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Supersite Microsoft provides an update about Windows Thin PC, App-V 4.6 SP1, and MED-V 2.0. ... View the full article

Microsoft is making available to its volume-license customers with Software Assurance new releases of a number of virtualization tools as of March 10. View the full article

Windows IT Pro Microsoft announced Wednesday that it would officially launch its next web browser next week. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro The first minor Windows Phone update has been delayed yet again, leaving the platform's remaining fans wondering how Microsoft could so thoroughly bungle what should be a very simple process. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro There's a weird new battle brewing between Apple and Microsoft, and it has nothing to do with PC vs. Mac, iPod vs. Zune, or iPad vs. some mythical PC tablet that's never going to ship. ... View the full article

It should. They shouldn't even notice the difference when they login the first time.

Microsoft has posted to its Codeplex repository site a test build of Python Tools for Visual Studio, a free, open-source plug-in for VS 2010. View the full article

After March 8 — one of the most prevalent rumored dates for Microsoft’s “NoDo” update to Windows Phone 7 — came and went, many WP7 users were wondering what happened. The new word is the update is now coming in the second half of March. View the full article

The Microsoft codename clues keep on coming. The latest: Orapa — a Mediaroom IPTV/Xbox/Kinect mash-up. View the full article

Supersite Microsoft announced today that it will release the final version of Internet Explorer 9 next week, on March 14. ... View the full article

I guess I can finally stop concluding my Internet Explorer (IE) 9 posts with the words “Microsoft officials continue to decline to provide a ship-date target for IE 9.” The RTW date is out: March 14. View the full article

Repurposing Windows machines as thin clients isn’t the only way that Microsoft customers can go the thin-client route. They also can use dedicated thin clients running the newly released Windows Embedded Standard 7 Service Pack (SP) 1 to do the same. View the full article

Supersite Previously, I explored the process of moving a desktop PC from hard drive to SSD. Today, I'd like to take a quick look at the experience of doing so with a laptop, in this case my primary laptop, a middle of the road, Core 2 Duo-based ThinkPad SL410. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Previously, I explored the process of moving a desktop PC from hard drive to SSD. Today, I'd like to take a quick look at the experience of doing so with a laptop, in this case my primary laptop, a middle of the road, Core 2 Duo-based ThinkPad SL410. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro When HP announced its purchase of ailing Palm last year, analysts saw it as a sign that the long-time PC behemoth was trying to remove the Microsoft shackles and offer for the first time a pure-play platform of its own making. ... View the full article

Thanks for posting the solution. I would never had thought changing that would break things.

Most of the TechFest 2011 projects that Microsoft is highlighting visibly are those that focus on using gestures, touch, computer vision and speech as ways to interact with PCs and other computing devices. View the full article

Supersite Today: Silly tech headlines from the usual suspects, a potential Zune replacement from Microsoft, a possible Xbox 360 price cut, work starts on next Xbox console, Bing HTML 5 site, Apple losing to Android and that's a shame, a possible Mango delay refuted, AT&T iPhone 4 is indeed faster than Verizon version, and how Apple and Nintendo changed the game market for good and bad. ... View the full article

Recent questions about the future of the Microsoft Zune music/video service have remained largely unanswered. But my contacts have shared a new, relevant piece of the puzzle: “Ventura.” View the full article

Microsoft is rolling out this week the first service pack (SP) for Visual Studio 2010 this week, and is preparing to deliver Beta 2 of its Visual Studio LightSwitch business-app-building tool in “the coming weeks.” View the full article

Windows IT Pro Macs are much more common today, as are Apple's other products, including the iPad. And while Microsoft is in no danger of relinquishing control of the PC market to Apple per se, it's pretty clear that Apple is now one of the most dominant suppliers of personal computing devices (i.e. Macs + iPads) in the world. ... View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Client. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate Remote Desktop configuration (.rdp) file 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 a vulnerable application. View the full article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Groove that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate Groove-related file that is located in the same network directory as a specially crafted library file. 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

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability in DirectShow and one privately reported vulnerability in Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a use View the full article

Windows IT Pro When Microsoft and Nokia announced their blockbuster Windows Phone partnership, it was widely assumed that money would change hands in both directions. But a new report from Bloomberg says that Microsoft may be paying the biggest upfront costs in order to seal the deal. ... View the full article