Microsoft today re-released a security update that had crashed customers' PCs and crippled the machines with endless reboots, saying that the revised patch is now safe to install. The revamped MS13-036 update -- first issued April 9, but ...
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The easy upgrades from Windows XP are done, say migration experts, who predict that a sizable number of large enterprises will still be running the aged operating system after Microsoft stops supporting it. Microsoft plans to retire ...
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Microsoft last week filed a patent application for a new method of browsing through open windows on the desktop that builds on an older, now-abandoned feature in Windows Vista and Windows 7. The application, which was published April 11 ...
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Microsoft today urged Windows 7 users to uninstall a patch shipped earlier this week that has crashed customer's PCs and crippled the machines with endless reboots. The patch, which was originally issued Tuesday, has been pulled from ...
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In just one year, on April 8, 2014, Microsoft will stop delivering security updates for?Windows XP, the second most popular operating system in the world. Microsoft issued several?blog posts?Monday urging businesses to get out before it was ...
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The easy upgrades to Windows XP have already been done, migration experts said, predicting that a large number of enterprises will still be running the aged OS a year from now. Microsoft plans to retire Windows XP from all support, ...
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Dell blamed Microsoft's Windows 8 as one of several causes for its grim financial future, according to a filing with securities regulators. "The difficult environment faced by the Company as a result of its underperformance relative to a ...
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The decline in usage share of Windows XP, which is slated for retirement in 53 weeks, has slowed significantly, hinting that millions of its users will hold onto the operating system much longer than some, including Microsoft, expect. ...
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Windows 8 last month fell even further behind the historical adoption pace of Windows Vista, Microsoft's 2007 flop, new statistics showed today. The bright spot for Windows 8 in the data from Web analytics company Net Applications: Its ...
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Microsoft won't back away from a radical overhaul of Windows and is determined to kill the decades-old, decades-rich desktop, analysts agreed today. The experts were reacting to a leak of a preliminary build of Windows "Blue," the code ...
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The grumbling of PC makers is getting louder with Windows 8 doing little to spark laptop sales. The latest complaints come from Jun Dong-Soo, President of Samsung‘s memory chip division, who had no kind words for Windows 8 during a ...
Kaspersky Lab's Internet Security 2013 product contains a bug that can be exploited remotely, especially on local networks, to completely freeze the OS on computers running the software. The bug can be attacked by sending a specifically ...
Windows 8's uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, an analytics company said today. According to Net Applications, Windows 8's February usage share -- including what the firm labeled as "touch" for Windows 8 and ...
Windows 8′s uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, an analytics company said today. According to Net Applications, Windows 8′s February usage share — including what the firm labelled as ...
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Microsoft's new version of Windows written for ARM processors may not be an unqualified success, but ARM CEO Warren East said the software maker will learn from its mistakes with Windows RT and come back with a better product. "I'm well ...
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