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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. »
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... »
Reality Check Time for Cross-Platform Gaming Demo
The tech blogosphere is abuzz this weekend about a Microsoft demo at TechEd Middle East 2010 where Eric Rudder plays the same game on Windows, on a Windows Phone, and then on the Xbox 360. »
Microsoft Starts Talking About the Windows Phone Developer Story
From Microsoft: Since Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 7 Series at MWC in February, I know you’ve heard a lot of “stay tuned to MIX for more details.” Well here’s a peek at some of those details Microsoft is addressing today. To help set the tone leading into MIX, Microsoft is sharing some important... »
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... »
Help keypress vulnerability in VBScript enabling Remote Code Execution
The MSRC Engineering team has been investigating reports of a vulnerability involving the use of VBScript and Windows Help files. »
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... »
Using code coverage to improve fuzzing results
Hi all, I’m Lars Opstad, an engineering manager in the MSEC Science group supporting the SDL within Microsoft. I wanted to share with you some of the ways that we are improving our internal security practices, specifically in the area of file fuzzing. Many fuzzers take a good file (template) as a starting... »
Live Mesh: It’s Alive!
Because I use and recommend the ever-in-beta Live Mesh service from Microsoft, I get a lot of questions about it, and how I use it. But with Microsoft not updating its Live Mesh blog since last summer, fears have grown that Microsoft had given up on one of its best offerings »