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- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
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- Software downloads 2008-10-03
- EA Download Manager 4.0.0.168 (Windows)
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- Software downloads 2008-03-03
- No+more+digital+product+keys+for+Windows+Anytime+Upgrade+users
- No+more+digital+product+keys+for+Windows+Anytime+Upgrade+usersblah!"blah blah blah Linux rocks yada yada yada Microsoft sucks blah"did I fully paraphrase your comment? If you're going to to evangelize Linux, don't do it here. Most people here won't use Linux specifically because no one likes being cajoled into anything (which you're trying to do). And be more...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- China connection eyed in Oak Ridge cyber attack
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- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- HP's new home server is small, smart, and impressively simple
- Earlier this year, I looked at a beta release of Windows Home Server and called it a “home run†for Microsoft. This week, Hewlett Packard announced that it would begin taking orders for its new MediaSmart servers, which are built on the Windows Home Server platform, with actual shipments set to...
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Microsoft seeks to redefine RIA with Silverlight
- Nearly everyone in the tech industry uses RIA as an acronym for "Rich Internet Applications." But not Microsoft. In Redmonds case, RIA stands for Rich Interactive Applications -- a term and topic the Softies are planning to make a focus during Microsofts appearance at the National Association of...
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Some vacation. A week's worth of RSS feeds to read in a day. A lot of it about servers, AMD and Intel.
- Of course, thats a rhetorical question. Sadly, I know Im not alone when it comes to the pile of work that you come back to after taking a vacation. You know. The one where, its so big that its depressing and youre not sure where to start? That pile also...
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Microsoft severs Live Search from the rest of the Windows Live family
- Live Search is no longer part of the larger Windows Live services family, in terms of engineering and development. One by-product of the March 21 Microsoft announcement of the creation of a new Search and Ad Platform group got relatively little play. As a result of the...
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- VMware attacks Microsoft virtualization strategy
- Microsoft is "trying to restrict customers flexibility and freedom to choose virtualization software by limiting who can run their software and how they can run it." Those are the charges levied by Microsoft virtualization competitor VMware, which over the past few days, has come out swinging against Microsoft. ...
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Microsoft paying Novell $308 million for Linux pact
- Microsoft paying Novell $308 million for Linux pactMicrosoft paying Novell $308 million for Linux pactMicrosoft has to pay Novell just to keep them alive as competition. This has "rescue me" written all over it for Novell. Too funny.Looks like MS was desperate to sign a deal, this is all in...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-07
- Vista Mythbusters #7: How much DRM is too much?
- Myth: Windows Vista is loaded with new forms of digital rights management DRM that will make the Vista experience more frustrating than ever.Reality: A new code-checking subsystem that protects the Windows Vista kernel and signed drivers is arguably a new form of DRM. How well will it perform in the...
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- EMC ups ante in applying DRM to text
- Last week, I wrote about a strange DRM-esque message that Outlook displayed after I opened an e-mail with a PDF attachement. In all my years of using Outlook, I had never seen this message before and I had no idea why it was showing it to me now. ...
- Blog posts 2006-08-07
- Microsoft's forgotten monopoly
- Microsoft's forgotten monopolyWait for it[i]The font will know whether it's OK for it to be installed on a remote system.[/i]How long before the first buffer overflow in the font renderer is exploited by a server installing a "specially crafted font" on the local computer? Haven't we learned our lesson yet?...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-19
- Vista Media Center: Ready for the living room?
- Vista Media Center: Ready for the living room?Vista Media Center an evolutionary upgrade....not revolutionary.As someone who uses two XBOX 1's as media center extenders, an XBOX 360 as a MCX, and owns a dual-core media center gateway, I was expecting more significant features to be added to media center. ...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-02
- Vista Beta 2, up close and personal
- Up in Redmond, Microsoft developers proudly talk of dogfooding the software they write. Running beta software is the only way to learn what works and what doesn’t. A copy of Windows Vista running on a test machine in the corner isn’t likely to get a serious workout. To find the...
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- Could "Google-prise" be forcing Microsoft's hand with potential Yahoo! deal?
- It's already old news that Microsoft and Yahoo! may be contemplating some sort of partnership or merger (originally reported by the Wall St. Journal so it must be true!). The idea isn't too far-fetched given that there's already some degree of alignment between the two. Last October,...
- Blog posts 2006-05-04
- Video goes Internet--the future of what you watch
- On April 24, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "Video Goes Internet--The Future of What You Watch." The panelists included Rob Bennett, general manager, MSN Entertainment and Video Services at Microsoft; Jennifer Feikin, director of Google Video at Google; Blake Krikorian, founder & CEO of Sling Media; John Papanek,...
- Blog posts 2006-04-25
- Wallpaper Sequencer Ultra 4.5 (Windows)
- Wallpaper Sequencer Ultra is a new, more powerful wallpaper manager with expanded capabilities, such as desktop clock skins of various types. Now you can choose between the traditional and digital looks of the time keeping devices on your desktop. Plus, you don't worry about wallpaper sizes, formats and resolutions -...
- Software downloads 2005-12-29
- Is Microsoft skirting the issue?
- Is Microsoft skirting the issue?I think it clearly....points to the "coersion" factor of best practices. As posted on the site earlier, Vista's digital encoding/decoding parameters for "Hollywood" media distribution approval is clear coersion, and shamefull I might add.Oh, there are a BUNCH of "rules" that are ...... "great" as...
- Discussion threads 2005-08-30
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