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- Microsoft shares more IE8 security details
- When Microsoft officials released a first test build of Internet Explorer IE 8 back in March, they said they were intentionally refraining from talking specifics about new security features and functionality that would be part of the next browser release. In the past few weeks, however, Microsoft...
- Tags: Security, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Beta 2, Web Browsers, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 2
- I'm keeping a close eye on the latest Firefox betas to be released by Mozilla. The reason is that if past performance issues have been fixed, it's quite likely that I might consider making a switch to it as my main browser. While I find Internet Explorer 7 to be...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Beta 2, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Visual Studio 2008 to go gold as soon as Monday
- Visual Studio 2008 to go gold as soon as MondayLet seeThere are great features coming with VS2008. Let's just hope it will be stable enough. Hard to make a decision. How many of us can actually continue their work aacording to their current plans for the next 6 month (or...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, development tool, server, RTM bit, Beta 2, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-18
- February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch
- February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launchYour source is wrong. VS 2008 beta 2 isalready available. http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/a/f2ac411f-acf9-42a7-a84f-3efc409bcd6b/VSTS_SelfExtractingJuneCTP.mhtIs this a good idea?Looking at what happened when they did this last time with .NET 2.0, SQL 2005, and VS 2005 - they ended up with huge delays, tons of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, CTP, June CTP, Beta 2, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- Vista, Office 2007 beta updates
- The week, Microsoft made new versions of Windows Vista and Office 2007 widely available.If you didn't sign up for the Windows Vista Beta 2 Customer Preview Program, you have another chance. Microsoft has now reopened registration for Vista Release Candidate 1. Details are here. The short version:It's available in English,...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2006-09-15
- Triple Beta 2 day for Microsoft at WinHEC
- Triple beta 2 day for Microsoft at WinHECReal Power of VirtualizationSomething that really caught my eye was the ability to add system resources to an OS on the fly. That would be impressive when considering some of the more intensive apps. A Database could quickly asborb that extra...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, job, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Beta 2, Microsoft Office 2007
- Discussion threads 2006-05-24
- Windows Vista Beta 2? Pass the Maalox, please
- In about two weeks, Beta 2 of Windows Vista will be officially released to the public. And when it does, Microsoft will officially enter uncharted territory.The last time the hoi polloi were allowed to tinker with an unfinished version of Windows was March of 2001. That, as it turned out,...
- Tags: Dwight Silverman, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2006-05-10
- Back to the virtual driver future (aka: What's with all the reboots?)
- There are probably a lot of you youngsters out there that don't remember one small important step for mankind that Windows took around the time that Intel's 80386 started to dominate the market. Compared to it's 16-bit predecessor (the 80286), the 32-bit "386" enabled a breakthrough known as virtual...
- Tags: Beta 2
- Blog posts 2006-04-11
- Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 - first thoughts
- Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 - first thoughtsGeneral StabilityI dunno about the last couple comments. Beta 2 seems to be quite a bit more stable then it's predecessor. In fact I've had not one issue with it since installation yesterday which I also had no problem. Now if they...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, beta, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Beta 2
- Discussion threads 2006-03-21
- Office 2007 in October?
- I’m a little surprised at the lack of reaction to this BusinessWeek Online report from last Thursday, which claims that Office 2007 is going to arrive later than expected: Internal plans had called for Microsoft to finish development on the software by August. … Yet company sources say development delays...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Beta 2
- Blog posts 2006-02-21
- Full-text of Microsoft's Sept CTP (PDC Build 5219) Fact Sheet
- I asked Microsoft if I could republish the fact sheet that it provided in conjunction with the Community Technology Preview release (Vista build 5219) that was handed out at the Professional Developers Conference PDC in LA. They agreed. The Word-compatible DOC file can be downloaded from Microsoft's...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2005-09-15
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- Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version
- Miguel de Icaza has announced that that the first public sourcecode release of Moonlight CNET articleis now available. This version of Moonlight is based on Silverlight 1.0 and not the Silverlight 2 beta that is out now from Microsoft. It's also not Moonlight 1.0 as it seemed early on. According...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, UNIX, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put your iPhone 'slide to unlock' screen to use
- Remember when they invented the outside screen for the cell phone? You know, the little piece of crystal that showed the time? A coup for anyone neurotic enough to need to check the time without needing to flip open the phone. Well, now that...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Screen, RSS, E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Web Browsers, Internet, Online Communications, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Barney Pell reports on Powerset's first week in discussion with the Semantic Web Gang
- Powerset CTO Barney Pell joins regular members of the Semantic Web Gang to share some of Powerset's experiences on the week since the launch of their public beta. Gang members also discuss Yahoo! SearchMonkey and next week's Semantic Technology Conference in this hour-long conversation recorded yesterday. by...
- Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack
- Microsoft won't be delivering database backup as one of the new features promised for the first "PowerPack" update for Windows Home Server when it ships later this year. The independent "We Got Served" Home Server blog acknowledged the feature cut in a May 9 entry. According to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Backups, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Microsoft delivers another update to Office Live Workspace
- Microsoft rolled out quietly on May 15 its 1.1 update to its Office Live Workspace service, which is currently in beta test. The 1.1 bits are available from the Microsoft Downloads site. adds performance updates, making Office Live Workspace run faster with Microsoft Office programs, plus the...
- Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Flash Player 10 codename "Astro" goes beta
- We made available a prerelease version of the Flash Player last night which has a lot of new features. There isn't yet a tooling release we just posted a new Flex SDK that works to support the Flash Player beta so for the time being this is primarily so that...
- Tags: 3D, Macromedia Flash Player, Flash Player 10, Complex Effect, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- First public release of Silverlight for Linux is out
- The first public release of Moonlight -- the Silverlight on Linux project from open-source leader Miguel de Icaza and his band of coders -- is out. De Icaza, Novell Vice President for Developer Technologies, noted the release in a blog post dated May 13. De Icaza noted...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
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