The Wall Street Journal says that Microsoft said is looking in “a new vulnerability that affects every version of Windows currently supported. This is one of those zero-day vulnerabilities that come out of left field once in awhile and can be used by hackers to create troublemaking attacks.”
The Intel Atom processor line is associated with low power usage in devices such as a netbook or nettop computer. The emphasis is definitely not on performance, it’s on pushing up battery life on a device with a small display and mid-range graphics requirements while still managing a decent desktop experience.
Microsoft thinks Atom can do more, though, and wants to use it in servers. With that in mind it is calling on Intel to up the cores in an Atom chip to 16, and deploying it as a low power server chip solution.
Microsoft has sued a former director of business development in state court, accusing him of stealing nearly $460,000 from the company and trying to make off with another $1.5 million before his scheme was uncovered.
In a complaint filed with a Washington State Superior Court, Microsoft alleged that Robert D. Curry created a fake company, Blu Games, then submitted bogus invoices for non-existent services.
Russian website Wzor has obtained a list of updates compiled for Windows 7 Service Pack 2 (SP2), which is planned to ship sometime in the middle of 2012, The site claims that work on Windows 7 SP2 started in the fall of 2010, ahead of the finalization of SP1.
Microsoft is said to include no less than 132 updates for x86 Windows 7 SP2, as much as 171 updates for x64 Windows 7 SP2 and 114 updates for IA-64 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP2 systems.
A couple of days ago I posted a story about the jailbreak tool called, WP Device Manager. [New Jailbreak Tool WP Device Manager is in the Works] Now Microsoft is responding by giving jailbreakers a T-shirt and a free phone from Microsoft.
Apparently, Microsoft representatives have met with Windows Phone 7 jailbreakers in an effort to clear up problems about how they can support “homebrew” apps, those apps from third-party software that doesn’t require the approval of Microsoft, in such a way that benefits both parties.
Microsoft continues to trickle out some information about the sales of its Windows Phone 7 operating system, as the software giant told Engadget that it has sold over 2 million licenses already.
The news comes about a month after some ambiguous figures said 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 units were sold to retailers, although that doesn’t necessarily mean those are in the hands of customers. Likewise, the licenses are to manufacturers like HTC and Samsung, so the 2 million figure could actually mean the same as the amount sold to retailers.
Thanksgiving 2006. I brought with me to my sister-in-law's home in Baltimore a new gaming console I was testing.
After a meal of turkey and curry (that's a traditional South Asian Thanksgiving), it was off to the basement TV room. And over the next few hours, something amazing happened. I saw kids and grandparents, uncles and aunts, all playing video games together: baseball, bowling, tennis, golf.
Another Windows Phone 7 jailbreak is on the way after Microsoft releases the platform’s first update, allowing users to do things like side-load applications add ring-tones and manage apps.
A report on winrumours revealed that Windows Phone developer Julien Schapman, who previously worked on the platform’s TouchXperience software, is the man behind the forthcoming jailbreak, the first to appear for WP7 since the ill-fated ChevronWP7 late last year.
Microsoft has publicly extended its hand to iPhone and PS3 hacker George "GeoHot" Hotz after he recently expressed interest in trying to crack Microsoft's new Windows Phone platform.
After Hotz first showed his interest in the mobile platform through a short blog post earlier this week, Microsoft developer platform product manager Brandon Watson tweeted to Hotz with an offer to provide him with a free Windows Phone so he could "build cool stuff" on the platform.
The Xbox 360 Kinect unit, which is designed to allow human motion to control on-screen games, has been hacked many times since the system appeared last year, much to Microsoft's public annoyance. This time, it has now been hacked to control a surgical robot.
A group of graduate students at the University of Washington have modified the firmware and software of the Kinect to guide the actions of surgical robots.
