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A DVD5 ISO image file containing all the security bulletins made available on November 10th, 2009 for all supported Windows platforms, is now up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center. As is the case every month, the Redmond company is accompanying the security patched it offers through Windows Update, Automatic... |
13 November 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Microsoft has released a patch for a Critical Windows kernel vulnerability affecting both Windows Vista RTM/SP1 and SP2 and Windows XP SP2 and SP3. Therefore, customers are advised to apply the update immediately. Earlier this week, the Redmond company gave green light to the distribution process of no less than six ... |
12 November 2009
07:11 GMT |
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Users of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 that are confronted with intermittent crashes of their machines might find a fix via a hotfix released by Microsoft and designed to resolve an issue associated with the Tcpip.sys driver. The problem, the Redmond company explained, is in the way that th... |
13 October 2009
07:49 GMT |
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Microsoft has made available for download an update designed to boost power-saving capabilities for the latest Windows client and server releases. Microsoft noted that the update could allow for potential power saving, provided that the machines running a 64-bit (x64-based) version of Windows Vista SP2, of Windows Se... |
12 October 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is beginning to backport Windows 7 features to Windows Vista, and as an integral part of the process, the company is also upgrading Vista’s graphics technology to the level of Windows 7. In this regard, the Redmond-based company has made available for download the Beta development milestone of the Pla... |
11 September 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Not only is Windows 7 RTM not affected by the Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol 2.0 critical zero-day vulnerability, but the latest iteration of the Windows client is also safe from a range of vulnerabilities impacting previous Windows releases. Microsoft released five security bulletins on September 8, 2009, addre... |
9 September 2009
11:45 GMT |
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Microsoft is letting users fend for themselves when Windows Vista Service Pack 2 fails to install on computers running multiple 64-bit Intel processors or a 64-bit Intel multi-core processor, at least for the time being. The Redmond company informed that attempting to deploy the second service pack for Vista or for W... |
27 August 2009
11:30 GMT |
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Even before the release of Windows 7 Release Candidate Build 7100 Microsoft announced that it would take extreme measures in order to increase end user protection and amputate the AutoPlay/AutoRun feature of the operating system. Over a months after Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing, Microsoft is applying ... |
26 August 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Back in 2007, Microsoft made available for download a set of tools designed to allow developers to better leverage the .NET Compact Framework 3.5. Dubbed the Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5, the collection of utilities offered developers various tools among which NetCFSvcUtil.exe. The original .NET Compact ... |
10 August 2009
06:35 GMT |
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The July 2009 Security Release ISO Image is now available for download from Microsoft, having been offered concomitantly with the company's monthly patch cycle releases. In addition to serving each month's security bulletins through Windows Update, the software giant is also packaging the patches aimed for ... |
17 July 2009
11:15 GMT |
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On July 14th, as an integral part of the monthly patch release cycle, Microsoft made available a total of six security bulletins impacting Windows platforms, Office Publisher, ISA Server, and Virtual PC and Virtual Server. Three of the patch packages affect various releases of the Windows client and server operating ... |
15 July 2009
11:45 GMT |
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Developers looking for an example on how to build a connected application by bundling together a range of Microsoft technologies have DinnerNow available, courtesy of Habib Heydarian, program manager, Visual Studio Debugger. What do you get? Nothing more and nothing less than an online marketplace meant to illustrate... |
6 July 2009
03:25 GMT |
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With the availability of Windows 7, Microsoft is also cooking the evolution of Windows Installer from version 4.5 to 5.0. However, with the next iteration of the Windows client still on the horizon, the focus in now on Windows Installer (MSI) 4.5. In this regard, the Redmond company indicated a consistent popularity ... |
9 March 2009
07:00 GMT |
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Concomitantly with the availability of the IE Cumulative Security Update for February 2009 via Windows Update, Microsoft also released security patches for pre-release and final versions of Internet Explorer running on operating systems still in development or already RTM'd. The security updates are designed to ... |
11 February 2009
14:01 GMT |
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While it is cooking Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft has also managed to further extend the availability of Windows XP. With the 32-bit version of Vista's precursor at Service Pack 3, and at SP2 for the 64-bit flavor, Windows XP will now live until June 2009. The latest XP reprieve... |
22 December 2008
16:01 GMT |
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With both Windows 7 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 still under development, Microsoft is scrambling to patch components of the two operating systems in order to protect users from attacks targeting a Pointer Reference Memory Corruption vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer versions on the two variants of the Wi... |
18 December 2008
03:51 GMT |
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The past month Microsoft announced a major shift in its anti-malware strategy. As a direct consequence, the Redmond company will kill Windows Live OneCare and replace it with a free security solution codenamed Morro. Following the news that OneCare is heading straight for an early grave, critics indicated that Micros... |
2 December 2008
07:38 GMT |
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Introduced in 2005, Windows Live OneCare is heading for an early grave, with Microsoft planning to discontinue license sales of the all-in-one PC care and security product come June 30, 2009, and to offer support only as long as existing subscriptions will last. In the place of OneCare, the company is cooking what it... |
21 November 2008
08:34 GMT |
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The evolution of the Windows client, involving both Windows Vista (now with Service Pack 1) and Windows 7, appears to be closer than Microsoft is ready to acknowledge officially. Of course, Windows XP, even with Service Pack 3, is the past, with the exception of customers abandoning Windows Vista by exercising ... |
18 October 2008
07:20 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, the recent events focused on the next iteration of the Windows platform qualify these past days as the week of Windows 7. Make no mistake about it, even though the Redmond company started communicating Windows 7, it failed to diverge in any way from its official policy of keeping the world in the dark wh... |
31 May 2008
07:02 GMT |
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