Microsoft put up a Q&A on PressPass with Brad Brooks. He’s the CVP of Windows Consumer Product marketing, and he announced that Microsoft is dropping the price of retail-packaged product (RPP) versions of Windows Vista when the SP1 version hits the shelves in a few weeks. Continue Reading »
Microsoft slashes Windows Vista prices

How does learning 8 languages in 9 hours sound? Check out Polyglotsguide.

This is a tongue-in-cheek textbook on eight languages which can be read in its entirety, at no cost, on the polyglotsguide.com website.

It will appeal to those with an interest in foreign languages or to those who are merely curious and also those who are already fluent. Continue Reading »
For the Language Learning Fanatics

Acquire What You Desire on Millionaires Bay, a New Online Auction!

In  the UK, a new online luxury auction offers the opportunity to buy and sell prestige and glamour items on www.millionairesbay.com. This auction website was exclusively designed to satisfy the requirements of the rich: all the items are priced minimum £10 000 each.

Customers say that Millionaires Bay is a combination of a luxury boutique with the excitement of an auction, as it is the ultimate online marketplace with the most fashionable and desirable products from all over the world. Continue Reading »
Sell Prestige Items At Millionaire’s Ebay

This morning Microsoft announced another noteworthy change to its flagship Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program - an update to be rolled out later this month to all Vista users that will display a WGA warning dialog box when it detects either of two common Vista activation cracks. In the same announcement, they also for the first time showed screen shots of how WGA changes debuting in SP1 will take some of the bite out of a longstanding Windows product activation rule as well. Continue Reading »
Vista WGA - Defanged!

This suite of applications will help you manage your computer and will improve its performance for Windows XP/Vista. Continue Reading »
Accelerate your Vista!!

Late last month in Austria, Intel presented Sun with roadmaps discussing details of its upcoming server platforms, including the fairly secret Xeon Dunnington and Nehalem architectures.

Unfortunately for some, this presentation ended up on Sun’s public web server over the weekend. Continue Reading »
Sun leaks 6-core Intel processor details

Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.

The results show that SP1 performs on par with Vista RTM and Windows XP. Continue Reading »
Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2

Microsoft Corp. has been lowering expectations about Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) since before it even confirmed there would be one. Numerous times, company executives and managers have told users and the press that Vista SP1 would not be like Windows XP SP2, the last desktop operating system service pack the company released.

“This is not about adding new features,” David Zipkin, a senior product manager for Windows Vista, told Computerworld last August, comparing SP1 to XP’s SP2, which was as much a new operating system as an update. Continue Reading »
Vista Update Slams Activation Cracks