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Windows Phone 7 RTM

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Archive for August 11th, 2009

Xbox 360 has the most active users in 2009; Wii has the least

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Xbox 360 has the most active users in 2009; Wii has the least

So I'm not surprised by this . Xbox 360 users tend to be a bit more hard core than Wii owners. »

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MS09-039: More information about the WINS security bulletin

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
MS09-039: More information about the WINS security bulletin

This morning, we released security update MS09-039 addressing vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows Internet Name Service (WINS). In this blog post, we’d like to help you understand the following: What is the risk of this vulnerability? »

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MS09-037: Why we are using CVE’s already used in MS09-035

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

MS09-035 was released July 28 to address vulnerabilities in the Visual Studio Active Template Library (ATL). »

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Find out the two new races coming to World of Warcraft

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Find out the two new races coming to World of Warcraft

Wow.com (not an official site) is pretty sure they've got the lowdown on the two new races coming to World of Warcraft in the Cataclysm add-on (not officially announced). The Horde will get goblins and the Alliance will get wolf-people called called worgen (pictured). You can read more specifics (unofficial) about the new... »

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MS09-036: ASP.NET Denial-of-Service vulnerability

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

We have released MS09-036 to address an anonymous denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in ASP.NET. We’d like to go into more detail in this blog to help you understand: Which configurations are at risk? What could happen if my configuration is impacted »

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MS09-035: ASP.NET Denial-of-Service vulnerability

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

We have released MS09-035 to address an anonymous denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in ASP.NET. We’d like to go into more detail in this blog to help you understand: Which configurations are at risk? »

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Who needs a Wii when you can play Half-Life with real guns?

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Waterloo Labs is a group of breathlessly enthusiastic engineering nerds in Austin. For their latest project, they rigged up a big screen with accelerometers that sense the position of any impact. »

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Netflix officially uninterested in videogames

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Netflix officially uninterested in videogames

Joystiq posted an interview with a marketing VP at Netflix who wasn't interested in sharing any hard data about the intersection between Netflix and the Xbox 360. Well, there was this meaningless factoid: ...more than one million Xbox gold members have watched more than a billion and a half minutes of movies and... »

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iPhone finally gets Civilized

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
iPhone finally gets Civilized

It's not a gaming system unless there's some way to play Civilization on it. Sid Meier's classic turn-based strategy game has conquered gaming platforms the same way Genghis Khan's Mongols conquer their unsuspecting neighbors »

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MS09-036 - Important: Vulnerability in ASP.NET in Microsoft Windows Could Allow Denial of Service (970957)

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update addresses a privately reported Denial of Service vulnerability in the Microsoft .NET Framework component of Microsoft Windows. This vulnerability can be exploited only when Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 is installed and ASP. »

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