MySpace wants to bar 'spam king'
MySpace.com on Tuesday said it has filed suit against Sanford Wallace, seeking to bar the "spam king" and his affiliated companies from the social-networking site.
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28.3.2007 Microsoft gives bar codes a splash of color
After years of being decked out in monochromatic stripes, the bar code is going color.
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16.4.2007 In progress: Vista updates!
In progress right now is a beta testers chat with MS experts on the future of IE7 and Vista. Here are some parts of the chat that may be interesting to you... more to come shortly:
SamW [MS] (Expert):
Q: [17] When will you release the November CTP? Only 2 days left of November!
A: There will be no CTP for Vista in November because we are targeting for most features to be code-complete by end of December and resources efforts are going towards that effort. We should have a CTP in December before the Christmas holiday. These interim changes have no impact on our general availability target for Windows Vista. We are on track to deliver a high-quality Windows Vista in the 2nd half of 2006.
Paul Donnelly [MS] (Expert):
Q: [54] Can someone clear up what seems to be confusion on the groups over the release of Build 5259? Did it go to selected testers or TAP because date of release and extent seems confused. I notice Mario mentions it today.
A: A specific, small group of partners received access to 5259. It is an IDW build and has not gone through the CTP testing process.
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29.11.2005 Windows Vista: More Work in Progress
Today, Gartner analyst Michael Silver asked, "Will Vista be done by 30 January 2007?" His answer: "No."
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5.1.2007 Judge Criticizes MS Settlement Progress
At a court hearing to discuss Microsoft's progress in meeting the sanctions imposed in a 2002 antitrust settlement, a U.S. District Judge reprimanded the company over its recent music software flap. Microsoft was also scolded for not moving fast enough in opening its Windows internals to third parties.
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Ballmer describes Vista as work in progress
Steve Ballmer has admitted that Vista is "a work in progress", and admitted the company has to learn lessons from its release.
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18.4.2008 ViGlance – Windows 7 Super Bar for Windows XP
If you have decided not to upgrade your Windows XP to Windows 7 in the near future and would like to stay back with Windows XP, but on the other hand would like to experience and get a feel on how Windows 7 looks like, here is a good news for you. By having ViGlance installed, you can now enjoy Windows 7 super bar feature on your existing Windows XP based computer without the need of upgrading.
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8.7.2009 Is your copy of Windows genuine?
How to Tell helps you verify that your Microsoft products are genuine.
To begin, choose the product category that best describes your Microsoft product. On the following product category page you will be able to select your specific product and the method by which you acquired it to learn more about genuine Microsoft products.
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Windows Vista Copy Protection Cracked
More than a year after Windows Vista was introduced, hackers have finally developed a clean crack of Windows Vista.
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5.3.2008 Fancy a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for FREE?
A little bird has informed me of an official Microsoft hosted survey in which the winner(s) will receive a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate after simply filling out a 4 question survey.
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30.6.2009 Windows 7 testers to get free copy from tomorrow
Last week Microsoft had a change of heart and decided to go back on what they had previously said by offering testers on the Windows 7 technical beta program a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, in reward for their efforts in testing the new operating system.
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5.8.2009 Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Win 7?
Yesterday there appeared an interview with a Microsoft group manager who claimed that Microsoft copied the “Mac look and feel in terms of graphics” in Windows 7.
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12.11.2009 Blu-ray BD+ Copy Protection Cracked!
It would seem that there's absolutely nothing out there, no type of copy protection system that can resist the hard efforts of ingenious "security researchers", especially when the respective system is designed to protect valuable multimedia content (namely, movies).
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31.10.2007 Throw a Windows 7 house party and get a free copy
Microsoft is looking for some Windows 7 fans to throw launch parties between October 22-29.
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3.9.2009 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 Turn a counterfeit copy of WindowsXP into a free Vista license!
Perhaps you have bought a license of WindowsXP Home, Pro or Media Centerd Edition 2005 from your local dealer and afterwards it turned into a counterfeit while trying to validate it through WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) program.
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29.4.2006 Vista RTM Evaluation Copy Desktop Watermark Patch
Hi there people, here's a little guide on how to get rid of that stupid "evaluation copy" watermark in the bottom right corner of your Windows Vista RTM. Some may not see it yet, but believe me it will show up after a few reboots.
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14.11.2006 Windows 'patent tax' pegged at $21.50 per copy
Windows users on average pay $21.50 to line the pockets of third party software developers such as Sun Microsystems, Novell and Alcatel-Lucent, according to a calculation by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).
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16.4.2007 Fancy a free copy of Office 2010 and a laptop to run it on?
Microsoft is looking for family, student or home business users of their successful Office suite to participate in the beta program for Office 2010.
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23.6.2009 Microsoft makes a u-turn, Windows 7 testers to get free copy
In a surprise turn around, Microsoft announced today that Windows 7 technical testers will be receiving a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
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30.7.2009 Prevent 1.0 - Stop Unauthorized Copy, Delete, Move & Change of Settings
I am sure everyone has faced the situation where either their friends, colleagues, family member of kids renaming, deleting important files or changing settings like wallpaper, screen resolution etc. this is typical with younger sibling.
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17.9.2009 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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27.5.2008Microsoft details the Windows 7 Taskbar
Chaitanya Sareen, Windows Team at Microsoft, has produced a blog post detailing the new Windows 7 Taskbar. In the post Sareen highlights the
following areas of evolution: Refreshed LookPinningUnificationInteractive, Grouped ThumbnailsAero PeekJump ListsCustom Window Switchers Thumbnail
ToolbarsNotification AreaOverlay Icons and Progress BarsColor Hot-trackStart MenuIn the post, Sareen also posts screen shots of one of the latest
builds of Windows 7 at Microsoft, Build 6948.fbl_shell_dex.081112-1755. Most of the features we already know about from PDC but one interesting
addition, that Microsoft didn't demonstrate at PDC, is overlay icons and progress bars in the taskbar. Microsoft now allows application developers
to give feedback about progress by having their taskbar button turn into a progress bar.
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21.11.2008Partner Software Ecosystem Continues to Line Up to Support Windows 7
Hi, Mark Rogers here. I run the Software Ecosystem Team here at Microsoft. Building on
Mikes recent post
on overall ecosystem readiness, I wanted give you a quick update on our progress helping developers get ready to serve the hundreds of millions of
users of Windows with our next release...
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31.07.2009How to prevent Windows Vista's green ribbon of death
David A. Karp: Don't you just love it when something is so notorious
for a particular shortcoming that a new term is invented to describe it? It happened with the Windows Blue Screen of Death. It happened with the
Spinning Beach Ball of Death in Mac OS X. And it happened with the odd-number curse, referring to every other Star Trek film.
Now
it has happened with Vista's own Green Ribbon of Death, shown below.
The green ribbon is basically a progress bar, a screen
element Microsoft has sadly gone to great pains to excise from Windows Vista. But this particular progress bar is the harbinger of death for the
active Windows Explorer window, which, unfortunately, is not uncommon in Vista.
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18.02.2008XM, Sirius Progress Towards Profitability
As the companies continue to
work towards getting their
proposed merger approved, both
show progress in improving
their balance sheets. Sirius
shows the most improvement,
capturing a 66 percent
subscriber share...
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01.05.2007Microsoft workers set to recieve a bar on campus
Windows 7 could soon be powered by Jack Daniels and Smirnoff Vodka if the opening of a new Spitfire bar on campus attracts thirsty Windows team
members. Todd Bishop first revealed the plans to setup a bar on Microsoft's Redmond campus a month ago and now Reymond Chen, Shell developer for
the Windows Team, has revealed employees are now playing the name game to name the bar, albeit un-officially. When we questioned Chen on what Aero
Shake was at Microsoft's PDC conference he denied any knowledge of the feature and claimed, with the assistance of his Microsoft colleagues, that
Microsoft could be building a nuclear missile into Windows 7.
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12.12.2008Microsoft Details Web 2.0 Progress
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday detailed his company's progress on Web 2.0, saying the company had launched Popfly and the extension of
several other Live Services...
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18.10.2007Microsoft Confirms IE7 Address Bar Flaw
Microsoft confirmed a
vulnerability Thursday in the
address bar of Internet
Explorer 7. First reported by
security firm Secunia on
Wednesday, the issue occurs in
pop-up windows...
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26.10.2006Sears First Out Of Gates with 2D Bar Codes
Efforts to implement retail 2D bar codes are accelerating: Sears, in conjuction with vendor ScanBuy, became the first U.S. retailer to begin a public
trial that started in mid-December at a store in Marietta, Georgia. As opposed the the traditional row of black lines (a 1D barcode), 2D barcodes look
like a grid and make use of a second, vertical dimension, allowing them to store more data. What Sears hopes to do is to allow a cell phone's
digital camera "look" at a small 2D bar code on an advertisement, which launches an applet. A server interprets the bar code and the phone then
launches a Web browser and deep-links to a page on that site, typically the Web site of the advertiser.
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21.01.2008Sears First US Retailer to Use 2D Bar Codes
Efforts to implement retail 2D bar codes in stores are accelerating: Sears, in conjuction with vendor ScanBuy, became the first U.S. retailer to begin
a public trial that started in mid-December at a store in Marietta, Georgia. As opposed the the traditional row of black lines (a 1D barcode), 2D
barcodes look like a grid and make use of a second, vertical dimension, allowing them to store more data. What Sears hopes to do is to allow a cell
phone's digital camera "look" at a small 2D bar code on an advertisement, which launches an applet. A server interprets the bar code and the
phone then launches a Web browser and deep-links to a page on that site, typically the Web site of the advertiser.
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21.01.2008DVDs Can Soon be Legally Burned by Licensed Services
After a decade and a half of
negotiations, waiting, and
litigation - with the emphasis
toward the latter - the DVD
Copy Control Association,
which administers the CSS copy
protection scheme, formally
announced yesterday that it
will soon become legal for
businesses to burn DVDs on
demand whose copy protection
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04.07.2007Microsoft: Some Progress in EU
Case
Microsoft ended its two-day
hearing with the European
Commission on Friday with an
upbeat tone, saying it had
made progress in coming to an
understanding with the EU's
antitrust watchdog. The
hearing was scheduled to
determine whether Microsoft
had adequately complied with a
March 2004 ruling against it...
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01.04.2006EMI, Apple Disagree on Copy
Protection
EMI said Thursday that its
copy-protected music CDs would
soon play on Apple iPods, but
the maker of the best-selling
portable player denied that
was the case. The record label
claims that Apple was close to
completing the work needed to
make EMI's copy-protection
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18.11.2005DRM Debate Resumes Over 'Managed Copy' for Blu-Ray, HD DVD
A full three years after the
idea for it was first raised,
and well over a year since the
first generation of
high-definition DVD players
was supposed to have included
it, the debate over both the
meaning and implementation of
mandatory managed copy
(MMC) for the final 1.0
version of the AACS copy
protection scheme has been
re-ignited...
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24.05.2007Sony Yanks Copy-Protected CDs
Two weeks on, spyware-style
copy protection's flaws prove
too much for the market...
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16.11.2005Judge Criticizes MS Settlement
Progress
At a court hearing to discuss
Microsoft's progress in
meeting the sanctions imposed
in a 2002 antitrust
settlement, a U.S. District
Judge reprimanded the company
over its recent music software
flap. Microsoft was also
scolded for not moving fast
enough in opening its Windows
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28.10.2005Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 - Part Deux
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Following the
benchmarks I carried out last week, I
decided that the PC Doc HQ lab rats needed to pull a few all-nighters and carry out some more benchmarking tests on Vista SP1 and XP SP2. Is it
possible to determine conclusively which is the faster, more responsive OS?
One of the main criticisms of my initial benchmark
tests was that I overlooked the fact that, under the hood, Windows Vista SP1 works differently to XP SP2 in the file copy department. The difference
is down to caching and how Vista carried out uncached I/O while XP caches the files. On top of that is the further complication that the file
transfer progress bars are coded to work differently. Vistas file copy dialog box goes away when the cache is committed, while under XP the copy
dialog goes away while the committal is still pending. In other words XP is coded to appear fast...
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18.02.2008When will you get Windows 7 RTM?
When will I get Windows 7 RTM?
Brandon LeBlanc: I recognize this is an important question to have answered. Many of you
have said you want to know exactly when you will be able to get your hands on RTM.
Last Monday, I gave an update on RTM to close
out some myths. In that update, I also gave a broad timeline on when different groups of people “ or śaudiencesť “ would get the final RTM code.
While I have nothing new to add regarding RTM today, I do however have more precise information to give on when you will be able to
get RTM. Again, when you can get RTM depends on who you are.
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22.07.2009Gadget release: The Search Bar
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Microsoft says some way to go on software piracy
Microsoft on Friday said it may take decades to tackle software piracy in large emerging economies, despite some recent progress, and called on Asian
governments to invest more in policing the practice.
"We are realistic in recognizing that we have to work diligently over
periods, that are really a decade or two, to make real progress in a number of these environments," Craig Mundie, Microsoft chief research and
strategy officer, told Reuters.
Mundie, one of the successors to Microsoft founder Bill Gates next year, said progress had been
made in countries like China and Vietnam in recent years to tackle software pirates, which cost the company billions of dollars each year.
However, he said more needed to be done to police the problem...
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The future of the Firefox address bar
Rafe Needleman: I had an interesting discussion today about Firefox with Mozilla's
Mike Schroepfer and Mike Beltzner. One of the things we drilled into a bit was the address bar in Firefox 3 (download). It's being called the "awesome bar" at Mozilla, and while
it will end up with an official name eventually (the "smart location bar"), what it does for users can fairly be described as awesome. And as it's
probably the most important touchpoint in the browser, it's worth exploring not just what it means for users but for Mozilla as well.
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