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Re: Microsoft confirms Windows 7 is final name

13 Oct 2008 18:07:40 PDT

Written by PA Bear [MS MVP]
gt;the Windows client operating system we have been referring to it by a gt; gt; gt;monikers like Windows XP or Windows Vista. And since we do not ship new gt;platform technology in Windows Vista into the next generation of Windows. gt; gt; gt;Windows operating system.

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Opinion: Microsoft announces name for next Windows OS: It’s Windows 7

13 Oct 2008 15:33:01 PDT

Written by Martin
Microsoft made an announcement today on the official Windows Vista blog concerning the name of the next operating system. To everyone’s surprise the codename was kept and the next Microsoft operating system will therefor be named Windows 7.

Original story at gHacks technology .

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Microsoft Settles on "Windows 7" For Official Name of Next OS [Not Just A Code Name]

13 Oct 2008 15:27:55 PDT

Written by John Mahoney
The decision to use the name Windows 7 is about simplicity. Over the years, we have taken different approaches to naming Windows. We've used version numbers like Windows 3.11, or dates like Windows 98, or "aspirational" monikers like Windows XP or Windows Vista. And since we do not ship new ve...

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Application / Certificate Performance Issues with Vista and FDCC

13 Oct 2008 11:54:00 PDT

Written by Mandy Tidwell
Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2 Guid] 24 Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2/Operational URL ldap 236 value] 5B4 05 00 C=ZA C=ZA FDCC Windows Vista FDCC Windows XP Registry Setting · Microsoft Root Certificate Program: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931125

Original story at TechNet Blogs .

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Brad's favorite apps worth paying for: BeyondTV

13 Oct 2008 08:00:00 PDT

Written by Brad Linder
First up: BeyondTV, from Snapstream Media. You can think of BeyondTV as TiVo for your PC. But it's a lot more. It's a personal video recorder that's extraordinarily easy to use, but also quite powerful. It offers a ton of features you won't find in the Windows Media Center software that comes wi...

Original story at Download Squad .

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Winners of Extensions for Windows

12 Oct 2008 20:28:11 PDT

Written by joshua
Agreed, after using Ubuntu I too wanted this functionality in Windows very much. Hopefully with time Windows Update will eventually encompass more software. I couldn’t agree more, although Windows Vista does come with Windows Media Encoder it’s slow and often error-prone.

Original story at gHacks technology .

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Windows Vista news and blogs - October 13, 2008

13 Oct 2008 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Windows Vista news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Re: 2nd attachment file won't open -- by murp...@discussions.microsoft.com (Murphil) from microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail Google Group
• "Windows 7" graduates from codename to real name -- by Brad Linder from Download Squad
• Re: recoverable files? -- by oo...@doobie.xyz (John Inzer) from microsoft.public.windows.vista.general Google Group
• Re: Microsoft Home Publishing 2000 -- by oo...@doobie.xyz (John Inzer) from microsoft.public.windows.vista.general Google Group
• (Norton) User Access Control (replacement) - Windows Vista -- from S!ick
• How to Guide: Configure the Windows Vista Power Button to Shut ... -- by Milo from Technology Articles: SharePoint, Vista & Microsoft
• How to Guide: Quickly Access Quick Launch Icons in Windows Vista ... -- by Milo from Technology Articles: SharePoint, Vista & Microsoft
• Windows Vista UAC Woes -- by GDP from green ideas, democracy today, and some play
• How to Guide: How to Quickly Access Home Directory in Your Windows ... -- by Milo from Technology Articles: SharePoint, Vista & Microsoft
• machine based 802.1x-authentication on Windows Vista / XP SP3 -- by paulreims@gmail.com from MS OS - Microsoft Forum to Usenet Gateway

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RE: Run Vista legally for at least one year/ Vista Activation doesn't

12 Oct 2008 18:38:00 PDT

Written by GT
with Microsoft Windows. gt;Microsoft allows bypass of Vista activation gt;"activate" Vista indefinitely. gt;Windows XP and Vista, however, allow only one activation. gt;Surprisingly, Microsoft has embedded into its new Vista operating system a

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Comodo Firewall 3 Beta to be x64 and Vista Compatible

12 Oct 2008 13:19:28 PDT

Written by Ryan
This article was written on March 19, 2007 by CyberNet.I have been receiving some inquiries regarding the compatibility between the free Comodo Firewall and Windows Vista. Comodo Firewall only works with 32–bit versions of Windows 2000/XP/2003, and a little while back I thought I woul...

Original story at CyberNet Classics .

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Weak point against Vista

11 Oct 2008 17:49:06 PDT

Written by Alun Jones
“Last year I was meeting with the CEO of a PC company who offered to give me a demo of his company's gorgeous new top-of- the-line notebook, a machine that cost several thousand dollars and came loaded with Windows Vista, the latest version of Microsoft's operating system. He flipped open t...

Original story at MSMVPS.COM .

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Opinion: CyberNotes: Vista Virtual Desktop Utilizes Advanced Graphics

10 Oct 2008 18:02:01 PDT

Written by Ryan
Virtual desktops are everywhere these days even though you may not realize it. Linux is the operating system that started the virtual desktop craze as a way to make your operating system more organized and more productive. They let you move a window from one desktop to another, and you can sw...

Original story at CyberNet Classics .

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Opinion: Win Extensions for Windows

08 Oct 2008 21:41:15 PDT

Written by joshua
Extensoft released their brand new product, Extensions for Windows only a few months ago after intensive beta testing for over two years, in fact I believe some leaked screenshots led people to think what they where seeing was Windows 7. What is it?

Original story at gHacks technology .

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Windows Vista Deployment - Best Practices from the Microsoft UK IT Manager

07 Oct 2008 09:41:58 PDT

Written by Georgina M
Windows Server 2003, Windows Deployment Services (WDS), whereby employees could PXE (network) boot to start the installation If you would like more information about deployment at Microsoft or 'How Microsoft does IT' please visit http://www.microsoft.com/ITShowcase or ask your Mi...

Original story at TechNet Blogs .

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Opinion: Lots of Criticism going on with Vista and Office 2007

02 Oct 2008 23:20:32 PDT

Written by Ryan
For starters I decided to search for “Vista Sucks” on Google which pulled up a whopping 67,500 articles. I wasn’t completely surprised at the number of results, but it was slightly alarming. In the past 8–months I’ve been using Vista for about 7 of those months and feel that I am quite familia...

Original story at CyberNet Classics .

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Opinion: Windows 7 – Where is Windows Meeting Space?

27 Sep 2008 12:09:16 PDT

Written by Teching It Easy: Windows Vista & 7
Persons covering Windows Vista have also said some not so nice things about Windows Meeting Space, here’s a quote from Preston Galla over at Computer World: Persons covering Windows Vista have also said some not so nice things about Windows Meeting Space, here’s a quote from Preston Gal...

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Opinion: Lenovo ThinkPad: The Best Notebook for Windows Vista?

09 Sep 2008 22:47:33 PDT

Written by randguth
Windows Vista was released almost two years ago, and public acceptance has been very weak. Partially because of some disruptive advertising by Apple, and some of it because there are a lot of old computers out there that run Windows XP just fine. In fact, I run my home finance software usin...

Original story at MSDN Blogs .

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Opinion: Managing USB Thumb Drives - Is Vista Better Than Epoxy?

08 Sep 2008 19:43:00 PDT

Written by chris.chalmers
There's a new set of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) specifically for managing USB devices. If you're not familiar with Group Policy, here's a one sentence description: it lets administrators turn off certain features of Windows in a way that users can't turn them back on. You can learn more a...

Original story at TechNet Blogs .

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Opinion: Windows Vista Running Slow? Two Proven Ways to Speed it Up

16 Aug 2008 11:35:09 PDT

Written by ShaDow
If you truly want to speed up vista, you need to approach the issue from a few different angles. Simply installing an anti-virus tool or anti-spyware tool isn't going to cut it. That being said, start considering different methods of speeding up your computer -- examine what techniques can...

Original story at Windows Vista Guide .

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Opinion: CyberNotes: How To Replace Vista’s Flip-3D with Something Better

27 Jul 2008 04:33:59 PDT

Written by Ryan
The Flip-3D task switching in Windows Vista is probably one of its most notorious features. If you’re not familiar with it then the next time you get your hands on Windows Vista (with Aero enabled) make sure you press the Windows Key + Tab. It brings up a nifty application switcher that is su...

Original story at CyberNet Classics .

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Security Garden: Fixing Windows Vista File Associations

13 Jun 2008 18:54:58 PDT

Written by Corrine
Monday, May 26, 2008 Fixing Windows Vista File Associations One of the most viewed Security Garden pages is Ad-Watch Setting Can Kill .LNK and .EXE File Extensions. Although published in 2006, it still receives a dozen or more hits daily. That being the case, I can only suspect that users are s...

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Security Garden: Windows Vista SP1 Prerequisites Delivered

08 May 2008 05:52:59 PDT

Written by Corrine
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Windows Vista SP1 Prerequisites Delivered If you have been following the information being provided on the release of Windows Vista SP1, you should have noticed that there are prerequisites that Microsoft indicated would be made available via Windows Up...

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Windows XP SP3 Released

06 May 2008 16:37:00 PDT

Written by Corrine
Remember - "A day without laughter is a day wasted." May the wind sing to you and the sun rise in your heart... Computer security news & information, help, tips and more, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Battlemodo: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC1 vs. Shipping Vista [Vista Vs Vista SP1 RC1]

26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 PST

Written by Charlie White
Microsoft just rolled out the first publicly available release candidate for Service Pack 1 of Windows Vista, and we snapped it up, eager to see if it's faster than the currently shipping version of Vista. To test its speed, we ran a series of benchmarks on exactly the same machine, first wi...

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Patch: Windows Vista SP1 "slipstream" Guide

30 Aug 2007 11:54:00 PDT

Written by bink@bink.nu
Microsoft has confirmed that there will no way to directly slipstream the Service Pack. Nevertheless, the method outlined below will still work. Microsoft has confirmed that there will no way to directly slipstream the Service Pack. Nevertheless, the method outlined below will still wo...

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Import Outlook PST into Windows Mail

25 Jun 2007 01:44:55 PDT

Written by James Senior
I've been asked recently how to import an Outlook PST file into Windows Mail and I thought it would be worth sharing how to do this. I headed over to the Windows Mail forums (part of the Windows Vista community) to see if there were any solutions already documented. There were.

Original story at TechNet Blogs .

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DreamScene Cracked…Runs on Vista Business and Home Premium

10 May 2007 09:23:39 PDT

Written by Ryan
Up til now only Vista Ultimate users had the pleasure of using DreamScene, but as expected the hackers got their hands on it and figured out a way to make it work on any version of Windows Vista. The hacked version requires that you use patched DreamScene files, and you also have to run a batch s...

Original story at CyberNet Technology .

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