Upgrade Planning For Microsoft Windows Vista

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You can upgrade from your current edition of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000 to a corresponding or better edition of Windows Vista by purchasing and installing an upgrade copy of Windows Vista. Depending on which edition of Windows you are running and the edition of Windows Vista you would like to install, you have two options for the installation process:

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Windows Genuine Advantage: When a 'False Positive' isn't a false positive

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Recently I've been hearing questions from journalists, other bloggers and customers about what exactly makes systems fail validation. Specifically, I have been asked for two things. First, a breakdown of the kinds of piracy that are detected by WGA and which are the most common. And second, what is the rate of ?false positives? with WGA (falsely identifying a copy of Windows as counterfeit)?

The People Behind DirectX 10: Part 4?Game Developers

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New graphics standards are useless if developers don't make use of them, though. In our final installment on the people behind DirectX 10, we speak with the developers of Hellgate: London, Crysis, Flight Simulator X, and Age of Conan.

Virtual PC Is Now Free

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Whether Microsoft virtualization technology is an important component of your existing infrastructure or you're just a Virtual PC enthusiast, you can now download Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 absolutely free.

Windows Media Encoder Studio Edition beta 1

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Windows Media Encoder Studio Edition Beta 1 is an exciting new addition to the Windows Media tools family. It is a powerful tool for video professionals, optimized for the creation of high-quality offline encoding using Microsoft?s implementation of the VC-1 video standard (WMV9).

Windows98 SE unofficial Service Pack 2.1a

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Microsoft has never released a service pack for Windows98 SE! So here it is; the 'unofficial Service Pack 2.1a'. It contains all Windows98 SE updates from Windows Update site and more integrated into a self-extracting and self-installing pack like Microsoft's update files.

The People Behind DirectX 10: Part 2--ATI's Bob Drebin

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In the first part of our feature on the people behind DX10, we chatted with Microsofties about how the API was made. In this part, we focus on the hardware implementation as we pose questions to ATI's CTO, PC Business Group, Bob Drebin.