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Amazon offers virtual Windows servers for hire 2008-10-28 05:26:49 Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service now offers time on virtualWindowsservers
alongside the existing Linux machines. Virtual machines running Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server can be hired by the hour, with prices varying depending on time and available capacity. Amazon Web Services has had a beta service offering virtual Linux machines for some time now, using the Xen hypervi Read more:Amazon
OLPC gets Windows XP 2008-10-28 05:17:18 It has been working on it since December 2007, but Microsoft has finally come up with a version of Windows
XP suitable for the One Laptop Per Child XO machine.The OS has had to be "slimmed down" to run off a 2GB flash memory card, but the computing giant insists that, despite this, the new version has all of the features of the package used for more powerful machines. So OLPC users will still get,
Fallout 3 Review (Xbox 360) 2008-10-28 05:15:36 With many $60 video-game releases these days, you’re lucky if you get about 15 to 20 hours of gameplay out of it. It’s not actually a bad investment, costing only a couple of dollars an hour—and maybe that gets extended if the multiplayer is compelling as well or perhaps there’s a good reason to go back in and play it again (such as getting a higher difficulty or for a special reward). Read more:Fallout
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OS X versus Vista, RAM division 2008-10-28 05:13:30 As I noted earlier this week, I’ve begun using a MacBook (the basic white model) and keeping a log of my experiences. Yesterday, I received the adapter cable I needed to hook this machine to an external monitor so that I could use it in a desktop configuration. (A note to the thrifty: Don’t pay Apple $29 for this mini-DVI cable. Instead, go to Monoprice.com and pick up the generic adapter for Read more:versus
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Are We Ready for the Windows Server Worm? 2008-10-28 05:11:55 Time was, a bug such as MS08-067 would have been devastating to the Windows
community. Changes during the last several years pushed through by Microsoft and market developments may have seriously limited the potential damage. When the great Windows worms of the early part of this decade hit, they cut a huge swath through the Windows world. Slammer, probably the most fascinating of them, did so wit
One Laptop Per Child to Offer Windows XP Pro XO 2008-10-28 04:59:09 OLPC has received many complaints from multiple countries that the XO laptop does not use a Windows
based operating system. Some countries still prefer the open-source Linux version (Sugar), but the main concern from most is that students will not be prepared for higher paying jobs in a global market that is currently dominated by Microsoft. Read more:Laptop
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Details on Windows Vista SP2 emerge 2008-10-28 04:53:07 Microsoft has begun to release some details on the enhancements that they intend to bring with WindowsVista
Service Pack 2. As we reported on Neowin last week, Microsoft has released an early beta build of Vista SP2 to testers weighing in at around 290MB. The reason why the file size is so much smaller then SP1 is that SP2 will require SP1 to be installed before upgrading and this is something Mi Read more:emerge
, Windows Vista
Microsoft polishes Vista into Windows 7 2008-10-28 04:48:56 Last week, Apple launched the latest in its series of ads attacking PCs, this time ridiculing Microsoft
for spending millions on advertising rather than on "fixing" its WindowsVista
operating system. On Tuesday, Microsoft finally will be able to change the subject.At the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, the company is expected to detail for the first time its successor
Check your Windows Update history 2008-10-28 04:45:09 Microsoft usually releases patches for Windows
on the second Tuesday of the month. But last Thursday, the company sent out an update that was too important to withhold for two more weeks. If you have your PC set to download and/or install Windows updates automatically, you've already received this patch. (You'll find more on managing Windows updates at this previous Worker's Edge blog post.). Read more:Check
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Seven questions Microsoft won’t answer about Windows 7 2008-10-28 04:43:52 I’m spending the day (and probably much of tonight) slaving over a hot Windows
7 PC, snapping screen shots and making notes about what’s new. You’ll see the results tomorrow, when Microsoft
’s news embargo lifts. Today, though, I can confidently report on a handful of questions
about Windows 7 that you won’t see answer
ed in tomorrow’s announcements. Read more:Seven
County dumps plan for waste-to-energy plant at Buena Vista 2008-11-14 06:05:48 A much-hyped plan to vaporize the county's trash with an unprecedented waste
-to-energy technology is likely off the table for good. County
officials in discussion with Southern California-based AdaptiveArc say the company has failed to provide assurances that its technology is safe and effective. The county Public Works Department is expected to ask county supervisors to release them from negotiat Read more:Buena
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Vista lawsuit spotlights ties between Microsoft, Intel 2008-11-14 06:03:19 Newly unsealed documents in a class-action lawsuit challenging Microsoft
's practices for Windows Vista
reveal that a controversial change made in the "Windows Vista Capable" marketing program in early 2006 may have saved key partners, including Intel
, billions of dollars in sales of soon-to-be-obsolete hardware. U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman ordered the documents unsealed late Thursday,
Belkin says 'Switch to Mac' 2008-11-14 06:01:53 Belkin today announced what would have otherwise been an unremarkable piece of cabling had it not been given a name that sounds like a piece of advice. The cable is meant to recreate on a Windows machine the Mac's built-in Migration Assistant, which is used to transfer user accounts, applications, network and computer settings, files and volumes between Macs. Migration is also an optional process
Six reasons OSX will not go mainstream 2008-11-14 06:00:43 Apple has a great consumer OS on its hands. Its sleek, it's easy to use and it will not ever make it to mainstream America. There are 6 reasons why we will never see Apple take more than a third of the market share. For the sake of this article, mainstream will be referred to as greater than 33% of all computers.Reason #6: The corporate world won't adopt OSX. Look around your office, more than lik
Microsoft bans modified Xbox users from playing 2008-11-14 05:56:48 Microsoft has taken a new tack in the war against piracy by banning users
who try to connect to the Xbox
Live server using a modified
Xbox 360. Gamers the world over who have tampered with their machine, and thus violated the terms of use, are logging on to find a message telling them they've been banned from the server. What is interesting is how nobody has really worked out how Microsoft is sepa Read more:Microsoft
Colombia tests OLPC laptops... running Windows XP 2008-11-14 05:55:36 The government of Colombia
has established a deal to bring the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's distinctive XO laptop to the country for a pilot program that will involve schools in several towns. These laptops
won't be packing the penguin, however, because they will come with Microsoft's Windows
XP operating system preinstalled. OLPC is a nonprofit organization that originally emerged from M Read more:running
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Uh, Windows Live is a social network now? 2008-11-14 05:52:50 Microsoft this week unveiled a slew of new online services that essentially transforms its Windows
Live site into a social network
. The changes, which include updated photo sharing, e-mail and instant messaging capabilities, have received mostly positive reviews... Microsoft also announced that it is integrating activities from some 50 companies and Web 2.0 services -- including Yahoo Inc.'s Flick Read more:social network
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IE6 for Windows Mobile - Better, but not brilliant 2008-11-14 05:51:57 I’ve had an on-going love/hate relationship with WindowsMobile
. I recently gave up on using a Windows Mobile device and went to a Nokia E71 because I found the OS far too frustrating. I’m not going to say that the reason I gave Windows Mobile the shove was because of the browser (because I had Opera Mobile installed), but I was left wondering why Microsoft continued to ship the train-wreak of
Platform breaks some Dallas high-rise windows 2008-11-14 05:50:36 Some downtown Dallas
streets were closed after a window washing platform broke several panes on a skyscraper and sent glass tumbling more than 40 stories. Dallas police say nobody was on the platform when the accident happened Thursday morning. Authorities are looking into whether a motor malfunctioned. No injuries were reported. Lt. Anthony Williams says engineers were being consulted. Read more:breaks
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Update Protection against Microsoft XML Core Services Nested Tag Vulnerability 2008-11-14 05:47:51 A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in MicrosoftXML
Core Services
(MSXML). MSXML is an application for processing Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation in an XML file that allows programmers to create high-performance XML-based applications. By convincing a user to visit a specially crafted Web page, a remote attacker may trigger this vulnerability to execute arbitrary Read more:against
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Windows Live Essentials for Windows 7 2008-11-14 05:46:29 With the evolution of Windows
Live suite of applications and services and the Windows client, Microsoft managed to produce the intersection of its visions. The strategy is, of course, to make Windows reach into the Cloud. And this will become obvious with the availability of Windows 7 and Windows Live
Wave 3. Brian Hall, general manager for the Windows Live Business Group, announced that the Redmo Read more:Essentials
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