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A new EU anti-piracy law incorporates elements that could affect the development of the digital world in coming years.

The law, known as Telecom Packet, the difficults the live of pirates with the law called “three-strike”. The law at issue three warnings apply to users who downloaded illegal material before expelled from the Internet.

“The laws allow private companies monitor Internet traffic and filters,” explains Christophe Espern, the French defence group for privacy and digital rights The Quadrature du Net.

Apart from trying to exclude pirates, the law assigns responsibility to each country to decide what programs can run on the Internet.

“Skype, and even Firefox could be declared illegal in Europe unless they are approved by an administrative agency,” explains Benjamin Henrion, the organization FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Structure).

FFII believes that the law in question would make the current Internet into a sort of “Soviet Internet”, where governments are omnipotent.

One of the persons responsible for designing the law, Malcolm Harbour, disagrees with the above and, by contrast, argues that the law will strengthen consumer rights. Harbour said that the law does not incorporate specific elements regarding piracy.

All elements of the law have been approved, reports ISP Preview. The law will be considered by the legislative bodies of the EU in September this year, which would allow time for adjustments and modifications.

A large number of individual and businesses users expect the maximum before upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Many even prefer to wait to relieve the operating system Vista.

Microsoft admits that the new security model has caused major problems of compatibility with software and hardware that does not work with Vista. The company says that the problem has been solved with the latest service pack for Vista.

Through its service Microsoft Windows Vista Compatibility Center presents a list of hardware and software compatible with Vista.

The software giant spent more than $ 300 million in advertising campaign.

According to statistics from international sales of Microsoft, April 2008 had sold 140 million copies of Windows Vista.

Although Microsoft did not confirm directly the launch, a representative of the firm’s public relations of the company sent an email referring briefly to a “product that marks a milestone” on Thursday. Then another representative hinted in an email that the reference had to do with Hyper-V.

While none said that was exactly the announcement, several blogs reported on Wednesday that Hyper-V would be launched on today Thursday. Other sources close to the company also said that the technology was in its final stages, but spoke in return for not revealing his identity.

Microsoft said it would launch its monitoring technology Hyper-V six months after the launch of Windows Server 2008, the latest version of the Windows operating system for servers. The company launched the software in late February.

Microsoft had originally trying to launch Hyper-V as part of the original launch of Windows Server 2008, but the technology was backward and reschedule to availability for 180 days, or about six months after the launch of Windows Server 2008.

Microsoft delayed the launch of Hyper-V, originally called codename “Viridian” because the company chose to withdraw some functions originally raised.

The virtualization is starting to become a key element in companies that are conducting the reduction of costs for data centers that run operating systems in virtual containers rather than physically in servers. Microsoft aims to reach the leader of virtualization VMware on the provision of these technologies for hardware systems that not only run Windows but also Linux or other operating systems.

The company said that promises to make virtualization a key part of its strategy of management systems and now also is spreading beyond the hardware towards virtualization applications and desktop computers.

Mozilla entered into the Guinness records thanks to the six million free downloads that have been made of the last browser. It is not yet completed 24 hours.

The United States is at the moment and with more than one third of the downloads, the country where more users have made the free download of Firefox 3.0, which offers more than 15,000 improvements over its predecessor.

Spain is, with more than 220,000 downloads, the fourth country with more affluence in the “Download Day”, while Germany, with more than 400,000 brand new users of Firefox 3.0 is the second in the list, followed by Japan , with almost 310,000.

And all of this in less than 17 hours, in which the last delivery of the alternative Firefox browser has managed to overcome the expectations of the company, which was at the five million downloads.

Thus, it was not necessary to arrive within 24 hours of gratuity offered by Mozilla, a nonprofit that provides users with free Internet user technologies and open source, with its new release saturated lines to boot the premiere of his new schedule.

To reach the six million, has also worked from a single inhabitant of Chad or seven in Turkmenistan to Iran’s astonishing 180,000 or 100,000 of a country the size of Holland.

Mozilla Corporation far exceeds the number of downloads of Firefox 2 on the day of its launch, which were 1.6 billion, helped by the promotional campaign that has articulated with his “Download Day,” which also promoted social gatherings and celebrations to mark this awaited debut.

Since 2004, Firefox has faced the computer giant Bill Gates, Microsoft, and has been gaining more adherents to reach 175 million users, according to data provided by the company.

So, now owns 18 percent share of Internet users, although still far from the absolute leader, Explorer, which has 74 percent of the market, according to data from Net Applications.

Firefox is currently distributed in over 45 languages and is used in over 230 countries.

The new Firefox 3.0 is, for the technological expert of The Wall Street Journal, Walter S. Mossberg, “the best browser that exists right now, and that includes the most advanced versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Safari of Macintosh; both in speed, as in functions and security.”

Among the most notable developments of the newborn are the model of a single aesthetic, a new range of functions, address bar and intelligent, security, automatic recognition of the pages known to introduce viruses or spyware.

Now it’s easier to find documents and other files on PCs operated by Windows with the new Search 4.0 for Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft has launched the new version of the free search program “Windows Search 4.0″, which improves the search function standard for Windows XP, Vista and Windows Server 2008. The program can be downloaded from the Microsoft website. So far, the program will not be distributed automatically via Windows Update. A preview version has been available since March and has been downloaded more than 300,000 times, Microsoft reported.

The new version is 33% faster to find files. The search and indexing are faster, while it is easier to rebuild the index after an unexpected interruption. A feature called Rollback Recovery allows you to retrieve the latest index that functioned properly.

Additionally, the program is optimized for searches in other Windows PC, so that it is possible to initiate a search on a Windows PC from a PC operated with XP. For IT managers it has been incorporated new features that let you control the way in which users perform their searches across the network.

Among the innovations includes the search for encrypted files with EFS (Encrypting File System), it use fewer resources and has greater stability, said Microsoft.