Windows 7 Family Pack Licence ?

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My friend Kristen Kenny has uncovered an interesting licensing clause for Windows 7 Home Premium known as a “Family Pack” licence. This licence allows a single copy of Windows 7 Home Premium on up to 3 computers in a single household.

Below is a quote from the licence terms from the latest build of Windows 7 Home Premium.

2. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.
a. One Copy per Computer. Except as allowed in Section 2 (b) below, you may install one copy of the software on one computer. That computer is the “licensed computer.”

b. Family Pack. If you are a “Qualified Family Pack User”, you may install one copy of the software marked as “Family Pack” on three computers in your household for use by people who reside there. Those computers are the “licensed computers” and are subject to these license terms. If you do not know whether you are a Qualified Family Pack User, visit go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?Linkid=141399 or contact the Microsoft affiliate serving your country.

c. Licensed Computer. You may use the software on up to two processors on the licensed computer at one time. Unless otherwise provided in these license terms, you may not use the software on any other computer.

d. Number of Users. Unless otherwise provided in these license terms, only one user may use the software at a time.

e. Alternative Versions. The software may include more than one version, such as 32-bit and 64-bit. You may install and use only one version at one time.

I personally find this potentially useful and hope the idea does bare fruit to allow me to cheaply upgrade my family to Windows 7 Home Premium at Christmas 🙂

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 released

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The first major version of Firefox since 3.0 was released today as predicted by Neowin.net

So what’s new in 3.5? According to the release notes they are

  • Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
  • Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey javascript engine.
  • The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
  • Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
  • Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
  • Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5, ‘video’ and ‘audio’ elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, javascript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

You can download the the new version from Mozilla’s website

Microsoft Outlines Windows 7 “Upgrade Option Program” for OEM PC’s

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Microsoft has officially announced the Windows 7 “Upgrade Option Program” for Home and Small Businesses when they purchase a qualifying computer with Windows Vista from June 26th.

Under the program, designated PCs pre-installed with “premium versions” of Windows Vista will qualify for licenses of the equivalent Windows 7 product.

“There is a lot of excitement for Windows 7 in the marketplace today. However, many consumers need a new Windows PC for school, work or home before October 22,” said Brad Brooks, corporate vice president, Windows consumer marketing at Microsoft. “So starting June 26th, any customer who buys a PC from a participating computer maker or retailer with Windows Vista Home Premium, Business or Ultimate will also receive an upgrade to the corresponding version of Window 7 at little or no cost.”

Under the Windows 7 Upgrade Option program, the following Windows Vista versions will correspond to the following Windows 7 upgrade equivalents:

Windows Vista Home Premium -> Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows Vista Business -> Windows 7 Professional
Windows Vista Ultimate -> Windows 7 Ultimate

Computers pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Basic are not eligible for the “Upgrade Option Program”.

Top Gear’s Stig to be unveiled Tonight

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“The Stig” from Top Gear is scheduled to be unveiled in Tonight’s Top Gear on BBC Two.

Jeremy Clarkson witting in his column in today’s Sun Newspaper say’s Stig’s identity would be a "staggering surprise" to viewers.

I personally can’t wait to see who The Stig really is. Top gear is on BBC Two at 8pm.

Source story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8111588.stm

Microsoft set to beta Microsoft Security Essentials June 23

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According to Neowin.net the successor to Windows Live OneCare known as Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is due to hit Beta form next week starting on June 23rd.

The free anti-virus / anti-spyware solution will begin with a limited beta and will release an updated build over the Summer. Microsoft is initially targeting the first 75,000 US, Israel and Brazil based customers with a Chinese Beta available in mid-July.

Neowin have also learned that Microsoft is targeting September or at the latest to have the anti-virus software available for the October 22 Windows 7 launch.

Similar to the Windows 7 beta it is likely the company will expand the offering to meet demand.

Below is a screenshot of the MSE Beta.

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Iran gets caught photoshopping, again

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The country of Iran recently held elections that many are saying were rigged and that their votes did not count. The current winner and previous term president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who acts more as a dictator than a freely elected politician has been brought to Internet justice with the photoshopped picture below.

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What you clearly see is that someone in Ahmadinejad’s regime altered the picture below to make a crowd supporting the outcome look much larger thus showing greater support for his following.

This is not the first time Ahmadinejad has been caught Photoshopping either. In July of 2008 a missile test in Iran was Photoshopped to show that four missiles were successfully launched when it was actually three or possibly two missiles.

It’s a sad state of affairs for Iran that it must go to these lengths to try and persuade the world that this was a true election. Despite the fact that millions of votes were supposedly counted in two hours and a fake photo showing support of the "winner" are signs of forgery the people of Iran are the ones who lost the most.

Source: Neowin.net

An inside look at Facebook’s New HQ “The Bunker”

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Facebook recently moved to a new campus previously owned by HP in California.

TechCrunch were lucky to get inside the new campus to see the new working environment. The HQ is in Palo Alto and is 15,000 square feet. The company used to base it’s HQ across a collection of buildings but as the company has grown the need for a campus increased and now all employees have moved to the new base nicknamed “The Bunker”.

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For more photos check out TechCrunch’s article.