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by Mike Zazaian October 6, 2006 - 5:01pm, No Comments

Microsoft announced the second release candidate of Windows Vista today, marking the final available build of the upcoming OS prior to its launch early in 2007.

As was reported earlier in the week, RC2 won’t have the same broad availability that users enjoyed with RC1. Instead, Microsoft has opened downloads of RC2 to the usual beta testers, SDN and TechNet subscribers, and a limited number of Consumer Preview Program (CPP) members.

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by Mike Zazaian October 4, 2006 - 12:31pm, 6 Comments >>

Microsoft has announced that pirated copies of its upcoming Vista operating system will lock users out of core functionality if the software isn’t activated.

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by Mike Zazaian October 3, 2006 - 11:45am, No Comments

Microsoft has announced that a second release candidate of Windows Vista will make its rounds before a final version of the code is locked down in November.

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by Mike Zazaian October 2, 2006 - 7:13pm, 2 Comments >>

PC Security Giant McAfee is on the full offensive against Microsoft citing a controversial decision to keep code for the Windows Vista kernel a secret.

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by Mike Zazaian September 24, 2006 - 1:03am, 23 Comments >>

A new post-RC1 version of Vista is available for download from Microsoft, but there’s no telling for how long.

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by Mike Zazaian September 22, 2006 - 11:32am, 3 Comments >>

Microsoft is tidying up the mess it made by releasing eight versions of Windows Vista by keeping them all on one disk

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by Mike Zazaian September 14, 2006 - 6:15pm, 8 Comments >>

Microsoft has opened up downloads for the final beta release of its next-gen office application juggernaut, Office 2007, but it’s not completely free.

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by Mike Zazaian September 11, 2006 - 8:08pm, 4 Comments >>

Microsoft is shaking off its cobwebs by ditching the dialup-era search homepage msn.com for the hipper, bloggier, googlier live.com moniker.

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by Mike Zazaian September 10, 2006 - 4:01pm, 4 Comments >>

Will open source software such as Linux ever oust market giants like Microsoft from the top? Two Harvard professors have set out to determine that very question.

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by Ben Piper September 8, 2006 - 2:44pm, 3 Comments >>

Bill Gates and software mogul Microsoft welcome Philadelphia students to the first “School of the Future”. (more…)