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Internet Explorer zero-day exploit is not addressed, but businesses should implement the workaround Microsoft is issuing two critical fixes on this month’s Patch Tuesday, one of them affecting its most popular operating system — Windows 7 — in conjunction with Windows Server 2008 R2. That problem allows remote execution of […]
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NORAD switches to Bing Maps to help you track Santa’s journey on Christmas Eve Google apparently hasn’t been naughty in Santa’s eyes, but Microsoft must have been pretty nice. NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, will switch from using Google Maps to Bing Maps to track Santa Claus on […]
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Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Coming True Almost one year ago today, we laid out the nightmare scenario for Microsoft (MSFT) that could lead to its business collapsing. After laying it all out, we concluded, “Fortunately for Microsoft, none of this is going to happen.” We were wrong. A lot changed […]
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IT jobs on the other side of the cloud As companies turn increasingly toward the cloud, corporate IT staffers wonder if the grass is greener working for a service provider. Jake Robinson remembers the day when he really understood what it means to work on “the other side of the […]
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Then Windows 7 gets a longer life, Microsoft presses on Microsoft launches Windows 8 later this month after a year of gradually making the new operating system more and more available, hoping for a big hit that will drive sales this holiday season and beyond, and giving the company new […]
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Microsoft partners with PreEmptive Solutions to deliver exception analytics to Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 right out of the box. Microsoft and PreEmptive Solutions announced that PreEmptive Analytics and Dotfuscator CE will be included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 to provide exception analytics for developers using […]
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As anyone who’s been to TechEd will attest, the event is not a sprint; it’s a marathon. With hundreds of technical sessions, workshops, labs and vendors, the annual Microsoft event doesn’t lack quantity. But what’s actually worth paying attention to? Thanks to the timing of the event, the published agenda […]
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Claiming sales are too weak, did LG make a valid point in dumping Windows Phone, or an excuse to avoid competing with Nokia? How about both? Ahead of a meeting between their CEOs, Korea’s LG Electronics has decided to shun any more Windows Phone products because there have yet to […]
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T Sign of a Microsoft turnaround, or just a calculation change by metrics company? Computerworld – Internet Explorer posted another major gain in share last month, the second in the first quarter of the year, perhaps signaling a turnaround in Microsoft’s fortunes, a Web metrics company said Sunday. Meanwhile, every […]