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Vista RTM and SP1 Windows Fiji – Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Developed under the codename Windows Fiji, and released to manufacturing under the label Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008, the first major update to the Windows Media Center component included by default in the Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs of Windows Vista RTM and SP1, is right on track to be a disappointment.
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11.8.2008 Change and Speed Up the Read and Write Speed for DVD Writers - MediaCodeSpeedEdit
Before continue reading today’s article, I’d like to warn you that this is for advanced users and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you CAN damage your DVD drive and will void your warranty.
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8.8.2008 The 3rd feature pack for Vista is arriving...
Microsoft will release a new Windows Feature Pack for Storage which contains 3 technologies..
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18.8.2008 Windows Live Messenger 9 WILL use WPF effects!
You may have already heard that, along with the rest of Windows Live wave 3, the next version of Windows Live Messenger (version 9.0) will have a new user interface.
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8.8.2008 Windows 7: The Transparent Cracks in Codename Translucency
Microsoft has been tiptoeing around Windows 7 since Windows Vista hit the market back in January 2007.
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16.8.2008 Microsoft hints at "porn browsing" feature in IE
One of the most interesting feature that didn’t quite make it into the final release of Firefox 3 is “Private Browsing”, a.k.a. porn mode.
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20.8.2008 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 Microsoft Is Gearing Up for Windows 7 Downloads
Even with Microsoft increasingly opening up on Windows Vista's successor, the hunger for Windows 7 details is far from being satiated.
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20.8.2008 Forget 32-bit XP SP3, It's All About 64-bit Vista SP1
Back in 2007, because of the ubiquity of 32-bit architectures, and the market's slow migration pace toward 64-bit computing, Microsoft announced that the next version of the Windows client, Windows 7, would be delivered in both x86 and x64 flavors.
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15.8.2008 Windows Live Wave 3: Messenger v9
Looks like its open-season on Wave 3 now, with Inky over at Mess.be getting his hands on the Wave 3 Milestone 1 installer for Windows Live Messenger.
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12.8.2008 Remove and Uninstall Microsoft Office Activation Assistant - Fix Office Must Be Installed Error
On most OEM computers running Microsoft Windows operating system, regardless of it’s a desktop, notebook or laptop PC, now comes with pre-loaded trial version of Microsoft Office 2007, primarily Home and Student Edition, which is a time-limited product for evaluation if use without proper activation.
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17.8.2008 Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit
This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees.
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8.8.2008 Midori Will Not Kill Windows, Multiple Releases Coming, Beyond Windows 7
The death of the mammoth Windows operating system releases was proclaimed even before the availability of Windows Vista. With Windows 7, Microsoft managed to prove that Windows was still very much alive and kicking.
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9.8.2008 XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Critical Security Patches
The latest Critical security patches for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are available from Microsoft.
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13.8.2008 Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list
Cynics see the new Engineering Windows 7 blog, which launched last week, as a pure PR play from Microsoft. Maybe it’s just a matter of setting expectations properly.
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20.8.2008 Windows 7: Microsoft Peeks Inside
After months of silence, more Windows 7 information pours out of Microsoft: It's the second blog post in four days. Quick, where's the Twitter feed?
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19.8.2008 In-Depth Technical Information about Windows 7
The next major iteration of the Windows client, Windows 7 has been under development, taking into consideration the planning stage, for approximately two years, and yet outside of the leaked information and then the Milestone 1 Build, little to no details at all are available about the operating system.
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15.8.2008 Sunlight Shines Through Vista Gloom
The role reversal has started. Some enterprises are upgrading Windows XP to Vista, rather than downgrading to XP from Vista.
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23.8.2008 Walls Without Windows
Microsoft is about to unleash its $300 million Vista marketing campaign. Can negative perceptions be changed?
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22.8.2008 Do it Yourself Mojave
Yup. I’m now a Vista user. As I mentioned in a previous post, circumstances have recently required that I buy a new desktop PC.
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12.8.2008 12 fixes planned for August Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has released its latest Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification ready for this month’s Patch Tuesday.
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8.8.2008 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 Microsoft: XP SP3 Activations Will Continue
The end of June 2008 brought with it the availability cut off date for Windows XP, now with Service Pack 3, via the retail and OEM channels.
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25.8.2008 New XP SP3 CTP Development Milestone Available for Download
Microsoft is debuting the second round for Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, almost four months since the service pack was released to manufacturing for the XP client at the end of April 2008.
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13.8.2008 Microsoft Touts New Source of Windows 7 Information
While working its way toward launching the official Windows 7 Blog, Microsoft is getting ready to share more and more information on the next iteration of the Windows operating system.
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7.8.2008 Making 64-bit Vista SP1 Say It's Vista SP1
Making a 64-bit copy of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 confirm that it is actually Vista SP1 might require a minimum amount of effort on behalf of the end user, such as right-clicking My Computer and selecting Properties, but things are a tad different when an application is programmed to identify the operating system versions or the service pack releases.
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25.8.2008 Non-Windows Microsoft OS Midori – "The Windows Killer"
Windows is one product that is not lacking in Nemesis candidates. From Apple's Mac OS X to the open source Linux, to RIA cloud-based operating systems, potential Microsoft Windows killers are advertised in a variety of scenarios incongruent with reality.
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26.8.2008 Official Windows 7 blog goes live
Thanks Emil for pointing out that the Windows 7 Engineering blog has gone live.
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14.8.2008 XP SP3 vs. Vista SP1 – Service Pack Adoption
Microsoft's decision to have both Windows XP and Windows Vista available concomitantly on the market was a move that inherently backfired against the company.
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22.8.2008 Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine nagware notifications
Microsoft is stepping up its war on software pirates by rolling out new Windows Genuine notification software for what it is calling its most pirated version of Windows: Windows XP Professional.
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26.8.2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 still lives
What do you do with a blog post that is so messed up that you can’t even go in and edit it in order to fix it? That’s my dilemma with my post from August 15 about Microsoft skipping over Windows Server 2008 R2 and proceeding direct to Windows 7 Server.
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18.8.2008 Windows 7 Server Is Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows 7 Server and Windows Server 2008 R2 are both, much in the same sense, future iterations of the Windows Server platform.
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14.8.2008 Apple twice the price of PCs
Research by analyst house NPD has shown that, on average, Apple users pay twice as much in the shops as PC users.
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11.8.2008 The Future of Windows Is Manycore-Multicore
Microsoft has little say in the matter, as does the entire ecosystem of software developers that will have to step up their game and fall in line with the evolution of hardware, further and further into the territory of parallel computing.
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9.8.2008 Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7
The incredibly tight veil of secrecy around Windows 7 is about to lift, at least a little.
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15.8.2008 The Best Windows Vista Blog Contest 2008
WinVistaClub, in association with Windows Vista Magazine, is organising a contest to recognise some of the Best Windows Vista Blogs and Websites.
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13.8.2008 SQL Server 2008 Has Been Released to Manufacturing
SQL Server 2008 was launched on February 27, 2008 alongside Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, but the platform was only released to manufacturing on August 6, 2008, and is available for download only to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
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7.8.2008 Microsoft to alpha test Office 14 before end of year
Microsoft will begin alpha testing the next version of Office in November or December, according to a blog posting by a Microsoft employee that was later pulled from the Web.
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20.8.2008 Windows Small Business Server 2008 Has RTM'ed
Windows Small Business Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. This in the context in which Microsoft was dropping the first public preview of the Windows Server 2008-based products in Release Candidate 0 stage at the end of May 2008.
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22.8.2008 ActiveX Is Vulnerable to Attacks Even Without Vulnerabilities
Internet Explorer users are vulnerable to attacks targeting ActiveX, even when ActiveX is vulnerability-free, claims security company Symantec.
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11.8.2008 Elven Legacy Prepares to Take Over PCs Next Year
Turn-based strategies are not exactly best sellers, but well-done ones definitely manage to skyrocket and make a handful of people very happy.
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14.8.2008 New Tests and Tools Cooking for Windows 7 Server Clustering Features
In parallel with the Windows 7 client, the successor of Windows Vista, Microsoft is also building the next iteration of the Windows server operating system.
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9.8.2008 Microsoft Claims Windows 7 Is Not Making Vista Irrelevant
Even if it is virtually Windows Vista at the core, or at least an evolved form of Vista, Windows 7 is being artificially dissociated from its precursor.
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25.8.2008 Microsoft confesses to posting a flawed update
Microsoft Corp. re-released one of its Aug. 11 security updates yesterday, explaining that it had posted an incomplete version to its own download center last week.
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25.8.2008 Microsoft IE 8 - Great Performance
This morning, my editor asked why I hadn't blogged about Internet Explorer 8. My response: "Who cares?" Do you? Maybe we both should.
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27.8.2008 Windows 7 Server to be 'minor release'
Microsoft said on Monday in the US that the server version of Windows 7 would not be a major release and will bear the name Windows Server 2008 R2.
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20.8.2008 HP and Acer Start Netbook Price War
Hewlett-Packard and Acer have lowered prices of their netbooks as the back-to-school sales season kicks into gear in the U.S., offering bargains for users.
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26.8.2008 Microsoft's Zune player seeking Hollywood stardom
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Microsoft's Zune is looking to Hollywood to gain an edge on Apple's iPod.
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12.8.2008 Microsoft's Vista push probed by Fair Trade Commission
The Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission is investigating a complaint against Microsoft made by the Taiwanese Consumer Foundation, which claims the company is effectively using its monopoly to force sales of Vista.
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18.8.2008 China Blocks Apple's ITunes, Amazon Over Tibet Songs
Chinese authorities appear to have blocked access to Apple's U.S. iTunes Music Store, following the release of the 20-song "Songs for Tibet - The Art of Peace" collection Wednesday.
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