Mac OS X 10.5, iLife '07, iWork '07 as early as March
Development of Mac OS X 10.5 is wrapping up faster than many at Apple even anticipated, and at present, a release can be expected as early as late March, sources say.
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10.2.2007 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 Memory Prices Set to Hit the Bottom in the 2H '07
After tumbling for more than four consecutive months, prices on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may sustain rapid decrease in the coming months, causing memory chip makers to continue losing money.
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26.4.2007 DOJ Pushes Microsoft to Produce Vista SP1 in '07
It's unusual, but confirmation of the availability of Windows Vista's first service pack came not from Microsoft Corp., but from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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21.6.2007October 2007 MSDN Magazine now online
The
October 2007 issue of
MSDN Magazine is now available online at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/10/default.aspx.
In this issue you'll find coverage of some advanced concurrency topics. We have articles on employing the
new thread pool APIs in Windows Server 2008 to provide more
control and scalability, using the UI thread and the Dispatcher to
build more responsive Windows Presentation Foundation apps,
harnessing the Task Parallel Library to
optimize your .NET apps for
multi-core processors, and Joe Duffy and Ed Essey introduce
Parallel
Language Integrated Query (PLINQ).
For something completely different, Chris Mitchell shows you a
Windows Mobile application that adjusts your ringtone volume
based on the ambient noise level.
In the columns we take a look at take a look at
type inference and LINQ in Visual Basic 2008, and explore
Windows XP Embedded UI test automation. Dino Esposito continues his
discussion of the
AJAX application architecture, Stephen Toub
builds a
.NET deadlock monitor, and Charles Petzold
demonstrates how to
create 3D text in WPF.
There's much more in the issue, and I'll be blogging about these and other articles throughout the month.
As usual, the
issue is available online in a bunch of languages:
English,
French,
Spanish,
German,
Italian,
Portuguese,
Russian,
Traditional Chinese,
Simplified Chinese,
Korean, and
Japanese.
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13.09.2007Microsoft Details Vision for Web Future
FROM MIX 07 Microsoft
Chief Software Architect Ray
Ozzie took the stage at the
company's MIX 07 conference
in Las Vegas Monday morning to
discuss Microsoft's vision
for the future of the Web,
integrating software and
services...
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01.05.2007Apple sells 1 million iPhone 3Gs in first weekend
Despite widespread activation problems, Apple said Monday that it sold its one millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday, just three days after the new handset
launched worldwide on Friday, July 11.
"iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend," said Apple chief executive Steve Jobs.
Last year, Apple managed to sell
just 270,000 iPhones during the first
two days. Although the Cupertino-based electronics maker did not release a three day tally for first-generation iPhone sales, it would take the
company nearly two and a half months to sell its
one
millionth unit.
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14.07.2008Microsoft Virtual Server and SoftGrid Q1 Webcasts
Microsoft has arranged a new
series of webcasts for
February and March about
Virtual Server 2005 R2 and
SoftGrid:
- Microsoft's
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Licensing Changes
(02.12.07)
- Automating
a Dev/Test Lab with Virtual
Server
(02.15.07)
- Architectur
al Best-Practices for Virtual
Server
(02.19.07)
- Virtualized
Branch Office Servers - Road
to a dynamic branch
(02.22.07)
- Automating
a Dev/Test Lab with Virtual
Server
(02.26.07)
- Overview of
System Center Virtual Machine
Manager
(03.01.07)
- Overview of
System Center Virtual Machine
Manager (03.05.07)
- Application
Virtualization and Software
Streaming within the Microsoft
Systems Management Platform
(03.12.07)
- Virtualizat
ion and SQL server:
Technologies, best practices
and pricing/licensing
(03.19.07)
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09.02.2007Google's spycar revs up UK privacy fears
Google's Street View cars, which grab real photographs of streets and the people in them for the search giant's Maps service, have come under
fire from privacy campaigners. The spycar has been spotted in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff. A Reg reader was kind enough to send us a snap of the
snapper-car in London. The pictures the car takes subsequently get loaded into Google Maps.
Privacy International has complained to the
Information Commissioner's Office. A spokeswoman for the ICO told the Reg: "Yes, we have received a complaint about this and we are looking into
it. We are contacting Google to get more details of the scheme."
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07.07.2008Microsoft August Security Updates Available
Microsoft has released the
latest monthly security
updates for August 2007 and
has made them available for
download from the
Microsoft
Download Center or via
Windows Update/Microsoft
Update.
Windows/Office:
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KB936227
: Vulnerability in Microsoft
XML Core Services Could Allow
Remote Code Execution
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KB921503
: Vulnerability in OLE
Automation Could Allow Remote
Code Execution
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KB940965
: Vulnerability in Microsoft
Excel Could Allow Remote Code
Execution
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KB937143
: Cumulative Security Update
for Internet Explorer
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KB938829
: Vulnerability in GDI Could
Allow Remote Code Execution
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KB936782
: Vulnerability in Windows
Media Player Could Allow
Remote Code Execution
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KB938123
: Vulnerabilities in Windows
Gadgets Could Allow Remote
Code Execution
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KB938127
: Vulnerability in Vector
Markup Language Could Allow
Remote Code Execution
Virtual PC/Virtual
Server:
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KB937986
: Vulnerability in Virtual PC
and Virtual Server Could Allow
Elevation of Privilege
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14.08.2007November 2007 MSDN Magazine now online
The
November 2007 issue of
MSDN Magazine is now available online at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/11/default.aspx.
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13.10.2007Microsoft not happy with AV software performance
Microsoft is still experiencing growing pains as it brings its consumer and enterprise security products and service up to speed.
Microsoft released
Windows Live
OneCare for consumers in May 2006 and its
Forefront Client Security for enterprises earlier this year. Both products entered a saturated security market populated by
experienced security-specialist companies such as Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro.
When Microsoft began investing in the
security field around 2003, the company didn't have "the ability to speak AV," said Vinny Gullotto, general manager of the company's Malware
Protection Center. Now, that ability is much more developed, said Gullotto, who spoke Monday on the sidelines of IT Forum, the company's largest
customer event in Europe.
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12.11.2007Job axing a-la AMD
The global economic crisis is taking victims mercilessly. A day doesn't pass without finding out that a few hundred people will not have their
jobs for much longer. Intel, nVidia,
EA's
Today, AMD's again.
Although AMD is just barely succeeding to control their losses, it
seems there has
to be a work place cut. 500 people will have to leave AMD. This is the second wave of firing after April, when 1500 people lost their jobs.
Fortunately, the workers under The Foundry Company wont be hit by these job cuts.
AMD's losses have been cut from 396 million dollars
in Q3 '07 to 67 million in the quarter behind us. The latest cuts represent approximately 3% of the global workforce.
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07.11.2008New Xbox 360 Experience hands-on and impressions
Engadget: Thanks to a special blessing from the folks in Redmond, we've had an opportunity to thoroughly give the rejiggered Xbox 360 Dash (AKA, the
New Xbox Experience) a serious run through, and we've got the lowdown on the future of your gaming life. As you probably already know from the
numerous posts we've
done and generally
available info (Microsoft has been pretty forthcoming with
this stuff), the Xbox team has completely revamped the Dash experience, giving the system not only a visual overhaul, but trashing the underlying tech
and rebuilding things from the ground up. The result is a beautiful, intuitive interface which loses almost nothing from previous versions while
adding a considerable new feature set to the mix. Read on for our first impressions...
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29.10.2008Microsoft apps developers to get Vista relief
Help is on the way for developers struggling with using the Visual Studio 2005 development platform with Windows Vista, a Microsoft official stressed
at the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference here on Tuesday.
During a question-and-answer panel session, an audience
member characterized the experience of using Visual Studio 2005 with Vista as "miserable." He wondered if the upcoming
Visual Studio 2008 upgrade would be an improvement.
"Is the '08 experience on Vista likely to be better?" the questioner asked. Also known as Orcas, Visual Studio 2008 is due by the
end of this year.
"It unequivocally is better," responded Dino Chiesa, Microsoft director of the .Net Framework. He advised the
audience member to download the Orcas beta release and see the difference.
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31.10.2007Reliability Vs. Security
James Whittaker: At the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 07, Trollhattan Sweden) one would think that the security
versus reliability debate would be very one-sided. After all, reliability is the attendees mainstay and if there is one group of folks on the planet
who would see security as a subset or subsidiary concern, it might be the industry and academic experts that attend this prestigious IEEE
conference.
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07.12.2007FTC: More spyware-fighting tools needed
Organizations and law enforcement agencies fighting spyware are making progress, but new tools in an antispyware bill stalled in the U.S. Congress
could improve the efforts, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday.
One of the spyware bills passed by the
House of Representatives earlier this year, the
Spy Act, would
give the FTC authority to impose civil fines on companies that distribute spyware to consumers' computers. The bill, along with the Internet Spyware
Prevention (or
I-SPY) Act, have
stalled in the Senate since passing
the House in May and June.
The FTC has the authority to collect profits from spyware operations and collect money for consumer
redress, but it lacks the authority to impose other fines, as it does when going after spammers, said Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, speaking at a
spyware forum in Washington, D.C.
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30.10.2007Mozilla, Opera look to make video on the Web easier
New features in the Firefox and Opera browsers could make it less complex and cheaper for people to incorporate video into their Web sites,
representatives of Mozilla and Opera say.
Firefox and Opera will support a new HTML tag specifically for embedding video in Web
pages. As long as the browsers support a video's specific codec, or encoding method, the browsers will then be able to play the video without
launching third-party enabling software, said Chris Double, a Mozilla engineer. Mozilla and Opera are also working to support the royalty-free video
codec Ogg Theora.
Video on the Web is a fractured mix of proprietary formats, encoded using systems from four main vendors. Apple
offers QuickTime, Microsoft offers Windows Media, Adobe offers Flash and RealNetworks has RealPlayer. A user must have a plug-in from each of those
vendors if they want to play video in that vendor's format.
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08.12.2007Adobe to revamp Photoshop
Details of a planned transformation of Adobe’s Photoshop software were revealed this week, by Photoshop product manager John Nack, writing on
his blog. The company is looking at significant changes to the user interface, customising it to the task in hand. This should make it easier for
users to see the options available for a particular task, rather than having to search through multiple menu options. The company wants the software
to be substantially more configurable, so that solutions are presented in task-oriented workspaces.
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07.11.2007Microsoft uses new XBRL data tags in SEC filing
Microsoft has submitted data to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) using a newly released taxonomy for a financial reporting language
designed to make it easier to compare companies' financial figures.
Microsoft filed a Form 8-K, comprising financial data for
shareholders, using
XBRL (Extensible Business
Reporting Language), an XML-based (Extensible Markup Language) standard for financial data that's increasingly being used in Europe and the U.S.
Microsoft said it's the first company to submit data using a new XBRL taxonomy released on Wednesday that allows the description of
data according to U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). The taxonomy defines, for example, what tags should be used to label data such
as "net profit." Taxonomies differ between countries due to varying local laws and regulations.
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07.12.2007W3C Considering An HTML 5
When the decision was
initially made to move in the
direction of XHTML, instead of
a new version of HTML proper,
it seemed like a good idea.
Years later and the widespread
adoption of CSS (among other
things) has proven that things
don't always develop the way
we expect. As a result,
HTML 5 has
been revived by the W3C.
After some lobbying
and continued work by the Web
Hypertext Application
Technology Working Group, the
old web markup language is
getting
an
official face-lift. A post
to the Webforefront blog
explains the history behind
the initial decision to move
to XHTML, and why things are
so different in the here and
now.
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20.07.2007XML Schema Designer Aug 07 CTP Available
This is the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the XML Schema Designer. It is a graphical tool for working with XML Schemas. This CTP
introduces XML Schema Explorer - a tool that helps you navigate, search and work with schema sets. XML Schema Explorer will automatically come up when
you open or create an xsd file in Visual Studio. It is docked with the Solution Explorer tool.
Your feedback on this CTP is very
important to us. If you have any suggestions or if you find any problems, please let us know by posting on our
MSDN forum.
One of the
supported editions of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is required before the XML Schema Designer Aug 07 Community Technology Preview can be installed. See
the instructions section below in order to install the prerequisite. The installation will fail if these prerequisite is not installed first.
This release of the XML Schema Designer Aug 07 Community Technology Preview is not supported on 64-bit operating systems.
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25.08.2007Windows Server 2008 Security Guide Alpha
Yesterday MS released the alpha version of the upcoming Windows Server 2008 Security Guide.
You can sign up using connect:
LHSG-DFWK-7BFX or by clicking
here.
The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide will provide guidance, recommendations, and automation tools
for the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 operating system to help IT Professionals create and maintain a secure environment for a variety of servers
running Windows Server 2008.
The Alpha review runs from 9/19/07 “ 10/1/07, but we will accept feedback as late as 10/10/07.
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20.09.2007Did E3 Just Gasp Its Last Breath?
This year's E3 is over, and
there's already talk that
this could be the last one. Even before the conference started, a slew of studios
announced they wouldn't be taking part,
citing
high costs and other 'business
reasons.' At the conference itself, 'there were no huge game announcements, and Microsoft didn't even bother having Bungie show up to talk
about the next Halo release, claiming that the company wanted to "shorten the presentation."' Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello said he
'hated' E3's new format, adding 'either we need to go back to
the old E3, or we'll have to have our own
private events.' Crave also noted
there are no solid plans for
next year's show. On the other hand,
people have predicted E3's demise
in previous years, and they turned out to be wrong.
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