Pirates Offered Windows XP Pro Retail at $100 Discount
Users running illegal copies of Windows XP are being offered discounted purchase prices.
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15.5.2006 Tweak-XP Pro v4.0.8 Download
The original tuning and optimization software for Windows XP. Tweak hundreds of hidden features of Windows XP, optimize your machine and customize it to your needs.
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13.12.2006 Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine nagware notifications
Microsoft is stepping up its war on software pirates by rolling out new Windows Genuine notification software for what it is calling its most pirated version of Windows: Windows XP Professional.
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26.8.2008 How to Backup and Restore to Preserve OEM Offline Pre-Activation When Reinstall Windows XP
Most users of new computers with Windows XP pre-installed will notice that no activation is required after they unwrap and start up the new laptop or notebook PC, even though they need to go through the initial set up process, and a product key is found on the Certificate of Authenticity attached to the PC (COA Key). Large PC manufacturers known as Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) have the ability to pre-activate Windows XP operating system installed on new PCs via SLP (System Locked Preinstallation).
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3.9.2009 XP OEM Licensing Extension Is Urban Myth
Contrary to all the blog buzz, Microsoft hasn't extended OEM Windows XP "downgrade" licensing by another six months.
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8.10.2008 How to Downgrade from Windows Vista Business or Ultimate OEM Edition and Install Windows XP Professional
A lot of users still don’t getting used to Windows Vista. A lot of reviews have been labeling Windows Vista as bloated, hard to use, tons of compatibility issues, inconvenient, not user friendly, not stable and etc.
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22.8.2008 DTweak Pro v2.3.1 for Windows Vista
Thanks to odeeee for this download. DTweak is a complex tweaker for Windows Vista, and with this release it is more than a tweaker.
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22.5.2007 Vista Smoker Pro 1.1
Vista Smoker Pro allows you to change various settings in the Windows Registry.
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26.2.2007 Vista Start Menu 2.1 PRO
Vista Start Menu has been in development as an attractive and efficient alternative to the Start Menu in Windows XP and Windows Vista for one year.
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28.1.2007 CDBurnerXP Pro 4.0.013.220
CDBurnerXP Pro is a free CD/DVD burning solution. With this software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.
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23.9.2007 CDBurnerXP Pro 4.0.024.439
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free.
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12.3.2008 Internet Explorer 7 Pro v0.9.10
IE7pro is an add-on for IE 7 which adds lots of features and extras, that make your IE easier, more useful, secure and customizable.
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11.2.2007 Apple Launches 8 Core Mac Pro
Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The world’s first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. Consider the bar officially raised.
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5.4.2007 Hackman Suite Pro v9.01
Thanks to odeeee for this download. Hackman Suite is a multi-module all purpose debugging tool. It includes a hex editor, a disassembler, a template editor, a hex calculator and other everyday useful tools to assist programmers and code testers with the most common tasks.
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14.6.2007 What about Windows 7 OEM pricing?
Microsoft still has yet to go public with its Windows 7 price list. But that hasn’t stopped customers and partners from publicly hoping for the best (cheaper than Vista) and fearing the worst (any kind of increase over the cost of Vista).
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16.6.2009 Download Steganos Internet An 8.0.1onym Pro 2006
Map of the world showing your camouflage location. Live! You can track how your proxy server changes.
- Direct access out of the Internet Explorer. Easy to use thanks to the plug in.
- Password-protected list of favorites. Your favorite Web sites remain private.
- You can select the browser: Anonymous Web surfing works with all browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla...
- NEW: Now with Steganos Update Wizard: stay automatically up-to-date!
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19.11.2005 8-Core Mac Pro and new displays slated for January
Sources indicated to MacScoop that Apple is readying the launch of renewed Mac Pro and Cinema Display line-ups in January.
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31.12.2006 Your Uninstaller! VISTA Pro 2006 v5.0.0.313
Your Uninstaller! uninstaller software is the industry's leading uninstaller software. It's the world's 1st smart Drag&Uninstall uninstaller software under the Windows platform, it's "Windows XP Optimized" and also works on other Windows versions including Windows Vista/XP/2000/ME/98/95/2003. Thanks to odeeee and marct for this download.
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30.6.2007 Windows Live to Get First OEM Bundle
Microsoft will imminently announce its first PC-bundling deal for Windows Live.
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14.3.2007 Windows 7 OEM Pricing Emerges
Windows 7 is set to be launched on the market in about three weeks from now, and those people considering choosing it as the platform on their computers are certainly interested in the costs the migration will imply.
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30.9.2009 ATI Radeon X1650 Pro vs. Nvidia GeForce 7600GS
As much as we love testing and talking about the latest innovations in PC graphics, it's only a fraction of the gamers market that can truly enjoy these high-end products as soon as they come out of the oven because of its high prices.
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31.10.2006 Zonealarm Pro Firewall 2010 with Free License Key Giveaway
Lately we have seen many big software companies having good promotion offer and its best way to grab products for free when we can’t afford to buy.
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10.10.2009 Microsoft Windows Vista OEM Preinstallation Kit available
The Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) OEM Presinstallation Kit is now available. Microsoft's Worldwide System Builder team would like system builders to experience the updated OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) tools which will be used to preinstall Windows Vista.
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16.10.2006 Microsoft: The Windows OEM License Dies with Its Computer
Licenses for Windows come in various flavors from Retail to Volume, but perhaps the most common of all is provided by original equipment manufacturers together with operating systems preloaded on new computers.
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17.6.2008 Get an Insight into the Windows 7 OEM Pre-installation Kit
Here is your chance to get an insight into the OEM Pre-installation Kit (OPK) that Microsoft will offer for Windows 7.
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24.5.2009 Windows 7 OEM Named Partner RTM Information
Here is the correct current information as available for OEM's. Thansk to our fiend for report.
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22.7.2009 Want Windows 7 for 50 Percent Off? Order an OEM Copy
Missed out on the early preorder discounts? Popular retailer Newegg.com has listed the OEM prices for Windows 7, which will be offered at less than half what Microsoft will charge for a retail copy.
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26.9.2009 OEM Logo and Information for Windows Vista - Auto Patch
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this post in forum. You have successfully activate Windows Vista instantly in OEM style by using hardware-level BIOS ACPI-SLIC mod, or one of the two software based OEM BIOS emulator such as softmod SLIC BIOS bootloader and Paradox OEM BIOS Emulation Toolkit.
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20.3.2007 Microsoft Confirms Windows Vista OEM BIOS Crack
Microsoft confirmed the fact that hackers have developed a valid Windows Vista crack designed to exploit the operating system's OEM BIOS activation.
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11.4.2007 First OEM Boxes of Windows 7 RTM Build 7600.16385
Last week, just days after Windows 7 was released to manufacturing, Microsoft started handing the gold bits to original equipment manufacturers.
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27.7.2009Windows 7 Ultimate cracked and activated with OEM master key
Windows 7 has yet to even be released officially to the general public, and already the dodgy folk on the Internet have fully cracked and activated
the Ultimate version, with help from a leaked Lenovo OEM DVD .ISO file. The news comes from website My Digital Life who state that you can already
pass Windows Genuine Advantage validation offline, OEM style. The leaked .ISO was originally posted on a Chinese forum, which was then downloaded in
order for people to get hold of the boot.wim, and in turn retrieving the OEM-SLP key, plus the OEM activation certificate. Microsoft uses the same
digitally signed OEM certificate, which has an .xrm-ms extension, as that in Windows Vista.
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29.07.2009XP OEM Licensing Extension Is Urban Myth
Contrary to all the blog buzz, Microsoft hasn't extended OEM Windows XP "downgrade" licensing by another six months. What Microsoft has done is
agree to provide OEMs with Windows XP media until June 30. Surely, somebody will accuse me of playing semantics. Not so. It's called accuracy in
reporting, and pretty much everybody has it wrong.
The blogosphere buzzed with excitement, ridicule and accusation over the weekend about
the rumored extension. Seems like anybody and everybody wagged the "We told you that Vista sucks" finger at Microsoft. I don't doubt that
several OEMs want to continue offering Windows XP after Jan. 31, but they didn't need any extension to do it.
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08.10.2008Dell 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." The "official" OEM and retail end date from Microsoft is June 30, 2008, just a few weeks away. There has been
much talk of whether Microsoft would bow to the demand of the consumers to keep XP alive, and with this it is still hard to tell if Dell bought a
years stock of licenses ahead of time, or if this is the precursor to an announcement from Microsoft.
Dell's plan for users is to have
Windows XP Professional installed on their machines, but include the Vista install disk for when they are ready to upgrade. "With XP installed,
we will send media for both Vista and XP with each PC so that when you are ready to migrate to Vista you may at no addition upgrade cost." The
demand seems high, so let's hope others follow suit to allow companies the time and resources to fully upgrade.
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10.06.2008Windows XP Mode final release coming October 22
Microsoft's Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 Professional or higher has RTM'd (Release to Manufacturing) today and will be available for download
from Microsoft Download Center on October 22. OEM manufactures will be able to offer Windows XP Mode on their PC's, based on their shipping
schedules to consumers. The design purpose for Windows XP Mode is to help put businesses minds at ease when upgrading to Windows 7 to ensure their
applications are backwards compatible. Windows XP Mode will allow any program to run smoothly in Windows 7 Professional or higher just as it does in
Windows XP.
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02.10.2009Windows XP SP3 released to manufacturing, downloadable 4/29
In a post to Microsoft's TechNet Forum minutes ago, a Microsoft official announced that Service Pack 3 of Windows XP has released to its
manufacturing channels, in order to reach OEM and enterprise customers by late April...
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21.04.2008Microsoft Responds to Save XP Petition
Microsoft's decision to discontinue OEM and packaged sales of Windows XP at the end of June - leaving businesses and consumers with the
less-than-celebrated Vista as their only choice of Windows operating system on new PCs - has drawn considerable criticism and led to an outpouring of
support for the continuation of XP sales.
Over 75,000 people have signed
Infoworld's 'Save XP' petition; a Web site complete with an XP countdown timer, video tributes, and a series of articles
detailing why a large number of businesses, organizations and consumers are unhappy with Microsoft's decision to force them into adopting the
yet-to-be widely accepted Vista operating system.
<...> In response to Infoworld's petition and other pro-XP outpourings of
support, a Microsoft spokesperson in the US told Computerworld: "We're aware of it, but are listening first and foremost to feedback we hear from
partners and customers about what makes sense based on their needs. That's what informed our decision to extend the availability of XP initially, and
what will continue to guide us."
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06.02.2008Microsoft tweaks anti-piracy check for Windows XP
Microsoft has updated software that verifies whether a copy of Windows is genuine in its Windows XP Professional edition, making it similar to the
notification in Windows Vista and thus more persistently visible to users. In a blog posting attributed to Alex Kochis, a Microsoft director of
product marketing and management, the company said it made the changes to the Windows Genuine Notification (WGA) alerts for XP Pro because it is
"the product edition that is most often stolen."
Now when a version of Windows XP Pro is found to be pirated or counterfeit, the next
time a user logs on to the system, the desktop screen background will be black, replacing whatever custom desktop may have been set by the user. This
will reappear every 60 minutes, even if a user resets the screen's background. Previously, this was not a part of the WGA notification for Windows
XP Pro.
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27.08.2008OEM Microsoft Office and OEM Microsoft Windows licensing
OEM Microsoft Office and OEM
Microsoft Windows licensing is
a topic that seems to again be
generating questions and there
are plenty of people out there
who are illegally taking
advantage of others to trying
to make a quick profit by
selling counterfeit or
unlicensed software.
Here are the facts
and answers to many of the
points of confusion around OEM
Microsoft Office and OEM
Microsoft Windows licensing so
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02.08.2007How to get Windows XP after June 30
Two weeks ago, InfoWorld launched a petition campaign to
save Windows XP. So far
we’ve gotten more than 70,000 signatures, thanks to a passionate response from
a wide range of XP users. We hope we can
persuade Microsoft to keep selling XP licenses indefinitely, past the June 30 deadline, after which Microsoft
has said no
more shrink-wrapped or OEM licenses will be available for retailers, computer makers, and others to order. (Vendors
can
continue to sell by June 30 any XP licenses they ordered from Microsoft, but when they run out of those, they can't get
more
to sell.)
We fully acknowledge that, even if we get a million signatures, Microsoft may stick with its original plan. If new
Windows
XP licenses come to a screeching halt after June 30 as currently planned, what can IT do to get more XP seats? The
answer
depends on your licensing arrangement with Microsoft. The short answer for most users, though, is that Microsoft will
let
people with Vista Business or Ultimate "downgrade" to Windows XP Pro under specific circumstances.
Here, based on Microsoft's published documentation and on the company’s responses to our questions, is InfoWorld's guide to
how you can get new XP licenses after Microsoft officially pulls the plug.
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28.01.2008Microsoft has Windows 7 surprises up its sleeve
Microsoft is planning a couple of major new announcements around Windows 7 with the forthcoming release of the Release Candidate.
At a briefing at Microsoft's London headquarters today, the company's Windows OEM manager, Laurence Painell told PC Pro that there will
be a "couple of additional, quite major announcements" in the coming weeks.
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03.04.2009Windows 7 OEM prices unveiled, 50% off list price
ComputerWorld is reporting that online retailer Newegg.com has unveiled Windows 7 OEM pricing. Newegg.com has priced the OEM version of Windows 7
Home Premium at $99.99 which is a price reduction of 50% down from the recommended retail price of $199.99. Other savings are available for
Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate at $134.99 and $174.99, respectively. This is a saving of approximately 50% on each version from
the list price. OEM editions are priced lower as you typically do not get retail packaging, little official support and you're not able to
transfer the operating system license from one PC to another.
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29.09.2009Windows XP gets another stay of execution
Microsoft has extended the final OEM and reseller delivery date for the Windows XP from January 31, 2009 to May 30, 2009. The cut off date for PC
makers to obtain licenses for the software was January 31, 2009. Still, vendors have to place their orders before the official cutoff date of January
31, but they dont have to take delivery until May. Microsoft granted the reprieve largely because of customer's preference for XP. Microsoft also
recently extended the Vista "downgrade" deadline for OEMs to July 31 and netbooks and low-cost laptops will be able to run XP until at least June
2010, so chances are you'll be able to get XP until Windows 7 ships.
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23.12.2008Mag names Mac Pro 'fastest PC in UK'
Apple's four-core Intel-based
Mac Pro desktop has been named
the UK's fastest PC after it
was lined up against a
top-of-the-line Windows
machine by British magazine PC
Pro.
According to
the publication's upcoming
November issue, out in two
weeks' time, the 3GHz Mac Pro
was run alongside a Pentium
D-based machine. The Mac Pro
has two dual-core Xeon 5160
CPUs, 4GB of DDR 2 memory
mounted on FB-DIMMs, a Quadro
FX 4500 graphics card and
1.75TB of hard disk capacity.
Windows XP was installed on
the Mac using Apple's Boot
Camp utility.
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05.10.2006Windows XP to be phased out by year's end
Computer makers have been told
they'll no longer be able to
get Windows XP OEM by the end
of this year, despite consumer
resistance to Vista and its
compatibility problems.
By early 2008,
Microsoft's contracts with
computer makers will require
companies to only sell
Vista-loaded machines. "The
OEM version of XP Professional
goes next January," said
Frank Luburic, senior ThinkPad
product manager for Lenovo.
"At that point, they'll have
no choice."
Despite Microsoft's
relentless promotion of Vista,
manufacturers are still seeing
plenty of demand from
customers for systems
preloaded with XP, especially
in the finicky SOHO market.
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12.04.2007How to Get Windows XP Even Though it's 'Dead'
On June 30, 2008, Microsoft
pulled the plug on Windows XP. That's the last day Windows XP was
officially available for purchase from retail outlets, major resellers and OEM hardware manufacturers. But that doesn't mean the operating system is
going to go quietly. Many consumers would still rather run XP than Vista, and there are several loopholes in Microsoft's supply chain that let you
get a copy of XP if you really want one.
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01.07.2008Microsoft sends harsh reality check to OEMs
Last week, Microsoft sent
certified letters to its OEM
partners regarding Vista's
anti-piracy technology -- or,
more accurately, what happens
if they dare ship a system
with a "non-genuine" copy of
Vista.
The answer:
The system is crippled for 30
days, then hosed entirely
until you pony up for a
license. This is apparently
what Microsoft means when it
http://oem.microsoft.com/downl
oads/public/US/wgavista/genuin
e.pdf>warns of a "diminished
user experience."
This would be fine if
Microsoft were a reasonably
competent organization and
Windows Genuine Advantage
worked flawlessly. True
pirates deserve to be
punished. But Microsoft isn't
and WGA doesn't “ at least,
judging by the many letters I
got from Cringesters who
bought legit OEM copies of XP
from major manufacturers, only
to have WGA label them as
pirates. ..
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04.06.2007Windows XP Embedded Update Rollup 1 Released
The Windows XP Embedded team
is pleased to announce that we
have officially released
Update Rollup 1.0 for Windows
XP Embedded. This is the final
release of the product known
in the Beta as Windows XP
Embedded "Feature Preview
2008."
Update Rollup
1.0 includes support for
Windows Media Player 11,
Windows Internet Explorer 7,
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0,
and Remote Desktop Protocol
(RDP) 6.0.
You can
download the Evaluation
Edition now from the
http://www.microsoft.com/downl
oads/details.aspx?FamilyId=70A
79E6F-CE42-45C7-ADD2-52F57959E
CF2&displaylang=en>Microsoft
Download Center. The full
version is scheduled to be
available for download from
the MS OEM Online (MOO)
Software Order Center by June
8, 2007...
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05.06.2007Microsoft blacklists leaked Windows 7 OEM key
Microsoft has responded to pirates by blacklisting the Lenovo OEM key that leaked earlier this week. On Tuesday Neowin reported that pirates were
able to modify their BIOS and activate copies of Windows 7 Ultimate with a Lenovo OEM master key. Microsoft have worked with Lenovo to blacklist the
master key before Windows 7 starts shipping with new PCs in October. According to Alex Kochis, Director of Genuine Windows at Microsoft: "we've
worked with that manufacturer so that customers who purchase genuine copies of Windows 7 from this manufacturer will experience no issues validating
their copy of Windows 7.
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31.07.2009XP 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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07.04.2009Microsoft block Windows 7 OEM key hack
Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage team
have responded to this week's news that a Windows 7 Ultimate
licensing hack had been identified.
After a Lenovo OEM Windows 7 image leaked and was used to extract a license key, Microsoft have worked with the manufacturer to blacklist the rogue
key and replace it - on genuine Lenovo PCs bought with the new OS - with a working version.
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