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- News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books
- 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. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...
- Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- News to know: Palm ads; Microhoo SEC filing; U.S. Marines; Bing; Skype; Clunkers
- 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. Larry Dignan: Palm Pre's creepy ads: They worked. You're still talking about them Andrew Nusca: Palm's creepy Pre ads:...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Advertisement, SEC Filing, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Projectors, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Microsoft outlines Windows 7 RC changes
- Microsoft outlines Windows 7 RC changesNo new features?As someone who is a developer, most of those sounded like features to me. In general there are three classes of work items: (1) Bug fixes, (2) Features, (3) Cleanup. These items seem to squarely fall into the feature camp. ...
- Tags: Team management, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-26
- That Windows 7 bootleg is a ticking time bomb
- That Windows 7 bootleg is a ticking time bombDo you feel lucky?Protected mode mitigates, but doesn't stop the exploit from running. And if someone is tired or distracted and clicks Continue in the UAC dialog, they're pwned.Presumably Windows 7 and IE 8 have PM so......there is little to worry about...
- Tags: Operating systems, Web browsers, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Protected Mode
- Discussion threads 2008-12-19
- HP unveils multi-touch consumer laptop
- HP unveils multi-touch consumer laptopUnfortunately its an HP and HP computers suck.Their printers rock, but I've already dealt with crappy HP computers with low quality parts.HP is the reason why I started building PCs.If only I could build a tablet pc...RE: HP unveils multi-touch consumer laptopIt looks like a good...
- Tags: Notebooks, Tablets, Keyboards, BlackBerry Storm, Hewlett-Packard Co., multi-touch consumer laptop, multi-touch, consumer laptop, laptop computer, tablet
- Discussion threads 2008-11-19
- A deep dive into Windows 7 (build 6801)
- Microsoft took the wraps off Windows 7 for the first time at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles three weeks ago. Since returning from PDC, I’ve been installing and using Windows 7 on a variety of hardware platforms eight distinct desktop and portable systems so far. My immediate goal...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott, Network, Change, Backup, Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Windows 7 - The "Blue Badge" experience
- Windows 7 - The "Blue Badge" experienceProbably didn't want to distract testers...Microsoft probably didn't want to distract testers from focusing on more important items, so they left these trivial eye-candy features hidden.RE: Windows 7 - The"(for 32-bit Vista … no 64-bit version available yet)"Nice slip there ;)Underwhelmed...These features are profoundly...
- Tags: desktop virtualization, Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Developers, virtual desktop, Microsoft Windows 7, desktop, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Compiz
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- My favorite Windows Vista gadgets
- When I first began using Windows Vista, I dismissed the Sidebar as a gimmick. It didn’t help that the default gadgets Microsoft offered were of limited utility and that some early gadgets caused performance problems. Over time, though, I’ve become a Sidebar convert. I haven’t encountered a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Gadget, Sidebar, ShareMaster Gadget, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- That "unlocked" Windows 7 taskbar is also unfinished
- That "unlocked" Windows 7 taskbar is also unfinishedCompletely defeats MS' purpose....The whole idea was to show complete features. Unlocking incomplete features will have a negative effect when people start finding the bugs. Good idea MS to keep these features locked that weren't complete, but unfortunately they were unlocked.Thanks for the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, KDE, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- That "unlocked" Windows 7 taskbar is also unfinished
- My hat’s off to blogger Rafael Rivera, who returned from last week’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference and apparently didn’t sleep until he figured out how to unlock the flashy new Superbar interface that Microsoft showed off at PDC but didn't make available to PDC attendees. Rafael's clever hack does indeed...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Rafael, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ed Bott, PDC
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Windows 7 - user interface is king
- Windows 7 - user interface is kingMaybe you should have used it a little more...You don't have to use XAML at all to build WPF apps. Every control, UI element etc is a .Net class, and if you like building up your object hierarchies with imperative code, then you can...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, XAML, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, markup, XML, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- You've got Windows 7 questions, I've got answers
- You've got Windows 7 questions, I've got answersNo images in the article.IMAGE is in place of the photos.DPI scaling of gadgetsI'm amazed Microsoft seems to be ignoring the fact that desktop gadgets do not scale with DPI. This is going to become a major problem as screens get larger....
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Microsoft PDC attendees get 'the goods'
- Microsoft provided attendees of its Professional Developer Conference this week with a 160 GB drive full of bits and resources. The Windows 7 M3 pre-beta build and Windows Server 2008 R2 M3 pre-beta are on the drives. What else is on there? by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Attendee, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, UXEvangelist Blog, .Net, Microsoft Development Tools, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- A first look at Windows 7's pre-beta PDC release
- Is it a major release or just a revamped Windows Vista? That’s the big question surrounding Windows 7, which made its public debut in a keynote address by Steven Sinofsky today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft executives showed off the new Windows...
- Tags: Screen, Microsoft Windows 7, Network, Window, Microsoft Windows Vista, Feature, PowerShell Scripting Language, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Windows 7: preview of final user interface and 'studenty' features
- It's a difficult and strange time for many in the IT industry. It seems most people from home consumers to students, IT professionals and governments have rejected Windows Vista, and many have their reservations about Windows 7. Will it be another disaster like Vista? Or will it...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, PDC, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Live blogging PDC Keynote Day 2: Windows 7, Live Mesh and more
- Yesterday was so much fun, our cabal of bloggers from across a variety of pubs and sites is back again live blogging the Professional Developers Conference PDC Day Two keynotes. The first keynote is going to be the coming out party for Windows 7, with demos of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- News to know: Windows 7's latest build; Ubuntu; Chip density; Tech economy
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: PDC coverage: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 pre-beta build: What's inside Jason Hiner: Windows 7: Five things Microsoft must do Microsoft: Expect Vista SP2...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Chip, AMD Announces $150 Radeon HD 4830 Cringely, Microsoft Windows, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating Systems, Semiconductors, Software, Internet, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Windows 7 pre-beta build: What's inside
- Microsoft isn't going to show Windows 7 to attendees of the Professional Developers Conference PDC in Los Angeles until Tuesday, October 28. But new info about what's part of the pre-beta build that will be provided to show-goers is beginning to trickle out. Here are some of the upcoming features...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2008-10-26
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