Vista computer inventions

	20 Million Copies of Windows Vista Sold
...icrosoft has published a report on the Microsoft's new generation operating system sales. The report stated that in the period between January 30 and February 28, 2007, 20 million copies of Microsoft Vista were sold; compared to 17 million copies of Microsoft's Windows XP sold in the same period of time in 2001, two months after its release, Vista's index could be considered as rather impressive. However, these 20 millio...
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	Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability
... of being attacked by hackers. This statement was made by Microsoft's officials. There is a certain vulnerability in the operating system that can affect all recent versions of Windows, this includes Vista. In a security advisory the company's representatives stated that Windows' software is flawed in a way it operates with its animated cursors. Microsoft's officials mentioned that an attacker might be able to take adv...
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	Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies
...Microsoft would pay big companies from $2 to $10 annually per user (payment was to be made in credits for Microsoft's products or training services). So the more searches a company would make via its computers, the more money, or credits, it would earn. And then Microsoft starts seeking for 30 companies with not less that 5,000 computers at their disposal, which would cooperate with Microsoft by installing a small comp...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...ition the OLED is much more efficient than the light bulb used today. Currently these devices are applied in mobile phones and MP3 players. However, such OLED is not quite reliable for large TV or computer screens. In order to make the device more efficient so later to launch it to mass market, the international consortium of researches, Modecom, headed by the University of Bath, United Kingdom, started a three-year...
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	Nano-nose to help identify illnesses
...s replaced by protein molecule when the latter bound to the receptor. This way, the more the fluorescent molecule was displaced, the more light produced. The results were subsequently analyzed by the computer. During the experiments the scientists ran tests with 56 different proteins and proved that the signals produced by the receptors could be then used to distinguish among various proteins. The 'nano-nose' was accur...
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	Microsoft Reached 40 Million Licenses of Vista
...The software giant Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of its Windows Vista operating system in the first 100 days since the product was launched into the market. The chairman of the company, Bill Gates, mentioned that the fastest sales of the operating system in the history is due to an accelerating shift of the majority of population to digital lifestyles. He outlined that the premium editions had accounted for 7...
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	Microsoft Surface - Innovative Table-Like Computer
... displays a 30-inch screen. The components of the machine, including a hard drive and a 1 GHz computer processor, are inside the table. The computer uses a custom software interface on top of Windows Vista. It provides wired Ethernet, Bluetooth wireless and integrated Wi-Fi. One of initial buyers, T-Mobile, is going to supply its stores with the Microsoft machines. The Surface computer will recognize a phone placed on...
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	Google Brings Microsoft to Court
...Google has launched a legal challenge to new operating system Windows Vista introduced by Microsoft. According to Google, Microsoft has breached competition as Windows Vista makes it more difficult to use Google's desktop search tool, combing through a hard drive of the computer and emails of the user in search for information, than it does to use the search function provided by Windows. The fact that Microsoft has int...
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	Microsoft Cautions of New Hacker Attack on Word Files
...unched before its follow-up set of security updates that are due on April 8. The risk category includes users of Word 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. Those who will not be affected are users of Windows Vista or Windows Server 2003, Service Pack 2. This is because these operating systems feature an improved version of Jet Database Engine, which, according to Microsoft, does not include the bug. Technically speaking, PCs t...
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	A MacBook Gets Hacked in Less Than 2 Minutes
...rence featured the PWN2OWN (pwn - in hackers language means to take control over a computer) hacking contest, which was about finding out which laptop would get hacked first: a MacBook Air, a Windows Vista based Fujitsu U810 or a Linux based Sony VAIO. The event consisted of three parts, two of which are already over. The first one was about hacking into a system using networks attacks, i.e. without any user activity nee...
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	Microsoft Forces Consumers to Buy Vista?
...Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission is investigating the complaints filed against software giant Microsoft by a group of activists who claim that the company forces consumers to purchase Windows Vista. It is worth mentioning that in case Microsoft is found guilty, it will pay a fine of NT$25 million (about $796,000). In addition the software developer will be ordered to stop its illegal practices. Microsoft's spokeswoman in...
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	Surgeons Who Play Video Games are More Skilled
...ideo games on surgical skills. Apart from surgery, the study showed that video games contribute to improving motor skills, eye-hand coordination, visual attention as well as depth perception and computer competency. Dr. James Rosser, who works at Beth Israel Medical Center and who is also the senior author of the study, mentioned that it might be possible to use video games as a tool that can help surgeons in thei...
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	Storm virus attacks blogs
...Storm virus is back again to infect blogs, webmails and bulletin boards. British and Korean computer security scientists claim it's a new variant of malware that is extremely difficult to detect. The Storm worm looks like a message that features news about Europe's storms. In fact, this virus can evaluate network traffic on the computer and later insert a link to malicious website into user's post, webmail or bulleti...
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