Category: Windows Vista
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Windows 98: Last available patches
With the final real actual end of Windows 98 support by Microsoft in the beginning of Summer 2006, those who are still using this Operating System (the great-grand-mother of the much more expensive Windows Vista) started worrying about how to obtain the needed software patches. For example, what would you do if, needing to re-install…
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Vista opening sound will be compulsory
I do not report each and every little news about the upcoming Windows XP replacement. But today, we are learning that Microsoft marketing got one weird idea. Since they want Vista to show a “common, and beautiful, face to the world”, they decided that the music/sound provided by Microsoft as an opening sound for Windows…
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Several software magnifiers
For various reasons, I have been looking for software tools able to magnify an image or a zone of the computer screen. Here are some of the links I collected this way: The Microsoft PowerToys include a Windows XP screen magnifier that can be installed in the taskbar. ZoomAView – The Computer Magnifier!: A powerful,…
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Microsoft invents paying beta test
You thought that they wouldn’t dare: From the 2nd of August, Microsoft is going to charge 1.50$ per download of the beta version of Microsoft Office. Yes! Now, there are so many crzay people willing to test a bug-ridden version of Microsoft Office that the firm from Redmond can make them pay for this privilege.…
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Win98 is really dead!
After long years of operation, Windows 98 is officially dead today (11 July 2006). As a matter of fact, this is not news and Microsoft was slowly reducing the efforts and even in June they refused to patch a security issue arguing that it would be too much effort (and that they couldn’t care less).…
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No DirectX 10 for XP – Go Vista
News from The Inquirer: Vista will be the only Operating System supporting DirectX 10 (the latest version of the video-game-oriented graphic support software). This is bad news for those intending to keep WindowsXP and willing to use the latest video games and entertainment software in 2007. You will have to switch to Vista, like it…