Windows 7 Ad Kills With Cuteness [Video]
Microsoft has experienced mixed results with its ad campaigns. A Seinfeld-Gates pairing was panned in the tech press, but its “Laptop Hunters” series had a positive impact on consumers’ value perception of Microsoft products (even if Apple did insist that one ad be changed).
Come to mention it, who can forget that bizarre projectile vomiting ad for Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer) 8? Microsoft later attempted to remove the ad, after it had been shared widely around the web.
With the new operating system’s retail release scheduled for next month, it’s time for the Windows 7 ads to start rolling out. Microsoft’s strategy: kill with cuteness. An ad released this week features the return of Kylie, who shows us how simple it is to make slideshows on her new laptop.
via Windows 7 Ad Kills With Cuteness [Video].
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Google sets new target: Microsoft Office
We all know that Microsoft and Google have recently declared a cold war. It's true; Google's talking about a Chrome OS, Microsoft plans to make the next Office suite web based, then Microsoft's deal with Yahoo, and then... Google launches a campaign, intelligently called "Going Google," to make things only more interesting. The new campaign has 1 Microsoft product in cross hairs: Microsoft Office.
The campaign will feature a series of advertisements focused around why some 3,000 organizations are "Going Google" every day. The most interesting part of this campaign, however, is the billboards that will be displayed in 4 locations. They will be updated every day for a month describing why those 3,000 organizations have decided to switch to Google Apps.
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Microsoft Warns About a Serious IE Security Hole
What's new, right?
"As users of Microsoft products are probably aware, Microsoft releases security updates on the second Tuesday of each month. However, this time there’s a security hole in Internet Explorer that they haven’t yet patched, and it’s so serious that users are advised to immediately apply a workaround fix." -- Stan Schroeder, Mashable.com
In his blog entry, Schroeder describes the vulnerability as allowing attackers infect XP and Server 2003 PCs after clicking on a video link, allowing malicious code to run at the same rights as the user. It gets better: Microsoft adds that they're aware of this vulnerability being exploited.
My suggestion: Upgrade to a better browser (Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox).
Open Source Video Dropped from HTML 5
This is quite simply terrible news. Perhaps one of the greatest additions to HTML 5 was the open source video. Due to companies being unable to agree on which formats to use (cough Apple cough) as well as other companies which make no displayable effort to include this feature at all (cough Microsoft cough), they decided to do without it.
Part of the issue is Apple wanted to use H.264 (a superb video codec), which unfortunately requires expensive licensing which open source projects (like Mozilla) likely can't afford. Google (being wealthy beyond our dreams) ships their browser with Ogg Theora support as well as H.264 support.
To be fair, Apple isn't the only one who doesn't like Ogg Theora very much. Google wanted H.264 for the better quality per bitrate (which is great for its monster site YouTube); one common area of debate is that Ogg Theora isn't quite ready for such tasks, and as such, wouldn't be the best choice for the company.
Looks like a whole bunch of crap to me. Read the original article over at ZDNet Asia.
Windows 7 Family Pack
It appears that, after review of Microsoft's EULA for Windows 7, that there will be a Windows 7 Family Pack, which may be legally installed on up to 3 computers in the same home. Here's the exact text from their EULA:
“b. Family Pack. If you are a “Qualified Family Pack User”, you may install one copy of the software marked as “Family Pack” on three computers in your household for use by people who reside there. Those computers are the “licensed computers” and are subject to these license terms. If you do not know whether you are a Qualified Family Pack User, visit go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?Linkid=141399 or contact the Microsoft affiliate serving your country.”
Read the full story at Crenk.com or KristanKenney.com.
Confirmed: Windows 7 RTM out by July 13th
Microsoft's next major OS will be here soon. I'd suggest pre-ordering it, as right now you save at least 50% by pre-ordering now.
See the original post at Tech-Mania.com. Head over to NewEgg.com to preorder Windows 7.
Sysinternals Process Explorer
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Perhaps one of the coolest, free programs available to revamp your Task Manager is available from Sysinternals, a sub-division of Microsoft.
It enables you to see a tree-view of running programs (especially helpful when trying to understand, perhaps, why a program keeps restarting itself?), as well as viewing of the command lines that start programs.
For power users, this enables you to really take control of the operation of your computer, and more importantly, fine tune what should be running and what shouldn't.
If you're a Task Manager addict, this is one replacement that is worth the minimial effort installing.
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