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Office XP cracks down on casual copying

General 8066 Published 2001-04-27 17:42 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft Corp. has enlisted some technical firepower to combat customers who fail to make good on software license agreements, which limit users from sharing copies of a program.

In the soon-to-be debuted Microsoft Office XP and its family of software products, which are set for release on May 31, intellectual property protection is built in.

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Interview with Mike Magee of The Inquirer

General 8066 Published 2001-04-27 13:55 by Philipp Esselbach 0

I am Not a Geek dot com has posted a interview with Mike Magee of The Inquirer.

Windows 2000 to inherit XP´s copy protection?

General 8066 Published 2001-04-27 13:48 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Tech Report has found some kind of copy protection in Internet Explorer 6.0. Thanks skelzer.

Anti-piracy firm sues Microsoft

General 8066 Published 2001-04-27 05:24 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InterTrust, one of several companies providing technology to protect songs and videos from being illegally copied, sued Microsoft Thursday, saying the giant´s music and video software illegally infringes its patent rights.

The smaller Santa Clara, Calif., company says Microsoft, which has added strong anti-copying mechanisms to its Windows Media Player, has come too close to InterTrust´s patent-protected technology.

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ATI Interview

General 8066 Published 2001-04-27 01:16 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Anandtech has posted an interview with ATI´s President & COO Dave Orton.

Office XP hangs in latest build of Windows XP

General 8066 Published 2001-04-26 16:51 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Neowin reports that the latest build (2465) of Windows XP is not fully Office XP compatible.

Microsoft tunes whistler server

General 8066 Published 2001-04-26 13:53 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft Corp., claiming to have learned from its mistakes, has added a number of features and enhancements to the second beta of its Whistler server operating system, which company officials said will make deployment far easier, especially for Active Directory.

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Download Deathmatch: Tweaking Tools

General 8066 Published 2001-04-26 13:50 by Philipp Esselbach 0

ZDNet has posted a comparsion review between Tweak UI and X-Setup

Windows XP Post Beta 2 Build 2465

General 8066 Published 2001-04-26 00:00 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft has released a new interim build of Windows XP Personal/Professional to the beta testers. Thanks Piethein.

Microsoft WinXP-ready PC scheme kicks off

General 8066 Published 2001-04-25 21:50 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The first "Windows XP-ready PCs" have poked their heads above the parapet, but strangely enough they´re not from the usual suspects. Nor, indeed, are they very exciting. A small section which appeared on the Microsoft site over the past couple of days lists manufacturers Lan Plus, Micron, Premmio, Systemax and Oki, the latter with the exquisitely-named Oki If Stations, which we presume are aimed at the Japanese market only.

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PK-OCK7/EV6 Review

General 8066 Published 2001-04-25 13:57 by Philipp Esselbach 0

VIA Hardware has posted a review on the PK-OCK7/EV6.

RadeonTweaker 1.1.2

General 8066 Published 2001-04-25 13:52 by Philipp Esselbach 0

A new release of RadeonTweaker is out.

WindowsXP, You & Piracy

General 8066 Published 2001-04-25 13:49 by Philipp Esselbach 0

HardOCP has posted some of the facts regarding the anti-piracy measures built into WindowsXP.

Want Media Player 8? Buy Windows XP

General 8066 Published 2001-04-25 13:27 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft is requiring consumers who want to use the latest version of Windows Media Player to upgrade to the new Windows XP operating system--a move that is reminiscent of the company´s controversial decision to tie the Internet Explorer browser with Windows.

Windows Media Player 8 will be bundled with the forthcoming Windows XP--the upgrade to Windows 95, 98, Me and 2000. A similar "tying" of Internet Explorer with the OS in 1996 is credited with helping Microsoft win the browser war against Netscape´s Navigator and has been a key issue in the antitrust case that is awaiting a decision by a federal Court of Appeals.

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Windows XP Beta 2 reaches the first 20,000 subscribers

General 8066 Published 2001-04-24 14:41 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Neowin report that Microsoft has shipped Windows XP Beta 2 to the first 20,000 subscribers of the Windows XP beta program.

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Kodak unveils ´EasyShare´ cameras

General 8066 Published 2001-04-24 12:34 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The camera dock addresses two of the biggest objections to digital cameras: easy connection and battery charging. Once the camera is placed in the dock, pictures are automatically uploaded to the computer and the dock recharges the camera´s battery pack. The system also includes software that allows users to connect to the Internet to e-mail or print their pictures. EasyShare makes picture sharing as easy as picture taking: one-button simple.

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Report on nVIDIA

General 8066 Published 2001-04-24 01:58 by Philipp Esselbach 0

PC Stats has posted a report on nVIDIA

Sites Defaced at Hosting Company Running IIS 5

General 8066 Published 2001-04-23 22:29 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Official Web sites for Jennifer Aniston, Denzel Washington and Mel Gibson hosted by Celebsites.com, which uses Windows 2000/Internet Information Services 5.0, were defaced Thursday morning. The attack was one of the first high profile defacements of a professional site running Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0.

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Compatibility issues dog XP

General 8066 Published 2001-04-23 21:32 by Philipp Esselbach 0

As was the case when Microsoft upgraded users from Windows 3.x to 95/98 and then to Windows 2000, software developers and users are finding that what once ran on previous versions won´t run well—or at all—on the new XP platform.

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WinXP activation: what happens under the covers?

General 8066 Published 2001-04-23 12:43 by Philipp Esselbach 0

When you use the Windows XP product activation system, Microsoft assures us, it´s an entirely anonymous transaction. Your machine sends a key to Redmond, Redmond sends an unlock key back, and your installation is validated forever. Or at least until you´ve gone one hardware upgrade too far, and you have to call them up and ask for mercy.

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