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Microsoft also removing antipiracy 'kill switch' from Windows ... - Computerworld Microsoft also removing antipiracy 'kill switch' from Windows ... Computerworld, MA - Dec 5, 2007 s announcement on Monday that it will relax an antipiracy mechanism in Windows Vista was the news that the company plans to drop the same "kill switch" from ... Microsoft Removes Windows Vista 'Kill' Switch Dark Reading all 27 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

hey i need a simple and free Virtual Desktop Manager, while the Deskman (from Microsoft PowerToys) works just fine, the problem with is that it takes too muck Task Bar space, i need something very simple (like that one by default in Ubuntu), anyone knows one? what do you use? Thank You! P.S. yes i could use just the shortcut keys, but i want it to be on task bar More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

First Passport, now fraud: ex-MS employee charged Former Microsoft worker whose error resulted in massive 1999 Hotmail outage also found guilty of billing company for more than $1 million in false expense reports She faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on the fraud charges. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

MS to Patch 3 Critical Flaws to Prevent System Hijacking eWeek, NY - 19 hours ago By Lisa Vaas Vista is vulnerable to three critical security flaws—in IE, Windows and multimedia technologies—that could let attackers hijack systems. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Windows Vista Users Hit With 'Purple Screen Of Death' - Information Week Weblog Windows Vista Users Hit With 'Purple Screen Of Death' Information Week Weblog, NY - Dec 5, 2007 "It's something to do with the way the Windows Vista kernel handles a certain exception in the graphics driver subsystem." One poster on the Neosmart blog ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Vista Goes Nagware To Fight Piracy CIO Today, CA - Dec 6, 2007 By Frederick Lane There has been some speculation that Microsoft's announcement that Windows Vista SP1 will replace the "kill switch" with "nagware" is an ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Google Germany switched the light off on their website.*The idea is to tell people how the overusage of light is bad for the climate. Nice gesture, although it might not help THAT much. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif arstechnica wrote: IBM scientists announced a breakthrough today that they claim could one day lead to a completely new way of handling communication between multiple CPU cores on a single die. IBM researchers have created a modulator that's one hundred to a thousand times smaller than other prior modulators and is theoretically capable of using light pulses to transmit data between cores, rather than relying on traditional wires. Awesome! Read more here. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Microsoft Drops the Windows Vista Kill Switch CIO Today, CA - Dec 4, 2007 By Richard Koman Microsoft vice president Mike Sievert said that Microsoft dropped the reduced-functionality (aka "kill switch") mode in Windows Vista in ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft also removing antipiracy 'kill switch' from Windows ... - Computerworld http://ms-os.com/ The Money Times Microsoft also removing antipiracy 'kill switch' from Windows ... Computerworld, MA - Dec 5, 2007 s announcement on Monday that it will relax an antipiracy mechanism in Windows Vista was the news that the company plans to drop the same "kill switch" from ... Vista Goes Nagware To Fight Piracy CIO Today Microsoft Removes Windows Vista 'Kill' Switch Dark Reading Microsoft To Kill “The Kill Switch” In Windows Vista eFluxMedia all 44 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I have been playing with my university's Unix server lately and I think Unix has a lot of potential as an operating system, but it is so prohibitively expensive that very few people are running it. Given that Unix is such an important operating system historically and even today and that SCO is not worth much after its Linux lawsuit, why doesn't Microsoft buy SCO and make Unix more affordable by lowering prices? Failing to buy SCO would give Google the opportunity to accquire Unix. Google has already been working on its own operating system (Android) and it will undoubtly try to expand its OS development into personal computing. Accquiring Unix would give Google a major jump start in OS development as by accquiring Unix, Google would be getting perhaps the most stable, best written and most reliable OS in the world. Building a GUI on top of it and bundling applications like Firefox and offline versions of Google's spreadsheet and word processor tools could enable Google to target Microsoft's core Windows and Office businesses, like Microsoft targeted Netscape's core business of selling web server software with IIS. With the halo effect that a Google OS would have with younger people, people would begin to start switching to it, eroding Microsoft's marketshare, similarly to what is happening with Apple's Mac OS X with younger people today. Heck, I have not counted, but roughly 10% of the computers run by my university are made by Apple and run Mac OS X because my peers want to use Apple's computers. Imagine that happening with a much more influential company like Google without the OS being locked to any particular OEM, sort of like Google's Android OS on mobile phones is beginning to do now (all of the telecommunications companies are working on making their phones use it), despite not even being out yet. Perhaps I am going a bit far, but I would really like the ability to buy a copy of Unix for my home PC for $15.75 at my university's store like I can with Windows Vista Ultimate, so I tried to make the best case I could for why Microsoft should buy SCO. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Hi All, I'm heading off for Auckland (3 days) and Sydney (21 days) tomorrow.* Anything I shouldn't miss? Thanks! Rhett More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

So I'm here in LA, it's my first time in the country. I've seen US TV shows before, they're fine. But it's the other stuff, like the News blocks, the adverts and interstitals and idents; these are the things that leave the lasting impression. ...every other advert is for a prescription drug full of middle-aged women with "Fibromialga", bladder control issues, heart complaints. All with the "Ask your doctor why you need this drug to feel normal" line. At times it's hard to tell if things are a parody or satire of themselves or not. I can't go 30 seconds without rolling my eyes. Then there's the news. What's the point of "eyewitness news"? All the "eyewitnesses" are passers-by giving stock answers to awful "what's your opinion of..." questions that anyone would give. And of course, they send out reporters to "the scene" (e.g. where that 2nd grader was drinking whisky from his school desk) for a 10-second soundbite. Then there's all those human interest stories, this isn't news, it's tripe. Not saying UK TV is better, but at least we don't have exploitive health insurance adverts, (probably unethical) prescription medication adverts, or heck... any adverts. Maybe I'm just homesick, but how do you guys stand it? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

So you made a forum... say, we have TABLE1 where all the threads are. We got TABLEuser for users and we got TABLElink for nested threads/replies... How would you build the read|unread solution? Would you create a new table to keep track of read|unread threads for each user? would you use cookies? any other way? What's the best solution for this in your opinion? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Vista Goes Nagware To Fight Piracy CIO Today, CA - Dec 6, 2007 By Frederick Lane There has been some speculation that Microsoft's announcement that Windows Vista SP1 will replace the "kill switch" with "nagware" is an ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Sorry for posting in the Coffeehouse, but it's sorta an emergency. I can't connect to my machine from the outside world.* However, I can connect to it over the local network to it's local address (192.168.0.110). Here's what I've checked so far. 1) Windows Firewall (turned off entirely) 2) Router (WGR614 v4) port forwarding for port 3389 I'm supposed to leave for a trip very soon, but I can't leave until I get this worked out.* Obviously, in hindsight, I should have figured this out long ago. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

Windows Vista Users Hit With 'Purple Screen Of Death' InformationWeek, NY - Dec 5, 2007 "It's something to do with the way the Windows Vista kernel handles a certain exception in the graphics driver subsystem." One poster on the Neosmart blog ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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Mac OSX Leopard is definitely worth the upgrade YourHub.com, CO - 1 hour ago Unlike Windows Vista and its multiple editions, there is only one version of the OS and that includes all the new features. The upgrade is definitely worth ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Vista Goes Nagware To Fight Piracy CIO Today, CA - Dec 6, 2007 By Frederick Lane There has been some speculation that Microsoft's announcement that Windows Vista SP1 will replace the "kill switch" with "nagware" is an ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Digitaltrends.com Microsoft Preps for Public Vista SP1 Test Digitaltrends.com, OR - Dec 6, 2007 Microsoft made the announcement through its Windows Vista Blog on Wednesday. According to product manager Nick White, the release candidate will be ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ eFluxMedia Microsoft Releases New Windows Server PC World - Dec 6, 2007 According to a post on the Windows Vista Team Blog, a stand-alone installer will be released to the Web in both x86 and x64 versions for the following ... Windows Vista SP1 To Go Public Next Week eFluxMedia all 15 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Does she really love him? I always wondered how it is, if somebody is rich... can you trust your friends? Can't you? How would do understand if somebody is your friend and somebody isn't? How would you understand if a girl really loves you or is only with you because of the money? How long could somebody fool you into being your friend - would somebody be able to do it until you are dead or bankcrupt? More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

First of all "Creative Systems Group?" How about a C9 video on those guys? ---------- Original IT Conversations Link Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators Matt MacLaurin Microsoft's Creative Systems Group http://assets.conversationsnetwork.org/showimages/3467.jpg Download MP3 Matt MacLaurin, who works for Microsoft's Creative Systems Group, is developing a game -- and game-development platform -- called Boku. Recalling his own early experiences writing software for systems that invited hacking, Matt thinks kids today see computers as passive entertainment more than tools for active engagement and free expression. Inspired by Logo and Smalltalk, Boku aims to restore that sense of creative play. More... View All Our Microsft Related Feeds

The last major pre-release milestone build of Windows Server 2008 is now available to the public: Find out more in this overview and screenshot gallery! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds