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Windows 7 Increased Performance and Optimal Use of Available Hardware
Microsoft is optimizing Windows 7 in order to increase performance, and, in this context, the dispatcher lock is one of the components that ... (read more)
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IE in Free-Fall, Feeding the Growth of Firefox and Google Chrome
Throughout 2008, Internet Explorer has been in a free-fall feeding the growth of rivals such as Firefox and, towards the end of the year, that of Google Chrome. read more)
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Windows Longhorn Castle Evolves into Windows 7 HomeGroup
Windows Home Server is not the sole operating system from Microsoft tailored to households with multiple machines. In fact, Windows 7, the next iteration of the Windows... (read more)
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Vista and XP Leave Windows 7 to Deal with Mac OS X and Linux
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11 Convicted in $2 Billion Microsoft Piracy Case
A Chinese Court has convicted 11 people involved in what Microsoft referred to as the world’s largest software counterfeiting syndicate. According to estimates from the Redmond company, the syndicate, based in the southern China province of Guangdong, counterfeited and... (read more)
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New Malware Targets Windows 7, Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Vulnerability
Worm:Win32/Conficker.B is a new piece of malware targeting a vulnerability in Server Service affecting all supporter versions of Windows, including Windows 7... (read more)
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Microsoft Top Dog in 2008 for Patent Portfolios
Microsoft is the top dog when it comes down to the patent portfolios companies around the world managed to build in 2007 in the U.S. The Redmond company was placed at the top of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) annual Patent Scorecard, not ... (read more)
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MD5 Hashing Algorithm Hole Not a Microsoft Product Vulnerability
At the end of the past year, limited details on a security hole in MD5 were made public in a demonstration of collision attacks aimed at digital certificates signed using the hashing algorithm. The security researchers who demoed the attacks did not release the actual particulars on the read more)
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2006 30Gb Zune Failed to Handle the Last Day of the 2008 Leap Year
Microsoft indicated that an issue which caused the 2006 model of 30GB Zune devices to turn to bricks at the end of the past year had been resolved. On December 31, 2008, reports of Zune media players becoming unusable started pouring, with Microsoft revealing that a technical team was investigating them and was trying to get to ... (read more)
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Download the First Windows 7 Beta/RTM Official Security Solutions
Just ahead of the public Beta of Windows 7, Microsoft has started recommending security solutions that can be integrated with the next iteration of its Windows client even at this early stage in the platform's development. The first products designed to protect users running Windows 7 Beta come from Kaspersky and AVG, according t... (read more)
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