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- The Mozilla foundation released Firefox 2.0.0.1 today, in order to pre-emptively fix some security problems and improve compatibility with Windows Vista. But 100% support of Vista is proving to be more difficult than originally imagined. |
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- Mozilla patched 10 Firefox vulnerabilities late Tuesday, seven of them marked "critical," but left a password-spilling bug unresolved. Firefox 2.0.0.1, the first update since the October debut of Firefox 2. |
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- If you're among the select group of invitees to Microsoft's "Early Feedback Program," you can start sending in your ideas for what you'd like to see fixed, changed and/or added to the next version or two of Windows. Microsoft notified the selected testers on December 19 that they were free to start submitting suggestions immediately, via the Microsoft Connect Web site. |
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- With Windows Vista, it?s a must to have good fast memory installed in your PC. The best memory costs a lot of money, especially once you reach above 1GB sticks. In this short piece about Memory performance under Windows Vista we are testing out numerous sticks against both the Windows Experience Rating as well as the amount of Physical Memory you have on boot. We also state what difference it makes in the feel of speed from the operating system. |
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- During the development of Windows Vista, several key investments were made to vastly improve overall quality, security, and reliability from previous versions of Windows. While we have made tremendous investments in Windows Vista to ensure backwards compatibility, some of the system enhancements, such as User Account Control, changes to the networking stack, and the new graphics model, make Windows Vista behave differently from previous versions of Windows. These investments impact Visual Studio 2005. The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta addresses areas of Visual Studio impacted by Vista enhancements. |
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- Josh from Windows Connected writes:Today when I got home from work I was delighted to see my CES guide had arrived. Wow, the sheer size of this conference is mind boggling. On the front of the CES guide was a very vague ad from Microsoft (See Source). My guess is that this is going to be a Microsoft competitor to xdrive, which has been rumored to have been called "Windows Live Drive". |
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- Windows Aero is Vista's new user interface and is based on desktop composition which is the process where each window and the desktop background is drawn separately and then composed by using the 3‑D graphics engine to create the desktop image a user sees. Vista's process for automatically enabling Aero is relatively involved, and to date, the process hasn't been very clear. |
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- On November 30, Sophos issued its monthly report on the top ten threats reported to them in November of 2006. As a part of this, Sophos also studied Windows Vista's vulnerability to these malware threats. I found the information and press discussion confusing, so I thought I would clarify what this really means for customers. |
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- Microsoft Corp. today released draft application programming interfaces designed to allow third-party security products to get around a contentious kernel protection technology in the Vista operating system called PatchGuard. The draft APIs will be available to security vendors for testing and comment through the end of January. A final version of the APIs will then become available when Microsoft releases Service Pack 1 for Vista sometime in mid-2007, according to Ben Fathi, vice president of development for the Windows Core Operating System. Microsoft today also released a separate criteria evaluation document that details the processes Microsoft used in evaluating vendor requests for APIs to the Vista kernel. |
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- Whether your extended organization consists of branch offices, retail outlets, remote properties, or distributed facilities, these additional locations should be adding to your bottom line, not costing you money. But delivering server benefits to each location can end up consuming a third of your IT budget and more. So how cost-effective is your current server configuration?Based on Microsoft® Windows Server? 2003 R2 and associated products, the Microsoft Branch Office Solution helps drive higher productivity and cost savings in disparate locations. |
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- Jeff Alexander has a nice summary on what changed this month on Technet. |
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- Microsoft has updated its Get Ready Web site to include the minimum system requirements to run Windows Vista. A Windows Vista Capable PC must include at least a CPU running at 800MHz, 512 MB of RAM, a DirectX 9 graphics card capable of at least 800x600, a CD-ROM drive and a 20 GB HDD with at least 15 GB free for the install. Of course, systems with bare minimum specifications will be unable to run Vista in the Aero interface. In order a PC to be certified as ?Windows Vista Premium Ready,? |
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- Scoble has thrown down the gauntlet, and wants to set up The Great OS Debate between Vista and OS X. It's make a hell of a podcast, but I'm not sure what the point is beyond that. What would that kind of "meeting of the minds" accomplish? Would it actually bring people from one camp or the other? Or would it just be a pointless waste of breath and time? |
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- File share witness The file share witness feature is an improvement to the current Majority Node Set (MNS) quorum model. This feature lets you use a file share that is external to the cluster as an additional "vote" to determine the status of the cluster in a two-node MNS quorum cluster deployment. |
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- Joyojeet Pal, a PhD student from Berkeley Institute, US, visited a school run by Azim Premji Foundation in 2005. He found several students sharing one PC. One aggressive kid was handling the mouse, while the rest were mere spectators. When Joyojeet began his summer internship at Microsoft Research in Bangalore, he met assistant researcher Udai Singh Pawar and assistant MD of Microsoft Research India, Kentaro Toyama, who listened to his experiences at the Azim Premji Foundation. The duo from Microsoft sensed a big opportunity in it for the software giant. |
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- The MSN Soapbox Team have launched a new activity feature that will alow you to watch Soapbox videos on Windows Live Messenger in real-time with your friends. Which is much nicer than just sending them a link! |
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- Microsoft on Tuesday announced a settlement with one of its disc replication partners, after the company admitted it had breached agreements with Microsoft by unlawfully producing the Redmond company's server software. |
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- While Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 are virtually out the door, Microsoft continues its march towards updating its server products to match. |
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- This poster, originally published in the March-April 2006 edition of TechNet Magazine, provides a strong visual tool to aide in the understanding of Active Directory components and technologies. From Site Component Topology, to Security, to Group Policy and more, this poster distills all of the must-have information about Active Directory into one easy reference. Please note, though, that due to the very detailed nature of the content, this poster was designed for viewing at very high resolution ? ideally printed on 26 x 30 inch poster paper. While we provide this electronic version as an additional tool, the optimal experience remains to view this poster in its original printed form. |
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- Thanks Tony. "Zune? software is your one stop for music and entertainment. Manage and view your songs, videos, and pictures. Rip and burn CDs. |
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- This download will enable you to send SMS text messages through most Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) mobile phones connected to your PC using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. |
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- The Junk E-mail Reporting Tool submits e-mail to Microsoft when you explicitly choose to do so. If you receive a junk e-mail and want to report it to us for analysis, first select the e-mail in Outlook and then click the junk e-mail button on your tool bar. You will see a pop-up window asking whether you want to report the selected e-mail to Microsoft and its affiliates. When you click ?Yes? |
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- Install this update to resolve timing issues resulting in race conditions when using Bluetooth devices connected via USB. This may occur when starting the system while the Bluetooth radio is turned on. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. |
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- The Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available. |
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- Now easily search your shared network directories and FAT drive(s) via Windows Desktop Search 3.0! |
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- Download the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP2. |
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- Chang said the team hopes to be successful in 2008, the Korea Times said. ... <a href="http: |
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- When activated, the enzyme caspase-3 triggers a synaptic process essential for memory storage, according to Graham Huesmann and David Clayton.... <a href="http://www. |
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- "Reliable methods that quickly and accurately locate land mines made of metal and plastic, unexploded ordnance and other mine-like targets are desperately needed," MIT researcher Robert Haupt said.... <a href=" |
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- The pictures of the 600-million-year-old animals made the cover of Nature in 1998 and now the same scientific journal presents evidence for reinterpreting the fossils from the Precambrian era as giant bacteria. ... <a href="http: |
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- George Smoot of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was honored for his 15-year support and outstanding contributions to the Chalonge School, which offers programs in cosmology and astrophysics to worldwide graduate and postdoctoral students.... <a href="http://www. |
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- The experiments, conducted between January 2004 and November 2005, makes it possible to design tests of the "standard model" of particle physics and search for new physics beyond it, according to the scientists.... <a href=" |
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- The study was designed to evaluate whether the blood substitute was superior to, or not worse than, standard therapy.... <a href="http://www. |
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- "This came as a total surprise because the common wisdom is that mammals can't smell underwater," said Catania.... <a href=" |
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- The report is based on 35 years of research from the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, a 50-year study tracking individuals identified as exceptionally gifted at a young age across their lifespan.... <a href="http://www. |
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- The scientists say the hybrid burst is likely signaling the birth of a black hole, but it's unclear what kind of object or objects exploded or merged to create the black hole or, perhaps, something even more bizarre.... <a href="http://www. |
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- "The game is challenging and fun," said Professor Susan Powers. "It helps students understand energy concepts and the complexity of the issues.... |
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- The astronauts Wednesday night were to deploy two small, low-power satellites from the shuttle's payload bay.... <a href="http://www. |
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- The latest version of Argonne National Laboratory's Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit, or PSAT, is intended to assist designers of hybrid and fuel cell vehicles.... <a href="http://www. |
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- The study is described in a report scheduled for the Jan. 10 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.... <a href="http: |
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