Dec 02
A Webcast, featuring experts from Microsoft, Aberdeen Group, and Iconics, is set for Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008, at 2 p.m. EST, to review next-generation software solutions based on 64-bit technology, Windows Server 2008 and Vista operating systems, and .NET technologies that help users achieve visualization and interoperability of business processes. Topics include analytics solutions built on the latest open, scalable technologies from Iconics and Microsoft to help organizations achieve operational excellence. Attendees will receive a free whitepaper.
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Dec 01
Steve Ballmer has been ordered to provide a deposition in the Vista “Junk PC” suit, and it’s easy to guess what he’ll say: “I had nothing to do with the marketing scheme.” Here’s what he should say instead. Last week, a judge told Ballmer he had to provide testimony in the class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for a marketing scheme in which people claim that Microsoft misled consumers into buying “Windows Vista Capable” PCs, even though the PCs couldn’t run the most important features of Vista.
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Nov 30
In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include:Windows Vista Secrets, SP1 Edition is packed with over 200 more pages of features of the new operating system that are not disclosed in Microsoft’s books or help files and are not contained in other competing works. By tapping the extensive network of Windows beta testers and conducting their own experiments on the new OS, and thousands of readers, the authors will develop page after page of information that is essential to power users of Windows but not available elsewhere.
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Nov 29
Microsoft Corp. will deliver Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) to manufacturing in April 2009, two months after it issues a final test version to users, according to a Web site that accurately predicted several Windows ship dates in 2008. TechARP.com, a Malaysian Web site that nailed the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) dates for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 earlier this year, said that Microsoft will post a release candidate — the final test version — of Vista SP2 in February 2009, finish the service pack next April and offer it to users via download from the Web at some point afterward.
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