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In the last few days, certain Neowin forum members have reported that an image of Vista SP1 x86 Final has leaked to torrent sites. This file is supposedly a slipstreamed image of the final Service...

· Jan 28, 2008 · Hot! with 54 comments

We really wish we had a better understanding of the Oblivion PSP game (formally known as The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion) but we still don't get it. We saw the first nugget in OPM in...

· Jan 18, 2008 · Hot! with 6 comments

A log-in problem that shut many users out of Skype's popular VoIP service for nearly 14 hours appears to be over, but the company said more work remains to be done. At 3:53 a.m. GMT,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Aug 17, 2007 · Hot! with 15 comments

Microsoft released a non-security update for Internet Explorer 7 two weeks before the next patch day, and urged Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users to download and install the fix if they notice the...

Steven Parker · Feb 2, 2007 · Hot! with 9 comments

Buzz about a Windows Vista zero-day vulnerability is troubling enough (although probably overblown). Now, there appears to be a second product activation hack, this one designed to fool the activation timer into not counting down....

Daniel Fleshbourne · Dec 28, 2006 · Hot! with 75 comments

The business launch of Windows Vista is only a few days behind us and already the attempts to pirate Windows Vista are underway. Recently I stumbled on news of a rogue KMS servers that...

Steven Parker · Dec 4, 2006 · Hot! with 62 comments

Microsoft appears to have published Office 2007 and Vista keys to Select licenced customers. Along with the keys is a download entitled "Windows Vista Enterprise English Disk Kit MVL ISO CD". It's not quite clear...

Tom Warren · Nov 2, 2006 · Hot! with 54 comments

Early feedback from testers already using Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is that the OS is more stable than expected, which bodes well for Microsoft's plan to have Vista out according to its current...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Sep 7, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Security analysts have detected a new piece of malware that appears to run as a Microsoft program used to detect unlicensed versions of its operating system. The malware has been classified as a worm and...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jun 30, 2006 with -1 comments

The first virus for StarOffice, Virus.StarOffice.Stardust.a, was discovered yesterday. While only a proof of concept, meaning it has not been used for malicious purposes, this may be a reminder that nobody is 100% safe in...

Christopher Vendemio · May 30, 2006 with -1 comments

The TweakVista website has released it's tweak for Beta 1, allowing testers to use unsupported cards. TweakVista™ is the worlds first tweaking utility written specifically for the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista™ operating system...

Steven Parker · Jul 28, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

The proof-of-concept threat is not spreading in the wild, and it only affects 64-bit Windows systems. Symantec Security Response has revealed that it has analyzed the first 64-bit Windows attack code. The attack...

· May 27, 2004 with -1 comments

Nintendo's new handheld games console will ship in the Autumn, the company will announce today. However, the videogame pioneer couldn't wait to see its new baby in print, so offered the story early...

· May 11, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

Microsoft Corp. appeared to have survived the worst the MyDoom worm could throw at it Tuesday. Experts say the virus, a variant of the MyDoom.A virus that knocked out another company's Web site Sunday, was...

· Feb 3, 2004 with -1 comments

WHILE INTEL'S 90 nano technology is fine and dandy, the next generation Prescott engine is still not ticking over as well as it might, according to my emoles inside the chip giant. The emoles tell...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Dec 5, 2003 with -1 comments

The first of the season's 9/11 anniversary worms has been detected by security firms this week, and more are likely to follow. The worm, dubbed W32/Neroma@MM and Worm/Icebut.A by security vendors, typically...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Sep 6, 2003 with -1 comments

Dell Computer is offering an unannounced 3.06-GHz Xeon processor from Intel for Precision workstations on its Web site. The chip features a 533-MHz front-side bus and Intel's hyperthreading technology, which enables a user to execute...

· Feb 6, 2003 with -1 comments

THE FIRST SIGHTING of a Canterwood-based Intel motherboard which will support the Prescott processor and have an 800MHz system bus has leaked on to the world wide web. The board, the PS88-EA, will support 800MHz,...

· Jan 20, 2003 with -1 comments