Microsoft's Phishing Filter for IE7 Clears Audit
A third-party audit of the new phishing filter built into the Internet Explorer 7 browser and the MSN Toolbar has given the technology a thumbs up on the sensitive issue of user privacy.
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11.5.2006 Windows 7 Filtering Platform New Features
Interested in building networking filtering applications tailored to the next iteration of the Windows client? Then you need to get up to date with the new features that have been added to Windows Filtering Platform for Windows 7.
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3.7.2009 Bill Gates: Office Is a Platform too, Not Just Windows
In an effort to underline the relevance of the Office System as a platform for developers and not just an application, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates introduced during his keynote address at the Office System Developers Conference 2008, in San Jose, new software, services and tools designed to make Office an equivalent of Windows.
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12.2.2008 Microsoft starts Windows Network Developer Platform beta
Windows Network Developer Platform
Windows Network Developer Platform encompasses technologies such as Winsock, WinINet, HTTP Server API and WinHTTP. HTTP Server APIs (also known as HTTP.sys) is the kernel mode HTTP server stack in Windows that provides user-mode Win32 APIs.
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Windows Live Calendar, Presence coming soon to a dev platform near you
With its official announcement of the "Windows Live platform beta" at Mix '07 this week, Microsoft made available to developers a number of application programming interfaces (APIs) and controls upon which they can build their own applications and mashups.
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2.5.2007 Microsoft Urges Users Stop Using Safari In Windows Platform
Microsoft's security team is advising users to stop using Apple's Safari browser pending investigation into a quirk that allows miscreants to litter their desktop with hundreds of executable files.
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2.6.2008 New Platform in Windows 7 Enables Remote Connectivity to Virtual Desktops
Even though Microsoft is yet to officially breathe a single word on the matter, the virtualization capabilities of Windows 7 will also evolve in comparison to what is offered with Windows Vista today.
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3.7.2008 Intel to take 'Averill' to market as Centrino-like platform
Intel will next year launch its third branded PC platform, after Centrino and Viiv, this time pitched at corporate desktops.
As yet there's no word on the platform's go-to-market brandname, but it will almost certainly be based on Intel's 'Averill' platform. Averill was announced at the chip giant's Developer Forum in March this year for availability in 2006.
Averill is based on Intel's upcoming 'Broadwater' chipset, which will ship primarily as the 965 family, but also as the 946 and 963 product lines, it is believed. The platform also takes in Intel's next-generation Gigabit Ethernet controller, 'Nineveh', and its 65nm dual- and single-core Pentium D and Pentium 4 6xx processors.
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1.12.2005 Microsoft Showcases Platform Strategy and Opportunity
Q&A: Tomorrow's triple launch of business availability of Windows Vista, 2007 Office system and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 underscores Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to providing customers and partners with even greater platform opportunities.
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30.11.2006 Microsoft readies a consumer healthcare platform
Microsoft has made no secret about the fact it has designs on being a healthcare-IT contender. But what the company has kept under wraps, at least until now, was what it planned to do on the consumer side of the healthcare space.
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2.7.2007 Microsoft updates MSN Video Platform Beta
Microsoft refreshed its video platform today with a new beta version of MSN Video. The updated site reflects the design, layout and features of Soapbox, Microsoft's answer to Google's user-generated video site YouTube.com.
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27.4.2007 Microsoft to Deliver a Platform Agnostic Standard for Virtualization
Microsoft is cooperating with rivals from Vmware, XenSource and IBM, but also with partners on the server market such as Dell and HP in order to deliver a single standard for portable virtual machines.
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10.9.2007 Intel to launch Calpella notebook platform in 3Q09
Intel's next-generation notebook platform (Calpella) is scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2009.
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5.8.2008 Microsoft add cheaper server platform to range
According to an article by Techspot, Microsoft has announced a version of Windows designed for small businesses, named Windows Server 2008 Foundation.
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1.4.2009 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Intel to launch new Core 2 Extreme CPU for Skulltrail platform
Intel is planning to launch a new desktop processor for its upcoming Skulltrail motherboard, a high-end enthusiast and gaming platform, according to sources at motherboard makers.
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16.10.2007 New Windows 7-Based Platform: Windows Embedded Server
Microsoft is not only hard at work laboring to produce the first Release Candidate of Windows 7, but it is also looking beyond the next iterations of the Windows client and server operating systems.
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31.3.2009 MS to unify MSN, Xbox and Zune with Ignition music platform
Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of Ignition, a new program that gives recording artists with new releases a unique channel to reach tens of millions of consumers, whether they are browsing music online, playing games or catching up on the latest news.
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6.6.2007 Microsoft Denies Having Updated Vista's Anti-Piracy Platform or the WGA
Microsoft denied having introduced any sort of updates to the anti-piracy platform built into its latest operating system, Windows Vista or to the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism designed to safeguard over the legitimacy of the copies of the operating system.
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12.9.2007 Windows Mobile 7, the Next-Generation Mobile Platform
We all know Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform, if not from using it, at least from what we've heard about it.
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15.3.2009 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 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008Frames Trip Up IE7 Phishing Filter
A feature dating back to the
Internet's HTML 3.0 era is
causing problems for Internet
Explorer 7, forcing Microsoft
to issue an update for Windows
Vista just one day after its
public launch. Web sites using
frames causes IE7's phishing
filter to evaluate the page
multiple times, leading to
high CPU usage...
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01.02.2007Microsoft Expands IE7 Phishing Filter
Microsoft announced at the RSA
security conference this week
that it has expanded the
number of data providers for
the phishing filter built into
Internet Explorer 7, which
warns users when they are
about to visit a potentially
risky Web site...
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07.02.2007Filter Pack For Windows Search
Sarah Perez: I had been using the latest and greatest search tool for my XP PC,
Windows Search 4.0, but
somehow I had missed
this: the
Filter Pack for searching in Office documents. With the the
Microsoft
Filter Pack installed, Windows Search 4.0 is able to search within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office 2007 documents based on the text they
contain. It also works for Vista too, adding new search capabilities which can be accessed right from Vista’s search bar. Now when you do a
search, the Windows indexing service doesn’t just search for file names but also knows what’s in the files themselves, and that makes
finding the right file so much easier.
IT admins will want to read further instructions found on the download page about how the new Filter
pack can be installed into Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, and other Server products. The Filter Pack also works on Windows Server 2003, Vista, and
XP. You can download it from
here.
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21.10.2008IE8: Ad blocking with the InPrivate Filter
With my most recent piece, I've been hearing that much of what is holding people back from using IE8 is the lack of an Ad blocking feature.
Perhaps not widely known, but IE8 actually contains a great Ad blocking feature built-in, it's called "InPrivate Filtering". The InPrivate
Filter (enabled by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+F) is intended to block content that may potentially share your information; thankfully advertisements are one
such example of said content. It should be noted that the InPrivate Filter is 'smart' in the sense that it can and will (if enabled)
automatically detect content which appears with a high frequency on websites that you visit.
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03.04.2009Kazaa Working to Filter Music
Files
Kazaa worked feverishly Monday
to comply with a court order
that mandated the use of
filters to prevent sharing of
copyrighted material across
its network. The company has
until December 5 to install a
system that uses keywords,
such as the name of an artist,
to filter out copyrighted
music files...
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28.11.20052007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack
This download will install and register IFilters with the Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the
contents of specific document formats. This Filter Pack includes IFilters for the following formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb,
.zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx.
Because Windows Desktop Search (WDS) consumes IFilters from Windows
Indexing Service, the IFilters will be automatically registered and available for use by WDS.
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19.12.2007Australian teen disables government's porn filter
Earlier this month, Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced a multi-million dollar pornography filter along with several other measures to
make the Internet safer for children and families, including an information and education campaign and telephone hotline. Sixteen-year-old Melbourne
teenager Tom Wood said it took him less than 30 minutes to break through the cyber barrier. " I downloaded it on Tuesday to see how good it was,
because for 84 million dollars (69 million US), I would have expected a pretty unbreakable filter. Tried a few things, it took about half an hour and
(it) was completely useless ," said the teenager.
Communications Minister Helen Coonan said that the NetAlert filters, which the
government has announced will be free for every family, were always going to be challenged by teenagers. " Sadly, just as a seatbelt will never
prevent every fatal car crash, as the government has always maintained, no filter is foolproof. But a computer with a filter is infinitely safer than
one without ," said Senator Coonan. The company which provided the technology was investigating the unconfirmed hacking report, she added.
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28.08.2007Microsoft Readies Windows Live
Parental Control
Microsoft is inviting testers
to try an early version of new
parental control software for
Windows XP called
Windows Live Family
Safety Settings .
The parental controls
software lets people filter
online content, Microsoft said
in an e-mail invitation to
testers sent Wednesday. It is
designed to help keep Web
content that parents deem
inappropriate from reaching
their children--such as items
on alcohol, pornography,
gambling and tobacco, the
company said.
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25.02.2006Live Search QnA moves to MSN platform
Back in 2005 Windows Live was announced and many products were moved from the MSN platform to the Windows Live platform. New products and services
were announced including Windows Live QnA. The service name explains it all. Windows Live QnA is a community of users from around the globe asking and
answering about anything and everything. When the Windows Live QnA beta first launched it was it's own service on the Windows Live platform, but
then moved to the Live Search platform and is now known as Live Search QnA. The move helped gain thousands of new contributors engaging in the
community.
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18.02.2009Showcasing Windows 7 Platform with Applets
This blog post discusses some of the platform innovations in Windows 7 and how Windows 7 applications have adopted and showcased these innovations.
This post details some of the platform features that developers and partners can expect in Windows 7 and how Windows 7 programs have showcased these
innovations. This post also discusses how applications have been given a facelift both in terms of their functionality as well as their user
experience by focusing on key Windows design principles and platform innovations. Finally, this post can serve as a pointer or guide to application
developers and ISVs to get themselves familiar with some of the key new Windows platform innovations, see them in action and then figure out how they
can build on these APIs for their own software.
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28.01.2009Engineering Windows 7: Improvements to AutoPlay
Steven Sinofsky: As mentioned before on this blog (regarding our
UAC changes ) and on the IE blog (regarding the
SmartScreen® filter for malware ), we
have an increased focus to enable customers to be in control and feel confident about the software that they choose to run on their computers. Folks
on this blog have also commented about the concerns they have specifically in the AutoPlay area. This blog entry addresses some of the
changes that we have made to increase customer confidence when using their media and devices with Windows. It is authored by Arik Cohen, a
program manager on the Core User Experience team.
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28.04.2009IE 7 Phishing Bug For Windows XP Appears Early
Microsoft released a
non-security update for
Internet Explorer 7 two weeks
before the next patch day, and
urged Windows XP and Windows
Server 2003 users to download
and install the fix if they
notice the browser
mysteriously slowing down
while surfing.
Earlier this week, the
Redmond, Wash. developer
pushed several updates to
Windows Vista users, the new
operating system that launched
to consumers on Tuesday,
including one to fix
performance problems with IE
7's anti-fraud filter. The
update has also been posted
for IE 7 on Windows XP and
Server 2003.
"Some
users
CPU usage when they are
navigating a page that
contains multiple frames or
when multiple frames are
navigated simultaneously,"
said Steve Reynolds, an IE 7
program manager, on the
group's blog. "This occurs
when the phishing filter
evaluates the page for each
navigation, resulting in
multiple simultaneous
evaluations for the same
page."
The XP and
Server 2003 IE 7 anti-phishing
filter fix will be included in
the Feb. 13 updates, but users
can download the patch
manually from the company's
support site.
neowin.net - 02.02.2007
MessageLabs Unveils Security
Services
Screening software lets
companies filter spyware,
viruses and other malware...
pcworld.com - 04.10.2005
XP SP3 distribution proceeds after auto download filter put in place
After delaying the availability of Windows XP Service Pack 3 through its Download Center for one week after an incompatibility problem was discovered,
Microsoft has now opened it up to automatic distribution...
betanews.com - 07.05.2008
Verizon exec: No 'policing the Internet' for us
The telecommunications company said it had no interest in looking into how its customers use its broadband services in an attempt to filter pirated
content...
betanews.com - 31.01.2008
Gmail zero-day flaw allows attackers to steal messages
Accounts on Google Inc.'s Gmail can be easily hacked, allowing any past -- and future e-mail messages -- to be forwarded to the attacker's own
in-box, a vulnerability researcher said yesterday.
Dubbed a "cross-site request forgery" (CSRF), the Gmail bug was disclosed
Tuesday by Petko Petkov, a U.K.-based Web vulnerability penetration tester who has made a name for himself of late. In the past two weeks, Petkov has
publicly posted information about critical, zero-day bugs in Apple Inc.'s QuickTime, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player and Adobe Systems
Inc.'s Portable Document Format (PDF).
According to Petkov, who declined to release details about the vulnerability, attackers
can use Gmail's filtering feature to exploit the bug. An attack, he said, would start with a victim visiting a malicious Web site while also still
logged into his Gmail account. The malicious site would then perform what Petkov called a "multipart/form-date POST" -- an HTML command that can be
used to upload files -- to one of the Gmail application programming interfaces, then inject a rogue filter into the user's filter list.
Petkov posted a series of screenshots on the Gnucitizen.org site that illustrated one possible attack. "In the example, the attacker writes a filter, which simply looks for
e-mails with attachments and forwards them to an e-mail of their choice," Petkov said. "This filter will automatically transfer all e-mails matching
the rule.
winbeta.org - 27.09.2007
Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is
planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests. Senator Conroy went on the record saying "technology that filters peer-to-peer
and Bit Torrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial". It is a drastic
step to filter out all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic as it assumes that those channels are only used for piracy. One example of legitimate use is the
popular online game World of Warcraft.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 23.12.2008
Network Monitor 3.1 Now Available
Network Monitor 3.1 is now
available on http://conne
ct.microsoft.com featuring
wireless sniffing and an
easier way to create filters
using "Right Click Add To
Filter". Here is a list of
features that are new to
NM3.1.
What's New in
Network Monitor 3.1?
- Wireless (802.11)
capturing and monitor mode on
Vista “ With supported
hardware, (Native WIFI), you
can now trace wireless
management packets. You can
scan all channels or a subset
of the ones your wireless NIC
supports. You can also focus
in on one specific channel.
We now show the wireless
metadata for normal wireless
frames. This is really cool
for t-shooting wireless
problems. See signal strength
and transfer speed as you walk
around your house!
- RAS tracing
support on Vista “ Now you can
trace your RAS connections so
you can see the traffic inside
your VPN tunnel. Previously
this was only available with
XP.
- Right click
add to filter “ Now there's
an easier way to discover how
to create filters. Right
click in the frame details
data element or a column field
in the frame summary and
select add to filter. What
could be easier!
- Microsoft Update
enabled “ Now you will be
prompted when new updates
exist. NM3.1 will
occasionally check for a new
version and notify you when
one is available.
- New look filter
toolbar “ We've changed the
UI related to apply and remove
filters. You can now apply a
filter without having to
UN-apply it first.
- New reassembly
engine “ Our reassembly engine
has been improved to handle a
larger variety of protocol
reassembly schemes.
- New public
parsers “ These include
ip1394, ipcp, ipv6cp, madcap,
pppoE, soap, ssdp, winsrpl, as
well as improvements in the
previously shipped parsers.
- Numerous Bug
Fixes “ We've taken your
reported problems on the
connect site and fixed many of
the confirmed bugs.
- Faster Parser
Loading “ We've significantly
improved the time it takes to
load the parsers. Now
rebuilding takes a fraction of
the time it used to.
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winbeta.org - 03.07.2007
Windows Live Platform: LiveSide interviews with Angus Logan
Angus Logan is the Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live Platform, a title he only dusts off occasionally. Usually he's too busy
building out content for Windows Live Quick Apps, or creating cool tools like the Messenger IM control, or working with Chris Keating from Windows
Live Gallery to build a gadget to add that IM control to Spaces.
We met up with Angus in a conference room in Red West A, where
we talked about Windows Live Platform, complete with whiteboarding...
winbeta.org - 15.11.2007
Microsoft Expands Xbox Live to Windows
Microsoft continued to build
on the success of its Xbox
platform by extending its
popular Live gaming platform
to Windows PCs. The service is
set to debut on May 8, and
will connect gamers on both
platforms together...
betanews.com - 14.03.2007
