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Microsoft released Windows Home Server on Monday, but only to hardware manufacturers, so individual customers will have to wait some more time until they get to play with it. Windows Home Server is basically an operating system designed for running a home network that stores, organizes and shares music, pictures, doc... |
17 July 2007
06:42 GMT |
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Microsoft Windows Vista looks nice, has some extended security and functionality over the previous versions of Windows, the very popular XP. The downside of Windows Vista is that it uses hardware resources like there would be no tomorrow, or in this case any other program running, quite high hardware needs and a proh... |
17 July 2007
05:48 GMT |
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The Live Earth concerts powered by Microsoft and meant to fight against the global warming managed to make MSN an important part of the history after no less than 8 million people watched live content on Monday. As the Redmond company reports, there were approximately 15 million streams bundled with 237.000 simultane... |
15 July 2007
05:31 GMT |
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If you're into flight-simulators I guess this fact sheet for Flight Simulator X: Acceleration Expansion Pack I just stumbled upon today will brighten your morning (that is, if you live in an area where it's still morning...). The game, developed by ACES Studio and published by Microsoft's Game Studios,... |
11 July 2007
06:50 GMT |
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As it was only natural, BioShock's PR has recently revealed the system requirements for running BioShock on your PC. Lucky for thousands of gamers out there, the PC version of Irrational's highly anticipated FPS will run on both Windows XP (with Service Pack 2) and Windows Vista. The full list of specs is a... |
10 July 2007
03:46 GMT |
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It's well known the fact that the security of our computers is more and more threatened and this is proved especially by the avalanche of viruses and other infected files that is reported every day. Obviously, even the most powerful software solutions ever developed are affected but the attackers are now aiming ... |
1 July 2007
06:50 GMT |
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If you've already read the subtitle you're probably wondering what Creative products are not based on the original E-Mu 10kx design. Well, in order to answer that, a little history lesson is needed. The first Creative ever based on the E-Mu 10k1 line of APUs was the 1997 SoundBlaster live. From then on up u... |
29 June 2007
12:56 GMT |
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I know. This must make you think someone is crazy here and that person is definitely not you. But no, I don't intend to go to the madhouse because this is just a thought that went through my head yesterday morning. Just stop for a moment and read on because this will get even more interesting. Let's just su... |
29 June 2007
07:35 GMT |
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The US District Court for the District of Columbia judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has declared that for the time being she wants an agreement between the plaintiffs and Microsoft in the case concerning the anti-trust desktop search lawsuit and that she will not address the complaint made by Google on this subject."The ... |
27 June 2007
12:26 GMT |
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Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is a third-person shooter video game created by Capcom for Microsoft's Xbox 360 and PC. Produced by Keiji Inafune, the creator of the Onimusha and Mega Man series, Lost Planet is a gaming masterpiece introducing a new genre: puzzle-shooter. Today, Capcom has rolled out a fact sheet... |
27 June 2007
07:11 GMT |
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Following the recent releases made by the rival companies such as Google and Yahoo, Microsoft decided to take attitude and rolled out on Monday MSN Mobile, a special flavor of the famous portal accessible from any handheld device connected to the Internet. Using this new edition of the website, Microsoft wants to off... |
24 June 2007
07:07 GMT |
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If you're one of those people who bought Vista in the first 24 hours from the launch, you're probably running a very fast system equipped with SLI or Crossfire support. In this case, you probably found out pretty fast that Nvidia didn't offer SLI support for the new OS produced by Microsoft.Sad one, is... |
19 June 2007
02:59 GMT |
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The battle for the best antivirus for the latest operating system developed by Microsoft continues as more and more companies are promoting the software solutions as the ones able to increase Vista's security. Most of them proved to be useless applications including even the Redmond-based company's tool, Wi... |
17 June 2007
13:07 GMT |
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The Cupertino company is proudly announcing that its famous browser Safari reached the 1 million downloads border after the Windows version of application was recently rolled out by Apple. According to the company, the first free public beta of Safari for Windows recorded this impressive number of downloads in 48 hou... |
15 June 2007
03:33 GMT |
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The Mountain View company Google claims that Microsoft's Windows Vista violates some antitrust rules that make the Google offline tools almost inaccessible. Basically, Google sustained that Redmond's latest operating system doesn't allow the installation of other search utilities such as Google Desktop... |
12 June 2007
07:06 GMT |
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It's sometimes funny to see the ultra high-tech in the computer world these days being mixed with things that traditionally belong somehow to the past. Namely, we're speaking vacuum tubes getting along with Windows Vista and HDMI connectivity. Now, I know this could sound rather weird (and it is weird, inde... |
8 June 2007
03:02 GMT |
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This, you gotta hear: today, Falling Leaf Systems has revealed an official merger between the VAIO and Alky projects, that have, for over a year now, been working toward providing software originally intended for use on only one platform, to users on various other platforms. Basically, they're going to prove to ... |
5 June 2007
06:26 GMT |
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We wouldn't have bothered to write about the new updates at iZotope if it weren't for iZotope themselves. There are a whole bunch of software manufacturers which are producing GBs of software, all for music and audio production... and they all announced Vista compatibility ever since Vista wasn't quite... |
4 June 2007
11:26 GMT |
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A list of the ten things wrong with Games for Windows is up on The Hushed Casket. They're pretty much correct about everything, although #8 is good news for Xboxers, but basically, it proves how Microsoft shows off different results with the same thing practically.No. 9 - "It doesn't work from your desktop"... |
4 June 2007
08:47 GMT |
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Company of Heroes is a WWII based RTS game coming from Relic Entertainment, that brings back to life the journey of the Able Company and its brave men, as they fight across Europe in the worst conflagration in history.The video we have provided HERE for you shows slight, but significant differences between identical ... |
1 June 2007
04:30 GMT |
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Vista here, Vista there, everything is just Vista nowadays. Just take a look at my colleague's articles and you'll see just how Vista-obsessed we are. Microsoft is making money with the new operating system and peripheral manufacturers want a piece of the Vista cake as well. Here's a device from IOGEAR... |
30 May 2007
03:43 GMT |
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Since I got my first computer, ten years ago, a continuous nightmare haunted me. No matter how great my new computer was I always heard: "for that video game you will need XXX MB of RAM". The technology was one-step ahead of my upgrade capability. Of course, you might say I am paranoiac about upgrading my computer wi... |
28 May 2007
12:51 GMT |
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On Monday, the Redmond company made an important step for the fight against software piracy by signing an agreement with Vietnam to provide them with licensed applications. Basically, the deal requires the Vietnam offices to use only licensed software solutions, as Microsoft is one of the most affected companies by t... |
27 May 2007
10:54 GMT |
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Some of you believe that Windows Vista was somehow inspired by Apple's Mac OS X because the Redmond-based company intended to develop a similar operating system with all the tools bundled into it. Windows Vista was released but, as some of you had the chance to notice, it is more than different from Mac OS X or ... |
26 May 2007
16:56 GMT |
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Privacy has always been a controversial issue in the IT field because the friendly computers everybody uses may store valuable and personal data. That data once accessed by unauthorized persons could eventually cause negative consequences; therefore, users must take all the safety measures in order to keep intruders ... |
25 May 2007
12:16 GMT |
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Just as Halo 2 Vista was ready for launch, Microsoft remembered that they included nudity in their popular first-person shooter. Nudity in Halo 2? That's right, thus the electronics giant has sent an email to NextGeneration, to warn of the "dirty" content.How could they have forgotten about such a thing? Here�... |
25 May 2007
05:20 GMT |
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Finally, I was beginning to forget that there was a Halo 2 for the PC. Microsoft's Games Studios has just announced that the eagerly awaited Halo 2 for Windows Vista, will be available on June 8. Halo 2 Vista is the sequel to Halo: Combat Evolved (the first PC installment of the series), featuring the same main ... |
24 May 2007
19:21 GMT |
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Recently I have decided to switch from Windows XP to Vista. I know Vista appeared months ago but my reticence regarding hardware and software compatibilities forced me to wait a bit. Now that most of the hardware manufacturers released versions of their drivers to be compatible with Vista determined me to attempt the... |
23 May 2007
13:06 GMT |
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While it is definitely a bit early for this sort of thing, with not even half of this year gone, PC World has published a list of "The 100 Best Products of 2007." Of interest not only because of the timing, but also because of the contents, the list is a perfect illustration of the competition between Apple's OS... |
22 May 2007
07:06 GMT |
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Microsoft made an important step into the hardware market on Monday when the Redmond company debuted a new set of handheld devices able to work with its software solutions and replace the classic and old fashioned office tools. Among phones and headsets, Microsoft presented several products able to interact with the ... |
20 May 2007
09:27 GMT |
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Since Windows Vista was released, a lot of users looking to update their operating system avoided to do this because they were aware that their computers' configurations might be incompatible with this product. However, some of them managed to upgrade their systems and proceeded to the next step: the installatio... |
19 May 2007
14:06 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft made an important step into the Linux market by signing a deal with Dell, the company that will join the software giant's alliance with Novell. The three partners will have a single goal: that of improving the interoperability between Windows and Linux and allow their users to work on their ... |
13 May 2007
08:25 GMT |
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Today, I decided to show you the differences between running Counter-Strike, the famous tactical first-person shoot game, on a Windows Vista operating system and on a Windows XP platform. Now, Windows Vista was often regarded as the most secure release of Windows, the parent company Microsoft promoting it as a simple... |
12 May 2007
16:59 GMT |
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It looks like Microsoft's confusing rollout of the Live service on the PC, has created quite a stir. The company's vision how gamers will gain and use achievements, keep a gamerscore record, and having a consistent friends list, while enjoying a quality multiplayer network, hasn't exactly met demand.Jo... |
11 May 2007
04:00 GMT |
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The results of Apple's last quarter show that Mac sales are stronger than ever, and there can be no doubt that the 'Get A Mac' campaign had a big hand in selling those Macs. Whether because of their humor, characters or simply because of the truth of them, the 'Get A Mac' ads have proven to ... |
8 May 2007
09:01 GMT |
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Bungie has made a rather disappointing announcement for the Halo series fans, especially for those waiting for their Halo 2 for the PC. The developer talks "refinement reasons" when referring to a PC Halo 2 delay, yet doesn't say anything about how big of a delay we're talking here. The only logical explana... |
7 May 2007
06:44 GMT |
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On Monday, the software giant Microsoft recorded an important win in the company's history, as the US court ruled that the Redmond firm is not guilty for abroad Windows patent infringements. The case was started a long time ago when Microsoft was accused by AT&T that one of the Windows components infringes the p... |
6 May 2007
03:50 GMT |
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Microsoft Windows Vista was first announced on July 22, 2005 and was presented with a different codename than the final one: Longhorn. Since the beta test version, Windows Vista was downloaded by millions of users hungry for a new operating system developed by the software giant. As you might know Vista was launched ... |
5 May 2007
14:04 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft received the first major hit since the competition with Google was officially confirmed: the market researcher Millward Brown Optimor presented a new study that had the Mountain View-based company as a leader. According to the research, Google is the most powerful brand in the entire world, manag... |
29 April 2007
10:19 GMT |
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Whenever your operating system would hit you with a crash there was not too much to do except restart your computer and maybe looking on the Internet for the prompted error in search for a cause. Generally these crashes will not multiply if you re-install your Windows.Having a monitoring tool that records all the mis... |
27 April 2007
11:23 GMT |
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Windows Vista is old news. I know that as well as anyone else. And yet there hasn't been enough talk about what it truly offers. I mean those underneath the great looking surface details that are so important. I know it fails to deliver your expectations every now and then; I also confront with "connectile dysfu... |
26 April 2007
08:49 GMT |
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With Apple's delay of Leopard, and Microsoft's Vista already out, there has been talk of Apple losing its touch, and ignoring its computer business, as well as much speculation on how Vista is having such a big impact on the operating system scene. All in all, considering the amount of talk about pent up de... |
24 April 2007
09:29 GMT |
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This one is not so much about Vista but about how does Windows Vista change the way we make music. Music is day by day growing into a software-related thing: not that personal skills and virtuosity would ever be compensated or worse - replaced - by computer programs; it's just that so much software is available ... |
18 April 2007
05:36 GMT |
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It looks like Vista is trying to change a bit the OS world since many people have had it installed and running, some of them with great performance while some just in time to meet a bitter end to their usual applications. Nevertheless, the masses are well divided between a party which claims that Windows Vista is by ... |
16 April 2007
03:39 GMT |
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On Monday, Microsoft continued to improve its Xbox 360 game console by announcing a new update able to connect two or more players. Windows Live Messenger for Xbox 360 will allow the owners of the Microsoft game console to communicate with the users of the Windows equipped PCs or Windows Mobile handheld devices. Acco... |
15 April 2007
06:53 GMT |
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As I was saying a few days ago, the Mac team here, at Softpedia, was challenged to a "duel of operating systems" by those at Windows, who claimed Vista has dethroned the Mac OS as "supreme" operating system. We obviously resent that (as would, of course, any sane human being), and we are now fighting on Mac OS' ... |
14 April 2007
08:21 GMT |
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As the age of Windows XP draws to a halt, more and more people are making the switch to the new operating system, and to top things over, hardware manufacturers are all up in a bunch trying to have as many Windows Vista-Ready products as possible. Getting certification from Microsoft for a hardware component ensures ... |
13 April 2007
07:08 GMT |
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"Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement."(Anthony J. D'Angelo) Everything we do in our life should be an improvement of the day before. Or at least this is what everybody expects from you. When you are a child you have to be more obedient, while going to school you must learn more and get ... |
12 April 2007
18:12 GMT |
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I believe competition is what keeps us going and pushes us farther and farther. And what would competition be without a challenge? Here at Softpedia, we face challenges every day, and perhaps this is part of what makes our team so dynamic and always on the go. Well, enough with the praises, here's the deal: ther... |
11 April 2007
10:13 GMT |
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Windows Vista, the latest version of the operating system designed by Microsoft, is continuously assaulted by numerous attempts to crack the application. Although most of the malicious attempts were blocked by the software giant Microsoft, it seems like the cracks and other ways to activate the operating system are p... |
5 April 2007
05:23 GMT |
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