Three Minutes With Vista Security Guru Ben Fathi
Vista's bug count so far is OK with the Windows security manager. Microsoft's Ben Fathi has a new job now that Vista has shipped, but the man who led the company's Security Technology Unit is still focused on keeping the bad guys away from your PC.
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13.2.2007 Video of Windows 7 Installed on Netbooks
Following Microsoft's release of its Windows 7 Beta operating system, a number of PC users were keen on finding out just how fast the new OS developed by the Redmond, Washington-based software giant was.
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15.1.2009 Windows Live moves into video sharing
Windows Live Video. As the name suggests, it provides a place for users to share their own video content with the world and will compete with existing services such as Google Video and YouTube.
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13.3.2006 Windows Vista Blog: "It's Time" video
A simple two word blog post was made minutes ago, on the offical Windows Vista Blog:
"It's time!" windows -
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9.11.2006 Windows XP Running on PS3 - video
That’s right, a programmer has managed to get Windows XP running on a PlayStation 3 via Linux/QEMU.
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26.11.2006 Video Windows Vista Keygen confirmation?
Some our users report to us that Vista Keygen
is not hoax and it works. One of them (pyrates) prepare this video, which should confirm that it work.
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4.3.2007 When Windows Live Messenger and Video Don't Mix
Windows Live Messenger can be taken down via a vulnerability affecting the Video Conversation functionality.
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28.8.2007 Windows 7 Video Ads, Sneak Peek
With Windows 7 released to manufacturing since July 22nd, 2009, and set for general availability on October 22nd, 2009, the focus will soon shift on the marketing effort built around the operating system.
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7.9.2009 Certified for Windows Vista Software Demo Video
Over the past few weeks, we have been talking about the Certified for Windows Vista Logo Program specifically related to devices. That’s only half the story.
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24.6.2007 Video claims to demo breathtaking Windows 7 features
A Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed the video is fake. Thanks TechMedik from neowin for posting this in forums, Ars Technica have posted what could be a promo video for Windows 7. Read on ...
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14.5.2008 Watch the Full Windows 7 Video Presentation, Not Just the Official Version
Microsoft has sort of timidly started to share a couple of rather anodyne details about Windows 7, the next version of the Windows client due by the end of 2009, according to the company's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.
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30.5.2008 Windows 7: Build 7057 blocks third-party video codecs
Something we love about Windows 7 is that it has much better native codec support, like H.264 and AAC. But the price might be high: It looks like Windows 7 might block third-party video decoders.
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26.3.2009 BREAKING: Windows 7 M1 Ultimate Edition Lives! - Video Proof!
Windows 7 Milestone 1 Ultimate Edition is alive, kicking and as real as they get! Although it's but one year away from the moment Windows Vista hit the shelves, and despite being in the final stages of development of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, Microsoft is also building Windows 7.
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25.1.2008 Windows 7 - 100% legal activation with video and Upgrading from build 7229 to 7264
This is not the crack and not illegal, you don't need any program to the activation.
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10.7.2009 Internet Explorer Video
Watch this entertaining video on how Internet Explorer 7 has made Roger's everyday tasks easier.
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19.10.2006 Windows Movie Maker Crashes on XP SP3 with Over 100 Video Transitions or Effects
A range of fixes from Microsoft aimed for Windows XP Service Pack 3 are illustrative of the fact that you can indeed have too much of a good thing.
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5.7.2009 Google Video Integrates Media
Search engine's videos now play within a browser; no additional software needed. Google has improved its Google Video service by eliminating the need for users to download software to play back videos, the Mountain View, California-based company has announced.
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VistaBlogging.com launches with Video demo
Windows Vista coverage is one of our primary purposes here at Neowin.net. Our goal is to keep users informed with news and information on the latest/greatest happenings in the technology industry.
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19.9.2006 MSI - Stolen Video Cards
Woot.com, a popular “One deal” website, has been called out by MSI and accused of selling stolen video cards. MSI reports that an undisclosed number of 7900GS video cards where stolen during transit.
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23.9.2006 June 2007 DreamScenes On Video
Stardock has put out a video showing off
the top DreamScenes released in June.
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3.7.2007 Any Video Converter Free 2.07
Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format!
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1.8.2007 MS: Video on Messenger launched
Microsoft Corp has launched a new online service in 20 countries which will allow users to watch video clips at the same time as a network of friends and chat via Windows Live Messenger.
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12.5.2008 20 minutes video of the new Office 12
At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated Office 12 in public for the first time. The news you'll hear is "they changed the user interface."
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 teaser Video
Video:
IE7 Big [7.8 MB]
Video:
IE7 Medium [2.9 MB]
Video:
IE7 Small [1 MB]
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11.2.2006 Amazon Opens Video Download Store
After months of rumors and speculation, Amazon on Thursday officially took the wraps off its video download store, dubbed Unbox.
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8.9.2006 EXCLUSIVE VIDEO! First look at the Xbox 360 Elite
While everyone else is talking about it and showing grainy camera phone pictures from undisclosed bunkers, we thought we’d go right to the source and get you an exclusive video.
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28.3.2007 Google Launches Test Of AdSense For Video
The system lets publishers insert streaming video ads in online video content on their Web sites.
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23.5.2007 Google Video Closed, YouTube Improved
It was quite a weird situation when Google owned Google Video and YouTube, two similar platforms with almost the same features.
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14.8.2007 YouTube Introduces Multi-Video Uploading
YouTube is a website for people to communicate more efficiently with video by sharing, commenting on, and viewing videos.
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11.11.2007 Microsofts Vista promo video just a spoof
Turns out Microsoft's unfathomably horrendous Vista SP1 promo video that turned up yesterday was just one great big spoof -- a spoof Redmond apparently had no qualms spending a good bit of dough on rather than just re-dubbing some old video from yesteryear.
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18.4.2008Fight malware by upgrading to Vista, urges MS
Microsoft is pushing improved malware defences as a reason to shift over to Vista.
Systems running Microsofts latest operating
system recorded 60 per cent less malware infections than XP, according to figures obtained using Microsofts malicious software removal tool.
Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development for Windows, claimed on Tuesday that Vista experienced fewer security vulnerabilities
than either Mac OS X, Windows XP or Ubuntu Linux. Fathi made the statement during a keynote presentation at the RSA Europe security conference in
London on Tuesday.
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23.10.2007Windows Vista follow-up likely in 2009
With Vista just out the door,
Microsoft is now drawing up
plans to deliver its follow-up
client operating system by the
end of 2009, according to the
executive in charge of
building the product's core
components.
That would be a much faster
turn-around than Vista, which
shipped more than five years
after Windows XP, but Vista
was exceptional, said Ben
Fathi, corporate vice
president of development with
Microsoft's Windows Core
Operating System Division this
week at the RSA Conference in
San Francisco.
Microsoft
originally planned for its XP
follow-up to include a number
of radical changes to Windows,
including a new file system
and a reinvented user
interface, but after the
company's products were hit
by widespread worm outbreaks
in 2003, Microsoft redirected
almost its entire engineering
effort to locking down Windows
with the XP Service Pack 2
release.
"We put Longhorn on the
back burner for awhile,"
Fathi said. "Then when we
came back to it, we realized
that there were incremental
things that we wanted to do,
and significant improvements
that we wanted to make in
Vista that we couldn't
deliver in one
release."
Vista shipped about
two-and-a-half years after XP
SP 2, and Vista's follow-up
is expected to take about the
same amount of time, according
to Fathi. "You can think
roughly two, two-and-a-half
years is a reasonable time
frame that our partners can
depend on and can work with,"
he said. "That's a good
timeframe for
refresh."
That time line would put
Microsoft's next client
operating system out by the
end of 2009.
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11.02.2007MS to McAfee: Stop Lying to the Public
A statement from Ben Fathi,
Microsoft's corporate vice
president for security
technology, gives some subtle
but clear indications that, if
McAfee wants to take its
claims against Windows Vista
security features off the
streets and into a more formal
setting, Microsoft might be
willing to make a battle of
it...
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20.10.2006Microsoft refuses to discuss next OS
Microsoft wants everyone to
focus on Vista and forget
about whatever may come down
the operating system pike.
In a tightly-worded
statement issued late
yesterday and attributed to
Kevin Kutz, the director of
the Windows client group, the
company said it "is focused
on the value Windows Vista
will bring to people today. We
are not giving official
guidance to the public yet
about the next version of
Windows, other than that
we're working on it."
Kutz was replying to
speculation that the next
version of Windows -- with
codenames ranging from
"Vienna" to "Windows 7,"
depending on the pundit --
would be out before the end of
2009. The chatter was fueled
by Ben Fathi, corporate vice
president of development in
Microsoft's Windows core
operating system division, who
spoke to reporters last week
at the RSA conference.
At the time, Fathi
said the follow-on to Vista
would likely show up in 2009.
"You can think roughly two,
two and a half years is a
reasonable time frame that our
partners can depend on and can
work with," he said.
"That's a good time frame
for refresh."
Yesterday's move was a
clear effort by Microsoft to
distance itself from Fathi's
comments, said Michael Silver,
an analyst with Gartner. But
it was hardly unexpected.
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15.02.2007Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009
Although the time gap between
XP and Vista's release dates
was more than five years,
Microsoft is claiming it will
be different this time around.
At the RSA Conference in San
Francisco, representatives
said the software giant is
planning for the next client
operating system by the end of
2009. Vista shipped about
two-and-a-half years after XP
SP2, and Vista's follow-up is
expected to take about the
same amount of time, according
to Ben Fathi, corporate vice
president of development with
Microsoft's Windows Core
Operating System Division:
" You can think roughly
two, two-and-a-half years is a
reasonable time frame that our
partners can depend on and can
work with. That's a good
timeframe for
refresh ."
Last
year, Microsoft code named
Vista's successor as Vienna,
but Fathi said he could not
disclose the current name or
what would be the major
improvements in the release.
" We've been told not to
use it publicly. We're going
to look at a fundamental piece
of enabling technology. Maybe
its hypervisors, I don't know
what it is. Maybe it's a new
user interface paradigm for
consumers. It's too early for
me to talk about it. But over
the next few months I think
you're going to start hearing
more and more ."
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10.02.2007Engineering Windows 7: User Account Control
Steven Sinofsky: We promised that this blog would provide a view of Engineering Windows 7 and that means that we would cover the full range of
topicsfrom performance to user interface, technical and non-technical topics, and of course easy topics and controversial topics. This post is about
User Account Control. Our author is Ben Fathi, vice president for core OS development. UAC is a feature that crosses many aspects of the Windows
architecturesecurity, accounts, user interface, design, and so onwe had several other members of the team contribute to the post.
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09.10.2008DirectX Video Acceleration Specification for Windows Media Video Decoding
Defines extensions to DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) to support decoding of Windows Media Video (WMV) 8, WMV 9, and SMPTE VC-1.
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15.12.2007TiVo to Transfer Video to
iPod, PSP
TiVo on Monday announced plans
to enable customers to
transfer video recorded on its
popular digital video
recorders to Apple iPods and
Sony PlayStation Portable
devices. Previously, the
company only supported devices
that ran Microsoft's Windows
Media Video format...
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22.11.2005Video Clips Replace Ads in
Messenger
Microsoft has a new option for
people tired of seeing the
advertisement in their MSN
Messenger window: watch video
clips instead. With the
introduction of Windows Live
Messenger, the Redmond company
is testing a feature it calls
the Video Carousel that
replaces the graphic ad with
interactive video content from
MSN...
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27.12.2005Windows Mobile 6.5 video tour sneaks onto YouTube
With all the excitement about Microsoft's upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5, sporting a revamped user interface and a bunch of new features, it is no
wonder that a video has popped up. The video of of Windows Mobile 6.5 build 21159.5.0.0, running on an HTC Touch HD. The video shows off the new
home screen and 'Honeycomb' interface, although it seems a bit sluggish, indicating a rather primitive build of the new phone OS. It also
shows off the new Internet Explorer Mobile that will be bundled with Windows Mobile 6.5, and other features. Microsoft is expected to formally
unveil Windows Mobile 6.5 at this years Mobile World Congress this month, running from the 16th to the 19th.
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15.02.2009Microsoft shows off security in Server 2008
Microsoft has been giving more details of the forthcoming Windows Server 2008, due for release on 27 February next year.
The code
will be Microsoft's most secure yet, Microsoft's vice president of development for Windows
Ben Fathi promised. It had been rigously checked and the
compny wouldnt release it if it wasn't secure.
"Lest year we pulled three launches back because we weren't happy with the
security of the product," he said.
"That effected our release cycle but it was the right thing to do for our customers."
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24.10.2007Microsoft to McAfee: Stop Lying to the Public
A statement released to the
press very early this morning
from Ben Fathi, Microsoft's
corporate vice president for
security technology, gives
some subtle but clear
indications that, if McAfee
wants to take its claims
against Windows Vista security
features off the streets and
into a more formal setting,
Microsoft might be willing to
make a battle of it.
"It's unfortunate that
McAfee's lawyers are making
these kinds of inaccurate and
inflammatory statements,"
Fathi's statement opens,
apparently referring
specifically to claims made
against Microsoft's
forthcoming 64-bit kernel
protection scheme before the
European Commission, and not
to open letters from McAfee
executives published by the
Financial Times and ZDNet.
While McAfee and
Symantec have been complaining
publicly that Microsoft's new
architectural choices lock
them out of being able to
provide heuristic security
features for anti-virus and
anti-malware products,
privately, McAfee's complaint
is that Microsoft is failing
to provide its partners with
the information necessary to
enable them to alert users to
vulnerabilities using their
own tools, rather than
Microsoft's.
European news sources this
morning cite McAfee attorneys
in Brussels as saying that
Microsoft has failed to live
up to its "hollow
assurances" of providing this
information to security
partners.
Fathi's
statement continues with a
timeline, down to the minute,
of delivery times when McAfee
received documentation and
sample code from Microsoft
last Monday and Tuesday. This
code apparently gives vendors
new APIs for providing users
with their own security
alerts, in place of
Microsoft's. A new build of
Vista, Fathi said, which
incorporates this third-party
alert system, was delivered to
McAfee last Wednesday, and a
tutorial briefing was given
Thursday at noon.
McAfee's original
complaints before the EC,
however, pre-date this
timeline by weeks.
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21.10.2006New RealPlayer Downloads Video Clips
Ostensibly acknowledging that
focusing on its own audio and
video formats has become a
losing proposition with the
near-ubiquity of Flash video,
RealNetworks is preparing a
new version of its
oft-maligned RealPlayer
software that support Windows
Media, Apple's QuickTime and
even Adobe's Flash...
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05.06.2007"Windows 7 Video" Is Fake
Robert McLaws: A couple different websites around the net have been reporting over the past few days on
a new video making the rounds on YouTube, purporting to be a video demo of
Windows "7". While it is pretty high quality, very elaborate, and shows off some pretty interesting stuff, multiple sources inside Microsoft have
told me it's a fake. One source told me that security on Windows 7 is extremely tight for various reasons, and that we shouldn't expect to see
anything for quite a while yet.
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15.05.2008iTunes Image Files Suggest
Video Store
Bloggers have discovered an
image resource within iTunes 5
that suggests Apple has future
plans for a video store. Three
buttons with the terms
"Gift Video," "Buy
Video," and "Add
Video" were found along
with references to a
"protected MPEG-4 video
file" within text strings
in the code of iTunes 5...
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13.09.2005Qik streaming video begins alpha, adds Windows Mobile support
Qik, a service that allows its users to stream video from their phones live on the site, has begun its invitation-only alpha period and extended the
list of supported devices to include select Windows Mobile handsets...
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06.06.2008Microsoft rolls out Bing Video
Microsoft announced today that it is consolidating MSN Video into Bing Video. Bing Video will offer MSN's array of videos, and videos from sites
such as Hulu, ABC, Youtube and more than 300 content providers. The old video.msn.com portal will now forward directly to Bing Video. In a company
blog posting, a Microsoft spokesperson detailed Bing video: "Today, we are announcing a new version of Bing Videos that brings together the rich
editorial content and programming of MSN Video with the web-wide breadth and great search capabilities of Bing, to deliver a new online video
destination that offers a comprehensive and faster video experience.
Read full story.....
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11.11.2009Drag race: Windows 7 vs. Vista
Microsoft demonstrated the boot times of Windows Vista vs. the upcoming Windows 7 today at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, showing
improvements under the hood of the next Windows version.
Here's a video of what the company showed...
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06.11.2008Blinkx Expands to Portable
Video
Blinkx on Monday unveiled
blinx.tv To Go, a new service
that will help users to search
for online video content and
then sync it to their iPod or
personal video player. The
service would automatically
re-encode the video to play in
the user's selected format...
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20.12.2005Windows 7 695x Boot Screen Video
Chris Holmes: So last week, winfuture posted about Windows 7 build 6954 having a new boot screen. Ever since then, people have been wanting to see
exactly what this new boot screen looks like. I can tell you it looks pretty nifty. It is basically 4 animating balls that come together and form a
glowing windows flag, making for a pretty cool effect.
I recently had a chance to film this boot screen in action, so without
further ado, watch the video of the new Windows 7 boot screen...
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