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Don't Expect Windows 7 for Back to School Microsoft Watch In two separate blog posts (here and here), Microsoft revealed scads of last-minute UI and other tweaks. They're unacceptable so late in the development process. It's not good design practice. The Windows 7 development team should listen to Bill Buxton ... More...

Microsoft Talks Touch in Windows 7 PC Magazine by Mark Hachman In a lengthy blog post filed Wednesday, Microsoft detailed many of the improvements and quality-control implementations the company is building into Windows 7, specifically for touch applications. By now, touch has evolved from the ... More...

Product Reviews Microsoft touches more on Windows 7 CNET News, CA "We tuned the gesture detection engine with sample gesture input provided by real people using touch in pre-release builds," Microsoft said in the blog posting. "These tuned gestures are what you will see in the (release candidate) build. ... GreenTech Pastures ZDNet Windows Touch coming to a PC soon BBC News WGA Notifications updated for Windows XP Professional Ars Technica Gotta Be Mobile - ChannelWeb all 27 news articles More...

GreenTech Pastures ZDNet For those that have made the Vista plunge, Microsoft has just published two white papers that outline ways that enterprise customers can reduce both energy consumption and operating costs. The first, called Saving Costs and Energy With Windows Vista, ... More...

Windows 7 edges out Vista in thorough gaming benchmarks engadget, CA by Ross Miller, posted Mar 25th 2009 at 10:41PM Looking to find out what's the better gaming experience out there right now -- Windows 7 beta or Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 -- the folks at PC Perspective put both operating systems through the ... More...

Over the last year, we’ve published two posts about how the IE8 SmartScreen® filter helps to prevent phishing and malware attacks. In this post, I’d like to share some real-world data on the protection provided to IE8 pre-release users by the anti-malware feature. We’ve invested heavily in this feature, and we’ve seen significant results. Here are some key statistics: [*]We have delivered over 10 million malware blocks in the past six months[*]That’s a block for one out of 40 users, every week[*]We’ve seen (and blocked) one in every 200 downloads as malicious These are BIG numbers – each malicious download blocked helps prevent compromise of that us…

Microsoft Adds Security Fix To IE 8 ChannelWeb, NY Specifically, the error allowed them to bypass the Windows Vista defense-in-depth security layers that combined Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) in attacks targeting the IE browser by using the . ... More...

WGA Notifications updated for Windows XP Professional Ars Technica, MA According to the Windows Genuine Advantage blog, the Genuine Windows team has improved the design making it easier to install the update and to stay up to date with the latest release of WGA. Upon close inspection though, this is not so new. ... Microsoft Ratchets Up XP Piracy Nagging ChannelWeb Microsoft updates WGA to find counterfeit Windows XP Pro ITworld.com all 7 news articles More...

The following works in XP and 2003 but not 2008, any idea why? ftp -n -s:input.txt 1>NUL 2>error.txt Error.txt is empty if an error occurs. I want to keep the error log separate so I can report it to the user. Any ideas?

Microsoft updates WGA to hunt down counterfeit Windows XP Pro Computerworld, MA In an entry to a company blog, Alex Kochis, senior product manager for Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program, spelled out the update to WGA Notifications. That's the antipiracy component that provides the messages and other on-screen ... More...

Microsoft updates WGA to hunt down counterfeit Windows XP Pro Computerworld, MA In an entry to a company blog, Alex Kochis, senior product manager for Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program, spelled out the update to WGA Notifications. That's the antipiracy component that provides the messages and other on-screen ... Microsoft Ratchets Up XP Piracy Nagging ChannelWeb all 3 news articles More...

Gotta Be Mobile Musings While Waiting Around in the Black Hole Gotta Be Mobile, CO On the software side, I’m wondering what we’ll see that takes advantage of the touch capabilities in Windows 7. (See the recent Engineering Windows 7 Blog Post on Touch). The argument keeps getting repeated that there isn’t enough demand to drive ... More...

Microsoft Ratchets Up XP Piracy Nagging ChannelWeb, NY WGA works the same way in Windows Vista. Microsoft is changing the installation process so that users who download WGA through Automatic Updates will be able to choose whether or not to install it the next time they log in, said Alex Kochis, ... More...

I am working with IE8 on Windows Vista. On my MSN page, i receive this message. This problem doesn t occur if i log on my page from Firefox or from my PC running same IE8 on XP-64. This problem seem to come and go, but look persistent. Détails de l'erreur de la page Web Agent utilisateur : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible MSIE 8.0 Windows NT 6.0 Trident/4.0 SLCC1 .NET CLR 2.0.50727 OfficeLiveConnector.1.3 .NET CLR 3.5.30729 .NET CLR 3.0.30618 OfficeLivePatch.1.3) Horodateur : Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:56:04 UTC Message : 'd.SearchButtonCaption' a la valeur Null ou n'est pas un objet. Ligne : 1 Caractère : 13478 Code : 0 URI : http://tk2.stj.s-msn.com/br/myms…

Some big changes are coming for Windows Explorer in Windows 7 TechRepublic, KY As you may remember when Microsoft redesigned the user interface in Windows Vista, there were many changes made to the Windows Explorer. While most of these change were for the better, there was room for improvement and the Windows 7 team has spent a ... More...

At last, a bridge between Windows Home Server and Media Center BetaNews Up until recently, the company had been maintaining that the place for users to store videos and multimedia was on their Media Center computers (generally Windows Vista Ultimate-based systems), and the place for their "everyday files" was their Home ... More...

Product Reviews Vista Blues? Here's what to do Shelbyville Times-Gazette, TN For more information on how to 'tweak' your operating system (Windows XP or Vista), visit the Tennessee Technology Center's blog at: ttcshelbyville.wordpress.com or the center's web site at www.ttcshelbyville.edu. --Steve Mallard is IT manager and ... Microsoft confirms Windows Mobile Widgets Rethink Wireless all 64 news articles More...

The Curtain Falls On Windows Vista's "SideShow" Washington Post, United States Windows Vista hasn't exactly vaulted its way to the top of the personal-computing business -- it only secured a 30 percent share of the market last week, as measured by one Web-statistics firm -- but one of that operating system's more-hyped components ... More...

During Beta1 and Beta2 pre-releases of IE8, we’ve blogged about the performance optimizations done in the Script engine and the addition of new language features such as native JSON support. We also provided details about the JScript Debugger and the JScript Profiler –that shipped as part IE8 Developer Tools One of the big pieces of feedback during our beta cycles was for compatibility, which, for JScript, meant focusing on how we version some of the language features we’re adding. As a result, version 5.8 of the JScript engine (shipped as a part of IE8) introduced an opt-in versioning mechanism for all the new and breaking language features. The JScript engine n…

Just a quick reminder that we’ve got two great opportunities for you to interact with the IE team this week. Tomorrow, March 25th at 10.00 PDT/17.00 UTC is the Expert Zone chat. This is our first chat since IE8 released and we are excited to hear what you think and answer your questions. Thursday, March 26th is the Internet Explorer 8 FireStarter event. This is a full day of talks and discussions about IE8. Everyone is invited to attend either in person or via Live Meeting. Thanks, Sharon Cohen Program Manager More...

A lot of nostalgic users who migrated from Windows XP to Windows Vista are still looking for the “Run” command that have been in the Windows staple for the last decade or so. While the “Start Search” command (see image above) can easily locate the file and users can quickly launch the application, some users [...] More...

I right-clicked file and tried to edit the security properties, but the error window popup: "Cannot open access control editor, invalid Registry value?", how to fix it? thank you very much.

Product Reviews The Curtain Falls On Windows Vista's "SideShow" Washington Post, United States Windows Vista hasn't exactly vaulted its way to the top of the personal-computing business -- it only secured a 30 percent share of the market last week, as measured by one Web-statistics firm -- but one of that operating system's more-hyped components ... Microsoft confirms Windows Mobile Widgets Rethink Wireless all 55 news articles More...

I hope this is right forum. When I go out to several web sites where I'm registered, when I click their logon (login) textbox and type the first character, a list of user names to select from appears. The list is just my current or former usernames, Not every user name that might exist on the server loging onto that begin with the first character typed. I noticed recently, that my actual name appeared in this list because my logon username happens to start with my first name. I've NEVER used my actual name on any of these sites -- period!! I've searched the registry and I cannot find my user names anywhere on my system. Where does this list resi…

Microsoft 24 hours late with IE8 pwn protection Register, UK That's consistent with what we know about the ASLR and DEP, which only work when later versions of IE are running on top of Vista or Windows 7, which is still is beta. If the speculation proves correct, it means one of the safer ways to browse the ... More...