Free Windows 7 with Product Key By Attending New Efficiency Launch Events
Looking for free copy of Windows 7? Now is your chance to take home a copy of genuine Windows 7 Professional edition, complete with genuine valid product key to activate the operating system permanently with crack or hack.
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15.8.2009 Power efficiency enhancements in Vista SP1
Most if not all the attention surrounding Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been around performance, reliability and compatibility, but you probably didn’t know SP1 also makes short strides in terms of Vista’s power efficiency.
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23.2.2008 Windows 7 Less Energy Hungry than XP, Vista
Microsoft’s latest iteration of the Windows client is less hungry when it comes to energy compared to its precursors.
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2.9.2009 How Windows XP Wasted $25 Billion of Energy
Microsoft has been touting Vista's new power saving features, saying that upgrading to Vista could easily save consumers and corporations $50 to $75 per computer per year in energy costs.
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26.11.2006 Napping data centers could cut energy use by 75%
Researchers at the University of Michigan have announced a plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume by putting idle servers to sleep when they’re not in use.
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8.3.2009 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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6.5.2008Windows 7 Energy Efficiency
Steven Sinofsky: The following post continues our discussion of fundamentals with a focus on power management. Power Management (or energy
efficiency) is something that every contributor to the PC Ecosystem must always addressthe energy efficiency of a running PC is limited by the weakest
component. In engineering Windows 7 we had an explicit focus on the energy usage patterns of the running system and will continue to work with
hardware and software makers to realize the collective benefit of all of this work. While we talk about the balancing of needs in every area, energy
consumption is probably the most easily visualizedwhen we test running systems we connect them to power meters and watch a very clear number change as
we run tests.
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06.01.2009Google Talks Energy Efficiency, Cloud Computing
Google moved to publicly refute claims that its data centers and products are somehow energy inefficient, posting data on its blog that compares the
energy used in a Google search against other everyday electricity-burning activities. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has placed his company at the forefront
of the countrys energy debate, arguing that green IT can contribute to lowering the nations overall carbon footprint.
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12.05.2009Big Blue gets greener with new energy conservation initiatives
Maybe it's the time of year, but computer companies suddenly seem to be growing greener -- including IBM, which has just unveiled a trio of
initiatives centered around energy efficiency...
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06.05.2008AMD Focuses on Energy
Efficiency
AMD said Tuesday it is working
to make its line of processors
more energy efficient, basing
the new chips on those it has
already brought to market. The
advances would be most
important to notebook users,
where power consumption plays
a large part in battery life...
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16.05.2006Windows 7 and Power Management
Francois Ajenstat: With the upcoming release of Windows 7 we wanted to provide you with more information on the new power management features in the
product and ways that were driving energy efficiency across the PC ecosystem.
Microsoft recognizes that software can play a
critical role in helping companies reduce operational costs and their carbon footprint. We also understand the importance of energy efficiency for our
customers and for the broader environment, and we are designing our products to minimize environmental impacts. We designed our latest operating
system, Windows 7, with a strong focus on reducing the overall power consumption by investing in key areas of the platform including performance
optimizations, idle resource utilization, device power management, and key end-user scenarios.
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16.06.2009Microsoft Research Energy-Efficiency Work Reaps Rewards
These days, more than ever, its important for computing to be energy-efficient. Particularly in data centers, energy requirements represent a
significant portion of operational costs, and power and cooling needs help dictate where data centers can be located, how close to capacity they can
operate, and how robust they are to failure...
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10.08.2009Dell aims to cut power consumption of PCs by 25%
Dell wants to become the śgreenest technology company on the planetť and part of that goal will be to cut the power consumption of its desktops and
laptops by 25% by 2010, the company said today.
Dell claims that it already is offering some of the most energy efficient
computer systems available today, stating that its Optiplex desktops have improved their energy efficiency by 50% since 2005, cutting carbon dioxide
emissions by 23 million tons, while Latitude laptops have improve their efficiency by 16% since 2006.
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15.05.2008University of Delaware Sets New Solar Efficiency Record
The University of Delaware has
inched up the record for solar
cell efficiency with a new
device that can convert 42.8
percent of the light that
strikes it into
electricity.
That
beats the old record of 40.7
percent hit in December. The
Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, or DARPA, has
been funding research to get
efficiency up to 50
percent.
The cell,
created by Christina Honsberg
and Allan Barnett of UD,
splits incoming light into
three buckets: high energy,
low energy, and medium energy
light. The light is then
directed to different
materials, which then extract
electrons out of the photons
that make up sunlight.
The device also has an
optical concentrator, sort of
like a lens that directs more
sunlight to the solar cell
than would occur naturally and
thereby increasing efficiency.
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01.08.2007Microsoft confirms PDC and hints at Windows 7 sessions
As part of Microsoft's Windows 7 announcements yesterday the company has revealed that their professional developers conference is scheduled this
year and the company is ready to reveal more about Windows 7.
Looking at the sessions agenda you can see the following:
- Windows 7: Graphics Advances
- Windows 7: Optimizing for Energy Efficiency and Battery Life
- Windows 7: Touch
Computing
- Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code
The sessions hint at new APIs like multi-touch gestures and networking
but also reveal the focus on energy efficiency and battery life for mobile computing.
For web developers there is a lot of sessions
focussed on Silverlight development and cloud computing.
Neowin will be at Tech-Ed 08 for the pro track and PDC 08 later in the year
covering all the latest developments for Windows 7.
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28.05.2008Microsoft Says Windows 7 Is as Green as It Gets
Microsoft has been pushing Windows 7 as greener than Vista or XP, designed with a variety of energy-saving options for both IT administrators and
end-users. At the same time, it has been pursuing new internal "Green IT" initiatives such as ultra-efficient server farms. But even with new
efficiency tools integrated into Windows 7, its new flagship product, how much can an operating system lower IT's overall carbon footprint?
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30.09.2009Sun's new UltraSPARCs boast 32x the computing density of x86 servers
Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu today jointly announced two new UltraSPARC T2 Plus servers: The SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 represent the third
generation of Sun's CMT multithreading, whose key selling point remains energy efficiency...
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10.04.2008Google, Intel Launch Initiative to Make Computers Greener
Google Inc., Intel Corp. and a
coalition of corporations and
environmental groups launched
an initiative Tuesday to
conserve electricity and curb
global warming emissions by
making the world's computers,
microchips and servers more
energy-efficient.
The
Climate Savers Computing
Initiative sets ambitious
industry targets to ramp up
the energy efficiency of
computer gear over the next
four years. If successful, the
plan would save $5.5 billion
in energy costs and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by 54
million tons - equal to the
amount generated by 11 million
cars or 20 large coal-fired
power plants - by 2010,
company officials said.
The initiative's goal is
to drastically decrease the
amount of electricity that
computers consume. Currently,
the average PC wastes about
half of the electricity it
consumes, while the average
servers doesn't use about
one-third, officials said...
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13.06.2007IBM launches its own data center alliance
In a world already populated by the Green Grid Alliance and other industry groups oriented to energy efficiency, IBM has just rolled out a data center
alliance with some similar interests...
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06.05.2008Limiting colours could increase OLED power efficiency
A small research team over at the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia have been showing off their energy efficient OLED technology, which if
used in future displays could decrease battery usage by up to 40%. While the current market has been over taken by LCD screens in all sorts of forms,
researchers have been working hard on developing, and prototyping, a way to increase the efficiency of the OLED screen. They have been devising a way
that decreases the amount of colours displayed on the screen at any one time by limiting the palette used by each pixel to make the image seen by the
user while keeping most of the detail intact.
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09.07.2009How to Find the Most Energy-Efficient Laptop Available
The Environmental Protection
Agency today introduced its
first complete refresh of its
Energy Star specification for
computers. The EPA estimates
that over the next five years,
the updated Energy Star
computer spec will save
American businesses and
consumers $1.8 billion in
energy costs, and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions
equivalent to the emissions of
2.7 million cars.
The
computer Energy Star spec,
designed to help save the
environment and save consumers
money, was first introduced in
1992. Now in its fourth
iteration, the spec has
broadened its scope to
encompass a wider breadth of
computer usage. The EPA says
that only the most
energy-efficient computing
products will qualify for the
Energy Star label.
The new spec has been in
the works for two years.
Energy Star has evolved into
an international platform; the
European Union uses it, as
does Canada and many Asian
countries...
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21.07.2007Google breaks into the energy industry its own way
Google announced its RE<C ("Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal") project yesterday: a research and development project aimed at bringing
alternative energy sources closer to affordability...
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29.11.2007Microsoft Enhances Power Management in Windows 7
Microsoft engineers are putting a number of new power management features into Windows 7 that are designed to help IT administrators reduce power
consumption and cost while improving the user experience. Some of the new features also are aimed at giving IT professionals more control and
flexibility over the managing of the energy-efficiency capabilities of the Windows 7 OS and the systems. The new features build off of the more than
30 power management enhancements in Microsoft made in Windows Vista, according to officials.
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12.06.2009AMD to Release Centrino Competitor in 2008
AMD is set to start shipping a
competitor to Intel's
Centrino processor by the end
of this year, which it is
calling Puma. The chipset has
similar energy efficiency
characteristics to Intel's,
and will start appearing in
notebooks by the middle of
next year...
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19.05.2007New metric may point users toward more energy efficient servers
You can walk into the
appliance department of a
Sears and quickly compare the
energy consumption ratings of
different refrigerators. But
try to do that with servers,
and you're out of luck.
By year's
end, that may change. Standard
Performance Evaluation Corp.
(SPEC), a nonprofit
organization in Warrenton,
Va., is expected to publish
late this year a power
utilization benchmark that is
designed to enable IT managers
to compare the energy
efficiency of servers from
vendor to vendor.
SPEC benchmarks are
widely used by hardware
vendors to measure the maximum
possible performance of
servers, and usually are
touted as part of the
chest-thumping marketing
exercises that follow new
product releases. But the new
benchmark, which has been in
the works for the past 18
months, will shed light on an
area that has been difficult
for hardware buyers to
measure.
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09.08.2007Vista SP1 Offers Power Efficiency Enhancements
Most if not all the attention surrounding Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been around performance, reliability and compatibility, but you probably
didn’t know SP1 also makes short strides in terms of Vista’s power efficiency. And by short, I really do mean short because we’re
talking about improvements in the magnitude of only a couple percents. That in the context of 5 hours battery life is a mere additional 6 minutes.
Having said that, some is better than none.
The first of two improvements is in the display subsystem. Starting from SP1, the VSync in the
Desktop Window Manager (DWM), intended to give a glitch free experience, no longer runs continuously. Instead, the interrupts are disabled after a
short timeout period where no screen updates has occurred. The catch is that a screen update can be anything from a blinking cursor to a flashing
network icon, so the chances of a screen idle might be a lot less than you would imagine. The second improvement is in the audio subsystem and only
concerns those with HD Audio codecs. Whereas in the RTM, the sound card would never idle even if there was no activity, in SP1, the default idle
timeout for has been changed to 30 seconds; after the time, the OS will switch the audio device to a D3 power state, meaning the device should not
consume any energy at all.
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