Microsoft and Google to sue government over transparency

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In a blog entry by Microsoft General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs Brad Smith, the company explained how negotiations with the government over permission "…to publish sufficient data relating to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders" have faltered. Both Microsoft and Google will proceed with litigation to seek permission from the FISA court.

Ever since the public disclosure of the NSA's surveillance programs by former contractor Edward Snowden, Microsoft, Google and many other companies have called on the government to allow them to disclose the extent of their cooperation so that customers and foreign governments can make informed decisions about the trustworthiness of the companies' services.

Smith says in the blog that both Microsoft and Google filed suit in June for permission to disclose the information, and they believe they have the clear constitutional right to do so. On 6 occasions the government has asked for extensions from the court before replying to the suit.

According to this order from the FISA court, 5PM today (presumably eastern time, as that is the time of the court's seat) is the current deadline for the current extension. Smith says that Microsoft and Google won't agree to any more extensions.

In part because of the secrecy under which it operates, the court has a reputation as a rubber stamp for government requests, although both the court and government dispute this characterization. Finding for Microsoft and Google, not giving the government the benefit of any doubt, could be a way for the court to assert its independence in a public way.

Today may also be a good day for the government to cave on the Microsoft/Google petition. It's standard procedure, when you want to bury news, to release it on a Friday. Releasing it on the Friday before Labor Day buries it that much deeper.

6 Ways To Free Up Space On Your Windows Computer

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Clutter can be a big downer on productivity, whether it’s your workstation, your home, or your computer. Entropy is the reason why clutter builds up over time, and entropy takes many forms in the context of computers. Files get lost, programs go unused, and little by little various nooks and crannies in your computer are taken up by stray bits of data. Suddenly, your once spacious hard drive is packed with useless things and you have to clean it up. But how?

It’s not enough to delete things left and right. You need to find the big space hogs, identify which ones are worth deleting, and make sure you aren’t causing harm to your system in the process. Fortunately, there are a few methods you can use to maximize space cleaning on your Windows computer. Open up your technical toolbox and add these to your repertoire because they’ll come in handy every few months during your routine clean.

1. Analyze Disk Space

The first thing you want to do is analyze your disks to see which items are taking up the most space and where they’re located. The reasoning for this is simple: if you want to clean up space as much space as you can in the shortest amount of time, the quickest way is to get rid of big sized items.

But the disk analyzer is also useful for finding hidden or forgotten files. Remember those files you downloaded months ago yet couldn’t find where they’d gone? Or maybe you stockpiled a bunch of files that were useful to you a year ago but now mean nothing? Well, they’ve been taking up space all this time. A disk analyzer will tell you that they exist and you can then go ahead and delete them.

For this, I use the program called WinDirStat, which stands for Windows Directory Statistics. It scans your entire system and organizes everything into an easy-to-navigate tree that shows you which folders take up the most space and what items are taking up that space. Hard drive visualization tools like WinDirStat or WizTree make it even easier to see where the big problems lie. I highly recommend it.

2. Clear Temporary Files

Temporary files are exactly what their name implies: files that temporarily useful. This means you can go ahead and delete them without much fear of breaking any critical procedures on your system. Most temporary files are used during program installations (having to unpack all of that data before moving it onto your system) and by browsers (for cache reasons), so it’s pretty safe.

On the topic of browsers, you may want to check out Browser Cleaner. On the one hand, every browser has a built-in option for deleting temporary data like history, downloads, cache, cookies, etc. But with Browser Cleaner, you can clean out more than one browser at a time and all it takes is one button. On top of that, Browser Cleaner can clean application-related temporary data, such as IM logs, program caches, etc. Very easy, very fast, and very convenient.

3. Remove Duplicate Files

I don’t know about you, but there have been many times when I’ve downloaded a file and moved it off to some place for safe keeping only to forget where I’ve put it. Fastforward a few days later and I don’t see the file anywhere, so I download a new copy of it. If this happens a few times – especially if the file is a big size thing, such as the installation file for a large program – then it can really eat up valuable space.

Fortunately, there are a number of tools designed to remove duplicate files in a flash. Check them out, find one that looks like it interests you, download it and give it a go. Deleting duplicate files is a great way to free up lost space, and the best part is that you don’t actually lose any content in the process since they were duplicates. I’m personally favorable towardsdupeGuru.

4. Wipe Unused Feature Space

Did you know that some of the features in Windows, like System Restore and Hibernation, require hard drive space to operate? That’s right. A lot of your hard drive might be eaten up by space that’s been reserved for these features – even if those features haven’t been used in ages.

There are two ways to tweak System Restore: reduce the amount of reserved space OR delete past System Restore points. We’ve answered how to delete system restore pointsbefore, so look there for specific directions on how to do that. Just know that you can save on gigabytes of data with this depending on how much of your computer settings are dedicated to System Restore.

Hibernation, on the other hand, is a system feature that lets you save the state of your computer before you “shut it down,” then restores that state when you “turn it back on.” All of this information is saved to the hibernation system file, which takes up a lot of space. If you disable hibernation and delete that file, you can reclaim that space. For specific instructions, How-To Geek has a post on deleting hiberfil.sys.

Note: Do these system alterations at your own risk. MakeUseOf claims no responsibility if you damage your system in any way. If you aren’t sure of what you’re doing, don’t do it!

5. Upload to Cloud Storage

One of the newer advancements in technology has been the cloud. More importantly, cloud storage. With it, you can upload your files to a server and have them keep it safe and sound so you can free up space on your local hard drive. Most cloud storage services will automatically sync your data between cloud and computer. Just go with a well-known service, like Dropbox or Sugarsync, and there will be minimal risk of losing your files.

One word of warning, though: you may not want to put your sensitive data on a cloud. There’s been a lot of talk recently about security, PRISM, eavesdropping, and all that jazz. If you don’t want anyone – and I mean anyone - reading your data, then don’t upload it to the cloud. Otherwise, feel free to use cloud storage as extended storage or even just as a backup.

6. Uninstall Programs

Of course, don’t forget that you can uninstall programs to free up space. If you have any programs that you haven’t run in years, go ahead and uninstall them, but make sure you have some way of reinstalling them if you ever need them. For web downloaded stuff, don’t fret, but I’m talking about CDs and DVDs for paid software – make sure you still have those before you wipe them from your drive.

While the Windows default uninstaller works fine for most programs, you can try a third party tool like GlarySoft’s Absolute Uninstaller to completely remove all traces of installed software.

Conclusion

Don’t let your computer devolve into a smattering of stray programs and files that clog up your space. If you find yourself always on the verge of running out of disk space, frantically looking for files to delete here and there to tide you over until next week, then maybe you ought to sit down and really clean out some space. These methods and tools will help you there.

What tips and tricks do you use to clean out your computer? Share your thoughts with us in the comments!

4 Tools to Display RSS Feed Updates Directly on Your Windows Desktop

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You used to relax in the morning with a warm cup of coffee, reading your favorite blog, until your life took over and changed everything. You even had time to browse and meander through several of your favorite blogs. Then life happened. You got busy, or you got a promotion, and your mornings transformed into a busy time where you need to race through emails before the workday started. Thankfully, RSS feeds are a savior for the worker – a way to sort of auto-browse all of those headlines without the need to click and read each one.

What you’re suffering from is a condition called “aging”. You have kids, your responsibilities grow, and it seems like the days grow shorter. First, you no longer have time to play those games that you used to love so much. Then, before you know it, you’re losing touch with the news and with headlines from the world around you. It really doesn’t have to be that way though. RSS feeds have been around for ages, and they remain the most popular vehicle for busy people to get the latest news quickly and efficiently.

In this article, I’m going to cover four of the best tools to deliver RSS feed updates directly to your desktop, either through RSS tickers, or from alert boxes that display feed information right inside and scroll automatically. This way, during your workday, you can just glance over at the streaming updates and if a topic catches your eye, you can click on it and bookmark the article to read later, during your lunch break or after work.

News RSS Ticker

One of my favorite methods to display news RSS feeds, especially on my nice big second screen that I recently purchased, is the scrolling ticker RSS feed display. News RSS Ticker is among the top ticker-tape RSS feed displays out there, thanks to nice large scrolling font, and the fact that it takes up so little of the desktop display space. It is docked at the top and leaves nearly your entire display available for other work.

Adding feeds is as simple as right clicking on the ticker, going to “File” and either importing a feed list file (OPML), or opening individual feeds.

The beauty of this is that you can use the various section feeds from news sites like CNN, and totally tailor the type of news that gets displayed on your desktop RSS ticker tape display.

News RSS Ticker actually comes preloaded with a good-sized list of news feeds from around the web, but if you want to add more, you can also add individual feeds and enable them to display by clicking on the checkbox next to the feed title.

Here’s what the ticker display looks like docked at the top of my desktop display.

It’s simple, easy to read even when sitting back from the screen, and it’ll catch your attention when a particularly interesting headline scrolls across the screen.

Feed Notifier

If ticker displays are not your cup of tea, have no fear, because there are also great desktop feed display tools that present feed content in a different format. One great example of this is Feed Notifier, an RSS feed app that Craig actually reviewed not long ago.

Feed Notifier rests in your taskbar, and you can add feeds to it simply by right clicking on the icon and selecting “Add Feed”.

It’s a tad annoying that you have to add feeds individually – there’s no way to import feed lists – but this is a small drawback to deal with given how useful the app is once you’ve got it loaded up with your favorite feeds.

Feed Notifier actually goes out and identifies the Feed Title and Feed Link details and autofills the next form for you. All you have to do is tweak the polling speed and the display box border color if you want, and then finish the Add Feed wizard.

As you can see below, the feed display box is semi-transparent, and it has forward and reverse controls, so that you can scroll through the feed title list if you want to do it manually. It’s also cool that you can assign a different box border color, depending on the feed that you’re adding.

This is a useful way for you to know which feed you’re looking at when glancing at the screen, just based on the assigned color for that feed.

Desktop Ticker

Back to the very popular ticker format, Desktop Ticker is another one that does it well. Unlike News RSS Ticker, this one has smaller text and takes up a smaller footprint on the desktop. For some, the smaller text and footprint may be preferable. You can add feeds by going to “File” and selecting “Manage Feeds…”

There, you’ll find a list of pre-existing feeds, and to add your own, you just have to paste the URL into the URL field and click “Add”, or click on “Import..” and you can import a list of feeds you might already have.

Just check off the feeds that you want the ticker to display. You can also customize the appearance and location of the ticker in the “Tools” submenu.

Of the two RSS desktop ticker apps, I still like the News RSS Ticker better, but that’s only because I really like big, bold headlines scrolling across the screen. Other people might prefer the clean, small text scrolling across the screen, in which case you’d be better off using Desktop Ticker.

Snackr

I think out of all of the RSS desktop display apps that I’ve ever tried, Snackr is easily one of the best. It’s filled with features, very customizable, and the ticker includes small images as well as text, which is very cool.

Upon installing and launching Snackr (which requires the installation of Adobe AIR Runtime by the way), you’ll see a list of feeds already available in the app. This setup screen is also where you can set up display preferences, and set up – get this – your Google Reader sync. Okay, so maybe they’re one or two updates behind…

Regardless, the ticker display is without a doubt the best out there, with cool news photo icons or logo icons displayed with the article headlines. These really make the ticker display more interesting, and just give the whole thing a much more professional look.

Customizing the ticker is really flexible as well, with the ability to have the ticker display on any of the four sides of the screen, and you can easily tweak things like ticker speed, opacity, the freshness of the feed stories, and much more.

Which RSS Feed App Is The Best?

Of all four desktop RSS feed display options, I think Snackr is my favorite. Snackr has been around for a long time, and I think the reason for that is because it does what it does well, and it lets you use it in whatever way – and wherever on the screen – that suits you best. I love that.

Do you get your news and blog updates from RSS feeds? Do you use any sort of desktop display or alert apps? Share your own tips about how you display RSS feeds on your desktop in the comments section below!

Windows 8 Set To Overtake Mac OS X

Windows 8.1 is all set to take over the computing world, both on desktop PCs and tablets, later this year. And one statistics worth keeping an eye on, in the meantime, is the Windows 8 adoption rate.

Redmond’s current platform, as of right now, continues to be the fourth top operating system in the world. Obviously it is fighting all the various versions of Mac OS X combined, but the latest figures confirm that Microsoft’s modern operating system keeps growing by the day.

And it is all set overtake Apple’s cocktail (OS cocktail, to be exact) to become the top three.

Statistics provided by StatCounter for the month of August indicate that Windows 8 has managed to get even closer to Mac OS X, and if it maintains the same pace, it should surpass Apple’s platform in the coming weeks.

As of this writing, Windows 8 is running 7.02 percent of computers worldwide. Mac OS X still has a little lead, with a combined market share (of all versions currently available) coming in at 7.21 percent.

Windows 7 continues to top the charts — no surprise here — with an absolutely stunning market share of 51.99 percent. Windows XP, the operating system set for retirement in April 2014, takes the second place with no less than 20.58 percent.

SkyDrive Pro: No new name (yet) but now with more storage

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Microsoft is adding more storage for its Office 365 and SharePoint customers to use with SkyDrive Pro.

SkyDrive Pro, despite its name, is not a variant of SkyDrive. It is designed for business file storage -- either in the cloud (SharePoint Online) or on SharePoint 2013 servers -- which users can access from a variety of devices.

Microsoft announced updates to its SkyDrive Pro capabilities on August 27 via a new post to the Office 365 technology blog. The changes:

• Each user now gets 25 GB of SkyDrive Pro storage space (up from 7 GB). This is for both new and existing customers.
• Customers can increase SkyDrive Pro storage quotas for individual users beyond the default 25 GB, to up to 50 GB and 100 GB.
• With the new  "Shared with Me" view, users can more easily find documents others have shared with them.

Other features called out in today's post: An increase in the overall file upload limit in SharePoint Online to 2 GB/file; default recycle-bin retention to 90 days (up from 30); and versioning enabled by default, so the last 10 versions of a document are saved, to prevent inadvertent document deletion or loss.

Microsoft recently decided against fighting Sky Broadcasting Group for the SkyDrive name and officials promised to come up with a new name for SkyDrive. Even though Windows 8.1 was released to manufacturing, there's still no new name announced for SkyDrive yet.

How to find windows password

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If you can find a Microsoft ERD 6.5 boot disk, it can reset the Windows 7 password. It has to match the bit version to work, 32 or 64-bit Windows 7.

ERD comes in 3 versions

5.0 for XP

6.0 for Vista

6.5 for Windows 7

There is an alternate method for Windows 7, all you need is either a Windows 7 install disk, System Repair Disk or WinRE partition on the hard drive.

Use F8 or boot from the disc, once RE loads choose repair your computer, then load Command prompt and run these 2 commands, the second command you will get a prompt to overwrite, say yes.

copy c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\

copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe

Restart the PC, When you reach the LogOn screen hit the Shift key 5 times, a command window will open, Type the following:

net user (type the name of the account) (Type any password)

and hit Enter Key, and when prompted to overwrite, Type Yes, and hit Enter Key again, and close the command window, and log on with the new password you just created.

After that you might want to put the original sticky key file back in its place, so go ahead and boot your PC with the repair CD or USB that you used earlier, and in the command prompt window type the following ( see picture below ):

copy c:\sethc.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe

press Enter, then when prompted to Overwrite, type Yes and hit Enter key again, then close the window, and restart the PC.

People are making professional bets on who will be the next CEO of Microsoft

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Sports betting site Ladbrokes is taking bets on who the next Microsoft CEO will be.

While on the surface (pun intended) it is absolutely ridiculous it is pretty interesting to see who they have as possible favorites. They have put together a list of all the possible contenders for the Microsoft job.

Some of the contenders for the gig are interesting. Stephen Elop of Nokia is in the lead at 5 to 1 (5/1).

Scott Forstall is listed as a 33/1 bet. Current Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is also listed at 33/1.

Too funny, Bill Gates is in at 50/1 while Tim Cook is in at 100/1. How Bizarro would that be? Cook hands over the reins at Apple to Sir Jonathan Ive (40/1) and moves to Microsoft as CEO.

Ok it will never happen.

Here’s the current list below..

Read more: http://www.eyeonwindows.com/#ixzz2dP8EEQIE

Microsoft Celebrates 10th Anniversary Of Skype With Free WiFi For Users

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Ten year anniversaries are always special. And Microsoft wants to make the tenth birthday of Skype even more special by giving away free goodies to every Skype user.

Free goodies in this case being 30 minutes of free WiFi access — two pulses of 15 minutes each — to be used on any of its two million hotspots around the world.

The first version of Skype was launched on August 29, 2003 by five fine people from Estonia, Sweden and Denmark. In the 10 years since, the service has expanded its reach manifolds to become one of the most popular software programs of all time, let alone VoIP service.

Redmond acquire Skype back in October 2011 for $8.5 billion, and since then the technology titan has been busy integrating and expanding the Skype service into many of its products, most recently Outlook.com.

Microsoft detailed the giveaway in a blog post:

“It’s our anniversary, but you get the present. Each and every Skype user will receive, as of today, 30 minutes (two connections of up to 15 minutes each) of free WiFi at any of our two million Skype WiFi partner hotspots. The offer begins at 12:00 AM on August 29 and ends at 12 AM on August 30.”

Additionally, the technology titan has released an interesting new infographic to emphasize the success the VoIP service has recorded all over the world. The image highlights how regular consumers and celebrities both use Skype.

The company claims that Skype now boats more than 300 million connected users, and a third of all international telephone calls now go through Skype. In fact, over the past 10 years its users have spent more than 1.4 trillion minutes using the service.

Happy birthday Skype — wonder what the next 10 years will bring!

Several ways to exiting a Modern UI app in Win 8 .

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Several days ago i saw one of my friend do some work in his laptop . Every time he want to exit the full screen app ,he will send Ctrl+Alt+Del to the machine. Is it the right way? Of course not , the answers are as follows , very easy , but hope to help somebody :

• Use the keyboard. Alt + F4 still works like a charm
• Use the top edge:
  1. Move your mouse or finger to the top of the screen {except for the top left extreme and top right extreme}
  2. Click/tap and drag to bottom of screen. The app will close when you get to the bottom.
• Use the left edge: Bring the cursor in the very top (or bottom) left corner of the screen then move the mouse against the border up (or down). Now you can:
  • Middle click any app to close it.
  • Right click any app to show the contextual menu, with Close being an option.
  • Drag any app left onto the current app, then without releasing bring it to the bottom to close it

Please note that in Windows 8, in some cases apps are not supposed to be closed. This is part of the general Modern UI experience; however, because of popular demand, Microsoft did add this feature in the consumer preview.

See Microsoft's official video on mouse usage in Windows 8 here. Also a good video to watch is the touch video.

Microsoft has begun shipping the Windows 8.1 to makers of PCs

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Microsoft has started sending Windows 8.1 to its hardware manufacturers, hitting the so-called RTM milestone for the much-awaited update to Windows 8.

Both Windows 8.1 for x86 machines and Windows RT 8.1 for ARM-based devices have begun shipping to makers of PCs, tablets and laptops, Microsoft said via a blog Tuesday.

However, commercial and enterprise developers, as well as other IT pros, will have to wait until mid-October to get their hands on the OS update, prompting a chorus of boos from them.

Why the wait

In the past, the RTM release also meant the OS was ready “for broader customer use,” but that’s changed now, in part because the OS has to work with such a broad variety of devices, wrote Microsoft official Antoine Leblond.

“As such, we’ve had to evolve the way we develop and the time in which we deliver to meet customers with the experience they need, want and expect. We’ve had to work closer to our hardware partners than ever before,” he wrote.

Via comments to the blog post, response from developers and enterprise IT customers has been swift and almost entirely negative.

“How are we supposed to test our software for Windows 8.1? The day it will be automatically installed on users’ machines? So we—software developers—can take blame that applications don’t work on Windows 8.1?,” wrote one person.

Another one echoed the sentiment: “Most of us actually want to support Windows 8.1, a lot of us want to get apps ready for the awesome 8.1 features, but we can’t properly do that unless we get the RTM bits before the public gets the Windows 8.1 update.”

In a response to one of the developers commenting on his post, a Microsoft moderator wrote: “We are continuing to put the finishing touches on Windows 8.1 to ensure a quality experience at general availability for (all) customers.”

Meanwhile, Microsoft downplayed the outcry, portraying it as much ado about nothing.

“For developers who want to begin building and testing apps for Windows 8.1, they already have all the tools they need using Visual Studio 2013 Preview and Windows 8.1 Preview,” the company said in an emailed statement.

Windows 8.1 Preview is an earlier version of the OS update that was released at the end of June during the company’s Build developer conference. Visual Studio 2013, the newest version of that application development product, is due to ship before year’s end.

In the statement, Microsoft also said it is moving “to a world of more continuous updates delivered in-product” and that this “rapid release schedule” results in faster access to updates for customers, including developers.

By shipping the OS to hardware makers now, Windows 8.1 devices will be ready in time for the year-end holidays, according to Leblond.

“Over the next several months we’ll see beautiful, powerful devices, from the smallest tablets to the most lightweight notebooks to versatile 2-in-1s, as well as industry devices designed for business,” he wrote.

Windows 8.1 is slated for shipping Oct. 18, when it will be “broadly available for commercial customers with or without volume licensing agreements, our broad partner ecosystem, subscribers to MSDN and TechNet, as well as consumers.”

Michael Silver, a Gartner analyst, said Microsoft met the date for sending Windows code to hardware makers, but breaking with tradition and not making it available to developers and IT pros via MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) and TechNet creates potential problems for subscribers to those programs.

“Not distributing the code beyond OEMs until October buys Microsoft 7 more weeks to work on it and fix things before users actually get it. This is good for Microsoft because the extra time allows it to make improvements and potentially get better reviews,” Silver said via email.

“But it also means organizations get 7 fewer weeks to work on it and with less time between new releases, every week counts. Serious work on projects like evaluating a new release of Windows usually decline during the holidays,” he added.

What's at stake for Windows 8.1

Billed as one of the company’s most critical products, Windows 8 started shipping in October of last year, sporting a drastically different user interface. That Modern interface based on tile icons was optimized for touchscreen devices to make Windows a better OS for tablets and improve its position against Apple’s iOS and Android.

However, complaints from consumers and enterprise users rained down on Microsoft over a variety of issues, including the learning curve for users to get comfortable and familiar with the new interface.

In Windows 8.1, Microsoft is trying to address that and other main objections. For example, it’s adding something very close to the Windows 7 Start button, which the company took away in Windows 8.

With Windows 8.1, Microsoft will also attempt to improve the interplay between the new Modern interface and the more traditional Windows 7-like desktop, which lets users run legacy applications. For example, it will be possible for users to boot directly to the traditional desktop interface, and toggling between the two will supposedly be smoother.

In Windows 8.1, users will also be able to view all the applications installed on their device and sort them by name, date installed, most used or category. It will also have an improved search engine powered by Bing that will return results from a variety of sources, including the Web, applications, local files and the SkyDrive cloud storage service.

Also new are options for seeing multiple applications on the screen simultaneously, including the ability to resize apps, for improved multitasking. Windows 8.1 also comes with Internet Explorer 11, a new version of Microsoft’s browser that the company has said will load pages faster and offer better performance in touchscreen mode.

Windows 8.1 users will also be able to make a Skype call and take photos with the Windows 8.1 device while the screen is in Lock mode without having to log in. It will be possible as well for users to select multiple applications at once and perform bulk actions on them, like resizing, uninstalling and rearranging them.