Those who enjoy the popular television show will be happy to know that November 8, 2009 will feature a variety show from the makers of Family Guy, and it will play for its entire allotted time without any commercial interruption-- courtesy of Microsoft.
So, it seems that a lot of T-Mobile Sidekick users out there have lost data thanks to the Microsoft acquired Danger data center going belly up. Sidekick users are, understandably, furious with T-Mobile, but let’s put the blame squarely where it belongs - at Microsoft’s door.
Corporate security and network administrators face a "nightmare" task just trying to figure out what to patch and what to let slide after Microsoft issued its biggest-ever batch of updates today, researchers argued.
"This is the biggest number of bulletins," said Jason Miller, the security and data team manager for patch management vendor Shavlik Technologies. "It's also the biggest number of individual patches."
It's a question we all face: with chips getting more processing cores instead of more gigahertz, is your next computer going to actually run your software faster?
Microsoft is one of the companies that feels the pressure to most acutely when it comes to putting those cores to work. Though it doesn't pretend to have the problem licked, Microsoft does believe Windows 7 provides a better foundation for using multicore systems than earlier versions of the operating system.
Microsoft says it will deliver its largest-ever number of security updates on Tuesday to fix flaws in every version of Windows, as well as Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SQL Server, important developer tools and the enterprise-grade Forefront Security client software.
Among the updates will be the first for the final, or release to manufacturing, code of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system.
Don't look now, but Microsoft's search engine may be starting to lose its momentum. Following a few months of modest growth, the search-engine-formerly-known-as-Live seems to be reverting toward its pre-Bing levels. According to some new data, Bing's market share slipped downward in September, marking the first blip in what had been a very slow but consistent climb for the recently rebranded site.
Popular online retailer Newegg divulged details today on the OEM pricing of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7.
Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer went on the offensive against Apple in a recent interview, stating that Windows has gained market share on OS X, and that the browser Safari is a "rounding error."
In the third part of an interview with TechCrunch, Ballmer said that he believes the higher price of Mac hardware has turned away some consumers. He said the lower price of Windows 7 is meant to meet the current economic climate.
For the past decade, Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has been moving the data from his brain onto computers -- where he knows it will be safe.
Sure, you could say all of us do this to some extent. We save digital pictures from family events and keep tons of e-mail.
Microsoft is working feverishly to patch a zero-day bug in a key Windows networking protocol disclosed in early September, but isn't finished testing it yet. Now, Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) security wranglers have received notice that they'd better get a move on.
This week, a hacker uploaded an exploit that takes advantage of the bug in what's called Server Message Block version 2 (SMB2) and incorporated it into the Metasploit Framework, a popular hackers' tool. With it, an attacker would be able to take complete control of users' PCs.
