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Was Windows 7 skewering justified?
InfoWorld’s benchmark report on Windows 7 has made waves this week with its conclusion that the early build of Microsoft’s next operating system is essentially Windows Vista — but worse.
“So far, Windows 7 looks and behaves almost exactly like Windows Vista. It performs almost exactly like Vista. And it breaks all sorts of things that used [...] -
Microsoft launches Windows 7 cloud apps
Photo Gallery and Movie Maker apps, released today as part of the new Windows Live ‘Wave 3’ family, are the first to replace their Vista counterparts in Microsoft’s next-gen OS
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Included in today’s worldwide launch of Windows Live Wave 3, the third generation of Microsoft’s online services, are the cloud-based apps that will take care of [...] -
Mozilla Firefox 3 3.0.4
New update for the FF browser.
Release Notes
Firefox 3.0.4 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.3:Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
Official releases for the Icelandic and Thai languages are now available.
Beta releases for the Bulgarian, Esperanto, Estonian, Latvian, Occitan, and Welsh languages are available for [...] -
Mozilla Firefox 3 3.0.4
New update for the FF browser.
Release Notes
Firefox 3.0.4 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.3:Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
Official releases for the Icelandic and Thai languages are now available.
Beta releases for the Bulgarian, Esperanto, Estonian, Latvian, Occitan, and Welsh languages are available for [...] -
Latest Microsoft Innovations Help Developers Build Better Applications, Faster
During the keynote address at Microsoft Tech•Ed EMEA 2008 Developers, Jason Zander, general manager of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corp., highlighted how Microsoft is dramatically simplifying everyday development tasks through recently released technologies, such as Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, and the forthcoming Visual Studio 2010 [...]
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Very mild Patch Tuesday ahead from Microsoft
After a series of critical out-of-band security patches were issued by Microsoft two weeks ago, most of the thunder has been squelched for next Tuesday’s regular set: down to one critical and one important patch.
In keeping with Microsoft’s current policy, the company no longer releases too detailed information in advance of patches’ distribution. For example, [...] -
Windows 7 Preview Part 5: Business and IT Pro Features
As the direct successor to Windows Vista, Windows 7 includes all of the security, reliability, compatibility, and manageability characteristics of its predecessor, a boot to IT pros and system administrators tasked with deploying and managing Windows in businesses of all sizes. But while Windows 7 improves on these features, it also includes major integration pieces [...]
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Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" RC Release
ILM "2" offers a comprehensive solution for managing identities, credentials, and identity-based access policies across heterogeneous environments. Users can create their own security and email distribution groups and decide who to include in those groups. They can reset their passwords without calling their help desk. IT Pros can use ILM "2" to manage certificates and [...]