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Emails show Microsoft's Vista problems

February 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | User comments: 3

E-mails suggest Microsoft executives struggled to make Windows Vista work on their own computers after it was released, a published report said.


Digital frame virus traced to China

February 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | User comments: 2

A powerful virus recently discovered in digital photo frames has been identified as a Chinese Trojan Horse that gathers personal information.


Microsoft to Support Emerging Chinese Document Format

May 22, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Microsoft will announce May 21 plans to create a project to develop an open-source translator project between China's Unified Office Format and the Ecma Open XML File Formats, which are closely tied to Microsoft Office.


IBM Joins User Experience Race

May 22, 2007 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | No comments yet

Don't count IBM out of the race to deliver optimum user experience in products, says an IBM exec.


Symantec Cracks Down on Piracy

May 22, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Symantec's decision to file lawsuits against eight companies it accuses of selling pirated software was the latest move in the industry's continuing struggle against counterfeit products. That it was a top-tier security software ...


Phanfare Adds Offline Syncing

May 21, 2007 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Phanfare today announced that users no longer need an Internet connection to use the online video- and photo-hosting service.


Microsoft's Patent Threats Evoke Retorts

May 18, 2007 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Partly in response to Microsoft's recent patent threats to Linux and other open-source software, the FSF (Free Software Foundation) announced on May 16 the creation of a new activist campaigns team to organize public support ...


Salesforce.com Does Well for Itself in Fiscal Q1

May 17, 2007 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Salesforce.com ups its earnings guidance for a full year based on fiscal first quarter 2008 results.


Oracle's Agile Buy Could Boost PLM

May 17, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

With Oracle's intended $495 million acquisition of software maker Agile Software, product lifecycle management may finally have its day.


Serious Samba Problems

May 17, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Three critical bugs in the popular open-source program allow for system compromise.


Will Windows Home Server Be the Next 'Me Too' Market?

May 17, 2007 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Windows Home Server is Microsoft's bridge between the home PC and the server market. Maybe it's not surprising, then, that its partners and customers may see it as a way to extend into new markets, too.


Microsoft Highlights Changes to the Windows Kernel

May 17, 2007 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s) | No comments yet

At WinHEC, Microsoft technical fellow Mark Russinovich discussed, among other things, how uniprocessor kernel variants were now gone from Windows Server 2008, which reduces the need for downtime.


Microsoft Asks for More Device Drivers for Vista

May 17, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Microsoft issued a call to hardware manufacturers to continue supplying device drivers for its latest operating system Windows Vista.


Researcher Reveals 2-Step Vista UAC Hack

May 17, 2007 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | No comments yet

The technique uses social engineering to trick the victim into downloading an innocent-looking file that includes a Trojan horse attack.


Microsoft: Hardware Trends Create 'Perfect Storm'

May 17, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Microsoft is moving to 64-bit server operating systems after Windows Server 2008, company execs say at WinHEC, praising the increased performance and security of the new hardware.


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