Archive for October 25th, 2007
Oct
25
Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. DirectX includes security and performance updates, along with many new features across all technologies, which can be accessed by applications using the
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Oct
25
Chatters, beware: A rash of new bugs have hit the popular IM clients Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger.
The latest vulnerability could allow bad guys to feed any file to users of Yahoo Messenger, according to an e-mail alert from nCircle Network Security. This is the ninth zero-day exploit to target Yahoo's chat client this year, according
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Oct
25
if you haven’t seen it yet, take a look at the interactive house on the Windows Home Server web site. It provides a great walkthrough of Home Server’s benefits within its “natural environs” – part of the effort to educate consumers on what the product is and does. There is a demo and set of customer
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Oct
25
The Google Apps Education Edition was unveiled a year back. Since its inception, thousands of educational institutions on six continents using Google Apps, with hundreds of thousands of active users. During the first year, Google have rolled out more than 40 product and feature updates, including:
Increased inbox storage
Mail migration and routing
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Oct
25
Microsoft has posted a long and complex explanation to its Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) blog, explaining the latest case of why software updates are being pushed to users who believe they’ve turned automatic updating off.
The UK Register reported on October 25 that a number of admins were seeing Microsoft
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Oct
25
The Mac is on a roll. Apple Inc.'s perennially praised but slow-selling Macintosh computers have surged in popularity in the past few years, with sales growing much faster than the overall PC market, especially in the U.S. By some measures, Mac laptops are now approaching a 20% share of U.S. noncorporate sales, up from the low
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Oct
25
A professor at the University of Massachusetts wasn't just goofing off when he started hooking up one Playstation 3 system after another.
Dr. Gaurav Khanna, an astrophysicist working at the university's Dartmouth campus, has been building his own supercomputer of sorts with the popular gaming console.
The professor has been renting time
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Oct
25
Reasonable Antiphishing proactively detects possible fake web sites to protect your bank account, credit card information and online account like PayPal, eBay, Citibank and HSBC. Reasonable Antiphishing also detects fraud web site in emails and web pages.
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Oct
25
Microsoft Corp.'s consumer security software changes the Automatic Updates (AU) settings in Windows XP and Vista without telling users or getting their approval, a researcher said today -- behavior that may explain recent reports of patches being installed and systems rebooting without permission.When Microsoft responded to new charges of silent changes last week, however,
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Oct
25
FlashFXP is a powerful and popular FTP & FXP Client loaded with features for the power user. It has an intuitive user interface that takes only minutes to master. Using the FTP protocol, you can transfer files from remote servers to your computer, or even to another remote server. It makes it easy to update your
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Oct
25
If you've been reading this blog, you've probably got strong opinions of what you like and dislike in the products that our team works on: the Windows Live Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, and Windows Live Spaces.
Love it or hate it, here's your chance to make a difference. Come work with us! The Digital Memories
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Oct
25
We recently got an internal report from someone using the internal audio notification APIs that they were leaking memory and they wanted to help from us debugging the problem.
I took a look and discovered that the problem was a circular reference that was created when they called:
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Oct
25
Microsoft Australia really knows how to treat students. They were the first in the world to offer tertiary students a copy of Office Ultimate for just $75 bucks, and now they’re hosting an event just for students around Australia. Today they’ve opened
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Oct
25
SyncToy 2.0 Beta for Windows is available as a free download from the Microsoft Download Center. The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers.
There are files from all kinds of sources that we want to store and manage. Files are created by our digital
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Oct
25
Microsoft launches Windows Vista Holiday Product Guide website (it requires Silverlight). This site includes a doc with photos and descriptions of the devices and PCs that Microsoft is highlighting for the consumer segment this holiday season.
In time for the holidays, we invite you to open up your digital life by exploring the Windows Vista partner
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Random From The Windows Vista Holiday Product Guide website launched
- Jun26NetPoint Beta 1.1
NetPoint is a complete network inventory system. Take advantage of automated system discovery via Active Directory, agentless polling technology, and a web-enabled search right out of the box. - May26Spring Cleaning of 34 Google APIs Announced
At Google 2011 I/O, Google made 34 separate announcements, including following 7 new APIs available in API directory:Discovery ServiceTasks APIBooks APIPagespeed Online APIPlaces API - Jul31ASP.NET MVC Version 2 Public preview released
Microsoft released the first public preview of ASP.NET MVC Version 2. It works with .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008, and can be installed side-by-side on the same - Mar24Update for Google Apps customers in China
Google posted additional information on how ‘stopped censoring’ in China, may affect your employees that use Google Apps within mainland China. “it’s important - Feb18BlackBerry Smartphone and Near Field Communications [Video]
At Mobile World Congress 2011, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie stated that some of the BlackBerry smartphones released later this year will feature Near Field Communications