Happy Mothers Day from the Windows X Live staff. We hope you had a good one. Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 sends some PCs into an endless series of reboots, according to posts to a Microsoft support forum. By Vista Dog on 10-May-08 19:22 | Tags: EEE PC, low cost pc, Main, microsoft, news, software, XP | Comments
(3) While Microsoft has seen it fit to keep XP around as its "relatively non-bloated OS" alternative to the Linux that has dominated this new category of "ultra low-cost PCs" (ULPCs), they're certainly not giving away the farm. At the initiative of a Dutch mother, the company Unicaresoft publishes software that helps parents to limit the use of the Internet by their children. This software that allows you to impose time limits on the use of IM clients, also allows parents to monitor the Web activity of their offspring through filtering mechanisms. DeskScapes 1.0 of took only supports Windows Vista Ultimate, but this is no longer the case with the version 2.0 release Tuesday that supports all editions of Windows Vista. So it is a little DreamScene which is provided to all users of Vista without distinction. By Windows X on 09-May-08 10:05 | Tags: Main, Microsoft, News, Ultimate Extras, Vista | Comments
(0) Microsoft has finally published yet another Ultimate Extras stuff for Vista Ultimate fans. It's pretty amusing that everyone can get Windows Ultimate's beloved extras :D. This time it's Vista Ultimate Extras Sound Schemes which comes with 2 new sound schemes. After installing new sound schemes, users can switch from Windows Default to Ultimate Extras Glass or to Ultimate Extras Pearl in the Change System Sounds item in Control Panel. After seeing poll's result, I'm quite shocked seeing quite number of visitors dislike this new website. So I ran into stats and check for visitors' browser and found interesting things that over 50% of visitors still use Internet Explorer 6 which doesn't support alpha-blending in PNG image format, resulting the ultimately suck UI with white as background floor. The Internet Storm Center, which tracks online threats, warned Wednesday that a worm is infecting vulnerable Web sites with a database attack. Though relatively small by Web attack standards with about 4,000 reported infected sites, the assault adds invisible code to a site that can force visitors to download malware onto their PC. Bad PR, to say the least. On May 8th Messenger TV will be released to the following 20 countries: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This means an almost global launch, only Japan and the USA are left out this time. In the message to employees this week, the nation's No. 1 wireless carrier spoke of an "exciting Summer Promotional Launch" that will kick off next month and offer the opportunity for sales representatives to "soar" past their sales quotas. "To ensure proper staffing during this period, Sales personnel planning to take approved time off are encouraged to schedule their vacations before June 15 or after July 12 to participate in the heavy selling period," the company wrote. |
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