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While Silverlight didn’t get the leading role in either the day one or day two Mix ‘11 keynotes (much to the chagrin of some developers), there was some Silverlight news at the Microsoft developer/designer conference. View the full article

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Microsoft officials outlined some of the developer-focused features coming with the Windows Phone ‘Next’ operating system update, known by the codename “Mango,” during Day 2 of the Mix ‘11 conference in Las Vegas. View the full article

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Remember the Kinect software development kit (SDK) that Microsoft officials showed off earlier this year? Microsoft officials shared more details about what’s coming in that SDK on April 13 at the Mix ‘11 conference. View the full article

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Supersite Microsoft’s MIX’11 conference begins today! Join me, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Kip Kniskern, Rafael Rivera, Bob Stein and Long Zheng as we live blog the day two keynote address. The event starts at 9 am PT/12 pm ET. ... View the full article

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Supersite Microsoft’s MIX’11 conference begins today! Join me, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Kip Kniskern, Rafael Rivera, Bob Stein and Long Zheng as we live blog the day two keynote address. The event starts at 9 am PT/12 pm ET. ... View the full article

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Microsoft officials showed off some of the new functionality that the company plans to deliver in the Surface 2.0 software development kit this summer on April 12 at the Mix ‘11 conference. View the full article

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Supersite Today: Cisco kills the Flip, Amazon releases an ad-supported Kindle, Microsoft ships Mac:Office 2011 Service Pack 1, Microsoft says Google lied about App security, Google denies that, Gartner says Windows won't be used on Media Tablets, Nokia pushes final two Symbian phones, Bing offers Street View in Europe, and Bing hits 30 percent of US search market. ... View the full article

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Microsoft announced several new Windows Azure features and services on April 12, the first day of its Mix ‘11 conference for developers and designers. View the full article

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Just like it did a year ago, Microsoft is using its Mix designer/developer show in Las Vegas this week to launch the first preview build of the next version of Internet Explorer (IE), IE 10. View the full article

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Supersite Microsoft’s MIX’11 conference begins today! Join me, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Kip Kniskern, Rafael Rivera, Bob Stein and Long Zheng as we live blog the day one keynote address. The event starts at 9 am PT/12 pm ET. ... View the full article

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It’s Day 1 of Microsoft’s Mix ‘11 conference. A bunch of us Microsoft bloggers are doing our usual group blog thing, starting at 9 a.m. PT today, April 12. The keynotes will be streamed live from the Visit Mix site. Join in and comment and blog along with us below, via CoverItLive. Supposedly, Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s Corporate [...] View the full article

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Supersite Rafael Rivera and I take a look at some of the other Windows 8 leaks that have been published around the web. ... View the full article

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Windows IT Pro Following through on its promise to accelerate the development of its flagship web browser, Microsoft on Tuesday introduced the first developer-oriented Platform Preview release of Internet Explorer 10 during the opening day of its MIX'11 conference. The company will deliver new releases every 12 weeks, and will presumably include the final version of IE 10 in Windows 8, which is due in mid-2012. ... View the full article

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Windows IT Pro As I write this, I'm preparing for MIX'11, Microsoft web developer show that's recently turned into a web and phone developer show because of Windows Phone. I'm curious to see what the company says about the future of its currently struggling new mobile platform, though there are signs of hope from IDC and Gartner, both of which have predicted huge success for Windows Phone thanks entirely to Nokia's decision to focus on it. ... View the full article

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves thirty privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The 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. The vulnerabilities could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users. View the full article

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. This security update is rated Important for all supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. All supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not affected by the vulnerability. For more information, see the subsection, Affected and Non-Affected Software, in this section. View the full article

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the OpenType Compact Font Format (CFF) driver. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views content rendered in a specially crafted CFF font. In all cases, an attacker would have no way to force users to view the specially crafted content. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to visit a Web site, typically by getting them to click a link in an e-mail message or Instant Messenger message that takes users to the attacker's Web site. View the full article

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the JScript and VBScript scripting engines. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user visited a specially crafted Web site. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the Web site. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to visit the Web site, typically by getting them to click a link in an e-mail message or Instant Messenger message that takes users to the attacker's Web site. View the full article

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows DNS resolution. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker gained access to the network and then created a custom program to send specially crafted LLMNR broadcast queries to the target systems. Firewall best practices and standard default firewall configurations can help protect networks from attacks that originate outside the enterprise perimeter. Best practices recommend that systems that are connected to the Internet have a minimal number of ports exposed. In this case, the LLMNR ports should be blocked from the Internet. View …

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows GDI+. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted image file using affected software or browsed a Web site that contains specially crafted content. 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. View the full article

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs). 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. The vulnerability could also allow remote code execution on a server system running IIS, if that server allows processing ASP.NET pages and an attacker succeeds in uploading a specially crafted ASP.NET page to t…

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft software. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page that instantiates a specific ActiveX control with Internet Explorer. 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. This update also includes kill bits for three third-party ActiveX controls. View the full article

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the MHTML protocol handler in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a user visited a specially crafted Web site. In a Web-based attack scenario, a Web site could contain a specially crafted link that is used to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker would have to convince users to visit the Web site and open the specially crafted link. View the full article

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in certain applications built using the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate file associated with such an affected application, and the file is located in the same network folder as a specially crafted library file. For an attack to be successful, a user must visit an untrusted remote file system location or WebDAV share and open a document from this location that is then loaded by the affected application. View the full article

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