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While Microsoft’s mult-touch capabilities (and lack thereof) are in the news daily, the company’s speech engine and algorithms don’t often merit a mention. At the SpeechTEK conference in New York City on August 3, Microsoft officials attempted to explain what the Redmondians have coming in the voice recognition and synthesis space — without going so far [...] View the full article

Sure, Microsoft is selling almost one million copies of Windows 7 every day, but many of those sales are to consumers with new PCs. The big question for this release is business deployments. So nine months after Windows 7 arrived, how is Microsoft's latest OS faring with its biggest customer base? Pretty darn well, as it turns out. View the full article

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Shell. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if the icon of a specially crafted shortcut is displayed. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. 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

Home versions can't connect to networks. You'll need XP Pro or Windows 7 Pro or higher.

In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Tom Merritt and I discuss Microsoft's record quarterly revenues, Windows Phone's best features and worst omissions, the return of the Slate PC, cheaper new Kindles, Microsoft's security tie-up with Adobe, and the proposed Google/Yahoo deal in Japan. We also held a live listener Q and A. View the full article

The latest Platform Preview Build includes two great interoperable features for working with the DOM &ndash DOM Traversal and Element Traversal. These features provide web developers with simple, flexible, and fast ways of traversing through a document using the same markup across browsers. These features come in the form of flat enumeration, simplifying the DOM tree to an iterative list, and filtering which enables you to tailor the set of nodes you traverse. These features work with the same markup across browsers &ndash you can try out any of the code here in the IE9 platform preview and other browsers. Without these features, finding an element of interest on a page requires you to do one or more depth-first traversals of the document using firstChild and nextSibling. This is usually accomplished with complex code that runs slowly. With the DOM and Element Traversal features, there are new and better ways of solving the problem. This blog post is a primer and provides a few best practices to get you on your way. I&rsquoll start with Element Traversal, since it&rsquos the simplest of the interfaces and follows familiar patterns for enumerating elements in the DOM. Element Traversal is essentially a version of DOM Core optimized for Elements . Instead of calling firstChild and nextSibling, you call firstElementChild and nextElementSibling. For example: if (elm.firstElementChild) { elm = elm.firstElementChild while (elm.nextElementSibling) { // Do work... } } This is faster and more convenient, saving you the trouble of having to check for text and comment nodes when you&rsquore really only interested in elements. DOM Traversal is designed for much broader use cases. First, you create a NodeIterator or a TreeWalker. Then you can use one of the iteration methods to traverse the tree: var iter = document.createNodeIterator(elm, NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT, null, false) // This would work fine with createTreeWalker, as well var node = iter.nextNode() while (node = iter.nextNode()) { node.style.display = "none" } The codepath above iterates through a flat list of all nodes in the tree. This can be incredibly useful since in many cases you don&rsquot care whether something is a child or sibling of something else, just whether it occurs before or after your current position in the document. A big benefit of DOM Traversal is that it introduces the idea of filtering, so that you only traverse the nodes you care about. While nodeIterator only performs flat iterations, TreeWalker has some additional methods, like firstChild(), that let you see as much or as little of the tree structure as you want. The SHOW_* family of constants provides a way to include broad classes of nodes, such as text or elements (like SHOW_ELEMENT in the earlier example). In many cases, this will be enough. But when you need the most precise control, you can write your own filter via the NodeFilter interface. The NodeFilter interface uses a callback function to filter each node, as in the following example:

The August 2010 edition of my print magazine column looks at the Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 Public Beta, Windows Server vNext in 2012, Windows 2000 EOL, Small Business Server "7" and "Aurora", HTML 5 and the future, Microsoft Communications Server (MCS) "14", and Windows InTune. View the full article

I've gotten a lot of email about the recently released Window 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta, which is interesting because this update doesn't add a single meaningful new end user feature to Microsoft's popular new Windows version. Due in Q1 2011, Windows 7 SP1 is essentially just an update rollup, one that doesn't change the system's user experience at all. Here's what the install process is like. View the full article

With the success of Apple's iPad, the PC industry is going slate crazy. HP has two types of slate PCs on tap, one based on Windows 7 and one on WebOS. And Microsoft is going to carpet-bomb the market with different kinds of Windows, just to see what sticks. There's just one problem: Customers have already voted against Windows on slates. Why are we doing this again? View the full article

In this week's mailbag, whether you should buy a Zune HD or wait and see what happens, Windows Phone 7 tasks/to-do functionality, the HP slate returns (but was it ever gone?), Windows and product key types, Windows Phone 7 and Media Center interaction, and whether it's really going to take all summer for Microsoft to roll out the new Hotmail. View the full article

With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is starting over from scratch with a deeply innovative new mobile platform that makes Apple's iPhone and Google's Android look tired by comparison. But in its rush to get Windows Phone to market quickly, is Microsoft releasing an unfinished product? And how fast will the software giant fill in the gaps? View the full article

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In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss the Windows Phone technical preview in some detail, a zero-day Windows shortcut vulnerability, Xbox 360 Kinect pricing and bundles, and a new low-end Xbox 360 console. View the full article

The Reliability Monitor is well-hidden in Windows 7, but can be very useful if you want to find out what's going wrong with your PC. In addition to identifying the exact causes of reliability issues, it can often deliver fixes for those problems and, if not, alert you when such a fix does become available. View the full article

Available as an optional download, Windows Live Essentials 2011 is an application suite that includes a number of new versions of classic Windows applications, including Windows Live Mail, Photo Gallery, Messenger, Movie Maker, Family Safety, and more. And the 2011 version, currently in beta, is the best yet. View the full article

Hi! I have create a signature, and it works fine when creating new emails. But when replying/forwarding, there is no signature attached. And this despite I have attached the signature under options->mail->signatures->Replies/forwards. I have tried setting it to none, saving, adding it again and also with another very simple plain two word signature, with no result.... I am running Office Professionel Plus 2010 on Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit I really hope that you have some suggestions, because this is really annoying! BR Rasmus Hovendal View this thread

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The best option I can see is to use FTP via command line.

The real innovations in Windows Phone are seen in its interface, and its ability to connect so seamlessly with third party services and present the results not in siloed, iPhone-style app prisons, but inside of cohesive, panoramic experiences. The effect is breathtaking, and it's groundbreaking, and it's and something you have to see to fully appreciate. View the full article

You can use the newest Windows 7 drivers. All Windows 7 drivers will work in 2008 Server.

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The next Microsoft Windows operating system should put everything—and I mean everything—in a sandbox. There was a time when I disagreed with the idea that the core of Microsoft's next major operating system, Windows 8, would be a hypervisor, or virtualized machine monitor. Now, however, I see the beauty of this approach, especially for consumers. An operating system that runs everything as a virtualized machine could be one of the most significant and beneficial steps Microsoft has ever taken in the continuing development of the Windows platform. Plus, there is evidence, going all the way back to the early days of Windows 7, that this is the exact direction Microsoft has been going in all along. When I met with Windows executives at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in October 2008, they told us about the newly componentized nature of the operating system. For Windows 7, this meant a peeling away of many things that had been intrinsic to the OS. So, all of the apps that used to come with it—the movie and DVD creation tools, messaging, and even e-mail—would now be optional. Even before Microsoft took a hatchet to Windows 7, the company had to figure out how to disentangle Internet Explorer from the operating system's core. Now, at least in the European Union, you can choose to have other browsers pre-installed on your desktop. While these are mostly minor changes that do not get to the true core of the OS, they do, in their small way, help clear the path for Windows 8 to become the first fully virtualized Windows. I also have a theory that Microsoft has been working to reduce the size of the core OS dramatically (though the company has gone on record, saying it hates to talk about the kernel) and, even as it adds features and functionality to the interface, make it smaller, too. If you look at what's possible on 1MB Web pages, you can see that everything Microsoft is doing on Windows 7 is little more than calls to the core OS with some lightweight graphics work on the front end. Even flashier features, like see-through panes, are really off-loaded to powerful graphics CPUs. My point is that Windows 8 can, essentially, be a lightweight core (or kernel) and even a lighter-weight interface. Everything else can be a virtual machine. Here are the benefits. Full story: PC Mag

Please Note: This early release of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta is not available for home users. The SP1 Beta does not provide new end-user features, and installation is not supported by Microsoft. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level, provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback, and is easy for organizations to deploy a single set of updates. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta will help you: Keep your PCs supported and up-to-dateGet ongoing updates to the Windows 7 platformEasily deploy cumulative updates at a single timeMeet your users' demands for greater business mobilityProvide a comprehensive set of virtualization innovationsProvide an easier Service Pack deployment model for better IT efficiencyIn order to download and install the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta you must currently have a Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 already installed. To learn more about piloting, deploying and managing Windows 7, visit the Springboard Series on TechNet. To learn more about SP1 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2, visit the SP1 Details Page. Download Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 2008 R2 SP 1

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