Stop Preloading Windows, Business Think Tank Says
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A pro-business think tank in Europe has recommended unbundling Microsoft Corp.&#39;s Windows operating system from sales of new PCs in order to give customers more choice when buying a new computer.
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With Microsoft spending most of its upgrade development time on Windows XP, it was only time before they announced plans to stop updating Windows 2000.
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Although Microsoft has recommended consumers turn on Windows&#39; Automatic Update feature to get Windows XP Service Pack 2, PC makers are reminding Windows XP users to do their homework before installing the security update.
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To get next version of Windows out on time, company to delay some planned features, sources say.
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Updates pushed out last week by Microsoft to Windows Vista users to prep PCs for next month's release of Service Pack 1 have crippled some machines, according to messages posted to the company's support site.
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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Visitors with a pirated copy of Windows may lose easy access to company&#39;s Download Center. As part of its efforts to combat software piracy, Microsoft is testing a new feature on its Download Center Web site that can lock out pirated copies of Windows.
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Microsoft Corp chief executive Steve Ballmer has called for financial analysts to cool down their predictions on how many copies of Windows Vista the company will sell.
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In a Knowledgebase advisory to developers today, Microsoft is urging developers for Windows Vista who intend for their programs to run under Service Pack 1 not to assume the default search protocol being used by the system is Microsoft's.
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Windows can load quicker when you disable programs you don't need at start-up. Plus, stop Msconfig from opening automatically when Windows starts.
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This week we have seen numerous reports (a href=&quot;http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=352&quot;&gt;see here) in the trade press referring to Gartner UK analyst Annette Jump claiming that pre-installing Linux on PCs encourages piracy of Windows.
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update To get next version of Windows out on time, company says it will delay some planned features.
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Software giant says Release Candidate 2 should be last before OS release.
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No.2   Shut down your computer properly. Yes, we know it takes about 15 minutes, and it's as boring as the weather forecast in Danish.   But it makes a huge difference.
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PCs on council tips and other security no-nos Large UK businesses are crap at securely disposing old PCs and mobile devices.â¦
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Microsoft said some spyware could cause computers to freeze up upon installation of the SP2 update. Microsoft recommends that users clean their PCs of spyware and back up their data before
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If a business is planning to install the latest Windows operating system, certain factors should be evaluated first.