180 Million Vista Licenses Mean What?
Microsoft shipped about 40 million Vista licenses in the second quarter, or 180 million since the operating system's launch. But how many Vista licenses were on new PCs? Not nearly enough.
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12.8.2008 Zero-day flaw hits Windows XP
A new zero-day flaw has been reported in a system component of Microsoft's Windows XP.
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19.9.2007 How to activate Windows Vista Ultimate for 180 days
Thanks to soulplane who report this crack method in
our forum. The method is very similar to the as we report about in
Next Vista 2099 Time crack. In the crack is short "SCREENSHOTs TUTORIAL".
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23.1.2007 Microsoft Proves Vista Is Not a Failure with 180 Million Licenses Sold
Windows Vista might not be the top seller that Microsoft had forecast before the operating system hit the shelves at the end of January 2007, but the latest Windows client is by no means a failure.
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23.7.2008 How to Rearm and Extend Office 2010 Activation Grace Period for Free 180 Days Usage
Microsoft has implemented product activation scheme named Office Protection Platformm (OPP) that similar with Windows Product Activation (WPA) and Software Protection Platform (SPP) for Windows Vista and Windows Activation Technologies (WAT) Windows 7 in Microsoft Office 2010, where all copy of Office 2010 installed has to be activated, with 30 days activation grace period.
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3.9.2009 Microsoft Didn't License GNU
Microsoft has revealed that its patent deal with Linspire doesn't cover the new version of the GNU General Public License (GPL), the company's latest effort to distance itself from the GPLv3.
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22.7.2007 New motherboard, new Microsoft Windows license?
Microsoft recently made a change to the licence agreement saying that a new motherboard is equal to a new computer, hence you need to purchase a new Windows licence.
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19.2.2006 Microsoft says: We're a hardware company, license us
NOT MANY people know this, but Microsoft is a hardware company, the firm said today, as it introduced a hardware licensing scheme.
Robbie Bach, head of the devices division at Microsoft said: "We've been a leading hardware innovator and supplier to the desktop peripherals industry for over 20 years."
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29.3.2006 The Vista license "loophole" that isn’t
Software licensing is often hard to understand. But that’s no excuse for so-called Windows experts to deliberately publish sensational stories that turn the facts upside-down.
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5.4.2008 Microsoft Responds To Vista License Concerns
Amid a rising tide of questions surrounding its end-user license for Windows Vista, Microsoft is attempting to quell concerns that a one-time-only transfer provision could put roadblocks in the way of enthusiasts who repeatedly upgrade their PCs.
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30.10.2006 Microsoft to License Office 'Look and Feel' for Free
With Office 2007 radically reorganizing the way users think and work with applications -- hopefully more for the better than for the worse.
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25.11.2006 Microsoft Is Touching Up Windows Vista's License
Microsoft announced that the Windows Vista end-user license agreement will be modified in order to include terms covering Windows Anytime Upgrade. The new Windows Vista EULA will be
made available tomorrow, and I will provide you with an update on the matter.
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18.3.2007 Windows 7 Volume License and Trial Availability
Last month we made Windows 7 available to customers with Software Assurance and to MSDN and TechNet Subscribers. Today I am happy to announce two more ways for businesses to get Windows 7 for their deployment and evaluation.
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3.9.2009 Vista License and Product Key Terminology Part 1
First part of mini serial of articles about Vista Licensing from
Steve Jobs blog.
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4.6.2007 Vista License and Product Key Terminology Part 2
Second part of mini serial of articles about Vista Licensing from
Steve Jobs blog.
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7.6.2007 Vista License and Product Key Terminology Part 3
Next part of mini serial of articles about Vista Licensing from
Steve Jobs blog - Vista Certificate of Authenticity (COA).
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Vista License and Product Key Terminology Part 4
Next article about Vista Licensing from
Steve Jobs blog - this is about Microsoft Product Activation (MPA).
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16.6.2007 Microsoft Releases FastCGI for IIS Under Go Live License
FastCGI will ship in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 as a built-in IIS component for the first time.
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10.10.2007 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 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 Microsoft Would Lose Patent Rights Under New Linux License Terms
The final draft of GPLv3 states that companies that distribute open-source software cannot at the same time pursue patent claims against users of that software.
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3.6.2007 Cost of Vista Business License Offset by Savings, Says Microsoft
For a great many large businesses, "the move to the next Windows" has been an ongoing, daily affair for at least well over a decade. And up until recently, the reasons why this migration tends to proceed so slowly have been, to Microsoft, a complete mystery.
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15.6.2007 Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5 Free Download With License Serial Key
Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5 is a well-known tweaking and optimizing software for Windows operating system that provides clean, optimize and tune functions to ensure maximum PC performance.
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4.8.2009 Get Free NOD32 License with Valid Username and Password for 90-Days
NOD32 is a popular antivirus software that ranks one of the best and most accurate detection and lowest failure rate.
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19.12.2006 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 FREE 1 Year Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Genuine License Key for EVERYONE
Few days ago Kaspersky 2009 product was released and I was excited as hell to give out free Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 license key to my subscribers.
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11.6.2008 Microsoft issues warning to Volume License customers over Windows Genuine Advantage fail
Phil Liu of Microsoft has reported problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage authentication method for Volume License Key (VLK) customers and a temporary work-around.
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5.10.2006 Microsoft Office 2010 Volume License Product Key (VLK) Requires KMS or MAK for Activation
Volume licensing customers for Microsoft Office 2010 suites and applications who install volume editions of Office client software will require activation, even with a volume license key (VLK).
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26.8.2009 Boot Camp: the day after
Now that Apple's Boot Camp is in the wild, there's very little to be said about booting into alternate operating systems on the Mac, right? Wrong! Because, not surprisingly, no sooner did Apple take the wraps off its little 30th birthday suprise, than Mac owners (or non-Mac owners who could cajole friends into lending them their Macs for a spell) began to put the Apple boot manager through its paces.
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6.4.2006 New Report of A Word Zero Day
We are investigating reports of another new vulnerability in Microsoft Word – initial investigation has shown that this is a different issue to that reported in Microsoft Security Advisory 929433.
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11.12.2006Windows Vista Security at 180 Days
Windows Vista recently passed
the 180 day mark since it was
made available to business
customers. Just as he did at
the
90-day
mark, Jeff Jones, a
Microsoft Director from the
Trustworthy Computing group
and frequent blogger on
security topics, has done a
comparison of vulnerabilities
discovered in Windows Vista
versus other operating systems
in their first 6 months of
availability.
Windows
Vista holds up well in this
comparison, showing a
significantly improved
vulnerability profile over its
first 180 days of availability
compared to Windows XP and the
other operating systems that
were examined. Its
interesting to note that
Windows Vista is being
subjected to a greater level
of scrutiny than its
predecessor, as tools used by
security researchers have
become significantly more
sophisticated since Windows XP
was released.
Jeffs
"Windows Vista 6-month
Vulnerability Report" is
available
here.
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21.06.2007The real lowdown on XP license deadlines
With the first end date deadline for the general availability of Windows XP just six months away, June 30, 2008, there are a number of XP licensing
questions that are still on the minds of internal licensing desk managers and enterprise IT departments.
Part of the confusion
comes from the terminology Microsoft uses to describe the end date for license availability, and part comes from the lack of a simple description of
what the terminology actually means.
Following conversations with three different Microsoft Volume Licensing Specialists, most of
InfoWorld's questions have been answered.
There are basically just three types of system licenses available...
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23.01.2008DHS finds flaws in 180 open source software projects
The US Dept. of Homeland Security and two research partners have detected significant flaws in Samba, Python, Perl, and about 180 other open source
projects -- but fixes are on the way...
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11.01.2008EU Formalizes Music Licensing System
Wednesday was the first day in
the life of a new Central
License Agreement for music
copyright holders throughout
Europe. Now, license
authorities and music
publishers have agreed to
dismantle their "home
territories" and recognize
each other's copyrights. Is
this the prototype for the
EU's new single software
patent authority?..
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05.10.2006Windows Vista No Longer Matters
Make no mistake: Microsoft has moved beyond Windows Vista, which will become all too apparent during this week's Professional Developer
Conference. Windows 7 is the future, and in many ways it's the present, too. Contrary to ridiculous assertions recently made by Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer, Windows Vista is a flop. If businesses aren't buying Vista, after waiting six (now seven) years, it's no success. Yet, during
the last day of the Gartner 2008 expo 10 days ago, Steve asserted that Vista "has been extremely successful."
A few days earlier, Steve
boasted: "Vista is our best-selling product ever. So, if that takes too much getting over—we're not going to have products that are much
more successful than Vista has been. We sold over 180 million copies in the first 18 months, quite successful." Really?
But who's
buying this "best-selling" product ever? "We have 180 million users, mostly on the consumer market," Steve said in an Oct. 2 speech. Oh? According
to Gartner analysts Neil MacDonald and David Smith, only about 10 percent of enterprises have adopted Windows Vista. That's not a high number,
particularly in context of the approximately six years between Windows XP and Vista.
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27.10.2008Don't slipstream XP SP3 on Windows Vista!
This just in from Bink, seems he had a pretty interesting weekend attempting to Slipstream XP SP3.
"So I build a new Windows XP ISO with
SP3 integrated, this is a Volume License editions (VOL) which only accepts Volume License Keys (VLK). When I want to install it on a clean machine, I
noticed that setup prompts for a product key and it does not allow me to continue, which should be a new feature in XP sp3. OK so I fill in the VLK
but it does not accept it, I try another one from a customer of mine, does not work either. Angry
I found out that the problem is when you
do the XP Sp3 slipstream process on a WIndows Vista machine, the API gives a different response and screws up the PID process. This is a bug and
Microsoft knew about this in December, still the bug remained and made it all the way to RTM, nice work Microsoft.
So XP SP slipstream only
on XP or 2003 machines!!!"
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05.05.2008Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: 90-Day Trial Versions
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is available as a 90-day trial version in each language in which Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is available. This page will be
updated with new languages as they are released.
Each trial version can be converted to full use by applying a commercial license
key in the License area of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Deployment Manager. Reinstallation is not required.
To use the 90-day trial,
you must apply one of the convertible trial keys available here. To receive the trial software, download it from this page or reuse Microsoft Dynamics
CRM 4.0 media by using one of the following trial keys...
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20.12.2007Full retail and volume license installs of XP SP3 available to MSDN/TechNet Plus subscribers
Chris Keroack: Microsoft is pleased to make available integrated retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3, to MSDN and TechNet Plus
subscribers. Integrated retail and volume license installs are available in the following languages: Chinese Simplified, English, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish. Additional languages will be made available soon.
Please see the
MSDN Subscriber Downloads or
TechNet Plus Subscriber Downloads to obtain these
releases. The
main TechNet
resource page for Windows XP SP3 is updated with this information.
We have recently identified a compatibility issue between
Windows XP SP3 and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS). Microsoft Dynamics RMS customers should not install Windows XP SP3 until a fix
has been fully tested and made available. In addition, Windows XP SP3 will be available on Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center soon.
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03.05.2008Windows 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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03.01.2009Public Debate Begins on GPLv3
Public debate on the third
revision of the General Public
License began on Monday as the
Free Software Foundation
released the first draft of
the popular open source
license. The new version of
the license focuses on patents
and digital rights management
issues...
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17.01.2006Downgrade Plan for Windows 7 PC's
Deja Vu here? Just like they did with Windows Vista, Microsoft will ship Windows 7 in OEM machines with a license that allows customers to easily
downgrade to either Windows Vista or its 8-year-old predecessor, Windows XP. This license applies to businesses who buy VLK licenses and
consumers who buy a desktop or laptop with Windows 7 pre-installed.
While giving downgrade plans has been common in Redmond in the past,
a downgrade from an operating system released in 2009/2010, to one released 8-9 years ago seems a bit crazy. However, given the skepticism that, even
to this day, with nearly 2 Service Packs RTM'ed, still surrounds Windows Vista, Microsoft was essentially forced into providing that downgrade path.
Windows XP will soon be near-obsolete - even according to Microsoft, who will be ending mainstream support tomorrow. The availability of
that downgrade path is unfortunate, due to the number of advancements that have inevitably occurred over the past 8 years. If Windows 7 holds up to
peoples' expectations, maybe they won't have to step into the time machine, and we can finally continue on, full speed ahead, into the future.
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13.04.2009OEMs to Continue Shipping XP
If you already own an XP license and are still hesitant to switch to Vista, Microsoft's "downgrade rights" policy, which initially began to be
exercised in 2001, may be in your favor if you would still like to purchase a machine running Windows XP after the June 30, 2008 deadline when
Microsoft will stop offering the operating system. OEMs such as Dell have said that they still have no plans to stop offering XP as an option:
"Dell has the ability to exercise 'Windows Vista downgrade rights' on your behalf in the factory if your business is still reliant upon
Windows XP and you'd prefer to have Windows XP Professional preinstalled on your PCs," according to their new downgrade policy section for XP.
"Downgrade Rights means that anyone with a Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate operating system can downgrade to Windows XP
Professional provided they have the media for Windows XP Professional."
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27.04.2008Dell to offer Windows XP beyond June 30 cutoff
InfoWorld has confirmed that
Dell will sell and support
Windows XP to consumers beyond the June 30 Microsoft sales cutoff date that
Microsoft reaffirmed today, after earlier comments from
CEO Steve Ballmer seemingly indicated it might reconsider that decision.
Dell will take
advantage of a licensing option in Vista Business and Vista Ultimate that lets PC makers provide XP under the Vista license, which
Microsoft calls a
"downgrade"
license. (Enterprises with site licenses have these same rights with any version of Vista.) In essence, the user is buying a Vista license
that it can apply to XP, and Microsoft can still claim a Vista sale.
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25.04.2008Microsoft: XP SP3 an 'Update Roll-up'
Although Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is the big news of the day, Microsoft is concurrently preparing the third service pack for Windows XP. But SP3
won't introduce much of anything new for XP users, and will simply serve as a roll-up of already released fixes, Microsoft says...
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30.08.2007Official Way to Use Vista without Activation 120 Days
Official Way to Install and
Use Windows Vista without
Activation for Free for 120
Days
By default,
Windows Vista can be
installed, used and run
without any license, product
key or the need of activation
for 30 days grace period, for
purpose of trial or
evaluation. Although Microsoft
initially stressed that users
should purchase a license with
valid product key before the
trial period expires, or else
Windows Vista will lock into
Reduced Functionality Mode.
However, a "rearm" method
has long since been discovered
to be able to extend, or reset
the remaining time for
activation to another fresh 30
days, for up to 3 times.
Now Microsoft has
confirmed that Windows Vista
can be used and run for 120
days or 4 months ( 3
rearms ), and extending the
activation grace period is not
a violation of the Vista End
User License Agreement (EULA).
All versions of Vista include
Windows Vista Ultimate allow a
30-day free period without
activation, except the
corporate-oriented Vista
Enterprise, which supports
only a three-day trial.
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22.02.2007GPLv3 Draft 3 Appears to Excuse Microsoft-Novell Deal
New language inserted into the
third discussion draft of
version 3 of the General
Public License for free and
open-source software would
prohibit a license holder from
paying another party to
receive a patent license for
works the GPL covers. But a
bracketed clause would make
this language take effect for
licenses issued from
today (March 28)
forward...
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29.03.20070-day Microsoft DirectX vulnerability discovered for XP
Microsoft warned yesterday that hackers are using QuickTime media files to exploit an unpatched 0-day vulnerability in DirectShow. In a posting on
Microsoft's security response center blog company officials confirmed the new vulnerability affects Microsoft DirectShow in Windows 2000, Windows
XP and Windows Server 2003, under limited attack. After initial investigation Microsoft have confirmed that the vulnerable code was removed as part
of their work building Windows Vista. This means that Windows Vista and versions of Windows since Windows Vista (Windows Server 2008, Windows 7) are
not vulnerable. An attacker would try and exploit the vulnerability by crafting a specially formed video file and then posting it on a website or
sending it as an attachment in e-mail.
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29.05.2009Microsoft: Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade possible
Microsoft has confirmed that customers can purchase upgrade media and an upgrade license at a discounted price to move from Windows XP to Windows 7.
However, customers need to do a clean installation of Windows 7. The pricing details of XP upgrade licenses are not yet known. An operating system
upgrade offers users the option of choosing between in-place upgrades, with installed applications & data in-place in the machine and a fresh
installation which overwrites the hard drive's contents. By eliminating in-place upgrades, users can have a reliable installation after backing up
all their data and applications.
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04.02.2009Verdict: XP Mode gets an F
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: I've been using Windows 7's
XP Mode feature for a
few days and I'm now ready to give you my verdict ... and it gets an F.
Don’t get me wrong. The idea behind XP Mode is a
valid one, and the fact that Microsoft is finally ready to accept that users should be able to run older versions of Windows as part of the license
for the newer OS.
But … there are problems with XP Mode, and here I’ll point out six issues with XP Mode that lead to
me giving it a failing grade...
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05.05.2009XP SP3 Integrated Images on MSDN & Technet
Microsoft is pleased to make available integrated retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3, to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers.
Integrated retail and volume license installs are available in the following languages: Chinese Simplified, English, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish. Additional languages will be made available soon.
Please see the MSDN Subscriber
Downloads or TechNet Plus Subscriber Downloads to obtain these releases. The main TechNet resource page for Windows XP SP3 is updated with this
information.
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