Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 is Codenamed "Snoqualmie"
Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 is Codenamed "Snoqualmie". I haven’t been able to tell you this to date, due to my MVP non-disclosure agreement..
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20.1.2009 Coders, Search For Code With Google Code Search
Search engines for searching code bases is nothing new, but this time Google did it with
Google Code Search.
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5.10.2006 Code Posted for IE Attack
New software has been published on the Internet that could be used to exploit a known flaw in Internet Explorer.
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27.3.2007 IE Beta Code Leaks onto Net
Images and code from the latest build of Microsoft?s Internet Explorer 7 browser show up on web sites.
Images and programming code from the latest beta test version of Microsoft?s upcoming Internet Explorer 7 browser have already emerged on the Internet, apparently in leaks from developers.
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25.1.2006 A Microsoft Code Name a Day: Cosmos
I’m resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft’s myriad code names.
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9.8.2007 A Microsoft Code Name a Day: Avalanche
I’m resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft’s myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others (hopefully) will be brand-new.
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10.8.2007 Microsoft Code Name a Day: Harmonica
I’m resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft’s myriad code names.
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16.8.2007 A Microsoft Code Name a Day: Magellan
I’m resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft’s myriad code names.
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22.8.2007 A Microsoft Code Name a Day: Stirling
I’m resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft’s myriad code names.
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27.8.2007 Securing Code for Windows Vista
Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista
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Following the release of what Microsoft has always considered the most secure version of the Windows client to date, and with the threat environment suffering a consistent shift to third-party applications designed to run on top of the platform, the Redmond company emphasized the need for developers to secure their code.
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6.1.2009 Microsoft: Code to the Power of Windows 7
Via the Code7 Contest Microsoft is inviting software developers to build an application tailored to Windows 7.
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15.7.2009 Microsoft Trims Source Code Licenses
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it was reducing the number of Shared Source licenses it offered from more than 10 to just three. The new licenses will serve as templates for product groups within Microsoft to release source code and connect with developers.
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Hackers publish code for critical IE bug
Security experts are warning Internet users to be careful where they click, thanks to a nasty unpatched bug in the way Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser handles the JavaScript computer language. The bug is of particular concern because security researchers in the U.K. have now published "proof of concept" code showing how hackers could exploit the problem and possibly take over a Windows system.
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22.11.2005 MS Source Code Seller Gets Two Years
A Connecticut man convicted of selling stolen portions of Microsoft's source code for its Windows operating system was sentenced to two years in prison by a federal Judge on Friday. William Genovese Jr., 29, pleaded guilty in August to the crime after being charged in February 2004.
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28.1.2006 Windows Server Code Name "Centro" CTP soon
I just got this email, revealing that a CTP for Windows Server "Centro" is underway:
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20.6.2007 Hackers exploit poor website code
Web designers making very old mistakes are letting malicious hackers hijack visitors to their sites, say experts.
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14.4.2008 Windows Shell Code-Named Monad Beta 3
Despite being separated from Windows Vista, Monad is on track to be ready before Microsoft's next-generation operating system. Redmond developers on Tuesday delivered a feature complete beta 3 of Microsoft's command line shell, which includes support for a new snap-in model and cmdlets.
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12.1.2006 Sun Opens Java Source Code Under GPL
Hoping to increase usage of the programming language, Sun said Monday that it would be using the GNU General Public License (GPL) to open source the Java platform. Beginning today, source code would be available for both the Standard (Java SE) and Micro (Java ME) editions.
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13.11.2006 Microsoft Nabs First Licensee in Code Sharing Deal
Microsoft on Thursday signed its first software licensee under a nearly three-year-old arrangement with the European Union. Microsoft said signing up Quest Software -- a company that helps businesses manage their different IT systems -- was an important part of its efforts to comply with regulators' demands.
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11.3.2007 Microsoft Code Name "Acropolis" Community Technology Preview 1
Thanks to pacpis for this download. Microsoft Code Name “Acropolis” is a set of components and tools intended to make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client applications for Microsoft Windows on the .NET Framework.
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5.6.2007 New attack code crashes Windows XP & Vista
Security researchers have released attack code that will crash Windows XP and Vista PCs that are susceptible to a recently patched bug in the operating system.
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19.1.2008 Microsoft to offer code protection, validation to other software developers
Microsoft is planning to deliver on October 1 to third-party software developers a set of technologies that will allow them to add code protection and activation mechanisms to their own software.
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13.7.2007 Windows 7 RC API Code Pack for .NET Framework
Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework is designed to permit developers to access a range of features associated with the next iteration of Windows that are not available in .NET Framework, in managed code.
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8.5.2009 Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code
Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree.
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20.7.2009 Botnet Authors Crash WordPress Sites With Buggy Code
Webmasters who find an annoying error message on their sites may have caught a big break, thanks to a slip-up by the authors of the Gumblar botnet.
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7.11.2009 Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office IntelliSense Code Snippets
IntelliSense code snippets allow developers to easily create and distribute their own customized code libraries. Using the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment and the power of IntelliSense, inserting these commonly used pieces of code is an effective way to enhance your productivity.
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18.1.2006 Microsoft Gets Novell Linux Code Ahead Of Open Source Community
SEC document shows that Microsoft is entitled to receive key technical documentation from the Linux distributor -- even if that documentation is not generally available to open source software developers.
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3.6.2007 Windows Server Code Name Centro Community Technology Preview (CTP)
Back in October I announced the Windows Server Code Name “Centro” Beta 1 release and provided a way for people to sign up for the beta: So, what is "Centro" you ask? Thanks to pacpis for this info.
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1.7.2007 Intel Centrino Wireless Driver Malformed Frame Remote Code Execution
Security vulnerabilities exist in the Microsoft* Windows* drivers for the Intel® 2200BG and 2915ABG PRO/Wireless Network Connection Hardware because of the way that they currently handle certain frames.
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7.8.2006 Microsoft Releases Out of Cycle Patch to Fix Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft usually releases patches once a month, on a day called by the industry the “Patch Tuesday”.
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30.10.2008How To: Perform a Security
Code Review for Managed Code
This How To shows you how to
perform security code reviews.
This module presents the steps
involved in the activity, and
techniques for analyzing your
results...
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21.10.2005MSDN TV: Writing Secure Code with Visual Studio 2005
Rick Samona shows enhancements to Visual Studio 2005 that help make applications more secure. See how FxCop and Code Access Security help create more secure managed code apps, while PREfast and the /GS switch help secure native code apps...
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31.08.2005Finding the Hidden Meanings in Google Code Search
Google launched another new
service this morning, this
time to enable software
developers to find snippets of
public source code that they
may integrate into their own
projects. But with source code
more algebraic than
linguistic, is Google's
ubiquitous query line the
right tool for the job?..
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06.10.2006Windows 7 Code Pack v1.0 Released
The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides support for various features of Windows 7 and previous releases of that operating
system. The Code Pack has reached version 1.0 and has been published on Code Gallery:
Here are some of the features you
can from managed code using the Code Pack...
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08.08.2009MSDN Code Gallery is Live
Eileen Rumwell: Check out this great new tool ... The MSDN Code Gallery is designed to be a place for Microsoft employees and community members to
share code samples/snippets, sample applications, and other resources. I like it.
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24.01.2008Exploit Code Out for IE Flaw
Security experts have
warned of the existence of
exploit code for a new flaw in
Internet Explorer, that can
leave systems open to remote
attack.
Se
curity researcher - Secunia,
said in its advisory, that the
exploit code aims at taking
advantage of the "extremely
critical" vulnerabilities in
IE 5.5 and IE 6 running on XP
Service Pack 2 (SP2), as also
in IE 6 running on Windows
2000 SP4.
The
exploit code was published by
an organization called
"Computer Terrorism".
In the event a
user is tricked into visiting
a malicious Web site, the
exploit triggers off
automatically without the user
having to do anything. The
attacker can use the exploit
to run any code on a user's
system...
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22.11.2005Microsoft Source Code Site
Exits Beta
Microsoft officially launched
CodePlex on Tuesday, a
software development portal
designed to host projects by
third parties and share source
code. In beta testing since
May, CodePlex offers code
under a variety of licenses,
including Microsoft Shared
Source and the GPL, among
others...
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28.06.2006How Google improved performance on Google Code
Jacob Moon, Google Developer Programs: If you're a frequent visitor to
code.google.com for product updates and reference materials for
Google APIs you're working with, you might have noticed that the page loading time (or page rendering time depending on how you see
it) has reduced in varying degrees in the past several weeks.
As you'll see below, we've made several changes to help reduce
user-perceived latency. This is not an exhaustive list of all improvements we've made recently, but these are the major ones we've made.
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16.03.2008Microsoft Makes .NET Framework Source Code Visible Under License
As part of an effort to make debugging code at the granular level more feasible with its new Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft today said it will be
making the source code for its .NET Framework available under its royalty-free, "read-only" Reference License...
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04.10.2007Are You in the Know? Find Out
What's New with Code Access
Security in the .NET Framework
2.0
Code access security (CAS) is
based on the identity of the
code that is running. In this
article, Mike Downen discusses
the role of CAS in .NET, and
outlines some key new features
and changes in CAS for the
.NET Framework 2.0...
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21.10.2005Italian Police Asked to
Investigate Sony DRM Code
Also, Computer Associates
brands Sony code 'spyware.'..
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08.11.2005Facebook ordered to hand over source code
Facebook has been ordered to hand over its source code, yet again, after an apparent patent infringement by Facebook on Leader Technologies'
patent for "associating a piece of data with multiple categories". Facebook was ordered last month to hand over all its source code by August 21,
to Leader Technologies, after the latter won a court case for patent infringement in the Delaware District Court. According to Realgeek, Facebook
objected on the orders to release its source code, which has just stalled this case for a while.
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11.09.2009EU: No Fee for Windows Source
Code
European Commission antitrust
head Neelie Kroes told EU
lawmakers on Tuesday that
Microsoft cannot charge a
licensing fee for the Windows
source code it has promised to
share, unless it can prove
such code is
"innovative."
Microsoft made the offer last
week in order to comply with a
2004 court ruling...
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31.01.2006Secure Habits: 8 Simple Rules For Developing More Secure Code
Never trust data, model
threats against your code, and
other good advice from a
security expert...
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04.11.2006Microsoft: Sorry we used GPLv2 code illegally
Microsoft tonight issued an update on the reports that the company used open source code in their Windows 7 USB/DVD tool, illegally. Neowin
originally reported earlier this week that Microsoft had pulled the tool after complains by Rafael Rivera over some of the content of the Windows 7
USB/DVD download tool. Microsoft issued the following statement regarding the reports: After looking at the code in question, we are now able to
confirm this was indeed the case, although it was not intentional on our part. While we had contracted with a third party to create the tool, we share
responsibility as we did not catch it as part of our code review process.
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14.11.2009Microsoft Pushes Secure, Quality Code
Microsoft is adding new code analysis features to its upcoming Visual Studio 2008 tools suite.
In Visual Studio 2005, the company
integrated a couple of static analysis toolsFxCop and PREfast into the tools suite under the names Managed Code Analysis and C/C++ Code Analysis, said
S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft's developer division, in a blog post Oct. 4.
Now for Visual Studio
2008, Microsoft's code analysis team is adding some new features, including Code Metrics, a new tool window "that allows you to not only get an
overall view of the health
of your application, but also gives you the ability to dig deep to find those unmaintainable and complex
hotspots," Somasegar said.
winbeta.org - 06.10.2007
Resources Available with Silverlight 2 Beta 1
Yavor Georgiev: We have been busy preparing a good set of developer resources to release with SL 2 Beta 1, and we are finally done (the fact that
it's the night before MIX is a coincidence, really). We have docs on MSDN Library, code samples, and a couple of quickstarts on http://silverlight.net.
The recently-launched MSDN Code Gallery is great for rolling up all
of these, so here's the page I created:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/silverlightws.
Code Gallery also
has a nice comments feature built in, so you can use that to submit your feedback, or to let us know if you find something that's broken.
winbeta.org - 05.03.2008
A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Confucius
Mary Jo Foley is resuming her
Microsoft Code Name a Day
series that she started in
December 2006. The goal: To
provide the back story, each
day in August, on one of
Microsofts myriad code names.
Some of these code names might
be familiar to Microsoft
watchers; others (hopefully)
will be brand-new.
Microsoft code names
offer some great clues about
the Redmondians development
priorities, not to mention a
better understanding of which
future Microsoft products fit
together, from a strategy
standpoint. And not every
product group is moving to
boring, numbered codenames
(like Windows 7 and Office
14).
Without further ado, let
the codename games begin.
winbeta.org - 02.08.2007
A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Tolesto
Mary Jo Foley is resuming her
Microsoft Code Name a Day
series that she started in
December 2006. The goal: To
provide the back story, each
day in August, on one of
Microsofts myriad code names.
Some of these code names might
be familiar to Microsoft
watchers; others (hopefully)
will be brand-new.
Microsoft code names
offer some great clues about
the Redmondians development
priorities, not to mention a
better understanding of which
future Microsoft products fit
together, from a strategy
standpoint. And not every
product group is moving to
boring, numbered codenames
(like Windows 7 and Office
14).
Without further ado, let
the codename games begin.
winbeta.org - 03.08.2007
Microsoft Code Canvas
Kael Rowan: Ive been working in Microsoft Research on a project called Code Canvas for a while now, and we finally got through enough of the patent
process so that Im able to release some details publically.
Code Canvas is a research prototype focused on spatial orientation of
code as the foundation of an integrated development environment. It is a spatial (2.5D) representation of source code, visual designers, and
project-related artifacts that utilizes infinite panning and smooth semantic zoom for navigation. It is also extensible to allow analysis overlays and
graph-based relationship visualizations.
winbeta.org - 28.03.2009
