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running smoothly on Windows Vista .
Microsoft wants to help aid in the development of Firefox. It sounds pretty scary, doesn't it? If you're still here, let me tell you that it's not as bad as it seems.
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Woman Sentenced For Stealing $864,000 From County Agency
CLEVELAND -- Juanita Myrick pleaded guilty Monday to stealing $864,131.91 from the Cuyahoga County Department of Employment and Family Services. She had been charged with aggravated theft, tampering with evidence, identity fraud and unauthorized use of computer.
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"Negative keyword" ruling may have big impact on search ads
A Florida judge's ruling requires a mortgage company to buy "negative keywords" if it ever uses Internet advertising. Read More...
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Seven Network has increased visibility of instant messaging (IM) and closed potential IM-related security holes after a corporate directive forced the IT team to develop a more disciplined approach to managing the largely unregulated technology.
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Microsoft cuts Xbox prices in 4 Asian markets
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft said it is cutting prices on the Xbox 360 in four Asian regions by as much as 20 per cent in an effort to expand the audience for the video game console.
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Microsoft delivery of Virtual Machine Manager beta adds credibility to its virtual story
On April 16, 2006, I wrote (in another unnnamed tech pub) about Microsoft's plans for a virtual machine management platform , then code-named "Carmine," which was being designed for Microsoft's much touted virtulization hypervisor under development, then code named "Viridian." These product promises were downright ethereal at a time when market leader VMware was printing...
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by mcduck (3.48) on Sun 21st Jan 2007 18:31 UTC
You don't actually need it -- No, think about this. Vista doesn't do anything you can't already do with XP. About the only significant shift requiring Vista is DirextX10, but as no titles support it yet and, according to John Carmack (the godfather of modern gaming) there's no need to yet either.
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The US Justice Department has said that internet service providers should be allowed to charge for priority traffic . The agency said it was opposed to 'network neutrality', the idea that all data on the net is treated equally.
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Ex-Yahoo CEO Semel exercised $37.8 mn in options
The former Hollywood studio chief took over as CEO early this decade and helped rebuild Yahoo in the wake of the dot-com downturn.
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The security software maker smooths a wrinkle in its product activation technology that was causing its Norton family of security applications to fail.
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A little more than one year after its release, Windows Vista will receive its first service pack update in March. Microsoft says the pack will offer better compatibility with third-party hardware, increased reliability, tighter security, and better performance. Our tests disagree.
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Softbank to take 40% of China's Oak Pacific
Japan's Softbank Corp is raising its stake in Chinese Internet firm Oak Pacific Interactive to 40 percent for a little over 20 billion yen ($192 million), a source close to the matter said on Wednesday.
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Vista SP1 auto updates also halted
Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it has stopped automatic updates of Vista to Service Pack 1 in the wake of a newly discovered glitch.
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Interop: Microsoft To Manage Linux, Unix Servers
At Interop Las Vegas, Microsoft released for beta the Cross Platform Extension for System Center Operations Server 2007, which enables management and monitoring of Linux and Unix servers.
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Intel won't ship a 4GHz version of the Pentium 4 until the first quarter of 2005, the latest in a series of delays for the chip-making giant. Microsoft has for the third time delayed the launch of its Windows .Net Server 2003 high-end operating system.
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Burma Junta Steps Up Cyber War On Bloggers
Burma's ruling generals are planning to throttle the flow of information and images transmitted from Burma via the internet during the national referendum, which is scheduled for May 10.
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WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.
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Who Are The Rotten Neighbors In Your Neighborhood?
RottenNeighbor.com markets itself as "a real estate search engine." But the people who post comments on the site are not real estate agents. Posts are mostly complaints against neighbors with descriptive titles like "mean old lady," "smelly hippies" and worse.
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Wii and PS3 sales boost Game's profits
Pre-tax profits at Game Group, the computer console and game retailer, soared by more than 150pc last year, on the back of a 41pc rise in like-for-like sales.
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Microsoft embraces and extends server promiscuity
It’s a heterogeneous, cross-platform, multi-platform, multivendor world Interop 2008 A decidedly downbeat Bob Muglia took centre stage at Interop this afternoon to preach the gospel of interoperability according to Microsoft.…
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MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems
Tumbleweed writes "The Cross Platform and Interop team at Microsoft today announced some new beta products for managing Unix/Linux systems from MS Operations Manager 2007, as well as connectors for HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console. Both betas are available at Microsoft Connect (search for systemcenter), according the blog." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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If it is up to Microsoft, the omnipresent JPEG image format will be replaced by Windows Media Photo. The software maker detailed the new image format Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here.
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Oracle-BEA takeover comes to a close
Oracle announced Tuesday it completed its US$8.5 billion acquisition of BEA Systems, bringing to a close a contentious buyout effort that began last spring.
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"I worked at Microsoft for about 7 years total, from 1994 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2006.The most frustrating year of those seven was the year I spent working on Windows Vista, which was called Longhorn at the time.
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The second-generation Microsoft Zune media player was intended as an iPod killer, but the Zune never made the splash Microsoft had hoped it would. Which is strange, considering our inside look will reveal just how similar the two media players are.
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