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Microsoft has added another Android backer to the list of those signing with Redmond for patent protection: General Dynamics. Source: All About Microsoft
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Windows Weekly 214: You Say MeeGo, I Say Mango
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Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss what we previously missed from Steven Sinofsky's D9 appearance, what it's like to use Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" beta, a new Nokia phone that hints at Nokia's first Windows Phone handset, what Skype really means to Microsoft, a SkyDrive makeover, some Apple stuff, and the (supposed) end of the Winklevoss Facebook suit. ... Source: Win Super Site
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What We Really Learned About Windows 8 @ D9
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Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows In this summary of the Windows 8 revelations at D9 earlier this month, I catalog what it is that Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Green really revealed about Windows 8 during the talk. Here for the first time is a rundown of the new information only. ... Source: Win Super Site
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13 Years Ago Today: Windows 98
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Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows I was reminded by a Windows team tweet that today is the 13th anniversary of Windows 98, Microsoft's first major (and very first retail) follow-up to Windows 95. Windows 98 was to Windows 95 as Windows 7 was to Windows Vista in that it simply built on the major changes wrought by its predecessor, offering a superior experience through evolutionary updates. ... Source: Win Super Site
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Back in March 2011, there were rumors circulating that Google planned to do away with Google Health, its Microsoft HealthVault competitor. And on June 24, Google admitted that the rumors were right. Source: All About Microsoft
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Google Cooperating with FTC Antirust Investigation
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Windows IT Pro Google on Friday confirmed that the US Federal Trade Commission is investigating the online giant for antitrust violations related to its search and advertising business practices. The company pledged to cooperate with the investigation. ... Source: Win Super Site
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Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer
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Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer Browsers need amazing performance to deliver on the promise of HTML5 applications. Modernizing Internet Explorer 9 has changed what&rsquos possible with Web sites, and dramatically improved the performance of the HTML4 sites consumers use today. To demonstrate the real world performance gains in IE9 at the recent Velocity 2011 conference, we presented our talk on Modernizing Internet Explorer as an interactive HTML4 Web application: View the entire Velocity 2011 presentation, Modernizing Internet Explorer This real world scenario is a great way to experience what&rsquos possible t…
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Will Mozilla's enterprise-hostile support policy boost IE's share?
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Microsoft’s IE team seems to be hoping to capitalize on Mozilla’s new release/support strategy with Firefox that has little to offer to business users. Source: All About Microsoft
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WinInfo Short Takes: June 24, 2011
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Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including Nokia's first Windows Phone revealed, Mango heading to developers soon, FTC prepping Google antitrust charges, the return of the Winklevoss twins, a XAML mystery of sorts, Mozilla hates corporations, Apple prepping for Google-lessAn often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including Nokia's first Windows Phone revealed, Mango he iPhone future, Google preps Skype killer, Yahoo CEO is clueless, and Quake hits 15. ... Source: Win Super Site
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Microsoft splits up its XAML team: What's the fallout?
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The development platform and tools strategy at Microsoft is getting increasingly complex, especially around XAML/Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. Here’s the latest. Source: All About Microsoft
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Microsoft Adds Outlook-Like Features to Hotmail
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Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows As with the recent major update to SkyDrive, Microsoft this week updated Hotmail, this time to sport some nice Windows native app-like features based on Outlook. ... Source: Win Super Site
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Internet Explorer 9 Security Part 4: Protecting Consumers from Malicious Mixed Conten
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Mixed content on a Web page puts consumers at risk of man-in-the-middle attacks, especially as consumers spend more time browsing from untrusted public networks (like free WiFi in coffee shops and airports). An attacker can view page content that a consumer expected to be delivered securely, and even modify the contents of the page without the consumer knowing it. This happens when Web sites void the security promise of HTTPS by including content delivered by HTTP into their otherwise secure HTTPS pages. IE9 helps you stay secure. When a HTTPS site includes unsecure HTTP content, Internet Explorer 9 blocks the unsecure content to help keep your information safe. One o…
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Microsoft to work with Joyent to port Node.js to Windows, Azure
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Microsoft is “formally contributing resources” toward porting Node.js to Windows in partnership with Joyent, according to a June 23 blog post on Nodejs.org.The native port to Windows is underway, and requires a “rather large modification of the core structure,” according to the post, authored by Ryan Dahl, the creator of node. The ultimate goal is [...] Source: All About Microsoft
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Windows IT Pro Apple is in the news for two separate but related events in which the consumer electronics giant is trying to shore up its lead using legal means rather than superior products. ... Source: Win Super Site
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Winklevoss Twins End Facebook Appeal
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Windows IT Pro Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss this week decided not to appeal a recent federal appeals court ruling to the US Supreme Court, effectively ending their battle with Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. ... Source: Win Super Site
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Windows 8: Sinofsky @ D9 Transcribed, Part 3: Q & A
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Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows In the third and concluding part of of my transcript of Steven Sinofsky's D9 appearance earlier this month, I focus on the Q & A with Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Green. ... Source: Win Super Site
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Fake Microsoft Security Essentials software on the loose. Don
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Last week, we saw the re-emergence of another new trojan that is disguising itself as Microsoft
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Security and Internet Explorer
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While the Internet is an amazing resource in terms of the information you can find and things you can do today, it
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Windows 7 is now Common Criteria Certified!
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Our friends over at the FutureFed blog reported that Windows 7 the has passed the Common Criteria (CC) certification process and achieved Evaluation Assurance Level 4 with augmentation (EAL4+). Common Criteria certification is an international standard recognized by 26 member nations including the United States and is a procurement requirement for U.S. Defense and national security customers. With this certification, we are excited that our federal customers as well as foreign governments can feel secure in deploying Windows 7, having successfully passed the rigorous security testing protocols set forth by the National Information Assurance Partnership. Several g…
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You may have seen articles recently that highlight a social engineering technique called
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Dealing with Fake Tech Support & Phone Scams
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On this blog, we&rsquove discussed the ways that scammers can attack your PC, through malicious software, rogue security alerts, phishing attacks and more. But the bad guys have now devised a new vector: the phone. I first learned about this when I heard my parents had received a call that they had been identified as having rogue software on their PC. The caller, who said he was from Microsoft, needed to remote access their PC to resolve the issue. Turns out scammers like these were simply taking the time to prey on potential victims by calling them and masquerading as a representative from a trusted institution to trick them into giving up valuable and personal infor…
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Windows 8: Sinofsky @ D9 Transcribed, Part 2: The Demo
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Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows In part 2 of my transcript of Steven Sinofsky's D9 appearance earlier this month, I focus on the Windows 8 demonstration featuring Julie Larson-Green. Suffice to say there was plenty more info provided by both Larson-Green and Sinofsky that never escaped past the D9 censors. Until now. ... Source: Win Super Site
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Join us for BUILD
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Join us this September 13-16 in Anaheim, California for Microsoft
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Making Tracking Protection Lists Available From Your Web Site
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Any site can offer Tracking Protection Lists (TPLs) to help consumers protect their privacy. This post shows you how to make a TPL available from your site. For example, clicking here in IE9 will add the list from the EasyPrivacy. A word about Tracking Protection Lists Tracking Protection Lists are similar in concept to the lists behind the AdBlockPlus add-in for Firefox. The main differences are that TPLs are built in to IE, the W3C is working through the standardization process of their format, and adding a TPL in IE sends the DNT header (link). Technically, TPLs are just text files that can be hosted on any Web se…
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More Control over Flash Cookies with IE
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Internet Explorer now gives you more control over the data that Web sites store on your computer. This includes Flash Player&rsquos Local Shared Objects (LSOs). We&rsquove worked closely with Adobe to integrate Flash LSO deletion directly into Internet Explorer, making it easier for you to manage your online privacy with the latest version of Adobe Flash and IE9 (as well as IE8): IE will delete your Flash Cookies as well as your Web cookies If you want to try this out, please visit our Test Drive Web site where you can create a Flash Cookie and then delete it. If you want to manage all the Flash settings, visit the online settings application on Adobe&a…