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Microsoft is going to be adding a privacy mode to IE8 now. Microsoft planning IE privacy mode | Latest Microsoft News - CNET News - CNET News.com I take this as a good sign, that Microsoft is getting serious about privacy and security when browsing the web.

Koroush Ghazi, the creator of Tweakguides has made, other than great tweaking guides for games, hardware, sofware and Windows, a new article about the Vista Annoyances and how XP was just like Vista in its first years. Click here to read.

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Adobe Systems has shared the first scrap of information about its next version of Photoshop, CS4, and it's a doozy: there will be a 64-bit version of the photo-editing software, but only for Windows and not Mac OS X. Adobe generally keeps features in the Windows and Mac versions at a level of parity, but that wasn't possible this time around because of a change Apple made last year to the Mac's programming underpinnings, said John Nack, Adobe's product manager for Photoshop, in an interview. "We're not going to ship 64-bit native for Mac with CS4," Nack said. "We respect Apple's need to balance their resources and make decisions right for that platform. But it does have an impact on developers." (See "What derailed the 64-bit...

Microsoft: No more Windows Live Mail crashes with IE8 Beta 2

How to Clean Your Windows Registry and Speed Up Your PC SOURCE: PC World - How to Clean Your Windows Registry and Speed Up Your PC A cluttered Registry can slow Windows to a crawl, but cleaning it up effectively isn't easy. Steve Bass reviews some of the leading Registry cleaners, and offers tips to help you get your Registry down to size and improve your PC's performance. Steve Bass, PC World Let's start with a little quiz. I say "Big, bloated, and full of errors." What do you say? Right, "Windows Registry." One more: "Messing with it is risky." If you guessed the Registry again, you pass. While fooling around with your Windows Registry does involve some risk, cleaning it out can have an impact on your PC's overall...

Thought I might share some interesting news :eek: A virus designed to swipe passwords from online gamers has inexplicably popped up in some laptop computers aboard the international space station. The low-risk virus was detected on July 25, but did not infect the space station's command and control computers and poses no threat to the orbiting laboratory, NASA officials said. "This is basically a nuisance," NASA spokesperson Kelly Humphries told SPACE.com from the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Full Story: Computer virus strikes space station - Space.com - MSNBC.com

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Posted by Ed Bott @ 1:40 pm A few weeks ago, I noted the explosive growth in sales of 64-bit Windows in recent months and wondered aloud when Adobe plans to release a 64-bit Flash player. A commenter on that post suggested that Adobe was planning to unveil 64-bit support in its upcoming Flash 10 release, but I wasn’t able to confirm that. This morning, a reader pointed me to an eyewitness report that Adobe has publicly demonstrated the Linux and FreeBSD versions of its new 64-bit player at a recent event for Flash developers. Alex Bustin, Senior Engineer of Flash Development for Sony in San Francisco, says, “I just watched Tinic from the Flash Player team demo two 64bit versions of Flash Player 10 here at FlashForward. One on [Ubuntu]...

It only took two-plus years, but Microsoft finally issued on August 8 its official comment about Fiji, a k a “Windows Media Center TV Pack.” Although Microsoft isn’t going to make Fiji commercially available until September 3, when certain OEM partners start shipping the new Vista Media Center update preloaded on new systems, the Fiji team finally decided to talk to “clear up some of the speculation and rumors” about it. Read more:- Microsoft (finally) speaks out on ‘Fiji’ | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

Introduction Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you’re not using. After you configure hotkeys for switching desktops, you can create and switch desktops either by clicking on the tray icon to open a desktop preview and switching window, or by using the hotkeys. Screenshot Configuration Dialog Tray Desktop Switch Window Download:- Desktops

Look at five features of Windows Vista that are often misunderstood, learn about their background and rationale, and get the straight scoop on how to deal with them. Overview Based on feedback from IT Pros in the trenches, here are the features that can cause confusion and slow Windows Vista adoption: • User Account Control • Image management • Display Driver Model • Search • 64 bit architecture Each of feature has specific benefits for desktop (and laptop) management, but they also make adoption a bit tougher since they affect two key areas: application compatibility and hardware performance. This article explains the rationale behind these features, shows how they actually make PC administration more controllable and robust, and...

Microsoft said on Monday that the server version of Windows 7 will not be a major release and will bear the name Windows Server 2008 R2. The move is surprising, given that in the past, Microsoft has used R2 monikers to signify a product with a few new features, as opposed to major changes to a product. Microsoft declined to discuss what will be in Windows Server 2008 R2, but a spokesman confirmed that it is the server version of Windows 7. The release is due sometime in 2010, Microsoft said. The server move calls into question just how different Windows 7 is going to be from Windows Vista on the desktop side. Steven Sinofsky, the head of development for the desktop version of Windows, has said that Windows 7 on the PC side...

Microsoft’s Windows Server division has veered from its regular schedule to eliminate — at least in name — the minor “R2″ update of Windows Server 2008 that was slated to arrive in the next year or two. The result: The next version of Windows Server that Microsoft will ship will be named “Windows 7 Server.” Just last week, I asked Microsoft about the seeming discrepancies (2009 vs. 2010) in its promised Windows Server 2008 R2 dates. At that time, company officials refused to comment. I didn’t think much of their silence, at the time, since Microsoft was busily prepping WS 2008 R2 sessions for its Tech Ed Barcelona conference in November of this year. Read full article:- Confirmed: Microsoft to proceed directly to Windows 7 Server |...

Microsoft Developers have started a blog dedicated to Windows Seven Engineering :geek: Engineering Windows 7

A while back we had an interesting discussion concerning the pro's and con's of Vista's security measures focused mostly on the UAC. Unfortunately that thread was pulled for unknown reasons, since we could add this article quit properly Neowin.net - Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 11, 2008 – Intel Corporation announced today that desktop processors based on the company's upcoming new microarchitecture (codenamed "Nehalem") will be formally branded "Intel® Core™ processor." The first products in this new family of processors, including an "Extreme Edition" version, will carry an "i7" identifier and will be formally branded as "Intel® Core™ i7 processor." This is the first of several new identifiers to come as different products launch over the next year. Products based on the new microarchitecture will deliver high performance and energy efficiency. This "best of both worlds" approach is expected to extend Intel's processor leadership in future mobile, desktop and server market segments...

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced new security features within the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. The features are designed to combat the rising tide of drive-by downloads and malicious scripts contained within carefully crafted links embedded in e-mail and Web pages. Most of the new features require systems to be running Windows Vista SP1 or Windows XP SP3. Perhaps the most anticipated addition is Internet Explorer's new antimalware protection. Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3 both recently added antimalware protection. Safari has so far not announced plans for similar protection. Using mostly its own antimalware technology, Microsoft will block emerging threats by masking the entire IE 8 browser screen with a warning to...