Your new PC came with Vista. Maybe your office deployed Vista. Or, perhaps, you got caught up in the early hype and bought Vista. Whatever the case, now you're stuck with it. Wish you could turn back the clock and restore your beloved Windows XP? Unless your name is Marty McFly, you're outta luck.

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We literally have no further information other than what you see in the image above, but either way, it's a very interesting photo even if it might be a fake. It makes sense that whatever huge display is running off a Windows XP machine—many giant displays do. What's also interesting in the photo are the cops (are they cops?) manning the line with fire extinguishers in case one of the Beijingnese Apple customers gets outta line.

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Microsoft Corp. has warned Windows users that it will soon turn on automatic distribution for a major search update that requires machines to re-index all local data.
In a post added to the Microsoft Update team's blog Friday, the company said it is planning to release Windows Search 4.0 to Windows Update "sometime in late July." Windows Search 4.0.

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Linux and UNIX-like operating systems in general are regarded as being more secure for the common user, in contrast with operating systems that have "Windows" as part of their name. Why is that? When entering a dispute on the subject with a Windows user, the most common argument he tries to feed me is that Windows is more widespread, and therefore, more vulnerable. Apart from amusing myths like "Linux is only for servers" or "does it have a word processor?", the issue of Linux desktop security is still seriously misunderstood.

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ASUS' latest addition to the Eee PC family, the 10-inch 1000H, is now available in Australia sans the Linux operating system than made it famous. The 1000H is the third-generation Eee PC and differentiates itself from its predecessors with a 10-inch display and a 80GB hard drive, and about an additional 450 grams of weight at 1.45kg.

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There is a list of proficient operating systems in the Information technology souk. A consumer gets baffled in choosing suitable operating system for a computer. Latest operating systems in the market are Leopard from Mac OS, Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista (service pack 1) and Ubuntu. Here we will thrash out the characteristics of each operating system and this information will definitely assist a consumer to go for a suitable operating system for him.

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The doomed operating system of Microsoft has started fairing well on charts as it seems. But its gains are on XP's loss or more specifically, Vista going out of the scene. Despite the weak head start in beginning the operating system is doing well and company boasts of selling 180 million copies of OS till dtae.. good news for Vista. Windows Vista has had a rough start last year with Microsoft receiving.

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Microsoft plans to debut serving Windows Search 4.0 automatically to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 by the end of July. With the final version up for grabs through the Download Center since the beginning of June 2008, the Redmond company is now wrapping up Windows Search 4.0 for delivery through Windows Update. However, only users with Windows Vista with Automatic Update enabled will receive the update by default; Windows XP users running either Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3 will have to perform a manual upgrade.

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Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing. The Redmond giant sent Windows Fiji RTM emails to the select pool of customers who helped nudge the product forward through development milestones. Fiji has been from the get go to the finish line a product developed under wraps at Microsoft, with little or no word of it released to the general public. Now, Windows Fiji is finalized and the gold bits ended up being labeled Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008.

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Xpy is a small tool which disables the default threats of a Windows XP installation. Besides the classic antispy features, it closes recent security holes like the remote procure call (rpc) service and the distributed component object model (dcom). xpy is a small software, securing your Windows 2000/XP/2003 installation and protecting your privacy. In addition to so-called Antispy features.

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According to Ars Technica, the servers responsible for activating new installs of Windows and Office are currently down due to an unspecified reason. The issue became apparent after several users attempted to activate Office 2003 with no avail, even as early as this morning, and a Microsoft representative confirmed that the servers were offline. Fortunately, this seems to be simply a case of prolonged downtime, rather than an actual activation error.

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I have been doing research on XP for days on end. It's life or death. It all depends on where the news comes from. Sales have been discontinued in most cases, as any copies of XP running will continue to run. Get this! Small business and some consumers will still be able to install XP as a downgrade to Windows Vista Business or Ultimate. Low cost, low-power desktops and laptops such as the Asus Eee PC can ship with Windows XP until Feb. 1, 2010.

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VidaBox, normally known for its media servers, is going small and compact with its freshly released PicoPC. This little HDTV add-on marries your flat panel with a Windows XP embedded accessory for enjoying your media files. The PicoPC is a tiny little computer buddy for the home entertainment room, weighing just 13.1 ounces and measuring 1-3/16" in height.

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Two security bulletins, from December 2007 and from June 2008 respectively, affecting the DirectX components of a wide range of Windows operating systems including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, have been updated. According to Microsoft, the modifications were designed to simply add DirectX 9.0a on the list of impacted DirectX versions.

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As Microsoft slowly kills off Windows XP itself -- over the protest of many users -- it's still unclear exactly when Redmond will formally cut off all support for its old OS. But one reader's experience in dealing with a series of update fiascos over the last few months suggests that XP support may actually have expired already, and under suspicious circumstances.

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