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IE8: What’s After Beta 2
The announcement of IE8 Beta 2 started an important and public phase of the product development cycle getting broad public feedback. The team is providing detailed information and answering questions about the product in many different places. Now’s a good time to talk about what comes next.
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E7: Disk Space
This post is about disk space and the disk space “consumed” by Windows 7. Disk space is the sort of thing where everyone wants to use less, but the cost of using a bit more relative to the benefits has generally been a positive tradeoff. Things have changed recently with the availability of solid-state drives [...]
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Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available!
The System Center Operations Manager team is excited to announce the availability of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta, which is ready for you to download through Microsoft Connect today!
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As announced and demonstrated by Brad Anderson at TechEd EMEA 2008 earlier this month, Operations Manager 2007 R2 will deliver key new capabilities including cross-platform monitoring, [...] -
Microsoft’s exploit predictions are right less than half the time
Microsoft Corp. today called its first month of predicting whether hackers will create exploit code for its bugs a success — even though the company got its forecast right less than half the time.
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"I think we did really well," said Mike Reavey, group manager for the Microsoft Security Research Center (MSRC), when asked for a [...] -
DNSSEC in Windows 7
Shyam Seshadri, Program Manager Windows Core Networking: I’m excited that I finally get to talk about what the DNS team has been working on for over a year. That’s right – DNSSEC. It’s in Windows, and it’s on its way.
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DNSSEC is a suite of security extensions to the DNS which provide origin authority, [...] -
Inside Windows’ core: A peek into Microsoft’s COSD
Microsoft’s Core Operating System Division (COSD) is somewhat of a black hole to many outside (and even inside) the Redmond software maker. Charged with the amorphous goal of ensuring Windows “engineering excellence,” the five-year-old COSD group creates the core components at the heart of Windows.
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Jon DeVaan — the “mystery man” behind Windows 7 — is [...] -
Microsoft warns of another update to Windows Update
For the second time in three months, Microsoft Corp. today again warned it would upgrade Windows Update, the service most users rely on to download patches and other fixes.
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"Over the next couple of months, we’ll be rolling out another infrastructure update to the Windows Update agent (client code)," said an unidentified Microsoft employee on the [...] -
Microsoft slashes Windows Home Server price
After a year on the market, Microsoft is slashing the price of its Windows Home Server software by 30 percent.
In a blog post, the Windows Home Server team said it was cutting the price in order to “further promote the home server category.” The group said momentum was strong.
Bill Gates announced Windows Home Server at [...]