Microsoft changes Windows Genuine Advantage name
Microsoft is giving its anti-piracy/DRM technology a PR face lift with Windows 7. The “Windows Genuine” branding is being supplanted by a new name: Windows Activation.
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7.5.2009 Even with Vista SP1, Hackers Still Crack Windows Genuine Advantage
The fact that Microsoft has relaxed its antipiracy mechanism built into Windows Vista concomitantly with the release of Service Pack 1 failed to stop hackers from providing a crack for the latest version of Windows Genuine Advantage Validation.
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1.4.2008 Microsoft Confirms That Its Secret Alterations of Windows Generate Problems
Microsoft has been modifying files in the Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems without the knowledge or consent of the users that have acquired the products in good faith.
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28.9.2007 Microsoft Releases Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Bypass Tool for OEM's
With the introduction of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), a computer must be validated as genuine prior to receiving security patches from Windows Update.
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16.10.2006 Microsoft issues warning to Volume License customers over Windows Genuine Advantage fail
Phil Liu of Microsoft has reported problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage authentication method for Volume License Key (VLK) customers and a temporary work-around.
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5.10.2006 Download everything from Microsoft without Windows Genuine Advantage Check
ghacks.net has found a workaround to bypass the WGA, wonder how long MS will take to fix this.
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8.9.2006 Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage: An Overview and Screenshot Gallery
Microsoft announced its Genuine Advantage software initiative in March 2006. It's designed as part of the company's wider assault on software piracy (another infamous part of this fight, Product Activation, won fame and fortune for Microsoft went XP was released in late 2001).
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21.7.2006 What's Genuine About Windows Genuine Advantage?
An article over at Microsoft-Watch has been posted about what Windows Genuine Advantage is all about.
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10.6.2006 Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Crack
A brief guide on how to bypass Windows Genuine Advantage check on Windows XP.
It took basically 5 minutes to figure out how to bypass this check. However, Microsoft can change his server part of the check in order to block this.
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8.4.2006 Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Crack
A brief guide on how to bypass Windows Genuine Advantage check on Windows XP.
It took basically 5 minutes to figure out how to bypass this check. However, Microsoft can change his server part of the check in order to block this.
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7.3.2006 Is your copy of Windows genuine?
How to Tell helps you verify that your Microsoft products are genuine.
To begin, choose the product category that best describes your Microsoft product. On the following product category page you will be able to select your specific product and the method by which you acquired it to learn more about genuine Microsoft products.
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IEEE announces next-gen 100GB Ethernet standard
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) has voted to standardise development of the next generation of Ethernet at 100Gbps.
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8.12.2006 Microsoft Constructs New Manufacturing Facility For Next Gen Zunes
Microsoft's answer to Apple's popular iPod family of players was first launched in mid-November 2006. The $249 player promised to change the way we socialize with portable audio devices while at the same time offering the Zune Marketplace which is Microsoft's equivalent to iTunes.
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16.5.2007 Ford sells pink 30GB first-gen Zune, donates 100% to breast cancer research
It's October, which inevitably means that we'll be seeing a healthy dose of gadgets in pink as manufacturers look to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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19.10.2007 Next-gen MacBook, MacBook Pro Spotted
In what was only a matter of time, reliable sources indicate that Apple's next-gen MacBook line has been spotted and photographed by those who are familiar with Apple's hardware upgrade plans.
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25.9.2008 Next-gen browsers: How fast is fast?
A little over a week ago I took a look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 and I benchmarked this latest release against the current browser lineup.
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20.3.2008 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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20.7.2009Microsoft: Windows Genuine Advantage works!
IT may have cost Microsoft millions of sales, but Redmond claims that Windows Genuine Advantage has forced punters to buy legitimate copies of its
software. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Vol..
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26.11.2007New Windows Genuine authenticator can blank desktop backgrounds
If in the last week or so you've noticed that your desktop background in Windows XP Professional goes completely black exactly every 60 minutes,
don't worry, it's not a virus...
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28.08.2008Microsoft offers guidelines for next-gen UMPCs
Microsoft still thinks
there's a bright future for
Windows-based ultra-mobile PCs
(UMPCs), the small-form factor
PCs that haven’t exactly
taken the world by
storm.
At
the Windows Hardware
Engineering Conference
(WinHEC) in Los Angeles this
week, Microsoft officials
outlined some of the
“possibilities” the
company sees for
next-generation UMPCs that
will be optimized to run
Windows Vista.
Development Manager Vikram
Madan noted that the next-gen
specs he outlined during his
talk on May 16 were
“guidelines of what is
possible, not promises.”
(However, Fujitsu launched at
WinHEC a new Windows Vista
Business UMPC including many
of these next-gen features.)..
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18.05.2007Review: Shinnorie GEN™ Label iPod touch 2G case
iPod touch cases are a dime a dozen these days, and it's no wonder; the metal backs of the things scratch more than a DJ in a record factory.
Recently I had looked around for a better solution, but didn't want to settle for second best, and had discovered this: Shinnorie's GEN™
Label contoured nylon case. As the title may indicate, this review is for the iPod touch 2G device, but Shinnorie make these cases for the iPhone 3G
and iPod Classic, also. The GEN™ Label case series is quite an interesting one. Shinnorie allows you to customize the color and thread of the
case, as well as the color of the front panel.
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07.03.2009Gen. Clark: Sensitive Gov't. Documents Exposed by LimeWire
In testimony before the House
Oversight and Government
Reform Committee on Tuesday,
Gen. Wesley Clark, speaking as
a board member of and advisor
to security software company
Tiversa, revealed that it
discovered over 200 classified
US Government documents over a
two-hour period, proliferated
via the P2P file sharing
network LimeWire...
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27.07.2007Next-gen iPhone component list leaked?
It's been a few days since there's been an iPhone rumor, so here goes folks. DigiTimes has posted a component list, complete with suppliers,
for Apple's inevitable next-gen iPhone. Source: DigiTimes. The sources are all from the industry supplying the components to Apple, and they
state that the new "iPhone 3.0" will be launched mid-2009, and shipments will kick off in May, with the first being in the amount of 5 million
units. DigiTimes states, "TSMC have landed foundry orders for GSM EDGE power amplifiers, Bluetooth ICs and 3.2-megapixel OmniVision CMOS image sensor
(CIS) used in the upcoming iPhone model, indicated the sources.
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16.04.2009MS: 360 GTA IV Outselling PS3 Version 2-to-1
Microsoft tells Next-Gen that the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV is outselling the PlayStation 3 version by a wide margin in the US, but Sony
questions Microsoft's claims.
"What we've heard anecdotally from our retail partners is that the Xbox 360 version of the game
is outselling the PS3 version by a margin of two-to-one," said Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live during an
interview Thursday.
"That mirrors what we saw with pre-orders, but it continues to hold true at retail, at least for the first
couple of days. It's a great sign."
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03.05.2008Microsoft Writes Off DX10.1 Fears
Microsoft's DirectX lead
program manager has set the
record straight on reports
that DX10.1 will render the
current crop of
DX10-compatible hardware
"obsolete."
Microsoft's Sam
Glassenberg told Next-Gen in a
phone interview, "DX10.1
fully supports DX10 hardware.
No hardware support is being
removed....It's strictly a
superset. It's basically an
update to DX10 that extends
the hardware functionality
slightly."
He said that the update is
similar to what Microsoft did
with DX9. "We did make
updates to
that extended
the supported feature set.
"All the
hardware is still supported,
all the games still run, all
the features are still there,
we've just simply extended
the feature set and the
lifetime of the API," he
said.
winbeta.org - 15.08.2007
Video conferencing coming to next-gen iPhone?
Information Week is reporting that, if one of Apple's latest patents are to be believed, video conferencing could very well be coming to the
iPhone. Not only is Apple planning video conferencing, but video recording also, one of the features currently lacked that has raised many questions
by consumers, when comparing Apple's product to other smartphones. Video conferencing would be an extremely welcome feature, and could certainly
change the game for the iPhone, already a very popular device.
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neowin.net - 03.02.2009
Microsoft Windows Cryptographic Next-Gen SDK for Windows Vista/Server 2008
The CNG SDK contains documentation, code, and tools designed to help you develop cryptographic applications and libraries targeting the Windows Vista
SP1 and Windows Server 2008 Operating Systems.
The documentation, code, and tools provided in this release are subject to change,
and may be updated in the future.
Whats New in v1.2
This release of the kit incorporates a number of significant
changes, including:
- Added sample code for implementing a Transport Layer Security (TLS) Cryptography Provider.
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Theres a new sample that shows how to call CNG functions from kernel mode.
- Added documentation on SSL/TLS Providers.
- Header
for smart card mini-driver updated to version 6 for Windows Vista SP1, which provides support for multi-PIN cards, PIN cache control, and secure PIN
channel.
winbeta.org - 15.12.2007
Dell: Dual-Core Xeons Will Win
Loyal Intel customer says chip
giant's next-gen CPU will
dominate...
pcworld.com - 22.10.2005
A Brave New World of Computing
Microsoft's Next-Gen PC
Design Competition winners
create innovative designs that
take traditional PCs outside
the box...
microsoft.com/presspass - 29.05.2007
Microsoft trains next-gen coders with XNA's Kodu
Microsoft's keynote at CES this year may not have been the most exciting at the show, but one of the company's announcements has proven to be much
more interesting than it originally appeared. One of the company's big reveals was Kodu, a basic programming-tool-turned-XNA-game that
Microsoft is pushing as the next big thing for young minds. And while it is easy to be underwhelmed with the software upon first glance, our time with
it behind closed doors proved that Microsoft is definitely on to something.
winbeta.org - 09.01.2009
Burning Questions: More from
the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD Front
Our series on the battle
between the next-gen optical
formats continues with reports
on the latest salvos--and what
they mean to you...
pcworld.com - 15.11.2005
Quanta confirms second-gen iPhone contract
Apple selected
Taiwanese electronics
manufacturing giant Foxconn to
manufacture the first batch of
its iPhones, but a report by
iTWire suggests a second
iPhone manufactured by Quanta
will follow shortly afterward.
The first iPhone is scheduled
to come out some time next
month, most likely in the
aftermath of Apple's
Worldwide Developer Conference
in mid-June.
Speculation regarding a
second-gen, Quanta-built
iPhone was sparked by a
Commercial Times report
earlier today, and Quanta
addressed the rumors head-on
with an official statement
confirming its contract with
Apple.
"Quanta not
only manufactures
and iPod for Apple, but also
may have receive the order to
make the second generation of
the Apple iPhone. iPhone is a
smartphone based mobile, and
the second generation model
shipment is expected in
September 2007 with forecast
of 5 million units in 2008,"
the company stated...
winbeta.org - 30.05.2007
Survey Reveals Wii60 Effect, Console Popularity
Gamasutra has obtained
data from analyst firm Frank
N. Magid Associates originally
compiled for the MI6 marketing
conference detailing some
fascinating survey data on
Wii/Xbox 360 purchasers buying
a second console as well as
overall consumer purchasing
enthusiasm for next-gen
consoles.
The survey was taken from
March 20th through March 28th,
2007 by a division of Magid,
and consisted of an online
survey of 1,864 people, of
whom 1,632 were between the
ages of 18 and 64 and 232 were
between the ages of 12 and 17.
One of the highlights
of the comprehensive survey,
which was originally presented
in a lecture at the
http://www.mi6conference.com/>
MI6 Marketing Conference in
San Francisco earlier this
month, is its section on
next-gen console ownership...
winbeta.org - 22.05.2007
Rumor: Video coming to next gen iPhone this year
Today appears to be rumor day over at Cupertino, folks. If we'd known ahead of time, we would have done a roundup at the end of the day.
AppleInsider has a source that's reporting that at least one of Apple's upcoming iPhones will feature video recording. The information comes
from a person "extremely reliable" when it comes to predicting Apple's hardware changes, which is why it's ended up on the front page, added
to the fact that they mentioned "at least one upcoming iPhone". The new iPhone is due out this year, and will also feature extremely improved
hardware to support better game on Apple's mobile device.
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neowin.net - 21.03.2009
Motorola announces second gen WiMAX hardware
Today, Motorola announced two new 802.16e devices, one for fixed connectivity, and one that's somewhat more nomadic...
betanews.com - 08.02.2008
Lessons learned from installing Windows 7, over 16 times
When the first Windows 7 beta (build 6801) was announced at PDC in late 2008, everyone was excited, myself included. Within a few days after release I
was happily running my very first version of Windows 7. Right around new years day, Microsoft released the first public beta (build 7000) of the next
gen OS. Since Microsoft was kind enough to share it with me, I decided to share it with everyone I know. Starting with my immediate family computers
and expanding to my network of friends and coworkers. I went on a upgrading frenzy, installing Windows 7 on just about any PC I could get my hands on.
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neowin.net - 26.05.2009
Nvidia Discloses Details On Next-Gen Fermi GPU
The Tech Report has published the first details describing the architecture behind Nvidia's
upcoming Fermi GPU. More than just a graphics processor, Fermi incorporates many enhancements targeted specifically at general-purpose computing,
such as better support for double-precision math, improved internal scheduling and switching, and more robust tools for developers. Plus, you know,
more cores. Some questions about the chip remain unanswered, but it's not expected to arrive until later this year or early next.
winbeta.org - 01.10.2009
