Well, many are waiting for Windows 7 launch and some are still tweaking XP in their newly got netbooks, but there is something that many are ignoring right now and this little thing is known as Windows Vista that Microsoft wants to maintain once again and the release of its standalone installers for 32-bit and the 64-bit versions for Service Pack 2 for Vista seems to suggest so.
This new Service Pack 2 is the latest service pack for Windows Vista as well as for Windows Server 2008 and they will support almost all types of emerging and existing hardware standards and that includes all kinds of the updates that were delivered after the SPI.
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Microsoft is signing a deal to bring Netflix streaming movie service in Windows Media Center.
Right now the users of XP can’t access Netflix services and it is available to Vista, and Home Premium users.
But after this deal, Windows Media Center owners could also find the things from the Netflix library, as well as they could manage their DVD queues and it will also filter searches to get instant access to titles with the help of filter searches.
Microsoft has been trying hard to enhance the amount of available content on Windows Media and the company has also released a new sport channel that also includes the replays of NCAA basketball tournament.
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Dell marketing executive says that Windows 7 seems to beat Vista in almost every aspect, but the biggest hindrance that stops people adopt Windows7 OS is its potentially high pricing.
“This is the average selling price of it that makes people stop to adopt it; the ASPs of it are higher than that of Vista and XP,” says Dell’s director of product management says in an interview that a large number of Windows 7 OS will appear quite soon.
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TTN on March 25, 2009
Microsoft and NASA have today proclaimed that they will be working in collaboration to provide planetary images online. They will be making these images and data available on Microsoft’s virtual space viewing software ‘WorldWide Telescope’.
After this accord, NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, will be doing the processing and hosting of 100+ terabytes of data. The data will be integrated through 2009 by WorldWide. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter i.e. MRO and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter i.e. LRO will be handling imagery after the data is made public, planned to begin coming autumn.
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TTN on February 13, 2009
Microsoft has recently revealed it s plan for opening retail outlets. This idea of following Apple and entering retail has long been denied by Microsoft.
Microsoft told that it has hired David Porter, aged 25 and is from Wal-Mart. Though Microsoft has not provided further details, it has been learnt through sources that David will be working as a developer for retail strategies for the company.
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TTN on February 10, 2009
Various businesses will now be able to find how much eco friendly they are and how much the planet in being screwed because of them. Well, it’s due to a new Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for the Dynamics AX resource software of Microsoft.
This new set of tools is available to many current Dynamics AX customers for free, and it will allow the firms to get data required to find out energy consumption and gas emissions.
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TTN on February 4, 2009
With the claims of providing simpler choices to their customers, Microsoft has just announced its different versions of Windows 7 officially.
Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Home Premium are the two main versions about which the Software maker looks quite keen to talk about, but you shouldn’t think that only few versions are out there, as there are 5 in UK and 6 worldwide. Aside from that there are some nice implications for netbooks as well.
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