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 Support ends for Windows XP SP1
Microsoft will end support for Windows XP Service Pack 1 and SP1a today, leaving people no option but to upgrade to Service Pack 2 if they wish to continue to receive crucial components, including security software.
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10.10.2006 April deadlines loom for Windows XP, Office 2003 product support
Next month marks the deadlines for support — in some cases, free support, in other cases, paid — for a handful of older Microsoft Windows and Office products.
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4.4.2009 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 SP3 – And So It Ends
It's the end of an era for Microsoft. Not the end of Windows XP, but the end of the XP era.
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21.6.2008 Windows XP era ends? Will Vista step up?
The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time (in most cases).
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16.6.2008 Reminder: Windows 7 beta download ends this week
Just a reminder to everyone that as we reported earlier, the general availability of Windows 7 Beta program is ending this week.
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10.2.2009 Microsoft Office System 2007 Beta Ends
We are thrilled with the incredible excitement around the upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system as is evident by over 3 million people installing the Beta 2 and later Beta2TR builds. With your help, we have far exceeded our technical participation goals.
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6.10.2006 Microsoft Ends Week of Delays With a New Vista Test Build
It's not the next Community Technology Preview build, slated to go to two million testers. But Microsoft is releasing Friday to selected testers a brand-new build of Vista on which testers are counting for more stability.
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26.3.2006 Windows Mobile 6.1 to be released on 1 April
Pocket-lint has learnt from sources close to the matter that Microsoft will announce the much-rumoured refresh to its mobile phone operating system, Windows Mobile, on 1 April 2008.
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26.3.2008 Windows 7 RC Coming Around April 30
MSDN and TechNet subscribers can get Windows 7 Release Candidate that day. Everyone else must wait until May 5.
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25.4.2009 Microsoft official hints at April for Windows 7 RC release
According to a posting on Microsoft's Swedish partner blog we could be seeing the Windows 7 release candidate in early April.
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30.1.2009 Rumor: public to get Windows 7 RC build on April 10, 2009
If all goes according to plan, the Windows 7 Release Candidate build will be released to the public on April 10, 2009.
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20.2.2009 Download April 2009 Security Release ISO Image for Windows
On the heels of the April 14, 2009 security bulletins, Microsoft has made available for download the ISO image with the patches released this month.
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16.4.2009 Microsoft caps Windows 7 to XP downgrade program at April 2011
Microsoft has kept itself quiet on details of the Windows 7 to XP downgrade program until today.
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20.6.2009 Windows Server "Longhorn" April 2007 Community Technology Preview is Now Available for Download
We are pleased to announce the release of the April 2007 Community Technology Preview of Windows Server "Longhorn" (v6001-16497-070330-1720).
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7.4.2007 Office Communicator Mobile to Be Available in April
Microsoft plans to make the mobile version of its Office Communicator instant-messaging client for businesses available in 60 days.
That's according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who made the announcement at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona on Tuesday. Microsoft unveiled plans to develop Office Communicator Mobile last April. Beta 1 of the technology went to testers in October 2005. The IM client will work on Windows Mobile phones and PDAs.
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14.2.2006 AutoPatcher Vista April 2007
This release is based on the all-new AutoPatcher 5.6. It was made for Windows Vista 32 and x64 and is independent of the language of Windows Vista. Thanks to Matt for this download.
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16.4.2007 Short Takes: Week of April 17
t's that time of the week where we again look back on the interesting events in technology with the help of Paul Thurrott. As if you have anything better to do on a sunday morning, an Easter sunday morning at that! So from Paul and the staff of Neowin, Happy Easter! I hope you enjoy the day, be it with family, friends or own your own.
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16.4.2006 1. april: Microsoft Announces Halo 3 P.I.M.P. Edition
REDMOND, Wash. — April 1, 2007 — Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios today announced a new Halo 3 edition targeted to true, hardcore Halo fans. Thanks to rosco4140 for this post.
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1.4.2007 Longhorn Server CTP program starts in April
Windows Server Devision Blog: One of the things we get asked a lot is when Longhorn Server will be released and when people will be able to get their hands on a new pre-release build. In fact,
as Patrick mentions below, this was also a
frequently asked question for Jim Allchin, co-president of our Platforms, Products and Services division,
when he met with journalists, bloggers and analysts this week, so we thought it was time to put our cards on the table.
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30.1.2006 1. april: Ballmer joins Linux Foundation board
In what many long-time observers of free and open source software consider a natural progression, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer is to join the board of the Linux Foundation.
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1.4.2007 Vista SP2 RC in February, RTM in April 2009
Microsoft is laboring to serve Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista a little over a year after the availability of Service Pack 1, beating Windows 7 to the market.
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24.11.2008 Windows 7 High Color Support
Windows 7 plays nice with rendering content beyond the 8 bit limit, taking users into the visual territory of High Color, namely display capabilities involving high precision, High Dynamic Range, and support for gamuts superior to sRGB.
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26.11.2008 Windows 7 Will Support Third-Party Codecs
Microsoft has offered official confirmation that Windows 7 will support third-party codecs, programs designed to make media players play nice with digital data stream or signal when it comes to encoding and decoding tasks.
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5.4.2009 Windows 7 RTM Support, the Evolution
Windows 7 is an evolutionary Windows client release, according to Microsoft, and it was also fit that support for the OS would also be an evolution compared to what was available for Windows Vista.
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30.10.2009 Windows XP Support Extended until 2014
Microsoft has finally given in to public demand. The company has decided to offer technical support for Windows XP with updates and security patches for an extended period until April 2014. However, it will not go back on its decision to discontinue Windows XP sales after June 30.
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26.6.2008 Windows 7 Tasksbar Multi-Monitor Support
Microsoft is gearing up to detail the evolution of the Windows client graphical user interface, in just one month, at the Professional Developers Conference 2008, and then at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2008.
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30.9.2008 Windows XP support ending - Linux looking better?
We’ve all known that this time was coming, and now it’s nearly upon us. Come April 14th Microsoft will pull the plug on free support for Windows XP (and Office 2003) and the only option available to users will be paid support, which only applies to XP Professional.
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26.3.2009Windows 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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04.04.2009Windows 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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15.04.2009Support 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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24.01.2007What'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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26.04.2008An 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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08.03.2008XP Gets Yet Another Life
Escaping the grasp of death once again, Windows XP gets another 5 years of life! While they still plan to end mainstream support for Windows XP Pro on
April 14, 2009, HP says that Microsoft is still giving OEMs the option to install XP on their machines for one more year, until April 30, 2010.
XP Extended Support (strictly security updates; nothing else) will; run all the way until April 8, 2014! They say that they hate extending dates
time and time again, and strongly encourage customers to upgrade to Vista (at least) or Windows 7. But with all these extensions, maybe somewhere deep
down in the heart of Redmond, there's a bit of nostalgia that just can't let go of good ol' Windows XP.
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07.04.2009April deadlines loom for Windows XP, Office 2003 product support
Next month marks the deadlines for support in some cases, free support, in other cases, paid for a handful of older Microsoft Windows and Office
products.
Microsoft is ending mainstream (free) support for Windows XP Home and Professional, as well as for its Office 2003
suite, on April 14, 2009. It also is
“retiring” Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
(SP1), meaning it will no longer provide support for that four-year-old release.
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25.03.2009Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Today
Microsoft is officially ending
support for Windows XP Service
Pack 1 and SP1a Tuesday, with
users being recommended to
install SP2 as soon as
possible. The move means that
no more security updates will
be released for the
now-obsolete version of
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10.10.2006How [Vista] Ultimate Is This?
Windows Vista Ultimate is
Microsoft's operating system
with all the whiz and bang for
all users. But there is
something important missing
after all: Extended lifecycle
support. Windows Ultimate
support ends on April 10,
2012. Windows Vista Business
and Enterprise both receive
Extended Support, which means
five more years-or April 11,
2017. According to
Microsoft's Support Lifecycle
Web page, support for consumer
products ends after five
years. There is no Extended
Support option. I had always
assumed that Windows Vista
Ultimate, which Microsoft
pitches as having the most
consumer and corporate
features, would be supported
for more than five years.
Besides, Microsoft does offer
Ultimate to businesses for
volume-licensing purchase,
with caveats such as single
activation.
Laura
DiDo, an analyst with Yankee
Group, isn't surprised by the
five-year support for the
software. "Vista Ultimate is
more of a consumer purchase,"
she said. For businesses
deploying Windows Vista
Ultimate, however, the clock
already is ticking down to the
end of support. While Ultimate
may not be standard fare on
corporate desktops-even
Microsoft is standardized on
Vista Business, or so say some
employee sources-small
businesses are good candidates
for the software. Likewise are
universities. For schools with
campus wide volume-licensing
agreements, standard desktop
distribution is Office
Enterprise 2007 and Windows
Vista Ultimate.
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27.02.2007Microsoft: June 30 not end of Windows XP support
Concerned that customers are confusing the impending end of Windows XP retail availability with the end of support, Microsoft Corp. has reminded users
that the aged operating system will be supported until early April 2014. Jared Proudfoot, a manager in Microsoft's support life cycle group,
reiterated the final support dates for Windows XP in a post to a company blog.
"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," said Proudfoot. "Some people are interpreting this
as the end of support for Windows XP."
Not so, Proudfoot said. Windows XP will remain in what Microsoft calls "mainstream support" to
April 14, 2009, and continue in "extended support" though April 8, 2014, he added. The former delivers free fixes -- for both security patches and
other bug fixes -- to everyone. During the latter, all users receive security updates, but nonsecurity hot fixes are given only to companies that have
signed support contracts with Microsoft.
Those are not new dates, Proudfoot reminded customers last week. In early 2007, for instance,
Microsoft extended support for Windows XP Home and XP Media Center to the 2009 and 2014 dates to match those already set for Windows XP
Professional.
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02.05.2008Microsoft to shove XP toward retirement with upcoming support shift
In 10 weeks, Microsoft Corp. will begin to retire Windows XP by shifting the seven-year-old operating system into a more limited support plan.
Windows XP, Microsoft's most successful operating system ever, will leave what the company calls "mainstream support" on April
14, and enter "extended support." Typically, Microsoft keeps a product in the former for five years, then moves it into the latter for another five,
for a total of 10 years. However, the long span between the releases of XP and its successor, Windows Vista, forced the company to push out the
support deadline to 13 years altogether.
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04.02.2009Microsoft Announces Extended Support for XP Home/ MCE
Today, Microsoft is announcing
the addition of an Extended
Support phase for the Windows®
XP Home Edition and Windows XP
Media Center Edition operating
systems, providing consumers
with an additional phase of
support.
With the
addition of Extended Support,
the support life cycle for
Windows XP Home Edition and
Windows XP Media Center
Edition will include a total
of five years of Mainstream
Support (until April 2009) and
five years of Extended
Support, matching the support
policy provided for Windows XP
Professional.
The
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
policy standardizes Microsoft®
product support policies for
business and developer
products as well as for
consumer, hardware, multimedia
and Microsoft Dynamics™
products.
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24.01.2007Support ends for Windows XP SP1
Microsoft will end support for
Windows XP Service Pack 1 and
SP1a today, leaving people no
option but to upgrade to
Service Pack 2 if they wish to
continue to receive crucial
components, including security
software.
The move
to drop support for SP1 is in
line with Microsoft's stated
strategy for support.
According to its guidelines,
Microsoft guarantees to
provide "mainstream support"
for a full product for five
years, but will only guarantee
to support a service pack for
12 months after the launch of
the next version of that
pack.
SP1 shipped
in September 2002. SP2 was
released in September 2004.
There's little reason
for anyone to still be running
SP1; SP2 contained a range of
improvements to XP's
security. People can check
which version they are running
by right-clicking on the My
Computer desktop icon and then
selecting properties.
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10.10.2006Reminder: Windows 7 beta download ends this week
Just a reminder to everyone that as we reported earlier, the general availability of Windows 7 Beta program is ending this week. Starting from Feb
10th (12am Pacific Time), there wont be any new downloads of Windows 7 beta available, and from Feb 12th (9am Pacific Time), no downloads of Windows 7
beta will be available. If you are already downloading your beta, better complete the download before Feb 12th! So, if you haven't yet started
your download or yet registered for Windows 7 Beta, then this is the right time. Download your beta here before it ends!
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10.02.2009Mozilla ends Firefox 1.5 support, releases Firefox 2.0.0.4 and 3.0 Alpha 5 Preview
Mozilla Corp. issued the last
security update for its
open-source Firefox 1.5
browser Tuesday. It included
an automatic update mechanism
to give users the option of
upgrading to Firefox 2.0.
"The upgrade offer will
be enabled within in a few
weeks," said Mozilla in a
blog on its developer center.
The long-anticipated
end to Firefox 1.5 support was
originally slated for April
24, but last month, Mozilla
pushed back the drop-dead
date, saying it needed more
time to craft the automatic
updater. When Mozilla triggers
what it has called "major
updates," users will be
offered an in-place upgrade to
Firefox 2.0, which they can
decline if they wish. Users
can also permanently suppress
the upgrade message so it
never appears again. ..
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31.05.2007Windows XP SP1 support ends on
October 10, 2006
Support for Microsoft Windows
XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) and
Service Pack 1a (SP1a) ends on
October 10, 2006. This also
includes security updates for
these service packs. Microsoft
is providing final
notifications to customers
regarding the end of support
for these products.
Microsoft is ending
support for these products as
part of the Microsoft Support
Lifecycle Service Pack support
policy. We recommend that
customers who are still
running Windows XP SP1 or SP1a
upgrade to Windows XP Service
Pack 2 as soon as
possible.
To
determine whether you are
running Windows XP SP1,
right-click My Computer, and
then click Properties. If
?Service Pack 1; appears under
System, you are running
Windows XP SP1. We do not
recommend that you install
SP1a if you are already
running SP1. We recommend that
you install Windows XP SP2 if
you are running Windows XP SP1
or SP1a.
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07.06.2006Windows 7 Build 7105
A short while ago, Windows 7 Build 7105 surfaced on the 'net, raising some eyebrows with its appearance. After previous rumors that the release
candidate could pop up sometime in early April (specifically April 10th), could this be a build not far off from the planned RC one?
Neowin reports that from an 'exculsive source,' they were able to pinpoint build 7100 as being the most viable build number to recieve the 'RC'
status. Compiled on April 4th, Build 7105 bears the following build string:
"6.1.7105.0.090404-1235_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GB1CULFRER_EN_DVD"
According to WZor, there are a few visible changes in
the build, despite its short time away from RC. The changes include:
1. Improved networking support, the work in the local network
2. Added support for some previously incompatible programs
3. Extras in the LP (?) and small cosmetic interface improvements
4. Added
support for new drivers for various devices
5. Extended support sensory displays
6. A small optimization and changes in the kernel
Besides some behind-the-scenes changes, it would seem that Microsoft is just putting on the final touches. Nerds rejoyce!
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07.04.2009Visual Basic 6.0 IDE goes out of support
Jeff Nuckolls: In just 1 week from today, on April 8, 2008, the Visual Basic 6.0 IDE will no longer be supported . If you
haven't converted all your apps to .NET shame on you, but don't freak out ... Microsoft will continue to support the VB 6.0
runtime for all existing application in all the next versions of the Windows OS including Windows Server 2008 and Vista. However; who
knows how many years the runtime will be supported, so you might want to start considering a migration plan, if not for supportability concerns, then
to take advantage of the performance, security, power of the .NET Framework and the productivity of Visual Studio 2008.
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03.04.2008Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha
This is the first drop for the Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
New In
This Release
- The April 2008 release of the Smart Client Software Factory includes support for Visual Studio 2008 . This release
does not support Visual Studio 2005.
- We fixed a few bugs that were identified by the community.
- Requires Guidance Automation
Extensions 1.4.
- April 2008 Guidance Package can run side-by-side with the May 2007 Guidance Package
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11.04.2008Has 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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