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Our computers were networked and the Vista computer could use the printers with no problem. After installing another new computer with Windows 7 (replacing the old Windows XP - which the Vista computer printed through), the new computer with Windows 7 is able to print from the Epson and Canon...

Hi everybody, I want to use the netsend command to send a message from my machine to another in a local network. (netsend was used to send LAN message with windows). I used Netsend before but it disapeared under Windows7. I know that netsend is no longer valid in Windows 7, so I was wondering...

Fixes an issue in which the communication stops between a USB RNDIS device and a Windows 7-based computer or a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer after you remove the device from the USB hub and then reattach it. More...

It seems that Valdez had barricaded himself and the hostage in the motel room after the police attempted to serve a warrant for a felony drug offense He's having a back and forth account of what's going on through Facebook. Read Full Story: Man takes hostage for 16 hours, updates Facebook...

Hello, Today we published the Link Removed due to 404 Error. We fielded fifteen questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released and the Malicious Software Removal Tool. There were two questions during the webcast that we were unable to answer, and we have included...

IM an Expert is a publicly available Lync instant messaging question-and-answer service that enables users to find answers to questions by asking other users. Users can opt-in, and then the service harnesses the database of experts to connect people together via IM. In Part 2 of this series...

Telling only part of a story can be worse than keeping completely mum, as Microsoft officials seem to be discovering with Windows 8. Source: Yahoo! News

It looks like video chat will be built into Windows 8. The move isn't exactly surprising given Microsoft's recent purchase of Skype, and could give the company a nice answer to Apple's Facetime. Source: Yahoo! News

Susan shares her insights on how to do quick and dirty UX testing to help your application be more successful. Susan (who works with great people on the UX team, including Corrina Black, Tsitsi Gora, and Arturo Toledo) has a lot of experience working on usability and spends a lot of time working...

Hi, I have a problem with skype. Today skype stopped working and system tell me that problem is with appcrash. How can I solve this problem?

Ok, so this forum has several sections that cover a wide range of subjects. However, what I'm wondering is: where does the questions about the forum itself are fitting in? I have several matters to discuss about the forum, including a pressing one. Where do I start threads for this?

It's curious to me that some people still think that cell phones are for talking to someone. No, they're for playing games, checking in, and sending naked picture of yourself. So how odd that one woman seems to have managed to talk on her own little device for 16 hours, while traveling...

Toyota and Microsoft this week announced a partnership that will expand Microsoft’s penetration in automotive telematics, while providing Toyota with on-board communication, control and entertainment electronics. While this marks the first time the two companies have joined forces to develop...

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it will acquire VoIP service Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. Microsoft will purchase the company from investor group Silver Lake, which—along with Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz Ventures, and the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)—acquired a majority stake in Skype...

Since the start of April there has been a serious security problem in the Skype for Mac client which could allow an attacker to remotely get access to a shell. Skype released a fix in the middle of April but did not push out an update notification as it believed the problem was not being...

A Canadian man’s attempts to meet up with a woman he met online have gone horribly wrong after his date turned out to be his own girlfriend. Barrie police said the 49-year-old woman turned up at a local coffee shop at the weekend at the arranged time and proceeded to throw coffee in her...

'I need to sleep but Osama had to pick this day to die' A bloke called Sohaib Athar has become a twitter celebrity having unknowingly twittered the raid that looks to have finally taken out Osama bin Laden. Athar, who tweets under the name @ReallyVirtual, was peering out of his window, laptop...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Aussie boffins claim to have created a virtually unhackable data transfer. While we know people have made this claim before, we have to admit that this technique strikes us as pretty secure, as your average script kiddie rarely has access to quantum states...