Archive for February 4th, 2008


Feb 4

Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help corporate IT professionals customize and deploy the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 family of operation systems. By using Windows AIK, you can perform unattended Windows installations, capture Windows images with ImageX, and create Windows PE images. Download Microsoft, Windows, AIK, Windows AIK, Automatic, Installation,
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Feb 4

Google submitts screenshots of Compensation Tool with SEC

As a publicly traded company, Google is required to disclose certain types of information related to its employment and compensation practices to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which then makes the documents public. Google today submitted screenshots of a compensation tool available to Google staffing employees and certain employment candidates. The
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Feb 4

Steve Ballmer outlines Microsoft’s eight long-term growth targets

While Wall Street doesn’t want to talk about anything Microsoft-related other than Redmond’s bid to acquire Yahoo, Microsoft has lots of non-Yahoo-specific investments in its future.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlined Microsoft’s top eight growth targets during his annual “Strategic Update” for Wall Street analysts in New York on February 4.
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Feb 4

No Final Windows Vista (SP) 1 bits for users until mid-March

Customers who’ve been waiting for Microsoft to release the final Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 bits are going to have to wait another month or two to actually get their hands on them — at least through legal channels.In a posting to the Windows Vista team blog, Corporate Vice President of Windows
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Feb 4

Microsoft Windows Windows Vista SP1 RTM

Microsoft has announced, the released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing (RTM) for our first set of languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese). Service Pack 1 is a very important milestone because it addresses many of the key issues that our customers have identified with Windows Vista over the last
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Feb 4

Apple iPhones logged around the world

It might be difficult to find out how many iPhones are being connected to carriers other than Apple's partners, but statistics are available for web use.Net Applications' Market Share report reveals that "The iPhone has a presence in almost every country on earth."The analysis shows the 'market share'
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Feb 4

Linus Torvalds: Microsoft is bluffing on patents

Microsoft's aggressive defense of its intellectual property, which includes claims that Linux violates a number of its patents, is nothing more than "a marketing thing," according to Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel. "They have been sued for patents by other people, but I don't think they've -- not that I've
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Feb 4

CodecInstaller 2.9.0

CodecInstaller is a Windows program that detects the Audio and Video codecs installed on your system, analyzes files to understand which codecs they require and suggests you to install them. It can also be used to distribute video files on a CD, to be sure that who receives the CD will have all the necessary codecs
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Feb 4

ViewpointKiller 1.30 Beta

ViewpointKiller does exactly what it's name says: Kills Viewpoint Media Player. Viewpoint Media Player is an adware that displays bandwith eating popup ads in IE and on your desktop. It comes silently with an install of AIM and will be reinstalled by AIM if uninstalled. ViewpointKiller fixes all of that. It takes off Viewpoint Media Player
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Feb 4

AOL buys Goowy Media

AOL has purchased Goowy Media, a startup which specialized in simplified widget creation and “webtop” tools for email, calendars and instant messaging and has become a very important part of the MyAOL model at AOL, which is a major Google partner… at least right now. Goowy CEO Alex Bard posts
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Feb 4

Did Microsoft lose Windows XP SP3 on the way to Windows Vista SP1 RTM?

Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008... In the end it's all Windows to Microsoft. Right? Well... in all fairness, you do have to keep in mind that all Windows platforms are equal, but some Windows operating systems are more equal than others... And in this context, Windows Vista
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Feb 4

Microsoft breaking through Core Computing Barriers

Having poured over $7 billion in Research and Development in 2007, Microsoft gave a clear indication of its commitment to driving innovation. And the Redmond company is by no means at the end of the road. In fact, as a sign of its increasing focus on R&D, the company announced that its sixth research
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Feb 4

Windows Server 2008: Service Shutdown and Crash Handling

Topics: Service Shutdown and Crash Handling. Prior to Windows Vista, there was no facility to provide a clean shutdown for services.  If a service did not respond to the shutdown request within 20 seconds the system could hang on shutdown.  By default, services had 20 seconds to cleanup and shutdown. 
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Feb 4

Microsoft & Yahoo! merger could cause “Zimbra Business Messaging System” first casualty victim

 One of the first casualties of Microsoft & Yahoo! merger would likely be Yahoo’s Zimbra open-source messaging server, which they acquired in September 2007 for about $350 million. Zimbra is considered to be an open-source alternative to the Microsoft Exchange platform, and already has a pretty impressive client list. Amongst
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Feb 4

ConvertXtoDVD 2.99.11.700

ConvertXtoDVD is a software to convert and burn your videos to DVD. In only a few clicks you can backup your movies to DVD playable on any home DVD player. It supports the most popular formats such as Xvid, MOV, VOB, Mpeg, Mpeg4, MP4, AVI, WMV, DV and stream formats. It converts your files into a
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