Security in Microsoft Products
Join Mike Nash, Vice President for the Microsoft Security Business Unit, and his team of security experts each month. Microsoft is working hard to improve security and Mike and his team invite you to join them in a candid Q&A session.
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12.1.2006 Is Microsoft sabotaging its own products?
No, this cannot be the case. Perhaps is is an accident, or a coincidence. But is Microsoft really highlighting links to websites that have references to cracks
for Windows Vista? And you wonder why the piracy of Microsoft software is blooming.
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8.3.2007 Microsoft announces six new products in development
Microsoft today announced new products in development and is giving everyone a chance to test them. Here's a quick run-down as to what the new products are and how to beta test them for free!
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Security in Microsoft Products Chat
Join Mike Nash, Vice President for the Microsoft Security Business Unit, and his team of security experts each month. Microsoft is working hard to improve security and Mike and his team invite you to join them in a candid Q&A session.
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Microsoft products roadmap for FY08 and beyond
Oh boy, a Microsoft roadmap, havent seen one of these in a while. This is extracted from Steve Ballmers Powerpoint presentation at Microsoft Show and Tell (Financial Analyst Meeting) 2007 yesterday.
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2.8.2007 New Microsoft products for enterprise and small business
Microsoft touted two product rollouts on Monday, one a service pack aimed at attracting large corporate customers with remote offices; the other a licensing and services promotion for small businesses.
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Microsoft Unveils Details of First Products Under Zune Brand
Available this holiday season in the United States, Zune includes a 30GB digital media player, the Zune Marketplace music service and a foundation for an online community that will enable music fans to discover new music.
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15.9.2006 Microsoft Fixes Critical Flaw in Security Products
Software patches include critical fixes for bugs in Microsoft Office and the scanning engine used by the company's security products.
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14.2.2007 Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Microsoft Products for the Year 2006
Overview
The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held during March 2006 in Melbourne Australia. Several Australian states including New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania, have changed the Daylight Savings transition end dates to the first Sunday of April 2006.
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20.12.2005 Microsoft: Turn Pirated Windows Copies into Genuine Products!
Microsoft is providing users with the means to turn their pirated copies of Windows into genuine products. However, the offer is only available for Windows XP, and not for Windows Vista.
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2.10.2007 Microsoft, ISVs Set To Ship Vista-Ready Security Products
Microsoft said this week that its security unit and top security ISVs -- including Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro -- plan to release Windows Vista-ready products and services on Jan. 30, when the operating system is due to become generally available.
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18.1.2007 2 Office products enhanced
Microsoft looks to expand market by adding features
Microsoft Corp. is trying to expand the potential market for two of its Office programs for businesses, increasing its competition with Oracle Corp., SAP, IBM Corp. and others that make corporate software.
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22.1.2006 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year
Web apps that transcend the Web. PCs that redefine what a PC can do. And oh yeah, a certain cell phone you may have heard of. We pick 25 breakthroughs that you can get your hands on right now.
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29.12.2007 Windows Embedded Server Products Evaluation
Wow finally you can download evaluation versions of Windows Embedded products like Storage Server, normally only approved OEMs could get it.
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27.7.2008 Windows 7 RTM Already Has 9,000 Logod Products
At just approximately a month after the general availability deadline of Windows 7, the operating system enjoys strong support from hardware and software companies worldwide.
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20.11.2009 MSN Beta Team Recruiting for Windows Live Products
The MSN Beta team is currently recruiting likely candidates to test an array of new services and products from the Windows Live family.
Successful applicants may be asked to test MSN Messenger 8 (Windows Live Messenger) or future versions of Messenger. The countries range from Afghanistan to Turkey so everyone will be able to get involved.
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22.11.2005 New Windows Server 2008-Based Server Products Available
Windows Essential Server Solutions are basically designed as a bundle of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, along with additional Microsoft technologies, set up as an all-in-one IT offering for small and midsize customers.
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13.5.2008 Downgrading Apple - the Windows Brand vs. the Windows Products
Microsoft is without a doubt diversifying the collection of resources behind the new $300 million Widows marketing campaign created by advertising agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky.
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21.9.2008 Microsoft releases free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you'll encounter.
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12.4.2006 Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 in an enterprise environment. Availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds are built for enterprise-level monitoring. Both local and remote connectivity checks help ensure database availability.
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5.6.2006 Microsoft Pre-Release Software Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 - September CTP
The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly known as WinFX), is the new managed code programming model for Windows. It combines the power of the .NET Framework 2.0 with new technologies for building applications that have visually compelling user experiences, seamless communication across technology boundaries, and the ability to support a wide range of business processes.
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24.9.2006 Podcasts: Microsoft IT Showcase: How Microsoft IT Architects and Configures DFS Replication
Edit: Something close to my heart! I sure hope the R2 changes to DFS are as good as they sound in all the marketing documents!
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25.2.2006 Microsoft Showcases Platform Advancements in the 2007 Microsoft Office System
Second annual Microsoft Office System Developers Conference highlights opportunity for custom solutions development utilizing innovations in the 2007 release.
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23.3.2006 Microsoft set to beta Microsoft Security Essentials June 23
Microsoft confirmed today that they plan to release a public beta of Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly codenamed Morro) on June 23.
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18.6.2009 Microsoft is 30 years old today! have a look at the Microsoft Timeline
It's hard to believe that Microsoft is already 30 years old. The company that made Redmond, Washington, a household name was actually founded in 1975 in another city by two young Seattle men, one of whom was a college dropout. From this inauspicious beginning came an equally improbable vision: A personal computer on every desk and in every home. Thirty years later, it seems so obvious. But at the time, when only a handful of people knew what a personal computer was, it was a great leap of faith and daring.
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Microsoft Windows Microsoft Application Verifier 3.2.0038
Application Verifier is a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that assists in quickly finding subtle programming errors that can be extremely difficult to identify with normal application testing.
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26.7.2006 Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!
Microsoft doesn't want you to pirate their software, but if you must choose between illegally installing Windows or a competitor's operating system, Microsoft would prefer that you choose them.
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15.3.2007 Microsoft releases new Ultimate Extras - Microsoft Tinker
Microsoft has silently released 3 updates for Windows Ultimate users today.
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23.9.2008 Microsoft trademark reveals Microsoft Store logo
A fortnight ago, detailed plans of the long anticipated Microsoft Store were revealed in all its theoretical glory when Gizmodo published over 50 slides from a Powerpoint presentation prepared by the projects consultancy firm.
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5.8.2009 Microsoft Launches Microsoft TalentLab in The Netherlands
Demand for ICT specialists is growing; new portal site advertises job vacancies at Microsoft partners with guaranteed training.
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25.3.2007Microsoft Didn't License GNU
Microsoft has revealed that
its patent deal with Linspire
doesn't cover the new version
of the GNU General Public
License (GPL), the company's
latest effort to distance
itself from the GPLv3.
Separately, Lindows said
it will imminently release new
versions of its flagship
Linspire and Freespire
products.
In a copy
of the Linspire agreement
published on Microsoft's
website, the company
said
specifically that the
agreement doesn't cover "any
portions of products that
comprise or include Foundry
Products, Clone Products,
GPLv3 Software or Other
Excluded Products".
Microsoft and Linspire
agreed on the deal in
mid-June. The agreement,
similar to those agreed on by
Novell and Xandros, states
that Microsoft won't sue
Linspire customers for patent
infringement...
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22.07.2007How to request features in Microsoft products
Laurentiu Cristofor: I want to address the topic of requesting feature changes in Microsoft products, to point to some tools that can help, and to
describe ways to use those tools more effectively. This post is based on my experience working on customer requests while being a member of the
Microsoft SQL Server team, but you may find the information I provide here useful for other Microsoft products than SQL Server.
So, basically, the problem I am discussing here is that you are working on some project using Microsoft technology and you find out that your work
might be much easier if only some feature would be available. How can you ask Microsoft to add that feature to their product? One way to do this is to
contact technical support, but there are other ways that I want to address here.
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08.02.2008McAfee Lauds Microsoft's Vista SP1 Security Overhaul
Back in the fall of 2006, McAfee, Symantec and Check Point fumed as Microsoft Vista's Security Center hid their products where only sophisticated and
dedicated customers could dig them out.
Not only that, Microsoft in effect hid its x64 kernel as well, putting it beyond the
reach of advanced security products.
The issue was twofold: First, security vendors contended, there wasn't good communication
between Vista interfaces and their existing security products, and second, security products couldn't effectively interface with the Vista kernel.
Microsoft listened.
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30.08.2007Ever wonder what it takes to release products at Microsoft?
Bruce Evans, a Build Engineer
at Microsoft gives us some
insight into how software gets
built at Microsoft:
Like any company,
Microsoft balances shipping
products that people want, and
ensuring there are very few
bugs. Everyone knows the
longer you test a product,
ideally the fewer bugs are in
it when it ships. On the other
hand, the longer you test, the
less chance you get to make
the window of opportunity!
First of all,
products are built every day.
Microsoft builds from-source
using timestamps in the source
control system to ensure they
can re-build a product, in a
known way. Products are not
only compiled and linked, they
are built several ways:
release-quality,
debug-quality, code-coverage,
and up to 6 different ways to
inform developers and testers
that the code being shipped is
of reasonable quality, and
meets the legal requirements
set by Microsoft.
Additionally, each day
localized versions of the
product have to be produced,
and frequently each build is
run through a set of Build
Verification Tests (automated
tests to inform the team that
the build made the first cut
or not)...
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31.05.2007Wi-Fi Alliance Approves First 802.11n Products
The Wi-Fi Alliance said
Wednesday that it had
certified the first 802.11n
Draft 2.0 products, along with
releasing a redesigned logo
that all certified products
would be eligible to use...
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17.05.2007MS to Offer Free Support to
Rivals
Microsoft will offer free and
unlimited technical support to
its rivals who are interested
in making their products work
with the company's server
products, it said Wednesday.
The proposal is Microsoft's
latest effort to comply with a
European Union antitrust
ruling...
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22.03.2006Will homeland security products ever be interoperable?
Keenly aware of users' frustration, technologists and government agency officials last week called for greater standardization among the myriad
products designed for dealing with terrorist strikes, tsunamai, and other disasters...
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04.12.2007Microsoft layoffs also affect several products
Remember those 2nd round of layoffs Microsoft started as part of its plan to cut 5,000 jobs? Well it seems that not only were individual employees
were affected, but entire products as well. According to both Cnet News and Liveside, the services Microsoft will be scaling back, but not
eliminating completely include ResponsePoint phone system, its .Net Micro Framework, and its MSN Direct Service. The entire editorial staff of MSDN
Magazine and Tech-Net magazine were also eliminated, although it is uncertain if the magazines themselves survived. Windows, Office, Windows Live, and
Live Search were mostly unaffected. While 1,200 of those cuts came from Redmond, WA, other offices were hit including India, Ireland and the UK.
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07.05.2009Microsoft and Lexmark Enter Broad Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement
Microsoft Corp. and Lexmark International, Inc. signed a patent cross-licensing agreement that furthers the development of each companys product lines
and will expand technological innovation to enhance the overall customer experience.
The patent cross-licensing agreement covers
a broad range of products, including Lexmark printers and multifunction products, and Microsoft software products. The agreement allows greater mutual
access to each partners respective patent portfolio. The terms of the agreement are not being disclosed.
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17.03.2009Microsoft AV Scan Engine Updating Issue
Microsoft is aware of an issue with the Microsoft AV engine not updating on some installations of Antigen and Forefront Server Security products. Not
all installations of the products are experiencing this issue, however all products may be affected.
The issue arose because the
aveMicrosoft.dll in one of the Microsoft AV engine updates was marked as hidden, causing all subsequent updates to fail when attempting to
delete this file. When that occurs, the engine is rolled back. This means that installations experiencing this problem are running with an outdated
version of the Microsoft AV engine.
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29.08.2008Visual Studio, SQL Server 2005
Go Gold
Microsoft on Thursday released
to manufacturing Visual Studio
2005 and SQL Server 2005, just
over a week before the
products make their official
debut at a gala event in San
Francisco. Downloads of the
next-generation development
products will be available for
MSDN subscribers later today...
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28.10.2005IRiver unleashes stream of products at CES
There are a dozen products on iRiver's CES announcement list -- devices for networking, devices for getting around town and enjoying one's music,
including two that are pretty Mickey Mouse...
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08.01.2009iRiver unleashes a stream of products at CES
There are a dozen products on iRiver's CES announcement list -- devices for networking, devices for getting around town and enjoying one's music,
including two that are pretty Mickey Mouse...
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08.01.2009Black Friday: Are PCs and software as hot as gadgets?
How did PCs and software fare in comparison to other consumer electronics products on the day after Thanksgiving? The answer may depend on where those
products are sold - online or up front - according to NPD's chief analyst...
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27.11.2007Microsoft Early Adopters Programs - What's in it?
Many are familiar with the Microsoft Beta programs wherein users get access to pre-release products, such as Windows 7. But very little know the
different programs Microsoft adopts in testing these pre-release products. Through Microsoft Early Adopters Programs(EAP), Microsoft connects with
various customers and users, giving them access to their pre-release products and testing them. The EAP consists of three stages: Technical Adoption
Program(TAP) Ascend - Beta 1 Releases Touchdown - Beta 2 Releases Image Courtesy:MSDN Technical Adoption Program(TAP) The TAP is available to very
limited and select customers/partners by invitation only. The number of participants in the TAP would be very less and work closely with the Microsoft
employees. They have access to almost every pre-release product.
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02.01.2009Siemens, Microsoft create joint venture
German engineering company Siemens AG said Friday it will work with Microsoft Corp. to develop communication, information, entertainment and
navigation products for vehicles.
"This new generation of automotive products will be designed to meet the industry's growing
demand for innovative, flexible and affordable solutions," the company said in a statement.
Financial details of the transaction
were not disclosed.
Siemens and Microsoft said they will deliver their products to the market faster than the typical automotive
industry's product development cycle. The first Siemens VDO product based on Microsoft software technology is expected to go into production as early
as 2009.
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07.09.2007Sales of Microsoft handheld platform products up 30% in fiscal 2007
Microsoft sold 13 million handheld-device platform products in fiscal 2007 (from July 2006 to June 2007), up 30% from the previous fiscal year,
according to in-house statistics compiled by Microsoft.
Of the total handheld-device platform products sold in fiscal 2007,
platforms for PDA handsets totaled 6.5 million units, followed by smartphone platforms at 3.5 million units and PDA platforms at 3.0 million units,
the statistics showed.
High Tech Computer (HTC) continued as the largest consumer of Microsoft's handheld platform products in
fiscal 2007, taking up 50% of PDA handset solutions and 70% of smartphone solutions, according to the data.
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02.10.2007Flaw Found in 2006 McAfee
Products
A flaw in many of McAfee's
security products could open
up users to a data exposure
risk, security firm eEye
Digital Security warned late
Monday. The 2007 versions are
immune to the vulnerability...
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01.08.2006PC World names the 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year
PC World has put together a top 25 list of the most innovative products of the year 2007, noting the “Innovation”, the
“Benefit” and a brief overview of each. All entries on the list are somehow tech-related and all are available either in-store or online
right now. I personally can’t wrap my head around how the order of this list was devised, or how some products even made it on the list, but
I’m sure the reasoning is clear to someone. Have a look at the list and let us know what you think of it, and what your top 25 would be!
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29.12.2007IW500: Microsoft IT Is 'First And Best' Customer Of Microsoft Products
Microsoft's IT department has a double mission: To be an IT department serving the needs of the company, like any other IT department, and also to be
the "first and best customer" -- a testing ground and model implementation -- for Microsoft's own products.
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