Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Administration
News Corp in talks to join Microsoft on Yahoo bid
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and News Corp are in talks about a joint bid for Yahoo Inc that would add MySpace to the Yahoo-Microsoft combination proposed by the world’s largest software maker, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The talks with News Corp, [...]
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Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Administration
An Information Week article published last week appears to position Microsoft as trying to do something right when it comes to open source. And it positions the open source community as being not quite ready to make nice after past insults, threats, and abuse.
Speaking for myself, I am always ready to see what somebody has [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Administration
Microsoft introduced System Restore in Windows Me back in 2000.
I’m not sure if it even worked. I just know it loaded an EXE on every boot, eating up precious Win9x 16/32-bit resources that helped reduce stability and require the user to reboot more than needed. I usually kept it disabled.
System Restore never really became widely [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2008 by Administration
Free, open source application Blue Lock monitors the proximity of your Bluetooth phone or device and automatically locks your computer whenever it’s out of range (e.g., you’ve walked away from your computer). The usefulness will depend on the strength of your Bluetooth devices, since it’s not really going to do its job if you’ve got [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Administration
A new free offer has emerged from Microsoft, where they track your computer usage for 3 months in exchange for free software. A couple surveys here and there, and its basically risk free…
http://wfp.microsoft.com/
Below are parts of the additional info captured that make me a bit uneasy…
Windows settings and usage, such as the number of [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Administration
Security Sticker Defeats Product Key In Showdown Of Annoying Security Devices
See, I try to be a good guy and purchase a retail copy of Windows XP to use on my Macbook. But the stupid security sticker is covering up the last five digits of the product key, and trying to remove the security sticker tears [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Administration
A strong firewall is one of the best defenses against malicious software attacks on your system. Newcomers to computer security who aren’t running a firewall should check out Yahoo’s Tech Security Guide on the matter. The key point is that anti-virus alone is not enough to protect your computer:
A firewall plugs the security holes … [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Administration
Former Microsoft security team member will demonstrate how his new fuzzer hacks smart card plug-in
The recent wave of smart card hacks have been aimed mainly at the card’s chip and bypassing physical security, but not this latest one: A former Microsoft security team member has demonstrated an attack that compromises the smart card’s middleware plug-in [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Administration
We’ll see about that. Would be nice when Microsoft stops abusing us devs though…
Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8
We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.
Why Change?
Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles. [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Administration
Another afternoon spent coming up with CSS hacks for .png transparency and other nonsense for IE6. On Feb 12, Windows Update supposedly began forcing IE7 updates on people and that’s super duper great. Now when someone calls Microsoft about IE6, they can properly get chewed out and hung up on.
But what about the rest of [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Administration
Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling.
The software giant will appeal against the fine which follows a long-running dispute between it and EU regulators.
Microsoft’s general counsel, Brad Smith, insisted the company had met the commission’s demands, and said it would appeal the [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2008 by Administration
Got it through MSDN… the real release, not the beta. Everything to do with file transfer has improved substantially… Copy, delete, move.. large, small files.. all smooth now. C’mon Microsoft.. you can do it!
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Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Administration
I know a lot of you guys use ImgBurn. The new version was just released yesterday (the previous version, 2.3.2.0, was released 4/12/07). The change log is gigantic. Among it are the ability to create and burn audio CDs, HD-DVD discs, Blu-Ray discs, the usual insane list of bug fixes, language files for localization, and [...]
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Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Administration
Today is a great day for all the people waiting for the first bits and pieces of Amarok 2 on Windows. Amarok developer shakes worked hard to get it ready for you. Enjoy! Please be aware that it is only a tech preview with a lot of known problems. From the amarok.kde.org posting:
I’ve had the [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2008 by Administration
I thought some people might benefit from a quick step by step guide to creating a Windows PE custom boot CD. This guide will get you as far as creating an ISO at the end, ready to be burnt with your CD burner software.
You will need a Windows XP SP2 CD, Windows PE and some [...]
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