Windows 7 top feature request list leaked to the public
With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do.
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18.11.2007 Windows 7 top feature request list leaked to the public
With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do.
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27.1.2008 Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Wga crack 1.8.31.9
You should know by now that Microsoft enhanced Windows anti piracy measures with Genuine Advantage Wga 1.8.31.9.
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24.9.2008 Microsoft patches 31 Windows, IE, Office security holes
Microsoft’s batch of patches this month is a big one: 10 bulletins covering a total of 31 documented vulnerabilities affecting the Windows OS, the Internet Explorer browser and the Microsoft Office productivity suite (Word, Works and Excel).
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9.6.2009 Driver Magician Lite 3.31
Driver Magician Lite is freeware, it identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice.
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11.10.2007 Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool 1.31
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks computers for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom—and helps remove any infection found.
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12.7.2007 Microsoft's new WGA for XP v1.8.31.0 cracked!
You should know by now that Microsoft enhanced Windows XP anti piracy measures with Genuine Advantage v1.8.31.0 (KB905474).
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8.9.2008 Windows 7 SKU feature list
Microsoft yesterday announced its plans for the Windows 7 SKU. Here is the feature list I created based on the information that is currently available.
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4.2.2009 Access Windows 7 Feature Walkthroughs
Windows 7 brings to the table a variety of new and evolved features, and Microsoft has taken the necessary measures designed to bring them to center stage.
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2.4.2009 Another Windows Vista SP1 Feature From TechEd
In one of the later session during TechEd last week I learned of another very cool feature coming to Windows Vista with Service Pack 1.
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18.6.2007 Internet Explorer is now an optional feature in Windows 7
Microsoft has included in recent Windows 7 test versions an option to turn off the Internet Explorer 8 Web browser, according to testers who have used the recent builds.
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4.3.2009 New Windows Live Mail Desktop Feature Revealed
Using their usual "More Than Mail" blog, the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta team revealed yet another feature of it, along with a screenshot of a recent build.
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3.6.2006 Microsoft releases first Windows Vista Feature Pack
So I guess this is what you call teaching an old dog new tricks. A couple of days ago Microsoft released a new update for Windows Vista that adds additional wireless support and functionality to the operating system through a “feature pack”.
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18.4.2008 Has Windows Vista's UAC feature failed Microsoft?
Experts agree that Microsoft's Windows Vista is relatively well-protected, but its security features — such as User Account Control (UAC) — have been highlighted by security experts as one reason why the operating system is far less popular than its predecessor, Windows XP.
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20.5.2008 Microsoft released Windows Vista Enterprise (February CTP) Feature complete!
Brad Goldberg, General Manager of Windows Client Product Management has announced the availability of the enterprise CTP today.
Vista will include new deployment and imaging technologies driving deployment costs down and patching reboots down. Vista is now officially feature complete and we will see a combination of Beta 2 with a CTP in 2Q 2006. General availability targetted for 2nd Half 2006 - exact date depends on quality.
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22.2.2006 Next OS X rumored to feature new GUI
Mac OS X’s Aqua has matured very slowly over the last few years. It seems like many OS X users are tired of Aqua and ready for a new revolutionary GUI to compliment and enhance the experience of using a Mac.
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13.12.2006 Microsoft: UAC not a security feature
For those who thought the User Account Control (UAC) feature introduced in Windows Vista was intended to set security boundaries, Microsoft has made a clarification: it isn't.
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15.2.2007 Office 12 to Feature 'Super Tooltips'
Tooltips, those little yellow popup boxes that provide information on a button or menu option, have become an indispensable part of the modern user interface. Now, Microsoft is looking to extend their usefulness by introducing what it calls "Super Tooltips" in the upcoming release of Office 12.
The next-generation Office suite from Microsoft is already slated to bring a major UI makeover. Standard toolbars have been replaced with task-oriented "Ribbons" that include features pertinent to the current job. But such a change will require a learning curve, which is where the new larger tooltips come in.
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6.12.2005 Internet Explorer 7 to have history flush feature
The 'delete browsing history' feature will wipe out five major data categories
Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming Internet Explorer 7 browser will have a thorough flush feature that clears its history and all associated files stored after a Web site is accessed.
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18.1.2006 Word 2007 to Feature Built-in Blogging
Joe Friend has posted a rather interesting entry on his site, covering Microsoft's Office 12 Blog feature:
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13.5.2006 Skype 3.0 Beta Adds Shopping Feature
VoIP provider Skype released a new beta to its users on Wednesday, adding click-to-call functionality aimed at increasing its use in e-commerce applications. The company also plans to add additional features aimed at generating revenue from the free service.
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8.11.2006 The 3rd feature pack for Vista is arriving...
Microsoft will release a new Windows Feature Pack for Storage which contains 3 technologies..
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18.8.2008 Microsoft hints at "porn browsing" feature in IE
One of the most interesting feature that didn’t quite make it into the final release of Firefox 3 is “Private Browsing”, a.k.a. porn mode.
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20.8.2008 Controversy over new Pirate Bay Facebook feature
The Pirate Bay has added a small, but significant feature to their website which will almost certainly prove to be controversial.
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31.3.2009 Update for Identity Integration Feature Pack 1a for Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory (KB884192)
Microsoft has released an update to Identity Integration Feature Pack 1a for Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory.
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21.3.2006 Hack to Turn Off and Disable Windows 7 CD or DVD Writer Burning and Auto Tray Ejection Feature
Windows 7 inherits the capability to burn or write to CD and DVD burner or writer, with additional support to directly burn ISO and IMG disc images with Windows 7 Explorer.
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18.8.2009 Download Clear Cache Feature for Internet Explorer
Overview
This program is intended to automatically delete all temporary Internet files, cookies, and history files when it is installed and executed. The program was developed to programmatically clear these files when a corrupt entry caused errors with Internet Explorer.
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1.12.2005 Microsoft Touts Vista's Restart Manager Feature
Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine.
Microsoft officials have not talked much publicly about this new feature, but Jim Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft's platform products and services division, recently told eWEEK that this is an example of just how important the reboot issue was to the Redmond-based software giant.
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5.12.2005 Vista Feature Will Enhance Online Newspaper Reading
Even if you're reading All the News That's Fit to Print on an ultra-mobile computer, it may soon look and feel the same way it does spread out with your morning coffee ? minus the ink-stained fingers, perhaps.
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4.5.2006 New cool feature enabled in Vista SP1: Hotpatching
Windows Vista SP1 enables support for hotpatching, a reboot-reduction servicing technology designed to maximize uptime.
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11.12.2007How to request features in Microsoft products
Laurentiu Cristofor: I want to address the topic of requesting feature changes in Microsoft products, to point to some tools that can help, and to
describe ways to use those tools more effectively. This post is based on my experience working on customer requests while being a member of the
Microsoft SQL Server team, but you may find the information I provide here useful for other Microsoft products than SQL Server.
So, basically, the problem I am discussing here is that you are working on some project using Microsoft technology and you find out that your work
might be much easier if only some feature would be available. How can you ask Microsoft to add that feature to their product? One way to do this is to
contact technical support, but there are other ways that I want to address here.
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08.02.2008Windows 7 Feature Request List Leaks Out
Although the Vista transition is far from complete, that doesn't mean Microsoft isn't already hard at work on Windows 7, the next version of the
venerable operating system - and this list of user-requested features unearthed by the folks at Neowin might hold some clues as to the future.
The "wish list" was sent out by Microsoft before Windows 7 development even began, so most of these features probably aren't
even on the radar, but what's most interesting is that seemingly small fixes like "Window Update progress indicator" vastly outnumber big-ticket
items like "integrated audio / video codec manager" and "Windows 'Game' Mode."
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13.11.2007Windows XP gets another stay of execution
Microsoft has extended the final OEM and reseller delivery date for the Windows XP from January 31, 2009 to May 30, 2009. The cut off date for PC
makers to obtain licenses for the software was January 31, 2009. Still, vendors have to place their orders before the official cutoff date of January
31, but they dont have to take delivery until May. Microsoft granted the reprieve largely because of customer's preference for XP. Microsoft also
recently extended the Vista "downgrade" deadline for OEMs to July 31 and netbooks and low-cost laptops will be able to run XP until at least June
2010, so chances are you'll be able to get XP until Windows 7 ships.
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23.12.2008Windows 7 Upgrade Program shifts to June 26, 2009
TechARP has come up with a new revised schedule of Microsoft's Windows 7 Upgrade Program. The Upgrade Program shifts to an early date from June
28, 2009 to June 26, 2009 now. According to the new schedule, end users who purchase PCs pre-installed with Vista between the dates June 26, 2009 to
January 31, 2010 are eligible for a free Windows 7 upgrade. According to TechARP, this slight adjustment was done at the request of many OEMs to allow
for better sales over the first weekend of the Program. It is not possible for Windows XP users to upgrade to Windows 7 unlike Windows Vista users.
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25.03.2009FastCGI Extension for Internet Information Services 6.0
The FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 enables popular application frameworks that support FastCGI protocol to be hosted on the IIS web server in a
high-performance and reliable way. FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), a standard way of
interfacing external applications with Web servers that has been supported as part of the IIS feature-set since the very first release.
CGI programs are executables launched by the web server for each request in order to process the request and generate dynamic responses that
are sent back to the client. Because many of these frameworks do not support multi-threaded execution, CGI enables them to execute reliably on IIS by
executing exactly one request per process. Unfortunately, it provides poor performance due to the high cost of starting and shutting down a process
for each request.
FastCGI addresses the performance issues inherent to CGI by providing a mechanism to reuse a single process
over and over again for many requests. Additionally, FastCGI maintains compatibility with non-thread-safe libraries by providing a pool of reusable
processes and ensuring that each process will only handle one request at a time.
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11.11.2007Vonage Retrial Request Denied
The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit has denied
Vonage's request that a
patent infringement ruling
against it be vacated and the
case sent back to the lower
court for a retrial. The
company can, however,
reference the matter in its
appeal brief, due next
Wednesday...
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04.05.2007Clarity on Windows Vista
Milestones
In the ever-changing release
schedule for Windows Vista,
nothing stays constant. But
according to internal
Microsoft documentation, the
following dates are correct
for the next several major
milestones in the
product.
Currently, Microsoft plans
to ship the feature-complete
internal build on January 31,
2006, and then ship a
near-feature-complete
Community Technology Preview
(CTP) build to testers on
February 17. (To date, more
than 50 product teams have
submitted code for the
feature-complete builds.)
Windows Vista Beta 2 is due on
April 12, followed by a
release candidate (RC) build
in July and release to
manufacturing (RTM) in August.
Assuming this last date is
met, the general release of
the product will occur in
October.
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22.01.2006Tiscali Rejects Record
Industry Request
Internet service provider
Tiscali on Tuesday rejected a
request by the British record
industry to hand over
information on 17 subscribers
accused of illicit file
sharing. Tiscali refuted the
British Phonographic
Industry's claims that IP
addresses were solid proof...
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12.07.2006Grant of AT&T Request by FCC Could Set Back Net Neutrality
AT&T's request for relaxing of regulation of some of its broadband services was partly granted late yesterday by the FCC. As a result, the company
the Commission acknowledges as dominant in its field has a little more leeway now to charge business broadband customers more negotiable rates -
leeway which net neutrality advocates may not want to see...
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12.10.2007MySpace fights copyright woes with 'Take Down' tech
MySpace announced
Friday that it's implementing
new technology to combat
members' unauthorized use of
copyrighted content.
Aptly titled "Take
Down Stay Down," the new
feature is a content
protection measure based on
Audible Magic technology. The
company says this will ensure
that video content that has
been pulled from MySpace
member profiles at the request
of copyright holders cannot be
reposted.
The Take
Down Stay Down feature,
however, applies only to
videos hosted on MySpace, not
those hosted on media-sharing
sites like the Google-owned
YouTube, which has been the
source of heated debate and
numerous lawsuits over
copyrighted content...
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13.05.2007Microsoft My Phone update and feature request(s)
Microsoft My Phone Team has announced that an update is available for My Phone application to address some of the known issues. Users will receive a
prompt to download and install the update the next time their phone syncs with their online account. The update can also be obtained by visiting the
My Phone installation page from the phone's browser. My Phone service will stop working if the update is not installed within 7 days of receiving
the prompt. Meanwhile in another blog post by the My Phone team, the team has acknowledged some of the great feedbacks discussed on the forums.
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04.03.2009Vista Speech Recognition Hole
Microsoft has
confirmed an issue with the Windows
Vista Speech Recognition
feature.
An issue
has been identified publicly
where an attacker could use
the speech recognition
capability of Windows Vista to
cause the system to take
undesired actions. While this
is possible there are a number
of factors that make this
"attack" very hard to pull
off.
In order for
the attack to be successful,
the targeted system would need
to have the speech recognition
feature previously activated
and configured. Additionally
the system would need to have
speakers and a microphone
installed and turned on. The
exploit scenario would involve
the speech recognition feature
picking up commands through
the microphone such as
"copy", "delete",
"shutdown", etc. and acting
on them. These commands would
be coming from an audio file
that is being played through
the speakers. Of course this
would be heard and the actions
taken would be visible to the
user if they were in front of
the PC during the attempted
exploitation. It is not
possible through the use of
voice commands to get the
system to perform privileged
functions such as creating a
user without being prompted by
UAC for Administrator
credentials. The UAC prompt
cannot be manipulated by voice
commands by default. There
are also additional barriers
that would make an attack
difficult including speaker
and microphone placement,
microphone feedback, and the
clarity of the dictation.
The flaw is being
regarded by many as a non
issue.
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02.02.2007High Court to Hear eBay Patent
Case
The Supreme Court on Monday
granted eBay's request for a
writ of certiorari in a 2003
case, which found the auction
site violated patents
surrounding its "Buy it
Now" feature. A federal
appeals court at the time
awarded patent owner
MercExchange $25 million in
damages...
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29.11.2005Windows Live Wave 3 feature complete: Profile, People, Photos, Home added to the mix
So far, Windows Live has meant what’s now called
Windows Live Essentials, the
suite of downloadable software (Live
Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker) for a while now, since the Wave 3 beta opened up in September. But the desktop downloads are only half of
Windows Live, and now for the first time we’re about to get our hands on the online bits: Profile, People, Photos, Home.Live.com, and more.
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13.11.2008MS set to kill off YouTube competitor, Soapbox, on August 31
Microsoft has confirmed today that it plans to close its' video service, MSN Soapbox on August 31. Only last month, the company announced they
were planning to scale back Soapbox and transform it from an also-ran in the user-generated content space into a forum where bloggers and citizen
journalists can post videos. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to Neowin that "on August 31, 2009, MSN will no longer offer MSN Soapbox. Beginning
on July 29, customers will no longer be able to upload videos to Soapbox and we encourage any Soapbox user that wants to keep their videos to download
them off of Soapbox prior to August 31.
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22.07.2009Internet Explorer is now an optional feature in Windows 7
Along with various other changes that are to be reflected in Windows 7 RC, here is a big change that is not in the list. From Windows 7 build 7048,
Internet Explorer(IE) is an optional Windows feature and can be installed/uninstalled from Windows 7. This will be a welcoming (and surprising) news,
especially to European Union and Opera who have accused Microsoft for not giving consumers a genuine choice of Web browsers. If IE is upgraded to
version 8 in Vista (from version 7), users do get an option to uninstall IE 8, but not IE 7. IE 7 remains as integral component of Windows Vista which
cannot be removed.
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04.03.2009Firefox 3 gets full-page zoom
The much-anticipated page zoom
feature has finally landed in
Firefox 3
nightly builds. Firefox 3
will now be able to zoom the
entire page, including images
as well as text, just like
Opera and IE 7.
The page zoom feature
request was originally filed
in Bugzilla in 1999, but
implementation was delayed
because it wasn't considered
practical in Gecko 1.8, the
current version of Firefox's
HTML rendering engine.
Scheduled for inclusion in
Firefox 3, the new version of
the rendering engineGecko
1.9leverages the open source
Cairo vector graphics
rendering framework and
includes a number of extremely
significant improvements to
layout and rendering. The page
zoom feature was implemented
as part of the Gecko overhaul
and will now be included in
Firefox 3.
Although the page zoom
feature is fully implemented,
the user interface doesn't
expose the page zoom
functionality to the end user
yet. Until menu items, toolbar
buttons, or keyboard shortcuts
are added to facilitate access
to the page zoom feature, most
users probably won't be able
to make much use of the new
feature.
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28.07.2007Apple store robbed in 31 seconds
Apple stores are known for their clean, modern, and user friendly layouts. What is also now known is that these stores can be picked clean by robbers
in under 31 seconds. At the Sagemore, New Jersey Apple Store, a brick, 5 people and 31 seconds later 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods were
stolen while the security guard was away. The video, attached below, shows how the thieves managed to ransack the store; it's amazing that Apple
does not even use standard laptop locks to hold down their laptops. Apple does use a type of Ethernet cable that when unhooked produces a loud
audible alarm.
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03.09.2009Mark Russinovich takes an indepth look at Vista's User Account Control
Mark takes a deep dive
into UAC in the June issue of
TechNet Magazine. Learn how
UAC’s technologies make it
easier than in previous
versions of Windows to run as
a standard user, including
when and how Windows uses file
system and Registry
virtualization, how processes
request and obtain elevated
privileges, and how Windows
Integrity Mechanism changes
the Windows security
model.
User
Account Control (UAC) is an
often misunderstood feature in
Windows Vista. In my
three-part TechNet Magazine
series on Windows Vista kernel
changes, available online at
http://www.technetmagazine.com
/>technetmagazine.com, I
didn’t cover UAC because I
felt that it merited its own
article.
In this
article I discuss the problems
UAC solves and describe the
architecture and
implementation of its
component technologies. These
technologies include the
refactoring of operations that
previously required
administrative rights,
lightweight virtualization to
help programs run correctly
without administrative rights,
the ability for programs to
explicitly request
administrative rights, and
isolation of administrative
processes from
non-administrative processes
running on the same user
desktop.
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24.05.2007WLM Feature: Update!
Does Live Messenger?s new
feature ?Music Mix? work for
you?
It seems
that yet another flashy
feature for Windows Live
Messenger might end up being
just like the last.
It seems not many
people have had much luck with
getting ?Shared Folders? to
work, and ?Music Mix? appears
to be no different. After
trying different methods to
make the feature work, I spoke
with a member of the Windows
Live Messenger Beta team
concerning problems with the
feature.
Now
we have reason to believe that
problems with the ?Music Mix?
might be due to Locale
Settings, therefore you would
have to change your locale to
match a country that supports
the feature. Currently ?Music
Mix? is only available in the
US, France, Germany, Japan,
and the UK.
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