Microsoft is rolling out a new version of its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) tailored specifically for federal government users, the company announced on February 24 during the kick-off of its annual CIO Summit in Redmond.
It must suck to be a Windows developer. So you already have an entire legion of misguided folk hating your work for no reason (on top of the people hating your work for legitimate reasons), and then a company comes along spreading clear misinformation about Windows' memory usage, based on that company's performance monitoring software. To make matters worse, when said company is called out on its errors, it decides to publish the usage information of an Ars Technica editor's computer. As such, it is advisable to uninstall the software in question.
Microsoft defended its BitLocker data encryption tool last week after a hack was demonstrated that might affect it.
A presenter at the Black Hat Washington, D.C. conference in early February had compromised the trusted platform module (TPM) in a machine. Microsoft leverages TPM hardware in conjunction with its BitLocker drive encryption tool to help protect data from unauthorized access in mobile PCs.
Microsoft is looking into reports that some Windows Live customers may have gotten access to other users' information.
"Microsoft is investigating reports of a limited number of instances in which Windows Live customers may have access to other customers' accounts when accessing their account through mobile Web browser," the company said in a statement Tuesday. "Microsoft takes customers' privacy seriously, and immediately upon learning of these reports, we started an investigation."
Several analysts see Microsoft's announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series this week at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, as a watershed event that very well could put the software giant back in the mobile operating system game.
However, the notable absence of much talk by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) executives at the announcement about the current Windows Mobile 6.5, which just began shipping on new handsets in October, is perplexing to some.
An update released by Microsoft this month (MS10-015) broke XP machines that were infected with the TDL3 rootkit (also known as TDSS and Tidserv and many other names ). Well, a rootkit that causes crashes is bad for business, so the hackers had an update out in the matter of hours.
Microsoft has just concluded its February 15 press conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where company officials showed off a demo unit of a Windows Phone 7 Series phone.
Microsoft is to step up its fight against counterfeit software by issuing an update for Windows 7 that will check every 90 days to see if users have attempted to circumvent its activation processes.
Many users around the world have implemented “hacks” to enable them to circumvent Microsoft’s activation processes and use pirated software. With its update, Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7, Microsoft is intending to identify users who have implemented hacks.
A hard-to-detect rootkit may be causing Windows XP systems to crash following Microsoft's latest security updates.
Windows users began flooding Windows support forums this week, saying that their computers had been rendered unusable with a blue-screen-of-death (BSOD) error after installing Microsoft's February security updates, released Tuesday. On Thursday, Microsoft stopped shipping the MS10-015 update, which had been linked to the issue, and said it was investigating.
VirtualBox may be free, but you still have to own a copy of Windows. If you're not willing to shell out a few hundred dollars to Microsoft but still want to run Windows on your Intel-based Mac, there is one more alternative: CrossOver from CodeWeavers costs $40 and runs Windows applications on Mac OS X -- without Windows.
