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Major software producers like Microsoft are moving relentlessly towards medialess software, where resellers and consumers alike will download the software and pay for the license by credit card. From Microsoft’s point of view, this cuts out the distributors and their margin as well as cutting the costs...

Microsoft has released both Vista and Windows server 2008 SP2 today and are available for down load. Before installing SP2, users should ensure that SP! has already been loaded. SP2 will be released through Windws automatic update, but if you need it earlier, you can get the 32 bit version here and the...

No sooner did Microsoft make Windows 7 RC available for download, than pirated versions began to appear through Torrents and news groups. The only problem is that they are infected with malware Trojans aimed at recruiting the infected computer to a criminal botnet. Even worse, the Trojans are so deeply...

Microsoft have announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for both Vista and Server 2008 . The main benefits that Vista SP2 brings are faster searches, it will support Bluetooth 2.1, easier WiFi connection and provides the ability to record Blu-Ray within Vista. Microsoft also...

Rumours in the trade suggest that Windows 7 RC may come out as early as May 5 th for the public. The rumours, unsubstantiated at present, seem to follow the release of a screen shot from Microsoft’s Technet website taken over the weekend. In the screenshot, it shows that the page is due to be published...

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 has been released by Microsoft to fix identified problems and to improve certain functions such as content streaming and remote access configuration. It has also added Italian as a supported language on hew home servers. The Windows Home Server Team Blog has the details...

What ever your opinion on the rights or wrongs of how IE8 renders websites produced for previous versions, whether it is anti competitive to bundle it with Vista, it would appear that Microsoft is preparing to release it imminently. If you go on their site , you will see that it has no less than three...

We reported on February 24 th that PDF file could be infected and would crash Acrobat Reader and Acrobat. Adobe has now issued a patch for Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9, while patches for versions 7 & 8 will be released by 18/3/9 and for reader 9.1 (unix) by 25/3/9 At the same time Microsoft has issued...

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A critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer is being actively attacked by cyber criminals, Trend Micro reports. Although Microsoft issued a patch to seal this last week, it is still vulnerable by reverse engineering the patch. Although the attacks are quite primitive at the moment (they are initiated...