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There are very few people in the world that haven’t used at least once Daemon Tools to mount image files when playing games or installing applications, but few know that the latest variant of the software comes with a service that monitors the user’s activity and records information such as the .iso file&... |
13 February 2012
06:16 GMT |
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The first games that will be included in the App Store of the Windows 8 operating system have been uncovered, including hugely popular titles like Angry Birds, as well as console games, like Ms Splosion Man or Ilomilo. Windows 8 will have a special App Store from where users of the operating system can download appl... |
7 February 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Skype 5.8 is the latest version of the popular VoIP application for Windows computers. The app was put up for download yesterday, with features aimed at making video calling more pleasant than before. The new application release arrives with enhancements that include full HD video calling, Facebook audio and video... |
3 February 2012
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The final version of Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows SDK 1.0 is now available for download, offering support for applications built using C++, C#, Visual Basic, and Visual Studio 2010.
Some of the main changes that the new tool iteration packs include better skeletal tracking, along with enhanced speech recog... |
1 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Today, true to a promise made on January 9th, Microsoft made available for download the final flavor of its Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit. Officially announced during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the development tools arrive in addition to commercially available hardware. Kinect for W... |
1 February 2012
08:09 GMT |
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Security researchers found a dangerous MIDI file that could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code relying on a vulnerability patched up by Microsoft with the Security Updates they released on January 10, 2012. Counting on the fact that many users fail to apply the security patches, cybercriminals soci... |
27 January 2012
07:15 GMT |
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The Linux Foundation has made available the results of an annual survey, Linux Adoption Trends 2012: A Survey of Enterprise End Users, shedding some light on the adoption rate of Linux operating systems and other issues. The survey was conducted in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group and more than 1900 individua... |
19 January 2012
10:36 GMT |
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A researcher from IOActive Labs presents an interesting issue that affects some Windows 7 or Windows 2008 installer files which could allow an attacker to elevate his own privileges and compromise the operating system.
Cesar Cerrudo reveals that the C:\Windows\Installer\ folder contains installer file... |
19 January 2012
09:29 GMT |
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Those in the Windows 8 news loop know that the current release of the operating system does not allow you to change the background of the Metro UI. This will be possible, however, in the beta version of the OS, scheduled to pop up in late February. Until then, if you want to change the green wallpaper behind the til... |
13 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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There are millions of gamers out there who’ve fallen in love with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda’s latest role playing game, but DeviantArt user Axerron has taken this love to an extreme, going so far as to make a special theme for Windows operating systems that mimics the interface of the game. S... |
13 January 2012
10:11 GMT |
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On January 10th, 2012, Microsoft released a new security update for its Windows products, as well as for Microsoft Developer Tools And Software, in an attempt to patch a number of eight vulnerabilities discovered in these products.
As announced in the advance notification for the January security bulletin release,... |
11 January 2012
08:35 GMT |
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At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, manufacturers from all around the world gathered to showcase some of their latest advancements, and devices that run under Windows were there as well. Those who have been keeping an eye on the flood of news coming from CES 2012 have certainly spott... |
11 January 2012
08:01 GMT |
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After realizing that in many cases some social engineering can be far more efficient than a piece of malware that looks for zero-day vulnerabilities or unpatched weaknesses, cybercriminals began making phone calls to unsuspecting individuals, warning them of false threats and urging them to install specially crafted ... |
10 January 2012
05:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed that it will finally release a special edition of its Kinect sensor, designed specifically for the Windows operating system, which will cost more than the regular edition made for the Xbox 360. Microsoft’s Kinect has been a pretty big success, at least considering sales figures or the a... |
10 January 2012
02:35 GMT |
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Nostalgia is a powerful force. It can make people forget the bad parts and drum up the good ones, the past always seeming better than the present. That's probably less true for operating systems, though there's plenty of nostalgia for the 'good old days' in these parts as well. Still, most peopl... |
9 January 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Gigabyte will have a big collection of items on display at this year's CES, one of them being a tablet aimed at professionals and business users. Dubbed S1081, it is powered by an Intel Atom Cedar Trail central processing unit. As was the case with the T1006 convertible netbook, the exact CPU was not singled o... |
9 January 2012
04:36 GMT |
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As the world is struggling to shift from a coal-dominated present, renewable alternatives enjoy their time of glory. Experts are scaling up efforts to introduce competitive options providing eco-friendly power: from standard PV arrays, to solar paint, 3D panels and black silicon. However, there is still room for imp... |
9 January 2012
03:33 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) continues to lose significant market share all around the world, a reason to rejoice for Microsoft, which is eager to see it gone for good. The web browser is old and unreliable and Microsoft has long been promoting newer flavors of the application to determine users to leave it behind. ... |
4 January 2012
04:56 GMT |
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On December 29, 2011, at 10:00 AM Pacific Time Microsoft will release an out-of-band security update to address a critical security flaw found in ASP.NET, that affects all supported versions of the .NET framework, which could allow for an unauthenticated denial-of-service (DoS) attack on servers that serve ASP.NET we... |
29 December 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Microsoft representatives posted a message on their German Chief Security Advisory Blog in which they confirm the vulnerability found a few days ago by WebDevil who showed that by accessing a specially crafted HTML file in Safari someone would be able to crash the operating system.
The researchers claim that the wea... |
23 December 2011
09:46 GMT |
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A hacker known as w3bd3vil posted a message on Twitter a couple of days ago claiming that he found a vulnerability in the 64-bit version of Windows 7 that could be taken advantage of using Apple’s popular web browser Safari. “<iframe height='18082563'></iframe> causes a BSoD... |
21 December 2011
03:21 GMT |
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Yesterday, Microsoft announced a new feature being added to its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, namely auto updates, set to kick off in January in Australia and Brazil, and the company was keen on explaining that the move should not affect businesses. As part of this move, the company is re-issuing the IE9 or IE8 W... |
16 December 2011
07:48 GMT |
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The Bulldozer 8-core central processing units that Advanced Micro Devices launched a while ago may finally start to work as well as they were supposed to thanks to a new Windows update from Microsoft. Microsoft announced an operating system software update for the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating syst... |
16 December 2011
02:50 GMT |
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The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) from Microsoft has reached version 7.1.0 and comes with a lot of nifty additions for those into driver development. The present driver kit is intended for making drivers suitable for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 200... |
30 November 2011
03:26 GMT |
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Kinect will come to Windows, and Microsoft is not considering only the availability of software for the desktop client, but also the release of Kinect hardware specifically designed for it.
With a series of hardware changes inside it, the new Kinect for Windows will arrive with support for various applications tha... |
23 November 2011
07:42 GMT |
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Facebook is contemplating a rather strange move for a company so entrenched on the web, it's thinking about building a Windows client. Granted, it's only for chat and notifications, but the application is already available to selected testers.
If everything goes smoothly and Facebook determines that there ... |
22 November 2011
08:40 GMT |
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The fall is almost over, but it's never too late to add a few customizations to your Windows 7 PC to let it get a taste of the season as well. And with winter and snow upon us, having a fall theme installed on the computer will certainly make the outside cold seem a bit more bearable. For those who choose f... |
18 November 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Anyone wondering what Samsung has been doing besides having a hard time in court have their answer now that an event in South Korea has taken place.
It is reported that the company is not about to neglect the market segment of tablets running Microsoft's Windows operating system (OS).
Small as it is, this ni... |
9 November 2011
03:34 GMT |
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As of version 0.6.0, Node.js now runs natively on Windows, in addition to Linux, and developers can already access the official executable they can use, as well as the documentation necessary to simplify their work.
Node.js creator Ryan Dahl revealed that in order to introduce support for Microsoft’s platform... |
8 November 2011
04:43 GMT |
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Mainframes, particularly IBM ones, aren't known for their ability to allow Windows applications to run on them, but Big Blue has changed all that, or will do so on December 16, 2011, through its zEnterprise Systems. What the company did was, as an “an industry first,“ integrate Microsoft Windows Ap... |
8 November 2011
03:13 GMT |
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In a little over a month, customers running IBM zEnterprise environments will be able to start leveraging Windows application, IBM confirmed on November 7, 2011.
The move is nothing more than IBM making good on a promise from earlier this year, with official Windows support in zEnterprise slated for introduction as... |
8 November 2011
03:02 GMT |
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A new TV commercial from Microsoft, dubbed “Homework 2.0,” offers a funny view over how a less than stellar PowerPoint presentation can be taken to the next level. The ad belongs to the Redmond company’s latest series of advertisements, focused on traditional technologies, such as Windows and Office... |
7 November 2011
02:10 GMT |
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No less than 54 Sony VAIO E Series laptops and desktops are up for grabs in the 2011 Windows and Southwest Airlines Holiday Sweepstakes. Microsoft and Southwest Airlines have partnered for the second year in a row, to offer people in the US the chance to get a free holiday photo of them snapped at some 21 airports ... |
2 November 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Between August and September 2011, Windows 7’s usage share growth started accelerating. Whereas the share of the operating system would increase by around one percentage point from one month to the next, it jumped from 30.60% in August to no less than 32.42% at the end of September. And it appears that this w... |
1 November 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Wine is a miraculous software that aims to provide Linux users the “luxury” of running Windows software. There are other ways to run this type of software, like in a virtual machine, but doing so requires a powerful computer and a genuine Windows copy. The work that goes into Wine to make Windows develope... |
31 October 2011
09:30 GMT |
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With its best days behind it, Windows XP will turn 10 in less than a day, tomorrow, October 25, 2011. XP not only managed to survive against all odds for the past decade, but dominated the operating system market like no other platform.Released on October 25, 2001, Windows XP was developed under the codename Whi... |
24 October 2011
10:04 GMT |
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As it does every month, Microsoft packed all of the October 2011 patches for Windows into a single package which it’s offering as a free download.
The October 2011 Security Release ISO Image will require customers to do a little planning as it weights no less than 3 GB, according to information provided by ... |
14 October 2011
12:11 GMT |
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iCloud is not only compatible with iOS and Mac OS, but also Windows, the most wide-spread desktop operating system on the planet.To use iCloud, Windows PC owners need to download a certain “iCloud Control Panel for Windows” which delivers support for Photo Stream, Contacts and Calendars.Microsoft Outlook ... |
13 October 2011
09:07 GMT |
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One wouldn't expect it from what the media has been saying over the past couple of months, but it looks like consumers really want media slates loaded with a good Windows version.Whether it's because Windows is just such a long-lived software platform or because of some other reason, the operating system e... |
8 October 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Microsoft plans to roll out a 2011 time zone update to users in Eastern Europe at the end of this year, even though changes in daylight saving time will come into effect much sooner.
According to information offered by the Redmond company, the next time zone changes for 2011 will be introduced to Windows in Decem... |
6 October 2011
06:17 GMT |
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Microsoft is hard at work on a patch designed to address a vulnerability affecting SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) 3.0 and TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0, even though the security hole is not specific to Windows.
Security researchers have recently demoed a new exploit targeting an SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 vulnerability... |
28 September 2011
06:18 GMT |
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Microsoft provided a heads-up last week, informing customers of an imminent update which would be introduced to its free security solution for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
As of September 21, 2011, the company has released a refresh to the antimalware technology powering a range of its security solutio... |
22 September 2011
11:51 GMT |
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We already uncovered information on most of the items that will run Microsoft Windows and are scheduled for this fall, but the company has now made an announcement of its own, where it says exactly what its plans are. Windows 8 may not be due for a few months still, but this doesn't mean Microsoft is going to ... |
21 September 2011
11:26 GMT |
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Metro is the most palpable example of user interface innovation that Microsoft built into Windows since the release of Windows 95. A new platform as well as the medium facilitating a new interaction model for Windows users, Metro is much more than just UI. It’s key to catalyzing new user experiences powered by... |
16 September 2011
05:12 GMT |
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Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system has seen its first working build released on the web, in the form of a developer preview one, so we immediately decided to see how the new OS handles games, even in this incomplete version.
The first truly working build of Windows 8 has been released yesterday, and a... |
14 September 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Microsoft is working on its next operating system, as it always is, and it looks like Advanced Micro Devices is doing its best to be ready for it, having already developed compatible drivers.
The recent news involving Advanced Micro Devices have been in equal parts focused on the FX CPUs and the 7000 graphics.
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14 September 2011
04:00 GMT |
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NEC's recent releases have mostly stuck to the display and projector market segments, but the company is again showing just how varied its portfolio is by announcing a tablet PC.
Amidst the flood of ARM-based tablets, with or without the Android operating system, that have been coming out over the past year,... |
12 September 2011
02:50 GMT |
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The upcoming Windows 8 operating system for the PC is set to include a dedicated App Store, similar to what Apple's Mac OS X now has, and Epic Games is quite thrilled with the idea of being able to deliver software and games through it in a much easier to use manner.Microsoft's PC gaming efforts haven'... |
8 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Microsoft reacted extremely rapidly to protect users of Internet Explorer against attacks leveraging fraudulent DigiNotar root certificates, and is now providing an update for all supported versions of Windows designed to revoke the trust of all DigiNotar root certificates. Customers running Windows are advised to d... |
7 September 2011
12:12 GMT |
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Along with the release of Symbian Anna for all devices that landed on shelves with the Symbian^3 operating system on board, Nokia also made available upgraded tools that would enable users update their phones to the new platform release.
One of these is the Nokia Software Updater, available for machines running ... |
25 August 2011
18:51 GMT |
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