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Windows Live Support Moves To Forums
Microsoft is moving its Windows Live support to online forums, which sounds like a step down, until you realize that it was previously email-based. Today, Microsoft announced changes to the way Windows Live customers will receive support. »
Need for Speed Shift sets out for the French Riviera
Next week Need for Speed: Shift will be getting a ten-dollar expansion pack that adds seven fancy new cars I've mostly never heard of. »
Windows 7 SP1 Still On Track for Q4 2010
IDG News/Computerworld/Gregg Keizer gets it wrong again when this bizarre distributed entity reports this week that Microsoft "may move up Windows 7 service pack release" from its fictional original plan to "wait nearly two years after Windows 7's launch to issue a first service pack." Now, he says, Microsoft has "since changed its... »
MS10-017 - Important: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (980150)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel. »
MS10-016 - Important: Vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker Could Allow Remote Code Execution (975561)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update addresses a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Producer 2003. Windows Live Movie Maker, which is available for Windows Vista and Windows 7, is not affected by this vulnerability »
It’s Official: Valve is Bringing Steam to the Mac
What was long rumored is now true. Here's the word : Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, Valve's gaming engine, to the Mac. Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in... »
Office 2010 Technology Guarantee Begins
Some expected news from Microsoft: Starting today, Microsoft is offering the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee program, which allows consumers who purchase and activate Office 2007 between now and September 30, 2010 to download Office 2010 at no additional charge when it is available. Today we are also confirming that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010,... »
Confessions of a Windows 7 Pirate
Ed Bott cites the Pete Townsend defense in this journalistic walk on the Dark Side of the Net. I've been digging into message boards and forums run by unabashed Windows enthusiasts who are intent on breaking Microsoft’s activation technology. I've had these forums bookmarked for years and stop in every once in a... »
Microsoft: No Windows Phone Upgrades from Current Phones
No current generation Windows Mobile 6.5.x phones will be upgradeable to Windows Phone 7, according to Microsoft. This sort of dashes the hopes of some who expected the HTC HD2, at least, to be upgradeable. Sorry, but it ain't happening »
Microsoft Security Advisory (981169): Vulnerability in VBScript Could Allow Remote Code Execution - 3/1/2010
Revision Note: V1.0 (March 1, 2010): Advisory published. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in VBScript that is exposed on supported versions of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 through the use of Internet Explorer. Our investigation has shown that the vulnerability cannot be exploited on... »