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Archive for August 26th, 2007

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Aug 26

Windows System state analyzer tool helps create snapshots of the computer—some of which include fixed drives, services, drivers and the registry. Users can create two snapshots at different points in time and compare them to view differences. A detailed report could be generated at the end of a compare operation. Microsoft is starting to release some tools

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From the Windows Live ID team blog —“CardSpace is a new way to sign in securely and conveniently into websites. And now you can use CardSpace with Windows Live! Using CardSpace with Windows Live means you don’t use a password to sign-in to websites which accept Live ID credentials. Instead, just send

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In the Microsoft® .NET Framework, the System.Net namespace exposes the functionality of many networking protocols, such as HTTP and SMTP. The upcoming release of the .NET Framework 3.5 (which will ship with Visual Studio® 2008, formerly code-named "Orcas") includes a number of performance and functional enhancements to these core networking layers. In this article, we'll look

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Digital Dave: When I was approached to start development work on this system I had never seen anything like it. Windows on a Mainframe? Who the hell is gona want that? After 3 weeks of working with it... I do! The software vendors we have seen supporting this platform and the demos they have shown

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Fear of litigation has led to an indefinite delay in the planned Saturday release of software to unlock Apple Inc.'s iPhone. John McLaughlin, founder of Uniquephones, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, said Saturday that he received a phone call about 3 a.m. Saturday local time from a man claiming to be from O'Melveny & Myers LLP, an

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Recently, few of our readers asked me about the best BitTorrent client software. It's a question that doesn't have a definitive answer. ‘Coz some clients are written for specific operating systems, some are cross-platform. At least one runs on Java. There are also clients that caters more advanced users that would surely make a newbie's head spin.

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Microsoft seems to be losing the war against modders attacking their precious Xbox 360 hardware with news hitting the internet that a group of modders has successfully downgraded the 360's kernel. Since our last hack / mod update, modders have been diligently working to gain access to a vulnerable kernel by flashing an eFuse

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Welcome to a new blog from Microsoft.  The focus of this blog is likely to be a little different from most other blogs you'll see on blogs.msdn.com.  Microsoft employs some of the best hackers in the world and actively recruits them and develops them.  They work on all kinds of projects, whether it be in development,

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Microsoft had always taken an ad-hoc approach to charting the future of technology and its place in it, relying heavily on the insights of Bill Gates and his legendary "think weeks." With the twilight of Gates' career at the company approaching and new technical and strategic leaders Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie preparing to fill his role,

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Earlier today (25 August) we began receiving reports of Windows Vista customers running genuine systems but experiencing failures when attempting a Windows Genuine Advantage validation. This situation has since been resolved and validations are now being processed successfully. We've since learned that very few customers were affected. Sr. Product Manager Alex Kochis and

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With the discovery last week of the connection between Vista's poor networking performance and audio activities, word quickly spread around the Net. No doubt this got Microsoft's attention, and they have responded to the issue. Microsoft states that 'some of what we are seeing is expected behavior, and some of

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Since quite some time as Chief Security Advisor, I am working to support Law Enforcement. We are supplying training, giving technical support as needed and are staying in close contact as well as soon as we decide to file a criminal complaint. This happens especially if we are phished (we being Hotmail) or some other criminal

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The Wallpaper Manager is a Proof of Concept WPF application I built using Expression Blend and Visual Studio .NET 2008 (Codename Orcas). The application exists as a Windows Presentation Foundation XAML form application that is designed to provide users with the ability to control their desktop wallpaper by cascading over specified directories and allowing users to

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Thanks to James Slack from down under in Australia we have a pic of the Windows Home Server packaging and discs which he kindly took for us.

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According to an online survey by Valve Software, only one in fifty players who access download service Steam has a DirectX 10-compatible graphics card and Windows Vista installed. In an interview with heise online, Gabe Newell, president of Valve Software, said that Microsoft made a terrible mistake releasing DirectX 10 for Vista only and excluding

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