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MS11-068 - Moderate: Vulnerability in Windows Kernel Could Allow Denial of Service (2
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Bulletin Severity Rating:Moderate - 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, an attacker would have to convince a user to do so, typically by getting the user to click a link in an e-mail message or Instant Messenger message. Read Bulletin
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MS11-069 - Moderate: Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Information Disclosu
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Bulletin Severity Rating:Moderate - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs). In a Web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a Web site that contains a Web page that is used to exploit this vulnerability. In addition, compromised Web sites and Web sites that accept or host user-provided content or advertisements could contain specially crafted content that could exploit this vulnerability. In all cases, however, an attacker would have no way to force…
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Waiting on the Attack of the Small Business Servers
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By Thurrott, Paul Despite promises that we’d see new machines based on Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Windows Home Server 2011, and Windows Storage Server 2011 Essentials by the end of May or June at the latest, it’s now August, and very little in the way of hardware, new or otherwise, has appeared. Source: Win Super Site
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IE 9.0.2 Available via Windows Update
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The August 2011 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is now available via Windows Update. This security update resolves five vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that were disclosed in coordination with Microsoft and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a malicious, specially crafted Web page using IE. Users who run without administrative rights are more secure in general and should be less impacted than other users you can read more about this security principle in many places. This security update is rated Critical for IE6, 7, 8, and 9 on Windows clients for more inform…
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If you’re among those going to the Windows 8 Build conference next month, be advised the scheduled pre-conference is no longer happening. Source: All About Microsoft
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Gartner: 42 percent of PCs will be running Windows 7 by year-end
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Windows 7’s share of the PC market is continuing to grow steadily, while Apple’s, Linux’s and Google’s shares are making slow inroads, according to new worldwide PC usage data from Gartner Inc. Source: All About Microsoft
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Information about Microsoft’s successor to Windows Phone OS Mango (codenamed Tango) is slowly starting to leak. Source: All About Microsoft
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Security Expert: Windows 7 Is More Secure Than Mac OS X
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By Thurrott, Paul Conventional wisdom has it that Apple’s Mac OS X system is more secure than Windows. And while partisans on either side of the OS fence have differing reasons for believing that to be so--Mac users believe it is because of the inherent superiority of OS X’s UNIX underpinnings, and Windows users claim that OS X’s tiny 5 percent usage share isn’t a sufficient target for hackers--this is perhaps the one area where they do agree. Source: Win Super Site
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And Now, a Stunningly Unfunny Microsoft Internal Video
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By Thurrott, Paul Well, they can’t all be home runs. After the stunning "Gmail Man" video made the rounds online recently, I guess I sort of expected more excellence from Microsoft’s internal video efforts. Sadly, this is not the case. Source: Win Super Site
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Information about Microsoft’s successor to Windows Phone OS Mango (codenamed Tango) is slowly starting to leak. Source: All About Microsoft
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Windows 7’s share of the PC market is continuing to grow steadily, while Apple’s, Linux’s and Google’s shares are making slow inroads, according to new worldwide PC usage data from Gartner Inc. Source: All About Microsoft
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Dear All: As I have received a lot of emails from my customers, I want to set up some rules to filter and actions to the email to move them automatically. I want to move the email with specific words in the recipient's address, sender's address, body or subject. But when I selected some of the conditions in the rule condition settings, the rules logic is "AND". I want to use the logic as "OR", which means if any of the recipient's address, sender's address, body or subject match the criteria I have set up, the email will be move to the folder. Thanks in advance. Best wishes, Jason Zhang View this thread
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In War with Google, Microsoft Wins a Decisive Victory
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By Thurrott, Paul Say what you will about Google, but the online giant’s strategy with Android has paid off: By giving away the software that powers its mobile platform, Google has quickly risen to dominance in the smartphone market, easily pushing aside industry darling Apple. But there’s a dark side to Google’s smartphone rise. Source: Win Super Site
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Email Consolidation: How to Consolidate Email Accounts in Windows 7 and Windows Phone
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By Thurrott, Paul My advice is to consolidate email accounts aggressively in the cloud when possible, however, since client consolidation--as you’ll see--requires a lot of configuration, and you’ll need to repeat these configuration changes each time you reinstall Windows or reset your mobile device. Source: Win Super Site
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Windows Weekly 220: SharePinters
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By Thurrott, Paul In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo, Mary Jo and I discuss BUILD, Google’s crazy patent attack against Apple and Microsoft, an study in IE intelligence, new tidbits about Windows 8 and Office 15, Windows Phone news, an MS-DOS anniversary, the truth about Ultrabooks, XP usage share, Paul at Big Nerd Ranch, and Mary Jo’s trip next week to SharePoint Saturday The Conference. Source: Win Super Site
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Email Consolidation: How-To Forward Email to Other Accounts
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By Thurrott, Paul In addition to configuring your primary email account to collect email from other, secondary, accounts, you could alternatively configure your secondary accounts to forward mail, automatically, to your primary account. There are some disadvantages to this approach, but these can be overcome if you know what to look for. Source: Win Super Site
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What The Tech 79: Zipping Along
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By Thurrott, Paul I joined Andrew Zarian again this week on What The Tech to discuss the new Roku 2 players and how they stack up against the competition, Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" and why reviewers suddenly "get" that this platform is excellent, the problem with having too many choices, and why the age of dedicated portable gaming machines has passed. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft: We've Cut Hotmail Spam by 90 Percent
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By Thurrott, Paul Microsoft on Friday provided an update on its ongoing war against spam, claiming that it has cut spam on the Hotmail web-based email services by some 90 percent and, in doing so, has also cut overall spam on the Internet by 15 percent. As important, it’s cut so-called "outgoing spam"--i.e. that spam that is sent from Microsoft’s Hotmail servers--by an impressive 75 percent as well. Source: Win Super Site
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Email Consolidation: How-To Collect Email From Other Accounts
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By Thurrott, Paul In this second article of my email consolidation series, I’ll move beyond abstract ideas and towards a more mechanical how-to, and examine how you can use one email service to collect email from another email service. Source: Win Super Site
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Report: Windows Phone Usage Falls to Under 6 Percent in US
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By Thurrott, Paul The market analysts at comScore this week released their latest US smart phone usage share survey, noting that Microsoft’s Windows Phone was in use on just 5.8 percent of smart phones in the second quarter of 2011. That’s down 1.7 percentage points from its 7.5 percent figure in the first quarter of 2011. Source: Win Super Site
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Dolby: Our technologies are not built into Microsoft's Windows 8
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Dolby Laboratories executives shared some information about Microsoft’s Windows 8 during an earnings call this week. What are the implications of the disclosure? Source: All About Microsoft
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Dolby Laboratories executives shared some information about Microsoft’s Windows 8 during an earnings call this week. What are the implications of the disclosure? Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft's Problem In a Nutshell
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By Thurrott, Paul An XKCD cartoon this week nicely encapsulates the problem Microsoft faces with its traditional desktop versions of Windows: With the world moving to mobile apps and web apps, what’s the future like for native desktop apps? Probable answer: There is no future for native desktop apps. Source: Win Super Site
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WinInfo Short Takes: August 5, 2011
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By Thurrott, Paul An often irreverent look at some of this week’s other news, including Microsoft revelations about Google hypocrisy, a former Microsoftie becomes CIO of the USA, Office 365 trials heading to new PCs, Microsoft’s supposed Android bonanza, Android’s continued mobile dominance in 2012, whether Windows Phone "Tango" is real, Chrome OS gets a security comeuppance, a rumored merger of Mac OS X and iOS, and whether HP’s Palm webOS gambit has already failed. Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft announced plans for its Windows 8 developer conference in mid-September, known as Build, back on June 1. As of August 1, the Build Web site now shows the conference to be sold out. Online registration has sold out without Microsoft posting an agenda for the three- four-day event (five, if you include the pre-con day). Early-bird discounted Build registration ended as of August 1, as well. While Microsoft is, no doubt, hiding the agenda to further the corporate mission of keeping Windows 8 features under wraps as long as possible, the “shhh” strategy has been a double-edged sword. I’ve heard from several developers that they were unable to convince their ma…
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