Websites scramble to register forgotten Windows 7 domains
According to the APC Mag website, the popular xpmediacentre.com.au community site, managed to grab windows7.com.au, while Gavin Howard from IT training agency Which Training was quick off the mark to snatch up Windows7.net.au.
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2.10.2008 Pre-Register for Upcoming Public Beta's from Microsoft. Windows Vista, Office12 and Exchange12!
Lead evaluations for new technologies and understand their impact on your IT environment and their potential for your company by pre-registering here. You will be the first to be notified when the Windows Vista, Office "12," and Exchange "12" public beta releases become available. Additionally, you will receive updates and information regularly through the Microsoft TechNet Flash newsletter, from the time you pre-register until the launch of the product.
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21.3.2006 Windows 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 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. It’s 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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23.12.2008Windows 7, June 2009 and the technologies of antitrust
Bundlings come a long way since Microsoft was dragged through the US courts in the 1990s for wrapping Internet Explorer into Windows.
With the up coming Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 Release 2 and Silverlight 3, it looks like Microsofts taking a soft sell to get you to
consume the trio without landing in hot water.
Register software editor Gavin Clarke and All About Microsofts
Mary-Foley find out what Microsofts up to in the latest episode of MicroBite.
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01.12.2008Microsoft insists Hotmail redesign hasn't left users out in the cold
Microsoft has told The Register that its Hotmail email service is running śnormallyť today and that the firm is working śto remedy the minor
issues faced by some of our usersť.
MS has also apparently deleted over 1,500 comments from its Windows Live blog since we told a
perplexed company spokesman about the grumbles being posted on its site yesterday.
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12.11.2008Inside the Windows 2008 stack experience
Register Developer regular Mark Whitehorn is rolling out a significant new IT project. This has, at its heart, a database of around 1TB and
is ultimately expected to support several thousand users.
The project is using nothing less than upgrades to a trio of big-ticket
products from Microsoft - Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008 - that are due next month. With
Reg Dev, Mark will
chart his experiences and record his frustrations during deployment of these major updates.
Over to Mark who, this week, sets the
scene...
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25.01.2008Vista promotional registration site now fully operational
betanews.com - 03.02.2009
Secure Your PS3 Network Name Now
Sony promised that users
around the world hoping to buy
a PS3 could register their
online name on launch day,
this promise, although kept,
has been released a month
late, but of course, is very
welcome to those in the UK and
Australia who won't see their
PS3s till March next year.
Everyone around the
world can register an account,
expect to see names for sale
on eBay as people snap up some
of the l33t account names. You
can only register one account
to one address it seems at the
moment, and this is not
changeable as yet.
Whether this is used or
abused I'm just glad I
snapped up "cashman" before
anyone else did.
neowin.net - 15.12.2006
Browsers Still Vulnerable to Command Injection Attacks, Hackers Say
Nathan McFeters and Rob Carter want you to know that it's not over - even if an initial fix to block command injection attacks was released in the
last few days.
"It's not done. There's going to be more stack overflows, more ccommand injections," McFeters says. "It gets
scarier as you go on. We want to make third party developers aware that when you register URI you are creating an attack environment."
Firefox and Netxcape Navigator 9 register URIs to be compliant with Windows Vista, so they are now vulnerable to command injection when
called from the IE, says Rob Carter, who with McFeters runs the xs-sniper.com site where this is discussed in detail.
winbeta.org - 22.10.2007
Microsoft's worst run project: Windows 2000
Microsofts Iain McDonald,
director of project management
for Windows Server, says the
worst run project at the
software giant was Windows
2000.
That tidbit
comes from an interview
Mary Jo Foley just posted.
To folks that arent
familiar with the intricacies
of Microsoft this revelation
is a bit of a stunner. Was
Windows 2000 really a worse
run project than Vista, which
had a do-over in the middle of
the project? Windows ME? That
couldnt have been so hot. When
you ponder all of Microsofts
worst hits“and the projects
behind them“Windows 2000
doesnt instantly register. In
fact, Ed Bott gave Windows
2000 a 9 on a 10 scale in his
rating of Windows versions...
winbeta.org - 04.07.2007
NEC goes Back To The Future with XP for biz users
NEC computers has decided to throw its business customers a Windows XP lifeline by punting a new solution for its desktop and notebook ranges that
will allow IT administrators to downgrade from Vista.
The firm said that it has launched NEC FlexLoad to address demands from
customers who are reluctant to adopt Microsoft's latest operating system.
An NEC spokesman told The Register that "it's no
secret to point out that people aren't exactly singing the praises of Vista". He said that NEC had simply responded to punter demands by offering
the reverse vasectomy Vista product.
Windows Vista Business users running the OS on OEM manufactured NEC Versa
notebooks and Powermate desktops will be given a two-DVD kit containing the free roll back to XP.
winbeta.org - 05.02.2008
@live.com Addresses: The Story Continues...
The war that has been raging
between users and Microsoft
for @live.com e-mail addresses
appears to be far from
finished: yet another trick
appeared today letting users
register the long-awaited
addresses. This is nothing
more than another unofficial
way to register such accounts,
so hurry up before Microsoft
blocks the hole again!
Doing this is pretty
easy, assuming you are using
Mozilla Firefox. First, head
to Windows
Live Custom Domains, and
select Get Started, then "Use
a domain I already own". Type
anything you want in the field
that appears, and select
"Create a new Windows Live ID
in your domain". Then, when
the signup page finally loads,
hit View in your browser's
options, go to Page Style, and
select "No style". The
normal @live.com field will
appear, and you can now create
your new Windows Live ID!
jcxp.net - 16.12.2006
Vista and Office 2007 LIVE Webcast
Don't Miss the Windows Vista
and 2007 Microsoft Office LIVE
Webcast with Bill
Gates!
Register
Now for the Windows Vista
and 2007 Microsoft Office LIVE
Webcast, on January 29, 2007
at 1:30 P.M. Pacific Time
(20:30 UTC).
jcxp.net - 26.01.2007
Microsoft rethinks open-source CodePlex site
Microsoft's CodePlex site could be revised before the year's out to signpost genuinely open-source projects, after the company got itself in hot
water.
Sam Ramji, senior director of platform strategy, told The Register that Microsoft hoped to wrap up internal
discussions over what to do about CodePlex and resolve the issue before the New Year.
winbeta.org - 12.11.2008
Microsoft denies Lite-On Blu-ray rumour
Microsoft has officially denied that its working with a Taiwanese manufacturer to develop a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360.
On
Tuesday Register Hardware reported that the software giant had inked a deal with Lite-On for the development of Xbox 360 Blu-ray drives. It was claimed the drives would
be integrated into a smaller and less power-hungry Xbox 360s.
But a Microsoft spokeswoman has since told Register Hardware that
the company has denied any such rumours. In a statement, Microsoft said: śNo. Lite-On is not manufacturing Blu-ray drives for Xbox 360ť.
winbeta.org - 03.04.2008
Windows Server 2008 DNS Block Feature
Windows Server 2008 introduces a DNS block feature that may affect the ISA Server automatic discovery when implementing the WPAD mechanism using a
Windows Server 2008 DNS Server.
The block feature provides a global query block list to reduce vulnerability associated with
dynamic DNS updates. Dynamic update makes it possible for DNS client computers to register and dynamically update their resource records with a DNS
server whenever a client changes its network address or host name. This reduces the need for manual administration of zone records, especially for
clients that frequently move or change locations and use DHCP to obtain an IP address. This convenience comes at a cost, however, because an
authorized client can register any unused host name, even a host name that might have special significance for certain applications. This can allow a
malicious user to "hijack" a special name and divert certain types of network traffic to that user's computer. WPAD is a commonly deployed protocol
vulnerable to this type of hijacking, and by default WPAD look up is disabled by the blocking mechanism.
winbeta.org - 19.02.2008
Springboard Live! Virtual Roundtable: Let's Talk Windows Vista Security
Join Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich and a panel of IT professionals and security MVPs as they discuss Windows Vista deployment, security
configurations, challenges and real-world solutions. Ask your questions live during the event or email them in advance to vrtable@microsoft.com.
Register today to join the discussion in June. This event will
be broadcast live on this site, at 9:00am Pacific Standard Time, June 18, 2008, available on demand shortly after its conclusion.
Register @ https://ms.istreamplanet.com/springboard/Default.asp
winbeta.org - 30.05.2008
Ubuntu's Shuttleworth praises Windows 7, welcomes fight
Mark Shuttleworth is looking forward to a good, clean netbook fight with Microsoft following the release of Windows 7.
Speaking
with The Reg , the founder of popular Linux distro Ubuntu and chief executive of Canonical called Windows 7 a great operating system...
winbeta.org - 22.01.2009
Gates joins ex-Microsoft CTO to register patents
Bill Gates is working with his former chief technology officer turned IP collector Nathan Myhrvold to register patents in a way that could help
Microsoft monetize the internet.
TechDirt has uncovered that Bill Gates is named as an inventor on nine patents registered with a company called Searete since he stepped down from day-to-day responsibilities with Microsoft.
Gates is also named on a further two Searete patents pre-dating his Microsoft departure.
winbeta.org - 11.11.2008
Windows 7 copies shipping early for some
Windows 7 pre-orders are arriving early for many in the UK. Neowin reader dancedar let us know his copy arrived yesterday morning by a postman
reliably delivering parcels instead of striking. According to a Microsoft spokesperson "Microsoft is aware of the planned postal strike and has taken
action to minimise impact on those customers who pre-ordered their copies of Windows 7. As a result, some customers may receive their copy of Windows
7 a day or two early." According to The Register, both PC World and Currys in the UK have begun shipping copies early.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 20.10.2009
Windows 7 beta download imminent?
Microsoft have updated their Windows 7 site with a download link for the Windows 7 beta. It would appear from the posting that Microsoft is currently
readying site updates and download servers for the imminent release of the Windows 7 beta. Yesterday, German site Winfuture claimed that the beta
would be released today and this could confirm the sites claims. The download link is currently inaccessible. It's entirely possible that once
the page is live it will simply be a sign up page to register your interest. Microsoft will not comment on the exact date and a Microsoft official
confirmed the beta is still targetted for early 2009.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 19.12.2008
Windows Server 2008 Trial Version
Microsoft has released a trial version of
Windows Server 2008
"This software is for evaluation and testing purposes. Evaluating Windows Server® 2008 software does not
require product activation or entering a product key. Any edition of Windows Server 2008 may be installed without activation and evaluated for an
initial 60 days.
If you need more time to evaluate Windows Server 2008, the 60 day evaluation period may be reset (or
re-armed) three times, extending the original 60 day evaluation period by up to 180 days for a total possible evaluation time of 240 days. After this
time, you will need to uninstall the software or upgrade to a fully-licensed version of Windows Server 2008.
If you wish to
extend the initial evaluation and testing period, please go here and follow the instructions.
Register for a Guided Evaluation
Experience
IT Professionals Register on TechNet Evaluation Center to receive Windows Server 2008 resources specifically selected for IT
Professionals.
Developers
Register on MSDN Evaluation Center to receive Windows Server 2008 resources specifically selected for
Developers."
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winbeta.org - 28.02.2008
Source: Vista downgrade rights extended to July 2009
Never mind that Microsoft has kicked off a hyped ad campaign to convince the public to buy Windows Vista PCs, - it's also given users more time to
switch back to Windows XP.
OEMs have been given an additional six months to sell PCs running Windows Vista with the ability to
downgrade to Windows XP using an accompanying recovery disc...
winbeta.org - 03.10.2008
