Neowin News Feed for: Preps

Microsoft preps emergency IE patch for Wednesday release

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:30:27 +0000

Microsoft Corp. announced today that it will issue an emergency patch tomorrow to quash a critical Internet Explorer bug that attackers have been exploiting for more than a week. The advance warning came less than... Read more...

Microsoft preps Live Hotmail refresh

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:51:03 +0100

Microsoft has been doing a lot this week to help boost the image of the future for their Live services, along with the recently released "wave 3" of Windows Live utilities, Microsoft has sent an... Read more...

Microsoft preps four Office patches

Steven Parker — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:28:27 +0000

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Microsoft is planning at least four security updates this week in its Patch Tuesday release for March. The security update will address four vulnerabilities, all of which have been given Microsoft's highest alert level of... Read more...

Microsoft preps StartKey: A 'Windows companion' on USB stick

ThomMcK — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:58:58 +0000

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It looks like Microsoft are getting closer to putting Windows onto a portable USB Flash drive. The All About Microsoft blog has news an an upcoming Microsoft Start Key. It is the same kind of... Read more...

MS preps critical Vista patch for Tuesday

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:19:00 +0000

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Microsoft plans to issue two security patches next Tuesday, one of which earns the dreaded rating of critical, in this year's first edition of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle. The critical update covers a... Read more...

AMD preps DirectX 10.1 'Radeon HD 3600' GPU pair

EL1TE — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:53:14 +0000

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AMD is expected to launch the successor to its ATI Radeon HD 2600 in January, and now the two new parts' speed details have emerged. Graphics card maker sources cited by DigiTimes point two versions... Read more...

AMD Preps Integrated DirectX 10 Platform for Early 2008

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:48:45 +0100

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Advanced Micro Devices plans to update its family of chipsets with built-in DirectX 10-compliant graphics cores in January, 2008, sources with knowledge of the matter revealed. The new products will help AMD to offer more... Read more...

Intel Preps Dual-Core Celeron Microprocessors

Slimy — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:55:10 +0100

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Multi-core chips are sweeping the processor market and single cores are becoming harder and harder to find. This trend is about to go through the roof while prices plummet to the basement. With affordability as... Read more...

Linspire Preps Impending Software Updates

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:38:36 +0100

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It's a bit later than Linspire had planned, but the company's CEO Kevin Carmony told DesktopLinux that the new commercial version of its Linux distribution, Linspire 6.0, along with the free version, Freespire 2.0, and... Read more...

Microsoft Preps Business Antivirus, Antispyware Product

Slimy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:03:37 +0100

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Speaking at a technology event near Amsterdam, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Forefront Client Security, Microsoft's antivirus and antispyware product for business desktops that has been in development since 2003, will be available "in... Read more...

AMD preps PCI Express 2.0 'RV630' GPU for May?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:35:13 +0000

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May will see the arrival of AMD's 'RV630' graphics chip, it has been claimed, and the company has prepared three reference card designs for the part - two of which will support PCI Express 2.0,... Read more...

Microsoft Preps Windows Server Beta Three

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:06:17 +0000

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Microsoft is expected to release a beta three version of its next Windows Server, code-named Longhorn, as a community technology preview (CTP) in early March, industry sources say. The upcoming CTP would be the first... Read more...

Toshiba Preps 2GB NAND Flash Memory Chips

Slimy — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:59:27 +0000

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In April 2007, Toshiba will begin selling NAND flash memory chips capable of holding up to 2GB of data. 2GB? Why is this a big deal? Patience my friend, I'm getting to that. The 2GB... Read more...

NVIDIA Preps 320MB GeForce 8800 GTS

Slimy — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:32:38 +0000

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The GeForce 8 Series is starting to take shape as NVIDIA continues to release information on new graphic card models to its many partners. A 320MB derivative of the GeForce 8800 GTS product should be... Read more...

Neil Young Preps iTunes Video "Treat"

MonkeyClaw — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:30:15 +0100

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iTunes users in the US will be able to buy a new version of Neil Young's acerbic 'Living With War' album through the service on US Election Day, 7 November. The album has been... Read more...

Microsoft Preps IE7 Beta Refresh

Steven Parker — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:27:07 +0000

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OnMonday at the Mix '06 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft will issue arefreshed version of Internet Explorer (IE) 7 beta, which the companyis describing as feature complete. The company will also discuss thenext version of... Read more...

ATI Preps First HDMI-HDCP Video Card

stncttr908 — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:12:17 +0000

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Photos have been popping up depicting what appears to be the first true HDMI-HDCP ATI video card, complete with HDMI connector and onboard SPDIF audio jack. This card appears to be HDMI only -... Read more...

Nvidia Preps More GeForce 7 Graphics Chips

malebolgia — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:51:40 +0100

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NVIDIA Corp. may be preparing a new GeForce 7-series graphics processors in addition to already launched GeForce 7800 GTX product, as the firm's unofficial drivers already list a chip code-named G72, which may turn out... Read more...

Microsoft Preps Longhorn Blockbuster for PDC 2005

Steven Parker — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:13:10 +0100

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Thanks neufuse for the heads up on Paul Thurrott's article which takes us through his expectations of the PDC 2005 event in September. No one was more disappointed in the Longhorn content... Read more...

Intel Preps 3.50GHz Server Chips with 8MB Cache

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:20:31 +0000

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Leading chipmaker Intel Corp. has unwrapped some of its plans concerning the server and workstation processors and chipsets. The main headliners of Intel's pedestal and rack server roadmap – Intel Xeon MP processor code-named Potomac... Read more...