Office 2010 TP Already Leaked

Two months before Microsoft's scheduled run, somehow the upcoming Office 2010 Technical Preview (TP) has found its way onto the Internet as a torrent.


Along with The Sims 3, Angels and Demons, and full seasons of Desperate Housewives, anxious downloaders can load up their favorite BitTorrent client and leech the recently revealed Office 2010 TP, now available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. This is not the first problem with leakage within the Microsoft vault: recently a build of Windows 7 also found its way onto the torrent network, leading many to question the company's internal security measures.

Set to roll out in July, Microsoft is offering the Technical Preview of Office 2010 by invitation only; attendees of its annual TechEd event held in the US will comprise the first batch of the limited Technical Preview program, followed by consumers who signed up for the sneak peak over at the Office 2010 The Movie website. The chosen participants will have access to Word 2010, Excel 2010, Outlook 2010, PowerPoint 2010, OneNote 2010, Access 2010, InfoPath 2010, Project 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010, SharePoint Workspace 2010, Visio 2010, and Publisher 2010. Microsoft also plans to unleash a full-fledged beta during the second half of 2009.

Currently several BitTorrent sites display links to the Technical Preview torrents, including Mininova, isoHunt, and many others. However, according to Ars Technica, the version leaked onto the Internet is build 14.0.4006.1010, and because the build number of the official Technical Preview is not known, the torrented version may not be the final, Microsoft approved version. Surprisingly enough, the website even posted screenshots from the Technical Preview, detailing the installation process and presenting many applications... meaning the site actually downloaded the torrent and checked out the leaked software.

Many reports have recently pointed out that consumers currently using Office 2007 should feel right at home with Office 2010, and do not need to upgrade any hardware to get the new software up and running smoothly. For those using the current build of Windows 7, Office 2010 supposedly has a faster load time than Office 2007. However, those who disliked 2007's "ribbon" interface will still have to suffer in the new version. Of course, anyone can check out the Technical Preview now that it's making rounds across the torrent networks, and check out for themselves what's improved, what aspects stayed the same, and what features are downright annoying.

But keep this in mind: downloading known "illegal" files from torrent networks can leave consumers wide open to hostile attacks, as the files could be loaded with trojans, nasty viruses, and other malicious programs. Consumers who want to check out the Office 2010 Technical Preview should play it safe and sign up at the Office 2010 The Movie website, or wait for Microsoft to release the beta later this year.

Source: overclock.net
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NVIDIA's G300 Clockspeeds Leaked Out

NVIDIA’s G300 Clockspeeds Leaked Out!
Since NVIDIA G300 has been already taped out, the engineering sample is expected to be out soon. The German hardware website Hardware-infos has unveiled the frequencies of G300.

The samples of G300-A1-Stepping are coming with core/shader/memory clock of 700/1600/1100MHz. As we reported, the G300 features 512 stream processors, so the theoretical computing capacity should reach 2457GFLOPS.

Thanks to the application of GDDR5 memory, the memory bandwidth achieves impressive 281.6GB/s, which is 2 times more than GTX 280. Of course the specs of retail edition might be a bit different, and we’ll let you know once we hear more details.

One Response to “NVIDIA’s G300 Clockspeeds Leaked Out”

1. Preetam Says:
May 19th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

I think the memory will be at 1200MHz( I reckon they’ll use 5GT GDDR5 chips, which would be capable of 1250MHz aka 5GHz QDR)

I heard that there are two other 40nm cards to be released too.

I hopt this is the other one from them:

GTX xxx :
256 Shaders
256-bit
1GB GDDR5
1.6Billion transistors

Price, hopefully 1/2 of G300(which might cost a bomb, i guess above 599$)


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More Guesses of Windows 7 Realising in October

They seem to all think it'll be in October.


Now that we know that Windows 7 will be hitting us sometime this year in final form, now all the questions are aimed at narrowing down the date.

We heard from Acer executives that Windows 7 will be out on October 23, which sounds plausible, but there’s no other evidence to back it up. Today we have a couple other new entries in the guessing game.

Gathering statements made by Microsoft employees and charting it on a calendar, ComputerWorld figures that Windows 7 will hit RTM (release to manufacturing) on August 11. The magazine believes that if Microsoft follows the same schedule it set for Windows XP, the new OS should be out on October 11.

The next guess comes from long-time Windows journalist Paul Thurrott, who wrote in the final part of his Windows 7 RC review, “Microsoft also says it will finalize Windows 7 in mid-August and deliver it to the public in time for the 2009 holiday season. I can tell you, however, that the general availability date is a lot more specific than that: You'll be able to get the final version of Windows 7 publicly on October 15, 2009, according to the current schedule.”

While we don’t have any hard dates yet, and we won’t until Microsoft is ready to tell, it looks like everyone is betting on making it out well before Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year in the U.S.

Source : windowsseven7.info
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