Windows 7 – Lost in Translation
Windows 7, Microsoft's next iteration of the Windows client and the successor of Windows Vista, is nothing short of lost in translation.
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14.7.2008 What Does Microsoft's Lost Antitrust Battle in Europe Mean for Windows Vista?
The European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg announced that it was upholding the European Commission’s decision on Microsoft's abuse of its dominant market position with the Windows operating system initially delivered in March 2004.
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17.9.2007 Chinese Windows 2000 attack crashes PCs
Security researchers have spotted malicious code that triggers a critical vulnerability in the Chinese version of Windows 2000, and warned non-Chinese users to expect attacks.
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16.4.2008 Google falters: Packets lost
We’re getting various reports via that Google services are down or at least sucking some serious wind. The service appears to be back as of noon-ish EDT in New York City. Google cites a “traffic jam” in Asia for the outage.
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14.5.2009 Windows 7 Build 7106 Chinese Version - x86 & x64 Leaked
Yesterday a rumor started floating on internet that Windows 7 build 7106 will get leaked in 24 hours. However no one took this rumor seriously as their was no evidence or screenshot from claimer
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12.4.2009 No Vista Ultimate upgrade: has Microsoft lost the plot?
Microsoft as predicted months ago finally announced last week that it would allow PC buyers from now until March when Windows Vista is released to the public to upgrade for a substantial discount or for free, depending on the version.
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30.10.2006 Chinese Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition build 5840 Screenshot
This seems to be the current build that is in Escrow.
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24.10.2006 Microsoft to support Chinese document standard
Microsoft is expanding its repertoire of document formats. The company on Monday is expected to announce that it is sponsoring an open-source project to create a converter between Ecma Open XML--a set of file formats closely tied to Microsoft Office--and a Chinese national standard called Unified Office Format (UOF).
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21.5.2007 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 Microsoft Did Censor Critical Chinese Blog On Spaces
A Microsoft representative has responded to allegations surrounding the closure of a popular Chinese blog, confirming that the company did take the blog offline on New Years Eve.
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6.1.2006 Over 10 Million Custom XP Downloads Get Chinese Pirates Jail Sentences
Chinese authorities cracked down on a group of four software pirates for offering a custom-built copy of Windows XP, which was downloaded in excess of 10 million times.
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24.8.2009 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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3.11.2007Google Admits Help in Chinese Character Editor
Google has admitted to using a
third-party in developing the
dictionary for its
recently-released Pinyin Input
Method Editor (IME), aimed at
assisting Chinese users in
entering characters on a
Roman-style keyboard, IDG
reports...
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10.04.2007Using Input Panel in Windows
XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
Windows XP Service Pack 2
includes a free upgrade for
your Tablet PC. Columnist Jeff
Van West discusses how the new
Input Panel improves the
ink-to-text flow...
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04.01.2006AOL Testing Chinese Language
Portal
While it's not yet ready to
officially enter the Chinese
market like rivals MSN, Yahoo
and Google, AOL has launched a
beta test for a Chinese
language version of its Web
portal. The site is designed
to reach the Chinese speaking
community in the United
States, rather than the
growing number of Internet
users in China...
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14.02.2006Microsoft sued over Chinese character conversion technology
Zhongyi Electronic Ltd., a small Chinese company, is suing Microsoft over a product which turns words typed in the Roman alphabet into Chinese
characters...
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18.01.2008Webcast: Using Input Panel in
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
2005
Windows XP Service Pack 2
includes a free upgrade for
your Tablet PC. Columnist Jeff
Van West walks you through
using the input panel in this
on-demand Expert Zone Webcast..
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04.01.2006New Chinese law finds Yahoo in copyright violation
Chinese courts handed the world's recording industry a significant victory Thursday, finding the search giant's Chinese music service was committing
copyright infringement...
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22.12.2007Google Censors Chinese Search
Results
Google on Wednesday launched a
Chinese version of its search
engine, with some concessions
in order to appease the
Chinese government. Searches
on the topics of human rights,
Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and
democracy now omit certain Web
sites and redirect to Chinese
government Web sites...
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25.01.2006Chinese Users Angry over MS WGA
Chinese Internet users have expressed fury at Microsoft's launch of an anti-piracy tool targeting Chinese computer users to ensure they buy
genuine software. The "Windows Genuine Advantage" program, which turns the user's screen black if the installed software fails a validation
test, is Microsoft's latest weapon in its war on piracy in China, where the vast majority of 200 million computer users are believed to be using
counterfeit software, unwittingly or not.
" Why is Microsoft automatically connected with my computer? The computer is mine! " one
angry blogger wrote on popular Chinese web portal Sina.com. " Microsoft has no right to control my hardware without my agreement. " Another
blogger railed over the cost of authorized versions. " If the price of genuine software was lower than the fake one, who would buy the fake
one? " he wrote. A visitor to a Beijing internet cafe said Microsoft was violating people's rights. " If, when I'm programing, the
computer screen goes black, that will probably cause some important information to be lost. Who will pay me for my loss then? "
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22.10.2008Microsoft Loses S. Korea Patent Case
Microsoft has lost a patent
battle in South Korea
concerning input mode
technology in its Office
software. The decision could
force the Redmond company to
halt sales of the popular
productivity suite in that
country, but it is fighting
back...
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27.11.2006New Chinese Involvement Could Trigger HD DVD Price Plunge
A consortium of Chinese university engineers and government officials, in cooperation with a Chinese video standards group that includes globally
recognized manufacturers, plus the DVD Forum, have come to an agreement on a standard specification for a blue-laser disc mechanism and format
specifically for the Chinese market. It means China could be producing low-price HD DVD mechanisms by this next summer...
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08.09.2007Symantec says Chinese offer a success, withholds numbers
Symantec Corp. declared its
compensation offer for Chinese
users who saw their computers
damaged by a bad software
update a success Sunday, but
declined to say how many users
had accepted the deal.
Symantec ran into trouble
May 18, when the company
issued a faulty software
update for its Norton
antivirus software that
wrongly identified two system
files in the Simplified
Chinese edition of Windows XP
as malware, and quarantined
them. That blunder rendered an
estimated 50,000 Chinese PCs
unusable, Symantec said.
The incident provoked an
angry outcry from Chinese
users, who demanded
compensation for the damage
wrought on their systems by
Symantec. At least two users
filed lawsuits against
Symantec over damage done to
their PCs. ..
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16.07.2007Google targeted in Chinese Internet crackdown
Google, alongside other popular web portals, was warned on Monday that they must do more to block pornographic content from reaching Chinese users, in
the latest in a series of crackdowns on Internet content by the Chinese government. Chinese authorities published a list of 19 websites that have
failed to get rid of unsuitable material. The list includes American search giant Google and China's top search engine Baidu. According to the
BBC, one Chinese official said that the websites could be closed down if they fail to delete the offending material.
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06.01.2009Microsoft Visual Studio International Pack 1.0 Beta1
The Visual Studio International Pack contains a set of class libraries designed for .NET developers to create world-ready applications. The Visual
Studio International Pack 1.0 release provides the following seven components to enhance the globalization features provided by .NET Framework.
- East Asia Numeric Formatting Library - Format numeric data into Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean capital
style string.
- Japanese Kana Conversion Library - Convert one Kana character set to another character representation in Japanese.
- Japanese Text Alignment Library - Enable applications to render strings in Japanese-specific alignment style.
- Japanese Yomi
Auto-Completion Library - Provide class library and TextBox control sample that support Japanese IME-aware auto-complete.
- Korean Auto
Complete TextBox Control - Provide TextBox control that supports auto-complete and the Intellisense feature with Korean input.
- Simplified
Chinese Pin-Yin Conversion Library - Retrieve Simplified Chinese characters' properties such as polyphone, homophone, Pinyin or number of strokes.
- Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese Conversion Library and Add-In Tool - Convert text in Traditional Chinese into Simplified
Chinese or vice versa. This component also includes an add-in tool to the in VS IDE that can convert between Simplified and Traditional Chinese
resource files.
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29.11.2007Did Yahoo Help Send a Chinese
Journalist to Jail?
Group says the company gave
the Chinese government access
to the journalist's e-mail...
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07.09.2005Engineering Windows 7: Ink Input and Tablet PC
Steven Sinofsky: Theres a strong community of developers who take advantage of the ink input/TabletPC functionality to develop unique solutions for
specific markets (medicine, education, line of business) and create software in Windows that builds on this experience to streamline how these
end-users interact with information on their PC (usually with unique form-factors such as slates or wall mounted PCs). Earlier this week I received a
great email asking śwhats new for usť from the head of development for one such ISV (medical software) and so we put together an overview of the new
functionality. Several Program Managers on the team authored this post.
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23.04.2009Sun's McNealy Proposes Merging ODF with Chinese Counterpart
In a trade conference convened
earlier this week by the
Chinese Ministry of Commerce,
Sun Microsystems Chairman
Scott McNealy suggested that
what he described as the
world's #2 and #3 office
document formats -
OpenDocument Format (ODF) and
the Chinese standard Uniform
Office Format (UOF) - could go
up against the #1 format from
Microsoft more effectively if
they were to be merged...
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19.04.2007Google marked by Chinese company for trademark violation
A Beijing company has taken Google's Chinese division to court over the search company's Mandarin name...
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14.12.2007Symantec false positive cripples thousands of Chinese PCs
A signature update to
Symantec's anti-virus
software crippled thousands of
Chinese PCs Friday when the
security software took two
critical Windows .dll files
for malware.
According to numerous blog
entries from Chinese computer
users, a virus signature
database seeded yesterday
mistook two system files of a
Chinese edition of Windows XP
SP2 as a Trojan horse which
Symantec dubs
"Backdoor.Haxdoor." The
anti-virus software -- Norton
AntiVirus, for example, or the
anti-virus component of the
Norton 360 or Norton Internet
Security suites -- then
quarantined the netapi32.dll
and lsasrv.dll files.
"With these files
removed, Windows XP will no
longer start up, and even the
system Safe Mode no longer
functions," said one user
writing to the
alt.comp.anti-virus newsgroup
this morning...
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19.05.2007China: We're Being Spied On Via Net
Just a week after it was revealed that the Chinese may have been behind a cyberattack on the Pentagon in June of this year, the Chinese are now
claiming "massive damage" from spying on its own computers...
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13.09.2007Beijing Komoxo Mobile Software Licenses Patents From Microsoft
Microsoft Corp. and Beijing Komoxo Mobile Software Inc. today announced a patent licensing agreement on text-input technologies for mobile devices.
The licensed patents allow Komoxo to integrate Microsofts statistical language modeling methods into its next-generation text-input engine for reduced
keypad and touch-screen devices, and deliver new mobile innovations to consumers around the world.
Through the agreement,
Microsofts patented technology would be used in Komoxos innovative text-input solution to improve appropriate word recommendations and selections
during texting and to enhance spell-checking features for mobile devices. For example, many mobile devices combine text and numeric input keys onto
one keypad. The technology being licensed by Komoxo will enable devices using the technology to recognize and recommend words faster and with more
accuracy based on individual user experience. This new-generation text-input solution will significantly improve the text-input consumer experience,
especially for one- hand text input in mobile scenarios on growing popular średucedť keypad and touch-screen mobile devices.
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