Wrapping up Windows XP3 SP3 Build 5512 - Download Information
Technically, Microsoft has yet to wrap things up with the distribution of Windows XP Service Pack 3, and is now gearing up for the final stage designed to serve the operating system through Automatic Updates.
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17.5.2008 Wrapping up Tech Ed 2007
Tech Ed 2007 is over. It's been a very busy week and I am tired and ready to go home. For IT Pro people Tech Ed contained loads of interesting infomration about Windows Server 2008 and the System Center products among others.
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11.6.2007 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 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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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. Its about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer.
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19.1.2009BlackBerry Ruling Could Come
This Week
A long-running patent battle
over the BlackBerry e-mail
device appears to be wrapping
up...
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21.11.2005Windows 7, June 2009 and the technologies of antitrust
Bundlings come a long way since Microsoft was dragged through the US courts in the 1990s for wrapping Internet Explorer into Windows.
With the up coming Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 Release 2 and Silverlight 3, it looks like Microsofts taking a soft sell to get you to
consume the trio without landing in hot water.
Register software editor Gavin Clarke and All About Microsofts
Mary-Foley find out what Microsofts up to in the latest episode of MicroBite.
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01.12.2008The Buzz: RIM's BlackBerry
Saved
The weekend was abuzz with
pundits and bloggers alike
wrapping their heads around
RIM's $612.5 million
settlement with NTP late
Friday. Some say RIM caved to
the patent holding company,
while others feel NTP won in
court fair and square --
despite its patents now being
rejected by the USPTO. Where
do you stand?..
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06.03.2006Intel To Cut Blade Line, Intro New Server/Storage Architecture
Intel is quietly wrapping up
its whitebox server blade
product line as it prepares to
bring out a new architecture
more in line with its small
and midsize business partners.
CRN has learned from
channel sources that Intel is
in the process of
end-of-lifing its entire
server blade product line,
including its Server Compute
Blade SBXD132, its Server
Blade Chassis SBCE, its
Gigabit Ethernet switches, and
other associated products.
Instead, the company
looks set to introduce a new
architecture based on a
rack-mount enclosure,
according to channel sources
who saw the device at the
Intel Solution Summit in March
in San Diego. ..
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28.06.2007Windows Live OneCare 2.5 beta ending, perpetual beta begins.
According to sources, following the official release of the final version of Windows Live OneCare 2.5, Microsoft sent out a flurry of e-mails to its
testers. First off, the software giant reminded its testers that the 2.5 Beta will expire on July 31, 2008, after which OneCare will no longer keep
itself up to date (both virus definitions and the actual software). Testers are urged to uninstall the beta and buy a full subscription, which is
offered to them at a discounted $24.95 a year for up to three PCs, until July 31, 2008.
With the beta wrapping up, Microsoft quickly
sent out another e-mail to certain testers asking if they wanted to continue to test new versions of the software. If the answer was yes, Microsoft
responded with a confirmation and then the next day, e-mailed that tester the details of the Windows Live OneCare Perpetual Beta program, an
invite-only group. Version 2.5 was all about under-the-hood improvements but based on what my source tells me about the Perpetual Beta, it seems that
Microsoft is now satisfied with the program's performance and is focusing on new features and functionality.
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19.07.2008Microsoft/Yahoo deadline passes with no deal
Yahoo failed to agree to an acquisition deal with Microsoft by Saturday, the deadline Microsoft had set for wrapping up negotiations.
Now Microsoft must decide whether to pursue a hostile takeover via a proxy fight or to drop the bid and seek other acquisition alternatives.
All along, Microsoft's management had indicated strongly that they would pursue Yahoo via all available options, including the
hostile route of ousting the current board by proposing its own slate of director candidates at the next Yahoo shareholders' meeting.
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28.04.2008Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6, finally announced
This evening at Apple's WWDC the finer points of the OSX upgrade named 'Snow Leopard' have been announced. The finer points of the
operating system have been announced which include its Microsoft Exchange compatibility. However what we've all been waiting for are prices and
dates and I'm happy to tell you now that both of these thingsh ave been revealed. Upon wrapping up the Snow Leopard commentary Apple state: "So
that's Snow Leopard." Available on intel Macs "past and present." Moving onto pricing they conclude that they'd like to offer it for
$129 but they won't. "How should we price Snow Leopard? We won't price it at $129, because we want all Leopard users to upgrade.
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08.06.2009Making a List for Santa Patented by Microsoft
Yes Virginia,
there is a Santa Claus. But making
a list for him now constitutes patent infringement.
USPTO officials were busy over the holidays wrapping up the paperwork to grant Microsoft its wish for a
patent on the Wish List, which was issued to the
software giant on New Year's Day.
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02.01.2008IE8 is the last Internet Explorer - Gazelle to replace it (Exclusive)
jcxp.net - 06.03.2009
RIAA pulls out of John Doe cases involving college students
Last month, the RIAA announced that it was putting an end to its reviled
legal campaign against P2P users and would not be filing any new cases, moving instead towards a graduated response plan. There are a
number of cases still in the pipeline, however, some of which have been slowly chugging along towards a conclusion of one sort or another. But it
appears that lawsuits directed at college students are quickly wrapping up, as the RIAA has dropped at least three John Doe cases in the past week.
winbeta.org - 19.01.2009
Apple TV Launch Delayed
According to a statement from
Apple, the AppleTV, which was
originally slated to ship this
month, has been delayed until
the middle of March. The
reason for the delay is
currently unknown.
" Wrapping up Apple TV is
taking a few weeks longer than
we projected and we now expect
to begin shipment
mid-March ," said the
Cupertino, California-based
company. The $299 device
was first previewed as iTV in
September and formally
announced in January at
Macworld Expo. The idea behind
the product is to be able to
sync downloaded content from
iTunes to a television.
AppleTV supports 802.11b/g,
802.11n for wireless streaming
and Ethernet connectivity to
its 40GB hard drive. The
device includes an HDMI
connector and resolutions of
up to 720p.
neowin.net - 27.02.2007
Community Convergence XXX
Welcome to the thirtieth Community Convergence. This edition has a wide range of articles on numerous topics and is not quite so narrowly focused on
LINQ as most of the recent posts have been.
The C# team has some wonderful bloggers, and one of the best is Eric Lippert. In this
Community Convergence, Eric writes exclusively about the C# language in general, and talks only infrequently about LINQ. At first I was disappointed
to see this, but when I read the articles I was reminded of how well Eric writes. His posts are almost always engaging, frequently humorous and
consistently instructive. If you don't already subscribe to his Fabulous Adventures in Coding blog, then you should at least consider doing so.
This trend away from writing about LINQ is also reflected in Jomo Fisher's blog. Jomo works on the LINQ to SQL team, and the fact
that the team is wrapping up their Orcas work is reflected in his posts on other subjects, such as the always intriguing subject of F#. I'm the
sentimental type, and so I find it sad that parts of Orcas are starting to shut down in anticipation of the product's release. Of course I and many
others will focus even more heavily on LINQ to SQL as the product nears its launch, but some of the developers and testers on the C# team are
beginning to raise their heads up from the LINQ work and look around them. Its the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one.
winbeta.org - 17.09.2007
Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors
Here is a story revealing just how
threatened Microsoft is by Google. While senior partners can expect the full chair experience, some lowly staffers who are putting in their notice are being escorted off campus immediately. Why? Because they've
put in their notice to join Google.
In Microsoft's eyes, Google is Enemy No. 1. Anyone leaving Redmond for the search leader is
a threat. Not because they'll scurry around collecting company secrets as if Google's interested in Microsoft's '90s-era technologies. Departing
employees, however, might tell other 'Softies how much better Google is. If an employee is leaving for Amazon.com or another second-tier employer
which doesn't make Microsoft so paranoid, they'll probably serve out the traditional two weeks of unproductive wrapping up. So if you're planning
on leaving Microsoft for Google, pack up your belongings and say goodbye to friends ahead of time. There'll be no cake and two weeks of paid slacking
for you.
winbeta.org - 11.11.2007
Text bug blights Trillian
Users of the popular Trillian
instant messaging client need
to update their software
following the discovery of a
serious security bug. The
multi-protocol chat
application from Cerulean
Studios is subject to a heap
overflow vulnerability because
of programming errors
involving the word-wrapping of
UTF-8 text.
As a
result, hackers might be able
to crash versions of the
application, thereby loading
exploit code onto vulnerable
systems. Viewing a malicious
message containing a specially
malformed UTF-8 string would
be enough to trigger the
attack. "The MSN protocol is
a known attack vector for this
vulnerability. However,
exploitation could potentially
occur using any supported
protocol," an advisory by
iDefense warns.
neowin.net - 19.06.2007
Apple Seeds OS X 10.5.7 Build 9J30 to Developers
In what has become an almost-weekly event, Apple has seeded a new version of Mac OS X 10.5.7, known as Build 9J30, to developers. World of Apple
publishes the seed notes, which reveal that the lack of Safari 4 beta support is the only remaining issue Apple has chosen to highlight.
One week after the previous seed of Mac OS X 10.5.7 Apple has given developers another build this time in the form of 9J30. The rapid
development of Mac OS X 10.5.7 suggests a public release before the end of March.
Developers testing build 9J30 have been asked to focus
on new areas such as Flash Player, USB and Flash Drives, iCal and Widgets.
Apple seeded Build 9J22 on February 25th and Build 9J27 on
March 7th. The declining list of known issues, brief time intervals between seeds, and decreasing intervals of build numbers between those seeds
suggest that Apple is wrapping up development on OS X 10.5.7 and should see a release in the near future.
jcxp.net - 14.03.2009
O2 closes in on exclusive deal to sell iPhone in UK
O2 is on the verge of
wrapping up a deal to
exclusively sell the Apple
iPhone in the UK with a view
to launching the iPod-based
handset by Christmas.
A number of Europe's
largest operators have been
linked with a deal to sell the
iPhone in Europe over recent
weeks. It is understood that
formal deals are now imminent
and that O2 is about to sign a
contract to sell the handset
in the UK. It is understood
that T-Mobile, Germany's
largest operator, will sell
the iPhone exclusively in
Germany, while Orange,
France's largest mobile phone
company, has won the race to
sell the handset in France.
The iPhone is due to launch
across those territories in
November.
There has
yet to be official
confirmation of any deals and
a spokesman for the UK's
largest mobile operator said:
"O2 has not signed a deal
with Apple." None of the
mobile phone operators would
comment on the process given
the complexity of negotiations
with Apple.
Competition among mobile
phone operators for a deal
with Apple has been fierce,
with the iPod maker understood
to have driven a hard bargain.
One source said that securing
the most talked about handset
of all time on an exclusive
basis and making the economics
work had proved a tough
balancing act.
neowin.net - 05.07.2007
Windows 7: Superbar Overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7 Tips and Tricks Windows 7: HomeGroup
Overview Windows 7: BitLocker To Go & Biometric improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action
Center Overview Windows 7: User Account Control (UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage
Windows 7: Internet Explorer 8 Overview Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7
networking and media enhancements. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net.
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neowin.net - 15.01.2009
Windows 7: HomeGroup Overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: BitLocker To Go & Biometric
improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows 7: User Account Control
(UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage Windows 7: Internet Explorer 8 Overview Over the
next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements. Stay tuned for the
ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of HomeGroup in Windows 7.
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neowin.net - 13.01.2009
Windows 7 Beta 1 Vs Windows Vista Vs Windows XP
After Windows 7 beta 1 leaked, many bloggers caught hold of it very soon and started testing/using Windows 7. We saw Ed Bott from ZDnet reporting
about the changes in the Windows 7 beta 1 license agreement. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDnet has benchmarked Windows 7 with its successors Windows
Vista and Windows XP. The Windows 7 build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400 was considered for testing. Since its 32bit, it was tested against 32bit versions of
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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neowin.net - 03.01.2009
Windows 7: Vista Upgrade & Anytime Upgrade overview
So far, in our Windows 7 Overview series, we have published the following: Windows 7 beta quick review Windows 7: HomeGroup Overview Windows 7:
BitLocker To Go & Biometric improvements overview Windows 7: Easy Connect Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder Windows 7: Action Center Overview Windows
7: User Account Control (UAC) Overview Windows 7: Calibate Your Display Windows 7: Federated Search Windows 7: Device Stage Windows 7: Internet
Explorer 8 Overview Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media
enhancements. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of Windows Vista to Windows 7 Beta upgrade.
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neowin.net - 13.01.2009
