Amazon features signature edition Vista upgrade
Ever wanted a copy of Windows signed by the Chairman himself? Now Amazon is giving you that chance.
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6.1.2007 Microsoft to Kill Pirated Windows XP Professional
Having dealt with the SoftMod Windows Vista activation crack, Microsoft will start hunting down and “killing” pirated copies of Windows XP Professional, the flavor of the operating system labeled by the company as most popular with pirates.
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25.3.2009 Which edition of Windows XP is right for you?
Five editions of Windows XP compared
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New Features Discovered in XP SP3: Is It Better Than Vista
New Features Discovered in Windows XP SP3: Is It Better Than Vista? The principal reason given for the tremendous under-the-hood changes to Windows unveiled early this year in Vista was the need to overhaul the security model. Thanks to odeeee for this post.
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11.10.2007 New Features Discovered in XP SP3: Is It Better Than Vista
New Features Discovered in Windows XP SP3: Is It Better Than Vista? The principal reason given for the tremendous under-the-hood changes to Windows unveiled early this year in Vista was the need to overhaul the security model.
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14.10.2007 Differences between the XP Home and Professional Edition !
Windows XP is based on Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 technology. Microsoft is positioning the Windows XP Professional Edition to replace Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 Professional. In addition, the Windows XP Home edition will be replacing Windows 95/98/ME.
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Windows XP USB Stick Edition
Thanks to ecko to report this download in our forum. Ever want to boot up into Windows XP via a USB memory key? Well, now you can.
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25.2.2007 Windows 7 Features Complete Features List with Demo Videos
Windows 7Windows 7 is next iteration of almost-monopolistic Microsoft Windows operating system, after Windows Vista.
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21.7.2009 Japan-only 20th Anniversary Edition Windows XP
Localization be damned, since Microsoft has decided to release a special edition of Windows XP only in Japan to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first Windows. Finding details about what has changed versus previous XPs is difficult (probably because nothing changed), but we do know that it will feature a special ?20th anniversary edition? desktop theme. Err, does that even count?
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22.11.2005 XP Black Edition USA 2007 DVD
Thanks to odeeee and other posters to for this download. No Viruses....Cracks....for the programs it comes with.....Falsly reported as Viruses....Coz they R Crackz.
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7.5.2007 Microsoft to Kill Windows XP Blue Edition
Microsoft is attempting to kill the “Blue Edition” of Windows XP. In mid-2008 the Redmond company discontinued the availability of retail and OEM licenses of Windows XP, with the exception of copies of the operating system going onto ultra-low-cost laptops and desktops.
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4.12.2008 Hack windows home edition cd into professional edition
Easy way how to spare some money. Raymond found this hack from Technipages and think it's pretty cool. It enables the features found in Windows XP Professional on your Windows XP Home Edition installation with this hack. It will allow you to turn your Windows XP Home CD into a Windows XP Professional CD.
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27.12.2006 Microsoft to Sell Windows XP Starter Edition in Africa
Microsoft Corp. is targeting Africa with a lower-priced operating system, a Windows "Starter Edition" that will work on cheaper machines and have Africa-themed screensavers and background wallpaper among its features.
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28.4.2006 Windows 7 RC New Features in the Spotlight: XP Mode and Virtual PC
Windows 7 Release Candidate, although virtually at an apparent standstill in evolution since the release of interim Builds 7048 and 7057, does manage to take it up a notch with the secret features Microsoft confirmed to have tucked away since the public Beta Build 7000 in January 2009.
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10.5.2009 KB910393 Update for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Microsoft has released KB910393 Update. This update is intended for systems running Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
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20.11.2005 Update for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (KB913800)
Update to address digital rights management (DRM) protected content failures after installing Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (KB900325).
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17.4.2006 Windows 7 – 20 Features to Make Users Forget Vista SP1/SP2 and XP SP3
Microsoft is currently moving onward with the development of Windows 7, having passed Milestone 3 with the operating system.
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15.11.2008 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 How to Downgrade from Windows Vista Business or Ultimate OEM Edition and Install Windows XP Professional
A lot of users still don’t getting used to Windows Vista. A lot of reviews have been labeling Windows Vista as bloated, hard to use, tons of compatibility issues, inconvenient, not user friendly, not stable and etc.
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22.8.2008 Windows 7 Already Pirated, Not Even Out
Just came back from our usual family weekend outing when I chanced upon a stall in one of the supermarkets here in the Philippines.
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2.3.2009 Pirated Windows 7 Just $3
Windows 7 might officially be just two days away from becoming available for purchase to customers worldwide, but fact is that the operating system is already available for free, almost free, or at a reduced price compared to what Microsoft is charging for the product.
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20.10.2009 Pirated Vista may be useless, Microsoft says
Microsoft said supposedly pirated copies of its new Vista computer operating system "will be of limited value" to those who use them.
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15.11.2006 Half of pirated Vista is malware
Alleged "cracked" versions of Vista appearing on peer-to-peer networks often turn out to be Trojan horses. About half of the downloads claiming to be free versions of Microsoft's Vista operating system are actually malicious Trojan horse software, security vendor DriveSentry warned Thursday.
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26.1.2007 2 Year Old Pirated Keys Defeats WGA
On July 18, Microsoft's WGA team promised to send me a disk with a product key from their blocked list. It was supposed to arrive via overnight service, but it was never sent.
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9.8.2006 Why pirated Vista has Microsoft champing at the BitTorrent
As Microsoft Corp. gets ready to launch Windows Vista and Office 2007 to consumers, it claims a formidable new foe it lacked at its last major consumer software launch five years ago: the popular filesharing network known as BitTorrent. This third-generation peer-to-peer (P2P) service, already used by tens of millions of Internet users to swap digital music and movies for free, is becoming a popular mechanism for those looking to obtain pirated software.
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26.1.2007 Does Microsoft Actually Want Windows Vista SP1 to Be Pirated?
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is currently in its final stages of development in Redmond Utero, and heading for the first release candidate stage.
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6.12.2007 22% of Windows Installs Pirated, 2.6Million of that Genuine?
Microsoft's anti-piracy tool, aka Windows Genuine Advantage, launched in 30 months ago in 2005. Since then, 512 million have tried to validate their copy of Windows and 114 million users, or 22.3%, were labeled by Microsoft as pirates.
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24.1.2007 Why buy a genuine Windows Vista when pirated is easier and better?
Recently Microsoft had a 50% price cut for Home Basic and Home Premium Editions of Windows Vista. The price cut is mainly targeted at China which has the 2nd highest software piracy rate in the world after Vietnam. Thanks to thepodest for this post on the blog.
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8.8.2007 Microsoft files 52 suits over pirated software
Microsoft is ramping up its fight against counterfeit software, this time targeting people alleged to have sold pirated versions of its programs on online marketplaces.
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14.12.2007 Microsoft: Turn Pirated Windows Copies into Genuine Products!
Microsoft is providing users with the means to turn their pirated copies of Windows into genuine products. However, the offer is only available for Windows XP, and not for Windows Vista.
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2.10.2007Windows XP SP3 Final Available at MajorGeeks
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new
functionalities, which do not significantly change customers experience with the operating system.
Supported Operating Systems:
Windows XP; Windows XP Home Edition ; Windows XP Home Edition N; Windows XP Media Center Edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP
Professional N; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Starter Edition; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
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23.04.2008FAQ on the Windows XP Expert
Zone
Columnist Charlie Russel
explains how to use FAQs to
find answers to frequently
asked questions about Windows
XP, Windows XP Tablet PC
Edition, and Windows XP Media
Center Edition...
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04.01.2006XP Starter Edition Travels to
India
Microsoft is bringing Windows
XP Starter Edition to India,
where it will offer the
stripped down operating system
in English for the first time.
The low-cost version of XP
drops home networking and
limits the number of programs
that can be opened
simultaneously...
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24.09.2005Exploring Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition
In this overview of Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition,
Columnist Charlie Russel
explains what hardware and
software it supports...
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04.01.2006Windows Server 2003 - XP
Conversion Pack
Windows Server 2003 is well
known for its superior speed,
stability, and security when
compared to Windows XP. This
fact is proven by
Microsoft's use of the
Windows Server 2003 kernel in
both Windows x64 Edition and
the upcoming Windows Vista.
Given this fact, it's no
wonder that many Windows users
have already switched to
Windows Server 2003 to gain
such improvements. However,
these users will have no doubt
also discovered that
compatibility issues are
common when using Windows
Server 2003 as a primary
home-use OS. Until Now... We
are proud to present version
2.0 of Windows X's
popular Windows Server 2003 -
XP Conversion Pack. This tool
will convert the Windows 2003
codebase from ServerNT to
WinNT, which will enable
locked features and transform
Windows Server 2003 into a
more compatible, and usable OS
like Windows XP. After
converting, your OS will
perform like Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition.
Finally you can gain all the
advantages of running Windows
Server 2003, without the
compatibility headaches!..
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21.08.2006Microsoft talks about Office
2007 Ultimate
For those who don't know
about it yet, Microsoft Office
2007 Ultimate Edition is, as
Ultimate Edition, a sum of
every features of the product.
The actual Ultimate edition
contains the following
products:
-Word
-Excel
-PowerPoint
-Outlook
-Publisher
-OneNote
-Groove
-Access
-InfoPath
But
all those features have a
price, which is already
mentioned: 679 US$. We
currently don't know if it
will offer special services
like those that will be
available to Windows Vista
Ultimate Edition users.
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27.05.2006Microsoft tweaks anti-piracy check for Windows XP
Microsoft has updated software that verifies whether a copy of Windows is genuine in its Windows XP Professional edition, making it similar to the
notification in Windows Vista and thus more persistently visible to users. In a blog posting attributed to Alex Kochis, a Microsoft director of
product marketing and management, the company said it made the changes to the Windows Genuine Notification (WGA) alerts for XP Pro because it is
"the product edition that is most often stolen."
Now when a version of Windows XP Pro is found to be pirated or counterfeit, the next
time a user logs on to the system, the desktop screen background will be black, replacing whatever custom desktop may have been set by the user. This
will reappear every 60 minutes, even if a user resets the screen's background. Previously, this was not a part of the WGA notification for Windows
XP Pro.
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27.08.2008MS Extends XP Home, MCE Support
Microsoft said Wednesday it
has added an Extended Support
phase to the consumer versions
of Windows XP: Home Edition
and Media Center Edition. The
five-year Extended Support
normally applies only to the
business versions of Windows...
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25.01.2007Frequently asked questions
about Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition
Columnist Charlie Russel
answers questions about
Windows XP Professional x64
Edition that have appeared
frequently in the new (and
very active) Microsoft Windows
64-bit Newsgroup...
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04.01.2006Microsoft Takes XP Starter
Edition To Egypt, Turkey
Microsoft added two
new versions of its bare-bones
Windows XP Starter Edition
Tuesday, one in Arabic for the
Egyptian market, the other
targeted at
Turkey.
St
arter Edition is a pared-down
operating system that
Microsoft introduced last year
aimed at countries where
piracy is rampant and incomes
are low. Counting the new
editions released Tuesday,
Starter Edition is now
available in nine languages
and 32
countries.
The
Arabic and Turkish versions
will be distributed in
partnership with the
governments of Egypt and
Turkey, respectively.
"Building on our joint
success in the Affordable PC
Initiative 'PC for Every
Home' that has delivered more
than a quarter of a million
PCs to Egyptian homes, we
anticipate the new Windows XP
Starter Edition will provide
wider and more affordable
technology access to the
masses," said Dr. Tare Kamel,
minister of communications for
the Arab Republic of Egypt, in
a
statement.
Microsof
t did not disclose specific
pricing information for the
two versions. ..
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16.11.2005Low-Cost Windows XP Comes to
Africa
Microsoft is bringing its
Windows XP Starter Edition
operating system to Africa,
the company announced
Thursday. The lower-priced
version of XP drops home
networking and limits the
number of programs that can be
opened simultaneously...
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28.04.2006Get Vista's Best Features in XP
Despite the fact that most of you
prefer XP to Vista and would rather
Microsoft extended XP's shelf-life, several new and improved features
available in Vista would be great to have in XP. This new functionality may not be enough to get you to switch to Vista, but that doesn't mean
you're out of luck. Let's take a look at a few ways you can incorporate Windows Vista's best features into your current XP PC for free.
We're going to focus on Vista's small and large features that are missing from XP, separated into three categories: applications,
functional, and aesthetic (e.g., transparency is aesthetic, the new start menu search is functional). This list is not exhaustive, but it does cover
the features readers feel make Vista worth it.
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14.05.2008Microsoft Announces Extended Support for XP Home/ MCE
Today, Microsoft is announcing
the addition of an Extended
Support phase for the Windows®
XP Home Edition and Windows XP
Media Center Edition operating
systems, providing consumers
with an additional phase of
support.
With the
addition of Extended Support,
the support life cycle for
Windows XP Home Edition and
Windows XP Media Center
Edition will include a total
of five years of Mainstream
Support (until April 2009) and
five years of Extended
Support, matching the support
policy provided for Windows XP
Professional.
The
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
policy standardizes Microsoft®
product support policies for
business and developer
products as well as for
consumer, hardware, multimedia
and Microsoft Dynamics™
products.
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24.01.2007US Gov't Cracks Down On Pirated Games
The US Goverment said
Wednesday that it had executed
32 search warrants in 16
states as part of a crackdown
on devices and chips which
allow pirated games to be
played on gaming consoles...
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02.08.2007How to Use Dual Set-top Boxes
in Windows XP Media Center
Edition 2005
Columnist Barb Bowman explains
how to increase your TV
entertainment options by
setting up dual set-top boxes
when using Windows XP Media
Center Edition 2005...
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04.01.2006Microsoft outlines Windows 7 Enterprise edition features
Microsoft has outlined the features that will be included in Windows 7 Enterprise Edition in a series of briefings to product reviewers. Windows 7
Enterprise edition will include support for scripted PowerShell commands for centralized management, help desk-friendly tricks and desktop
virtualization options along with various other administration GUI tools. The free set of Windows 7 tools to be included are based on PowerShell 2.0,
which is currently in CTP and will include more than 500 scripts and 'commandlets' with PowerShell to take advantage of enhanced group policy
controls. The scripts will help system administrators build and deploy tailored group policies that are easier to understand and manage.
Read full story.....
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03.03.2009aXXo's Pirated Movies Used to Promote the iMac
The DVD ripper aXXo is without a doubt one of the most popular DVD-rippers. Even though he hasn’t been active since November 2007, his rips are
still widely used, even by commercial outlets such as the John Lewis store. They must have thought, “Why use a real DVD if we can use a pirated
movie for free?”
Read full
story.....
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24.01.2008Tweak MCE PowerToy Available
for Download
Tweak MCE gives you
access to systems settings and
options not normally exposed
in the Windows XP Media Center
Edition user interface,
including remote control
settings, Skip and Replay time
customizations, user interface
options, and more. It also
helps you to optimize Media
Center Extender for plasma and
non-CRT displays. It works
with Update Rollup 2 for
Windows XP Media Center
Edition
2005.
Syst
em
Requirements:
-Supported
Operating Systems: Windows XP
Media Center
Edition
Dow
nload:
Tweak MCE
PowerToy..
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08.11.2005PINNED: Windows Server 2003 -
XP Conversion Pack
Windows Server 2003 is well
known for its superior speed,
stability, and security when
compared to Windows XP. This
fact is proven by Microsoft's
use of the Windows Server 2003
kernel in both Windows x64
Edition and the upcoming
Windows Vista.
Given this fact, it's no
wonder that many Windows users
have already switched to
Windows Server 2003 to gain
such improvements. However,
these users will have no doubt
also discovered that
compatibility issues are
common when using Windows
Server 2003 as a primary
home-use OS. Until Now...
We are proud to
present version 2.0 of Windows
X's popular Windows Server
2003 - XP Conversion Pack.
This tool will convert the
Windows 2003 codebase from
ServerNT to WinNT, which will
enable locked features and
transform Windows Server 2003
into a more compatible, and
usable OS like Windows XP.
After converting, your OS will
perform like Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition.
Finally you can gain all the
advantages of running Windows
Server 2003, without the
compatibility headaches!
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15.08.2006Burn, Archive, and Share
Digital Videos Using Windows
XP Media Center Edition 2005
Columnist Tim Muscott explains
how to burn, archive, and
share digital videos with
friends and family using
Windows XP Media Center
Edition 2005...
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