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Microsoft defends choice of ‘Windows 7′
VNUNet.com - UK
Windows Vista was version 6.0, Nash said, adding that Microsoft had realised from this launch that changing basic version numbers can cause application …
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Hey, Microsoft: Keep Windows 7 simple
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
The problems with Windows Vista go far beyond incompatibility. The real problems with Vista revolve around the complexity and downright absurdity of the …
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12 Unnecessary Vista Features You Can Disable Right Now
PC World Canada - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
Tired of Vista’s bloat? Reclaim your PC’s performance by turning off a dozen wasteful features. The latest Windows packs a lot of code–more than any …
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Platform: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista
PC Authority Business Centre - McMahons Point,NSW,Australia
NoteZilla is a highly fast, flexible & elegant note-taking program for Windows. Just as we use paper stickies, NoteZilla lets you create virtual sticky …
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Platform: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista
PC Authority Business Centre - McMahons Point,NSW,Australia
Blender is an integrated suite of tools enabling the creation of a broad range of 3D content with the singular benefits of cross-platform operability and a …
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Make Vista Great, Part 2: Fill in the Missing P …
PC Magazine - USA
But grieve not: Here are some tools to fill the holes in Windows Vista. Vista lacks the File Types window, the tool used in earlier versions of Windows to …
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‘Windows 7′ name is largely cheered
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Windows 7.20, instead of Microsoft Windows Vista Business Service Pack 2, will make it easy next year for the new IT guy to figure out which disc is the …
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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Vital For Windows Server 2000 Users
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
While it’s the Active Directory vulnerability that is rated "critical," fixes for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista show the newer operating systems are …
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Vista SP2 and Server 2008 SP2: watch this space
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
Earlier this month Microsoft put up Knowledge Base Article 948465, a placeholder for both Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008: This Microsoft …
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Windows Vista SP2
By Robert Hallock
It’s apparent that Redmond is already hard at work on the next refresh of Vista as the recent introduction of MSKB# 948965 puts out the call for future details. The service pack could arrive as early as next year, or before Windows 7’s …
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Windows 7 Search Performance – Superior to Vista SP1 and XP SP3 …
Chris McConnell, a principal SDE on the Find and Organize team, revealed that Microsoft had optimized the Windows 7 indexer in order to offer boosted performance and reliability compared to Windows Vista, which offers the same in …
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Hyper-V Integration Services Requires a Newer Version of Windows Vista
By (David Davis)
Taking a look at errors and issues when installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V integration services on a Vista virtual guest machine. Specifically, the error: Unsupported guest OS: the specified program requires a newer …
VirtualizationAdmin.com - http://www.VirtualizationAdmin.com

[Important] - IT Security Services - Microsoft Security Bulletins …
Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 - Windows Vista versions: Vista, Vista SP1, x64, x64 SP1 - Windows Server 2008 versions: 32-bit, x64-based, Itanium-based MS08-065 - Vulnerability in Message Queuing …
IS Services Desk Announcements - http://www.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/itsc/