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Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 Is Cooking

Jason — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:07:27 +0000

Mozilla is cooking a new Beta Build of the next iteration of its open source browser. Early adopters will have a fresh revision, the third one since Firefox 3.6 debuted into Beta stage, available for download soon. Whether referred to as Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 or Firefox 3.6 Beta revision 3, the new release is [...]

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Office 2010 Beta Available for Download

Jason — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:55:35 +0000

The first fully-fledged Beta Build of Office 2010 is now available for download to subscribers of Microsoft’s developer and IT professional portals. The Redmond company managed to live up to its promise to offer Office 2010 Beta by the end of November 2009, with public availability of the bits expected any day now, possibly as [...]

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Show A Hidden System Tray Icon In Windows 7

Jason — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:52:52 +0000

System tray icon has been taken quite seriously in windows 7, the windows 7 taskbar has been designed keeping in mind that system tray icons of the various third party applications should not occupy the task bar space. So, by default any program which has a system tray icon is hidden by default in windows [...]

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Microsoft Reacts to Windows 7 0-Day DoS Vulnerability

Jason — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:01:13 +0000

Microsoft has reacted rapidly to public reports of a zero-day denial-of-service vulnerability in its latest iterations of the Windows client and server operating systems, and is providing customers with guidance on how to block potential attempts to take advantage of the security flaw. In this regard, the Redmond company has underlined that no exploits or [...]

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Vista SP2 and XP SP3 Patch Security Release ISO Image

Jason — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:59:35 +0000

A DVD5 ISO image file containing all the security bulletins made available on November 10th, 2009 for all supported Windows platforms, is now up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center. As is the case every month, the Redmond company is accompanying the security patched it offers through Windows Update, Automatic Updates, and Microsoft Update [...]

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Windows 7 RTM in Over 35 Languages

Jason — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:35:24 +0000

There are more ways than one in which end users can translate Windows 7 into different languages. For some users, Windows 7’s Multilingual User Interface (MUI), including Windows Language Packs and Language Interface Packs (LIPs), is the most known way to translate the operating system. Deploying an MUI or an LIP will actually have Windows [...]

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Seven Things to Try after Installing Windows 7

Jason — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:15:18 +0000

On October 22, 2009 Microsoft reached the final milestone of the Windows 7 release schedule, namely general availability. Customers worldwide have already started embracing the product, buying 234% more boxed retail copies of Windows 7 since the official launch compared to the first few days after Windows Vista GA. The NPD Group took into consideration [...]

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Firefox 3.6 Beta for Windows 7

Jason — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:34:13 +0000

The first fully-fledged Beta development milestone of the next generation of Mozilla’s open source browser is currently available for download. Testers and early adopters that have been waiting for Firefox 3.6, codenamed Namoroka, to evolve from Alpha stage are now free to access, download, install and start test driving the Beta 1 build. In addition [...]

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Windows 7 RTM Drivers from Microsoft Hardware

Jason — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:27:41 +0000

Microsoft’s “Better Together” slogan apparently applies not only to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 but also to the latest iteration of the Windows client and the Redmond company’s peripherals. The vast majority of products offered by Microsoft Hardware features the Windows 7 Compatible logo and comes with device drivers designed to play nice [...]

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Windows 7 RTM Support

Jason — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:16:38 +0000

Windows 7 is an evolutionary Windows client release, according to Microsoft, and it was also fit that support for the OS would also be an evolution compared to what was available for Windows Vista. And Windows 7 comes in a world where Microsoft Support is much different from what it was when the company made [...]

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