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 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 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 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 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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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 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
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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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008Can 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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10.07.2008Wow! Windows Vista!
Columnist Joli Ballew shares
her excitement over the new
interface, graphics,
applications, and features in
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19.01.2007The 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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04.01.2007New Vista Slogan for CES
It's not surprising Microsoft
will be touting Windows Vista
at the upcoming Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) in Las
Vegas. But the slogan the
company has chosen to tout its
new version of Windows may
catch some off-guard.
There will be an entire
Vista pavillion outside the
main convention center,
dedicated to showing off Vista
and new Vista machines.
Additionally,
according to a couple of
sources, Microsoft is using as
a key component of its Vista
marketing material the phrase:
"WOW!" "When you
see it, you'll say
it."
Supposedly, we'll all see a
lot of that message over the
next week on banners all over
Vegas.
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04.01.2007What 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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07.12.2007Windows 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
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22.01.2009Vista: One Year Later
One year ago today,
Microsoft released Windows
Vista to manufacturing. In the obligatory anniversary post we ask: Was it ready? Will it ever be ready?
The answer to the
first question is an emphatic "no." Vista wasn't ready. Hardware manufacturers and software developers weren't ready for it. The channel and
enterprises weren't ready, and consumers couldn't get it because Vista missed holiday 2006.
Microsoft promised WOW, but the reaction was, "What?" What is
different from Windows XP? What is wrong with the hardware requirements? What is the difference between "
Capable" and "
Ready?" What is this
Software Assurance requirement for Vista
Enterprise? What happened to the familiarity of Windows XP? What is
wrong with my Vista applications and hardware?
More recently the "W" question is "When?"--as in
when will
Microsoft release Vista Service Pack 1?
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08.11.2007Vista Leads the 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007
#1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
It's
not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and
parental controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets. Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than under
XP.
It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the operating system was supposed to bring--like more
efficient file and communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first
promised. Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.
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17.12.2007Announcing the Windows Vista Coach Tour
Nick White has written up a
blog entry regarding a road
trip planned between January
16 and 24, 2007. The trip is
regarding the "Wow" starts
now campaign for Microsoft
Windows Vista.
"I
and a few Windows community
influencers will hop on a
custom-wrapped Windows Vista
bus and visit major cities on
the East coast of the United
States: Nashville, Lexington,
Cincinnati, Columbus,
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington DC,
Charlotte, Savannah,
Jacksonville, Orlando,
Gainesville, Atlanta and
places in between. We'll then
return to Nashville to wrap up
the tour."
You can
catch the Windows guys in the
cities as well as on the road.
Why would you want to? First
off, there will be a custom
designed coach bus based
around the Windows Vista
"energy" theme (Vista's
default wallpaper). This
isn't just Microsoft we're
talking about; AMD will be
part of the branding too. The
coach will be equipped with
free Wi-Fi so that you can
fully utilize, in the very
comfortable lounge area, the
numerous systems running
Windows Vista. An Xbox 360
will be present along with
refreshments, not that you
won't have anything to do:
the team is only too happy to
answer your Windows Vista
questions.
Secondly, features such as
Ultimate Extras, speech
recognition, Tablet
functionality, and the way
Media Center works with the
Xbox 360 as an extender will
all be showed off. Thirdly,
and what people are probably
most interested in, there will
be various prizes to give
away. Videos and still photos
of the trip will be available
on the Windows Vista Team Blog
on a day-to-day basis. For
those who already have the
Vista Sidebar, a gadget will
be available for tracking the
group on the road.
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16.01.2007Sneak peak at upcoming Windows 7 advertisements
Microsoft has a lot riding on its upcoming launch of Windows 7. With Vista burned by bad reviews, user errors, and a general vibe of negativity, it
needs Windows 7 to replace Windows XP as the next rock solid platform. Posted below are some upcoming advertisements for the Windows 7 campaign
where Microsoft hopes to show off some of the highlights of the new platform, according to istartedsomething.com. Each advertisement shows off a
different feature in a unique way that directly address negativity received over its previous "The Wow is Now" campaign for the launch of Vista.
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08.09.2009WOW 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
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24.01.2007A 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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05.03.2008Another Windows Vista SP1 Feature From TechEd
In one of the later session
during TechEd last week I
learned of another very cool
feature coming to Windows
Vista with Service Pack 1.
During his talk Wes Miller,
who is writing a ton for
TechNet magazine these days
mentioned that setup will now
be able to run either 32-bit
or 64-bit installs.
What does this mean?
Well basically a lot less
work for anyone who has to
deal with both 32-bit and
64-bit images. After SP1 you
will be able to deploy either
version of the OS from a
single DVD.
So
what?
Well the
reason this is a big deal is
if you are doing anything
custom with Windows PE then
you currently have to maintain
two boot wims (one 64 and one
32) and in extreme cases where
you have custom code you have
to maintain to codebase sets
because 64-bit WinPE doesn't
support 32bit code due to the
lack of WOW support .
It wasn't clear if WDS
would also offer this
capability, but it would make
sense.
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15.06.2007Vista Beta Sucks up Battery
Juice
Windows Vista delivers some
pretty snazzy new graphics,
but all that "wow" can be a
real drain.
With the new version of
Windows, Microsoft has created
an operating system that
offers advances in many areas,
but laptop battery life is not
one of them. Going by internal
tests at one hardware maker,
which declined to be named,
there is noticeably lower
battery life when Vista runs
in its "average power"
mode.
Microsoft
has said that the current
versions of the update deliver
less battery life than Windows
XP, but the company has also
said it hopes to close the gap
in the coming months.
One of Vista's most
visible changes is its Aero
interface, which offers
spiffier graphics when people
navigate through the operating
system. Its advanced Aero
Glass effects include
translucent windows and
animated transitions, as well
as the ability to move between
windows and documents by
selecting from miniature
versions of those items.
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05.06.2006Blizzard 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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03.12.2007Microsoft to Celebrate the Launch Vista & Office2007
On Tuesday, Jan. 30, Microsoft
Corp. will unveil the Windows
Vista™ operating system and
the 2007 Microsoft® Office
system to consumers worldwide,
transforming the way people
communicate, create and share
content, and access
information and entertainment
in the new digital age.
To help celebrate the
launch of these flagship
products, Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer will kick off a series
of local retail events around
the country by visiting a New
York City Best Buy store.
Ballmer will share his own
"wow" moments with Windows
Vista and the 2007 Microsoft
Office system, the most
thoroughly tested software
releases in Microsoft's
history.Microsoft has also
partnered with retailers to
host events in more than 30
locations across the United
States.
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26.01.2007Blizzard 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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