I really dont want to use Windows anymore
Every week, more and more bits of malware seem to be making their way past commercial anti-virus, firewall anti-virus, and ISP anti-virus software.
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20.11.2008 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. Its about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer.
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19.1.2009 AeroBar: Show Titlebar Text in Explorer Windows Under Windows Vista
Have you ever wondered why Explorer Windows don't show titles in Windows Vista?
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13.2.2009Bill Buxton to change Microsoft from within, hug Steve Ballmer
"Last year at the company meeting Steve Ballmer said quite clearly to 85,000 employees 'If you dont change and you dont go in this direction, were
dead, and I dont want to die.' I wanted to go hug him when he said that."
So says Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at
Microsoft, interviewed at the companys Remix 08 conference in Brighton where he gave a keynote. The Mix and Remix conferences are design-focused
events, part of Microsofts long-standing attempt to reshape its Windows and Web clients as a more designer-friendly platform, based on .NET and the
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
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20.09.2008IE8 and Privacy
As others have written here before, users should be in control of their information. Thats at the core of privacy. Privacy has two aspects: disclosure
and choice. Disclosure means informing users in plain language about the data collected about them and how its used. Choice means putting users in
control of their data and giving them tools to protect it.
Have you ever wanted to take your web browsing off the record?
Perhaps youre using someone elses computer and you dont want them to know which sites you visited. Maybe you need to buy a gift for a loved one
without ruining the surprise. Maybe youre at an Internet kiosk and dont want the next person using it to know at which website you bank.
What if you want to delete your browsing history after the fact, but you dont want to lose your preferences at websites that you use
frequently?
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26.08.2008Walt Mossberg's Initial Impressions of the iPhone
Walt Mossberg, The Wall
Street Journals
personal-technology columnist,
picked up his review copy of
the Apple iPhone this morning,
and he gave his initial
impressions of the
much-anticipated gadget to
college leaders during a
speech at The Chronicles
Presidents Forum.
As
he pulled the phone from his
pocket and explained what it
was, oohs were heard from
several audience members.
I dont know whether Ill
give it a good review or not,
he said, noting that he will
use the phone for the next
couple of weeks before writing
his review. I can already see
some things I dont like about
it. I see some other things
that I do like a lot about
it...
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12.06.2007Vista SP1 benefit will be stability and reliability, not performance
The problem is one of the major issues with Vista is performance...
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Will Vista SP1 and how this
wont bring any relief to those who find Vista a bit slow or sluggish? Not really, but then again service packs arent about performance increases;
theyre about reliability and stability.
Ive seen a lot of service packs in my time. Windows 95 and ME both got one service pack,
NT 4.0 saw six, Windows 2000 had four and XP has so far seen two. But what I dont remember regarding any of these service packs is installing it onto
a system and then seeing any significant boost in performance. Service packs dont really work that way. Sure, youll feel specific improvements as a
result of some of the tweaks and fixes contained in the service pack, and you might feel the benefit of having your operating system refreshed by
loading the service pack onto it, but a service pack should not be looked upon as a performance upgrade. If your system cant run an OS, what it needs
is upgrading or replacing, not the application of a service pack.
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26.11.2007BioShock sequel coming, 1.5m copies shipped
During an analyst conference call last night, Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick revealed that the publisher plans to turn BioShock into an ongoing
franchise.
When asked about how to avoid watering down a franchise with annual releases, Zelnick responded by saying: I would
say, probably, roughly an every-two-year schedule would be optimal. And if you look historically that has been largely the case with GTA, and Id
expect wed apply rougly the same strategy to BioShock because BioShock is shaping up to be a very important franchise.
I dont
want to say more than that about BioShock because I certainly dont want to jinx it, but I feel awfully good about where thats going.
During the call, Take-Two also said that 2K Boston/2K Australias popular underwater first person shooter has become the fastest demo to hit
one million downloads on the Xbox Live Marketplace. ..
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11.09.2007Do Microsoft users want cheap Office or Web-based Office?
Mary Jo Foley: Would some of the folks clamoring for Microsoft to release a completely Web-based version of its Office suite be just as happy if
Microsoft released a stripped-down Office that was really cheap, or maybe even free and advertising-supported?
I think they
would. I am an Office user. I dont have a need for a Web-based version of Office, as I only create, edit and manipulate my Office documents on my
laptop. I dont want or need to log into Office from some other computer somewhere else. I seldom need or want to collaborate with others on documents.
I believe I am not alone.
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05.03.2008Price cuts don't get to heart of Vista's problems, says analyst
If Microsoft thought a lower price for Windows Vista was what the operating system needed to kickstart sales, it should have thought twice, an analyst
said early Friday.
"In some ways, it's an attempt to remove any barriers that may be dissuading people from buying Vista,"
said Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland, Wash.-based research firm. "But the missing step here is simplifying what
people need to know to buy. People are so confused about the versions and what they need on hardware that they don't even get to the price."
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29.02.2008So Much Data, and So Many Ways to Guard It
Protecting the electronic re- cords of your business has gotten easier and more affordable, thanks to services that can make backups of computer files
across the Internet.
These services are useful for three reasons. First, for a few hundred dollars a year, you can buy
inexpensive protection for disaster, fire or theft. Second, they can work automatically so you dont have to remember to make backups. Finally, once
they are set up they dont take a lot of skill to maintain.
The trick is figuring out which backup provider offers the right
combination of services, support and price for you and protects all the computers on your network.
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20.02.2008AT&T Welcomes Programmers for All Phones Except the iPhone
Im still trying to understand why Apple would go to such extremes to keep people from writing programs that run on the iPhone. Ive been
writing about Apples software update that seems to have deliberately disabled
third-party applications that users have installed.
In particular, Apples explanations dont make sense to me. This is what Steve
Jobs, Apples chief executive, said to
Newsweek in
January:
You dont want your phone to be an open platform, meaning that anyone can write applications for it and potentially gum up the
providers network, says Jobs. You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesnt want to see their West Coast network go down because some
application messed up.
That sounds reasonable until you realize that there are many millions of phones that run operating systems from Palm,
Microsoft and others for which third-party applications are created all the time, and networks dont seem to be crashing as a result.
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02.10.2007Don't wait for Windows 7: realize the benefts of Vista now
Some customers are considering whether to deploy Windows Vista or whether to skip in anticipation of Windows 7.
The discussion is often phrased
as one of balancing costs and timing of releases. By not deploying Windows Vista, it means missing out on the proven benefts such as better security,
productivity, search, mobility, manageability, and infrastructure optimization. Windows Vista works with more applications and devices than ever
before and can be signifcantly less expensive to support than Windows XP SP3.
There is no need to wait for Windows 7. It is a goal of the
Windows 7 release to minimize application compatibility for customers who have deployed Windows Vista since there was considerable kernel and device
level innovation in Windows Vista. The Windows 7 release is expected to have only minor changes in these areas. Customers who are still using Windows
XP when Windows 7 releases will have a similar application compatibility experience moving to Windows 7 as exists moving to Windows Vista from Windows
XP.
Historically, mainstream deployment occurs not when Microsoft releases a product but 18 months later. While the mainstream deployment
cycle is beginning for Windows Vista now, it isn’t expected to begin for Windows 7 until at least mid-2011
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06.06.2008Share Calendars to Windows with Windows Live Calender
Yesterday, along with the launch of the new Windows Live apps and services, Microsoft also commenced with the public beta of
Windows Live Calendar. Denise Ho, Lead Program Manager for Windows Live
Calendar,
made the
announcement off of the Windows Live Hotmail blog.
Windows Live Calendar is designed to make it easier to share your plans with friends
and family. Using Windows Live Calendar, you can share your calendar out to people in your Windows Live Contacts. For those of them using Windows Live
Calendar, they can accept an invite to view your shared calendar which will then appear in their account when they log in to Windows Live Calendar.
For friends who dont have Windows Live IDs - you can send them a secret link to view your calendar without the need to sign in. You can read Denises
post mentioned above for the complete lowdown on what Windows Live Calendar offers.
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08.11.2007Windows 7 to add slideshow wallpapers, theme gallery and theme packs
Dont worry Windows 95 Plus! enthusiasts, Microsoft hasnt forgotten about you and your themes. A recently updated MSDN Library document shows that
Microsoft hasnt just brushed themes under the carpet, but instead dusted it off, added some new polish and is even putting it under the spotlight.
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06.08.2008Developing background services for Windows Vista
Building background services that deliver core functionality but work well with other services can be challenging. This topic includes best practices
and case studies for creating high performance background services that run on Windows Vista.
Describes the considerations
necessary to build a good background service, the options available to create background processes that dont overuse system resources, and the
techniques used by Windows Search to achieve good citizenship while still delivering its core functionality.
This topic is
written specifically for Windows Vista, but information on writing background services is generally applicable to other releases of Windows as well,
including, but not limited to, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000.
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11.09.2007Halo 3 ending leaked
Holy spoilers, Batman! A week before the official release of Microsofts biggest gaming software release to date, and someone is already posting the
ending of Halo 3 before people have had a chance to buy the game.
Kotaku is advising that the ending to the third chapter of the
Halo series has indeed been posted to the Internet. If you are wanting details on the Halo 3 spoiler, look elsewhere. If you want to know where to
find it, consult your favorite search engine. As a service to you avid Halo fans, Im not going to share any further details on it other than to warn
you that it is out there. I would suggest going with a similar procedure as when the seventh Harry Potter book ending was leaked. Board up your
doors and windows, dont watch TV or listen to the radio, and stay away from the Internet. That is, until youve played the Halo 3 single player mode
all the way through. Dont say I didnt warn you!
Of course, if you really twisted my arm I could be a complete jerk and spoil the
ending for you. So OK, here goes
The large ape falls off the Empire State Building, they all did it, and Rosebud was a sled.
There - happy now?
Read more at
Kotaku.
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19.09.2007Organizing the Windows 7 Project
Jon DeVaan: Steven wrote about how we organize the engineering team on Windows which is a very important element of how work is done. Another
important part is how we organize the engineering project itself.
Id like to start with a couple of quick notes. First is that
Steven reads and writes about ten times faster than I do, so dont be too surprised if you see about that distribution of words between the two of us
here. (Be assured that between us I am the deep thinker :-). Or maybe I am just jealous.) Second is that we want do want to keep sharing the how we
build Windows 7 topics since that gives us a shared context for when we dive into feature discussion as we get closer to the PDC and WinHEC. We want
to discuss how we are engineering Windows 7 including the lessons learned from Longhorn/Vista. All of these realities go into our decision making on
Windows 7.
OK, on to the tawdry bits.
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07.09.2008Reality check: what we know (and don't) about Windows 7
Excited and whimsical speculation about future versions of Windows is a popular pastime, almost as much as complaining that newly-released versions
are too different from the "old reliable" releases that everybody knows and (sometimes) loves. With Windows Vista recently celebrating its first
birthday and preparing for the release of Service Pack 1, a team of developers at Microsoft is already busy working on its successor. While Microsoft
has been pretty good about keeping the details of "Windows 7" under wraps, a few enthusiastic employees have leaked out a few details. As is usually
the case in these situations, people have taken these tiny tidbits and added their ownoften highly improbablespeculation. In this brief report, we'll
review what we know, what we expect, and what we're calling bunk on, all based on our knowledge of Windows 7 from inside sources at Microsoft.
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19.12.2007Quickly find your privacy settings on Windows Live
Since Windows Live got updated to Wave 3, we saw Microsoft expanding into the field of Social Networking. It introduced the concept of Profiles,
where you are able to show off what you want to show to others, and also the Whats New feed which shows you what others want to show you. Every user
using Windows Live, including all Hotmail and Messenger users (who may or may not be aware of the new social networking side of Windows Live Wave 3),
now has a Profile. Although this is an exciting update for some, this update also caused some concern about privacy and user permissions what if you
dont want to show everyone else what youve been doing online?
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07.01.2009Internet Explorer 8 can be removed from Windows 7
Bryant: Thanks exclusively and entirely to efforts between
Chris Holmes and
me, we discovered that Internet Explorer 8 can be removed from at least Windows 7 build 7048, which is a
good sign for regulatory overlords in the EU and in the States. Given that this change doesn’t exist in Beta 1, the odds that this change will
persist through to RC are quite high. Dont believe this can be done? Well, how about a Windows Features dialog below for proof...
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04.03.2009Firefox exec: we don't want to be bundled with Windows
Firefox architect Mike Connor says he doesn't want the browser bundled with Windows, whilst launching a scathing attack on rival Opera's tactics.
Microsoft could be forced to bundle rival browsers with Windows, after the EU ruled the
company had abused its monopoly by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. A charge brought before the watchdog by browser minnow Opera.
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10.02.2009Microsoft readies new 'dont blame Windows' tool
Microsoft has begun privately beta testing a new tool, known as "Windows Advisor," which is aimed at helping consumers better pinpoint why their
Windows machines might not be up to snuff.
Microsoft officials have been saying that Windows and especially the much-maligned
Windows Vista isnt to blame for all of users PC problems.
Faulty drivers and badly
written apps are often behind users unhappiness with their new PCs, the Softies have said. Microsoft is making sure that users will be able to
place blame where it belongs with Windows Advisor.
From a source with access to the private beta information Microsoft made
available to testers earlier this month...
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