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Network World Fusion – The spat over Vista’s security features is similar to the disagreement over bundling Media Player, Microsoft’s audio and video playing software, into Windows XP. Two and a half years ago the Commission found Microsoft guilty of foreclosing the

Hackers quickly move to exploit Bhutto assassination
Network World Fusion – the most popular of all the exploits we see on a daily basis.” MS06-014, issued in April 2006, patched a critical vulnerability in an ActiveX control that is part of Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), which are packaged with Windows XP

IE8 balks at Windows Update
Computerworld – The preliminary version runs on Windows XP , Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008. Users were understandably confused when IE8 refused to call up Windows Update. “After updating my IE7 to IE8 today, I tried to update my Windows Vista by visiting the

First look: Internet Explorer 8 beta
Computerworld – The initial Windows XP download of IE8 weighs in at 14.4MB. When launched, it downloads other components and installs in less than 15 minutes. All in all, it’s quite a painless install. When you first start IE after installation, you’re asked whether

Microsoft unveils IE8 Beta 1
Computerworld – According to the download page published early Wednesday, IE8 Beta 1 will be available in separate versions for Windows XP , Windows Vista , Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. Although Hachamovitch pegged Beta 1 as fit for developers, there’s

Vista Machines with More than 4 GB of RAM Have Limited Shut-Down
Softpedia – This scenario affects both the 32-bit and the 64-bit editions of Vista, but at the same time also Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has confirmed that the issue is related to the large quantity of random access memory.

Apple: Kicking Down a Back Door to the Enterprise
MacNewsWorld – cheaper to buy an Active Directory license and a Citrix license than to buy a copy of Parallels and XP or Vista and a copy of the application,” he says. However, companies with enterprise licensing agreements don’t have to worry about extra Windows