Mac OS X 10.5, iLife '07, iWork '07 as early as March
Development of Mac OS X 10.5 is wrapping up faster than many at Apple even anticipated, and at present, a release can be expected as early as late March, sources say.
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10.2.2007 Any Video Converter Free 2.07
Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format!
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1.8.2007 Memory Prices Set to Hit the Bottom in the 2H '07
After tumbling for more than four consecutive months, prices on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may sustain rapid decrease in the coming months, causing memory chip makers to continue losing money.
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26.4.2007 DOJ Pushes Microsoft to Produce Vista SP1 in '07
It's unusual, but confirmation of the availability of Windows Vista's first service pack came not from Microsoft Corp., but from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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21.6.2007 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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16.6.2008Fighting Back Against the Spam-Zombie Hordes
Zombies: hulking, grisly, indomitable, terrifyingand just a figment of the imagination of comic-book artists and horror-film directors. Right?
Well, as they say, just because youre paranoid doesnt mean theyre not out to get you.
In fact, zombies might
very well be on your trail at this very momentzombie botnets, malware in your own computer, churning out spam, launching denial-of-service attacks,
and generally threatening to make venturing onto the Internet a scarifying experience.
Dont fret, though.
Yinglian Xie and
Fang Yu are on
your side.
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22.05.2008October 2007 MSDN Magazine now online
The
October 2007 issue of
MSDN Magazine is now available online at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/10/default.aspx.
In this issue you'll find coverage of some advanced concurrency topics. We have articles on employing the
new thread pool APIs in Windows Server 2008 to provide more
control and scalability, using the UI thread and the Dispatcher to
build more responsive Windows Presentation Foundation apps,
harnessing the Task Parallel Library to
optimize your .NET apps for
multi-core processors, and Joe Duffy and Ed Essey introduce
Parallel
Language Integrated Query (PLINQ).
For something completely different, Chris Mitchell shows you a
Windows Mobile application that adjusts your ringtone volume
based on the ambient noise level.
In the columns we take a look at take a look at
type inference and LINQ in Visual Basic 2008, and explore
Windows XP Embedded UI test automation. Dino Esposito continues his
discussion of the
AJAX application architecture, Stephen Toub
builds a
.NET deadlock monitor, and Charles Petzold
demonstrates how to
create 3D text in WPF.
There's much more in the issue, and I'll be blogging about these and other articles throughout the month.
As usual, the
issue is available online in a bunch of languages:
English,
French,
Spanish,
German,
Italian,
Portuguese,
Russian,
Traditional Chinese,
Simplified Chinese,
Korean, and
Japanese.
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13.09.2007Windows XP SP3 Upcoming Release to Automatic Updates
Nick MacKechnie: Microsoft is committed to providing quality products to customers. As part of this commitment, we would like to remind you that
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will be released to Automatic Updates shortly. The third service pack to Windows XP includes the previously released
updates and hotfixes to Windows XP, creating a new baseline for servicing.
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07.07.2008Windows Server 2008 Security Guide Alpha
Yesterday MS released the alpha version of the upcoming Windows Server 2008 Security Guide.
You can sign up using connect:
LHSG-DFWK-7BFX or by clicking
here.
The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide will provide guidance, recommendations, and automation tools
for the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 operating system to help IT Professionals create and maintain a secure environment for a variety of servers
running Windows Server 2008.
The Alpha review runs from 9/19/07 “ 10/1/07, but we will accept feedback as late as 10/10/07.
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20.09.2007HD View: Panoramas with a Purpose
Its a splendid view,
a panorama of the Seattle skyline taken atop a hill in Kerry Park northwest of the city center. Framed by trees in the
foreground, downtown spreads out before you. To the right, a ferry negotiates Elliott Bay. In the center, the Space Needle juts into a clear, blue
sky.
And whats that between them? Why its Mount Rainier, snow-capped and majestic in the 80-mile distance. Now, theres an image
worth a closer look.
With
HD View, a closer look is just a scroll
wheel away.
In this view of downtown Seattle, Mount Rainier towers beckoningly in the distance.
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04.12.2007Installing GPMC on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1
The Group Policy Management Console is included in Windows Server 2008; however, you must install it before you can use it. The domain controller
promotion process installs GPMC on the server, in addition to adding the domain controller to the domain. Additionally, you can install GPMC on a
member server as long as its a member of the domain. Lets look at two ways to install GPMC on Windows Server 2008 (other than through DCPROMO).
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08.07.2008When will you get Windows 7 RTM?
When will I get Windows 7 RTM?
Brandon LeBlanc: I recognize this is an important question to have answered. Many of you
have said you want to know exactly when you will be able to get your hands on RTM.
Last Monday, I gave an update on RTM to close
out some myths. In that update, I also gave a broad timeline on when different groups of people “ or śaudiencesť “ would get the final RTM code.
While I have nothing new to add regarding RTM today, I do however have more precise information to give on when you will be able to
get RTM. Again, when you can get RTM depends on who you are.
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22.07.2009Windows 7: Exploring Credential Manager and Windows Vault
Last week, our friends Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera explored one of the untold mysteries (according to them) of Windows 7 - Windows Vault I have
been using this feature for quite some time since the beta release, even before Paul and Rafael might have discovered it. Let me explain what this
Windows Vault is and how to use it.
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07.03.2009Windows 7 beta on MSDN?
Just as many are waiting for the Windows 7 beta to be announced at CES, we have a Microsoft blog saying its available on MSDN! Image Courtesy: MSDN
Blogs It is not sure whether it is available now or will be available soon, but you get the word. MSDN subscribers would be lucky enough to get hold
of Windows 7 beta. If you are a MSDN subsriber, can you see Windows 7 listed in there already?
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08.01.2009Microsoft Dryad: Programming the Datacenter
Concurrent programming is demanding. While part of a program is modifying data, the other parts must be prevented from doing likewise. Manually
organizing such tasks is challenging for the most adept experts. People have been trying for decades to make it easier.
Concurrent programming is in demand. More programs are communicating with Web services. Fundamental limitations in physics are dictating a move to
multicore chips that enable many processes to run in parallel. Theres no turning back.
Enter
Dryad.
śThe Dryad project,ť says
Michael Isard, senior researcher for
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, śis trying to
make it easier to write programs that can run over very large collections of computers, both efficiently and reliably.ť
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26.11.2007Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Efforts Pay Distributed Dividends
For
Roy Levin and his colleagues at
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, rewarding work is never in
short supply.
The lab focuses on distributed computing, a complex field with a broad array of hard problems to tackle. The
facilitys 60 or so accomplished computer scientists have plenty to do, as hundreds of movers and shakers from the Bay Area technology community heard
May 22 during the fourth biannual
Silicon Valley Road Show, held on
the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, Calif.
Levin, Microsoft distinguished engineer and director of Microsoft Research Silicon
Valley, delivered a 25-minute keynote address that included a wry observation that underscored the challenges posed by the nature of the work his
facility is addressing.
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24.05.2008Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 RTM for Windows 7 Now Available
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 releases are just around the corner. Are you thinking about deploying these new operating systems?
Get a head start with
Microsoft Assessment and
Planning Toolkit 4.0 to help you determine readiness of your machines and accelerate the deployment planning process. Over 690,000 Microsoft
customers and partners including Costco Wholesale Corporation, Continental Airlines, and Banque de Luxembourg have already downloaded and used this
toolkit to date.
Today at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, we are announcing the public
RTM release of the
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 .
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14.07.2009Partner Software Ecosystem Continues to Line Up to Support Windows 7
Hi, Mark Rogers here. I run the Software Ecosystem Team here at Microsoft. Building on
Mikes recent post
on overall ecosystem readiness, I wanted give you a quick update on our progress helping developers get ready to serve the hundreds of millions of
users of Windows with our next release...
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31.07.2009Microsoft August Security Updates Available
Microsoft has released the
latest monthly security
updates for August 2007 and
has made them available for
download from the
Microsoft
Download Center or via
Windows Update/Microsoft
Update.
Windows/Office:
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KB936227
: Vulnerability in Microsoft
XML Core Services Could Allow
Remote Code Execution
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KB921503
: Vulnerability in OLE
Automation Could Allow Remote
Code Execution
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KB940965
: Vulnerability in Microsoft
Excel Could Allow Remote Code
Execution
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KB937143
: Cumulative Security Update
for Internet Explorer
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KB938829
: Vulnerability in GDI Could
Allow Remote Code Execution
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KB936782
: Vulnerability in Windows
Media Player Could Allow
Remote Code Execution
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KB938123
: Vulnerabilities in Windows
Gadgets Could Allow Remote
Code Execution
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KB938127
: Vulnerability in Vector
Markup Language Could Allow
Remote Code Execution
Virtual PC/Virtual
Server:
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KB937986
: Vulnerability in Virtual PC
and Virtual Server Could Allow
Elevation of Privilege
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14.08.2007Microsoft will allow Windows 7 downgrade to XP
After many requests and company IT departments pushing Microsoft to make Windows 7 available to downgrade not only to Windows Vista, but to Windows
XP, Microsoft has finally officially stated that the downgrade will be available if company's or users require a downgrade. The downgrade will
not only allow consumers to downgrade to Microsoft most recent predecessor, Vista, but will allow users to downgrade to Windows XP, and technically
allow users to go back to Windows 2000 or even Windows 95.
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07.04.2009Windows 7 Beta to RC transition - What you need to know
Every one of us is waiting for the upcoming Windows 7 RC release. In the meantime, Windows 7 Team has blogged on the upgrade experience from pre-RC
builds to RC build, even when the RC dates are not officially out. This blog post indeed shows the openness of the Windows 7 Team to discuss various
issues regarding Windows 7 RC. If you are expecting any major announcement, then this post does not have any! The blog post talks a little about
upgrading Windows Vista to Windows 7, but as we discussed earlier there is no upgrade path available from Windows XP to Windows 7 "There's no
change here to the plan as has been discussed on many forums.
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07.04.2009Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Released to Manufacturing
7600.16385
has been confirmed as the final RTM build number.
Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the next versions of its
flagship desktop and server operating systems. With the completion of this development phase, industry partners are readying products in time for the
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 worldwide general launches. Windows 7 will be generally available to customers around the world on October 22,
and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be generally available on or before that date. As always, current customers of the Windows Volume Licensing program,
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers and TechNet subscribers will be among the first to get customer access to Windows 7 and Windows Server
2008 R2 in the
coming
weeks.
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23.07.2009Update on Windows 7 RTM
Brandon LeBlanc: Over the past week, there have been many rumors surrounding RTM.
We are close, but have not yet signed off on
Windows 7. When we RTM you will most certainly hear it here. As weve said all along, we will RTM Windows 7 when its ready. As previously stated, we
expect Windows 7 to RTM in the 2nd half of July.
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14.07.2009Survey: Windows loses ground with developers
Microsoft's Windows platform
is losing traction as a target
for application developers in
North America but still is the
dominant platform, according
to
Evans
Data survey results being
released on Tuesday.
A survey this spring of
more than 400 developers and
IT managers in North America
found that the number of
developers targeting Windows
for their applications
declined 12 percent from a
year ago. Just 64.8 percent
targeted the platform as
opposed to 74 percent in 2006.
"We attribute
largely to the
increase in developers
beginning to target Linux and
different Linux
. Both Novell
and Red Hat are the two
dominant ones right now,"
said John Andrews, the CEO of
Evans Data. ..
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OEMs Pick Up Windows 7 RTM Code Today in Redmond
Brandon LeBlanc: When we announced Windows 7 had
RTMd on Wednesday, I posted that OEMs would receive the RTM code within a few days. Well, its been a few days! Earlier today, a handful of OEMs
arrived in Redmond to pick up their RTM code. In the past when a Windows release reaches RTM, we have traditionally given some/selected OEMs the
opportunity to come to Redmond and pick up the RTM code personally. I thought it would be neat to showcase these OEMs that came to campus today as the
RTM code is handed off to them to begin preparing for General Availability (GA) on October 22, 2009!
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