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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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer.
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19.1.2009 AeroBar: Show Titlebar Text in Explorer Windows Under Windows Vista
Have you ever wondered why Explorer Windows don't show titles in Windows Vista?
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13.2.2009 Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 reaches RTM
Microsoft has finally finished and compiled the RTM version of Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008. The full version string being 6.0.6006.18005, which company officials have confirmed is the final RTM version of SP2.
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28.4.2009Review: Razer Lycosa Mirror Special Edition
When DHL stopped outside my house this morning, the first thought that ran through my mind was "has Red alert 3 finally arrived?" I have been
waiting over three weeks for a replacement copy to arrive after all. I then realised that unless EA had started distributing games on vinyl records,
there was no way a box of that size could be it. Alas, it wasn't, but imagine my surprise when I realised it was the Razer Lycosa Mirror Special
Edition that I had admittedly, completely forgotten about. The Razer Lycosa came in simple packaging, without any excess amounts of plastic.
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14.03.2009New Direct Feed Crysis Trailer
A new Crysis direct feed, high
resolution Crysis Trailer from
GC has surfaced. Shown is
some amazing game footage with
more of the most life-life
graphics seen yet in a game.
For those of you who don't
know what Crysis is, this
video will give you a good
overview including the story,
and graphical/gameplay
features.
Crysis is
set to be released early next
year, with demo(s) right
around the corner.
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23.10.2006Windows 7 may borrow from .NET
Reading conference agendas is like interpreting tea leaves: Sessions are dropped, descriptions do not always match the content and theres usually a
long journey involved. But if the listings that appeared in late June on the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference Web site are to be taken
literally, Microsoft plans to discuss some new native communications and graphics features, which appear to mirror .NET functionality, for Windows
7.
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10.07.2008OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 Update
Released
The first update to
OpenOffice.org has been
released exactly two months
after the launch of version
2.0. Five release candidates
of 2.0.1 have been made
available since that time,
with the final build showing
up on OpenOffice.org mirror
sites early Tuesday...
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20.12.2005Dark Messiah Might and Magic Launch Trailer
I don't normally post about
trailers or movies, but since
Dark Messiah Might and Magic
(they dropped the of, I
think?) launches tomorrow I
figured why not. This trailer
will absolutely get your blood
pumping for the game, I know I
can't wait to play it
tomorrow now. Wowzers.
Right now the only
mirror I can see is the
Fileplanet mirror, sorry guys.
I know how some of you hate
Fileplanet and all. I'll look
for some more mirrors during
the day and add them once I
find them. Feel free to add
them to the comments area as
well.
Just to
remind you, Dark Messiah Might
and Magic launches on Steam
tomorrow October 25 at 10AM
Eastern Time for North
America only. The rest of the
world launches on Steam on
October 27 at 10AM GMT.
The video runs for 2
minutes and 34 seconds, and is
really stunning. Not the
greatest quality mind you,
especially for a 20 meg WMV
file, but it works. Enjoy.
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25.10.2006Running the numbers on Vista
Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released
report.
Standalone unit sales of Vista at U.S. retail stores were down 59.7 percent compared with Windows XP, during each
product's first six months on store shelves, according to NPD Group. In terms of revenue, sales are also down, but the drop has been less steep, at
41.5 percent. The findings largely mirror the sales pattern NPD saw for Vista during its first week on the market in January.
"It's just not doing well," NPD analyst Chris Swenson said of Vista's performance at retail stores, though adding that most people get their
OS on new PCs, with only a minority of customers purchasing boxed copies.
Microsoft also agreed that an analysis of boxed copy
sales is not representative of Vista's momentum, noting the trend of people getting a new operating system with a new PC has further accelerated with
Vista.
"While we can't comment on the findings of a report we haven't seen, we continue to be on track in all segments we
follow," the company said in a statement to CNET News.com. "As of this summer, more than 60 million licenses have been sold."..
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12.09.2007Windows Update blows away competitor's uptimes
A company that measures Internet service reliability has given Microsoft the top score in a test of operating system update services.
Microsoft's Windows Update was available 100 percent of the second quarter of 2008, Pingdom said in a blog posting Friday. Apple's service was
down 2 hours and 34 minutes, with 99.9 percent uptime, and Canonical's Ubuntu version of Linux was down 1 day, 5 hours, and 45 minutes, for 98.64
percent uptime.
"Microsoft wins this one hands down," Pingdom said. It noted that Ubuntu's service also is available through mirror
sites, however.
The company tested the three services every five minutes.
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13.07.2008Windows Chief Bows Out
Sitting behind a one-way
mirror, a white-haired man
struggles to access a shared
music library within Windows
Vista.
"I'm
lost," he says. "I'm in
trouble here."
On
the other side of the glass,
several Microsoft executives
try to talk him through the
experience. Thousands of
people have gone through
similar tests inside
Microsoft's usability lab.
But on this day, February 1,
2006, the person inside
Building 28 isn't just some
random beta tester. It's
Windows boss Jim Allchin.
And at that time,
Allchin had plenty to grouse
about. Windows Vista had been
in testing for many months.
The company had already
drastically reshaped the
operating system to try to get
Vista onto store shelves by
the holidays, but by
Microsoft's own account there
were still lots of bugs. While
the latest versions of Windows
Media Player and Internet
Explorer that Allchin put
through their paces had
improved since his last trip
to the labs, other parts of
Vista were still driving him
crazy.
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30.01.2007Microsoft internal slideshow for retailers targets Linux
It's no secret that companies will do anything to get ahead of their competitors. It's a given, especially in the world of business.
Never-the-less, it always seems to stir up a bit of fuss when the tactics are revealed to the public, regardless of what form they're in. A member
of the Overclock.net forums (link goes to a mirror, as the original has gone down due to exceeded bandwidth), who is an employee of Best Buy, has
uploaded slides from a Microsoft presentation intended for the company, showing what they want workers to say about Linux.
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08.09.2009Microsoft Won't Sue Linux Users, Company Exec Says
Despite its claim to
own 42 patents used in the
creation of the Linux kernel
and hundreds more embedded in
other free software programs,
Microsoft does not plan to
take a page from The SCO Group
and sue users of the open
source operating system, a
senior company official said
Monday.
"We're not litigating.
If we wanted to we would have
done so years ago," said
Horacio Gutierrez,
Microsoft's VP for
intellectual property and
licensing, in an interview.
Instead, Microsoft
wants to create more
arrangements that mirror the
company's deal with Linux
distributor Novell. In
November, the two agreed to
share intellectual property
and pledged not to sue each
other's customers. "We
created a bridge between two
worlds that before were
perceived to be
unbridgeable," said
Gutierrez. ..
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16.05.2007Microsoft-Yahoo buyout bid: The road ahead
Ready to pile in the car for
The Road
Ahead with Microsoft and its buyout bid for Yahoo?
We'll point out a few landmarks and potential detours to expect along the
way in the coming days, weeks, and possibly months, as well as take a brief glance in the rearview mirror to see where we've been.
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04.03.2008OpenOffice 3.0 Final ready for download
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Final has already been uploaded to a variety of mirror download sites ahead of the official announcement Monday 13.
The official list of download mirrors can be found
here. Note that not all mirrors currently offer all OS flavors of OO.o 3.0.
The path to the final download is usually as follows:
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10.10.2008Rumour: Nano iPhone to be released January
Though we receive many rumours about Apple products, this rumour comes from iDeals China that previously gave us an accurate description of the iPhone
3G almost two months before its announcement. Using tip-offs given by Chinese manufacturers, iDeals China believes that from December 20 of this year,
manufacturing of approximately 60 000 'Nano iPhones' per day will begin. Apparently the new phone will be the same height as the nano iPod
but wider and thicker. Surpringly, they do not believe it will have a 3G chipset but will include three sensors, a mirror screen and a camera. The
lack of 3G could be explained by the reduced size of the phone not allowing for a high capacity battery.
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14.12.2008Herschel 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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10.02.2009Child porn found on an iPhone application
An iPhone application named BeautyMeter, approved by Apple, has been reported by Wired.com to contain child pornography. The application allows
users to upload pictures of themselves and have them rated by other iPhone users in a rating system similar to hotornot.com. BeautyMeter demonstrates
the flaws in Apple's safeguards that now allow nudity on their applications for those 18 years or older, using developer maintained servers. The
image in question shows a girl from the United States, aged just 15 years old taking a picture of herself standing in the reflection of a mirror,
almost completely naked. The image has been edited and censored by wired.com to prevent distribution of child pornography.
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02.07.2009Vista Transformation Pack 7.0 Released
It's been a long wait for
some of you, and after several
delays, we are pleased to
announce to you today, the
release of Vista
Transformation Pack 7.0,
Windows X's latest
customization pack to give you
the Vista experience without
the hassle of a new OS.
Vista
Transformation Pack 7.0 brings
many new features such as
ViStart, a new add-on which
emulates the Vista start menu,
as well as Thoosje's latest
Desktop Sidebar 2.0 to give
you the ultimate Windows Vista
experience!
Click Read
More for the full
list of changes.
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26.06.2007Nasa unveils Hubble's successor
The US space agency Nasa
has unveiled a model of a
space telescope that
scientists say will be able to
see to the farthest reaches of
the universe.
The James Webb Space
Telescope (JWST) is intended
to replace the ageing Hubble
telescope.
It will
be larger than its
predecessor, sit farther from
Earth and have a giant mirror
to enable it to see more.
Officials said the
JWST - named after a former
Nasa administrator - was on
course for launch in June
2013.
The
full-scale model is being
displayed outside the
Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum in the US
capital, Washington DC.
It was recently shown
off in Seattle at the American
Astronomical Society meeting.
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11.05.2007Another Milestone for Neowin at 7
Neowin became seven years old on October 1st.
I blogged about it briefly on the 29th and said pretty much all of what I wanted to say on the day so I didn't post about it on
the 1st. Today however I have reached another milestone.. From today I have lived in Holland for 16 years, Neowin is seven, still thriving and we have
an important question to ask the community.
A lot of our members came here on the back of the continuing coverage we gave on Windows XP
prior to its release, mainly due to the information we were getting and other websites weren't, luckily for us many of those members are still with
us today that date as far back as 2001. Now a days we share a partnership with Microsoft as a
Featured Community which allows us to bring you news
straight from Redmond, and Microsoft has become much more open on its direction and disclosure with information on forthcoming releases and betas.
We are constantly trying to bring our community new ideas and features and our latest idea is to bring to Neowin what many other communities
already excel in and Neowin lacks, our own downloads section. The software news will be changed into a complete downloads area complete with full
index of categories, ratings, reviews, search options and filtering. We also plan to mirror some popular applications and offer a 5 star badge to
software vendors in order to get Neowin "back on the map".
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04.10.2007Thermaltake DuOrb CPU Cooler Sneak Peek
Thermaltake will be bringing you the latest technology and products at CES, America’s biggest Consumer Electronics Show in 2008! After the news
about the first time exposure of Thermaltake ESA products at the show, Thermaltake will also be live demonstrating the new DuOrb CPU cooler that has
long been anticipated.
The DuOrb CPU universal cooler has followed the design concept that made the great DuOrb VGA cooler. With two
independent heat radiating area, this twin fan cooler cools twice as fast and efficient than the ordinary CPU coolers. Moreover, the Dual-flow created
by the fans not only take the heat away from the CPU, but wider coverage of the two fans cool the CPU surrounding chipsets and RAM area at the same
time! Adding up the all copper construction of 6 heatpipes, fins and mirror coating base, DuOrb CPU not only delivers maximum performance, but the
beautiful cooper shine, the red-blue fan lights and the infinite shape also deliver superb aesthetic and style for the owners.
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08.01.2008BBC in talks on Google link-up
The BBC is in advanced
negotiations with Google to
make programming available via
a branded channel on the
search giant's video-sharing
site, MediaGuardian.co.uk can
reveal.
It is
understood that BBC executives
are keen that the deal, which
involves BBC Worldwide and the
BBC, is eventually expanded to
include putting content on
Google-owned YouTube.
BBC Worldwide is understood
to be looking at commercial
options for the agreement,
such as a share on contextual
advertising that will run
alongside BBC content.
This would mirror the
type of deal that YouTube has
in place with US sports
organisation NHL.
The BBC will use Google
Video as a vehicle to raise
the profile of its content by
posting clips of popular
programming.
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