Additionally, for all
those playing on the Xbox 360,
the achievement system we have
in place will assuredly
warrant more than one play
through.
Read full story.....
neowin.net -
22.10.2006Microsoft Announces Extended Support for XP Home/ MCE
Today, Microsoft is announcing
the addition of an Extended
Support phase for the Windows
XP Home Edition and Windows XP
Media Center Edition operating
systems, providing consumers
with an additional phase of
support.
With the
addition of Extended Support,
the support life cycle for
Windows XP Home Edition and
Windows XP Media Center
Edition will include a total
of five years of Mainstream
Support (until April 2009) and
five years of Extended
Support, matching the support
policy provided for Windows XP
Professional.
The
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
policy standardizes Microsoft
product support policies for
business and developer
products as well as for
consumer, hardware, multimedia
and Microsoft Dynamics
products.
News
source:
MS
Presspass Read full story.....
neowin.net -
24.01.2007Refreshed 4/8GB Zunes Coming?
From Long Zheng's blog:
"Several hours ago Microsoft released the Zune Spring 2008 Update with a new Zune software package (version 2.5).
Embedded in the resource files is an interesting image of a new red "Scorpius" (4/8GB) Zune. Instead of the model available today with a silver
backing and red touchpad, this had a black backing and black touchpad.
For any skeptics out there, the two images have notably different
positioned logos which confirms these are not the same images colored differently."
News Source and Images:
istartedsomething..
jcxp.net -
09.05.2008Battlefield 2 1.41 FULL Patch Released
EA has just released the
promised 1.41 patch for the
still very popular Battlefield
2 multiplayer slugfest. The
patch fixes one single
"intermittent sever side
crash bug" on the server
side, and there is no client
side changelog. But EA has
only released a full 536
monster update here, there is
no incremental patch folks.
More than likely the
"intermittent server side
crash" is the only bug they
fixed in this patch for both
servers and clients, and were
to lazy to make a smaller
incremental patch available.
Then again, maybe not. Who
knows.
536 megs
in this day and age isn't
really that much now is it? So
who am I kidding, all the BF2
players, myself included will
download the patch and happily
install it, so yeah. GG EA.
There is a separate
patch for clients and servers,
but I won't link the server
patch, since it is listed on
most of the links I will list
anyway. All you need to is go
to the server page to get that
version of the patch. Also
since there is no smaller
patch, all links are to the
full 536 meg monster of a
patch:
Download:
3D
Gamers |
3D
Downloads |
File
front |
Filep
lanet |
Fileshack |
Gamershel
l |
Internode
Network
Download:
Patch Scrolls |
Strategy
Informer |
W
orthplaying Read full story.....
neowin.net -
16.11.2006ESS/ESET Antivirus beta 2 available
ESET has released a new beta version of ESET Smart Security beta 2 and introduced a stand-alone antivirus ESET NOD32 Antivirus (beta 2).
Both products can be downloaded from ESET's web site:
Eset Smart Security Beta 2:
32-bit version:
http://download1.eset.com/special/es...s_nt32_ENU.msi
64-bit version:
http://download1.eset.com/special/es...s_nt64_ENU.msi ESET NOD32 Antivirus Beta 2:
32-bit
version:
http://download1.eset.com/special/es...a_nt32_ENU.msi 64-bit version:
http://download1.eset.com/special/es...a_nt64_ENU.msi The installers are designed to install over older versions. In the event of problems with installation, uninstall the current
version you might be using and restart the computer prior to installing the new beta version.
View Full Article:
Wilders Security Forum..
winbeta.org -
24.08.2007How To Warm Boot Windows XP/Vista
Unless you have to, it is many
times advantageous to warm
boot, or rather warm reboot,
Windows. In a warm reboot,
Windows restarts, but the
computer doesnt, skipping the
whole pre-Windows boot
screen/BIOS/startup sequence.
You an
easily specify a warm boot
in both Windows XP and Windows
Vista. Just hold down SHIFT on
your keyboard before clicking
Restart in Vista, or before
clicking OK in the restart
dialog in XP. Enjoy the extra
20 seconds!
Technically, the use of
the term warm boot is a bit
misused here, but the small
amount of time saved by not
re-running the BIOS can be
worth it.
News Source:
InsideMicros
oft..
winbeta.org -
17.08.2007Demand for Nvidia G80 chips weak as market expects G84/86
Nvidia's launch of its
DirectX 10-compliant GeForce
8800 GPU (codenamed G80)
earlier this month seems to
have failed to significantly
stir up demand for high-end
graphics cards, although the
new chips took a lead in 3D
computing processing,
according to sources at
Taiwan-based graphics card
makers.
Since the
G80 is preliminarily targeting
the high-end sector, the
sources pointed out that
Nvidia's forthcoming G84 and
G86 GPUs for the entry-level
and mid-range segments are
likely to play a key role in
the GPU market, with the two
new GPUs expected to debut in
the first quarter of 2007.
Although details of the G84
and G86 are still not
available, Nvidia has
completed the roadmap for the
two chips, with local graphics
card makers likely to receive
product samples in January or
February of next year, the
sources stated.
View:
The full
story News
source:
DigiTimes Read full story.....
neowin.net -
20.11.20061/3 of Workers Write Down Passwords
A new study released Tuesday
indicates that corporate
employees are compromising
security through poor password
practices. Over one-third
either electronically record
or write down their passwords,
the study found...
betanews.com -
18.10.2006XP/Vista IGMP Buffer Overflow Explained
With all the hoopla about the remotely exploitable,
kernel-level buffer overflow discussed in today's security bulletin MS08-0001, what is the actual bug that triggers this? The
bulletin doesn't give all that much information. This movie (Flash required)
goes through the process of examining the 'pre-patch' version of tcpip.sys and comparing it against the 'post-patch' version
of tcpip.sys. This comparison yields the actual code that causes the overflow: A mistake in the calculation of the required size in a dynamic
allocation.
News Source:
Slashdot..
winbeta.org -
09.01.2008Microsoft delivers Expression, WPF/E Betas
The Microsoft Expression team
has made available two new
beta builds that folks
interested in Microsoft's
evolving design-tool products
and strategy might want to
check out.
There's a new build (Beta
2) of Expression Blend (the
product formerly code-named
"Sparkle") and a first
full-fledged beta build of
Expression Design (formerly
code-named "Acrylic")
available for download.
The February CTP
of WPF/E (Windows Presentation
Foundation/Everywhere ?
Microsoft's Flash competitor)
is now also available for
download.
Download:
Expression
Design Beta 1Download:
Expression
Blend Beta 2Download:
WPF/E
February CTP
View:
Microsoft
Expression Homepage
News
Source:
ZDNet..
jcxp.net -
02.02.2007Windows Live / MSN Messenger to force security upgrade
Anand, a Security PM for Windows Live Messenger,
posted (yesterday night) on the Inside Windows Live Messenger blog that rolling out in the next few weeks, if you haven't
already upgraded your Messenger to at least 8.1 (the current version released version), you will soon be forced to do so.
According to Anand:
We will soon configure the service such that any user on Windows XP or later system has to use Windows Live Messenger
8.1. When a user using an older version of Messenger tries to login, the client will help the user with a mandatory upgrade to Messenger 8.1.
Some of you might feel this inconvenient, but in order to protect you and protect the health of the network we have chosen to take this
step
And like it or not, the "health of the network" is a pretty valid reason for taking this extra step. It all boils down to
Security Bulletin MS07-054, "Vulnerability in MSN
Messenger and Windows Live Messenger Could Allow Remote Code Execution (942099)". This vulnerability, which has been fixed in 8.1 and the beta
version 8.5 "could allow remote code execution when a user accepts a webcam or video chat invitation from an attacker. An attacker who successfully
exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the affected system."
Whatever users out there who are still using
Windows 98 or 2000 are vulnerable as well, and for those systems
a newer
version of MSN Messenger 7 was released today. Available now, the MSN Messenger 7 upgrade will be forced as well, once the Windows Live Messenger
upgrades have completed
News Source:
LiveSide..
winbeta.org -
13.09.2007Major OEMs to enable DEP/NX in Vista PC BIOSs by default
Activewin reports that Michael Howard
mentions
on his
blog that recently MS had
all the major OEMs on campus
to discuss SDL (Security
Development Lifecycle). MS
asked the OEMs to enable
DEP/NX in the BIOS by default
on all their shipping PCs in
time for Windows Vista.
The reason for this
ask is pretty simple, for
ASLR
to be effective, DEP/NX must
be enabled by default too.
Michael mentions that
all the major OEMs (you know
who they are) have agreed to
not disable DEP/NX in their
BIOSs by default.
View:
Full
Article @ Michael Howards
Web Log
Read full story.....
neowin.net -
06.12.2006Apple corners 1/26 of the English language
In the buildup to
Apple's presumed iPod announcement tomorrow
morning, we at CNET got to wondering: exactly how strong a hold does Apple have on this whole iBrand?
Seems that the proof is in
the googling.
Type the plain ol' English letter "i" into Google and hit return. Among the top 10
results, you'll get a Wikipedia entry on "
the ninth letter of the Latin alphabet" and a link to the IMDB page for the movie
I, Robot. But the No. 1 result links to the iTunes page on the
Apple site with the link text, "
Apple - iPod + iTunes." (Not to mention that
searching on "apple" returns only two results of 40 regarding the actual fruit.)
Is this branding at its most successful? Or
proof that industry has taken over all that is noncommercial in the world? What do you think?
News Source:
Crave..
winbeta.org -
05.09.2007AMD Broadens Energy Efficient Processor Lineup
When introduced in mid-2006,
Advanced Micro Devices'
lineup of dual-core energy
efficient processors with 65W
thermal design power (TDP)
consisted of just five models
(3800+, 4000+, 4200+, 4400+
and 4600+) and the dated
roadmap indicated that the
only update to the family
until Q2 2007 would be the
4800+ processor. At this point
AMD's lineup of Athlon 64 X2
chips with 65W TDP includes
nine processor models (3600+,
3800+, 4000+, 4200+, 4400+,
4600+, 4800+, 5000+ and 5200+)
with different specs and made
using 90nm or 65nm fabrication
process. AMD's
energy-efficient chips are
priced from $102 to
$232.
In
addition, AMD ships six
processor models for
applications that require
power consumption as low as
35W, two processors that fit
into 45W thermal envelope, two
chips for previous-generation
socket 754 platform with 51W
and 59W TDP as well as tens of
chip models with typical
thermal power of 62W.
Unfortunately, the company
does not indicate thermal
design power of its processors
within the model number,
making the information harder
to find for end-users and
system integrators seeking
low-power chips.
News
source:
Xbit
Laboratories Read full story.....
neowin.net -
06.03.2007MSN Premium 9.5 Released
Much to our surprise, MSN
released version 9.5 of MSN
Explorer/MSN Internet Access
to subscribers as an update on
Friday. The release appears
to fix a number of issues
surrounding upgrades to
Windows Internet Explorer 7
and Windows Live Messenger.
The release also introduces
Digital Image Suite as a new
piece of software to the suite
MSN Premium was originally
advertised as a benefit.
View:
MSN
Premium News
Source:
LiveSide
At launch
Microsoft said, "If purchased
separately, the services
combined in MSN Premium would
cost more than $350 a year and
require customers to
independently manage and
update them." With an MSN
subscription, Microsoft also
bundles a premium version of
Encarta and MSN Money online,
Microsoft Office Outlook
Connector and PictureIt!
Express 9. Now PictureIt!
Express 9 has finally been
upgraded to the Standard
Edition of Digital Image
Suite. MSN has updated the
core, MSN Explorer, as well as
Outlook Connector, but the
original suite of software has
remained the same until now.
Unfortunately, with the update
of 9.5, there is no update for
Outlook Connector
compatibility with Outlook
2007, but Vista has been
reported to work fine with MSN
Premium.
Some
additional updated features
include:
- New
Microsoft? Phishing Filter
service helps block known
phishing or fraudulent Web
sites and allows you to report
new sites or provide feedback
to the Microsoft? Phishing
Filter Web site about
potential Phishing Web sites.
- Search now enables
users of Windows? Desktop
Search to search your PC for
images, music files, and
documents fast. The new Search
bar allows you to search the
web Web or your PC right from
the dashboard. Includes a list
of recent searches on a quick
pick list!
This
is a big surprise since
Microsoft has been so
aggressive in segregating
services from content between
Windows Live and MSN,
respectively. However, if
version 10.0 comes along, we
might see Windows Live
Premium/Explorer instead.
Microsoft obviously doesn't
want to jump ship for fear
that MSN Dial-up/Premium
customers might switch to AOL
. We probably
won't see Microsoft
discontinue MSN Explorer until
Windows Live Mail Desktop and
other services launch in final
versions, since MSN will need
to transition customers to the
new software. They've
already set up a way to easily
transition Dial-up customers
with seperate software, MSN
Connection Center.
Most customers have most
likely received the update as
it was scheduled for the third
week of November, according to
a Technical Support
Representative from MSN.
There is an auto-update
feature in MSN Explorer,
although the software can also
be updated manually through
Add/Remove Programs. The
auto-update will only install
MSN Explorer 9.5, other
features like Digital Image
Suite will have to be updated
manually with a 245 MB
download. Hopefully updated
CDs will be going out soon,
they can be ordered at
cdorder.msn.com...
jcxp.net - 21.11.2006
Windows Vista Beta 2 /
Longhorn Server Update
Microsoft have started
releasing updates during the
Windows Vista/Longhorn beta,
this one is of particular
interest due to the fact that
many people -including myself,
have a hyper-threaded system
with Windows Vista Beta 2
installed on it (not my
primary system, in case you
were wondering).
Update for Windows
Vista Beta 2 and Windows
Codename Longhorn Server Beta
2 (KB919946)
Install this update
to fix an issue where in the
presence of Internet Protocol
security (IPsec) or Windows
Firewall, a race condition can
be hit on multi-processor (or
hyper-threaded) systems
causing memory corruption,
leading to a system
crash.
It is
unknown if this affects the
recently released build 5456,
fiile date is 27th so it
probably does.
Download:
Update Patch
(KB919946) -622 KB-
News
Source: Bink.nunr
..
jcxp.net - 28.06.2006
Connect an A/V receiver to
your Media Center PC
Software Test Engineer Nishant
Murarka takes you one step
closer to having an amazing
home theater setup in your
living room with your Media
Center PC...
WindowsXP/expertzone - 04.01.2006
XP SP3 Released to MSDN/TechNet Subscriber Downloads
While the planned release schedule for XP SP3 stated MSDN/TechNet
subscribers would be receiving the update on May 2, a few days after the public release, Microsoft appears to have listened to the numerous complaints
on its TechNet forums and has posted the bits to both the MSDN and TechNet Subscriber
Downloads.
Or, another possible reason for the early release could be that there wasn't that much demand for Vista SP1 after all?
News Source: In-House | XP SP3 TechNet Forums..
winbeta.org - 23.04.2008
DS/Wii Connectivity on the Horizon?
James Honeywell, DS Product
Manager, shed some light on
the future of DS/Wii
connectivity:
"You will definitely see Wii
and DS interoperability as
soon as we have it finished,'
said Honeywell. 'We haven't
made any announcements over
specific software for
connectivity, but there are
definitely a number of
exciting things in creation
which we want to bring to
market as soon as possible.
We're hopeful that will be
next year."
...
"For
example, the connectivity
between Xbox 360 and PC is
very much based in streaming
video and other media. The
link-up between Wii and DS
will be much more about
offering new forms of
gameplay, fun and interaction.
It will offer yet another new
set of experiences for the
whole family."
This comes after Nintendo
introduced connectivity into
Pokemon Battle Revolution. Is
it possible we could see
connectivity in future Mario
and Metroid titles? Only time
will tell.
News
source: 1UP
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 23.12.2006
Volume License Key Changes,
End to VLK Piracy?
"Corporate Edition" versions
of Windows have been the
blessing of both IT workers
and casual pirates since the
days of Windows 95, when the
operating system first started
asking for a license key on
installation.
Large firms and OEMs who did
not want to go through the
hassle of typing in a CD key
for every install received
Volume License Keys (VLKs)
that could be used on as many
installs as necessary.
Microsoft relied on the honor
system to ensure that
companies did not abuse this
privilege, but it looks as if
with Vista this system may be
ending:
"We
are making changes to the
process to Vista and a new
approach to VLK licensing,"
Mike Sievert, corporate vice
president of Windows client
marketing for Microsoft told
CRN during a recent interview.
"We're training our
enterprise customers and
we'll do some key management
for customers that's more
automated and makes reporting
easier."
Click on read more
to get more info from this
article!
News
Source: ArsTechnica<
/a>
The
exact details of the "new
approach" to VLKs haven't
been made clear, but Ward
Ralston, a senior technology
product manager at Microsoft,
has confirmed that the company
is "introducing the notion of
a key management server" for
Windows Vista Server.
This program will
require licensed customers to
check in their keys and Client
Access Licenses (CALs) every
30 days, via an automatic
reporting process. The
procedure for the Vista client
will likely not require a key
management server, but may
also "phone home"
periodically to report on the
status of various VLK
installs...
jcxp.net - 28.06.2006
100 Gb/s Internet2 completed
At its Fall 2007 member meeting, the Internet 2 consortium announced that its updated infrastructure is ready to go online and provide an initial
capacity of 100 Gb/s to researchers and educators.
The blazingly fast network connection was demonstrated for the first time when
the organization established a connection between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and Fermilab in Batavia, IL and was able to transfer a
third of a terabyte within five minutes over a 10 GB/s connection.
Internet 2 is often confused with a next-generation Internet
infrastructure for the public. However, the Internet 2 is limited to currently 207 connected universities that use the high-speed network as
infrastructure to quickly exchange data and test new technologies that one day could find their way into the public Internet.
View Full Article: TG
Daily..
winbeta.org - 10.10.2007
Windows Home Server Beta/CTP Preview
Paul Thurrott: Back in
January, I posted a preview of
Microsoft's Windows Home
Server, a product that
should send shivers of delight
down the spine of any home
computing enthusiast. Windows
Home Server, or WHS, is the
product we've been waiting
for quite a long time, and
then some: In addition to the
expected digital media sharing
features, WHS also offers a
pervasive platform for
full-home PC backups, hot-add
expandable storage, and remote
access. And best of all, it
will be made available both as
a standalone software package
(which you can install on any
PC or server) and as a bundle
with specially-made home
server hardware.
WHS is expected in late
2006, but since my initial
preview, Microsoft has made a
number of improvements to this
product. First, the company
released Beta 2 (see my
screenshot galleries), the
first beta version of WHS to
ship to users outside of
Microsoft. WHS Beta 2 offered
a decent look at the features
I'd described back in my
preview, so I didn't provide
an overview of that version.
But since then, most recently,
Microsoft has shipped another
beta release. Dubbed the April
2007 CTP (Community Technology
Preview), this WHS release
offers dramatic improvements
and a near-feature-complete
look at this evolving product.
The April CTP also comes on
the heels of news that
Microsoft has shipped a
software development kit (SDK)
that will allow enterprising
third party developers to ship
WHS software add-ons that will
extend this product in
exciting ways. Taken together,
we now have a much better idea
of how WHS is shaping up.
View: Full
Review @ The SuperSite for
Windows
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 19.04.2007
Samsung makes Blu-Ray/HD DVD hybrid official
Samsung this afternoon
revealed final details of its
already anticipated UP5000
Blu-Ray and HD DVD hybrid
player.
Confirming
early details, the BD-UP5000
will solve many of the issues
with combo devices from other
companies by playing the
enhanced features of either
movie disc, including
picture-in-picture commentary.
It should also stand as the
best Blu-Ray player in the
company's line, Samsung
boasts. More recent decoding
can play movies at 24 frames
per second without triggering
pulldown conversion, and
output to HDTVs is sent
through HDMI 1.3 for deeper
colors when supported by an
attached TV.
The
UP5000 should go on sale in
late fall at a price of $1,049
and will be accompanied in
stores by the HT-BD2, an
all-in-one home theater kit
that includes both an
1,100-watt, 7.1-channel
surround speaker setup and an
integrated Blu-Ray player that
goes without the advanced
image decoder of the UP5000 or
the stand-alone BD-P2400. The
entertainment bundle should
sell for $1,499.
News Source: Electronista
..
winbeta.org - 25.07.2007
IBM Ships Lotus Notes/Domino 7
New version of collaboration
platform moves closer to a
blend with IBM's Workplace...
pcworld.com - 08.09.2005
Get 'Very High' in Crysis with Windows XP
Oh happy day, Crysis at the locked (but for you, unlocked!) highest detail settings runs like a dream on my DirectX 9 Windows XP
"take-a-hike-Windows-Vista-ain't-gonna-miss-ya-dee-ex-10" PC.
What's he talking about? XP vs. Vista. Have the latter and you
can run Crysis full bore; have the former and you can only crank the visual throttle up to three-quarter, tops.
Unless of course
you simply copy and paste a few lines of text in a handful of game directory CFG files, at which point the ostensibly DX10-only 'very high' special
effects for water, shadows, shaders, textures and more can be yours, sweetened by Windows XP's superior performance.
View: Enable 'Very
High' In Crysis with Windows XP
View Full Article: PC World..
winbeta.org - 30.10.2007
Microsoft Demonstrates Return of S/MIME E-mail for Outlook Web Access
In a blog post on Monday, the development team for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 showed screen shots of an enhancement to Outlook Web
Access that enables encrypted e-mails to be sent and received through a Web browser. The demo marks the return of S/MIME support, which had been
introduced to OWA before, but which had temporarily disappeared with the first release of ES 2007...
betanews.com - 23.08.2007
AMD: CPU/GPU 'Fusion' May Be More Gradual, Past 2009
During a Webcast Friday
afternoon, AMD executive vice
president Henri Richard told
BetaNews that, although one of
the goals of its
"Fusion" project
remains to merge GPU
pipelining with CPU multicore
architecture, the first few
iterations may be limited to
getting the two chips to share
the same die and conserve
power, for now...
betanews.com - 07.05.2007
Update: Re-Testing Vista w/2GB RAM, Office 2003
exo.blog: Many of our members have requested that we re-test Vista SP1 with 2GB of RAM instead of the 1GB we used in our original tests. So, without
further delay, we present our revised results table:
Analysis: By providing Vista (SP1) with an additional 1GB
of RAM (that's a total of 2GB for those of you keeping score) we managed to achieve a "whopping" 4% improvement in OfficeBench throughput.
View Full Article: exo.blog..
winbeta.org - 28.11.2007
Outlook 2007/2003/2002 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup
Backing up your Microsoft Outlook information is quicker and easier with the Personal Folders Backup feature. Personal Folders Backup creates backup
copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2002 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed
up.
With Personal Folders Backup, you can choose which of your .PST files you wish to back up, and how often you wish to back
them up.
Each .PST file contains all of your Outlook folders, including the Inbox, Calendar, and Contacts. You can have a single
.PST file (usually called "Internet Folders" or "Personal Folders" in your Folder List), but you might also have an additional .PST file that you
use for archiving ("Archiving Folders"). Personal Folders Backup lets you back up any or all of these .PST files.
Download: Outlook
2007/2003/2002 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup..
winbeta.org - 08.05.2008
How To Create a Bootable DVD for Windows Vista (or any Windows for that matter)
If it's been a while since you've needed a boot disk for your Windows machine, you may just be struggling with how exactly to do it. It's not like
the old Windows 98 boot floppy where I could just go into Windows Explorer and make one with a couple of quick clicks of the mouse. However, you need
not worry, since the current process is surprisingly well documented by Microsoft.
What may seem, at first, to be a complex task
is actually fairly simple. There are essentially seven steps to create a bootable DVD or bootable UFD (USB Flash Drive), all of which are command line
based. While the seven steps are relatively straightforward, the Microsoft article outlining those steps has a slightly obscure title: "Walkthrough:
Create a Custom Windows PE Image." Anyway, this Walkthrough, for all intents and purposes, is a step-by-step how-to for creating a bootable DVD
disk.
View Full Article: TechNet Blogs..
winbeta.org - 11.12.2007
Dell XPS 700 / 710 Motherboard Exchange Program Begins
Over the past few months Dell
has been gearing up to replace
perhaps thousands of
motherboards in XPS 700 and
710 systems for free; finally
the program has been kicked
off. All customers who opt to
participate will receive an
XPS 720 Hardware kit by mail
along with the option of an
on-site service installation.
If you own an XPS 700 you also
have the option to upgrade
your CPU to a Quad Processor
for a 25% discount. Act fast!
All upgrade requests must be
submitted no later than
midnight CST, October 13,
2007.
News
source: Dell
XPS Motherboard Exchange
Program
R
ead full story.....
neowin.net - 15.08.2007
MS: IE7 Flaw Really in Outlook Express
Microsoft responded Thursday
to reports of the first
exploit affecting Internet
Explorer 7, which cropped up
less than 24 hours after the
browser's official launch.
Christopher Budd from
Microsoft's Security Response
Center says the flaw lies not
in IE7, but in an Outlook
Express component...
betanews.com - 20.10.2006
Apple/Microsoft in talks for ActiveSync before iPhone launched
Exchange support in the iPhone has been rumored almost as long as the iPhone itself was rumored to exist. Much as the iPhone turned out to be real, so
has ActiveSync on the iPhone. Microsoft released an interview with Terry Myerson, corporate vice president for
Exchange, which includes a very interesting tidbit. Mr. Myserson says that Apple and Microsoft were in talks about licensing ActiveSync before the
iPhone was announced. Furthermore, he was in daily contact with Apple VP Phil Schiller (when Schiller wasn't making up Apple rumors, of course) for two weeks while they set the
details of the agreement between the two tech giants.
View Full Article: TUAW..
winbeta.org - 07.03.2008
WPF/E Becomes 'Silverlight:' Microsoft Takes on Flash Directly
Today at the NAB convention in
Las Vegas, Microsoft will be
unveiling Silverlight, the
platform and marketing
campaign whose aim is to
deploy an Internet graphics
delivery system not just on
Windows, but on Macs and Linux
as well. It's the commercial
culmination of WPF/E, and it
will be targeting Adobe's
Flash as an established
platform...
betanews.com - 16.04.2007
Weird Windows Vista File/Folder Manipulation "Bug"
I think this could be considered as one of the weirder but non-critical "bugs" in both Vista RTM and Vista SP1. Thanks to Plax for the find:
1. Create a folder somewhere and put a file inside
2. Then open an Open file dialog from some application
3. Go
in the folder with the file and cut the file then rename the folder and paste the file somewhere else
4. Then you'll find out that instead
of the file a folder appeared
News Source: In-House..
winbeta.org - 12.02.2008
Windows Server 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services
Windows Server® 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services, an
update of the existing Windows Server 2003 TCP/IP Protocols and Services Technical Reference title for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008,
delivers in-depth technical information on IPv4 and related Internet layer, Transport Layer, and network infrastructure protocols and processes. This
book also describes how these protocols and processes work for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista and how to modify default behaviors with registry
values and Netsh.exe tool commands.
The companion CD-ROM contains an eBook version of the book, an eBook version of the TCP/IP
Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows book, Network Monitor capture files, RFCs and Internet drafts, and a set of training slide decks for each
chapter.
You can order this book from the following book sellers:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?is
bn=9780735624474
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pro
duct/073562447X/sr=1-1/qid=1156801743/ref=sr_1_1/104-6313703-3867159?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://www.quantumbooks.com/mspress.mvc?id=9780735624474
News Source: Joe Davies's WebLog..
winbeta.org - 09.01.2008
AMD/ATi Catalyst 8.3 display drivers released - Making a compelling case for Vista
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD/ATi have released the Catalyst 8.3 display drivers pack - and this latest updates does more to encourage gamers onto Vista
than Microsoft has managed so far.
Catalyst 8.3 is no
small update to the drivers. There are a whole raft of new features added. Here are some of the highlights...
View Full Article: ZDNet Hardware 2.0
Blog..
winbeta.org - 06.03.2008
Mozilla Patches QuickTime/Firefox Flaw
Mozilla has released a patch today for its popular Firefox webbrowser which ditches the ability to run arbitrary script from the Firefox command line,
a quick fix for a year-old QuickTime bug that could be used to take over user systems. Security researcher Petko D. Petkov on Sept. 12 posted
proof-of-concept code showing that the low-risk, year-old QuickTime bug could easily be turned into a high-risk attack on Firefox, Internet Explorer,
Skype and other programs. Petkov-aka pdp-showed how QuickTime media formats can be used to get into Firefox, leading to full browser compromise and
perhaps even to compromise of the underlying operating system.
Read
full story.....
neowin.net - 20.09.2007
IE7/WMP11 Launch News
Thanks to windows
tester and Jason He
from the forums for the heads
up!
According to a
new Vista-related press
release on Microsoft's site,
Windows Media Player 11 will
be released to the public on
October 24th.
"Windows Media Player 11
will be available via free
download beginning Oct. 24
and will enable users to take
advantage of an elegant and
intuitive user interface, a
new level of online store
integration, especially with
MTV's URGE service, and
improved navigation for larger
music libraries."
An obscure post over on the
MSDN blogs, states that
Microsoft is targeting October
18th as the release date for
Internet Explorer 7. Looks as
though Microsoft is planning
to release IE7 automatically
on November 1st:
"The final release of
Internet Explorer 7 is
targeted for release October
18th and will be
delivered to customers via
Automatic Updates starting
November 1st, a few weeks
after it's available for
download. Are your Web sites,
extensions, and applications
ready? Microsoft recommends
that Web sites and
applications be reviewed and
made ready for the release of
Internet Explorer 7 this
month."
View:
Windows
Media Player 11 News
View:
Internet
Explorer 7 Posting (MSDN)
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 13.10.2006
LG to Announce Blu-ray / HD DVD Hybrid Drive at CES
After having whetted the
public's appetite for a
hybrid high-definition console
at this time last year, and
then publicly withdrawing that
plan, LG Electronics this
morning announced it is
jumping back into the high-def
pool head first. The company
is promising to provide
"details" next week,
at CES 2007 in Las Vegas, of a
hybrid HD DVD / Blu-ray Disc
player...
betanews.com - 04.01.2007
NY Post: Microsoft Eyeing 24/7 Real Media
With Google scooping up
DoubleClick, and Yahoo's
acquisition Monday of the
remaining stake of Right
Media, Microsoft is apparently
eyeing 24/7 Real Media, the
New York Post reported
Tuesday...
betanews.com - 01.05.2007
AMD: With Vista, Time to Re-evaluate Price/Performance
In its multi-faceted campaign
to wrest back the title of
performance leader in
consumers' minds, AMD is
leveraging its fusion with ATI
and ATI's cooperation with
Microsoft to make a bold new
case for itself: Now that the
Windows Vista era is upon us,
AMD's executives and managers
believe the time has come to
throw out the old XP-based
benchmarks, and re-evaluate
AMD's current line of
processors using more updated
metrics...
betanews.com - 03.02.2007
Wikipedia / Virtual Earth Mashup
Sarah Perez: Now this is a cool mashup and its built right into Virtual Earth! In Wikipedia, you may have
noticed that some articles have coordinates in the upper-right hand side of the page that locate that place on a map. (See this example). Clicking on the coordinates from the Wikipedia entry will take you to you a map.
But if you want to go the other way - from a map to Wikipedia - then you've got to check out what the Virtual Earth team has done. They've been indexing all these
links in their Spatial Search and Explore indexes so you can surf the maps with Wikipedia displaying in the sidebar. If you want to try it out for
yourself, turn on Live Map's Explore feature and then select the Wikipedia Tag, or just click this link to see
it in action now.
News Source: Channel 10..
winbeta.org - 08.05.2008
Cross-browser Firefox/IE flaw worsens
The browser flaw which allows
attackers to hijack a computer
by using Internet Explorer to
launch Firefox is affecting
other applications as well.
Security researchers Nate
McFeters, Billy Rios and
Raghav Dube have disclosed
information and working
exploit code for a similar
vulnerability in Trillian.
Like the Firefox attack, the
Trillian exploit uses a
Uniform Resource Identifier
(URI) function as the point of
attack.
The URI
allows the browser to launch a
third-party application on the
user's system in much the
same way that a URL is used to
access a web page. When the
user visits a
specially-crafted page, the
application is launched and
attack code is run to crash
the application and execute
code. The attack could be used
to remotely install malware on
a user's system.
View: The full
story
News
source: vnunet
R
ead full story.....
neowin.net - 17.07.2007
Virgin/Toshiba to Give Away Free HD DVD Players
One-hundred fifty lucky Star Trek fans will be walking away with a free Toshiba HD DVD player on Tuesday, November 20. There's only one catch ...
this special giveaway is happening in New York City at the two different Virgin Megastores. But if you are lucky enough to live close by and are
willing to stand in line to get a player, you could be walking away with an HD DVD player from Toshiba, valued at $299!
View Details: Star Trek.com..
winbeta.org - 01.11.2007
Microsoft denies dual-boot Linux/Windows XO laptops are on its agenda
It looks like the head of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Chief Nicholas Negroponte is not only alienating Intel, but Microsoft, too.
A day after published reports quoting Negroponte as saying OLPC XO laptops would dual boot
Linux and Windows, Microsoft is denying that the company is pursuing such a plan. According to a statement from a Microsoft spokesman:
“While we have investigated the possibility in the past, Microsoft is not developing dual-boot Windows XP support for One Laptop Per
Child’s XO laptop. As we announced in December, Microsoft plans to publish formal design guidelines early this year that will assist
flash-based device manufacturers in designing machines that enable a high-quality Windows experience. Our current goal remains to provide a
high-quality Windows experience on the XO device.
“In addition, there will be limited field trials in January 2008 of Windows XP for One Laptop per Child’s XO laptop.
Microsoft recommends contacting the company directly for any further updates.”
This wasn’t the first time that Negroponte
took it upon himself to preannounce Microsoft’s OLPC plans...
View Full
Article: Mary Jo Foley's Blog..
winbeta.org - 10.01.2008
