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computerworld.com - 11 hours ago
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Computerworld - Microsoft today denied that it has
built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that
surfaced yesterday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. ...
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Microsoft denies it built 'backdoor' in Windows 7
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maximumpc.com - 6 hours ago
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Attendees at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference in Los
Angeles got a sneak preview of IE9 yesterday. From
what was presented it’s not really clear what type of personality IE9 will take on. Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, stated Microsoft want’s IE9 to be “a good balance ...
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Microsoft Details Features of IE9
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techradar.com - 34 hours ago
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Office 2010 is due in a few months,
but the beta release is available now. It has
interface changes, bug fixes, one secret new feature – and although it's still a long way from being finished, it shows much more clearly than the technical preview what ...
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Hands on: Office 2010 review
techpowerup.com - 2 days ago
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Today marks the day that AMD takes back
the graphics card performance crown from NVIDIA. The new
AMD Radeon HD 5970 comes with two fast Cypress GPUs on a single PCB. Using their latest power saving features, AMD achieved a very modest power ...
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ASUS EAH5970 2 GB GDDR5
windowsteamblog.com - 29 hours ago
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The Windows Home Server Team is pleased to
announce that Power Pack 3 will be available in
all shipping languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish) on November 24 th , 2009. Power Pack 3 will be made available to ...
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Windows Home Server Blog
maximumpc.com - 13 hours ago
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Despite the growing popularity of open source software,
there's still the issue of how to make money
with it. No easy task, warns Miguel de Icaza , Vice President of Novell, who also heads up the firm's open source Mono project. "If your livelihood depends on the product that you're ...
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Novell: It's Tough to Make Money with Open Source, "Keep ...
techspot.com - 22 hours ago
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Microsoft stepped up its game in more ways
than one with the advent of Windows 7 .
The graphical user interface looks and functions better than in previous releases and is easy to customize. Without digging deep, even inexperienced users coming from ...
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Unearth Region-Specific Windows 7 Themes
techspot.com - 31 hours ago
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Microsoft has made energy efficiency a key design
element of Windows 7. By default, the operating system
is now smarter than previous releases about what devices to turn on and when. It also includes fairly detailed power management options and offers three power plans out of the box to help end ...
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Download of the Week: Power Plan Assistant for Windows 7
techspot.com - 34 hours ago
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In an effort to boost the numbers of
Gold subscribers on Xbox Live and to celebrate a
host of new features being added to the service, Microsoft is giving all Xbox 360 owners the chance to get mangled online by complete strangers for free. From the 20th of November until the 23rd, Silver members ...
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Microsoft offers free Xbox Live Gold weekend
maximumpc.com - 33 hours ago
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If I asked you in 1993, “What’s a
PC?”, you’d probably have pointed to the beige box
sitting under your desk at work. In 1999, if I asked you the same question, the odds are good that you’d have shown me a grey box in your den. In 2005, you would probably have shown me a shiny new notebook. ...
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Release Notes: What Exactly Is a Personal Computer?
techspot.com - 2 days ago
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Speaking at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference today, Steven
Sinofsky, president of the company's Windows and Windows Live
division, has officially announced plans for the next version of IE: Internet Explorer 9. The new browser is still very early in the development process, with ...
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Microsoft reveals first Internet Explorer 9 details
bit-tech.net - 41 hours ago
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bit-tech.net —
The secretive National Security Agency has described its
part in helping Microsoft improve security in its latest
version of Windows - which should worry conspiracy theorists.
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Windows 7 security courtesy of the NSA
arstechnica.com - 36 hours ago
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arstechnica.com —
The first information about the next version of
Microsoft's web browser was revealed at PDC on Wednesday.
The announcement described three main areas of improvement: JavaScript, web standards, and graphics ...
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JavaScript, graphics performance improvements on tap for IE9
npr.org - 2 days ago
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The National Security Agency has been working with
Microsoft Corp. to help improve security measures for its
new Windows 7 operating system, a senior NSA official said on Tuesday. The confirmation of the NSA's role, which began during the development ...
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NSA Is Giving Microsoft Some Help On Windows 7 Security
techspot.com - 2 days ago
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techspot.com —
Research outfit comScore has released the US search
engine rankings for October 2009. During the month, Americans
conducted some 14.3 billion core searches, the majority of which (9.4 billion) were through Google, which held 65.4% of the search market, up from 64.9% in September. Yahoo served ...
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Google and Microsoft gain in US search market, Yahoo ...
techspot.com - 2 days ago
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Microsoft has rolled out the latest beta of
Office 2010 to MSDN and TechNet members. The release
comes shortly after beta builds of the upcoming productivity suite began leaking to torrent sites. Subscribers of MSDN and TechNet can presently download build 14.0.4536.1000 in both 32 and 64-bit ...
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Latest Office 2010 beta available to members of MSDN and ...
maximumpc.com - 2 days ago
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Microsoft is doing some chest-thumping over the advantages
of it’s 64-bit operating systems. According to Joe Faulhaber,
who works at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center , the 64-bit versions of Windows and Vista are less likely than their 32-bit counterparts to be infected with malware. ...
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64-bit Windows is More Secure, for Now
maximumpc.com - 2 days ago
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With the release of its latest OS, Microsoft
appears to have put security at the forefront of
the design phase. So much so that the National Security Agency (NSA) had a hand in helping the software maker lock down its operating system, a senior NSA official said on Tuesday. "Working in ...
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The NSA has been Working with Microsoft on Windows 7 ...
arstechnica.com - 2 days ago
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At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 ( PDC09
), the software giant officially unveiled Silverlight 4 and
released the first beta. You can grab the Silverlight 4 beta (build 4.0.41108.0) for Windows (7.63MB) or for Mac (15.4MB). ...
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Silverlight 4 Beta Arrives For Developers
arstechnica.com - 2 days ago
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arstechnica.com —
Back in 2003, Microsoft assembled a team of
engineers to rethink the lowest levels of Windows, so
that the OS could be more easily slimmed down and secured to run in servers and embedded applications. That project, called "MinWin," has now started to ...
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Inside "MinWin": the Windows 7 kernel slims down
