Windows 7 Will Consume Less Disk Space than Vista
Microsoft promises to optimize the amount of disk space that Windows 7 will consume in comparison to Windows Vista.
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20.11.2008 How To: Reduce Disk Space Used By Windows Vista System Restore
So you just bought a new notebook with Windows Vista and a roomy 120GB hard drive. But after using it for just a couple of days, you notice that youve only got about 90GB free.
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24.4.2007 Bill Gates wants to go to space
The world's richest man Bill Gates is considering a possible flight into space, a Russian cosmonaut said from International Space Station Wednesday, citing Gates' colleague, current space tourist Charles Simonyi.
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15.4.2007 1000GB of space for Email at mailnation.net
MailNation Solutions developed after years of exhaustive competition in the Emailing industry. Small email companies have come and go, while large email companies such as Gmail (R), Hotmail (R), and Yahoo! Mail (R) have dominated. Privacy policies with major companies are weak, reliability remains questioned, and features are lacking.
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Bill Gates Headed For Space, Says Cosmonaut
Rumor revealed during live interview on Russian TV, based on a report from a former Microsoft engineer aboard the International Space Station.
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12.4.2007 Kernel Memory Space Analyzer Version 8.1 and guide
Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows. The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files.
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31.8.2006 Improved Disk Defragmenter in Windows 7 with Status Report and Free Space & Parallel Concurrent Defrag Support
Windows operating system comes with a built-in basic Disk Defragmenter, that can perform disk defragmentation process properly, which is performed to increase read and write access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, minimizing disk read travel time and maximizing transfer rate.
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2.8.2009 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. Its 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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20.4.2008Seagate introduces 500 GByte
desktop harddrive
Scotts Valley (CA) -
Seagate today announced its
ninth generation 7200 rpm
desktop harddrive. The
Barracuda 7200.9 is launched
in nine versions with up to
500 GByte capacity and support
for the most recent SATA spec
2.5 as well as
third-generation Native
Command Queuing
(NCQ).
The
new product generation
succeeds the previous 7200.8
as Seagate's offering in the
high capacity harddrive (200
GByte and more) market.
Targeting performance and
gaming PCs as well as consumer
and entertainment systems, the
company offers a version of
the 7200.9 for virtually every
segment of today's consumer
segment.
The
3.5-inch harddrives come in
sizes of 40, 80, 120, 160,
200, 250, 300, 400 and 500
GByte with platter capacity of
up to 160 GByte, which equals
a density of 106.35 Gbit per
square inch. Cache sizes range
from 2 to 16 MByte, depending
on the model. The
top-of-the-line 500 GByte
7200.9 uses four platters with
125 GByte capacity each...
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11.10.2005Call of Duty 4 Demo Available
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is sure to be one of this fall's hottest titles, in a year filled with big first-person shooter releases. Coming to
Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, a multiplayer beta test has already been conducted on Xbox Live. Now a single-player
demo of the PC version is
available.
The download is huge at 1.37GB, and includes one level from the single-player campaign. Developer Infinity Ward always
impresses us with their technology, and if suitable, we're eying the full game to be one of our standard PC graphics benchmark tests. Get a feel for
how well the game will run on your rig with the demo.
The recommended system specs are:
- CPU: 2.4 GHz dual
core or better
- RAM: 1GB for XP; 2GB for Vista
- Harddrive: 8GB of free hard drive space
- Video card: 3.0 Shader
Support. Nvidia Geforce 7800 or better or ATI Radeon X1800 or better.
Minimum requirements are:
- CPU: Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 2.4 GHz or AMD(R) Athlon(TM) 64 2800+ processor or any 1.8Ghz Dual Core Processor or better
- RAM: 512MB RAM (768MB for
Windows Vista)
- Harddrive: 8GB of free hard drive space
- Video card (generic): NVIDIA(R) Geforce(TM) 6600 or better or ATI(R)
Radeon(R) 9800Pro or better)
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12.10.2007Engineering Windows 7 : Disk Space
Windows disk space consumption has trended larger over time. While not desirable, the degree to which it's been allowed is due in large part to
ever-increasing hard drive capacity, combined with a customer need and engineering focus that focused heavily on recover ability, data protection,
increasing breadth of device support, and demand for innovative new features. However, the proliferation of Solid State Drives (SSDs) has challenged
this trend, and is pushing Windows 7 to consider disk "footprint" in a much more thoughtful way and take that into account for Windows 7.
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21.11.2008Hubble Space Telescope crashes again, and fix may not come until February
And you thought fixing your PC was tough? After beaming in pictures from outer space for the past 18 years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope now needs
to be repaired. But that might not happen until next week, or possibly even next year...
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18.10.2008Space Bat's fate may never be known
Space Bat, the second most famous bat in the world, fate will forever remain a mystery. Space Bat decided to take a siesta on the side of the
external fuel tank for the launch on March 15th. A picture of the bat, below, clearly shows the bat attached to the tank during liftoff. NASA found
the bat while doing a routine check to observe foam that falls off the tank to see if a potential impact could harm the space shuttle.
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23.03.2009New ultra-portable notebook
tops 6 hours of battery life,
Sharp claims
Huntington Beach (CA)
- Sharp today announced the
M4000 Widenote notebook that
combines a 13.3-inch screen
and a Pentium M processor in
an ultra-portable package that
can deliver more than 6 hours
of operating time on one
battery charge, according to
the
manufacturer.
Inching closer to the
industry's goal of 8 hours of
battery time in notebooks,
Sharp today announced a new
model that adds itself to a
growing of mobile computers
that are capable of delivering
twice the battery time of
common thin and light
notebooks. With a promised six
hours, the M4000 Widenote
could be among the currently
most power efficient notebooks
on the market.
The
M4000 is based on an Intel
Centrino package with a
Pentium M 740 (1.73 GHz)
processor at its heart.
According to Sharp, the
additional battery time is not
achieved through adding more
battery capacity, but adding
more flexibility to power
management. The "Advanced
Power Management" feature
allows the user to extend
control over power draining
subsystems of a notebook:
Instead of managing just four
devices, as provided by
Windows' default, Sharp's
system controls up to 11
subsystems: LCD display
(brightness, backlight and
refresh rate), harddrive,
optical disk drive, wireless
LAN, system standby, suspend
to disk, system wallpaper,
audio and CPU performance.
According to Sharp, users are
given three profiles of power
management, each offering the
ability to configure eleven
different
settings.
Standard
features of the 3.7-pound
M4000 include a 13.3-inch
screen, an 80 GByte harddrive,
and a DVD burner. The notebook
will ship later this month
with pricing set at $1800...
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06.09.2005Herschel and Planck ready for dual launch
The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory and Planck space telescope have successfully completed their tests in Europe, and will be
flown to the space port in Kourou, French Guiana this week, ready for their launch in April. Named after 18th Century astronomer William Herschel,
the Herschel space observatory will be the biggest telescope mirror in space and capable of viewing wavelength radiation in the far-infrared and
sub-millimetre range. In comparison, the Hubble telescope is only capable of viewing light that is visible to the human eye. The Planck space
telescope is going to be looking for even longer radiation - microwave radiation.
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10.02.2009Senators: Space station jeopardized by Georgia conflict
The Russia-Georgia conflict has US senators worrying about NASA's future in the International Space Station project. As it is now, US law may
eventually prohibit NASA from enlisting the help of its only way into space after 2011...
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15.08.2008Having lost its own bid, Google advocates giving analog TV space to public
Since the 1940s, the US' TV space has been referred to as "the public airwaves." Now, Google is using a Web site to build public support for
an effort to convince the FCC that it should be allowed to use that space in the public interest...
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18.08.2008Reclaim Your Hard Drive Space the Easy Way
How many times have you run out of space on your C: drive and wondered… where did all my free space go? If you are tech savvy you'll probably
open up your CCleaner shortcut and
clean out the temp files, but where has the rest gone?
The answer is a great little freeware utility called DriveSpacio that
helps you find out where all that free space has gone, similar to the more well known
WinDirStat utility. The
benefit of using this one is that it integrates directly into the Explorer shell and has a lot more reports.
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10.09.2008Windows 7 EULA: watch this space
You have to hand it to those lawyers, always trying so hard to protect their mumbo jumbos. The placeholder page for the
Windows 7 End User License Agreement is now live (and has been for
at least 2 weeks).
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06.08.2008Engineering Windows 7: Disk Space
Steven Sinofsky: This post is about disk space and the disk space consumed by Windows 7. Disk space is the sort of thing where everyone wants to use
less, but the cost of using a bit more relative to the benefits has generally been a posiitve tradeoff. Things have changed recently with the
availability of solid-state drives in capacities significantly smaller than the trend in spinning drives. Traditionally most all software, including
Windows, would not hesitate to consume a 100MB on a specific (justified) need when looking at a 60GB (or 1,500GB ) drive; with desirable machines
shipping with 16GB of solid-state storage, we are looking carefully at the disk space used by Windowsboth at setup time and also as a PC ages. We
also had a specific
session at WinHEC on solid-state
drives that might be interesting to folks. This post is authored by Michael Beck, a program manager in the core OS deployment feature team.
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20.11.2008WordPress: Free Space to 3GB!
Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you’ll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we’re always
thinking about how the improvements we make to the foundation of the site will allow us to build more interesting things on top of it.
Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get
the same amount of space at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. Blogger only gives you 1GB. We’re doing
the same thing for free.
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22.01.2008Elevator to Space Stops at Microsoft
The final frontier could be an elevator ride away, according to hundreds attending this week's Space Elevator Conference 2009 at Microsofts Redmond
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11.08.2009Kindle 2 disassembly shows space for SIM
betanews.com - 25.02.2009
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" transmitted into Space
Today marks the launch of "The Day the Earth Stood Still", a remake from the 1951 film entitled the same. While science fiction fans will be
flocking en masse to the theatres today, the film may also have another type of audience, an audience that is extra-terrestrial. "The Day the Earth
Stood Still" will be the first film intentionally 'beamed' into space, according to 20th Century Fox, making it the first galactic motion
picture release in history. The film will be launched via the Deep Space Communications Network at Cape Canaveral. It will be broadcasted through
space at 186,000 miles per second to Alpha Centauri, a three star system.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 13.12.2008
NASA may sell Space Shuttles, BIN 42 Million
When NASA sets to retire its space shuttles in 2010 they may be interested in selling off the old orbiters. NASA is currently in the information
gathering stage but selling off three shuttles for 42 million a piece (the 6 million dollar cost for shipping is included) would help to continue
funding the next generation of space shuttles. The Smithsonian is reportedly interested in the purchase but one would wonder where else the shuttles
would go? The shuttles would be stripped of key components before being sent off and would not be in an operable state.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 18.12.2008
MSN Spaces Friends Module out
in the UK
Great news for those of us in
the UK (maybe other countries)
who have been waiting for the
MSN Spaces Friends Module for
the MSN Spaces Friends Beta
Network, because it's now
available for your MSN
Space.
"The
Friends Explorer, which will
be integrated with and
accessible through Windows
Live Messenger, will enable
you and your friends to
explore others and create new
friendships."
To add it follow the
following procedure on your
MSN Space:
Edit
your space > Customize >
Modules > Friends Beta >
Add
Please note
that the Friends Beta Module
might also be available in
other countries too now so you
might want to check out your
MSN Space and see if you have
access to the friends
module.
jcxp.net - 10.07.2006
Sun SPARC catches fresh fire with new Fujitsu UNIX servers
A quad-core, dual-threaded processor that until now had been tested by the likes of the Japanese space program, is being unveiled this morning for the
consumer space by Sun and Fujitsu...
betanews.com - 15.07.2008
Hitachi thinks small with new
8 GByte microdrive
Berlin (Germany) -
Hitachi today introduced a new
generation of its smallest
form factor harddrives. Mikey,
the firm's 1-inch microdrive
is now available in capacities
of up to 8 GByte and claims to
be the first harddrive to
offer a CE-ATA interface,
which is widely promoted to
spread among consumer
electronics devices. There are
also new 30 and 60 GByte slim
versions of Hitachi's
1.8-inch Travelstar
series.
St
orage capacity of small
harddrives is beginning to
catch up with the requirements
of emerging portable consumer
electronics that will demand
more and more space for
digital audio, video and image
content. Hitachi's storage
products division showcases
its latest generation of
miniaturized harddrives at the
currently IFA tradeshow in
Berlin, Germany. Especially
noteworthy is the Mikey 3K8
drive with capacities of 6 and
8 GByte.
According
to the manufacturer, the new
Mikey is 20 percent smaller
and consumes 40 percent less
power than its predecessor.
The 1-inch device, available
in a CFII form factor,
achieves a storage density of
105 Gbit per square inch and
comes with PATA, CE-ATA, or
ATA on MMC interfaces, offers
a ZIF connector and measures
about 5 mm in height and 13
grams in weight. Disc rotation
speed is 3600 rpm, average
latency is rated at 8.33 ms.
According to Hitachi, the
microdrive offers the
industry's highest show
resistance at 2000 Gs...
winbeta.org - 06.09.2005
