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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 automatic updates have started – if you’re lucky iTWire, Australia - 4 minutes ago by Alex Zaharov-Reutt The Windows Vista Team Blog has announced that automatic updates of Vista SP1 have started for qualifying Vista owners – but tough ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> An SOS For XP Hartford Courant, United States - 27 minutes ago They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest PC operating system, whose consumer launch last January was greeted with lukewarm reviews. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I love the idea behind Live Mesh, I genuinely feel that it is the future of the internet, the whole concept of writing applications for a mesh of data and devices as opposed to one device with one set of data is totally amazing! But, and this is a big but, everyone who wants to use this needs a Microsoft Passport to use it. Shouldn't there be a general identity API so that people who want to use their Yahoo ID or their OpenID or their WordPress Login, Typepad, etc. etc. be able to use the login they've been using forever? Just throwing it out there. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

what is the reson behind this, it is so stupid, I can't think of any technical reson why they can't do this, shame Microsoft... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Will old software run on Windows Vista? Yahoo! Tech, CA - Apr 25, 2008 After my most recent blog post about XP and Vista, many users who are finally considering upgrading to the new OS have emailed me with the same question: ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I felt like writing a small application tonight to project populations over time. Problem is, the more I think about population dynamics, the more confounding this project becomes. I'm thinking, well if we have an average of 3 kids per two parents every 50 years, those kids will then do as their parents did and have an average of 3 kids per 50 years. But then at 70 years the parents are dead. This application wouldn't consider terminal illnesses or diseases. That would make things a bit more complicated I'm sure. Just curious how you guys would do this. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Will old software run on Windows Vista? (Tech Yahoo) Apple updates Boot Camp software (MAC World) Windows Vista plays to a captive audience (Vista Blorge) Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Simple help has a great post on speeding up Vista with a thumb drive. The steps are as follows: 1. Start by plugging in the USB thumb drive. Windows AutoPlay will prompt you to either open the ‘folder’ to view the files on your thumb drive or to Speed up my system. Select the latter. 2. [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Follow these steps to determine if you computer supports hibernation: 1. Search for the Command Prompt then right right-click Command Prompt in the Programs list, and then click Run as administrator.User Account Control permission If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type your password, or click Continue. 2. At the command prompt, type powercfg [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Since Microsoft is stopping all support to Windows XP starting June 30 of 2008, large vendors have taken it upon themselves to support Windows XP and offering it to business customers until January 31, 2009. Dell and Lenovo have both signified their intent to offer downgrade discs to Windows XP while HP would continue to [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft has already released Windows Vista SP1 via automatic updates; however, they are releasing this in bits and pieces. Another option you have is to download the service pack directly from the Microsoft website and have the entire thing run on you box. The service pack site is found here. Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Do you have a Windows Vista website or blog? You can send me an email and I would be glad to post your site here. This is a great way of finding out more resources on Vista. You can email me at milo [@] b5media.com Thanks! Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Just recently I have experienced two Windows Vista pains — hibernate and bluetooth. I didn’t have any problems with Windows hibernate for the past year or so; but recently my computer just wouldn’t hibernate and would shut down right away. The other problem I have is with my bluetooth. This used to work, then became broken, [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I uninstalled my old Ubuntu 8.04 Beta wubi installation and installed the final version through Wubi today on my Dell Inspiron E1705. Ubuntu seems to have detected all of my hardware correctly. The only issue I had was with the wireless configuration. I kept right clicking on the network manager icon to try to configure my wireless settings and I was banging my head regarding how to get it to work. Then I discovered the left click context menu and it started to work soon after that, with WPA2 encryption. I went to nyc.speakeasy.net to test my WiFi connection. My download speed registered ~16Mbps down and ~4Mbps up. For comparison, in Windows, I can only manage 5Mbps down and 4Mbps up. I have a 20Mbps down 5Mbps up internet connection from Verizon, so this is fairly close to the theoretical maximum and I was surprised that I got anywhere near it without a wired connection. Firefox runs very quickly and Pidgin is a nice compact instant messenger. I used it to talk to a classmate from high school and I really liked it. I like Natilus' type to find feature and it seems to be nicely integrated into Rhythmbox. Rhythmbox cannot play my wma files, but I am trying to read them from my Windows' My Documents folder, so that could be the cause of the problem. Since almost all of my music is ripped from CDs I have around the house, (with a few small portion having been purchased through online music stores) I believe I can work around any problems Rhythmbox might have by reripping all of the CDs and also burning the music I purchased electronically to CDs and then ripping those. Installing software on Ubuntu is not difficult, provided you know about "sudo apt-get install" and the names of the software packages you want to install. I typically Google that information and find it fairly quickly. I prefer this method of installing over the Synaptic Package Manager, which seems to be somewhat cumbersome. Overall, my impression of Ubuntu is favorable. If things continue to go without major hassles, I will probably use Ubuntu for web browsing (especially on my laptop), email and Java development and use Windows for gaming, Visual Studio, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Media Center. That is unless I find some way to run Windows applications inside of Ubuntu. I will look into using some software called WINE, which is supposed to be able to do that. If it works well (or at least better than cygwin did on Windows), I can see myself using Windows for Media Center and Ubuntu for everything else. Has anyone else tried Ubuntu 8.04? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Automatic Distribution of Windows Vista SP1 Begins HULIQ (press release), NC - Apr 23, 2008 Wednesday, in a post on the Windows Vista Team Blog, Microsoft announced that they had begun automatic distribution of Windows Vista SP1. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Will old software run on Windows Vista? Yahoo! Tech, CA - Apr 25, 2008 After my most recent blog post about XP and Vista, many users who are finally considering upgrading to the new OS have emailed me with the same question: ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

The revenue of Microsoft Windows as a whole has significantly dropped by 24% in the first three months of 2008 as compared to last year’s numbers.Microsoft however, said that the decline is only a measly 2% when all the free Vista upgrades and licenses they have given for the past two years is taken into [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Anyone got a URL of a page with a drive by download on? I need to test something and all it seems that Google have been removing all the bad sites :( More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I installed XP SP3 a few days ago and despite now it has been released on MSDN and there are only 3 days missing to the public release when I go on windows update I can't see the internet explorer 7 update. is internet explorer 7 going to be re -released for windows XP SP3 or can I still install the older IE 7 for XP sp2? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Finger-Pointing in the Senate, XP's Stay of Execution, Tech Profit ... - TechNewsWorl <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Finger-Pointing in the Senate, XP's Stay of Execution, Tech Profit ... TechNewsWorld, CA - Apr 25, 2008 No matter how much Steve Ballmer dances and screams and sticks out his tongue and sweats, it seems he just can't force people to love Windows Vista and let ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I'm trying to move away from my @hotmail address to my @live address. Is there a way to associate my old C9 account (Intelman) with my new live ID? I don't want to have to have two live ids for different websites, it is a lot of signing out, signing in... Thanks! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Finger-Pointing in the Senate, XP's Stay of Execution, Tech Profit ... - TechNewsWorl <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Finger-Pointing in the Senate, XP's Stay of Execution, Tech Profit ... TechNewsWorld, CA - 23 hours ago No matter how much Steve Ballmer dances and screams and sticks out his tongue and sweats, it seems he just can't force people to love Windows Vista and let ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Will old software run on Windows Vista? Yahoo! Tech, CA - 22 hours ago After my most recent blog post about XP and Vista, many users who are finally considering upgrading to the new OS have emailed me with the same question: ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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I got vista ultimate, but the wrong language. i don't even know what language it is, and i want to get the english language, but i cant read it to find out where to download it!! Anyone? HELP!!:s More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds