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Silverlight and .Net are not dead (yet). But Metro is really the future for Windows 8, Microsoft is telling developers on the opening day of Build. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 developer conference kicks off on September 13. Here’s a cheat sheet of what we now know and don’t going into the four-day confab. Source: All About Microsoft
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Here’s our live blog of the Day 1 keynote from Microsoft’s Windows 8 developer conference in Anaheim, Calif. Join in and comment along with us! Source: All About Microsoft
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AT&T Announces Windows Phone 7.5 Lineup
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By Paul Thurrott AT&T unveiled its lineup of Windows Phone 7.5 handsets, which will ship to customers in the fourth quarter. As with last year’s initial Windows Phone lineup, AT&T is going with three different devices, from Samsung and HTC. But there’s some great additional news: all of these devices are based on 4G. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft's Skype approval may be inching closer (and more news from around the Web)
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Microsoft’s planned acquisition of Skype looks to be inching closer. Microsoft also is making positioning moves in the embedded space and is working with Nitobi on an HTML5 framework for its Windows Phone platform. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft Office 2003 & 2007: A Look Back
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By Paul Thurrott Windows Vista wasn’t the only major product Microsoft plotted the half-decade period spanning 2002 to 2007: After releasing yet another "lipstick on a pig" upgrade in Office 2003, the Office team got its collective act together and really went for it with Office 2007, a revolutionary Office upgrade that started the transition to a completely new UI. Source: Win Super Site
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The Excitement BUILDs: Here Comes Windows 8
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By Paul Thurrott I’m in Anaheim, California for this week’s BUILD conference, where Microsoft promises to reveal Windows 8 (and Windows Server 8) to the world. It’s going to be a fire hose of information. But let me just frame where my head is at with a simple declaration: My next OS is better than your next OS. Source: Win Super Site
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BUILD: Live from Anaheim, CA
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By Paul Thurrott This will serve as the central clearing house for all the Windows 8 articles, blog posts, screenshot galleries, and other content I create while attending BUILD in Anaheim, California this week. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft, Google Cloud Services Succumb to Outages
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By Paul Thurrott Cloud computing services from both Microsoft and Google experienced outages in the past several days, leading as expected to predictable and tired Chicken Little commentaries from the tech blogosphere. But these outages don’t mean that the cloud computing model is broken, just that there’s still some maturing that needs to happen. Source: Win Super Site
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Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript with
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Asynchronous patterns are becoming more common and more important to moving web programming forward. They can be challenging to work with in JavaScript. To make asynchronous (or async) patterns easier, JavaScript libraries (like jQuery and Dojo) have added an abstraction called promises (or sometimes deferreds). With these libraries, developers can use promises in any browser with good ECMAScript 5 support. In this post, we
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Hi all, I have sysprep'd and then captured an image of windows 7 using server 2008 R2 as a deployment server. I have then deployed to another machine but every time I boot the machine I have deployed to it runs the "Preparing system for first use" and reverts all my user accounts and whatever else back to the way they are when deployed. I have removed the unattend file from the deployment server but it still happens when I reimage the PC. What have I done wrong here? Thanks Tim
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Microsoft’s planned acquisition of Skype looks to be inching closer. Microsoft also is making positioning moves in the embedded space and is working with Nitobi on an HTML5 framework for its Windows Phone platform. Source: All About Microsoft
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Inside SharePoint 2010, Part 3: Social Networking Features
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By Paul Thurrott When you think about "sharing" things online today, you probably think of social networking services like Facebook, Google+, or Twitter, which let you broadcast information to some group of users--friends, family members, the whole world, whatever--in ways that have become increasingly familiar. Wouldn’t it be cool if SharePoint provided this type of functionality, but tied into the incredible content management backend it already supplies, and aimed at the needs of a knowledge worker looking to collaborate with his coworkers? Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft to give Hotmail an image (and feature) makeover
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Microsoft is planning a Hotmail press event in October that may mark the introduction of a new (and maybe HTML5-based) version of its Web-based e-mail service. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft Touts Incredible Windows 8 Boot Times
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By Paul Thurrott This week, Microsoft explained how its working to improve the boot time of Windows 8, and if what we’re seeing is to be believed, it looks like this process is about to get a lot quicker for everyone. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft is planning a Hotmail press event in October that may mark the introduction of a new (and maybe HTML5-based) version of its Web-based e-mail service. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft Build: Developer topics to watch
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We know a bit about Windows 8 as we head into Microsoft’s Build conference next week. But we still know surprisingly little about the development tools and technologies which will be stars of the show. Source: All About Microsoft
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We know a bit about Windows 8 as we head into Microsoft’s Build conference next week. But we still know surprisingly little about the development tools and technologies which will be stars of the show. Source: All About Microsoft
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Windows Weekly 225: I Can't Wait For All This To Be Over
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By Paul Thurrott In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo, Mary Jo and I discuss Carol Bartz’s firing from Yahoo, a bunch of pre-BUILD Windows 8 updates, several Windows Phone stories, Windows Intune 2, and a new Twitter and Bing linkup. Source: Win Super Site
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WinInfo Short Takes: September 9, 2011
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By Paul Thurrott An often irreverent look at some of this week’s other news, including two more Android patent licensing deals for Microsoft, the worst mobile app ever made appears on Windows Phone, Google buys Zagat for some reason, Intel claims that Meego will live on, judge looks to AT&T/DOJ settlement, Google talks up its electricity usage, and SFO police probe yet another lost iPhone prototype. Source: Win Super Site
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What The Tech 83: Tablet Of All Tablets
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By Paul Thurrott This week on What The Tech: Andrew and Paul talk tablets. Specifically, the rumored Amazon Kindle tablet. How much does pricing play in to the success of a tablet? What will set it apart from other tablets that run Android? And will Windows 8 tablets be a game changer? Paul talks the future with a Windows 8 tablet. Andrew asks Paul whether or not Windows 8 will be able to run Windows Phone apps. Source: Win Super Site
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MS11-045 - Important : Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Exe
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (August 10, 2011): Removed two erroneous workarounds in this bulletin's vulnerability section for CVE-2011-1276. This is an informational change only. Summary: This security update resolves eight privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights…
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MS11-068 - Moderate : Vulnerability in Windows Kernel Could Allow Denial of Service (
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Severity Rating: Moderate Revision Note: V1.1 (August 10, 2011): Revised the Server Core installation not affected notation for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to clarify that the update will still be offered to systems installed using the Server Core installation option. Summary: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if a user visits a network share (or visits a Web site that points to a network share) containing a specially crafted file. In all cases, however, an attacker would have no way to force a user to visit such a network share or Web site. Instead, a…
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MS11-059 - Important : Vulnerability in Data Access Components Could Allow Remote Cod
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (August 10, 2011): Corrected the restart requirements for the update on all affected operating systems. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate Excel file (such as a .xlsx file) that is located in the same network directory as a specially crafted library file. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operat…
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MS11-063 - Important : Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem Coul
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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (August 17, 2011): Corrected the hyperlink for CVE-2011-1967. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs a specially crafted application designed to send a device event message to a higher-integrity process. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. Read Bulletin