WoW for Free!
Are you tired of paying $14.99 a month for a game you already bought? If so check out this great site for a list of the best FREE World of Warcraft servers and their current statuses.
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Wow! Windows Vista!
I finally got my hands on the finished product. Experiencing Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate, I was so excited I had to call in my family to show them the cool new features available right from the desktop.
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19.1.2007 The Vista wow becomes a whisper
I wasn’t a big fan of the “Wow” campaign around Windows Vista. But its newest incarnation — “100 Reasons Why Everyone’s So Speechless” — might be even worse.
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22.10.2007 Can There Be Wow in Vista Marketing?
Yesterday's Microsoft marketing bravado is just too funny. So now, 17 months after general availability, Microsoft will promote Windows Vista? Get a life.
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10.7.2008 Vista and Office: The WOW Starts Now!
It's official! The consumer release of Windows Vista and Office 2007 will be celebrated in New York on January 29 at a launch event the software giant has dubbed "The WOW starts now."
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4.1.2007 Microsoft on the Windows Vista Wow: Were Sorry! And the Autopsy
Back on November 30, 2006, Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer launched Windows Vista to businesses at the NASDAQ headquarters in New York.
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7.10.2007 Opera 10 Beta Version 10.00b1 download
The well-known web browser, Opera has released its new Opera Browser 10 beta version, which features faster speeds, new enhanced tabs and automatic update. The new Opera Brower 10 beta comes with Opera Turbo for fast browsing on slow connections.
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26.6.2009 World of Warcraft WoW Edition Free Download
Addicted to Peggle Extreme that available for free on Steam? PopCap Games
, the developer of Peggle series of casual action video game, has teamed up with Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of World of Warcraft (WoW), to release a special Peggle: World of Warcraft Edition, available for free download at no cost.
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19.7.2009 The eXPerience XP SP3... The Wow Vista SP1... and the Seventh Windows 7
Windows XP (Service Pack 3 imminent), Windows Vista (Service Pack 1 just around the corner) and Windows 7, still on the distant horizon, but at the same time becoming increasingly palpable...
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26.1.2008 Wow Starts January 29: Microsoft Sets Vista Consumer Launch
Microsoft will officially launch Windows Vista and Office 2007 for consumers at a special event in Times Square in New York City on January 29 called "Wow Starts Now."
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25.12.2006 Mac OS X and Linux Left Scrambling for Wow Crumbs in the Windows Vista Dust
Microsoft is celebrating a veritable Windows Vista feast, while Mac OS X and Linux are left scrambling for Wow crumbs.
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2.11.2007 Forget about DirectX 10 - Introducing DirectX 10.1 Preview for Windows Vista SP1
Forget about Windows Vista's DirectX 10, Microsoft is delivering a preview of DirectX 10.1 associated with the first service pack for the operating system. The Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview is an integer part of the August 2007, DirectX Software Development Kit, and is designed to provide the evolution of the current Direct3D 10.0.
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30.7.2007 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Windows Vista Wow! Forget about Vista SP1, XP SP3 and Windows 7!
That's it, forget about Windows XP Service Pack 3, about Windows 7, the next iteration of Windows and even about Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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1.2.2008 Windows SideShow on 10
Laura and Tina over at the 10 Show take a look at Windows SideShow.
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9.5.2006 10 reasons not to get Vista
It's all too easy to get caught up in the million dollar marketing engine as we approach the consumer release of Windows Vista, so lets not forget that it isn't the second coming, and by all counts is an upgrade you can do without.
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22.1.2007 10 reasons you should get Vista
My colleague Ashton Mills published
the top 10 reasons you shouldn't get Vista few days ago. I see his point on some fronts -- admittedly, Microsoft's official publicity material hasn't done a great job of explaining the basic benefits of Vista.
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24.1.2007 The Wait Is Over: Ubuntu 7.10 Is Here
As promised, Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) was released a few minutes ago, and it's my deepest pleasure to introduce you guys to the new features to be found in this version of Ubuntu (which is based on the GNOME desktop environment) and also to the features from Kubuntu (same as Ubuntu, but based on the popular KDE desktop environment).
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18.10.2007 Ubuntu 8.10 Released
After six alphas, a beta and a release candidate, Ubuntu 8.10 is here, today (October 30th), available on mirrors worldwide (see below for download links), and it's my greatest pleasure to introduce you guys to the highlights of this new release dubbed Intrepid Ibex.
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30.10.2008 10 things you should look for in a netbook
Who saw this coming? In the day and age of quad-core CPUs, 17-inch laptop displays, and terabyte hard disks, who’d have thought small laptops with slow CPUs and little storage would set the world afire. But that’s just what’s happened.
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19.4.2009 Opera 10 released
Ah, September 1. Not a particularly eventful day... aside from a few obscure public holidays (it's Knowledge Day in Russia!) and other events of the sort, it's hard to say that there's much going on (well, there might be something else happening).
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1.9.2009 Windows 7 10-Second Boot
Over a year ago, Microsoft revealed that it considered 15 seconds the ideal startup time for Windows 7 under laboratory conditions.
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7.10.2009 The 10 Things to Do First for Windows 7
When you run your thumb down the list of new features and improvements in Windows 7 you're bound to wonder how you're going to get your arms around all that new technology so that you can deliver it to your users without too much disruption.
Following are 10 steps that can help you accomplish that goal.
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18.10.2009 10 Ways to Optimize Firefox
Everybody who's experienced the fun of customizing Firefox to his or her liking has a favorite extension. Whether it's the improved navigation and session-saving friendliness of TabMixPlus or the convenience of All-in-One Sidebar, I can't imagine living without some of them.
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4.4.2006 DirectX 10 & the Future of Gaming
How is DirectX 10 and its Unified Architecture going to benefit gamers? What is the gamer going to need to take and advantage of it? We recently sat down with ATI and talked about DirectX 10 and how their next generation desktop GPU will benefit.
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2.5.2006 Microsoft: 10 Vista Activations
Microsoft today talked to bit-tech in a bid to reassure the enthusiast community about the licensing terms of Windows Vista.
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27.10.2006 BitDefender for Windows Vista v.10.2
BitDefender, an award-winning provider of antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today the availability of BitDefender v10 security solutions for Microsoft Windows Vista based on 32bit.
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24.1.2007 Top 10 Vista Hacks
You've run Windows Vista, you've played around with the Aero interface, and maybe you've even mucked around a little bit in Vista's innards to see what makes it tick.
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17.4.2007 Google: 1 in 10 webpages contain malware
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC.
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12.5.2007 Microsoft in 2008: 10 Predictions
It's pundit prediction time again. Here are ten predictions about what I think we'll see in Microsoft land in 2008.
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18.12.2007Can There Be 'Wow' in Vista Marketing?
Yesterday's Microsoft marketing bravado is just too funny. So now, 17 months after general availability, Microsoft will promote Windows Vista? Get
a life. The big talk and promises came from Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, in Houston, where Brad Brooks fessed up about Vista
marketing mistakes and promised there would be response to Apple's "Get a Mac" ads. They say that confession is good for the corporate soul. I
say that it's not good enough.
Microsoft should never have abandoned the original "Wow" Windows Vista marketing campaign. It brought
new meaning to the term "marketing blitz." The campaign flashed by before anybody could blink and say, "Wow." Even if Microsoft executives loathed
the ads, better to keep them than have nothing. I remain convinced that the Vista marketing campaign could have been very effective. The TV
commercials were aspirational, potentially creating positive feelings about the then-mysterious Windows Vista.
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10.07.2008Windows 7 marketing initiative outlined
There’s great marketing campaigns, like
5.5 million views of a blender blending things on YouTube,
and then there was “
the wow starts now“. A job posting published
today looking for a marketing manager to be responsible for the Windows 7 marketing campaign gives us some insights into how Microsoft plans to pitch
the new kid of the block...
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22.01.2009The Vista wow becomes a whisper
I wasn’t
a big fan of the “Wow” campaign around Windows Vista. But its
newest incarnation
“100
Reasons Why Everyone’s So Speechless” might be even worse.
The new site lists 100 reasons users should take a
closer look at Windows Vista. No. 1 is “It makes using your PC a breeze.” No. 100 is “Because your network is the backbone of your
business (Network Diagnostics and Troubleshooting).”
Seeing Windows Vista for the first time may leave you searching for words.
Many people just say ‘Wow.’ Here are 100 reasons why,” the site says.
When Microsoft launched Windows Vista in
January, execs knew they needed a succinct way to explain why users should upgrade to the new OS. Not a list of 50 reasons. But something that would
roll off the tongue of salesclerks and PC makers in a 30-second pitch.
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22.10.2007Vista and Office: The WOW Starts Now!
It's official! The consumer
release of Windows Vista and
Office 2007 will be celebrated
in New York on January 29 at a
launch event the software
giant has dubbed "The WOW
starts now." The invitation
to "The "WOW starts now"
event includes a note signed
by Microsoft chairman Bill
Gates, in which he says that,
"on January 29th, Microsoft
will celebrate the launch of
two amazing products that
represent the culmination of a
tremendous team effort."
Attendees will be
treated to a celebratory lunch
at Manhattan's famous
Cipriani restaurant, followed
by the actual launch event at
the Nokia Theatre in Times
Square later in the day.
Gates goes on to say
that millions of
people--Microsoft employees,
developers, customers,
bloggers, families, media, the
entire industry--"have come
together like never before and
added their own individual
imprints to help make Windows
Vista and 2007 Microsoft
Office system the most tested
products in Microsoft
history."
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04.01.2007Wow! Windows Vista!
Columnist Joli Ballew shares
her excitement over the new
interface, graphics,
applications, and features in
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19.01.2007WOW Upgrade Sets US, EU Sales Records
World of Warcraft fans turned
out in full force last week to
purchase The Burning
Crusade , Blizzard
Entertainment said Tuesday. In
the first 24 hours of
availability, nearly 2.4
million copies were sold...
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24.01.2007Wow, The Smartphone Market Is Surprising
Take a look at this chart from Symbian showing the worldwide
smartphone market:
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10.09.2007A real-world security keychain to protect WoW characters' identity
Blizzard introduces a physical security token to help give gamers added peace of mind when playing World of Warcraft online...
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02.07.2008Sony Aims for 'Wow' Factor
Flat-panel TVs, a music player with robotics technology and planned networking services for the PlayStation 3 video game console are a key part of
Sony's growth following a nearly three-year restructuring effort, Chief Executive Howard Stringer said Tuesday. Such products "bring back some of
the wow factor" and show the electronics and entertainment company has recovered from its past financial problems, Stringer told reporters at
Sony's Tokyo headquarters. " The next cycle is actual innovation, " he said.
Sony's network service, now used to pipe video
games to the PlayStation 3, will be expanded to offer other kinds of content. He did not give details or a timetable. Besides its core electronics
business, Sony owns the Hollywood movie studio that made the "Spider-Man" series. Sony also has a joint venture in music with Bertelsmann AG that
has Bruce Springsteen, Justin Timberlake and Beyonce Knowles under its labels. Such entertainment content will likely be offered as downloads for the
PlayStation 3 in Sony's effort to catch up with U.S. companies like Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
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12.12.2007Stardock's Sins of a Solar Empire leads PC game sales
Gamasutra's list of best selling games this week sees Sins of a Solar Empire in the number one slot, beating out Call of Duty 4: Modern
Warfare , and WoW: The Burning Crusade ...
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05.03.2008BioShock Frame Rates: DirectX 9 Vs. DirectX 10
Want a serious performance boost in BioShock? Play it on DirectX 9. Sad, but true. As DirectX 9/10 hybrid games have trickled to market, we've been
testing them to see whether the newer, Vista-only API library is worth its salt. We've done it with Company of Heroes, Lost Planet, and more. In
every case, DirectX 9 performance was far better than that of DirectX 10.
Add another game to the pile. Using FRAPS to measure
frame rates, we've discovered that BioShock plays much more smoothly on DirectX 9. We ran the informal test on a Vista machine with an AMD ATI Radeon
HD 2900 XT graphics card, an Intel QX6700 CPU overclocked to 3.19 GHz, and 4GB of memory.
Playing through five very similar
minutes of the game with FRAPS and timing the frames per second, we shot up a batch of splicers in DX10 and then in DX9, with all other settings being
equal (high quality defaults at 1680x1050). In DirectX 10, FRAPS showed an average of 61.658 fps; in DirectX 9, the average was 80.300 fps.
The game looks pretty much the same in either mode. You certainly don't notice a difference in graphical splendor when you're running
breakneck through the Rapture, dodging grenades thrown by splicers while looking for the telekinesis upgrade.
While we continue
to wait for a game built upon DirectX 10 from the ground up to wow us with its performance, evidence mounts that DirectX 10 just isn't all it's
cracked up to be compared with its predecessor.
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23.08.2007Blizzard parent to acquire Activision, build new gaming empire
In a transaction that can best be described with the word "WOW," the remaining portion of the Vivendi media empire left over from the sale of
Universal to NBC will acquire a 68% stake in Activision...
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03.12.2007Blizzard Bans 30,000 from WoW
Video game manufacturer
Blizzard said Friday that it
had banned over 30,000 users
of World of Warcraft during
the month of May in a
crackdown on cheating. The
online role-playing game has
over 6.5 million subscribers
and nearly a 50 percent share
of the market, according to
recent estimates...
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13.06.2006Year in Review: Apple
Continues to Wow
Apple continued to build on
its dominance of the digital
music industry in 2005, and
saw the successes slowly bleed
into its personal computer
business as industry analysts
began to gauge the iPod's
"halo effect." The
folks at Cupertino would also
do the once unthinkable and
embrace Intel chips...
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31.12.2005Feature-rich Leopard will wow Mac users
People new to the Mac and existing users alike will be wowed by many of the reportedly 300 new features built into Apple’s latest update to its
OS X operating system, Leopard. These include a no-brainer backup system, a screen utility that turns a single Mac screen into virtually several
screens at once, and improvements to the iChat video chat program that makes it easy to share pictures or a PowerPoint presentation with a friend or
coworker in another office or in another country as if you were sitting right next to each other. But like any OS that gets an update, Leopard is not
without a few glitches, albeit mostly minor ones.
The changes existing users will notice first include the semi-transparent menu at the top
of the screen and the glass-like Dock — the floating band of icons used to launch applications. The menu is both nice and not-so-nice, depending
on how you look at it; a dark desktop picture makes the menu hard to see, while a bright desktop picture lightens it up. An option to adjust or turn
off transparency altogether would be nice.
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02.11.2007Hotmail Lead Program Manager's email compromised
Kip Kniskern: Wow don't really know what to say about this. Omar Shahine, a Lead Program Manager for Hotmail, who
we've
interviewed and had numerous conversations with about Hotmail, has apparently had his email account hijacked.
Omar posted this tonight...
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11.02.2008Short Video Tips for Tablet PCs
Sierra Modro:
Jim Vanides from HP has started posting some short video clips aimed at
showing educators what the Tablet PC platform can do to help them in the classroom. These are great videos for everyone, not just educators. The first
tip on annotating with PowerPoint is an excellent tutorial for anyone who wants a short, compelling demo for their Tablet PC. In less than 2 minutes
you can make most business professionals, educators, and students all say "wow!".
Tablet PC Tip #1 – Annotating PowerPoint
Tablet PC Tip #2: MS Journal - Better than
PowerPoint?
Tablet PC Tip #3 –
Save Time with Digital Homework Markups
Despite being focused on educators, these videos make an excellent
tutorial for how to demo a Tablet PC to various types of audiences. I learned something from each one. Even if you think you know what he's showing,
it can be so helpful to see someone else's perspective.
via The Tablet PC Education Blog
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Winamp Gets 10th Anniversary Update
Today at 10:00 AM EST, Nullsoft and AOL released the latest version of Winamp. The timing of the 5.5 release was deliberately chosen (10/10, 10:00) to
commemorate the software's tenth year as a leading media player...
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What Went Wrong with Windows Vista?
December is the month for year-end reviews. We begin our first 2007 look back by offering 10 reasons why Vista failed to "WOW" consumers or
businesses. Make no mistake: Despite PR assertions otherwise, Windows Vista did not meet Microsoft expectations.
-Windows Vista
advertising ended almost as abruptly as it started
-Microsoft beat the drum a bit too loudly about the number of Vista licenses shipped
-Windows Ultimate Extras became a real dreamscape of empty promises
-Microsoft already is advancing plans for Vista-successor Windows
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07.12.2007Top 10 Best Selling PC Games for the week of October 8-14
I might start making this a
weekly thing when the Top
10's are announced. So here
are the Top 10 best selling
games for the week of October
8th through the 14th. There
are a couple of new games on
the chart this week, of course
the shocking debut of
Desperate Housewives the game
should come as no surprise,
right? Quake 4 returns to
the top 10, as does The Sims 2
expansion The Glamour Life.
Real Deal Slots? Eh. Without
further delay, here are the
Top 10:
- World of Warcraft -
Blizzard
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of
War: Dark Crusade - THQ
- The Sims 2: Glamour Life
Stuff - EA Games
- Company of
Heroes - THQ
- The
Sims 2- EA Games
- Desperate Housewives: The
Game - Buena Vista Games
- Lego Star Wars II: The
Original Trilogy - Lucasarts
- Real Deal Slots: Mystic
Forest - Phantom EFX, INC
- Age of Empires III -
Microsoft Games Studio
- Quake 4 - Activision
WoW back on top, as it
should be! I'm kidding.
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