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On Netbooks and Redmond, Death and Taxes TechNewsWorld, CA After all, "who's going to pay extra money just to get the Windows logo on a netbook, when they can get the same features for less with free software...?" wrote Glyn Moody in the Open... blog. Along similar lines, CNet's Matt Asay asked, ... More...

For those of you who didn’t make it to MIX, I wanted to take a quick minute to point out that the MIX team has made all of the sessions available for viewing and downloading. If you’re building any type of web site or web application, I’d highly recommend checking out Eric’s Security session and John’s performance session. Both will give you some great tips for writing better code, not just in Internet Explorer, but for browsers in general. A Brief History Of The Web http://windows.com/ie8nethistory So much has happened in such a small time that it would be impossible to cover it all. We left plenty out, but the parts we left in are really funny, s…

we have an internal hard drive in a removeable tray as a form of backup running on win 2008 64 bit. Each day we where using a free utility to hotswap the drive which was working without any problems. but now for some reason now even with no other programs running on the server something is accessing the backup drive and we cant see it hotswap the drive. it keeps saying the drive is in use. We thought it was the backup software so temporarily have removed that and its made no difference. Has anyone else had this problem. One thing to note this only seems to happen overnight as if we reboot the server and then hotswap it works without any problems but we dont…

Texas Senate will vote on Windows Vista purchase ban CNET News, CA He is co-founder of MuleSource, an open-source integration and infrastructure software company, and is a recognized thought leader in open-source software and service-oriented architecture. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee ... More...

Windows 7 Release Candidate on the horizon GCN.com, DC The blog may be referring to a disaster that happened with Windows Vista. Presumably, Microsoft's partners planned for the wrong features or got confused by Microsoft's communications. The result: early Vista users described a lack of driver support, ... More...

Buzz Out Loud Blog CNET News, CA And to Molly, who feels that Apple shouldn’t even charge for updates to OSX because they are essentially “service packsâ€â€“ I believe that Microsoft is hard at work on a “service pack†to Window’s Vista, called Windows 7. And I’m pretty sure they’re ... More...

Tweak Windows Vista's Logon screen to meet your needs TechRepublic, KY In this edition of the Windows Vista & Windows 7 Report, I’ll show you how to tweak Vista’s Logon screen. This blog post is also available in the PDF format in a free TechRepublic Download. Before you begin editing, keep in mind that the Windows ... More...

Microsoft has already released Windows Vista SP2/Windows Server 2008 SP2 RTM (Release to Manufacturer) and can be downloaded here.This RTM has a build number of 6002.17506.090313-1730, which was compiled on March 13, 2009. Once finalized, the RTM build numbers would be 6002.17507.090319-1515 and 6002.17508.090320-1600Windows Vista & Windows Server 2008 SP2 RTM are due on April [...] More...

All about Microsoft’s “Lauren†CNNMoney.com Her name is Lauren De Long, and she set a million geek hearts aflutter with her spunky performance in the now famous “you find it, you keep it†PC ad, in which she chose an HP (HPQ) Pavillion running Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Vista Home Edition over any ... More...

The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com Conficker worm could be in your computer right now The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH It infiltrates computers via the Internet through an inherent weakness in Windows XP and Vista operating systems. Microsoft is offering a $250000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the culprit. Internet security experts suspect it could ... More...

The first major worldwide worm attack in several years could happen tomorrow... Or not. More...

Conficker can no longer hide in the network ComputerWeekly.com, UK The Conficker worm, also known as Downadup, exploits a bug in the Windows Server service used by Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008. The worm has spread to an estimated 10 million computers worldwide, exploiting the Windows ... More...

Enabling Remote Desktop on Windows Server 2008 Core Edition TechRepublic, KY (For more about NLA and the other components, read this blog post by the TechNet Performance Team.) Once you decide on a mode, it’s quite easy to implement RDP on a Core system. If you want to use NLA for RDP connections to Windows Vista and Windows ... More...

EASEUS Partition Master was previously knows as EASEUS Partition Manager is offered free and works perfectly on Windows Vista. EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is an alternative to the paid PartitionMagic� which allows users to resize, move, copy, create and delete partitions for free. The free software is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista.The existing disk management [...] More...

Blog back: technology, a 'translation' and total compensation Sacramento Bee, USA Gee...we are still using IE6...only got Windows XP or Vista because it came with the computers that were bought...don't even get me started on Lotus Notes...we still have to use a dial up modem for paging...and yes still using pagers when there are ... More...

Microsoft has more to fear than a $1000 Mac CNET News, CA He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. by byl01 March 30, 2009 9:30 AM PDT 2. Web-based applications come at a price. If you are a heavy user, it's a safe bet that you will waste at least 5 minutes a day on ... More...

100% cure for Conficker Computerworld, MA The sad truth is no matter what you do with Windows, whether you're running XP, Vista, or the Windows 7 beta, you're not safe. Now, however there's a patch that will stop Conficker, and almost all other malware programs, in their tracks. ... More...

AFP Conficker flaw reveals which computers are infected CNET News, CA BTW, I use Windows, OS X, Liux, and Irix. I'm not infected either. Sorta ruins your whole argument right there. by guest86 March 30, 2009 3:01 PM PDT True. Not XP. Vista and older operating system(Windows 95 to ME) are sucks. by AppleRocks1963 March 30 ... Will the World End on Wednesday? eWeek Symantec: Don’t Google Conficker DigitalJournal.com all 820 news articles More...

I’ve blogged about the Compatibility View features included in Internet Explorer 8 a few times during the Beta 2 and Release Candidate milestones. Now that Internet Explorer 8 has released, I wanted to follow-up with a quick post highlighting the content that’s been created on MSDN regarding the Compatibility View List. To review, Internet Explorer 8 includes a suite of features under the umbrella term ‘Compatibility View’. These features give users a way to mitigate website compatibility problems they may encounter while browsing the web – compatibility issues often caused by Internet Explorer 8’s better implementation of web standards. By default, Intern…

Finally, a feature-by-feature comparison of the various Windows 7 product editions... More...

Inside BBC's Chimera botnet ZDNet Blogs ... launching DDoS attacks, with the backend’s interface exclusively based on the ExtJS AJAX framework, with the malware itself compatible with Windows SP sp1/2/3, and Windows Vista with the authors claiming it will run as an authorized application. ... More...

Will the World End on Wednesday? eWeek, NY Security Center Editor Larry Seltzer has worked in and written about the computer industry since 1983. For insights on security coverage around the Web, take a look at eweek.com Security Center Editor Larry Seltzer's blog Cheap Hack. More...

Sydney Morning Herald Microsoft gets an ad right CNET News, CA Told that if she can find a 17-inch laptop for under $1000 she can keep it, Lauren ends up -- to the Mac aficionados' dismay -- with an HP (HPQ) running Windows Vista. The message? Sure, Macs are fine. But who can afford one in these times? ... Microsoft makes an ad for people who were going to buy a PC anyway VentureBeat Microsoft’s latest ‘I’ma PC’ ad has a few flaws… TECH.BLORGE.com Windows geeks warm to Macs InfoWorld CNET News all 279 news articles More...

Hi experts, I have a strangle problem with LastInputTime from WinStationInformationW function. The problem is that it sometimes return LastInputTime with 7 min difference from its actual time. For example: last input time was at 11.10 but it returns 11.03. It usually occurs when the person logs in for the first time at the terminal server. But it can also appear during active session. I don't think that the problem is in the code, because it apperars ocassionally. Thank you in advance. Here is the code: private enum WINSTATIONINFOCLASS{ WinStationInformation = 8 } //Works only on Windows 2000/2003 [DllImport("winsta.dll")] private static extern int Win…

Windows 7: RC is nearly there IT PRO, UK There are no new features going into the release candidate beyond what’s getting announced on the Engineering 7 blog (which even Microsoft employees use to find out what’s going on, because they can see a feature discussed there before they’ve heard ... More...