Microsoft will allow users of Windows 8 Pro to downgrade their new PCs to Windows 7 or even Vista, according to the operating system's licensing agreement. Not surprisingly, users may not downgrade to the ...
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A top Apple security guru Thursday presented an in-depth view into the security architecture for iOS, the basis of iPhones and iPad tablets, underscoring the complex certificate-based encryption framework Apple has adopted. Our attitude ...
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Symantec said Windows 8 “doesn’t move the needle much” on security as it rolled out new versions of its antivirus software and promised to provide users with several so-called “Modern” apps for the new ...
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Microsoft Windows 8 support for TPM Tipping point for TPM TPM gathers momentum The end of the password? TPM in action across all devices Since 2006, many new computing devices have been sold with a built-in trusted platform module ...
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Microsoft's"Secure Boot"plans for Windows 8 have already caused no end of controversy in the Linux community,and certainly one of the more divisive announcements in recent months was Canonical's decision to drop the GRUB 2 bootloader as ...
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) has advised consumer customers not to downgrade new PCs equipped with Windows 8 to the earlier Windows 7. In a message on its support website, HP said that consumer-grade desktop and notebook systems shipped after ...
Vupen, the controversial security company that specialises in finding vulnerabilities in commercial software, has claimed a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 8, the new operating system from Microsoft that was launched just one week ago. ...
CSO-In Windows 8,Microsoft has greatly improved the operating system's ability to detect malware before it has a chance to run,experts say.Windows 8 should also make it more difficult for people to unknowingly install malware in the first ...