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Microsoft hits back at Vista security critics

News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft However, recent research conducted with statistics from over 1.4 million computers within the ThreatFire community has shown that Windows Vista is more susceptible to malware than the eight...

Tags: xp, windows, vista

[16 May 2008]

Gov't department readies for Vista rollout

News The Vista upgrade is part of a regular technical refresh of Defra systems and was chosen over XP to avoid another near term upgrade, saving time and resources. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll out...

Tags: upgrade, encryption, carbon, defra

[15 May 2008]

SABIC Optimizes IT Desktop Service Costs With Centralized and Standardized Desktop Management

whitepaper IT Services at SABIC chose Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS 2003) to manage its entire Microsoft desktop estate standardized on Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition. The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) is the world's...

Tags: monitoring systems

[15 May 2008]

Training Center Performs Skills Assessment, Saves Healthcare Provider U.S.$75,000

whitepaper In preparation for a large-scale desktop migration to the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system, a large healthcare provider wanted to ensure that its help-desk personnel had the knowledge necessary to resolve potential user questions...

Tags: career development, skills, healthcare, provider

[15 May 2008]

XP SP3 throws off AMD machines

News Microsoft said in a statement: "While the root cause of this issue is complex, it results from OEMs improperly placing a Windows XP image created for an Intel-based computer onto machines with non-Intel chipsets.

Tags: windows, sp3, xp

[14 May 2008]

Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades

News Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned.

Tags: sp3, xp, ie7, windows

[12 May 2008]

Global Brand Implements New Infrastructure to Increase Availability, Productivity

whitepaper The planning began in 2004, and by 2006, 87,000 users at Unilever had migrated to Exchange Server 2003 and desktops running Windows XP. Unilever engaged with Microsoft Premier Support to take advantage of the Microsoft team's experience and knowledge.

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill

Comment I thought of this phrase recently when my Windows XP machine died. And in the particular case of Microsoft, Fast's £1m per year is dwarfed by the fines totalling €1.68m imposed on Microsoft because EU judges determined that the company had...

Tags: licensing, piracy, software

[07 May 2008]

Microsoft - halted Vista, XP updates resumed

News A week ago, Microsoft delayed the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a problem that could lead to data loss when running the XP update in conjunction with its Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System program.

Tags: windows, microsoft, xp, vista

[07 May 2008]

Using Speech Recognition With Different Languages in Office

whitepaper This feature of using speech recognition with different languages in Office is available in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English (U.S.and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office 2003 and in the Simplified Chinese, English (U...

Tags: voice recognition

[06 May 2008]

Microsoft Technology Helps Architects Go Online to Share Knowledge Across Offices

whitepaper To achieve its objectives, BHDP capitalized on a host of Microsoft products such as Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 with Microsoft Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005, virtualization with Windows Server 2003 R2, Communications Server 2007...

Tags: application servers

[04 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08

Round-Up Technically, the computers will be Vista Business or Vista Ultimate machines that have been factory downgraded to XP at the customer's request. Faced with a 30 June deadline to stop shipping computers with Windows XP, the world's PC makers are...

Tags: iplayer, iphone, blackberry, vista

[02 May 2008]

Get Started on Your Job Hunt With Word Templates

whitepaper One can find the boost one need at the Templates on Microsoft Office Online Web site, which offers hundreds of preformatted templates and example documents that one can download to use with Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office XP.

Tags: business management

[02 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment I don't know why Microsoft don't do the blatantly obvious thing, allow downgrade rights on any Windows Vista to XP. Microsoft gets the Vista sales they want, Joe Public gets what they want with XP. Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

Glitch delays Windows XP SP3 release

News Microsoft has said it is delaying the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a newly uncovered glitch. The software maker said there is a "compatibility issue" between the XP service pack and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, a...

Tags: xp, sp3, windows, microsoft

[30 Apr 2008]

Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'

News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft Many see it as a hindrance to performing everyday tasks, as it requests confirmation for many actions where no user confirmation was needed in Vista's predecessor, XP.

Tags: hack, uac, vista

[29 Apr 2008]

Dell and HP find ways to keep Windows XP alive

News The tricky issue is that, to stay within Microsoft's terms, the customer has to somehow "request" the XP downgrade. As for whether a broader reprieve might yet come for XP, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has left the door open a crack.

Tags: xp, vista, hp, dell

[28 Apr 2008]

Ballmer: Windows XP may live and breathe for longer

News While Microsoft ponders yet another stay of execution for Windows XP, it's readying a new version of Windows, being developed under the code name "Windows 7. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company could re-evaluate its plans to phase out...

Tags: vista, xp, windows, microsoft

[24 Apr 2008]

Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'

News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft The developer of XML and a former International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee chair have both claimed Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML (OOXML) accredited...

Tags: ooxml, iso, microsoft, vista

[21 Apr 2008]

Windows XP SP3 a go this month?

News Microsoft will continue to allow XP to be sold on some computers but only low-cost sub-notebooks such as the Asus Eee, which do not have the processing power to handle Vista's requirements. The third and final service pack for Windows XP could be...

Tags: vista, microsoft, sp3

[16 Apr 2008]

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