Neowin News Feed for: Week

Reminder: Windows 7 beta download ends this week

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:51:44 +0000

Just a reminder to everyone that as we reported earlier, the general availability of Windows 7 Beta program is ending this week. Starting from Feb 10th (12am Pacific Time), there wont be... Read more...

Microsoft to release IE8 RC1 next week

Tom Warren — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:14:37 +0000

Microsoft is currently readying the release of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 for early next week, company sources indicate. In a blog posting by Microsoft's Frank Olivier, the UX and Compatibility program manager confirms "we're... Read more...

Windows worm hits 8.9 million PCs in past week

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:25:43 +0000

A windows worm named Conficker or Downadup or Kido (as called by various anti-virus vendors) which targets unpatched networks and poor passwords has been reported to have affected 2.4 million machines to over 8.9 million... Read more...

News Round-up for week ending December 7th

Steven Parker — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:43:42 +0000

This week we'll be revisiting some of the more popular stories that were viewed and commented on, in-case you missed them the first time around. This week saw new Windows 7 information hit the... Read more...

Neowin news round-up for week ending 10 Aug

Steven Parker — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:49:55 +0000

You may of had difficulty getting to Neowin over the past week due to our server changes and DNS update. Hopefully all of that will be resolved by the middle of next week when our... Read more...

Four Microsoft security patches due next week

Steven Parker — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:47:37 +0000

Microsoft plans to fix critical bugs in its Word, Publisher, and Jet database software next week. The software vendor also plans to release a less-critical update for its antivirus products, fixing a flaw that attackers... Read more...

Microsoft To Release XP SP3 Next Week

Steven Parker — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:22:12 +0000

Now that Windows Vista service pack 1 has been released, all eyes have shifted to Microsoft's plans for Windows XP service pack 3, the final package of updates for the trusty OS. And, according to... Read more...

Vista SP1 gold bits on track for this week

Steven Parker — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:20:51 +0000

After both public and private betas galore, Microsoft is set to make the final, gold Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 bits available, most likely this week. Last week, I've been getting reports of SP1... Read more...

Nielsen: Sales at 85% Blu-ray and 15% HD DVD for Last Week

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:35:11 +0000

We all knew the Warner announcement would do a lot of damage, and now the statistics to back up those predictions are here. According to the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales numbers for last week,... Read more...

Wikia Search Goes Online Next Week

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:50:13 +0000

Wikia co-founder and chairman Jimmy Wales announced the public will get its first view of Wikia Search, an open source, community-driven search engine, on January 7. Wales admits his company's search engine is not an... Read more...

Mozilla scrambles to patch Firefox for second time this week

Steven Parker — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:59:16 +0000

Mozilla Corp. will probably release a Firefox update tomorrow to patch a bug in the just-released 2.0.0.10 version, according to the company's bug database. If so, it would mark the first time that Mozilla has... Read more...

Microsoft Sells 310,000 Xbox 360s During Black Friday Week

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:49:22 +0000

Coming on the heels of Nintendo of America's announcement of its best North American sales week ever -- with 350,000 Wiis and 653,000 Nintendo DSes sold -- a CNBC report states that Microsoft has announced... Read more...

Vista SP1 Release Candidate expected next week

Steven Parker — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:45:21 +0000

Microsoft is looking to release the Release Candidate (RC) test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 to selected testers the week of December 1, according to sources close to the company. Microsoft's plan... Read more...

Firefox vulnerability fix available next week

Steven Parker — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:03:00 +0000

Mozilla is set to release a Firefox bugfix next week, repairing a long-standing security flaw in the software. The 2.0.0.10 update is in testing right now and should be released to the public next week.... Read more...

Microsoft's OneCare 2.0 due next week

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:06:00 +0000

Microsoft plans to release a major update to its Windows Live OneCare security suite next week, according to online retailer Amazon.com. Amazon has already begun accepting orders for OneCare 2.0, which it says will ship... Read more...

Microsoft: Just a pair of security updates coming next week

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:54:05 +0000

Security administrators should have a pretty easy time of it next Tuesday as Microsoft says it will issue just two updates in its monthly security software release. Microsoft said Thursday that next week's updates will... Read more...

Microsoft schedules seven patches for next week

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:56:44 +0000

Next Patch Tuesday, Microsoft plans to release seven security updates for: Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Word, and SharePoint – four of the seven will be rated critical, Microsoft's highest ranking, while the remainder will... Read more...

Halo 3: Over $300 million in one week

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:31:25 +0000

Interactive entertainment will never be the same, with the launch of one title that has changed the way the world thinks about video games. "Halo® 3" has captured the attention of consumers worldwide and has... Read more...

Shift Linux 0.5 RC-1 To Be Released This Week

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:53:19 +0000

Shift Linux is a project that was created by the Neowin community. Shift is Debian based, therefore it has access to all of the software and applications as other Debian distributions. Neowin's Shift Linux is... Read more...

Microsoft Plans Nine Security Updates for Next Week

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:17:16 +0000

Microsoft Corp. will release nine sets of security patches next week, including six critical updates for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and its Visual Basic development software. The updates will come as part of Microsoft's regular... Read more...

Microsoft to release six security updates next week

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:19:43 +0000

Microsoft will release six groups of security patches next week, fixing bugs in the latest versions of Excel, Windows XP, Vista, and Windows Server 2003. Online criminals will typically e-mail the victim with a maliciously... Read more...

Microsoft to release four critical patches next week

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:30:00 +0000

Microsoft has announced plans to issue four "critical" security bulletins next week that address vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Windows Mail in Vista. "Critical" is the most severe ranking Microsoft assigns to... Read more...

Xbox Live stats for the week of April 16th

Todd Tanner — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:26:13 +0000

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (UU's) 1 Gears of War2 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas3 Guitar Hero II4 Call Of Duty 35 GRAW 26 Boom Boom Rocket7 Crackdown8 Oblivion9 Pro Evolution Soccer 610 Madden... Read more...

Luxor 2 finally hitting Xbox Live Arcade this week

Todd Tanner — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:34:15 +0000

Luxor 2, the Egyptian-themed casual game, will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday, at 2:00 am PST. Luxor 2 combines the pick-up-and-play fun of games like Zuma with the mystique of ancient Egypt.... Read more...

Rare's Jetpac Refuelled coming to Xbox Live Arcade next week

Todd Tanner — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:14:20 +0000

Jetpac Refuelled, a remastering of Rare's first game, is coming to Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday, March 28. Created in 1983 under Rare's early company name of Ultimate Play the Game, Jetpac puts you in the... Read more...

Palm takeover expected this week

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:30:21 +0000

Nokia and up to three other potential bidders are interested in buying Palm Incorporated, which could be sold for some $2 billion as early as this week. Based on unidentified sources, Unstrung.com believes Palm’s management... Read more...

Vista lifts PC sales by 67% in its first week

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:13:40 +0000

Research firm Current Analysis Incorporated has concluded that Windows Vista spurred a 67% increase in personal computer sales at U.S. retail stores in its first week (ending Saturday) on the market. In terms of units... Read more...

Premium Vista PCs fare well in first week

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:39:22 +0000

Microsoft's wish that consumers purchase the premium versions of Windows Vista rather than the most basic version of the OS may be coming true, according to the findings of a research report released Thursday. Research... Read more...

PlayStation 3 has Worst Week of Sales since Launch (Japan)

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:15:03 +0000

Media Create Co. has compiled a set of data from around 3,000 shops across Japan, extrapolated that into national sales estimates for the week ending January 14 and published figures this Friday. Overall the entire... Read more...

Boogs Strange News of the Week

Steven Parker — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:31:15 +0000

BOOGSoftball has posted up one of his famous Strangenews of the week on his blog, absent from the front page for quite a while we think it's a perfect round-up to recent events of 2006... Read more...

Major Steam Update Next Week

Todd Tanner — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:15:57 +0000

Valve shot me off an email a couple of hours ago, telling me that a major update was coming for the Steam service sometime next week. According to the email this was a significant update,... Read more...

Steam WWII Week Begins Today!

Todd Tanner — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:21:41 +0000

Mr. Doug Lombardi from Valve just sent over a little press release, so here it is for all of you to enjoy: World War II Week begins today on Steam with new product,... Read more...

Top 10 Best Selling PC Games Week Ending Nov. 18th

Todd Tanner — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:29:16 +0000

Here we go again, yet another NPD Group Top 10 Best Selling list, this time for the week ending November 18th. World of Warcraft is still in there, as are the obligatory The Sims 2... Read more...

Top 10 Best Selling PC Games Week Ending Nov. 4th

Todd Tanner — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:12:00 +0000

Here we go again, NPD's top selling PC games for the week ending November 4th. You'll notice something amazing this go round, World of Warcraft is not in the top 3 this week! The end... Read more...

Top 10 Best Selling PC Games for the week of October 15-21

Todd Tanner — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:57:21 +0000

Yes, its that time of the week again. The NPD Group has released the newest Top 10 list for PC games (and consoles of course, not listed here though) in the US and guess who... Read more...

Nvidia GeForce 8800 specs a week before launch

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:51:25 +0000

Sources in Taiwan again confirmed that Nvidia's upcoming GPU (graphics processing unit) GeForce 8800 (formerly codenamed G80) is designed to fully support Microsoft's DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0 technology. Nvidia is scheduled to officially launch... Read more...

Top 10 Best Selling PC Games for the week of October 8-14

Todd Tanner — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:57:34 +0000

I might start making this a weekly thing when the Top 10's are announced. So here are the Top 10 best selling games for the week of October 8th through the 14th. There are a... Read more...

Top 10 Best Selling PC Games for the Week of October 7th

Todd Tanner — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:12:54 +0000

Once again, even though I don't do it every week or two, here is the NPD Groups list of the Top 10 best selling PC games for the week of October 7th. Notice what game... Read more...

Microsoft's Allchin: Windows Vista won't RTM next week

Steven Parker — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:14:59 +0000

Thanks Steve from bink.nu. I guess that settles that! Windows Vista is not ready to RTM next week, we'll all have to wait just a little longer after all. Vista is not on track to... Read more...

US Top 10 PC Game Chart for the week of Sept. 17-23

Todd Tanner — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:21:25 +0000

After 200 years or so as the top selling game in the Universe, World of Warcraft has taken a backseat to a newcomer on the block. The Sims 2, which has sold more copies than... Read more...