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Microsoft Online Services Sign In (Windows)
Use the Microsoft Online Services Sign In application to sign in once and then access services any number of times during the sign-in session. This product intended for use with Microsoft Online Services only. System Requirements Supported Operating Systems:Windows Vista;Windows Vista 64-bit Editions Service Pack 1;Windows Vista Business;Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition;Windows Vista Enterprise;Windows Vista [...]
Windows Live Messenger 2011 (15.4.3508)- Stay Connected!
Windows Live Messenger makes it easier than ever to stay connected to the people you care about.With Windows Live Movie Maker, you can quickly turn your photos and videos into polished movies. Add special effects, transitions, sound, and captions to help tell your story. And sharing with friends and family is easy—whether on the web, a [...]
Windows Live Writer 2011- Makes it easy to share your photos and videos on any blog service
Windows Live Writer makes it easy for anyone to tell stories like a professional blogger. You can create beautiful blog posts, and see what they’ll look like online before you publish them to your blog. Plus, you can publish your blog to any of your favorite blog service providers, such as WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, and more. What you see is [...]
Microsoft Releases Biggest-Ever Security Fix
Microsoft released its largest-ever set of security patches Tuesday, fixing a total of 49 bugs in products such as Windows, Internet Explorer and Office. There are 16 groups of patches (called updates) in total. Microsoft says that two of them, the Internet Explorer fix numbered MS10-071 and a Windows patch numbered MS10-076, should get top priority. Microsoft thinks attack [...]
Microsoft Reports Record Fourth-Quarter Results
Microsoft Corp. today announced record fourth-quarter revenue of $16.04 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, a 22% increase from the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $5.93 billion, $4.52 billion and $0.51 per share, which represented increases of 49%, 48% [...]
Microsoft, Adobe Collaborate to Protect Against Online Threats
LAS VEGAS — July 28, 2010 — Today at the Black Hat USA 2010 conference, Microsoft Corp. announced that it will extend its Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) to include vulnerability information sharing from Adobe Systems Inc. Microsoft also discussed the new policy of coordinated vulnerability disclosure — a reframing of responsible disclosure — and introduced [...]
Microsoft Pulls Plug on Business Server Package
Microsoft will discontinue development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) as of June 30, the company announced via a blog. The blog calls the elimination of this package of integrated Microsoft back-office programs a move to “streamline [Microsoft's] server product portfolio.” “[M]idsize businesses are rapidly turning to technologies such as … virtualization and cloud computing [...]
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit
This powerfully comprehensive, seven-volume kit provides information and tools IT professionals need for deploying Windows Server 2003?straight from the Microsoft Windows product team. User review Good detail Unlike most books that start with how to install the product, this book goes into much more detail on how to craft a PKI infrastructure. What documents should [...]
Microsoft to Drop Linux, Unix Versions of Enterprise Search
Microsoft will no longer offer Linux or Unix versions of its enterprise search products after a wave of releases set to ship in the first half of this year, the company announced in an official blog post Thursday. After Microsoft bought Fast Search & Transfer in 2008, it said it would continue offering and updating standalone versions of [...]
Vulnerabilities in the Microsoft .NET Common Language Runtime Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical – This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) or Silverlight applications, or if [...]
Mozilla Unblocks Microsoft Add-on for Firefox
Mozilla has now unblocked a Microsoft add-on thought to pose a danger due to a software vulnerability. More: continued here
Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Gets Support From Ad Association
An ad association has asked the Department of Justice to approve the deal proposed by Microsoft and Yahoo. More: continued here
First Microsoft Store Opens This Week
Windows 7′s release kicks off Microsoft’s newest retail venture, starting in Scottsdale, Arizona. More: continued here
Microsoft Continues Its Patent-Infringement Battles
Microsoft has been having a few good days in court lately. On Oct. 5, news rolled out that its law firm, Fish & Richardson, managed to roll back a $511.6 million damaged award leveled against it in a patent-infringement battle with Alcatel-Lucent. That case involved Microsoft’s calendar date-picker tool, and basically redefined the term “protracted” [...]
Microsoft CEO Ballmer Wants You to Upgrade to Windows 7
During a Microsoft event in San Francisco today, Sept. 29, Steve Ballmer seemed to suggest that those businesses determined to stick with Windows XP as “good enough” may find themselves outpaced sooner rather than later. Of course, Ballmer has a vested interest in having all businesses, regardless of their size or capability, eventually upgrade their [...]