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Microsoft to Connect Xbox 360 and PC Gamers |
 ...he company stated that the service will open in May. It is to be reminded that Live has attracted about six million Xbox 360 console gamers and now Microsoft looks forward to launch it on new Windows Vista system.
The software giant decided to make this step after its chairman Bill Gates stated last year that Microsoft... |
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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.
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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 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.
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Microsoft Identified percents of its OS as Counterfeit in 2006 |
| ...of all operating systems from Microsoft as unauthorized for usage. The WGA is a part of Microsoft's anti-piracy program which is meant to reduce the overall number of pirated copies of Windows XP and Vista worldwide.
Cori Hartje, director for anti-piracy at Microsoft, said that starting from March 2005, when the program was first launched and until March 2007 the WGA analyzed over 600 million unique software.
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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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