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Supersite Today: Boston preps for another Category 5 Death Storm, Google accuses Bing of copying search results, Apple takes a malicious new stand against the Kindle (and its users), Call of Duty: Black Ops gets a first map pack (only on the Xbox 360), and an inconvenient truth for Windows Phone 7 market share. ... View the full article

Internet Explorer (IE) is important to Microsoft for a variety of reasons, some obvious and some less so. It turns out that IE — specifically the IE 9 release — is also key to Microsoft’s tablet/slate strategy. View the full article

Microsoft is confirming officially that — as at least two bloggers reported in January — that Yahoo Mail is causing the data leakage problems that some Windows Phone 7 users have encountered. View the full article

Windows IT Pro Depending on what matters to you, it's been a tough decade for Microsoft. The company's stock price has stagnated as it matured from a quickly-growing upstart into a slow-moving, comfortable, behemoth. But in recent years, faster-moving companies such as Apple and Google have stolen the limelight, thanks to innovative and exciting consumer products. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro While overall Internet Explorer usage has generally shrunk slowly month-over-month for years, usage in its latest IE version, IE 8, grew faster than the competition. IE 8 now commands 34.17 percent of the market, up from 33 percent the previous month. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Microprocessor giant Intel has uncovered a hardware fault in a supporting chipset for its new CPU lineup and will take a $300 million revenue hit this quarter to fix the problem. The issue involves a design problem that causes its support chipset, the Intel i6 Series (codenamed Cougar Point) to potentially "degrade over time." ... View the full article

Supersite Microsoft's new Arc Mouse Touch combines the fun portability of its predecessor with an innovative new design and some cool touch functionality. ... View the full article

Supersite Today: A look ahead to back-to-back events in Las Vegas, a zero-day Windows flaw, Angry Birds jumps the shark, Netgear CEO lashes out at Steve Jobs and Apple, a silly look at Word "alternatives," Amazon Prime streaming service rumors, and the New York Times wakes up to why platforms matter (right, because Apple is doing it now too). ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Windows 8 changes could affect Windows Phone 7—plus, learn what to look for in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and why you might want to wait on iPhone 4. ... View the full article

This is the thread I believe: http://freepchelp.forum/topic/37-iis-7-cant-start-classic-com-objects/

Windows IT Pro Microsoft announced a formal lifecycle support policy for its online services for businesses and developers. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro According to market researchers at Canalys, Google's Android is now the number-one smartphone platform in the world, displacing Nokia's stagnant Symbian system. ... View the full article

You need to set your app pool to run in 32 bit mode. That is a common problem and is well documented on this forum.

Hi everyone. There is another thread describing my exact scenario, although there appears to have been no attempt offer any suggestions since it was initially posted over two months ago: Contacting Server for Information When Printing Email in Outlook 2010. So I thought I would phrase the question differently and see what anyone might have to say about it. It appears that on our PCs with Windows 7 Professional and MS Office 2010, when a user attempts to print an Email with a web page embedded in the body of the message, a message about "contacting the server for information" appears for upwards of 45 seconds, and then after another two or three minutes, the message finally prints out. This seems to happen whether the user wants to print to a network printer or one that is attached locally to his/her PC. In similar, but not exactly the same, threads there are hints that this might be a firewall issue, where the system does not trust messages with HTML code. So, on one of these computers, I tried disabling the Windows Firewall and also Windows Defender. This made no difference in the scenario whatsover. So, my question is ... is there a workaround if not a solution? My management wants either a fix or an explanation as to why it can't be fixed. Hence, this post by me. This does not seem to happen on our Windows XP machines with Office 2003. Thanks for whatever ideas you all can offer. Marty Martin J. Franek View this thread

No limitations at all. You can install whatever you want on it.

Russian website WZOR has somehow acquired an internal Microsoft roadmap/documentation that reveals the Redmond company's plans for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2008. Based on the "leaked" information, consumers may see Windows 8 in early January 2013. According to the roadmap. Microsoft will commence development of Windows 8 Milestone 3 (M3) in March. Following M3, the company will release two public beta milestone builds in Windows 8's development. Microsoft will then develop and distribute the Release Candidate (RC) followed by the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) build reportedly three months later. Finally, as previously stated, Windows 8 will reach the General Availability (GA) phase on Monday, January 7, 2013. As for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, the roadmap reveals that Service Pack 2 has been in the works since fall of 2010, and is expected to arrive in mid-2012. The report did not indicate what the upcoming service pack will bring to both platforms. As reported Thursday, Windows 8 surfaced in an NDA presentation, revealing an App Store that will enable users to run apps in full-screen, and re-download previously-purchased apps that may have been lost due to system failure or hard drive reformatting. Other reports have indicated that Windows 8 will be modular in nature so that the OS can work on desktops and notebooks as well as mobile devices. Windows 8 will also supposedly be heavily cloud-based, possibly storing cloud-based user accounts, system backup files, and more. Source: Tom's Hardware

Only Microsoft knows how the next version of its Windows operating system will look and what it will be called, but big changes could be ahead for the OS observers refer to as "Windows 8." At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that Windows 8 will support system-on-a-chip architectures using ARM processors. Unlike the x86 architecture that today's Windows laptops and desktops work with, ARM-based chips tend to run such low-power devices as tablets and smartphones. In his CES keynote speech, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said, "This announcement is really all about enabling a new class of hardware, and new silicon partners for Windows, to bring the widest possible range of form factors to the market." Related Story: Predictions: The world of IT in 2011, according to IT World Canada In other words, Windows won't be just for laptops and desktops anymore. Actual Facts Microsoft's ARM announcement represents the firm's only officially released factual detail about Windows 8. Consistent with it, the company named Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments as silicon partners, so Windows devices built upon their three low-power platforms are likely. At an architectural summit in London last year, Microsoft encouraged the idea of virtualizing Windows more heavily, possibly storing apps, data, Windows settings, and parts of the OS itself in the cloud. Full article: itbusiness.ca

Supersite In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss Paul's controversial advice for Microsoft, Windows Phone sales, Microsoft's laughable iPad response, Microsoft is suing TiVo, some early 2011 video game shooters, and of course, weight loss. ... View the full article

What virus do you have? Have you tried to use one of the online virus scanners to find and remove it?

Microsoft is still saying very little publicly about Office 15. But officials did share some of the priorities that are affecting their thinking in the creation of the next version during a day-long “Future of Productivity” event for press and analysts on January 28. View the full article

Another day, another Microsoft executive departure. The latest to go is Dave Thompson, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Online Services. Microsoft is planning to move Corporate VP Lee Nackman into Thompson’s job later this year. View the full article

Supersite Today: It turns out the autistic kid really was cheating, Netflix is up, Hulu Plus is down, digital music will never save the music industry, AT&T is on the way down, and the next PSP looks like a winner for shooter fans. ... View the full article

Try to shutoff auto updates for Microsoft Office at Windows update site and see if that helps.

Supersite Sometimes you run into a mobile app that is so useful yet so simple in purpose and so elegant in implementation. Shazam is such an app. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including a ton of news around Microsoft's quarterly earnings and a farewell to Microsoft legend Dave Thompson. ... View the full article