Is it game over for Windows Vista?
The saviour that was meant to be, Vista Service Pack 1, isn’t. In some cases it’s actually a performance decrease for an operating system already grinding up-to-date PCs to a halt.
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25 Windows - Life Without Walls
"Life Without Walls" is the next stage in the evolution of the $300 million Windows marketing campaign developed by advertising agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky.
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18.9.2008 Microsoft Extends Life of Windows XP
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will keep selling a version of Windows XP for use on a new breed of low-cost computers for at least two years longer than the older operating system will be available on mainstream PCs.
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5.4.2008 Windows 7 touch comes to life at PDC 2009
All week long, Neowin is live at PDC09 and we found some interesting demos of the future of multi-touch screens.
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17.11.2009 Game over
Windows XP Breathes Life into Dead Computers
Microsoft has chosen Windows XP over Windows Vista, its latest operating system to breathe life into dead computers.
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9.11.2007 Microsoft Breathes New Life Into Xbox and Games for Windows
Microsoft made a move designed to breathe new life into the marketing strategies for the Xbox consoles, Games for Windows and Microsoft Game Studios.
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25.6.2008 Windows 7 will give your laptop longer battery life
It's no surprise that Windows 7 is getting good reviews and praise as the operating system is proving itself to be a rock solid platform.
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2.9.2009 Google's Name Game
Backlash and confusion have dogged Google's plans to scan millions of books, and, while continuing with its efforts, it has opted for a name change from Google Print to Google Book Search.
"We don't think that this new name will change what some folks think about this program," says Jen Grant, product marketing manager for Google, via the company's Web site. "But we do believe it will help a lot of people understand better what we're doing."
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20.11.2005 New Need For Speed Game is ready
The latest EA investors meeting was a great opportunity for the company's boss, John Riccitiello to unveil a host of new and exciting projects.
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18.6.2008 Life after Aero, Microsoft Cooking Improved User Interface for Windows 7
It might not sound like all that much, but it is a definite confirmation that there is life after Windows Aero. And as far as the scarce details on Windows 7 go, any palpable piece of information goes a long way.
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24.5.2008 Extend Laptop/Notebook Battery Life on Windows 7 & Vista with Aerofoil
In past we have covered Battery4life & Imtec Battery Mark tools for laptop battery. Now here is one more extremely useful tool Aerofoil which helps you to extend & improve Laptop battery life when you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7 as your OS.
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25.10.2009 Microsoft Game Testers Wanted
Microsoft’s Game Technology Group is looking for official software testers for their upcoming projects.
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21.7.2006 Microsoft Teasing New Game Device?
A new viral Web site at notfornoobs.com has launched that appears to tease an upcoming game-related device by Microsoft and hardware manufacturer Razer.
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21.8.2006 Sea Life Screen Saver
Display a variety of sea life, including jellyfish, dolphins, sand sharks, and other underwater denizens. This screen saver works best at a resolution of 800 by 600 pixels, although 640 by 480 is also supported.
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Third-party Microsoft patches could get new life
It has been nearly three years since Microsoft moved to a monthly patch release schedule as a way to rein in some of the chaos that had begun to engulf its vulnerability reporting and repair efforts.
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1.8.2006 Microsoft Planning Life After IE7
You won't have to wait another five years to see a new browser from Microsoft.
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16.10.2006 How and why Microsoft is breathing new life into MSN
Until recently, when Microsoft execs have touted online services as key to the future of Microsoft, they've almost always meant Microsoft's "Live" services.
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8.12.2006 Microsoft to Share Game Ad Revenue
Casual game developers will soon be able to share in some of the revenue from MSN Games thanks to a new system developed by Microsoft. The new option is available immediately, and could mean as much as $250,000 in shared revenue for the five most popular titles.
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12.2.2007 Microsoft's Vista fails to find Second Life
Microsoft recently threw a splashy launch party for Windows Vista in Second Life, but those running the new operating system may have had trouble enjoying the festivities.
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14.2.2007 Nick White on Aero and battery life
Nick White, Vista's Product Manager, has responded to an article entitled “Vista, Aero, battery life . . . and Doom” by Dwight Silverman, the tech reviewer at the Houston Chronicle, regarding the impact that the Aero theme has on battery life and performance.
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15.5.2007 ReiserFS creator gets 15-to-life for murder
Hans Reiser, creator of ReiserFS, a journaled computer file system used by Linux, was handed a prison sentence of 15-to-life Friday, putting a final capstone on a case that began as a murder mystery, and ended with Reiser leading police to a makeshift grave a short distance from where he strangled his wife.
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30.8.2008 New York Police Department calls for boycott of game
The New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and the city's largest police union are calling for a boycott of Activision?s upcoming True Crime: Streets of New York City, calling it "an outrage."
The "mature" rated game is set in New York with a fictional version of the cities police department whose members are depicted as having no problem roughing up suspects and breaking into buildings without search warrants among other naughty acts.
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Free Game from MS! Play Carioca Rummy
In the off chance that you have mastered Solitare, are bored with Minesweeper and like me, have no idea how to play Hearts, Microsoft has a new card game for you to download and install.
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27.3.2006 Microsoft to Acquire In-Game Advertising Pioneer Massive Inc.
Massive?s technology for weaving dynamic, relevant ads into video games will extend next-generation advertising across Microsoft properties and beyond.
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5.5.2006 Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express (Beta1)
XNA Game Studio Express enables individuals and small teams to more easily create video games using new, optimized cross-platform gaming libraries for Windows and Xbox 360.
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30.8.2006 Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express (Beta 2)
XNA Game Studio Express enables hobbyists, academics and small, indie game developers to more easily create video games using new, optimized cross-platform gaming libraries based on .NET for Windows and Xbox 360.
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2.11.2006 Half Life 2 DOWNLOAD FULL version + Screenshots
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Life without Google: Can Yahoo regain search share?
Yahoo has a strategic plan due in 100 days and lags Google in most metrics. Yet despite Yahoo’s issues it still has the No. 2 market share in search. But if Yahoo wants to change its standing it should work on its interface a bit more.
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28.7.2007 Burger King Confirms Xbox 360 Game Dev
Turns out that despite all those breaking into people's homes, running across football fields and trying to shove people off high rises, the King isn't as cheerful a guy as one might suspect.
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12.4.2006New York Governor approves tightened video game regulations
New York Governor David Patterson yesterday approved a bill that will make ESRB video game ratings mandatory, require parental controls in consoles,
and fund a study of the correlation between in-game and real-life acts of violence...
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23.07.2008Second Life Items Get eBay Go-Ahead
Traditionally, virtual items
are banned from eBay; however,
the company said Monday that
it would exempt items from the
popular Second Life
virtual world. The change in
policy comes from a
reconsideration of what the
company considers a
"game."..
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30.01.2007Survey: Parents fear in-game sex, real life drugs
An informal poll conducted by What They Play, a sort of Rotten Tomatoes site for
video games, recently pointed to parents' areas of concern in video game content...
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12.08.2008Sony delays 'Home' virtual world for PS3
In yet another embarrassing delay for Sony, the company is delaying the launch of its "Home" virtual world for the PlayStation 3, initially planned
for later this year, until next spring.
The announcement Thursday came from Kazuo Hirai in his first major public appearance as
the new chief executive of Sony Corp.'s video game business, Sony Computer Entertainment.
"We wanted to wait until we could
offer what would be totally satisfying for consumers," Hirai said in a keynote speech at the Tokyo Game Show, an annual event where game machines and
new software are shown.
"Home" is a real-time interactive online world much like Linden Lab's "Second Life" and other
so-called "metaverse," except it's designed for PlayStation 3, Sony's newest home console.
Millions of people now enter
"Second Life" on personal computers, moving avatars or computer graphics images of themselves in a virtual universe...
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20.09.2007Windows 7 will give your laptop longer battery life
It's no surprise that Windows 7 is getting good reviews and praise as the operating system is proving itself to be a rock solid platform. It
seems as the news is only getting better as Microsoft and Intel showed off how Windows 7 when paired up with Intel's new processor line will
increase battery life for laptops, according to PCMag.com. The two companies worked together to help develop technologies that will allow for
sustained performance while improving battery life in the next generation of Intel processors. "The dramatic leap in battery life appears tied to
a technology known as Windows 7 timer coalescing, a technical term for minimizing the time in which the processor enters a high-performance,
full-power state.
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02.09.2009UK couple in real-life divorce over virtual affair
A British woman is divorcing her husband after discovering his online alter-ego was having an affair with a virtual woman in the fantasy world of
Second Life, media reported on Friday. Amy Taylor, 28, said her three-year marriage to David Pollard, 40, came to an end when she twice walked in on
him watching his online character, Dave Barmy, having sex with other virtual women. Second Life enables players to create online lives in which their
virtual alter ego, or avatar, can socialize, develop relationships, buy property and set up businesses in an imagined world using the game's
virtual currency.
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15.11.2008Real Life Crysis Comparison Screenshots
Found here are some brand new
screenshots that compare in
game shots from Crysis with
actual real life photos. The
development team have
replicated many parts of this
island located in Hawaii from
thousands of photos.
Crysis is a new game by
Crytek to be released in Q1
2007
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18.10.2006Microsoft responds to concerns regarding Aero and battery life
Responding to a number
of recent articles claiming
that Vista's new "Aero"
user interface causes laptops
running the new operating
system to drain their battery
faster, Microsoft has
published its own results. The
company says Aero consumes
only 1% to 4% more battery
life than when the feature is
disabled:
Dwight Silverman, the
tech reviewer at the Houston
Chronicle, has written about
the impact that the Aero theme
has on battery life and
performance (under the
provocative title
"http://blogs.chron.com/techb
log/archives/2007/05/vista_aer
o_battery_life_and_doom.html>V
ista, Aero, battery life . . .
and Doom" -- he's referring
to the game Doom3, BTW).
It's a good post and I'd
like to take a minute to
expand on what Dwight has
written.
First off,
yes, as Dwight correctly
points out, the Aero theme
drives the GPU harder and
therefore uses more power.
But in the big picture, it's
really not that much more.
For example, the display on
most laptops will consume
somewhere between 15-25% of
your "power budget" when you
are running on battery. ..
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15.05.2007Microsoft Ships Free Xbox 360 Developer Tool
This week, Microsoft shipped
its Xbox 360 game developer
tool, the XNA Game Studio
Express. The product, which
allows anyone with a Windows
XP-based PC and software
development skills to develop
games that can run on the Xbox
360, was first announced this
past August.
XNA
Game Studio Express is free
and based on the Visual C#
Express Edition tool, which is
itself based on Microsoft's
high-end Visual Studio
development suite. Developers
who wish to publish games
created with the suite can
join the XNA Creator's Club,
which costs $99 for an annual
subscription.
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13.12.2006Microsoft: Build Your Own Xbox
Game
Microsoft plans to open up its
Xbox 360 game development
platform to the masses with
the launch of XNA Game Studio
Express, due out during the
holiday season. Anyone with a
Windows XP computer would be
able to use the software,
available for an annual $99
fee...
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14.08.2006Cars get real-life video game view
Today Fujitsu Laboratories announced its newest in-vehicle camera technology that gives drivers a third person perspective on their vehicle while
driving...
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18.11.2008Reuters opens a news bureau in Second Life
Joining CNET News,
Reuters has now opened a new
news bureau inside Linden
Lab's "parallel world" game
Second Life. The story here is
that Reuters will now bring
their own news, photos, and
video news to the game world
and also an actual news page
for real world readers to
check the news out, which can
be found
here. For
those of you who have never
heard of Second Life before,
Second Life is a 3D, computer
generated world where users
buy land, create buildings,
build up the land, buy
clothing and other
accessories, and overall live
out a parallel life inside the
game. On an average day,
Second Life users spend about
跾,000 real world U.S.
dollars in the game, and about
财 million a year.
That's alot of dough, and
companies including Reuters,
CNET, Sony BMG, Sun
Microsystems, even Toyota and
Reebok and other big names
from around the globe are
buying into the pie. Entire
conferences are held inside
Second Life these days, Vivox
a VoIP company is even
offering "one million" free
VoIP minutes inside Second
Life through in-game phone
booths where you can call
actual phones and
mobiles.
Yup, Second Life is that
big these days. The Linden Lab
game has around 900,000 users,
and continues to grow. Users
can join the marketplace, and
use a USD to Linden Dollars
conversion to buy property,
land, clothing and other
things, and even make money
off transactions in the game
and from other activities.
There are even "adult" areas
of the game, with nude clubs,
casinos and other adult
oriented themes. Anyone can
register for free, but to get
the most out of the game
world, you would eventually
have to spend some money for
whatever. Names are also
limited for free users, and
pay users, including these big
companies will soon have the
chance to pay to get real
names in the game, for a
贄 setup fee and โ a
year service charge. Companies
will pay alot more of course.
But they are lining up, as
game growth continues to be in
the double digits every
month. <
div>Adam Pasick, who will be
known as "Adam Reuters" will
be the first virtual news
chief for the new Reuters
bureau and says this is really
no different than a normal
non-cyber job once you get
used to it. Journalists will
report the news like any other
outlet, and Reuters does not
feel they are bending any
editorial rules by doing
this.
