 15,000 testers on January 24,
execs said.
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25.01.2008How can Microsoft overcome Vistas lingering image problem?
Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management, has a tough problem on his hands.
Microsoft and its
hardware/software partners have done a lot in the past 16 months to make Windows Vista a better operating system. With Service Pack (SP) 1, Microsoft
has addressed some of the performance and reliability problems that has made Vista the butt of so much bad press when it launched.
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02.05.2008Microsoft hones its internal sales pitch for Vista Service Pack 1
With all the controversy as of late regarding
the
extent to which Service Pack (SP) 1 will improve Windows Vistas performance, what is Microsoft saying?
Externally, not much.
Throughout 2007, Microsoft officials have tried to downplay SP1, hoping to convince users that they dont need to wait for the first service pack
before moving to Windows Vista. As a result, executives have been less-than-forthcoming when it comes to the performance gains they expect Vista SP1
will deliver.
Internally, however, the company is promising some pretty hefty improvements for users who install SP1, according
to sources.
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28.11.2007Vista SP1 gold bits on track for this week
After both public and private betas galore, Microsoft is set to make the final, gold Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 bits available, most likely
this week.
Last week, I’ve been getting reports of SP1 bits being available on torrents. I asked Microsoft earlier last week if these
builds were, as some were saying, the final Vista SP1 bits. And, as usual, the Windows client team wasn’t saying a whole lot.
On
January 29, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Vista SP1 had yet to be officially released to manufacturing. The
recent SP1 Release Candidate (RC) Refresh 2 is not the RTM build, the
spokeswoman said. “And we’re not commenting on the build number,” she said, when I asked whether the “18000″ build
number was the RTM version.
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04.02.2008Principled Technologies Tests Windows Vista SP1
Nick White: When Windows Vista was originally released just over a year ago Microsoft commissioned Principled Technologies to compare the overall
responsiveness of Windows Vista to Windows XP SP 2 for some common business and home tasks. With the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Principled has updated their results.
Principled Technologies concluded the following when comparing business scenarios:
- Overall, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP
performed comparably on most test operations. Performance differences between the two operating systems were typically less than a half second.
Significant differences of over a second occurred on only nine of 128 measures; Windows Vista SP1 led on eight of those.
- Windows Vista
SP1 was noticeably more responsive after rebooting than Windows XP on several common business operations.
- Overall, Windows Vista SP1 was
more responsive than Windows Vista on most comparisons. Performance differences between the two operating systems were typically less than a quarter
second.
Principled Technologies also concluded the following when comparing home scenarios...
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27.02.2008SP Technologies Sues Apple Over iPhone Keyboard
An outfit called SP
Technologies has sued Apple
over the touch-screen keyboard
at the heart of the iPhone,
claiming Apple is infringing
on a patent held by SP
Technologies for a similar
keyboard.
AppleInsider
dug up the SP patent filing
from 2000, which claims
the company developed a
"method of providing a user
interface for receiving
information from a user using
a user immutable graphical
keyboard linked to an input
area."
Patent
suits, of course, are a dime a
dozen, and Apple's not
exactly the first company to
ever use a touch-screen style
input method. But this one
will probably require more
effort to defend than the
iPhone battery suit filed a
few weeks ago. The suit was
filed Thursday in Tyler,
Texas, which has become the
destination of choice for
patent suits these days.
An Apple
representative did not
immediately return a call
seeking comment, but it's
unlikely Apple would have much
to say at this stage.
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07.08.2007Microsoft frees rival slate from Yahoo commitment
Microsoft Corp has released the nominees on its rival slate from their commitment to stand for election to Yahoo Inc's board in the event of a proxy
fight, a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
The move indicates that Microsoft remains firm in its commitment to
stay away from Yahoo, days after it walked away from a $47.5 billion offer for the Internet company.
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09.05.2008Microsoft expects to double customer service staff in Asia
Microsoft said on Thursday that it expects headcount to more than double for its customer service centre in Asia in five years time.
Wing-Dar Ker, general manager for Microsoft Customer Service and Support in the Asia Pacific and Greater China region, told Reuters in an
interview that the centre has around 850 staff currently.
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06.12.2007Will Vista and Windows Server 2008 really be better together?
Microsoft doesnt trot out its old śBetter Togetherť marketing campaign much any more. But śBetter Togetherť will be one of the messages Microsoft will
be playing up in February, as it marches towards
its big-bang Windows Server
2008 launch.
Microsofts premise is that the combination of Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 on the desktop and Windows Server 2008
on the back-end will be preferable to running either product by itself.
As James Senior, a Microsoft Technical Specialist, noted
on his blog recently,
Microsoft is emphasizing that Vista and Server 2008 came from the same core. Senior points to a Windows Server 2008 Overview
article that explains the shared heritage of the pair...
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30.01.2008Microsoft and Yahoo talks intensify
Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have intensified talks in an effort to reach a friendly agreement on a buyout of Yahoo, a source familiar with the matter
said on Friday.
Yahoo shares rose 6.4 percent on news of the accelerated talks, as investors had feared Microsoft might walk away
from its unsolicited bid or launch a proxy battle.
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday that walking away
from a deal with Yahoo was one of three options the company was weighing.
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03.05.2008Firms need to plan for XP Service Pack 3
Organisations that expect to be running Windows XP in mid-2010 should plan to test and deploy XP SP3, Gartner has advised.
Microsoft is planning to release Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) and Windows XP SP3 will be available in the first half of 2008.
According to Gartner, deploying Windows XP SP3 should be significantly easier than testing and deploying SP2, which many users considered a major
change of the operating system.
Annette Jump, a research director at Gartner, said, "We will probably see a mixture of Vista and
XP SP3 deployments in 2008. Jump believed some businesses would deploy Vista and some could stick with XP, in which case, they would be looking at
installing the SP3 service pack.
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