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Because of fundamental differences in the architecture of operating systems today, multi-platform applications have to be tailored to each specific OS on their own, as they won’t work by simply compiling the source code which was developed for a certain platform on all alternatives available. Unix and Windows ... |
20 November 2009
06:21 GMT |
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One of the remaining Apple software updates not yet discussed here on Softpedia is the Boot Camp Drivers Update 2.2 for Windows, which, according to the Cupertino-based Mac maker, addresses trackpad issues, and includes support for the Apple Magic mouse and wireless keyboard. “If you have an Intel-based Mac and... |
20 November 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Inevitable, the advent of a new operating system has to be branded with certain coordinates that position the platform in relation to the ubiquitous Windows OS from Microsoft. Google Chrome OS has in this manner joined the club of non-Windows operating systems, and don’t think for a minute that this does not ap... |
20 November 2009
04:00 GMT |
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The company behind the Mac operating system claims that QuickTime 7.6.5 is a Windows-only release, which addresses issues with applications not reliably loading libraries required by QuickTime at startup, as well as incorrect display of QuickTime movies embedded in a webpage using custom scale attributes. QuickTime ... |
20 November 2009
03:23 GMT |
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Parallels has issued an official statement announcing the availability of Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac OS X. As key additions, the company mentions full support for Aero in Windows Vista and 7 through the Windows WDDM driver, including Aero Flip 3D, a more Mac-like experience in Windows applications through the Apple ... |
5 November 2009
08:42 GMT |
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Apple has outlined exactly what the Bluetooth Update 1.0 for Windows does in terms of helping the user enjoy his / her experience with a Mac computer running Windows in Boot Camp. Boot Camp is a utility included with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that lets users run compatible versions of Micro... |
29 October 2009
09:16 GMT |
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The company headquartered in Cupertino, California developing the Mac operating system has issued a new software update improving the performance of Apple Bluetooth devices when running Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista on a Mac using the Boot Camp utility. “This update improves the performance of the App... |
29 October 2009
04:14 GMT |
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In what seemed like an inevitable scenario for those upgrading to Windows 7, angry reports on Microsoft's support forum reveal that some users are seeing their PCs crippled by an endless series of reboots. A Microsoft engineer writing on the same forum says the company is investigating the issues, but labels the... |
26 October 2009
10:48 GMT |
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Apple has made a rather shady announcement today using the Support section of its web site, confirming that Snow Leopard and Boot Camp will be supporting Microsoft’s just-released Windows 7 later this year. Apple informs customers that a software update will need to be applied, so that Boot Camp will be able to... |
22 October 2009
13:19 GMT |
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Microsoft’s first example of a free antivirus might have gotten its fair share of criticism and raised eyebrows but fact is that the security solution is right on track to becoming a success. In just the first week since its debut on the market, Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 (formerly codenamed Morro) has b... |
16 October 2009
10:08 GMT |
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It has by no means been a slow month as far as Microsoft security bulletins go, with no less than 13 patch packages being released by the company for a range of products. In total, the Redmond company patched no less than 34 security holes across Windows, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, Microsoft Office, Developer To... |
15 October 2009
10:33 GMT |
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The level of interoperability between Windows and Linux was kicked up a notch as Microsoft and Red Hat have wrapped up Cooperative Technical Support for virtualized environments. On October 7th, 2009, the Redmond company announced that it had wrapped up the work debuted in February of this year, together withRed Hat,... |
8 October 2009
08:38 GMT |
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Despite the marketing doctrine from both Microsoft and Apple, consumers have ultimately made the choice that Apple and Windows machines can happily cohabitate under the same roof. According to statistics released by the NPD Group, no less than 85% of all U.S. computer owning households with at least one Mac computer ... |
6 October 2009
07:59 GMT |
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A contest Microsoft debuted, encouraging developers to build applications for Windows 7 before the operating system general availability deadline, has proved to be extremely successful and registration is not even closed yet. According to the Redmond company, over 4,000 participants submitted applications built speci... |
6 October 2009
06:00 GMT |
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CEDIA EXPO 2009 was the stage where Microsoft announced the winner of the 2009 Windows Media Center Ultimate Install Contest, a competition held in collaboration with the Media Center Integrator Alliance (MCIA). The top prize went to the Windows Media Center installation submitted by Dustin Anderson, general manager ... |
10 September 2009
09:03 GMT |
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In a move designed to safeguard the Linux community, a group of companies intimately connected with the open source world revealed having acquired no less than 22 Linux-focused patents which belonged to Microsoft at one point. The Redmond-based company had initially unloaded the 22 items on its intellectual property ... |
9 September 2009
06:21 GMT |
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A new release of the Google open-source browser is available for download for testers. At the end of the past week, the Mountain view-based search giant produced two more development milestones of Google Chrome version 4.0. Windows and Linux testers can now grab the bits for Google Chrome 4.0.203.2 through the dev ch... |
31 August 2009
10:26 GMT |
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Are you looking to start building your first game for Xbox 360, Windows, or Zune and need a little help? Then you’ll be happy to know that Microsoft has made available for download a range of resources centered on the XNA Game Studio and designed to offer an introduction into the fundamentals of C# programming.... |
31 August 2009
04:53 GMT |
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Google is hard at work developing a 64-bit version of its open-source browser for Windows. The Mountain View-search giant indicated that work was in progress but delivered no specific availability deadline so far. According to Chromium developers Mads Sig Ager, a 64-bit (x64) flavor of Google Chrome will be offered t... |
27 August 2009
10:08 GMT |
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In a time when Microsoft is feeling the full impact of the global economic downturn, the open-source Linux operating system is flourishing. While Windows client revenue has let the Redmond company suffering in the 2009 fiscal year, producing three quarters inferior when compared to FY2008, Linux revenue continues to ... |
27 August 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Microsoft has started rolling out updates designed to kick up a notch its Windows Update infrastructure. As of August 17th, 2009, the company gave the green light to refreshes for Windows Update, starting the updating process that will span over the course of the next few months. The refresh is designed to catalyze t... |
18 August 2009
09:23 GMT |
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The TechNet Script Center Gallery was introduced last week by Microsoft, in an attempt to help simplify the work of IT professionals. The Script Center Gallery, which went live on the TechNet portal on August 13th, 2009, offers an extensive collection of scripts for IT pros. The initiative represents TechNet’s ... |
17 August 2009
04:36 GMT |
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An updated version of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac is now available for download from Microsoft. The Redmond company is offering the utility for Mac users to streamline the bridging of Apple machines and Windows computers. In certain scenarios users of both Mac and Windows computers will nee... |
12 August 2009
07:06 GMT |
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The third new update posted on Apple’s web site yesterday, Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.1, is aimed at users running Windows under BootCamp – the utility included with Leopard that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows on a Mac. As usual, the Support section of its web site is where Apple descri... |
12 August 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Reports say that Microsoft’s highly anticipated Windows 7 is being outranked by Apple’s (also) much-awaited OS, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, on Amazon.com, the popular US online retailer. According to at least one source, pre-orders for Apple's upcoming operating system topped Amazon.com's bestseller ... |
5 August 2009
10:00 GMT |
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A proof-of-concept attack against Internet Explorer demonstrates how a patched vulnerability can be exploited in order to take over the victim's computer. The demo, hosted on Hustlelabs, comes courtesy of three security researchers, Mark Dowd, Ryan Smith, David Dewey, who are scheduled to present the attack in d... |
28 July 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Microsoft felt the full impact of the global economic crisis in the forth quarter of the 2009 fiscal year that ended June 30, 2009. The Redmond company reported a drop in revenue of 17% compared to Q4 2008. Essentially, revenue went down to just $13.1 billion in Q4 2009, over one billion less than analyst forecasts. ... |
24 July 2009
04:22 GMT |
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As anyone who's ever ridden a bus on a hot summer day can attest to, the experience of being crammed inside a metal can with about a hundred other people under immense heat is not exactly the most pleasant. And let's not mention those who have still failed to grasp the concept of personal hygiene. To addres... |
21 July 2009
05:56 GMT |
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While Microsoft has yet to officially release Windows 7 to manufacturing, it managed to contribute to the evolution of the rival Linux OS. The Linux kernel has grown with the addition of 20,000 lines of code from Microsoft. Somewhere between pigs flying and hell freezing over, the Redmond company is joining over 100 ... |
21 July 2009
04:06 GMT |
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All is fair in love, war and marketing smackdowns. At the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, in New Orleans on July 15, 2009, Microsoft’s Kevin Turner, chief operating officer, revealed that the Redmond company had managed to hurt Apple since the fall of 2008, and that more hurt was on the way. In an extremely ... |
16 July 2009
10:53 GMT |
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A Microsoft executive has confirmed that the Windows maker is gearing up for a retail store campaign targeting Apple's own retail chain. The company plans on opening retail stores in the vicinity of Apple's brick and mortar establishments, some of which will be situated wall-to-wall with the Mac maker'... |
16 July 2009
06:01 GMT |
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The developers over at the iSoft team were able to run Windows 95 on an iPhone with the help of the Bochs emulator and a Windows 95 disc image. A video showing the hack is available. The demonstration takes place on both the actual iPhone, as well as on the Mac OS X iPhone simulator provided for free with the Apple i... |
14 July 2009
08:01 GMT |
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I'm just going to say that size does matter when it comes down to the now traditional Mac vs. PC face-off and leave it at that. At the bottom of this article you will be able to find embedded the latest release out of Microsoft's Laptop Hunters series of video advertisements. This one features Matt and Oliv... |
9 July 2009
10:48 GMT |
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It turns out that all those rumors of an operating system from Google to go against Windows have managed to come true. Having released the Google Chrome browser just nine months ago, it was a natural step in the evolution of the Mountain View-based company to dig and bury itself deeper on the desktop, going beyond pr... |
8 July 2009
02:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is working to produce not only non-Windows operating systems, with examples such as Singularity and Midori, but also the evolution of the web browser beyond Internet Explorer. However, Microsoft Gazelle is not a plain vanilla browser; in fact, it evolved into an operating system capable of serving as platfo... |
3 July 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Fans of the virtualization software from Sun Microsystems should learn that VirtualBox 3.0 now delivers OpenGL 2.0 support, as well as support for Windows 7 guests. Sun claims this is a major update also because version 3.0.0 introduces Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) in virtual machines and much improved 3D suppor... |
30 June 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Dockland Software has released Fantasktik 1.4, the latest version of its taskbar application for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The new release adds the ability to close windows from the taskbar, launch Expose on any open application directly from Fantasktik, the capability to exclude apps through the right-click menu, and m... |
29 June 2009
04:48 GMT |
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It is nothing short of ironic that game password stealing malware is being associated with an exploit designed to target a vulnerability in DirectX. But Microsoft officially confirmed that malicious code designed to harvest account credentials for online games had been detected bundled with exploits targeting the Dir... |
26 June 2009
10:43 GMT |
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Sun Microsystems has issued a major update to its powerful Open Source virtualization solution for Mac OS X, VirtualBox. The new release adds the ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental) as well as Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests, to name some key enhancements. &ldq... |
19 June 2009
10:00 GMT |
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CodeWeavers, through Jeremy White, announced today the release of a new version of its CrossOver application for both Linux and Mac operating systems. CrossOver 8.0 brings support for Internet Explorer 7, Quicken 2009 and a lot of fixes for supported applications. Version 8 also represents another year of dramatic ... |
16 June 2009
11:01 GMT |
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CodeWeavers has released a new version of CrossOver for Mac and Linux. The update brings new application support, while improving the way CrossOver handles supported applications like Quicken 2009, Internet Explorer 7 and Photoshop CS2. “I am pleased to announce that we have shipped CrossOver 8 for both Macint... |
16 June 2009
10:54 GMT |
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The Microsoft and Novell Interoperability Lab was inaugurated in September 2007 in a joint effort from the two companies to build interoperability between their respective platforms. At that time, the lab could also be considered the celebration of the first year since Microsoft and Novell inked their interoperabilit... |
12 June 2009
08:04 GMT |
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Apple has made available for download a new iteration of Safari for Windows and Mac, a browser release described as “the world's fastest and most innovative” in the Cupertino company's usual extravagant marketing style. Outside of new limits in speed, and the new standard in innovation, Safari 4... |
9 June 2009
11:36 GMT |
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Despite reports earlier this week that Acer was planning to launch netbooks running on the increasingly popular Android operating system, the leading netbook vendor will reportedly introduce Android netbooks that will also ship with Windows. The dual-operating system scenario is more convenient for the PC vendor, giv... |
5 June 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Apple has disclosed that both iTunes 8.2 and QuickTime 7.6.2 have been suffering from a few security issues, with QuickTime alone being in need of some ten patches. Two of these ten security holes recently plugged by Apple have been confirmed as Windows-specific. In a Support document detailing the security content ... |
2 June 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Between updates to its iTunes digital media playing application, as well as updates to QuickTime and GarageBand, Apple has again posted the MobileMe Control Panel 1.3 update for Windows PC owners using the company's online service and application. The MobileMe Control Panel is required to set up and manage Mobil... |
2 June 2009
03:53 GMT |
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I-O Corp has announced a partnership with Aqua Connect that allows I-O’s ProEdge thin clients to connect to an OS X Leopard server to run Mac apps, while providing traditional support for Windows programs. With this announcement, I-O Corporation pledges its continuing efforts to provide thin client support for ... |
26 May 2009
07:55 GMT |
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The start of June 2009 should have been synonymous for Microsoft with a chance to defend the bundling of Internet Explorer and the Windows operating system, a practice considered monopolistic by EU antitrust regulators. However, the Redmond company won't get a chance to share its view with the Eu Antitrust Commi... |
22 May 2009
10:05 GMT |
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CodeWeavers has released an update to CrossOver, adding compatibility with the quartz-wm packaged in XQuartz 2.3.3.2 (recently updated by Apple). The program comes in two forms (Mac and Games), allowing users to install “supported” Windows programs on their Macs, without having to use costly virtualizatio... |
20 May 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Apple has updated Xquartz, a version of the X.org X Window System that is able to run on Mac OS X. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple has been shipping with installation discs ever since the release of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). The new version (2.3.3.2) fixes a bug in ... |
18 May 2009
04:57 GMT |
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