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European Windows Users will have a choice of Internet browsers to choose from between now and mid-May after the European Commission forced Microsoft to give European Windows Vista, XP and 7 users a choice. Computer manufacturers are also able to install competing browsers on Windows PCs instead of only Internet Explorer. Microsoft agreed not to […]

Microsoft’s CFO confirmed today that the company will offer a free upgrade to Office 2010 from this month onward Buyers of Office Home and Student 2007 will receive a free copy of Office Home and Student 2010, while buyers of Office Standard 2007 will be eligible for a free copy of Office Home and Business […]

Microsoft’s security chief laid out several suggestions on getting a leg up on hackers who are infecting computers worldwide, on Tuesday, including a possible Internet usage tax to pay for the inspection and quarantine of machines.

Much of this innovation has been locked away within corporations as they have made isolated progress on issues like security metrics, security risk management frameworks, and security policy. In order to address this discrepancy, Microsoft commissioned a whitepaper series to share key security innovations. Whitepaper topics came from participants in Microsoft’s CSO Council – a […]

Deploying DPM 2010 can give an organization confidence that: Virtual machines can be quickly and reliably backed up from production Hyper-V servers at frequent intervals throughout the day without a negative impact on performance. DPM replicas and recovery points allow organizations to restore virtual machines not only in their most recently backed up configuration, but […]

Microsoft said it has released Beta 2 of its Windows Server AppFabric, a set of services meant to simplify writing composite applications that take advantage of both local servers as well as services in the cloud. “We’re encouraging developers and IT professionals working with .NET 4 and Windows Server to download the Beta and provide […]

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to do a RotateTransform on an object created in Expression Blend. We shall be using a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) project type and to exemplify the use of RotateTransform we shall create a clock and rotate the minute and hour hand using VB.NET code. Basically a […]

Introduction Welcome, .NET Developers, to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. In my last column, Introducing the Entity Framework, I covered introductory examples on the Entity Framework and compared LINQ to SQL. For this piece, I’ll focus on building queries with the Entity Framework that involve multiple tables as well as binding […]

According to iSEC’s advisory, the attacker needs to elicit some cooperation from the user: The attack pops up a Windows very simple messagebox, loaded with VBScript When the user presses F1, IE will load an attacker-supplied .HLP file with winhlp32.exe. iSEC also notes a stack overflow vulnerability in winhlp32 that they could use.

According to Microsoft, Windows Server AppFabric makes it easier to build and manage Web and composite applications running on the Windows IIS Web server AppFabric combines the former Dublin and Velocity technologies for hosting and caching with the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus and AppFabric Access Control, which had been known as .Net Services.

According to Microsoft, you’ll see four tabs upon opening the application: Home, Profile, Friends, and, obviously, your Inbox. All work pretty much as expected, with the Home tab displaying all the latest posts and content, Profile showing you the latest updates to your profile, Friends giving you a list of your friends, and the Inbox […]

News of the vulnerability spread last week when Maurycy Prodeus of iSec Security Research posted information about the vulnerability on the Web. According to Microsoft’s advisory, the vulnerability is due to the way VBScript interacts with Windows Help files when using Internet Explorer. To address the issue, Microsoft made a number of suggestions, including restricting […]