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Hi, I have a Toshiba M750 TabletPC running Win7 Pro 64-bit. Never had a problem until a few days ago, possibly until I installed SpiderOak's latest version, 9810. (SpiderOak is a backup/sharing software similar to Dropbox) I'm using IPv4 with the following settings: Fixed IP of...

Exploitability Index Improvements Now Offer Additional Guidance In October of 2008, Microsoft published its first Link Removed a rating system that helps customers identify the likelihood that a specific vulnerability would be exploited within the first 30 days after bulletin release. As of...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is gaining market share for its' new Internet Explorer 9 web browser. Whether or not IE9 adoption is enough to stem the tide of IE's overall declining share in the face of competition from Mozilla and Google remains to be seen. "Just six weeks after the launch of...

Taking user feedback about the application into consideration, it’s time to make some improvements! J Here are some of the reports we got from the users: The application is too slow when exchanging currencies It uses too much data traffic/should cache the exchange rates It doesn’t work for some...

As a rule it’s only gamer that are interested in new graphics card drivers, but the latest Catalyst 11.4 drivers released by AMD should be of interest to Firefox 4 user running Windows 7 this time around. Why Firefox 4 users? Well, take a look at this entry from the release notes: The GPU...

One of the minor “features” Microsoft included in the Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview released earlier this week was reduced operating system support; it will only install on Windows 7, leaving Windows XP and Windows Vista users out in the cold. Microsoft confirmed to Computerworld that...

Talk to the hand because the Vista don't understand. More...

Internet Explorer 10 won't run on Windows Vista, a clear attempt by Microsoft to kill off the OS. But why bother? Vista has done a very good job of committing suicide itself. Link Removed

Next iteration of web browser will be exclusive to Windows 7 Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), will not run on Windows Vista, either now in its developer preview form or when the software ships, the company confirmed today. Link Removed - Invalid URL

News Analysis: A lot of chatter emanating from Microsoft headquarters indicates Windows 8 could be released as early as next year. Microsoft needs to make sure that it doesn't stumble with this new generation coming as it seems close on the heels of the successful Windows 7. Link Removed

Revision Note: V1.0 (April 12, 2011): Advisory published.Summary: Microsoft is announcing the availability of the Office File Validation feature for supported editions of Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007. The feature, previously only available for supported editions of Microsoft...

Hello I have a new laptop with Windows 7 installed, but I am not enjoying using it at all, as everything is huge! I don't just mean the text, the icons and all graphics are effected, and tweaking hasn't helped at all. (reducing the text size is easy) I have to scroll so much to view a...

This Week on Channel 9, Dan Fernandez is joined by Clint Rutkas to discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:35] Somasegar: Link Removed including VS 2010 Service Pack 1, TFS-Project Server Integration Feature Pack, Load Test Feature Pack, and LightSwitch Beta 2 [01:01] Jason...

By Link Removed - Invalid URL Piriform Software has updated its system optimization and cleaning tool, CCleaner, to version 3.04. The latest release adds a number of new features, but most notably also adds support for Windows 7 Service Pack 1, which was made available for download two days...

Microsoft has set Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to general availability. Link Removed due to 404 Error

NORCROSS, Ga. -- EasyLink Services International Corporation , a global provider of comprehensive messaging services and e-commerce solutions, today announced that effective immediately, EasyLink's PC to Fax print driver software is available for Microsoft Windows 7 in both 32-bit and 64-bit...

Hi, I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate on a Lenovo computer, 8 mb RAM, Q8200 CPU. Recently I started getting notifications that my backup failed because the system cannot find the file specified, and the above error code. I'm not specifying any files, and I've reset backup to its default settings, all...

Start your engines Russian Microsoft employees have pushed the button on Windows 7 service pack 1, by revealing that it is winging its way to computer manufacturers.… More...

For the past couple of months, the "new" version of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool has been identified as an automatic update and then installs successfully each month. However, within minutues the automatic update tool tells me there is a new update to install and it lists the...

An update to Windows 7 released yesterday has given a strong clue that a final release of the first service pack for the operating system isn't too far away. According to a Microsoft support page, the imaginatively-named KB976902 (Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 installation software...