Windows Enterprise Desktop
July 2010
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Microsoft Security Essentials Gets a New Beta Version
30 Jul 2010 -
Vulnerability in Windows Shell could allow remote code execution
29 Jul 2010 -
Jabbering Onboard NIC Leads to D-Link Tech Support Issues
28 Jul 2010
Last week (I'm still playing catch-up from my vacation from 7/18 to 7/28, sorry) Microsoft announced the availability of a new beta version of its Microsoft Security Essentials package. Described ...
Thanks to Paul Thurrot's SuperSite for turning me on to a serious Windows vulnerability related to the same shell shared by "... all modern Windows versions from Windows XP through7, including all ...
"One step forward and three steps back" must've been the guiding force for my first day back from vacation yesterday, where I struggled both mightily and frantically to get my working life back on ...
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64-bit approaches parity with 32-bit versions for Windows 7
27 Jul 2010 -
Windows 7 Sales Spike Higher to 10 Copies Per Second
27 Jul 2010 -
Take a challenge, take the family
22 Jul 2010 -
The Benefits of an Occasional Recharge
20 Jul 2010 -
Windows 7 SP1 Beta Released Yesterday
15 Jul 2010 -
Microsoft July Security Bulletins/Updates and Zero-Day Exploit Collide
14 Jul 2010 -
Windows 7 Momentum Called Into Question
13 Jul 2010
Here's an interesting table from CNET that reports on the 64-bit installed Windows base vis-v-vis 32-bit versions by OS for Windows 7, Vista, and XP: It certainly looks like the ability to access ...
Just over a month ago, I cited reports that Microsoft's run rates for Windows 7 sales worked out to 7 copies per second in my blog "Windows 7 Posts 150M LIcenses Sold..." In the 29-day period from ...
OK, so I'm on vacation this week and I'm learning how not to be at work most of the time, and how to be relaxing and enjoying my family and my freedom instead. To some extent, this is a challenge ...
Work. Work. Work. Go all day, deal with the rest of life as busy schedules permit, catch a few Zs, then get up and do it all over again. That's the typical rhythm of life for most of us working ...
The TechNet Evaluation Center released the combined Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 beta package yesterday. Check out this warning that advises end users to steer clear: Anybody who wants ...
Yesterday was the second Tuesday in July aka "Patch Tuesday" so it also witnessed the release of the scheduled updates for the month and an accompanying Security Bulletin. Today, the Help and ...
Hey! I just read a fascinating ditty in Jason Hiner's recent Between the Lines blog for ZDNet; it's entitled "74% of work PCs still run XP, and they're 4.4 years old." This item does a short, ...
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Can Windows 8 Steal Windows 7's Momentum? Naaaah...
07 Jul 2010 -
Windows 8 Slide Leaks the Shape of Things to Come
02 Jul 2010
In the over-reported and -analyzed business and IT technology world in which we live, yesterday's grist for news — such as my preceding blog "Windows 8 Slide Leaks the Shape of Things to Come" — ...
Earlier this week, an Italian Windows site named Windowsette posted a collection of confidential Microsoft slides about Windows 8, proprietary watermarks and confidentiality notices included. ...