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Microsoft wins Windows XP WGA lawsuit
9 hours ago ago from ShareConnector
A lawsuit that accused Microsoft of misleading consumers to download and install an update for Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) under the guise that it was critical security update has been tossed out. Last month , a federal judge refused to certify the lawsuit as a class action, which would have meant anyone who owned a Windows XP PC in mid-2006 could join the case without having to hire an attorney, and on Friday the same judge dismissed the ...
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6 hours ago ago from Article Feeder Blog
It appears that people everywhere have a tendency to love or hate Microsoft, and the company has certainly had some harsh criticism over the years, most likely due to its widespread control of the personal computer operating system for such a long time. Before it became trendy and then eventually just plain sensible to use a Mac operating system, people used to constantly complain about the incredible variety of idiosyncrasies with Microsoft ...
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15 hours ago ago from Web Design
Just days after Microsoft warned Windows 7 users of an impending shutdown of the free release candidate, the company reminded customers running Windows 2000, XP and Vista of approaching support deadlines for those editions. The closest cutoff is April 13, when Microsoft will drop support for Vista RTM (release to manufacturing), the term used for the build the company launched at retail in January 2007. After that date -- it's also April's ...
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11 hours ago ago from Technologizer
As Computerworld's Gregg Keizer has reported, a U.S. District Judge has eliminated the possibility that Microsoft might be liable for hundreds of millions of dollars of damages in class-action suits over its Windows Genuine Advantage copy protection and the method by which it was pushed onto XP machines back in 2006. I'm neither a lawyer nor a instinctive fan of class-action cases, so I'm okay with the news. (But I will say that there was a ...
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9 hours ago ago from Lifehacker Australia
According to Microsoft's user tracking data, the most common action in Word is pasting, and the most common way of doing it is to use the Control-V shortcut (followed by the right mouse button). This raises two interesting issues: given the popularity of using the keyboard, why did Microsoft spend so much time on the ribbon ? And if paste is so popular, why did Microsoft make something of a mess of improving it in Office 2010 ? [ Microsoft ...
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The Windows 7 honeymoon is over
19 hours ago ago from ZDNet Blogs
February 9th, 2010 The Windows 7 honeymoon is over Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 9:39 am Categories: Microsoft , Windows 7 Tags: Operating System , Windows 7 Honeymoon , Microsoft Windows 7 , Microsoft Windows , Operating Systems , Software , Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Thanks to the power of hindsight, it's now quite apparent that Windows Vista was hated by a large proportion of the people who came into contact with the ...
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