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Renowned security expert Sophos has discovered that Apple is downgrading Mac OS X 10.6 users to an old, vulnerable version of Adobe Flash Player (10.0.23.1), which is susceptible to attacks, according to the company. "Mac users are not informed that Snow Leopard has downgraded their version of Flash without permissi... |
3 September 2009
03:02 GMT |
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With the advent of Windows 7, Microsoft is making sure that it will keep Windows XP available for an additional 18 months after October 22, 2009, the official launch deadline for the operating system. Through the Windows 7 downgrade rights, customers with select licenses and SKUs of the next iteration of the Windows ... |
22 June 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Windows XP, with its latest Service Pack, SP3, will continue to be available until 2011 via Windows 7 downgrade rights, Microsoft confirmed. Just as it was the case for Windows Vista, the Redmond company will also allow Windows 7 customers to downgrade to Vista, XP, or any other Windows release. While this detail was... |
18 June 2009
10:37 GMT |
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Windows Vista continues to generate problems for Microsoft. Following the lawsuit over the Vista-capable campaign, which has been granted class-action status, another legal action was filed against the company, also looking to become a class-action suit, and also centered on Vista. Emma Alvarado is suing Microsoft fo... |
13 February 2009
05:48 GMT |
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Windows XP is a survivor. The operating system launched at the end of 2001 is still alive and kicking despite Microsoft's best efforts to the contrary. The Redmond giant confirmed at the end of the past week that it had breathed additional life into Windows XP despite having Windows Vista available for almost tw... |
6 October 2008
11:31 GMT |
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Windows Vista is going nowhere fast. SP1 or no SP1, Vista is hurt and suffering, with Microsoft giving out the impression that it is fighting in vain to save its latest Windows client from the inevitable. But proclaiming it ready for business and parading Service Pack 1 in front of potential customers have failed to ... |
11 June 2008
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The introduction of Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista and of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, along with the June 30 retail and OEM availability cut-off date for XP, have generated a consistent a mount of confusion over the future of the two Windows clients. Especially over Vista's predecessor in terms of its reti... |
6 June 2008
11:10 GMT |
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Windows Vista made downgrading a hot subject. Not only for Microsoft, but also for end users and business customers. Incorrectly associated exclusively with the move from Vista back to Windows XP, instead of the extra benefits that Microsoft is providing business clients with the added rights associated to the licens... |
6 February 2008
04:48 GMT |
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Windows Vista represents an inherent invitation at an operating system measuring contest. And as far as Microsoft products go, Vista will ultimately be compared with Windows XP. Setting the two operating systems side by side on the same hardware configuration will permit users to take into account not only the added ... |
14 January 2008
06:23 GMT |
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The advent of Windows Vista brought to center stage the issue of downgrades. In mid 2007, Lisa Michigan from the Microsoft U.K. licensing team revealed that Vista to XP downgrades were one of the hottest subjects on the company's top five list of licensing questions, occupying both the first and the second posit... |
12 January 2008
06:46 GMT |
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With the advent of Windows Vista, the issue of downgrading to Windows XP came into the limelight and got a consistent amount of play throughout 2007. Initially, Microsoft had a complex downgrading process in place that forced Windows users to go from Vista to XP through unnecessary activation pains. As a direct conse... |
9 January 2008
10:02 GMT |
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While the positioning of software downgrades at the opposite pole of upgrades is valid in terms of concept and semantics, the actual processes come with inherent nuances, that only make the difference more subtle. The aspect is collateral to the Microsoft license-based Modus Operandi, and in this sense, it is the act... |
1 November 2007
12:14 GMT |
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After much discussion and many rumors flying around on the World Wide Web, Advanced Micro Devices finally announced the official launch of the Radeon HD 2900 Pro range of products that are intended to be used as a bridge between the performance and the mainstream market segments. While these graphics cards are packin... |
26 September 2007
05:49 GMT |
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Windows XP is by no means dead, and the fact of the matter is that the operating system released at the end of 2001 is still positioned as a valid alternative to Windows Vista. On the Microsoft's official webpage reserved for obsolete products, Windows XP is nowhere to be found. In fact, the latest version of th... |
24 September 2007
11:44 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices launched sometime ago, without much fanfare, the Radeon 2900 Pro graphics processing unit that is intended is an intermediate level offering for those users that are not willing to invest into the more costly Radeon 2900 XT based video cards.The 2900 Pro is mostly aimed at users that do not tak... |
20 September 2007
04:04 GMT |
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Lenovo is offering a Windows XP Recovery CD designed to make life easier for its customers that want to go back from Windows Vista to Windows XP. Vista downgrade rights are inherent with Microsoft's Software Assurance license, as well as with the licenses for the operating system distributed by original equipmen... |
23 August 2007
09:05 GMT |
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The downgrade rights from Windows Vista to Windows XP are a hot subject over at Microsoft. The Redmond Company is pouring a consistent amount of effort into convincing customers to upgrade from Windows XP and previous versions of the Windows operating system to Windows Vista. However, Windows users fail to see eye to... |
21 June 2007
10:48 GMT |
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There is a thin line between Windows Vista and Windows XP. And users of both versions of Windows can cross it in either direction. From Windows XP to Windows Vista via an upgrade and from Windows Vista back to Windows XP through a downgrade. Sounds logic, doesn't it? Now, I have already addressed the Vista to XP... |
6 June 2007
11:43 GMT |
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It's Windows Vista or nothing in Microsoft's perspective. The Redmond company has stated numerous times that Vista is its top priority when it comes to client operating systems. In fact, as of last year, Microsoft has ended support for the vast majority of Windows platforms older than Windows XP SP2. Still,... |
25 May 2007
06:27 GMT |
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