About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of Microsoft’s Windows Vista team met with a group of journalists to face some tough questions about the OS.
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At the time, it was clear Vista was not going to be the great success Microsoft had predicted, as many of the company’s critical business customers [...]
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With Windows 7 Microsoft is releasing cheap versions of its OS for netbooks, but faces the challenge of getting customers to buy pricier versions
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Microsoft’s Windows 7 is the apple of many in tech community’s eye, with even former Microsoft critics eager to get their hands on the hot new OS which arrives later this year. [...]
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Paul Thurrott: Microsoft late last week admitted that it will allow end users to remove Internet Explorer (IE) 8 from Windows 7, a decision that should forestall any pending antitrust charges in Europe and provide users around the world with a way to ensure that their browser of choice is the one used in all [...]
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Microsoft is looking to power PC users as a key driver behind the enterprise adoption of the upcoming Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft is hoping for a better reception from businesses than Vista received, despite the fact that Vista also had good enterprise features. But thanks to Microsoft’s licensing plan, many of the enterprise features [...]
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Microsoft will expose the network protocol from its SQL Server database as the service protocol in SDS (SQL Data Services), the cloud-based version of the database, thus enabling customers to use a full relational model in the cloud.
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Under the plan, use of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol also will enable customers to leverage investments [...]
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Windows 7 includes a nearly-hidden feature called Guest Mode that is primarily aimed at shared consumer PCs that need to be returned to their original running state after being used by a child or guest. The feature can be enabled on individual user accounts; when user logs off or the PC reboots, those accounts are [...]
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Microsoft has released software patches fixing a handful of critical bugs in the Windows kernel, as well as flaws in the Windows Directory Name System and SChannel security software.
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The software vendor rates the three Windows kernel bugs as critical because they could be used to create attack code that would run unauthorized software on a [...]
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Microsoft has long talked about the "magic of software" and how it helps bring warmth to people’s lives. Now, Microsoft’s Hardware Group is going in the other direction by rolling out a line of products aimed at keeping notebook PCs cool.
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