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Russia has officially filed a case against Microsoft and as such Russian antitrust regulators are investigating on the unfair practice of Microsoft where they have halted the sale of Windows XP despite the large demand to force consumers to upgrade or buy Windows Vista. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) said Microsoft has abused their dominant [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

Windows 7 launch date has been set by Microsoft on October 22, 2009 before the halloween week. What is going to be the team of Windows 7 in the Redmond celebration? Is Windows 7 wearing all black with ripper weapon which symbolize it’s succession on the slow Windows Vista adoption? Is Windows 7 wearing a [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

Hi, I'm trying to set up a Vista Enterprise box, fully patched and on a domain so that when I right click on an app and then click on Run as administrator it prompts me for a user name and a password. I login with a non-privileged domain account and need to elevate to an account that has admin privileges on the domain and locally. I know it is possible because that is how my current computer is configured. I just can't find the tip sheet I found last time. Thanks!

Welcome To Tech Inciter PC World I do most of my writing on a Macintosh, using Microsoft applications. I also use both Windows XP and Vista every day for business. I actually like Vista. My smartphone is an iPhone and I am shocked by the number of iPhone apps that I actually use. ... More...

Jamie's Random Musings ZDNet UK, UK Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Video IM, Linux, Windows XP and Widows Vista, and various bits of hardware new and old. It was recently suggested in a comment to my blog that I try moblin on my Dual Atom Nettop system. ... More...

Telegraph.co.uk Apple: Next Mac OS X unlocks chip power CNET News, CA When that is taken into consideration, Windows security history since Windows Vista is MUCH better, and lets face facts: when Windows XP came out.... the internet was not in as much use as it is today. Therefore, Microsoft NEVER thought that they would ... Apple's online store goes down for WWDC CNET News all 240 news articles More...

TrustedReviews Microsoft Updates Windows Vista With Service Pack 2 Washington Post, United States Out of all the people I know that regularly work on computers (not IT folks, just people that use a computer for their job), none have seen Vista in the workplace yet. walt17, GaryJean: That Microsoft blog post linked to at the start of this entry says ... Windows 7: The incentives are coming ZDNet Windows 7 Will Ship Oct. 22 PC World Best Buy Spills Beans On Windows 7 Upgrades ChannelWeb CNET News - Washington Post Blogs all 1,032 news articles More...

Apple's online store goes down for WWDC CNET News, CA Josh Lowensohn is an associate editor for Webware.com, cnet's blog about cool and otherwise useful Web applications and services. If you've found a site you'd like profiled, shoot him an e-mail. E-mail Josh. by vegaman_dan June 8, 2009 9:47 AM PDT The ... More...

Mac vs. Linux support for Windows users CNET News, CA It like using Window 95 or XP but wanting to do something found in Vista or Windows 7. Then complaining how hard it was to do this Vista thing in Windows 95. How come you didn't turn to Flash (Adobe) for help? Flash (Adobe) does have help for Linux ... More...

The final version of Safari 4 corrects some mistakes and presents a more credible competitor to IE, Firefox, and Chrome... More...

Re:Will Windows 7 be a "Blockbuster?" CIOZone, Melville The economy certainly played a role in the severity of the decline, but enterprises clearly saw no benefit in purchasing units laden with Windows Vista when a new operating system was on the horizon. The result is there are millions of computers out ... More...

Apple: iPhone 3G S With Video Cam $199/$299 8 GB Model $99 New ... Barron's Blogs Schiller is calling Microsoft's (MSFT) forthcoming Windows 7, due in October, “just another version of Vista.†Snow Leopard will have built-in support for Microsoft's Exchange email server. 10:26 Eric here, at last. Damn this stupid, er, Windows XP ... More...

Live from Apple WWDC 2009: Will we see a new iphone? CNN Sharp contrast with Vista — gets a laugh. Microsoft has dug a big hole with Vista. Trying to get out of it with Windows 7. But the same underlying problems. Defrag. User account control. Same old technology as Vista. “Fundamentally just another version ... More...

CNET News Live blog: WWDC 2009 keynote CNET News, CA Compares it with Vista, quotes poor reviews of it. "They're trying to get out of it with Windows 7," he says. Points out features of Windows that users should never have to deal with: user account control, disk defragmentation. 10:19 am: "Windows 7 is ... More...

PC World Live blog: WWDC 2009 keynote CNET News, CA Compares it with Vista, quotes poor reviews of it. "They're trying to get out of it with Windows 7," he says. Points out features of Windows that users should never have to deal with: user account control, disk defragmentation. 10:19 am: "Windows 7 is ... Live from Apple WWDC 2009: Will we see a new iPhone? CNN all 650 news articles More...

DailyTech Vista-To-Windows 7 Free Upgrades Start June 26 InformationWeek, NY Best Buy also will launch pre-sales of Windows 7 on June 26, according to the memo—which was first obtained by tech blog Engadget. The memo, titled "Best Buy's Plan for the Windows 7 Launch", was recently distributed to Best Buy store managers and ... Best Buy leaked memo spills Windows 7 upgrade details Register Leaked memo offers Windows 7 details ZDNet Asia Best Buy Memo Hints at ... InternetNews.com all 81 news articles More...

Product Reviews Best Buy leaked memo spills Windows 7 upgrade details Register, UK By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author A leaked memo has revealed that Best Buy will begin pre-selling Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system on 26 June in the US. The retailer confirmed late last week the date people can start buying Vista-based ... Leaked memo offers Windows 7 details ZDNet Asia Best Buy Memo Hints at ... InternetNews.com all 62 news articles More...

Reports indicate that Windows 7 pre-sale pricing for upgrades from Ms Windows Vista to Ms Windows 7 at Best Buy is going to be available from June 26 to July 11. The prices are as follows: 1. Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade – $ 49.99 USD2. Windows 7 Professional Upgrade – $ 99.99 USDThe prices [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...

PR Web (press release) Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 Compatible Remote Control 4.0 ... PR Web (press release), WA A beta can be obtained from http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/remote-control-40-beta-released/ (PRWEB) June 8, 2009 -- Remote Control 4.0 allows administrators to administer and remotely control Windows machines, without having to dig ... More...

CNET News Leaked memo offers Windows 7 details ZDNet Asia, Singapore By Ina Fried, CNET News.com Engadget brightened up a slow news day on Friday with leaked memo from Best Buy that offers a number of Windows 7 details. Most notable is the fact that a the memo puts a date on when people can start buying Vista-based ... Best Buy Memo Hints at ... InternetNews.com all 35 news articles More...

Leo and I discuss Windows 7 RTM and GA dates, Windows 7 leaked builds, Bing public beta, and more... More...

Bing is the real deal, and offers some important benefits over Google, especially around some key search scenarios... More...

Product Reviews And Moses asked God: Is Mac better than Windows? CNET News, CA Out of desperation, I tried it on the Vista-based HP tower. It streamed immediately. In my book, that's a problem. And generally, on many Web sites that I use, Windows Media Player (that is, WMP v.11) is more adept at streaming video than the applets ... Snow Leopard and Windows 7: Two flavors of the same GUI? ZDNet all 7 news articles More...

On the same hard disk, I've noted that the UI for sharing of different sub-directories within the same hard disk is slightly different. I checked within Folder Options > View > User Sharing Wizard is checked, so I would have assumed that both shares would have to follow the UI for the 2nd sub-directory. The hard disk was previously configured on Windows XP, and, might have retained some of the sharing settings for the first share. See screenshots at http://cid-b712073b3513eb8e.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/shares%20on%20giorgio.doc.

Windows Vista was not widely adopted because of bad economy timing for Microsoft? Aside from that aspect, Windows Vista was toted to have major security improvements that was far more superior than Windows XP. But instead of actually upgrading to Windows Vista, a lot of businesses felt that Windows Vista was just Windows XP [...]Post from: Windows Vista Weblog More...