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Sony Vaio P Series: Sony to bring out netbooks? Idealo Product News, UK - 2 hours ago Despite these slower CPUs, these laptops should be able to run both the Home Basic and Home Premium versions of Windows Vista. They should be available with ... More...

What's On Your Productivity Wishlist for 2009? Lifehacker, CA - 14 minutes ago Windows 7 to right all the wrongs that Vista incurred on Windows users. Extensions in Chrome—if only for better tab control, Foxmarks, and the (thankfully) ... More...

Tough Love For Microsoft Search Search Engine Land, CT - 1 hour ago Like others, I’ve seen Microsoft’s commercials showing them apparently doing this to prop up Windows/Vista against the onslaught of the Mac. ... More...

Official Windows 7 Beta ... InternetNews.com - 18 minutes ago Each noted that system overhead is even lower than before, a welcome change from the resource-consuming Windows Vista. Roger Kay, president of Endpoint ... More...

Microsoft denies vulnerability in Media Player CIOL, India - 12 minutes ago A team of Security Vulnerability Research and Defense (SVRD) group in Microsoft said in a company blog post that the report by researcher Laurent Gaffie is ... More...

IT Examiner Microsoft slams security watcher IT Examiner, India - 11 minutes ago All a hacker needed to do, he said, was create a malformed WAV, SND, or MIDI file to compromise a PC running Windows Vista or Windows XP. ... More...

After a great turnout this year, we are continuing our monthly online Expert Zone chats with the IE Team in 2009. Here is our schedule for the first half of next year: January 22nd February 19th March 19th April 23rd May 21st June 18th All our chats start at 10.00 PST/18.00 UTC. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered and hear from members of the IE product team. In case you miss the chat, a transcript will be published afterward and available online. Previous chat transcripts can be found here. See you in the new year! Allison Burnett Program Manager More...

Paul Kangas' Stocks in the News Nightly Business Report, FL - 34 minutes ago Microsoft is beta testing its post- Vista operating systems Windows Seven. Early reviews say it's OK, but no great shakes. And there's Cisco Systems (CSCO) ... More...

Microsoft denies vulnerability in Windows Media Player CNET News, CA - 9 minutes ago Gaffie said the vulnerability would allow a hacker to create a malformed WAV, SND, or MIDI file to compromise a PC running Windows Vista or Windows XP, ... More...

Microsoft downplays Windows Media Player bug Computerworld, MA - 25 minutes ago ... the vulnerability could be used by hackers armed with malformed .wav, .snd, or .mid audio files to compromise a PC running Windows XP or Vista. ... More...

Microsoft downplays Windows Media Player bug Computerworld, MA - 2 minutes ago ... the vulnerability could be used by hackers armed with malformed .wav, .snd, or .mid audio files to compromise a PC running Windows XP or Vista. ... More...

CES: HP set to unveil power-sipping PCs for gamers Computerworld, MA - 3 minutes ago The Windows Vista-based Firebird with VoodooDNA 802 and 803 bookshelf systems come with state-of-the-art gaming specs -- quad-core Intel Core 2 Duo ... More...

How To Replace a Physical Server with a Virtual Machine SYS-CON Media, NJ - 5 minutes ago Thus, for all of those reasons, I migrated a physical 64-bit Windows Server 2003 file server over to Hyper-V. I essentially followed the steps in this blog ... More...

UberGizmo.com Is Microsoft Poised To Release Windows 7? CRN, NY - 22 minutes ago Last week, the Within Windows blog noticed that Microsoft had included -- and then removed -- the Windows 7 beta in the roster for its Action Pack quarterly ... Voice Recognition Software: Just "Talk It Out" Practical Ecommerce (subscription) Windows 7 Beta 1 leaked to the Internet TweakTown Windows 7 Beta 1 Out in the Wild Lifehacker ZDNet Asia all 113 news articles More...

It's Time For An Apple Tablet: Where's My iPod Touch HD? (AAPL) Silicon Alley Insider, NY - 22 minutes ago And PC companies are trying to ship bulky tablets that run bulky copies of Windows Vista -- overkill, but that's all they have. ... More...

5 (More) Search Tools You May Not Know … But Should Search Engine Land, CT - 13 minutes ago 2itch already offers a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget and a mobile version the site says an iPhone app is in development. In the previous tools column, ... More...

Hi, not sure if this is for here. my event log fills up with this: Event Type: Success Audit Event Source: Security Event Category: Logon/Logoff Event ID: 528 Date: 12/29/2008 Time: 10:27:18 AM User: dom\Roger Computer: DC0102 Description: Successful Logon: User Name: roger Domain: dom Logon ID: (0x0,0x2CA37FE6) Logon Type: 2 Logon Process: Advapi Authentication Package: Negotiate Workstation Name: DC0102 Logon GUID: {518809c1-23da-cdd2-9d6f-6f311daa75f5} Caller User Name: DC0102$ Caller Domain: dom Caller Logon ID: (0x0,0x3E7) Caller Process ID: 1540 Transited Services: - Source Network Address: - Source Port: - For more informatio…

In working with the Windows 7 Beta build, I've noticed a few interesting changes since M3... More...

TweakTown Windows 7 Beta 1 leaked to the Internet TweakTown, Australia - 8 minutes ago Theo Valich has more info on his blog here. Colleagues at ZDnet also didn ft stay astray they downloaded the latest version (6.1.7000.0.081212-1400) as ... More...

New Zealand Herald Windows 7 Beta 1 Out in the Wild Lifehacker, CA - 25 minutes ago Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet's Hardware 2.0 blog says the M1 build is strikingly similar to the M3 "preview" builds some folks (including one or two ... Voice Recognition Software: Just "Talk It Out" Practical Ecommerce (subscription) Windows 7 beta 1 makes early debut ZDNet Asia all 77 news articles More...

Top 5 cybersecurity news stories of 2008 SearchSecurity.com, MA - 26 minutes ago We wrote a lot about the bolstered security in Microsoft Windows Vista, but for all the security features, end users haven't shown any excitement using the ... More...

Hi I am trying to backup the current security settings using secedit from the command prompt. What should the expected output be? I am entering the following command and I receive the following output: Secedit /generaterollback /cfg /hisecws.inf /rbk backup.inf. Allows you to generate a rollback template with respect to a configuration template. The syntax of this command is: secedit /generaterollback /cfg filename /rbk filename [/log filename] [/quiet] /db filename - Specifies the database used to perform the rollback. /cfg filename - Specifies a security template with respect to which a rollback template is generated. Security templates are created…

I would like to install my system (Windows 2008 Server) on a FIbre Channel volume. I have 4 FibreChannel adapters (2x Qlogic 2340, 2x Qlogic 2310) with which I have been doing the tests. Now, there's no problem installing the system on an FC volume with 512 byte blocksize, but when I set up a 4 kB volume, the volume shows up in the installer and it's possible to create a partition, but it's not possible to format the volume with NTFS (the system freezes at that exact moment). The configuration is exactly the same as when trying the 512 byte blocksize. Anybody had the same problem? It doesn't seem to be connected to FC itself.. Any tips? Thanks in advance!

Windows 7 beta 1 makes early debut ZDNet Asia, Singapore - 16 minutes ago ... Developers Conference in Los Angeles last month, but apparently the differences between Windows 7 and Vista were so subtle that they can go unnoticed. ... More...