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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

Supersite Last month, Microsoft unveiled Windows Thin PC, a special locked down version of Windows 7 for thin clients and older PCs that will be used primarily in VDI scenarios in schools and other similar environments. This week, the company is talking up Windows Thin PC again, and providing a bit more information. ... View the full article

Microsoft has some fancy footwork to do around its tablet/slate positioning. View the full article

Supersite I'm upgrading many existing PCs from hard drive-based storage to SSD (solid state drive) storage. I'd like to discuss the beginnings of that effort now, with a look at my first desktop conversion. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Smartphones running Google's Android OS have been outselling Apple's iPhone in the United States for some time. ... View the full article

This could be many things. The dependency your program needs might not be installed on Windows 2008 r2. The program might have been packaged with a 32 bit installer. There are many other things that could be wrong. I would start by looking in the error logs for a more specific error.

Supersite A blogger has recorded his experiences upgrading from an early version of DOS through every major version of Windows (except Millennium edition for some reason). It's pointless, and his final "complaint" is bizarre, but it's still quite interesting. ... View the full article

Supersite This one is too funny:  College Humor does it again with , in which many of the most infamous online gooneries are laid bare. Good stuff. ... View the full article

Supersite In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss the Mac OS X Lion preview and what it hints at for Windows 8, a rumored Windows 8 Tablet PC demo by the end of the first half of 2011, the return of the Windows Phone 7 pre-update, Apple's response to Microsoft's App Store trademark complaint, Windows InTune gets a release date, Consumer Reports slags Verizon iPhone 4 too, and Apple's iPad 2 announcement. ... View the full article

Microsoft announced this week a new partnership with travel-search provider Kayak. Here are a few questions (and fewer answers) about Redmond’s latest Bing-related deal. View the full article

Supersite This week's app of the week is Basic Spanish for Dummies, and it helped my family and I make our way around Spain on a recent vacation. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including non-news about the lack of a Microsoft Tablet OS until 2012, some others who are unhappy with Apple's cockiness over an evolutionary product update, misreporting about a Microsoft executive's comments about the Mac, Microsoft's attempt to kill IE 6, Microsoft's place on the smart phone map, XP and Vista users get an auto-run update automatically, and how to bring your Xbox LIVE avatar to life. ... View the full article

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What’s the latest with the Windows Phone 7 update saga? Will NoDo show next week? And has Mango gone soft? View the full article

Microsoft has launched a new Web site that is aimed at stepping up its campaign to move users off Internet Explorer (IE) 6. View the full article

Supersite I've been looking at my various desktop and portable PCs and have begun the process of wiping them out and reinstalling a fresh copy of Windows 7 with SP1. There are different ways to do this, but lately I've opted out of the Setup DVD and have instead been using a USB memory key. Here's how it works. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro The first Windows Phone 7 software update could arrive as soon as next week, adding crucial features that were missing when the new mobile OS launched last fall and closing the functional gap between Windows Phone and its more mature competition. ... View the full article

There are (and have been) a number of different slates and tablets in various phases of test/development by different teams at Microsoft. I discovered yet another today, when searching the Microsoft Research site. View the full article

Microsoft has rolled out a new incentive to attract and keep more Bing users: Group deals. View the full article

Supersite I get a lot of silly email from the Apple diehards. Here's how I really feel. ... View the full article

How do you feel about avatar usage in the workplace? Do you foresee a bunch of your work colleagues in cartoon form holding virtual meetings in the not-so-distant future? View the full article