November 2007

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Internet Explorer 7’s $250,000 sweepstake

Well this is one way to keep market share if you have a quarter of a million dollars for a marketing budget. Starting from today, Microsoft is hosting a two month promotion, “The IE7 Shop with More Confidence Sweepstakes” in partnership with PayPal to give 25 lucky users each $10,000 to spend via PayPal.
Sure they [...]

Written by Long Zheng on November 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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The Windows Experience Blog : Change Your Logon Background in Windows Vista
A very cool looking free download allows you to change your login screen background. Definitely something I will be trying!
(tags: Desktop Logon Software )

Microsoft hones its internal sales pitch for Vista Service Pack 1
Microsoft is ready to make some pretty hefty promises with Vista [...]

Written by Joe on November 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Can Too Much Windows Vista Cache Be a Bad Thing?

Too much Windows Vista cache, a bad ting? Well, apparently yes, through Excessive Cached Write I/O and Excessive Cached Read I/O. As you probably know by now, cache is connected with boosting the performance of data accessing processes that target sluggish storage media. In an ideal scenario, the data or the code pages would be [...]

Written by Jason on November 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Microsoft.com Downloads Beta in Silverlight

I’ve been wondering when Microsoft will finally implement Silverlight on to its own website. For a long time, the Silverlight animation on the frontpage advertising itself was somewhat of a disappointment and a paradox - ironically requiring Silverlight to be installed to view the ad showing off the capabilities of itself.
Today (via ActiveWin), Microsoft has [...]

Written by Long Zheng on November 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Change Your Logon Background in Windows Vista

I caught this via Steve Clayton (who caught it via Jeff Sandquist showing off his home ) - Stardock has a really neat application called LogonStudio that allows you to change the background of your logon screen in Windows Vista. I absolutely love the Read More……(read more)

Written by Windows Vista Team Blog on November 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Change Your Logon Background in Windows Vista

I caught this via Steve Clayton (who caught it via Jeff Sandquist showing off his home) - Stardock has a really neat application called LogonStudio that allows you to change the background of your logon screen in Windows Vista. I absolutely love the space background.


LogonStudio is available as a free download and also allows you to create your own backgrounds as well as download logon backgrounds via Stardock’s WinCustomize Gallery too. Folks who create their own backgrounds can submit them to the WinCustomize Gallery. Give it a try. Let me know what you think.

Written by Brandon LeBlanc on November 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Fix for the 20-second Logon Delay With IE7 Released

After Internet Explorer Maintenance Group Policy settings are configured in a domain, a 20-second delay occurs when you log on to the domain from a client computer that has Internet Explorer 7 installedSYMPTOMSIn an Active Directory directory service d…

Written by Odd-Magne Kristoffersen on November 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Intel Updates Compilers for ‘Leopard’

Now with full 64-bit support, the Mac OS X compiler offers much faster performance and automatically parallelizes applications.

Written by WinPlanet Windows Software News on November 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Convert physical machines to virtual machines - FREE

VMWare has actually had this tool for quite some time now. The VMWare converter for Windows was released in January of 2007. I just had a chance to use it, and it works great. You can convert a physical machine to a VM while it is running. Thats right …

Written by Steve Wiseman on November 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Lawyers: Vista branding confused even Microsoft
Microsoft’s own marketing director makes the same mistake that Microsoft claims no consumer would be justified in having. That can’t be good for their case.
(tags: Legal )

Vista SP1 Release Candidate expected next week
Some will receive the RC of SP1 next week (build 17051). The public should get a shot at [...]

Written by Joe on November 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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