In Europe HD-DVD is Massively Outselling Blu-Ray
April 8, 2007 by Ryan Pamplin · 2 Comments
Thanks to the efforts of Toshiba and Microsoft’s support campaign for HD-DVD, many more European film studios are adopting HD-DVD than Sony’s Blu-Ray. So far HD-DVD player sales have been ahead of Blu-Ray in Europe, although the launch of Sony’s Playstation 3 game console may change this. The late start and exurbanite cost of the [...]
April 8, 2007 | Read the story »
Windows Vista is Selling at Double the Pace XP did
March 26, 2007 by Ryan Pamplin · Leave a Comment
Microsoft said that it has sold more than 20 million copies of Windows Vista in the first month since the operating system hit shelves on January 30. The world’s biggest software maker said the pace of Vista adoption is at more than twice the rate of its predecessor, which had sold 17 million licenses after [...]
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Fear, uncertainty and doubt in Windows Vista Service Pack 1
February 27, 2007 by Ryan Pamplin · Leave a Comment
“Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will be a standard service pack that will include security updates, hotfixes, as well as limited other changes focused on improving quality.” - Microsoft
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer wants you to think that first major update to Windows Vista, Service Pack 1, won’t be released for a long, long time. That’s [...]
February 27, 2007 | Read the story »
Major Windows Vista Bug Can Lock You Out
February 15, 2007 by Ryan Pamplin · 2 Comments
When you start Microsoft Windows Vista, you may receive the following error message:
Activate Windows Now
Your activation period has expired and Windows is no longer working.
To use Windows you must activate this copy of Windows.
If you’re like most people with Windows Vista you’ve installed device drivers and new applications. Unfortunately this common behavior can cause Windows [...]
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Directly Download Popular Windows Software Applications
February 14, 2007 by Ryan Pamplin · Leave a Comment
This list contains direct links to download major software applications for Microsoft Windows from Adobe, Ahead, Macromedia, and Microsoft.
Updates will be frequent. You may leave requests for software from Adobe, Macromedia, Microsoft or any other major application you wish for in the comments.
These programs are fully featured, mostly 30 day, time limited trial software packages. [...]
February 14, 2007 | Read the story »
Entertaining Interview with Bill Gates on the Daily Show (Video)
January 30, 2007 by Ryan Pamplin · 2 Comments
Jon Stewart’s 9 minute interview with Microsoft Chairmen Bill Gates is well worth watching. Topics covered include Windows Vista, pets, jet packs, hackers, and what Gates expected the future to be like. Bill Gates must have been in a hurry to get to his London keynote because he abruptly walked off the set at the [...]
January 30, 2007 | Read the story »