I just happened to stumble across this little article and thought I should share it with you, call it a gimmick, or just a neat email address, or both, it still boasts free 2GB of storage.

I’m proud to present that Bink.nu in colaboration with Windows Live Mail provides free 2 Gigabyte mailboxes for its members. I managed to get this very special domain name vista.aero and I’m sharing it with you!

This can also be your primary Windows Live Messenger ID!

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Microsoft moves Windows to a different continent to further mute all details about the platform.

Asphyxiated under Sinofsky’s Windows Omerta, the Redmond company is not breathing a single word about the future of Windows XP and Windows Vista, and the whole of the Windows platform for that matter. But Redmond is no longer the sole epicenter of the Windows operating system. Apparently, Microsoft has exported its Windows projects to India.

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NOD32 by Eset is a lightweight, feature packed Anti-Virus application that has low impact on your computer resources. It has the highest performance and detection rate than any other Anti-Virus software on the market today with 2% to 5% more performance, and a detection rate of 85%, as tested by VirusBulletin. NOD32 has advanced and reliable detection of Polymorphic and Metamorphic Viruses, Worms, Trojans and Malware, and consists of AMON, IMON, EMON and DMON.

• AMON: A memory-resident scanner which means it scans files before they are accessed.
• IMON: An internet monitor which scans internet browsing and email, and detects malicious code before it has time to access your hard drive.
• EMON: An email monitor which scans your incoming / outgoing emails as they are sent / received.
• DMON: Scans Microsoft Office documents, and areas of Internet Explorer.

NOD32 not only covers Anti-Virus for Workstations, but also for File and Mail Servers. It is an extremely versatile, easy to use Anti-Virus application.

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Mozilla Firefox - faster, more secure, easier to use and sporting a new look, this latest Firefox release sets a new standard for web browser innovation. Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla’s browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows.

Download: Windows | Linux | Mac OS | Other OS & Languages
View: Release Notes | Mozilla Firefox Homepage
Source: Flexbeta

You think your broadband provider is expensive, try US$3,355 per month for a 1.5Mbps DSL connection. Welcome to the internet in Kazakhstan. With DSL prices like these, it’s no wonder Borat left Kazakhstan behind! A new report from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (PDF) paints a grim picture of Internet access in Kazakhstan and shows how difficult life can be for those in poor and authoritarian countries who want to join the worldwide community of Internet users.

Consider the prices for Internet access, for one. Most users (and only four percent of the country even has access) hook up through state-owned Kazakhtelecom, a company not concerned with competitive pricing for its services. An unlimited dial-up plan costs about €82 (US$111) in a country where the average monthly wage is €292 (US$399). As for DSL, an unlimited 1.5Mbps connection costs €2,458 (US$3,355) a month, and doesn’t even included the required ADSL modem. Want a 6Mbps cable connection? It’ll cost you, to the tune of €16,144 (US$22,032) a month. As the OSCE report drily notes, this is more than a thousand times the price of such a connection in Western Europe.

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Source: Ars Technica via Neowin

Microsoft has finally outlined the extent to which Windows Vista was unfit for the marketplace when it launched six months ago.

A mere 650 applications were certified for Vista when it launched, compared to 2,000 now. Seventy “critical” enterprise applications from corporate mainstays such as Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, McAfee, Citrix Systems, Oracle, SAP and IBM are “being resolved daily.” On hardware, 600,000 devices have been certified in the six months since launch, now making Windows Vista compatible with 2.1 million devices.

The numbers were offered by chief operating officer Kevin Turner, who tried to rally Wall Street analysts to the Microsoft flag of software - including Windows Vista - plus services.

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Source: The Register via Flexbeta

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine. It features a command line interface for scanning files, updating the virus definitions, and a daemon for faster scanning needed on high performance systems.
ClamWin Free Antivirus For Windows is a completely free and open source anti-virus software package. It uses the GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation.

Changes:

• Added unpackers for NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) self-extracting archives and ASPack 2.12
• Improved handling of PE and UPX
• Many other bug fixes and improvements
• Fixed duplicate database loading in certain cases

Download: ClamWin Free AntiVirus 0.91.1
View: ClamWin Homepage

µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients.

Download: µTorrent v1.7.2.3458 | Language Pack | Help (Freeware)
View: Changelog | µTorrent Homepage
Source: MSFN

Firefox is an award winning preview of next generation browsing technology from mozilla.org. Firefox empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period. Built with Tab browsing, popup blocking and a number of other seamless innovations, Firefox stands out ahead.

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µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients.

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