Six reasons OSX will not go mainstream
Apple has a great consumer OS on its hands. Its sleek, it's easy to use and it will not ever make it to mainstream America.
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13.11.2008 Windows XP Mainstream Support Ends April 14, 2009
On April 14, 2009, Microsoft plans to cut off mainstream support for Windows XP and Office 2003. As a consequence, both products will move in the Extended support phase, which will last for the next five years.
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14.4.2009 Windows XP & Office 2003 mainstream support ends April 14
Just a quick reminder to Neowin users, both Windows XP and Office 2003 will leave mainstream support and enter extended support on April 14, 2009. This applies to the following Windows XP editions:
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5.4.2009 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. 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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23.12.2008Windows XP Exits Mainstream Support
As planned, today Microsoft has transitioned Window XP into the Extended Support phase, at last exiting Mainstream Support.
In most
cases, Mainstream Support only lasts for about five years. However, for Windows XP, Mainstream Support has gone on for near 7.5 years, due to the
delay and dissatisfaction with Windows Vista. With Extended Support, the only updates offered to Windows XP customers are simple security fixes unless
you purchased the Extended Hotfix Support plan.
According to a recent leak, downgrade rights will still exist until April 30, 2010, well
into Windows 7's release.
For anyone running Windows XP, security fixes will still be available up until April 8, 2014 via Windows
Update.
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15.04.2009An explanation of the Mainstream Support phase
Jared Proudfoot: Id like to write a little about the Mainstream Support phase. I think Mainstream Support is probably the best understood phase, but
I want to ensure that we discuss this foundational piece before getting into some of the specific policies and offerings.
For all
products, the Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy begins with the Mainstream Support phase. In this phase, we are able to provide all of the standard
support services that Microsoft offers. For example, in-the-box support, paid incident support, design change requests, non-security hotfixes,
security updates and online self-help support may all be available during the Mainstream Support phase.
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08.03.2008Has Yahoo Buzz beat Digg to the mainstream?
The search engine has provided some statistics of activity on its site from its first two weeks, and it shows that the company may have the upper hand
on bringing social news to the mainstream...
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17.03.2008HPC entering the mainstream
The world of high performance computing (HPC) is increasingly moving into the mainstream, according to specialists in the field. They attribute the
shift to faster processors, better design but also to the increasing involvement of companies like Microsoft in the field.
“Microsoft
is making a huge push into HPC; and that Microsoft is getting so involved is an indication of just how mainstream it’s getting,” John Lee,
vice president of advanced technology solutions at Appro told vnuent.com
“Another sign was when Cray got into it with a small HPC
running Windows and Linux – it’s amazing when you think about it.”
He said that when Bill Gates gave the keynote address
at the Supercomputing Conference in Seattle in 2005 it was a major signal that Microsoft was gunning for the HPC market and that it had made steady
progress.
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07.11.2008Slingbox: From Cult Fav to
Mainstream
Sling Media's Jeremy Toeman
sat down with BetaNews
recently to give us an update
on the sucesses of the
Slingbox, and why broadcasters
should embrace the technology
rather than criticize it. But
can the device make the jump
from cult favorite to
mainstream?..
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12.04.2006Support for consumer versions of XP untill 2014
Just days before launching
Windows Vista, Microsoft has
decided to
extend
the support lifecycle for the
consumer versions of its
currently shipping Windows XP
system.
Microsoft is now providing
five years of "mainstream"
support, plus five years of
"extended support" for XP
Media Center and XP Home
Edition. Previously, Microsoft
provided no extended support
for the consumer versions of
its XP operating
system.
Consequently, consumer
versions of XP are now covered
under mainstream support
through April 2009, and under
extended support through April
2014.
As a
result of the change,
announced on January 24,
Microsoft now provides the
same number of years of
support for business and
consumer versions of Windows
XP.
The
main difference between
mainstream and extended
support is the way Microsoft
treats non-security-focused
hotfixes. Under mainstream
support, Microsoft provides
these kinds of hotfixes for
free. Under extended,
customers are required to pay
for non-security hotfixes and
must sign an "extended hotfix
agreement, purchased within 90
days of mainstream support
ending."
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24.01.2007Windows XP & Office 2003 mainstream support ends April 14
Just a quick reminder to Neowin users, both Windows XP and Office 2003 will leave mainstream support and enter extended support on April 14, 2009.
This applies to the following Windows XP editions: Windows XP HomeWindows XP Pro 32-bit and 64-bitWindows XP Media Center EditionWindows XP Tablet PC
Edition However, for ultra-low cost PCs like netbooks, Microsoft has set June 30, 2010 as the End-of-Sales date even though the general End-of-Sales
date for Windows XP was February 28, 2009. The last Service Pack for Office 2003, SP3 was released in September 2007. The Outlook 2003 Junk Email
Filter will continue to receive updates with new junk email definitions through the end of the extended support phase.
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04.04.2009Twitter raises $35M to go from geek to mainstream
With $35 million backing Twitter to help it go from geek to mainstream, the amount is expected to help it keep up with the growth it has recently
received. Twitter has seen a 900% growth in users in a year, with a wide range of users and businesses reporting every event of their daily
activities. Twitter hasn't actually made any revenue off the business as of yet, where it mostly focuses on updating their servers, paying 29
employees and surcharges from text messaging fees. With the added $35 million to help turn the company into Twitter Inc by going from a geek tool
to a mainstream utility, the company can focus on revenue this year.
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14.02.2009Yahoo tries to make Delicious bookmarking site more mainstream
Yahoo's social bookmarking site Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) has received its long-awaited user interface overhaul, which the company hopes will
attract more mainstream users and make the site less niche...
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01.08.20085 Mistakes Microsoft made with Windows Vista
Windows Vista has kind of
gotten a bum rap. Some of the
rap is deserved -- Microsoft
shipped it too early. But for
the most part, the rap is
carried on by vocal techies
who just like to poop on
things because they think
criticizing things makes them
appear more knowledgeable.
Talking to a techie
about the quality of
mainstream software is a lot
like talking to a film school
graduate about the quality of
mainstream movies. Sure,
you might have liked
Pirates of the Caribbean but
talk to a film snob and it's
the 7th sign of the
Apocalypse. So how good is
Windows Vista? The answer is,
pretty good. Far better than
Windows XP. But I can think of
5 big mistakes Microsoft made
that has taken a window out of
its sails.
Let me
outline those 5 mistakes
Microsoft made with the
Windows Vista launch and talk
about how Microsoft might be
able to keep Windows Vista
from being a sequel to Windows
ME.
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16.08.2007Don't wait for Windows 7: realize the benefts of Vista now
Some customers are considering whether to deploy Windows Vista or whether to skip in anticipation of Windows 7.
The discussion is often phrased
as one of balancing costs and timing of releases. By not deploying Windows Vista, it means missing out on the proven benefts such as better security,
productivity, search, mobility, manageability, and infrastructure optimization. Windows Vista works with more applications and devices than ever
before and can be signifcantly less expensive to support than Windows XP SP3.
There is no need to wait for Windows 7. It is a goal of the
Windows 7 release to minimize application compatibility for customers who have deployed Windows Vista since there was considerable kernel and device
level innovation in Windows Vista. The Windows 7 release is expected to have only minor changes in these areas. Customers who are still using Windows
XP when Windows 7 releases will have a similar application compatibility experience moving to Windows 7 as exists moving to Windows Vista from Windows
XP.
Historically, mainstream deployment occurs not when Microsoft releases a product but 18 months later. While the mainstream deployment
cycle is beginning for Windows Vista now, it isn’t expected to begin for Windows 7 until at least mid-2011
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06.06.2008What's happening to Windows XP on June 30th?
Jared Proudfoot: I want to take another break from the discussion of the overall Support Lifecycle policies to address some common confusion that
weve been hearing regarding the support dates for Windows XP. Recently, there have been a number of posts in the blogosphere about Windows
XP and the upcoming end of Direct OEM and Retail License availability. Some people are interpreting this as the end of support for Windows
XP.
Please let me try and clear this up¦ Support for Windows XP will continue, in accordance with the Microsoft Support
Lifecycle policy. This means that the
Mainstream Support phase will end on April 14, 2009 and the
Extended Support phase will end on April 8, 2014. Thats at
least another 6 years of support remaining for Windows XP!
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26.04.2008Linux not essential to Eee PC success: ASUS
Penguin-powered mini notebooks are selling like hotcakes. But will they finally bring Linux into the mainstream? Dont count on it.
Theyre tiny, theyre portable, and theyve rewritten the rules in the traditionally feature-heavy notebook market. Despite years in which Linux has
been ignored by mainstream notebook makers, Linux-based mini-notebook PCs drove a spike in sales during 2007 that suggest the operating system could
finally be hitting the mainstream.
Or could it?
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14.07.2008Analysis: Windows Media Center
to Go Mainstream in Vista
Media Center features expected
in next version of Windows,
due out this year, analysts
say...
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11.01.2006NVidia Breaks Into Integrated GPU Market with New GeForce 7 Chips
For years, graphics processor manufacturer nVidia has executed a simple strategy: Introduce innovative features on the high-end first, then push
yesterday's high-end features down to the mainstream. By consequence, yesterday's mainstream GPUs were pushed to the low end, where the company
historically maintained it's a better choice than integrated graphics...
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25.09.2007iSuppli: Quad-Core Processors to Go Mainstream by 2009
According to new data released
by market research firm
iSuppli, by the end of 2009
today's high-end quad-core
processors currently hampered
by high costs and limited
availability will eventually
appear in close to half of all
mainstream desktop systems.
Currently, these chips are all
in the performance desktop PC
segment of the industry, which
represents only 6% of total PC
unit shipments. That is
expected to dramatically
change over the next two years
as quad-core microprocessor
technology gradually begins to
penetrate the mainstream
desktop PC segment. iSuppli
estimates that while no
mainstream desktop PCs will
ship with quad-core
microprocessors in the first
half of 2007, quad-core
penetration in mainstream
desktop PCs will rise to 5% by
the third quarter of 2007, and
then to 7% by the fourth
quarter. In the following
months, it will hit 18% in the
fourth quarter of 2008 and
then rocket to 49% in the
fourth quarter of 2009.
iSuppli says it defines
mainstream desktop PCs as
" those having the most
common specification and
functionality available, and
that are priced between
$500 and
$1000 ."
The research firm also noted
that the notebook segment is
not expected to move at the
same pace: penetration of
quad-core microprocessors in
mainstream notebooks is
expected to being in the first
quarter of 2009, and will only
account for 4% of systems. By
the fourth quarter of that
year, iSuppli believes
quad-core processors will be
in 11% of all mainstream
notebook PCs shipped.
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18.04.200764GB SSD on the Desktop: Samsung and OCZ go mainstream
We are seeing the SSD market mature quickly from the performance, pricing, and capacity viewpoints. Just over a year ago, the first generation SSD
drives had average capacities in the 16GB range with read/write performance around 45/25 MB/s. Pricing for these drives was around the $100 per-GB
range and most suppliers explicitly stated the drives were meant for industrial, military, medical, or commercial use.
Last fall,
second generation controller technology became available and performance jumped to 60/40 MB/s read/write speeds for the mainstream market along with
specialized manufacturers like Mtron and Memoright offering drives in the 100/80 MB/s read/write range. The new capacity standard became 32GB with
64GB performance oriented drives available. Pricing for the mainstream also dropped with costs averaging around $48 per-GB for the
performance-oriented drives and around $33 per-GB for the mainstream drives.
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16.05.2008Experimental Firefox Extensions We'd Like to Go Mainstream
Lifehacker: Finding new and useful
Firefox extensions is a passion of ours, but sometimes we run across extensions adorning the daunting "Experimental" moniker at the Firefox Add-ons
web site. We try to avoid these extensions as much as possible because they haven't been vetted by the folks at Mozilla, but even more importantly,
we hate requiring our readers to register and sign into a web site just to download an extension. Most of the extensions that have hit the
Experimental phase are ready to go despite their name; they just need a little extra push to get over the approval process. We've covered
three awesome experimental extensions once before, and now
we're back with a look at three more experimental Firefox extensions we're excited about.
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10.10.2008Mainstream Quad-Core CPU Performance Comparison
Looking back, quad-core processors have had quite the run already. Intel's first quad-core CPU, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was released almost
three years ago, with the much more popular Q6600 following up months later at a rather steep $850. As you may recall it was quite the luxury then
to have one of these at your disposal. Today we find ourselves with very different and diversified offerings from both companies, that are not only
cheaper but also significantly faster.
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11.09.20091Gb DRAM replaces 512Gb as mainstream PC chip
The 1GB DRAM (dynamic RAM) chip has replaced 512MB DRAM as the mainstream memory capacity in the PC industry as of October, according to DRAMeXchange,
a sign most PCs coming off production lines can now use Microsoft's Vista OS.
All of the premium versions of Vista require more
DRAM per PC to ensure smooth operation of the OS, which is more complex and requires more hardware than its predecessor, XP.
The
changeover in the DRAM market has taken longer than many companies expected. Several DRAM makers built new factories in anticipation Vista would take
the PC market by storm this year and antiquate XP. That hasn't happened. Instead, the adoption of the new OS is moving along at a steady pace, albeit
slower than the DRAM industry expected.
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