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Google and Microsoft have long stood as fierce adversaries, their rivalry underpinning decades of competition that often oscillates between aggressive innovation and public displays of corporate pettiness. Whether it’s the saga of Google hamstringing Microsoft’s YouTube app or Microsoft steering...

Exploring the Hewlett Packard Microserver Gen8 and Enhancing Your Web Experience The world of IT hardware and software is filled with innovations that span from the physical equipment in our workspaces to the digital tools that enhance our online experience. Today, we dive into two exciting...

With much of your to-do list now online, you expect your browser to be fast and reliable every day. Your browser is the tool you rely on to get things done. Online productivity now depends on how fast your browser is, so that to-do list can disappear. So, don’t you hate it when your browser...

“Ipsa scientia potestas est.” – Sir Francis Bacon In the last two posts in this series, we covered the Speech APIs and the Language Understanding APIs. In the current post, we’ll go over the Knowledge APIs. There is a natural progression to this since from speech, we derive meaning, and with...

Hi All I had a weird behaviour opening a xls. I have on my webserver a repository with some xls (no macro, no formulas etc, just plain text), thoise xls are accessible without loogin to all visitors. I have a web firewall before web. It happen that waf spam alert message as LOIC attack, i...

In June we introduced preview support for asm.js, which is now supported by default in Microsoft Edge starting with Microsoft EdgeHTML 13.10532. With this change, Hosted Web Applications and the WebView in any Universal Windows Application can now benefit from asm-optimized code as well. Asm.js...

How can I not make this today's post? :) All times are in PDT (UTC - 7:00) Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event .png']Link Removed On July 20th we will celebrate the final release of Visual Studio 2015! We invite you to join us online to learn about the new features and technologies...

My company uses a site for us to input hours & expenses, it requires that I use the compatibility mode to render correctly. I have not found this option in the Edge browser, it does work with IE in compatibility mode. If at some point they remove IE this may prove to be a problem. Has anyone...

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AntiXSS 4.3.0 helps you to protect your applications from cross-site scripting attacks. Link Removed

Resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs). More...

Hello I have just got a new PC with windows 7 on it. My problem is this. When I use facebook the page scrolls as normal - up and down just as you would expect. However when i run a game in FB, then the game part of the page is not scrollable, and I miss links etc at the bottom few inches of...

Fixes a problem in which Windows Media Center crashes when you run certain Web applications from Windows Media Center while you are playing an ISDB-T TV program. This problem occurs in computers that are running Windows 7. Link Removed

Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (August 9, 2011): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in ASP.NET Chart controls. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if an attacker sent a specially crafted GET request to...

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in ASP.NET Chart controls. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if an attacker sent a specially crafted GET request to an affected server hosting the Chart controls. Note that...

I realise The Water Cooler may not be the normal place to post a spell checker It is free and really easy to use and may be found of use . I post it here in the hope others may find it handy . ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a...

Travis Leithead, Program Manager for Internet Explorer, looks at how developers can use web workers to achieve new scenarios and make web applications feel more responsive by offloading complex JavaScript algorithms to run in the background. The sample used in the video and the second IE10...

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Wizards are a part of the web. Maybe you haven't thought of them as wizards, but multi-step processes such as checkout or registration are utilized by many websites. In this episode, Muhammad Usman from the Microsoft Product Quality team will show you the new system they are building to create...

The browser has become the single piece of software most widely deployed and used. Apple, Microsoft, Google and Firefox's Mozilla are in a race to develop more functional browsers. The core functionality of these browsers must be the same to comply with W3C standards, but they compete on the...