A security scare for Microsoft users hit late yesterday, after vulnerability management company Rapid7's Metasploit penetration tool project discovered an Internet Explorer exploit that is said to affect all browsers earlier than IE9, and ...
Microsoft has revealed the pricing details of its new operating system (OS) Windows 8, due to be released on the 26th of this month. An upgrade edition of Windows 8 Pro is now available for $69.99 in the US, or £49.99 in the UK. ...
Steven Sinofsky Computerworld - Steven Sinofsky, the former Microsoft executive ousted as the head of its Windows group five weeks ago, yesterday said he would teach at the Harvard Business School this spring. Sinofsky, 47, announced the ...
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Computer game platform maker Valve is to port its Steam gaming and distribution platform to Ubuntu Linux in a move intended to protect the company from the impending "catastrophe" of Windows 8. Further reading Developers lose interest ...
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Computerworld - Windows 7 may be the better choice as a PC operating system on new systems than the just-released Windows 8, Consumer Reports magazine said this week. "Windows 7 generally received favorable reviews when it was released," ...
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Microsoft today briefly posted prices of $499 to $699 for the Surface tablet, but then pulled the listings from its online store. "If true, this is aggressive and right where it needs to be priced," said Patrick Moorhead, principal ...
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Google has been dragged into adopting rival Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, fallout from an Adobe move last month. Earlier this week, Google updated its Chrome browser, quashing six bugs and as it often does, also updating Adobe's Flash ...
Microsoft's upcoming Surface Pro tablet sums up the company's seeming strategy with Windows 8: That business users can do with one device what they currently accomplish with two. "The Surface Pro is designed for people who want a premium, ...
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Microsoft on Tuesday rebooted Hotmail as Outlook.com, serving notice that the former is headed toward retirement and that the latter is the new face of the company's 15-year-old online email effort. Analysts might have shrugged at the ...
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Nokia has been knocked out of IDC's list of global top five smartphone companies by mobile devices firm RIM. IDC has been running its Mobile Phone Tracker report since 2004, and this is the first time Nokia has slipped out of the ...
New solutions provide complete protection against all kinds of threats with minimum impact on PC performance thanks to their cloud technologies The new Scan Manager scans up to 70 percent faster BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, September 09, 2012 ...
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InstallAware is the first and only strategic MSI builder delivering full support for Microsoft's new Windows 8 - Visual Studio 2012 - .NET Framework 4.5 eco-system, in less than a week after their availability to software developers. SAN ...
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Microsoft has blamed lower-than-expected first quarter results on consumers and businesses delaying desktop software upgrades until after Windows 8 is launched. For the three months ending September 30 2012, Microsoft reported revenues of ...
The recently launched Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat XI come with new security features and an improved sandbox that will make the products harder to attack and exploit, according to Adobe. The sandboxing feature known as the Protected ...
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2013 has every possibility of becoming the year of the mobile device.Even since the beginning of 2012,uptake of BYOD,enterprise mobility and more carefully constructed mobile device management solutions have begun to permeate IT with ...
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