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Computerworld is reporting that Windows XP Service Pack 3 runs MS Office 10% faster than XP SP2 — and is ‘considerably faster’ than Vista SP1. XP SP3 isn’t scheduled to be released until next year, but testers at Devil Mountain Software — the same company which found Vista SP 1 to be hardly any faster than the debut version of Vista — were able to run some benchmarking tests on a release candidate of XP SP3, says the report. While this may be great news for XP owners, it is a problem for Microsoft, which is having trouble convincing business users to migrate to Vista. |via|

Ένας περιορισμένος αριθμός beta testers έλαβε την περασμένη εβδομάδα την πρώτη beta του Service Pack 3 για τα Windows XP και έτσι έγιναν γνωστές περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες γι’ αυτό. Η έκδοση [build] με τον αριθμό 3205 έχει μέγεθος 334,92ΜΒ και περιλαμβάνει 1.073 hotfixes και patches, μαζί με νέες δυνατότητες και στοιχεία, τα περισσότερα από τα οποία προέρχονται από τα Windows Vista. (more…)

What will Microsoft do next with Zune? iZune? or ZunePhone? That video is really funny.

An exclusive sneak peek at the soon-to-be released zunePhone from Microsoft!

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Technorati Tags: Zune, iZune, Microsoft, Apple, iPhone, Spoof, Video, Funny

The effect of thousands of PCs rebooting after the last Patch Tuesday led Skype to discover a fatal flaw in its self-healing P2P networking code. Contrary to reports, Skype is not blaming Microsoft. Read More.

Technorati Tags: Skype, Microsoft, Reboot, Patch, Fatal flaw, P2P, Outage

1. Installer music
Start > Run > “C:Windows/system32/oobe/images/title.wma” > Ok

2. Hibernate
Start > Turn Off Computer… > press Shift key to change the “Stand By” button to “Hibernate”

3. Hidden Devices
Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > select “View” and Show hidden devices

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Google has joined the fight to save Linux from an army of patent-waving Microsoft lawyers.

With Redmond threatening to collect royalties from Linux users and distributors across the industry, claiming that the open-source operating system violates 235 of its patents, Google has thrown its considerable weight behind the Open Invention Network (OIN), a consortium of companies bent on protecting open-source software from legal attack.

Technorati Tags: Google, Linux, Microsoft, Lawyers, OIN, Open Source, News

A genuine 100% crack for Windows Vista which allows a pirated, non-activated installation of Vista (Home Basic/Premium and Ultimate) to be properly activated and made fully-operational has just been released by a pirate group. (This is NOT the brute force crack that randomly guesses numbers.)|via|

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