Windows 7 beta testers will experience some pain when moving to the release candidate version of the operating system when it comes out, Microsoft officials explained on Tuesday.
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Windows 7 Will Have an XP Downgrade Option
April 6, 2009 - Leave a Response
Microsoft will permit Windows 7 Professional edition downgrades to Windows XP Professional, according a report by veteran Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley published on Monday.
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Release of ASP.NET MVC Under Open Source License Draws Mixed Reviews
April 6, 2009 - Leave a Response
Microsoft is drawing mixed reactions to the release last week of the source code for its ASP.NET Model View Controller.
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Zend Releasing Enterprise-Grade PHP Server
April 6, 2009 - Leave a Response
Zend Technologies will release its commercial-grade server for PHP applications on Tuesday.
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VMware Pledges Savings Guarantee on Server Hardware Costs
April 6, 2009 - Leave a Response
VMware believes it can save you at least half on your server hardware
through virtualization. It’s so confident of the savings that the
company is announcing that it will work for you for free if it can’t
meet that goal.
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WSJ: IBM, Sun Talks ‘Unraveling’
April 5, 2009 - Leave a Response
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the proposed $7 billion dollar deal for IBM Corp. to acquire Sun Microsystems virtually collapsed this weekend.
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PowerPoint Security Bug Found in Office 2003
April 3, 2009 - Leave a Response
A new zero-day remote code execution vulnerability has come to Redmond’s attention, this time affecting Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
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SharePoint Designer Offered as Free Dev Tool
April 3, 2009 - Leave a Response
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that its SharePoint Web portal design tool is now available as a free download.
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Microsoft Rolls Out Windows Embedded Services
April 1, 2009 - Leave a Response
Microsoft on Monday announced a new services capability that’s part of its Windows Embedded Server product line.
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No Serious Threat from Conficker on April 1
April 1, 2009 - Leave a Response
The most recent variant of the Conficker worm is scheduled to update itself April 1. But analysts who have examined the code say it appears to be an upgrade of its defenses rather than an attack by a widespread botnet compromised by the worm.
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