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Windows users were last targeted by the MobileMe Control Panel Update on September 9, when Apple issued several major updates for all its software and devices. Just under a month after that, the Cupertino giant decided a new update was in order for users of its subscription-based collection of online services and sof... |
3 October 2008
05:24 GMT |
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With word on the web that Apple's portable computers are gaining ground on Windows, even Microsoft-focused bloggers are talking about it. While “Windows laptops are losing luster, Mac laptops are making surprising gains,” eWeek Microsoft Watch blogger Joe Wilcox has noticed, having moved to a 20-perc... |
1 October 2008
04:13 GMT |
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Just three months after Bill Gates retired from his day-to-day role at Microsoft, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is divorcing the company from the motto that helped put it on the map. Ballmer revealed during a Q&A session at The Churchill Club the past week that the Redmond giant had outgrown Bill Gates' ... |
30 September 2008
10:46 GMT |
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The multifaceted race between the proprietary Windows operating system and the open source Linux platform doesn't always have a clear winner. According to a study commissioned to Vital Wave Consulting by Microsoft, Window and Linux are on par when it comes down to the large number of computer deployments in... |
26 September 2008
09:37 GMT |
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By Bill Gates' retirement from his day-to-day role with Microsoft in June 2008, Windows' install base surpassed the 1 billion milestone. Still, the 1 billion mark is nothing but a step toward the Redmond giant's next goal, namely a growth of 100% is its proprietary platform install base by 2015. Howeve... |
26 September 2008
05:56 GMT |
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With the Windows operating system reaching the ubiquitous level of more than 1 billion users worldwide, Microsoft sees its involvement in the digital photography industry as nothing short of a natural evolution of its operating system. At the same time, Microsoft's involvement in the digital photography market s... |
25 September 2008
10:20 GMT |
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The new $300 million Windows marketing campaign is not limited at Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, plus I'm a PC and Live without Walls advertising. Microsoft is in fact ready to get its hands dirty and to be the first to analyze the way consumers experience Windows products and the Windows brand at retail. ... |
23 September 2008
06:52 GMT |
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It has been revealed that a file posing as a popular iPhone game, ("Penguin Panic") is circulating through spammed e-mails. Users should avoid what Sophos identified as “Troj/Agent-HNY,” being spread via e-mail as an attachment dubbed Penguin.Panic.zip.According to researchers at Sophos, the file contains... |
19 September 2008
09:14 GMT |
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Imagine no walls... Imagine that Bill Gates is a PC, along with celebrities such as Eva Longoria and Deepak Chopra, Pharrell Williams, astronaut Bernard Harris and many, many others. And it’s not like Microsoft is in short supply of “personas” declaring themselves to be a PC. In fact, with Windows&#... |
19 September 2008
06:12 GMT |
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On the cross-platform-based MacWindows, John Rizzo points out to a report saying that Microsoft has plans to roll out the seventh major incarnation of Windows in June, next year. As some of you may know, June 2009 is also the proposed launch date for Apple's own new OS, Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard. But a close l... |
19 September 2008
05:28 GMT |
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"Life Without Walls" is the next stage in the evolution of the $300 million Windows marketing campaign developed by advertising agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. This means that the Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates couple is out of the equation, and Microsoft is bringing Windows to center-stage. "Life Without Walls" is ... |
18 September 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Microsoft has found the panacea for Apple's “Get a Mac” ads. The Redmond company is fighting the consumer perception built by its rival in Cupertino by embracing closely the “I’m a PC” stereotype. Microsoft is moving to the next phase of its $300 million Windows marketing campaign, ... |
18 September 2008
10:35 GMT |
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VMware has released the first stable build of its flagship virtualization software for Mac, VMware Fusion 2.0. The software boasts the ability to run even Leopard Server as a virtual machine, and sports a built-in 1-year subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus.VMware Fusion allows Intel Macs to run x86 operating system... |
16 September 2008
08:37 GMT |
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At the start of September, Microsoft debuted a $300 million Windows marketing campaign designed by advertising agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. The first Apple's “Get a Mac” killer video ad went live featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld and despite Microsoft’s claims that it was just an ic... |
12 September 2008
07:45 GMT |
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The Windows marketing earthquake is coming, with Windows Vista, Windows Mobile and Windows Live at the epicenter. Just because Microsoft is on a brand rebuilding mission, a mission involving telling the real Windows story and the truth about the Redmond company's flagship brand and product. As early as the start... |
6 September 2008
06:51 GMT |
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Microsoft's Apple "Get a Mac" killer is live as of September 4, 2008. The new $300 million Windows campaign put together by advertising agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, has debuted with the first video ad featuring none other than Microsoft part-time Chairman Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Gates shoppi... |
5 September 2008
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On September 2, 2008 Google released its own breed of open source browser, a marriage between Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox, dubbed Google Chrome. Of course, Google Chrome is first and foremost a new competitor for Internet Explorer on the browser market. But in Google's own perspective, it is s... |
3 September 2008
13:39 GMT |
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Microsoft announced that it was kicking up a notch its initial investment into Linux dating back to 2006, by pouring no less than $100 million into the open source operating system via Novell. According to the Redmond company, the $100 million will be spent on acquiring support certificates for Novell SUSE Linux Ente... |
20 August 2008
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Intel has tried to make the last version of its Turbo Memory do some things that Windows Vista doesn't seem capable of: it can transparently optimize Windows for the use of flash memory storage. At the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California, the chip giant will be demonstrating the newest version of Turb... |
14 August 2008
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Microsoft is gearing up to start building the next generation of the software development kit for the Windows platform. In July 2008, Sarah Maurer, program manager on the Windows SDK Team, introduced two official surveys designed to tap the developers making use of the tools but also samples, header files, documentat... |
12 August 2008
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High Performance Computing is without a doubt at the opposite pole from mainstream computers. But Microsoft is laboring to make a difference, and while mainstream and HPC might never become intersecting concepts, Windows for supercomputers is indeed opening up the door for more high performance computing customers. A... |
11 August 2008
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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. However, the Redmond company is indeed ready to ride the wave of manycore/mult... |
9 August 2008
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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. Now, a new product cooking in Redmond has the potential to make Windows history. With its roots deep i... |
8 August 2008
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The death of the Windows desktop operating system is not necessarily related to the non-Windows platform Midori developed in Redmond, or with a Rich Internet Application platform hosted in the cloud. entrustIT, a Microsoft Gold partner in the UK offered a glimpse at where the evolution of IT will inherently take the ... |
5 August 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has placed its Windows operating system firmly at the core of a new initiative, described by the company as a crowdsourced digital concert experience. CrowdFire, presented by Windows, is a project designed to orbit around music fans and their content at the intersection of music, culture and technology. "Cr... |
5 August 2008
06:09 GMT |
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The anti-Microsoft recipe is rather simple and with evident ingredients. And in its quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Redmond giant spelled out the main risks and competitors to its business: Linux, open source, Google and Apple. The software giant has made inroads on a vari... |
1 August 2008
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One aspect of the Windows operating system that Microsoft is looking to take to a new level is the Plug-and-Play architecture. According to a member of the group dealing with the Windows Device Platform, the Redmond company is gearing up for the next stage in the evolution of Plug-and-Play. Whether end users will sta... |
31 July 2008
12:53 GMT |
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There is so much life left into Windows, and Microsoft is gearing up for the moment when it completely runs out of what is now its proprietary operating system. In this context, the Redmond company is cooking a couple of non-Windows operating systems labeled Singularity and Midori. Singularity, a platform prototype w... |
30 July 2008
15:21 GMT |
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Once the traditional anti-open source poster child, Microsoft is slowly seeing this aura eroding replaced as a direct consequence of the rise of new, more pressing, rivals such as Google and Apple. Furthermore, the Redmond company, once the epitome of the proprietary software business model, while still retaining its... |
30 July 2008
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Microsoft has debuted a limited time offer designed to help customers running Windows for Supercomputers test the performance of their HPC cluster. Phil Pennington, Windows Server Technical Evangelist, is inviting users to access a new tool developed by a member of the Microsoft High Performance Computing team for fr... |
29 July 2008
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How about playing the Wii without the Wii? As intriguing as it may sound, we have the technology and it has already been put to good use for those that want an alternative to Nintendo's Wii console. The cheaper alternative to the wireless gaming console is named CamSpace, and comes under the form of an executabl... |
22 July 2008
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Unfortunately for Microsoft, one of the aspects of its proprietary operating system that has grown to become associated by default with the Windows brand is the Blue Screen of Death. BSOD, for short, is the result of a critical system error that will stop the operating system dead in its tracks and lead to a reboot. ... |
17 July 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Microsoft offers an impressive collection of resources built around its Windows operating systems. There are in excess of 2,300 Windows help and how-to articles and demonstrations available straight from Microsoft. Under the old design of the Windows corner of Microsoft.com, the main focus was on Windows Vista, and t... |
16 July 2008
15:41 GMT |
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Windows is generally perceived as the perpetual bronze winner in a three horse race against Apple's Mac OS X and the open source Linux, despite the fact that Microsoft continues to account for in excess of 90% of the operating system market. According to the Redmond company, the operating system vulnerability co... |
14 July 2008
10:44 GMT |
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With Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista and Service Pack 3 for Windows XP already made available to the general public, it would be a tad late for Microsoft to introduce a redesign into its Windows clients. But not the same is valid for an overhaul of the Windows, Windows Vista and Windows XP websites on Microsoft.com.... |
14 July 2008
07:22 GMT |
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The Windows operating system is not going anywhere for a very long time. In fact, consumers should be prepared to still buy Windows over a decade from the releases of Windows Vista's successors Windows 7 and Windows 8. Microsoft might be hard at work developing non-Windows operating systems such as Singularity a... |
14 July 2008
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Although speculations do exist pointing that Microsoft is in the "right direction" as far as the next releases of its proprietary operating system are concerned, the fact of the matter is that Windows 7 and Windows 8 will not diverge from the Windows path in the foreseeable future. Do not expect Windows Next or Windo... |
8 July 2008
13:04 GMT |
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No, Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1% is not a typo, neither the result of erroneous information. The fact is that there is a context where the open source operating system holds the lion's king of the market while Microsoft's proprietary platform is not the only dominant OS, but is reduced to a bottom feeder in t... |
2 July 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Bill Gates has officially stepped into the next phase of his life, one dedicated almost exclusively to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. After doing the same job for over 30 years, Gates admitted that the new direction would not be easy; however, he stated that he is ready for the change. Microsoft's co-fou... |
30 June 2008
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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. Since over 80% of the revenues of the Windows Client Division come from sales of Windows on new machines, t... |
17 June 2008
11:17 GMT |
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This is it! The wait is now over! Firefox 3.0 Final is available for download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Mozilla announced since last week, following the release of the Release Candidate 3 Build, that the gold bits for Firefox 3.0 would be made available on June 17, 2008, and managed to meet the deadline. Altho... |
17 June 2008
04:41 GMT |
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The June 2008 Security Releases ISO Image is available for download containing critical fixes for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, as well as additional supported Windows platforms. On June 10, 2008, Microsoft made available for download no less than seven security bulletins impacting exclu... |
12 June 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Microsoft's online validation tools designed as anti-piracy mechanisms are increasingly applauded by the company for contributing to identify pirates of its software products. The Redmond giant has made available both the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) and the Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) to protect its flag-... |
10 June 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Some people say that Windows XP doesn't look too great and use all kinds of applications to change the way it does, customizing the window interface, the interface, the start menu or any other element of the operating system. In an article published a few weeks ago, Marius Nestor, our Linux Editor, made Ubuntu l... |
28 May 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Future Microsoft security products could make use of an additional operating system running on top of Windows in order to protect the underlying platform from malware. A new patent from the Redmond company titled: "System and method for proactive computer virus protection," authored by Adrian Marinescu was awarded o... |
22 May 2008
12:07 GMT |
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Back in the past, we saw a huge number of rogue anti-spyware technology which did nothing than to misinform users and trick them into buying unneeded security solutions. Today, a similar scam has been reported by security company Panda Software but, in comparison with the previous attacks, this one relies on a Window... |
22 May 2008
09:15 GMT |
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Well, that settles it. When you want to make your employees unhappy just put them in an environment with artificial light only and no windows and take away their greens - plants, that is. According to a study led by Tina Cade from the Texas State University and Andrea Dravigne of the San Marcos Nature Center, the pre... |
21 May 2008
09:47 GMT |
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The perpetual face-off between operating systems certainly goes deeper than the shell, and in this context, a critical aspect of such a comparison is a "measuring contest" involving the core of the platforms. Diomidis Spinellis, from the Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics ... |
19 May 2008
11:02 GMT |
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Following feedback from end users, and especially corporate customers, Microsoft's process of delivering security updates for its products evolved from an on-need approach to a strategy built on a scheduled monthly patch cycle, even though out-of-band releases have not been ruled out. An integral part of the Red... |
16 May 2008
06:05 GMT |
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The latest "Patch Tuesday" brought us lots of patches supposed to fix security vulnerabilities discovered in Microsoft's products, including here Microsoft Office for Windows and for Mac, Windows, OneCare, Antigen and Windows Defender. Microsoft said that four of the patched vulnerabilities are critical, a fact ... |
14 May 2008
09:50 GMT |
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