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Same story (it seems), well it has the same heading, and the heading has been highlighted for the last couple of months now already. In any case, Microsoft said they are investigating another hole that cyber attackers are taking advantage of in IE 6 and IE 7. Again… “At this time, we are aware of […]

The principal conclusions of the study were: Overall, the one-way listening speech quality provided by the combination of Microsoft’s client and USB handset was consistently better than that provided by Cisco’s IP phones and Call Manager, whether using G.711 or G.729. More detailed analysis showed that the mean transmission bandwidth of the Microsoft solution typically […]

Understanding design and coding patterns as they relate to parallelism will help you to find more areas of your application that may be parallelized and will help you to do so efficiently. Knowing and understanding patterns of parallelization will also help you to significantly reduce the number of bugs that manifest in your code. Finally, […]

When it comes to building a non-profit open source foundation, it takes time to get things together. That’s certainly the case with the Microsoft-sponsored CodePlex Foundation, which today named four people to its permanent board of directors. The CodePlex Foundation started in September of 2009with an interim board of directors, but is now moving ahead […]

Introduction Graph data structures like DAGs and Trees are part of every computer science curriculum. Graphs are unique because, they’re not only code plumbing, they’re often the plumbing we want to visually depict or physically manipulate. If you’re like most .NET developers you would prefer a library over building something yourself, especially if building a […]

Although analysts argue that Microsoft should rather wait in releasing Windows 7’s first Service pack, Microsoft should deliver it by the end of the year – the last quarter of 2010. When Microsoft first released Vista in 2007, company executives argued that a service pack wouldn’t be necessary because Windows Update could deliver fixes as […]

Responding to reports last week that its European ballot screen was not truly randomizing the positions of the top five browsers, Microsoft said it has changed the algorithm that shuffles the spots. Rob Weir, an IBM software architect noticed the improved algorithm last Saturday. “Sometime last week — I don’t know the exact date — […]

A class action lawsuit against Microsoft that claims anti-competitive wrongdoing and has the potential to be worth more than $1 billion in damages has been certified by a Canadian judge The lawsuit by Pro-Sys alleges that Microsoft engaged in anti-competitive conduct starting in the 1980s when setting up its computer operating systems and applications in […]

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Introduction Cloud Computing is a buzzword these days. It may be defined as a phenomenon that promises to increase business agility by increasing the speed with which applications are deployed while lowering the costs. Note that Cloud Computing is not a technology revolution. Rather, it is a business and process evolution. The Microsoft Azure platform […]

Microsoft’s Eric Rudder played the same adventure game on a Windows PC, a Windows 7 phone, and an Xbox 360, at TechEd Middle East Not only is the game itself playable on all three platforms, but the session is maintained when you move from device to device! For example, if you’re playing on your Xbox […]

Windows Essential Business Server 2008 bundled versions of Windows Server, Microsoft System Center Essentials, Microsoft Exchange and other programs into one package priced to appeal to small and medium-sized businesses with 300 computers or less EBS was an effort on the part of Microsoft “to simplify both the technical and licensing complexity for customers looking […]