Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Consumers will be able to purchase the first major update to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system starting on Wednesday, if Internet retailer Amazon.com is to be believed. Amazon's Web site shows that both the full and upgrade versions of Vista SP1 are currently available for pre-order and will ship ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Microsoft will release Windows Vista Service Pack 1 next week to a wider audience, according to information posted on Amazon.com and reports from a Web site that correctly called SP1's ship date last month.Amazon currently lists Vista SP1 retail copies as available next Wednesday, March 19, while TechARP.com, the Malaysian ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
A security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password.
Adam Boileau first demonstrated the hack, which affects Windows XP computers but has not yet been tested with Windows Vista, at a security conference in Sydney in ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
A couple of years ago Microsoft released the Shared Computer Toolkit, a free set of tools to help administrators manage PCs used by multiple users, especially in order to create safe configurations that would undo any changes made by careless or malicious users.
Now they have released the next generation of ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Microsoft is developing software that will add native support for devices that play Sony's Blu-ray high definition movie format to the Windows operating system, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said."We've already been working on, for example, in Windows, device driver support for Blu-ray drives and the like," said Ballmer, speaking ...
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