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Beta 2 of Vista SP2 now available to anyone

Beta 2 of Vista SP2 now available to anyoneas usual, no beefSeriously mary joe, if it was released today, you think you could provide some details, or is that not your roll? just report something happened, don't tell anyone anything they can use...sounds easy.RE: Beta 2 of Vista SP2 now...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Service Pack 2, Vista SP2, Beta 2, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2

Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2Microsoft Press ReleaseOnly the other week Ed ran a story about how shoddy some people are running stories based on software companies press releases/marketing documents. Oh and that companies selling security software try and scare the market about the need for...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8 security, beta, Microsoft Corp., Beta 2, notch, security, Web

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

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

Additional Resources

PC OEMs: Please Cut the Crap!

PC OEMs: Please Cut the Crap!CrapwareYour average non geek will get a fair amount of pressure at the point of sale to drop another $35-$50 to get the junk off the computer. Let's see, now... If you crank the subsidy to Dell,etc from the crapware makers, then that extra...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Desktops, OEM, Crapware, laptop computer, PC, computer

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

iPhone OS and SDK 3.1 betas distributed to developers

Apple made betas of iPhone OS 3.1 (build 7C97d) and iPhone SDK 3.1 (build 9M2736a) available to developers today on its iPhone Developer Connection Web site. According to QuickPwn.com changes include: The baseband has been updated to 5.08.01 - ultrasn0w...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Operating System, SDK, Video, Beta, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0: Virtual Developer's Delight

Windows 7 Ultimate RC 64-Bit Edition virtualized on Fedora 11, 64-Bit using Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 With little fanfare, Sun Microsystems released version 3.0 of xVM VirtualBox, the Open Source and multi-platform desktop virtualization tool for Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac. The new...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Developer, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenGL 2.0, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Hardware, Virtualization, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Firefox 3.5: Well positioned as mid-sized browser gorilla

Firefox 3.5: Well positioned as mid-sized browser gorillaFirefox 3.5: Well positioned as mid-sized browser gorillaFinally! It has been released. Now to download and install it. I'll be the first one at work with FF 3.5.Thank god I do not have the same attitudeRegarding your comment "I see no need...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Opera Software, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 3.5, browser gorilla, mid-sized browser gorilla, Well-Positioned

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

News to know: Windows 7; Dell; IT salaries; Enterprise 2.0

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: One year after Bill Gates' 'retirement': What's different? Microsoft: Windows 7 Upgrade deal maxes out at 25...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Photograph, Salary, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-30

WinRAR 3.90 beta 4 (Windows)

WinRAR beta offers 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content 8 to 15 percent more than ZIP or ARJ files.WinRAR's main features include strong general and multimedia compression, the ability to process non-RAR archive formats, long filename...

Tags: Archive, WinRar, Beta, RARLAB, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-30

WinRAR (64-bit) 3.90 beta 4 (Windows)

WinRAR beta offers 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content 8 to 15 percent more than ZIP or ARJ files.WinRAR's main features include strong general and multimedia compression, the ability to process non-RAR archive formats, long filename...

Tags: Archive, WinRar, Beta, RARLAB, Microsoft Windows, 64-Bit, Operating Systems, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-06-30