Windows XP
Microsoft once again extended the life of Windows XP considering popularity of the still most wanted OS for notebook computers. Windows XP, the best MS OS ever in my opinion, was supposed of dead by 30 January 2008, but Microsoft reprieved it to last one more year. The current announced life span is till 30 Jan 2009, but BBC news reports it will be available till 30 May 2009.
This move once again prove that even with all those record breaking sales Windows Vista is still lagging behind the usability and performance of it’s predecessor. This move will off course affect the resellers who over stocked the Windows XP licenses to sell them when the office source is dried on 20th of Jan 2008. Now they will have to wait till May to release those licenses.
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Microsoft officially announced the closure of it’s SLIPS suite, a set of tools for adding licensing and demo features to your .NET applications. The blame goes to low ROI. Off course the competition in application licensing and innovative ideas of other vendors should attributed to this decision.
The official announcement goes like this:
As of September 23, Microsoft has stopped selling SLP Services. Many ISVs still use home grown software protection solutions, and the return on investment in this area is less than we hoped for. We will continue to create and improve our own internal licensing and protection technologies, but we will no longer be selling any such solutions externally.
Over the last several months the team has done a lot of work to understand the long-term opportunity for the SLPS business and establish its viability as a Microsoft investment. It has become very clear that the opportunity is much smaller than we originally calculated. While the SLPS team did great work on the latest release, the sales haven’t increased to the point where we believe it needs to be.
No more new customers, but the existing customers will be supported probably till the end of the product life. So RIP SLIPS, we are looking forward for alternatives.
Microsoft unveiled the next installment of it’s leading developer tools and development platform. The Visual Studio 2010 ( code named “Rosario”) and .NET Framework 4.0 promises all new frontiers for developers and end users. The announcement was made at PDC which proclaims and all new simplified application life-cycle management ( ALM) and core architectural improvements to cope with tomorrow’s client/server/cluster model application development requirements.
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Most of you are aware of the rumors on further delays in the Windows XP SP3 public release date. But all in a sudden a news post in the Neowin forums stir a debate on the fact the SP3 is already RTMed! It all started with someone who noticed the Windows XP SP3 RTM ( Release-To-Manufacturing) date as 31st March 2008 in the Windows XP Support Live Cycle Page at Microsoft.com.
The page states General Availability Date of XP SP3 is 31/03/2008 meaning it may well have RTM’d already but the software giant has not made an official public announcement.
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It is said that you should upgrade with time… But here is a place, where people are ready to Downgrade.
See this pic, which I got, while Stumbling.. It must have been the banner outside some computer retail shop.
We Remove VISTA, We Install XP… We Repair Notebooks
Needless to explain, this is for those ‘unlucky’ guys, who got Vista pre-installed on their notebooks and are now fed-up just like me. Why I am fed up can be explained here… at an earlier post.
Now, what this image explains?? This is just showing the number of people who are fed-up of Microsoft’s Latest Operating System, Windows Vista and the demand for getting rid of it in the market.