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Microsoft announced that it was kicking up a notch its initial investment into Linux dating back to 2006, by pouring no less than $100 million into the open source operating system via Novell. According to the Redmond company, the $100 million will be spent on acquiring support certificates for Novell SUSE Linux Ente... |
20 August 2008
08:03 GMT |
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Intel has tried to make the last version of its Turbo Memory do some things that Windows Vista doesn't seem capable of: it can transparently optimize Windows for the use of flash memory storage. At the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California, the chip giant will be demonstrating the newest version of Turb... |
14 August 2008
01:57 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to start building the next generation of the software development kit for the Windows platform. In July 2008, Sarah Maurer, program manager on the Windows SDK Team, introduced two official surveys designed to tap the developers making use of the tools but also samples, header files, documentat... |
12 August 2008
07:50 GMT |
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High Performance Computing is without a doubt at the opposite pole from mainstream computers. But Microsoft is laboring to make a difference, and while mainstream and HPC might never become intersecting concepts, Windows for supercomputers is indeed opening up the door for more high performance computing customers. A... |
11 August 2008
09:20 GMT |
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Microsoft has little say in the matter, as does the entire ecosystem of software developers that will have to step up their game and fall in line with the evolution of hardware, further and further into the territory of parallel computing. However, the Redmond company is indeed ready to ride the wave of manycore/mult... |
9 August 2008
06:13 GMT |
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The death of the mammoth Windows operating system releases was proclaimed even before the availability of Windows Vista. With Windows 7, Microsoft managed to prove that Windows was still very much alive and kicking. Now, a new product cooking in Redmond has the potential to make Windows history. With its roots deep i... |
8 August 2008
12:43 GMT |
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The death of the Windows desktop operating system is not necessarily related to the non-Windows platform Midori developed in Redmond, or with a Rich Internet Application platform hosted in the cloud. entrustIT, a Microsoft Gold partner in the UK offered a glimpse at where the evolution of IT will inherently take the ... |
5 August 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has placed its Windows operating system firmly at the core of a new initiative, described by the company as a crowdsourced digital concert experience. CrowdFire, presented by Windows, is a project designed to orbit around music fans and their content at the intersection of music, culture and technology. "Cr... |
5 August 2008
06:09 GMT |
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The anti-Microsoft recipe is rather simple and with evident ingredients. And in its quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Redmond giant spelled out the main risks and competitors to its business: Linux, open source, Google and Apple. The software giant has made inroads on a vari... |
1 August 2008
07:30 GMT |
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One aspect of the Windows operating system that Microsoft is looking to take to a new level is the Plug-and-Play architecture. According to a member of the group dealing with the Windows Device Platform, the Redmond company is gearing up for the next stage in the evolution of Plug-and-Play. Whether end users will sta... |
31 July 2008
12:53 GMT |
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There is so much life left into Windows, and Microsoft is gearing up for the moment when it completely runs out of what is now its proprietary operating system. In this context, the Redmond company is cooking a couple of non-Windows operating systems labeled Singularity and Midori. Singularity, a platform prototype w... |
30 July 2008
15:21 GMT |
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Once the traditional anti-open source poster child, Microsoft is slowly seeing this aura eroding replaced as a direct consequence of the rise of new, more pressing, rivals such as Google and Apple. Furthermore, the Redmond company, once the epitome of the proprietary software business model, while still retaining its... |
30 July 2008
13:13 GMT |
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Microsoft has debuted a limited time offer designed to help customers running Windows for Supercomputers test the performance of their HPC cluster. Phil Pennington, Windows Server Technical Evangelist, is inviting users to access a new tool developed by a member of the Microsoft High Performance Computing team for fr... |
29 July 2008
05:41 GMT |
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How about playing the Wii without the Wii? As intriguing as it may sound, we have the technology and it has already been put to good use for those that want an alternative to Nintendo's Wii console. The cheaper alternative to the wireless gaming console is named CamSpace, and comes under the form of an executabl... |
22 July 2008
09:55 GMT |
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Unfortunately for Microsoft, one of the aspects of its proprietary operating system that has grown to become associated by default with the Windows brand is the Blue Screen of Death. BSOD, for short, is the result of a critical system error that will stop the operating system dead in its tracks and lead to a reboot. ... |
17 July 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Microsoft offers an impressive collection of resources built around its Windows operating systems. There are in excess of 2,300 Windows help and how-to articles and demonstrations available straight from Microsoft. Under the old design of the Windows corner of Microsoft.com, the main focus was on Windows Vista, and t... |
16 July 2008
15:41 GMT |
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Windows is generally perceived as the perpetual bronze winner in a three horse race against Apple's Mac OS X and the open source Linux, despite the fact that Microsoft continues to account for in excess of 90% of the operating system market. According to the Redmond company, the operating system vulnerability co... |
14 July 2008
10:44 GMT |
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With Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista and Service Pack 3 for Windows XP already made available to the general public, it would be a tad late for Microsoft to introduce a redesign into its Windows clients. But not the same is valid for an overhaul of the Windows, Windows Vista and Windows XP websites on Microsoft.com.... |
14 July 2008
07:22 GMT |
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The Windows operating system is not going anywhere for a very long time. In fact, consumers should be prepared to still buy Windows over a decade from the releases of Windows Vista's successors Windows 7 and Windows 8. Microsoft might be hard at work developing non-Windows operating systems such as Singularity a... |
14 July 2008
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Although speculations do exist pointing that Microsoft is in the "right direction" as far as the next releases of its proprietary operating system are concerned, the fact of the matter is that Windows 7 and Windows 8 will not diverge from the Windows path in the foreseeable future. Do not expect Windows Next or Windo... |
8 July 2008
13:04 GMT |
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No, Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1% is not a typo, neither the result of erroneous information. The fact is that there is a context where the open source operating system holds the lion's king of the market while Microsoft's proprietary platform is not the only dominant OS, but is reduced to a bottom feeder in t... |
2 July 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Bill Gates has officially stepped into the next phase of his life, one dedicated almost exclusively to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. After doing the same job for over 30 years, Gates admitted that the new direction would not be easy; however, he stated that he is ready for the change. Microsoft's co-fou... |
30 June 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Licenses for Windows come in various flavors from Retail to Volume, but perhaps the most common of all is provided by original equipment manufacturers together with operating systems preloaded on new computers. Since over 80% of the revenues of the Windows Client Division come from sales of Windows on new machines, t... |
17 June 2008
11:17 GMT |
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This is it! The wait is now over! Firefox 3.0 Final is available for download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Mozilla announced since last week, following the release of the Release Candidate 3 Build, that the gold bits for Firefox 3.0 would be made available on June 17, 2008, and managed to meet the deadline. Altho... |
17 June 2008
04:41 GMT |
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The June 2008 Security Releases ISO Image is available for download containing critical fixes for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, as well as additional supported Windows platforms. On June 10, 2008, Microsoft made available for download no less than seven security bulletins impacting exclu... |
12 June 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Microsoft's online validation tools designed as anti-piracy mechanisms are increasingly applauded by the company for contributing to identify pirates of its software products. The Redmond giant has made available both the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) and the Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) to protect its flag-... |
10 June 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Some people say that Windows XP doesn't look too great and use all kinds of applications to change the way it does, customizing the window interface, the interface, the start menu or any other element of the operating system. In an article published a few weeks ago, Marius Nestor, our Linux Editor, made Ubuntu l... |
28 May 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Future Microsoft security products could make use of an additional operating system running on top of Windows in order to protect the underlying platform from malware. A new patent from the Redmond company titled: "System and method for proactive computer virus protection," authored by Adrian Marinescu was awarded o... |
22 May 2008
12:07 GMT |
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Back in the past, we saw a huge number of rogue anti-spyware technology which did nothing than to misinform users and trick them into buying unneeded security solutions. Today, a similar scam has been reported by security company Panda Software but, in comparison with the previous attacks, this one relies on a Window... |
22 May 2008
09:15 GMT |
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Well, that settles it. When you want to make your employees unhappy just put them in an environment with artificial light only and no windows and take away their greens - plants, that is. According to a study led by Tina Cade from the Texas State University and Andrea Dravigne of the San Marcos Nature Center, the pre... |
21 May 2008
09:47 GMT |
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The perpetual face-off between operating systems certainly goes deeper than the shell, and in this context, a critical aspect of such a comparison is a "measuring contest" involving the core of the platforms. Diomidis Spinellis, from the Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics ... |
19 May 2008
11:02 GMT |
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Following feedback from end users, and especially corporate customers, Microsoft's process of delivering security updates for its products evolved from an on-need approach to a strategy built on a scheduled monthly patch cycle, even though out-of-band releases have not been ruled out. An integral part of the Red... |
16 May 2008
06:05 GMT |
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The latest "Patch Tuesday" brought us lots of patches supposed to fix security vulnerabilities discovered in Microsoft's products, including here Microsoft Office for Windows and for Mac, Windows, OneCare, Antigen and Windows Defender. Microsoft said that four of the patched vulnerabilities are critical, a fact ... |
14 May 2008
09:50 GMT |
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May has so far proved to be nothing short on an easy ride for the Redmond company, which issued a total of four security bulletins affecting the Windows operating system and the Office suite as well as a range of security solutions including Windows Live OneCare, Antigen, Windows Defender, Forefront Security. Notable... |
14 May 2008
09:29 GMT |
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Avast Antivirus, the popular antivirus application which currently has millions of users in almost every corner of the world, may cause an unexpected behavior of your Windows operating system if certain conditions are met. According to a blog post on the Avast forum, users of older versions of the antivirus may encou... |
13 May 2008
16:06 GMT |
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The Scalable Adaptive Graphical Environment for Windows is not a Microsoft project per se. SAGE was developed by the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, but this does not mean that the Redmond company is a stranger to the project. In fact, NCMIR acknowledged support from Microsoft, namely the Researc... |
12 May 2008
06:36 GMT |
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A while ago, Apple released Safari 3.1.1, a revised version of its standard web browser on Leopard-running machines. Among other fixes, v 3.1.1. patched the vulnerability that enabled Charlie Miller to compromise Apple's MacBook Air at Pwn2Own, at CanSecWest, nabbing 3Gs and the laptop for himself in the process... |
5 May 2008
03:11 GMT |
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Apple's Boot Camp has just been updated to version 2.1. It is available in three forms, for Windows XP, Vista 32 bit, and Vista 64 bit. Update 2.1 addresses certain issues with the utility and improves compatibility with XP and Vista. Click HERE to update your version of Boot Camp. XP users should note that Boot... |
25 April 2008
04:08 GMT |
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This week, Microsoft has made the first step into a new era of its evolution, one that takes it beyond its traditional business model, focused almost exclusively on the desktop, the Windows operating system and Office productivity suite. After he took the title of Chief Software officer from Chairman Bill Gates, toge... |
24 April 2008
09:19 GMT |
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Windows is without a doubt the most attacked platform worldwide, an inherent detail associated with its ubiquity. Because it is able to centralize data from such a vast pool of end users, Microsoft is capable of putting together perhaps the most comprehensive perspective over the threat environment involving everythi... |
22 April 2008
11:00 GMT |
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Finding malicious websites on the Internet or receiving emails with infected files is something usual these days so it's pretty important to have an up-to-date antivirus which would be able to block these threats. However, new infections are born every day so, if you really want to keep your system clean, you mu... |
22 April 2008
05:25 GMT |
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F-Secure is a company which has rolled out numerous security applications targeting most operating systems out there, but most focused on Windows. Today, the company has just rolled out a new beta, namely Home Server Security Beta 1.00 build 166, a special software solution which is supposed to bring more security to... |
22 April 2008
03:28 GMT |
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The former anti-Linux poster child, Microsoft, is now lending a helping hand to the process of converting users to the open source operating system. The Redmond company announced the extension of its 2006 Windows-Linux interoperability agreement with Novell, with a strong focus on China. Together, Microsoft and Novel... |
21 April 2008
10:51 GMT |
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Working for a famous company is great, especially for those who enjoy their job and do whatever they like. Most employees are grouped in teams, specialized on certain aspects of their job, working together in order to improve productivity and get better results. Because of that, monotony is just a matter of time so i... |
19 April 2008
13:13 GMT |
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Recent not-so-good news surrounding Apple concern a certain Software Update mechanism that enables Windows users to improve the operability of iTunes, QuickTime and Safari, the latter being Apple's standard web browser. The latter, again, has been quite a PITA for some Windows users who, unwillingly, have downlo... |
18 April 2008
15:46 GMT |
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Microsoft's Windows operating system is again causing trouble for its customers after security company Symantec confirmed that a new malicious code targeting the Chinese version of Windows 2000 is available on the web. Moreover, it seems like the code is able to exploit a critical vulnerability, which was actual... |
17 April 2008
06:18 GMT |
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The correlation between the ubiquity of the Windows operating system and the volume of attacks targeting the product, together with the platform's ill reputation for protecting end users have forced Microsoft to step up its security game. As a consequence, the Redmond company has adopted new models, strategies a... |
14 April 2008
08:37 GMT |
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Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 is the Redmond company's new iteration of its robotics programming platform. The RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition in Pittsburgh is the stage where Microsoft unveiled the next step in the evolution of the Windows-based environment. The community technology preview of... |
9 April 2008
10:50 GMT |
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Windows, Mac OS X and Linux have long disputed superior positions in comparison to one another, in what is essentially a race without a finishing line. Microsoft, Apple and members of the open source community involved in the development of Linux distributions have not been shy of performing countless operating syste... |
9 April 2008
10:16 GMT |
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Following the embarkation on a new course focused on interoperability, Microsoft has made available in excess of 44,000 pages of protocol documentation related to its high-volume products from the Windows client to the Office System and the server platforms. In the latest push designed to fuel open connections in acc... |
9 April 2008
07:20 GMT |
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