Microsoft to Kill Windows XP Blue Edition
Microsoft is attempting to kill the “Blue Edition” of Windows XP. In mid-2008 the Redmond company discontinued the availability of retail and OEM licenses of Windows XP, with the exception of copies of the operating system going onto ultra-low-cost laptops and desktops.
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4.12.2008 Microsoft to Kill Pirated Windows XP Professional
Having dealt with the SoftMod Windows Vista activation crack, Microsoft will start hunting down and “killing” pirated copies of Windows XP Professional, the flavor of the operating system labeled by the company as most popular with pirates.
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25.3.2009 Microsoft Midori, a Candidate for the Operating System to Kill Windows
Although speculations do exist pointing that Microsoft is in the "right direction" as far as the next releases of its proprietary operating system are concerned, the fact of the matter is that Windows 7 and Windows 8 will not diverge from the Windows path in the foreseeable future.
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8.7.2008 Vista to Windows 7 Upgrades Kill Access to OEM Recovery Applications
Users that upgrade Windows Vista OEM computers to Windows 7 might find that the recovery applications set in place by the original equipment manufacturer are no longer accessible.
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9.10.2009 Will BlackBerry kill the iPhone?
Just a few short weeks after the Mac trounced competitors in a customer satisfaction survey, the iPhone has repeated the same trick for Apple in the smartphone market.
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7.5.2009 MS KILL BILL AIO
Are you tired of dealing with the antics of Bill Gates and company from the small
town of Redmond? Are you willing to do something about it?
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15.2.2007 MSXML4 is going to be kill bit-ed
We are going to kill bit MSXML4 in the October – December timeframe of this year. Kill Bit applies to Internet Explorer only. After the kill bit , applications will not be able to create MSXML4 objects in the browser.
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22.3.2007 Kill switch dropped from Vista
Microsoft is to withdraw an anti-piracy tool from Windows Vista, which disables the operating system when invoked, following customer complaints.
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5.12.2007 Google to kill 6 of its failed projects
Google has decided to terminate several products that weren't up to the Google's standards or now redundant.
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15.1.2009 Microsoft to kill Encarta later this year
Microsoft has announced that it is discontinuing its Encarta line of products. The software products will be gone by June 2009 and the website will go down October 31, 2009.
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30.3.2009 Microsoft CEO: 'I'm going to f---ing kill Google'
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" internet search leader Google Inc. in an obscenity-laced tirade, and Google chased a prized Microsoft executive "like wolves," according to documents filed in an increasingly bitter legal battle between the rivals.
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XP SP3 Can Kill All Update Installations
Deploying Service Pack 3 directly on top of a fresh installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 will kill all subsequent updates from Microsoft's servers.
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4.8.2008 Bizarre Virus Threatens to Kill File-Sharers
A strange virus which taunts file-sharers and threatens to report them to the police and even kill them, is being distributed on the Winny network.
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2.3.2007 Warning: ZoneAlarm 7.1 Reported to Kill Vista Cracks
VistaLoader and Paradox gone! The day has come, it is over the happy Vista cracking era, and no it is not Microsoft it is a 3rd party security software. Thanks to Steve Jobs who report this on his blog.
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3.7.2007 Microsoft to kill Hotmail via Outlook Express on September 1
If you're still using Outlook Express for checking your Windows Live Hotmail, listen up.
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4.6.2009 Microsoft Non-Windows Midori OS to Kill Vista and Windows 7
There is so much life left into Windows, and Microsoft is gearing up for the moment when it completely runs out of what is now its proprietary operating system.
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30.7.2008 Midori Will Not Kill Windows, Multiple Releases Coming, Beyond Windows 7
The death of the mammoth Windows operating system releases was proclaimed even before the availability of Windows Vista. With Windows 7, Microsoft managed to prove that Windows was still very much alive and kicking.
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9.8.2008 Microsoft Still Shooting at XP SP2 with the Vista Gun – No Kill
Even with the general availability of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, Microsoft is still stuck gunning for Windows XP SP2 with the Windows Vista RTM "arsenal".
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15.5.2008 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 October 15, 2008: the Real Kill-Off Date of Vista SP1 Pre-Release Builds
Microsoft confirmed that there is still some life left into the pre-release versions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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11.7.2008 Distrust for Windows Could Help Apple
A new report out by market research firm Forrester suggests that Apple could double its market share through defections from the Windows platform alone. The firm said that much of this has to do with customers' deep distrust of Microsoft.
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14.4.2006 Apple, Microsoft on Windows on Mac
Microsoft's response to Apple's release of Boot Camp with a positive statement:
"Windows is a great operating system," a Microsoft statement said. "We're pleased that Apple customers are excited about running it, and that Apple is responding to meet the demand."
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8.4.2006 Apple: Give Up on Windows Vista!
You know that old saying… all is fair in operating system measuring contests? Well, enter the unorthodox daddy of all operating system measuring contests…
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22.11.2007 Apple Safari 4 beta - not for Windows 7
Safari 4 beta work only in Windows XP and Vista. Apple has released to public beta its Safari 4 web browser, and I thought I’d give it a hands-on spin to see what all the fuss is about. Here are my first impressions and review.
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24.2.2009 Microsoft introduces Apple-like tours of Windows 7
Microsoft has introduced some product tours of Windows 7 in action, similar to Apple's guided tours.
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29.6.2009 Windows Server 2008 Domain Re-Directs To Apple
A solution provider in Florida that owns the domain name windowsserver2008.com has re-directed the URL to Apple's online store, where visitors are greeted by a giant image of the recently unveiled MacBook Air.
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1.2.2008 Windows 7 to open another round in Apple-Microsoft rivalry
Will Windows 7 blunt some of Apple’s momentum? At least one analyst thinks it’s possible.
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3.6.2009 Will AMD Barcelona kill off high-margin AMD CPUs?
AMD was riding high a year ago dominating sales in the dual-processor Server market and virtually owned the multi-processor (4+) Server market.
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8.9.2007 Apple names Mac OS X Leopard: Windows Vista 2.0
Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference that started today will apparently be the host of a surprising and clear shot at Microsoft’s next-generation OS Vista. This is probably how Steve Jobs is hoping to attract attention on his Macintosh alternative, Leopard OS.
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7.8.2006 iCar by Apple
Google includes controversial kill switch in Android
There was
outrage last month when
it was
discovered Apple had
included a "kill switch" into the iPhone software.
The kill switch meant that any applications Apple did not approve of or were dangerous
could be disabled remotely by Apple themselves.
In the terms and conditions of the Google android
fine print Google has said they "may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement ... in such an
instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion".
The T-Mobile G1 is the first phone to run the Android software developed by Google and goes
on sale Oct. 22.
Will Google get the blogger world and mainstream press up in arms like Apple did?
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16.10.2008IPhone feature could enable Apple to kill apps remotely
A developer has discovered code within the iPhone 2.0.x firmware that appears to allow Apple to blacklist apps, which could result in their removal
from the iPhone without user interaction...
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07.08.2008Report: Android will also come with a kill switch
Google's Android Marketplace carries a warning that Google has the power to remotely remove applications that violate the developer distribution
agreement, putting the G1 on par with the iPhone at least in the kill switch department...
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17.10.2008Office 2007 Also Has Kill Switch
Apparently Microsoft is
putting the same kind of
'kill switch' into Office
2007 that is reportedly being
used by Vista. The kill switch
limits the program's
functionality once activation
has been bypassed a certain
number of times.
But now Microsoft's
intentions are clear: Just as
it is doing with Vista,
Microsoft plans to incorporate
what basically amounts to a
'kill switch' into Office
2007. Office 2007 users who
can't or won't pass
activation muster within a set
time period will be moved into
"reduced-functionality
mode", according to
Microsoft's Knowledge Base
article.
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21.11.2006Docs: Ballmer Vowed to
'Kill' Google
Court documents publicly
released late last week in the
increasingly nasty battle
between Microsoft and Google
over the hiring of Kai-Fu Lee
include an outburst by
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
where he vowed to
"kill" Google. Ballmer
also had a few choice words
for Google CEO Eric Schmidt...
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06.09.2005'Kill switch' dropped from Vista
Microsoft is to withdraw an anti-piracy tool from Windows Vista, which disables the operating system when invoked, following customer complaints. The
so-called "kill switch" is designed to prevent users with illegal copies of Vista from using certain features.
But the tool has
suffered from glitches since it was introduced with many Windows users claiming that legal copies of Vista had been disabled. Microsoft says its
efforts have seen a drop in piracy of its software. In a statement released by the company, Microsoft corporate vice president Mike Sievert, said:
"Users whose systems are identified as counterfeit will be presented with clear and recurring notices about the status of their system and how to
get genuine copies."
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05.12.2007HTML 5: Could it kill Flash, JavaFX and Silverlight?
While Adobe, Microsoft, and Sun duke it out with proprietary technologies for implementing multimedia on the Web, HTML 5 has the potential to "eat
these vendors' lunches," offering Web experiences based on an industry standard. In fact, one expressed goal of the new standard is to move the
Web away from proprietary technologies such as Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX. "It would be a terrible step backward if humanity's major
development platform
was controlled by a single vendor the way that previous platforms such as Windows have been," says HTML 5 co-editor
Ian Hickson, a Google employee.
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neowin.net - 17.06.2009
Ex-Microsoft employee: Free software will kill the company
CIO has posted an article about a man named Keith Curtis, a previous programmer for Microsoft, who has come out with the dramatic statement that free
software will be the downfall of the Redmond company. Curtis, who was with Microsoft for 11 years, believes that free and open source software is
technically superior to the proprietary alternative because it lets developers collaborate and innovate.
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neowin.net - 27.05.2009
How Facebook could kill Twitter, and why it won't
Before I start rambling, I'd like to start off by saying that I never really got into the whole microblogging scene. I tried, time and time again,
but it just never kept me interested for very long. Maybe that's why one day I went as far as getting down on my knees and begged God for
microblogging to go away so that I wouldn't have to keep hearing about the latest Twitter outage from all my favourite news sites. As time went by
though, I quickly realized that Twitter, and microblogging in general, was here to stay. That's why today you're seeing me post my first ever
microblogging-related story, and as much as I find the whole ongoing development very interesting, it will probably be my last.
So why do I
say that Facebook could kill off Twitter? Well, because it had microblogging before Twitter was a baby (yeah, I know, Twitter still is a damn baby).
You can argue day and night that wall-to-wall posts aren't mini blog posts, but you can't deny that Status Updates are exactly what Twitter
has been doing from the very start. Think about it. Status Updates = Tweets. Don't believe me? Well, there is one difference between the two, and
this is really the key to microblogging's success. On Twitter, you can follow anyone you would like, without their approval. Facebook just
won't let you do that.
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neowin.net - 31.08.2008
Apple: "Windows 7 is still Windows, complex and expensive"
Apple has come out swinging, or at least Brian Croll, Vice President of Apple's Mac OS X worldwide product marketing has when it comes to the new
offerings from Microsoft. Croll states that "Windows users are really tired of all the headaches that they've been getting over the years,
starting all the way back from Windows Me to NT to Vista and now Windows 7," he said. "As a result, I think people are looking for something
different, and the Mac offers real ease of use, stability and security." In his defense, Apple did just release their quarterly earnings which do
backup some of his statements.
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neowin.net - 26.10.2009
Microsoft: Ask us and we'll kill your ActiveX control
Microsoft this week said it would lock down other vendors' software using Windows Update-delivered fixes if those companies ask Microsoft to help
stymy attacks. The company explained its efforts after being asked about a security update that disabled a vulnerable ActiveX control used by Yahoo's
music player program.
"If an independent software vendor discovers that they have shipped a vulnerable control, they
should e-mail secure@microsoft.com to work with Microsoft to issue a kill bit, disabling that control," Tim Rains, a spokesman for the Microsoft
Security Response Center (MSRC), said in an e-mail.
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Microsoft to kill Hotmail via Outlook Express on September 1
If you're still using Outlook Express for checking your Windows Live Hotmail, listen up. Microsoft will be cutting off your access in three
months. On September 1, 2009, the support for Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), the protocol that Outlook Express and a handful of older
clients currently use to access Hotmail, will be discontinued. As Neowin reported in April of last year, Microsoft originally planned to cut off
access for Outlook Express users on June 30, 2008. However the WebDAV protocol got a stay of execution after users complained that it was too soon.
Microsoft's management agreed and gave users another year to make the migration.
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neowin.net - 04.06.2009
Official Google Voice App Blocked From iPhone App Store
TechCrunch: Earlier today we learned that
Apple had begun to pull all Google Voice-enabled applications from the App Store, citing the
fact that they "duplicate features that come with the iPhone". Now comes even worse news: we've learned that Apple has blocked Google's official
Google Voice application itself from the App Store. In other words, Google Voice one of the best things to happen to telephony services in a
very long time will have no presence at all on the App Store. If there's ever been a time to be furious with Apple, now is it.
winbeta.org - 28.07.2009
AT&T new TOS kills off streaming, Skype and Hulu
AT&T has altered its terms of service to kill off any type of high bandwidth applications. In a nutshell the new TOS will not allow you to use your
Slingbox, Skype, or watch Hulu using AT&T's mobile data services. AT&T states "downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer
initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device, web broadcasting,
and... any applications that tether the device... to Personal Computers or other equipment." We will all have to wait and see how AT&T goes about
enforcing these new rules.
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neowin.net - 03.04.2009
Apple bashes Windows 7 at WWDC
Apple is announcing new MacBooks, new iPhones and its next generation OS, Snow Leopard today but during its Keynote at WWDC they dug hard at
Microsoft. Bertrand Serlet, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple, took the stage and began digging at Vista saying "what a big
hole Microsoft has dug," and adding that "they're trying to get out of it with Windows 7." He carried on following up with an attack of Windows
7 saying it has "even more complexity" than Vista because it's just based on the "same old tech as Vista." Apple is notorious for attacking
Windows based PCs in its Get A Mac adverts. Thanks to Engadget for the following picture:
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neowin.net - 08.06.2009
Google to kill 6 of its failed projects
Google has decided to terminate several products that weren't up to the Google's standards or now redundant. Google Video Google Catalog
Search Google Notebook Dodgeball Jaiku Google Mashup EditorIn a few months, support for uploads to Google Video will be discontinued and YouTube and
Picasa Web Albums will be left to handle the video uploads. In 2001, Google Catalog Search was launched as a demonstration of OCR technology and lead
to Google's Book Search which hasn't been as popular as some of Google's other products. Catalog search will be given a farewell on 15th
January 2009.
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neowin.net - 16.01.2009
Lenovo creates SMS "kill pill'
If BIOS-level passwords, fingerprint recognition and encrypted hard drives aren't enough for the most paranoid portable PC user, get set for the
latest in security. A new service will allow users to disable a lost or stolen 3G notebook by sending it an SMS message! From early next year,
Lenovo's new Constant Secure Remote Disable service will allow owners of the latest ThinkPads to shut down their system by sending it a special
SMS message from your mobile phone. Once the laptop shuts down, the self-encrypting hard drive will scramble the data.
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neowin.net - 26.11.2008
iPhone firmware 3.0 released
Apple's much anticipated release of 2009 for the iPhone and iPod Touch is here. Apple has released the latest major firmware for the iPhone and
iPod Touch available for download through iTunes. After months of teasing us with new features, performance improvements and overall control of the
latest firmware, weekly beta's the new firmware has officially arrived. The latest 3.0 firmware adds hundreds of new features including a
landscape keyboard, MMS, Internet Tethering, full Bluetooth support, Cut, Copy & Paste turn-by-turn GPS navigation, a kill switch for lost headsets
and many more. The firmware will also take full advantage of the latest hardware in the iPhone 3GS, which releases on June 19.
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neowin.net - 17.06.2009
Joost To Kill Desktop Client
Om Malik: In what is likely to be a major shift in the company’s strategy, peer-to-peer startup Joost is going
to stop making its desktop client. The decision to suspend the client is likely to be announced soon, I am told. The company is going to a
browser-only strategy, in which much of its content is going to be available through a browser-based player. Joost, I am told, will release a small
plugin that would embed itself in the browser and allow you to grab files using the P2P technologies. The web client is likely to have better quality
than average video sites.
winbeta.org - 06.09.2008
Beatles' Apple Corps After
Apple Again
For the third time, Apple
Corps, the company that
represents the business
interests of the Beatles, and
Apple Computer will meet in
court. Apple Corps is accusing
Apple of breaking a 1991
agreement by selling music
online, and will argue its
case in London this week...
betanews.com - 27.03.2006
