Microsoft Support & Discussions

Microsoft Windows Phone President Andy Lees’ restatement of Microsoft’s tablet positioning has kicked off again the debate as to whether tablets and PCs are one and the same. Source: All About Microsoft

By Thurrott, Paul On day two of WPC, Microsoft publicly disclosed Windows Server 8 for the first time. This is the server release of Windows that the company plans to ship alongside Windows 8 sometime in 2012. Source: Win Super Site

By Thurrott, Paul When it comes to Windows Phone, Microsoft is in a bit of a bind. On the one hand, the software giant has created an innovative and useful mobile platform that offers important improvements over the Android and iPhone competition. But on the other hand, no one seems to be buying the phones. Source: Win Super Site

By Thurrott, Paul Netflix this week did something that only a very confident and successful company could possibly do: It raised prices for a popular service that, quite frankly, should simply cost consumers less over time, not more. Similar in that way to last year’s Xbox LIVE price hike, the Netflix price hike is seen, perhaps correctly, as a blatant money grab for a captive audience. Source: Win Super Site

By Thurrott, Paul Windows Server 2003 is notable to me for two reasons. First, it was among those products that were temporarily renamed to include the ".NET" nomenclature that briefly subsumed the software giant in late 2001/early 2002. Second, the successor to Windows Server 2003 was delayed for several years because of problems with the Longhorn generation of Windows, necessitating further updates. Source: Win Super Site

Microsoft officials showed off on July 12 at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference a first public glimpse of its coming Windows Server 8 operating system. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft reconfirmed that it will be rolling out the next version of its Dynamics CRM Online service before the end of calendar 2011. Source: All About Microsoft

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Windows Bluetooth Stack. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent a series of specially crafted Bluetooth packets to an affected system. An attacker could then install programs view, change, or delete data or create new accounts with full user rights. This vulnerability only affects systems with Bluetooth capability. Read Bulletin

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves 15 privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logged on locally and ran a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit these vulnerabilities. Read Bulletin

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Visio. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate Visio 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 operate with administrative user rights. Read Bulletin

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves five privately reported vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS). The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to a user's system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit the vulnerabilities. Read Bulletin

By Thurrott, Paul Microsoft today released its regularly scheduled, monthly set of security updates for July 2011. Source: Win Super Site

With Web Workers, Web applications can be more responsive by offloading long-running, complex JavaScript algorithms to run in the background. IE10 includes a complete and predictable debugging experience for JavaScript executing within both the Web page and in Web workers. In IE10, we

By Thurrott, Paul In the opening keynote of its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), being held this year in Los Angeles, California, Microsoft provided a series of updates about Windows 7 and related products and services while casting an eye to its Windows 8 future. Source: Win Super Site

By Thurrott, Paul At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), held this week in Los Angeles, California, Microsoft provided a number of interesting updates related to Windows. The most interesting, I think, is the public beta release of Windows Intune 2, a major update to the cloud-based PC management service that Microsoft launched earlier this year. Source: Win Super Site

By Thurrott, Paul I never had a a happy relationship with Windows Mobile. Aand when the iPhone came out in 2007, I jumped shipped immediately, again seeking out a superior competing product. Microsoft tried to win me back over subsequent releases of Windows Mobile 6, 6.1, and 6.5, but by then the platform was doomed. Only Microsoft didn’t seem to know it. Source: Win Super Site

Microsoft’s Day 1 keynote from the Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles didn’t feature much product news. But there were a lot of stats thrown at the 12,000 or so partners in attendance on July 11. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is making a beta of the next release of its Windows Intune available for download on July 11, officials announced during the Worldwide Partner Conference 2011. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is expected to deliver the third Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the next version of its SQL Server database during the Worldwide Partner Conference the week of July 11, according to some of my contacts. Source: All About Microsoft

By Thurrott, Paul Although Apple has thus far avoided the antitrust anvil, the Cupertino company is discovering an unhappy dark side to its market power. Sure, it can bully rivals in public, but when those spats hit the legal system, Apple often finds itself on the wrong end of the law. Source: Win Super Site