At NASA, Windows Vista Isn't Ready For Launch
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the latest federal agency to put a hold on PC upgrades to Windows Vista. NASA has decided against deploying Microsoft's five-month-old operating system anytime this year.
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26.4.2007 NASA to take close look at shuttle shield damage
A pair of rookie spacewalkers floated outside the International Space Station on Saturday to bolt an extension onto the orbital outpost's frame while NASA made plans to inspect potentially troublesome damage to the shuttle Endeavour's heat shield.
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12.8.2007 Windows 7 PCs available early
Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7, is set to officially launch and become generally available to the public on October 22. Some custom computer builders, however, have now been given permission to start selling PCs with Windows 7 pre-installed a week or more before the launch date.
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25.9.2009 Windows 7 Wins on Netbook PCs
Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows Consumer Product Marketing, discusses Microsoft’s take on netbook PCs and how Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 7, will support these small computers.
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4.2.2009 Windows 7 Might Come on PCs Before October 22
Redmond-based software giant Microsoft will launch on the market its latest operating system for personal computers, Windows 7, on October 22, this is something that we are all aware of, yet it seems that some system builders say they will ship the platform on devices prior to that date.
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26.9.2009 New virus threatens Linux and Windows PCs
Hackers have released code for a cross-platform virus that could infect Linux and Windows computers.
The virus, which has been given the names Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a, was reported at the end of last week by security firm Kaspersky Lab. Researchers worry that the malicious code may be part of a disturbing new trend of viruses that can run on Windows, as well as other operating systems that have been largely ignored by hackers.
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10.4.2006 Windows Vista Premium Ready PCs….Really???
Thanks to thepodest who wrote this article for
his blog. These are the specs requirements for Premium Vista PCs according to Microsoft.
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16.6.2007 Chinese Windows 2000 attack crashes PCs
Security researchers have spotted malicious code that triggers a critical vulnerability in the Chinese version of Windows 2000, and warned non-Chinese users to expect attacks.
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16.4.2008 Microsoft Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Screenshots
Microsoft Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (WinFLP) is a Windows-based operating system designed for enterprise customers with legacy PCs who are not in a position to purchase new hardware. WinFLP provides the same security and manageability as Microsoft Windows XP SP2 while providing a smooth migration path to the latest hardware and operating system.
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17.7.2006 Microsoft Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Screenshots
Bink has been playing around with "Microsoft Windows XP Fundamentals for Legacy PCs". The result can be seen in screenshots posted on his gallery.
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15.7.2006 Dell to Sell Windows XP Professional with PCs Through 2009
In a letter to some of Dells customers, they said that "XP Professional is available for OEM installation on your Dell PC purchases through at least 2009 and likely longer."
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9.6.2008 88% of corporate PCs sport minimum Windows 7 hardware
A new study conducted by Softchoice has found that 88 percent of corporate PCs would currently be able to run Windows 7, compared to the 50 percent that could run Windows Vista prior to its release.
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19.10.2009 Microsoft Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Unattended Generator Utility
The Microsoft Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Unattended Generator Utility provides an easy way to create and edit an unattended answer file for use in installing Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs.
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7.8.2006 Why PCs Should Get More Sleep
Energy and cost savings can really add up with Windows Vista’s innovative power management capabilities. A single incandescent 100-watt light bulb left on around the clock for a year costs more than US$80 to power.
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22.3.2007 Apple twice the price of PCs
Research by analyst house NPD has shown that, on average, Apple users pay twice as much in the shops as PC users.
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11.8.2008 Microsoft says PCs may need DRAM upgrade
Desktop and notebook computers may need to adopt error-correcting code (ECC) memory to combat rising system crashes from single-bit memory errors, according to a confidential white paper written by Microsoft Corp.
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19.5.2007 The XP alternative for Vista PCs
While Microsoft is still pushing Vista hard, the company is quietly allowing PC makers to offer a "downgrade" option to buyers that get machines with the new operating system but want to switch to Windows XP.
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23.9.2007 Vista PCs: These Prices Are Insane!
Nearly half of retail Windows PCs now pack 3GB of RAM. Manufacturers are bulking up features as average selling prices stabilize. Next trend: 64-bit Vista and 4GB RAM.
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6.8.2008 Microsoft Delays XP for Legacy PCs
Microsoft has delayed a special slimmed-down version of Windows XP for legacy PCs, which is based on the Windows Embedded code base. The Redmond company had expected to make the operating system available to Software Assurance customers this month, but now says Windows Fundamentals will ship "in late 2006."
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13.3.2006 Report: Half of PCs Not Vista-Ready
While nearly every current PC will be able to run Windows Vista, only half will be able to take full advantage of all of it's features, a recent study by research firm Gartner suggests. In turn, the firm is urging IT managers to take caution when ordering new PCs.
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7.4.2006 Microsoft to lock pirates out of Vista PCs
Windows Vista will have new antipiracy technology that locks people out their PCs if the operating system isn't activated within 30 days after installation.
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4.10.2006 Ultra Mobile PCs to get Vista Facelift
Who remembers the hype around “Origami”? Unveiled in March 2006, Origami was the codename for the Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC).
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17.1.2007 Greens: Vista means more dead PCs
The Green Party has claimed that Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, could lead to a mass upgrade of PCs that will result in old machines being dumped in landfill sites.
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30.1.2007 Premium Vista PCs fare well in first week
Microsoft's wish that consumers purchase the premium versions of Windows Vista rather than the most basic version of the OS may be coming true, according to the findings of a research report released Thursday.
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10.2.2007 One billion PCs worldwide by end of 2008
More than one billion PCs will be in use worldwide by the end of 2008, fuelled by high growth rates in emerging markets such as the Bric bloc of countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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11.6.2007 Microsoft update brings PCs to a standstill
Something seems to have gone horribly wrong in an untold number of IT departments on Wednesday after Microsoft installed a resource-hogging search application on machines company-wide, even though administrators had configured systems not to use the program.
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25.10.2007 Elven Legacy Prepares to Take Over PCs Next Year
Turn-based strategies are not exactly best sellers, but well-done ones definitely manage to skyrocket and make a handful of people very happy.
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14.8.2008 Zombie PCs: Time to infection is less than five minutes
A fascinating — and horrifying — new article in The New York Times offers the lowdown on “zombie computers,” the half-a-million-or-so machines that are converted, assembled into systems called “botnets” and forced to do a shadowy figure’s bidding, namely in the form of automated programs that send the majority of e-mail spam, illegally seek financial information and install malicious software on still more PCs.
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22.10.2008 Nine of 10 corporate PCs can run Win 7
According to a survey carried out by Softchoice, 88% of corporate PCs in the US are capable of running Windows 7.
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19.10.2009 Microsoft and PC vendors to offer upgrade coupon to promote Windows Vista-capable PCs in 4Q
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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10.8.2006NASA finally abandons Mars Phoenix Lander
NASA has finally given up on trying to resurrect the Phoenix Mars Lander. As of early last week NASA stopped sending signals to the rover who is
fighting the intense winter temperatures on Mars. It was hoped that a variation in the weather would allow NASA to establish a connection with the
ill fated rover but there was no success. NASA hopes that when spring rolls around and the tilt of Mars changes that the sunlight will be able
restart the rover's computers. That is only if the rover is able to survive the winter. The little rover that could has already lived a
remarkable life.
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05.12.2008Google Joins NASA for Space
Research
Google announced late
Wednesday it had signed a
memorandum of understanding
with NASA that would allow it
to collaborate on research
projects with the space
agency, as well as build a new
one million square foot office
complex at the NASA Ames
Research Center...
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29.09.2005NASA to release high resolution film of first moon walk
Neowin recently reported that footage of the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk had been recovered after being lost for nearly 40
years. When NASA said that it was a hoax and nothing had been found many were left disappointed. Fortunately, NASA was either covering up the
discovery or the person who made the announcement was uniformed. At 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, July 16 NASA will hold a press conference and release
the recently found footage.
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14.07.2009[Updated] NASA releases high resolution film of moon walk
Updated: The videos are now online and can be viewed here. Neowin recently reported that footage of the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11
moonwalk had been recovered after being lost for nearly 40 years. When NASA said that it was a hoax and nothing had been found many were left
disappointed. Fortunately, NASA was either covering up the discovery or the person who made the announcement was uninformed. At 11 a.m. EDT on
Thursday, July 16 NASA will hold a press conference and release the recently found footage.
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16.07.2009NASA to explore strange, new virtual worlds
The Learning Technologies Project Office of NASA is actively considering hopping on the video game bandwagon by releasing its own massively
multiplayer online game...
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21.01.2008Google founders pay NASA $1.3 million to land at Moffett Airfield
Google Inc.'s founders will carry scientific equipment for NASA on their private Boeing 767 as part of a deal that grants them landing rights at
Moffett Federal Airfield, near Mountain View, NASA and local officials said.
The agreement gives Larry Page and Sergey Brin use
of the former naval air station, from which civilian aircraft are normally barred, in exchange for allowing the space agency to place instruments on
board their planes for research into the Earth's atmosphere and beyond.
NASA confirmed the contract on Monday, nearly a week
after a 767-200 owned by Google's founders was first spotted at Moffett Field. The response appears to be aimed at placating local officials and
residents who had raised concerns about noise from any new flights and who had asked NASA for additional information...
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13.09.2007NASA sends the Beatles across the Universe
February 4th will mark the first time NASA beams a song directly into deep space. Quite appropriately, the song in question is The Beatles'
"Across the Universe". The transmission, which will be sent at 7 p.m. EST, is being aimed at the North Star, Polaris, which is located 431 light
years away from Earth. The song will travel across the universe at a speed of 186,000 miles per second. The transmission over NASA's Deep Space
Network will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the day The Beatles recorded the song, as well as the 50th anniversary of NASA's founding and the
group's beginnings. February 4 has been declared "Across The Universe Day" by Beatles fans to commemorate the anniversaries. As part of the
celebration, the public around the world has been invited to participate in the event by simultaneously playing the song at the same time it is
transmitted by NASA.
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01.02.2008NASA may sell Space Shuttles, BIN 42 Million
When NASA sets to retire its space shuttles in 2010 they may be interested in selling off the old orbiters. NASA is currently in the information
gathering stage but selling off three shuttles for 42 million a piece (the 6 million dollar cost for shipping is included) would help to continue
funding the next generation of space shuttles. The Smithsonian is reportedly interested in the purchase but one would wonder where else the shuttles
would go? The shuttles would be stripped of key components before being sent off and would not be in an operable state.
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18.12.2008NASA Mars Rovers hits 5-year anniversary
NASA's Mars rovers have been on the red planet for five-years now. The rovers were originally planned to stay on the planet for only 90 days has
turned into much longer than anticipated. NASA has put together a video to celebrate the anniversary. The rovers have made important discoveries
about wet and violent environments on ancient Mars. They also have returned a quarter-million images, driven more than 21 kilometers (13 miles),
climbed a mountain, descended into craters, struggled with sand traps and aging hardware, survived dust storms, and relayed more than 36 gigabytes of
data via NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. To date, the rovers remain operational for new campaigns the team has planned for them. News source: Tech
Fragments
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04.01.2009Nasa and Microsoft bring Universe to Web
Microsoft today announced a new partnership with NASA to bring images & data of moon and Mars to Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope (WWT) for
Internet viewing. Through a Space Act agreement, Microsoft and NASA will jointly develop the technology and infrastructure necessary to make NASA
content available including high-resolution scientific images and data from Mars and the moon for viewing through WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft's
online virtual telescope. The above image shows the Proctor Crater on Mars. The bright, small ridges are sand ripples, and the larger, darker
bedforms are sand dunes. We will get to see more interesting images in WWT later this year, as part of a joint Space Act Agreement.
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25.03.2009NASA finds lost high resolution film of first moon landing
When NASA put a man on the moon it was a triumph of achievement for the US as it showed its technical capabilities and its dedication to space
exploration. NASA spent years planning for and developing specialized equipment for the mission. One such piece of equipment was a high resolution
video camera that would send back images to Earth. Because of the lack of technology at the time the video feed from the moon actually had to be
compressed and scaled down to work on televisions across the world. After the initial recording of the high resolution stream from the moon the film
went missing after its shipment back to the US.
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30.06.2009NASA to Use Microsoft Photosynth for Shuttle Launch
Microsoft said Monday that it
had partnered with NASA to
give an unprecedented look at
the Endeavour Shuttle launch
through Photosynth, its
platform that uses standard
camera images to create
navigable 3D views...
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06.08.2007Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again)
Viruses intended to steal passwords and send them to a remote server infected laptops in the International Space Station in July, NASA confirmed
Tuesday.
And according to NASA, this wasn't the first infection.
"This is not the first time we have had a
worm or a virus," NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said. "It's not a frequent occurrence, but this isn't the first time."
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27.08.2008NASA: It would cost $370 million to convert to metric
The shuttles that NASA uses to fly to space currently use measurements in the form of pounds and feet as opposed to the more widely adopted meters and
newtons. The upcoming shuttle replacement will continue to use the imperial measurement system because it would cost NASA $370 million dollars to
convert to the "'International System' of units". In 2009 a launch to put a shuttle into orbit costs approximately $759 million dollars
and to spend half the budget of a launch to convert units of measure can not be justified because it will produce no gain for the agency or the
shuttle occupants. To convert to a new system of measurement is not as easy as it sounds.
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25.06.2009NASA to stream daily video feed from ISS
Streaming digital video showing activities inside and outside the International Space Station and the view of Earth from up there will now be
available for about twelve hours every day, according to NASA. The feed will also contain audio of communications between Mission Control and the
astronauts, including (for instance) live video of maintenance activities outside the station during today's prep for the incoming space shuttle.
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10.03.2009NASA space tests 'interplanetary internet' protocol
NASA has announced successful space tests of its new purpose-designed interplanetary communications networking protocol, which it calls
Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN). Famed TCP/IP pioneer Vint Cerf was instrumental in the space net's design.
"This is the
first step in creating a totally new space communications capability, an interplanetary Internet," said Adrian Hooke, at NASA Headquarters in
Washington.
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19.11.2008Groundbreaking Digital Experience for Endeavour Shuttle Launch
For the first time, people
around the world can view 3-D
images of the space shuttle
Endeavour and surrounding
buildings at the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida before it
launches into space, through a
collaboration between
Microsoft Corp. and NASA.
Microsoft Live Labs and NASA
developed the environments
using hundreds of photographs
and a photo-imaging technology
called Photosynth. Photosynth
uses hundreds of standard
digital camera images to
construct a 3-D view of an
environment that can be
navigated and explored in a
highly intuitive manner.
Online
viewers can go to
http://media
.labs.live.com/photosynth/nasa
/default.htm to access 3-D
images of details such as the
shuttle boosters, interior and
exterior of the Vehicle
Assembly Building, and
launchpad. By clicking and
dragging their mouse, visitors
to the site will be able to
explore parts of the shuttle
launch, zooming in to see the
smallest decorative detail or
zooming out and panning 360
degrees to place the shuttle
in a wider context.
śThis
collaboration with Microsoft
gives the public a new way to
explore and participate in
Americas space program,ť said
William Gerstenmaier, NASA
associate administrator for
Space Operations. śWe are
looking into ways of using
this new technology to support
future missions.ť..
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06.08.2007NASA Employees Warned About Vista Security Loophole
Computer security specialists
at NASA have warned their
employees of a loophole in the
encryption feature BitLocker,
only present in Enterprise and
Ultimate editions of
Microsoft's Windows Vista
operating system. According to
a document posted on NASA's
Web site, BitLocker's
encryption can be bypassed if
a user leaves their computers
in "sleep" mode. Only if the
computer is shut down or set
to "hibernate", users are
required to insert a USB
authentication key into their
PCs or laptops to in order to
boot up.
" An
administrator can reduce the
risk of circumvention of
BitLocker (through theft of a
"sleeping" rather than
"hibernating" machine) by
reducing the duration before
the machine goes into
hibernation ," said
NASA's security specialists,
Aaron Powell and Christopher
Vincent.
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09.02.2007NASA to put image archive into Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
Microsoft's window into space is about to get more interesting. NASA will put large volumes of high-resolution images and other planetary data into
the Redmond company's WorldWide Telescope online application under an agreement announced this morning...
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24.03.2009NASA: it snows on Mars
When NASA sent two rovers to Mars they were not quite sure what all they would find. What they ended up finding far exceeded expectations and has
proven that the possible foundations for life do exist on other planets. The scientists were eventually able to conclude that cloud formations do
form on the planet and they can, in fact, make it snow on Mars. Scientists were able to observe this phenomenon using the LIDAR instrument (Light
Detection and Ranging). "But the really amazing data came from the LIDAR instrument, which was able to track the formation of the clouds at the
atmosphere's boundary layer.
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