Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4 billion

Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation announced today they have entered into an agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, with Oracle purchasing Sun stock with cash for $9.50 per share, a premium of nearly $3 per share over previous market value. Sun’s stock (JAVA) jumped nearly 33% [...]

Windows XP Piracy Badgering Set To Begin

Microsoft this week plans to update the Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy mechanism for Windows XP Professional, which the software giant claims is the most oft-pirated version of Windows. After the update, WGA notifications for XP will be the same as they are for Windows Vista service pack 1, said Alex Kochis, senior product manager in [...]

Don’t slipstream XP SP3 on Windows Vista!

This just in from Bink, seems he had a pretty interesting weekend attempting to Slipstream XP SP3. “So I build a new Windows XP ISO with SP3 integrated, this is a Volume License editions (VOL) which only accepts Volume License Keys (VLK). When I want to install it on a clean machine, I noticed that [...]

Windows XP SP3 Release Dates

With Service Pack 3 for Windows XP just over the horizon, we’ve managed to get our hands on the internal schedule for the release of the highly anticipated update to the aging operating system. As you can see in the list below, most of the stages will occur before the end of the month, though [...]

Dot Net Framework 1,2,3,3.5 – Silent Installations

Microsoft Dot Net Framework 1.0 Redistribuable http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms994395.aspx Microsoft Dot Net Framework 1.1 Redistribuable http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms994356.aspx Microsoft Dot Net Framework 2.0 Redistribuable http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480242.aspx Microsoft Dot Net Framework 3.0 Redistribuable http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480198.aspx Microsoft Dot Net Framework 3.5 Bootstrapper :. Download Page Microsoft Dot Net Framework 3.5 Redistributable :. Download Page Microsoft Dot Net Framework 3.5 Full Package :. Download [...]

Developer Shipped Backdoor Hack With G-Archiver for GMail

A serious Gmail account hacking backdoor, has been found in the popular Gmail archiving software G-Archiver. This application, in all its innocence, allows you to download and backup all emails from your GMail account. But apparently the developer included the code to send an email to his email ID with all usernames and passwords! G-Archiver [...]

Microsoft Office Live Workspace Now Available to Everyone

Microsoft Corp. today announced the public availability of Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta, the new Web-based extension of Microsoft Office that lets people access their documents online and share their work with others. Office Live Workspace was among the first entries in the new wave of online services in Microsoft’s software plus services vision previewed [...]

Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs

Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs By Suzanne Tindal Special to CNET News.com Published: February 21, 2008, 6:19 AM PST Microsoft has published a list of programs that will not work or that will suffer from reduced functionality after the installation of Vista Service Pack 1. The list of programs consists mostly of security [...]

Vista SP1 Offers Power Efficiency Enhancements

Most if not all the attention surrounding Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been around performance, reliability and compatibility, but you probably didn’t know SP1 also makes short strides in terms of Vista’s power efficiency. And by short, I really do mean short because we’re talking about improvements in the magnitude of only a couple [...]

Vista Update Fingers Activation Cracks

Microsoft has announced an update available to consumers next week which will detect two cracks commonly used to activate pirated copies of the operating system. One of the cracks refered to as Grace Timer, extended Vista’s activation grace period, upto 2099. The other called as OEM BIOS, modified system files and the PC’s BIOS to [...]