Windows 7, Vista’s Successor, to Take Networking Up a Notch
Microsoft had yet to define Windows 7 (Seven), the successor of Window Vista, when it announced that it planned to ship the operating system in mid 2010, but the next Windows platform is slowly starting to take contour.
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5.11.2007 Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2 improves networking
Although news of this release is already a couple of days old, new features in Service Pack 3 RC2 for Windows XP that users can expect from this package includes: stronger networking protocols with black hole router detection, and Network Access Protection, with Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) that was provided for in Windows Vista.
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22.2.2008 Introduction to the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack
This whitepaper describes the networking enhancements delivered in the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003 to enable greater scalability and performance.
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11.10.2006 54% of companies ban social networking sites
News reported on the Wired blog 'Epicenter' warns office workers to check their employment contract or workplace rules before logging into Twitter, Facebook, or any other social networking website.
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12.10.2009 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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6.5.2008 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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23.9.2008Windows Vista Home Networking
Columnist Barb Bowman previews
the new networking features
and helpful wizards in Windows
Vista that make setting up a
network easier than ever
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01.08.2006How Windows Vista Handles Wireless Networking
Each new version of Windows has made significant improvements in the operating system's networking capabilities. Back in the days of Windows 95 and
Windows 98, networking was a complicated affair for technical experts only; you could set up and configure a network from within Windows, but it took
a lot of work. Things got much better with Windows XP, where networking became more or less a plug-and-play operationalbeit one that required a lot of
user interaction and didn't always work as promised.
With Windows Vista, things again have changed for the better. Microsoft
completely rewrote the networking stack in Vista, which means that networking not only is more reliable, it's also much easier to set up. In fact, in
most instances you don't have to do much setup at all; Windows Vista recognizes your network and equipment, and automatically configures the system
as necessary. (At least theoretically; networking in Vista can still be counterintuitive at times, and occasionally things don't work quite as
promised.)
This is good news if you're setting up a new network for your Vista-based computersbut also useful if you're
connecting a Vista PC to an existing network or Wi-Fi hot spot.
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04.01.2008Answering Some Common Windows
XP Home Networking Questions
Columnist Charlie Russel
tackles three common questions
about home networking that
frequently arise when he's
helping Windows XP users in
the online community with
their home networks...
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04.01.2006Windows Live Spaces, the next big social network?
The sleeping giant is finally awaking on the front of Social Networking. The one area where Microsoft has failed to get into was Social Networking.
Microsoft has been building Windows Live profiles over the past years, with some major changes to its design and functionality. The giant already has
many features other social networks have, but will finally put all the pieces together. Microsoft wishes to get into the Social Networking game
along beside giants like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and many others people use to stay in touch with family, friends and others they wish to talk to.
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14.11.2008DS2 powerline networking goes up against WirelessHD for components
DS2 is one of dozens of CES vendors showing off powerline home networking over standard electrical wiring. But powerline isn't nearly as quick as
WirelessHD, an emerging wireless home networking technology embraced by Panasonic...
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08.01.2008Microsoft goes social with Outlook 2010
As part of Microsoft's Office 2010 announcements today the company has taken the wraps off a number of social networking add-ins that will be
available for Outlook 2010. Outlook 2010 features a new Outlook Social Connector (OSC) straight into Outlook 2010. The connector provides a stream of
content from SharePoint, Windows Live and other social networking sites. At the bottom of Outlook emails users will be provided with contacts latest
social networking posts. The presence of social networking inside Office 2010 is part of a broad strategy that Microsoft is implementing. The next
version of Windows Live Messenger will also feature a social stream within the client, similar to the OSC.
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18.11.2009Microsoft Turns On Social Networking in Spaces
Windows Live Spaces received a
refresh as the planned
upgrades to the service began
appearing on the site on
Friday. The changes are meant
to refocus the site more as a
social networking platform
than blogging service...
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20.04.2007Resolving Home Networking
Issues
Expert Zone Columnist Charlie
Russel looks at common home
networking problems and
provides solutions...
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04.01.2006Microsoft study: Vista improves networking
Companies that deploy Windows
Server 2008 and Windows Vista
in tandem could see more than
a threefold increase in
networking performance for
file transfers, downloading
roaming profiles for mobile
users and accessing files on a
portal, according to a
Microsoft-commissioned study
conducted by the Tolly Group.
In a 38-page white
paper titled "Enhanced
Network Performance with
Microsoft Windows Vista and
Windows Server 2008," the
Tolly Group compares the
networking performance for
file access on WANs and LANs
using various configurations
of Windows Server 2003 R2 or
2008 on the backend and XP SP2
or Vista on the frontend.
Not surprisingly, the
combination of the newest
operating systems brings the
best gains in network
performance in large part,
Tolly concludes, because of an
upgraded TCP/IP stack and
updates to thefile-sharing
Server Message Block (SMB )
protocol...
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07.06.2007Vista Networking: Part 1 - The Dragon's Trap
What if you were granted the gift of human flight in exchange for possesing the average land speed of a duckbill platypus? Would you take it?
Such is the riddle proposed by Microsoft. Networking in Vista has been retooled from the ground up, promising unprecedented (at least in
the world of Microsoft computing) advances in the field of TCP/IP, UDP, and many other networking protocols and services. But the company that
today's home user and Information Systems strategists around the world have grown up with (and grown wary of when upgrade season comes) is still the
same Microsoft it has always been.
So join me as we take a trip through Windows Networking... Vista style.
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19.09.200754% of companies ban social networking sites
News reported on the Wired blog 'Epicenter' warns office workers to check their employment contract or workplace rules before logging into
Twitter, Facebook, or any other social networking website. According to Epicenter, a recent study commissioned by Robert Half Technology found that
54% of US companies have banned any use of social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn whilst working on the job. The
study, released October 9, also indicated that 19 percent of companies allow social networking only for business purposes, while 16 percent allow
limited personal use. Unsurprisingly, productivity is the core issue raised when it comes to blocking social networking sites.
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13.10.2009Disable Windows Server 2003 SP2 Scalable Networking Pack features
Michael Platts: As you may know, Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 included the
Scalable Networking Pack (or SNP) which allowed for increased performance in many situations by allowing some TCP functionality
to be handled by the network driver and network adapter instead of the Windows TCP/IP stack itself. This functionality was enabled by default in
Service Pack 2.
There have been some problems seen in some environments where Windows Server 2003 SP2 has been deployed on
systems that support the SNP features. Issues like this have been discussed in several previously published Knowledge Base articles.
There is now a new update available that will turn off the Scalable Networking Pack features on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
systems. The article lists a number of symptoms that have been seen when Windows Server 2003 SNP is enabled and links to download the update for
x86, x64, and Itanium-based systems:
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14.03.2008MS' Social Networking Spinoff
Launches
Microsoft spin-off Wallop
launched its social networking
service at the DEMOfall
technology conference Tuesday,
saying its unique business
model is what sets itself
apart from competing services
like Facebook and MySpace...
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27.09.2006Happy hours and hype on the social-networking sites
Where did everybody go? Recent Nielsen Online statistics reveal that the social-networking congregating online may not be hanging out where you think
they are...
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25.10.2008XNA Framework Networking and LIVE Requirements
Michael Klucher: One of the biggest features in the upcoming release of XNA Game Studio is the ability to create networked games over Xbox LIVE and
Games for Windows® - LIVE. We thought we'd take some time to explain what you can do and what you need to do it. Before we dive into exactly what
you can do with networking, let's define a couple of commonly used terms:
- System Link: This form of networking uses your local
subnet to find and join other game sessions and can use local profiles (not Xbox LIVE gamertags) to accomplish this.
- Xbox LIVE/Games for
Windows - LIVE: This form of networking uses Xbox LIVE matchmaking to find and join other game sessions and uses your Xbox LIVE gamertag to accomplish
this.
Let's take a look at the common things you might want to do...
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16.11.2007eBay Joins the Social Networking Craze
eBay said Wednesday that it is joining the social networking movement by launching 'Neighborhoods,' which help its users congregate around specific
topics to discuss and find products on the site...
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10.10.2007Cisco Dabbles in Social Networking
Cisco said Friday that it had
acquired Five Across, a small
San-Francisco company that
specializes in creating
applications that allow
companies to easily add
social-networking
functionality to their Web
sites...
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09.02.2007Mozilla Dabbles in Social Networking
Mozilla Labs has begun work on
a new feature called The Coop,
aimed at adding social
networking capabilities to the
Firefox browser. The
application could be used to
share a variety of web
content...
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04.04.2007Exec Describes Microsoft's 'Social Networking' Vision
A Microsoft executive involved with the company's Windows Live efforts outlined some of the company's ideas about cloud-based computing and social
networking technologies today. The talk was presented by Brian Hall, general manager of the Windows Live Business Group, at the 2008 Merrill Lynch
Technology Conference on May 6.
Hall predicted that applications will be moving to a world that combines the "best of the PC"
with "the best of the Web."
He depicted a software past in which social networking was once typically enabled by just a few
"siloed applications," such as e-mail and instant messaging. Microsoft entered this space early on with its Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger
offerings.
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07.05.2008Social networking less popular with the youth
A surprising article has been published in today's issue of the UK newspaper The Independent. According to the article, the media regulator Ofcom
have done some research and have found that growing numbers of teenagers are turning their backs on social networking sites such as MySpace and
Facebook. The statistics found that among the fifteen to twenty-four age group, those with a profile have fallen five percentage points from the end
of march last year, to fifty percent this year. According to Ofcom's research, despite social networking becoming less popular for the young,
there has been a considerable boost in its popularity for the slightly older generations.
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