Microsoft has updated its corporate logo for the first time in 25 years.
If you are someone who cares about brands and logos, you might be interested to know that "the new Microsoft logo takes its inspiration from our product design principles while drawing upon the heritage of our brand values, fonts and colors," as the Softies explained it in an August 23 blog post.
The company responsible for hacking a Wi-Fi hotspot into Windows 7 is turning its hand to software bonding, promising tens of megabits over the slowest of cellular connections.
The company has prototype Windows code which can bond multiple IP connections into a single stream, merging multiple Wi-Fi, cellular or physical connections to provide one IP address with serious connectivity, assuming one has the USB ports to spare.
Our recent feature on the growing vulnerability of passwords chronicled the myriad ways crackers extract clues used to guess other people's login credentials. Add to that list a password reminder feature built in to recent versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Microsoft yesterday warned Windows users of possible "man-in-the-middle" attacks able to steal passwords for some wireless networks and VPNs, or virtual private networks.
It won't issue a security update for the problem, however. The security advisory was Microsoft's reaction to a disclosure several weeks ago by security researcher Moxie Marlinspike at the Defcon conference.
Windows 8, set for release on 26 October, automatically deletes entries in the HOSTS file for specific domains. Try, for example, to prevent attempts to access Facebook.com, Twitter.com or ad servers such as ad.doubleclick.net by rerouting them to 127.0.0.1 by adding entries to the HOSTS file and the relevant entries will soon disappear from the HOSTS file as if by magic, leaving nothing but an empty line. The effect does not occur for other domains, such as The H's sister site heise.de, however.
Microsoft's popular Kinect for Xbox 360 has inspired countless ingenious "hacks" since its launch at the end of 2010.
The motion-sensing device has been modified to produce everything from real-time light sabers to nifty trash bins which catch your garbage (however bad your aim), proving a catalyst for creativity and invention.
Microsoft has added detection capabilities for Bafruz, a backdoor trojan capable of taking a number of malicious actions on victims' computers.
Bafruz can take control of accounts on social networking sites like Facebook and [Russian-based] Vkontakte, launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, conduct Bitcoin mining, install additional malware, and disable security products, like anti-virus, said the Tuesday blog post from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.
An anonymous source has told Engadget that Microsoft's ARM tablet, the Surface RT, will cost just $199 when it goes on sale on October 26th.
E-mail isn't typically known for generating the kind of rabid adoption that you see with, say, smartphones. Microsoft, then, may have some room to brag when Outlook.com produces similar numbers.
Tucked in amidst news of the finished SkyDrive app remake is word that the new webmail service already has 10 million members in its first two weeks of action.
After giving its free e-mail service a new Windows 8-inspired coat of paint with Outlook.com—which has seen more than 10 million users sign up already—Microsoft has turned its attention to cloud storage service SkyDrive. Over the next 24 hours, the company is rolling out a new "modern" interface for SkyDrive's online component.
