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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> One Small Step for Intel; Giant Leap for Apple? CNBC, NJ - 47 minutes ago ... perennial Microsoft whipping boy Windows Vista operating system. The New York Times picked up on this story last night, and posted the news on its blog. ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=WPsdX36-jSAJ&imgurl=s.wsj.net/media/edsel_art_200_20080626013738.jpg width=80 height=60 alt="" border=1> Wall Street Journal Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Intel: Another Less-Than-Eager Vista User Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 11 hours ago This blog has found no shortage of evidence that Microsoft’s Windows Vista is not taking the world by storm. Buyers of new PCs don’t have much ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Create a quick professional slide show with Vista’s Photo Gallery TechRepublic, KY - 1 hour ago Using the Microsoft Windows Vista application Photo Gallery, it is possible to create a professional slide show quickly and easily using the built-in Themes ... Create a quick professional slide show with Vista's Photo Gallery TechRepublic all 2 news articles More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Create a quick professional slide show with Vista's Photo Gallery TechRepublic, KY - 29 minutes ago In this Vista Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to make it work. This download is also available as an entry in the TechRepublic Windows blog. ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Create a quick professional slide show with Vista’s Photo Gallery TechRepublic, KY - 29 minutes ago Using the Microsoft Windows Vista application Photo Gallery, it is possible to create a professional slide show quickly and easily using the built-in Themes ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=eFPvRcKGfT4J&imgurl=www.business24-7.ae/SiteLists/ArticlesTempPhotoGallery/6_25_2008/ArtclDtaPg_58e7e54fda6d45df8181bf7692f27639_0.2.jpg width=80 height=64 alt="" border=1> Emirates Business 24/7 <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Is Ballmer right man for Microsoft - for 10 more years? Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - 2 hours ago Office is under heavy siege from online competitors led by Google Docs, while Windows Vista has become a PR debacle for Microsoft, in part because of the ... Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford ZDNet Blogs all 268 news articles More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Is Ballmer right man for Microsoft - for 10 more years? Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - 21 minutes ago Office is under heavy siege from online competitors led by Google Docs, while Windows Vista has become a PR debacle for Microsoft, in part because of the ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=WPsdX36-jSAJ&imgurl=s.wsj.net/media/edsel_art_200_20080626013738.jpg width=80 height=60 alt="" border=1> Wall Street Journal Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Intel: Another Less-Than-Eager Vista User Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago This blog has found no shortage of evidence that Microsoft’s Windows Vista is not taking the world by storm. Buyers of new PCs don’t have much ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=WPsdX36-jSAJ&imgurl=s.wsj.net/media/edsel_art_200_20080626013738.jpg width=80 height=60 alt="" border=1> Wall Street Journal Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Intel: Another Less-Than-Eager Vista User Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 46 minutes ago This blog has found no shortage of evidence that Microsoft’s Windows Vista is not taking the world by storm. Buyers of new PCs don’t have much ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> US judge: Microsoft must release Windows details ZDNet Asia, Asia - 22 minutes ago Windows Vista, for example, was shipped in November 2006 with a built-in Windows Mail e-mail program and Windows Photo Gallery, a tool for viewing and ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Once More InfoWorld, CA - 36 minutes ago I'm using Ecto for Windows to post to my blog, which appears to be as featureful as Ecto for the Mac, and this version is arguably sexier than the 2.4.2 ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 PC Magazine - Jun 24, 2008 Our goal is to ensure the migration process from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is straightforward." That is consistent with a May blog post by Chris Flores, ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Lifehacker are gods: the ideal student solutions ZDNet - 25 minutes ago Even though most organisations and businesses seem to turn away from Windows Vista, the “complementary” Office suite, Office 2007, seems to be taking off, ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 PC Magazine - 21 hours ago Our goal is to ensure the migration process from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is straightforward." That is consistent with a May blog post by Chris Flores, ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Wednesday July 16: My Old Kentucky Blog presents Film School ... indy.com, IN - 27 minutes ago ... also provided music for a series of short films by Demetri Martin, known collectively as "Clearification", an advertising campaign for Windows Vista. ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 PC Magazine - 19 hours ago Our goal is to ensure the migration process from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is straightforward." That is consistent with a May blog post by Chris Flores, ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 PC Magazine - 11 hours ago Our goal is to ensure the migration process from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is straightforward." That is consistent with a May blog post by Chris Flores, ... More...

This blog post frames our approach in IE8 for delivering trustworthy browsing. The topic is complicated enough that some context and even history (before we go into any particular feature) is important, and so some readers may find this post a bit basic as it’s written for a wide audience. In previous posts here, we’ve written about IE8 for developers: the work in standards support, developer tools, script performance, and more. In future posts, we’ll write about IE8 for end-users (beyond the benefits of improved performance, activities, and Web Slices). This post starts a series about trustworthy browsing, a topic important for developers and end-users and everyone on the web. By setting the context and motivation with this post, the next posts that dive into the details of IE8 will build on this foundation. Trustworthy refers to one of our overall goals: provide the most secure and most reliable browser that respects user choice and keeps users in control of their machine and their information. For reference, Microsoft’s framework for Trustworthy Computing in general spans four areas: security, privacy, reliability, and business practices. Security is often where the trust discussion begins. Narrowly, security in this context means “as the user browses the web, the only code that runs on the user’s machine is code that the user allows to run". For example, when the user visits “www.somebadsite.com” the site should not be able to just run “virus.exe” and infect the user’s machine with malware. IE7 made a lot of progress on security, starting with Protected Mode and developing IE to be “secure by design, secure by default” as part of the following SDL requirements. IE7 was the first browser to support Extended Validation certificates to help protect users from deceptive websites, as well as delivering anti-phishing protection, International Domain Name support with protection from deceptive websites, a richer SSL experience and support for stronger SSL cipher algorithms, ActiveX opt-in, and great integration with Parental Controls in Windows Vista. We have done even more security work in IE8 to address the evolving threat environment. Privacy is a complex topic that more often than not puts one party in conflict with another. If security boils down to “the user is in control of what code runs on the machine,” then privacy boils down to “the user is in control of what information the browser makes available to websites". Many people immediately think of “cookies” at this point because so much discussion and early work around privacy focused on the specific implementation of cookies. Cookies and cookie protection are definitely one aspect of the online privacy discussion. IE6 included innovative work implementing the P3P web standard (from the W3C), and both IE6 and IE7 use it to block cookies from websites that don’t have a privacy policy that complies with the user’s settings. It’s a great example of a privacy protection in use today on the web. In IE7, deleting cookies as well as other information that shows where the user has been on the web is much easier. That said, there’s more to online privacy than cookies, as cookies are only one implementation of content that can disclose information to websites. In some discussions, people have also described IE7’s Phishing Filter as a privacy feature because it helps protect users from sharing information. The larger challenge here is notifying users clearly about what sites they’re disclosing information to and enabling them to control that disclosure if they choose. As we talk more about privacy, we will broaden the discussion to include additional protections from sharing information that the browser can offer users. Reliability is relatively simple: the browser should always start, find the Internet, and show web sites without crashing. We define reliability to mean “as the user browses the web, the browser performs well and does not terminate unexpectedly". End-users really don’t care about the cause of instability in the system – malformed web pages (see the old Slashdot article that this post refers to, for example) or third-party extensions (like toolbars; see this post about IE7’s “No Add-ons” functionality) – they just want the browser to work. In addition, when something does go wrong, an important part of reliability is how gracefully the browser recovers from the unexpected. Another aspect of reliability is that sites continue to render correctly. We’ll post more here about the work we’ve done to make IE8 more robust, as well as more interoperable and compatible at the same time. Business practices guide decisions we make in designing and distributing our products. The key principle here is respecting user choice. For example, when a user installs a new version of IE, IE respects the user’s choice of default search engine. In IE, the user can add or remove different search providers using OpenSearch, a public and open standard that some other browsers have chosen to support as well. IE respects the user’s choice of system defaults (Windows Vista’s “Default Programs” functionality, as well as Windows XP’s Set Program Access Defaults). Explicitly asking the user before installing a new version of IE is key to respecting the user’s browser choice. Ultimately, trustworthy browsing is about enabling users to be in control and respecting the choices users make. Specifically, it’s about enabling users to be in control of their machine, of their browser, of their settings, of their experience, of what data they share with whom when. Each part of trustworthy browsing involves an industry-wide challenge. For example, security is an industry challenge; every browser on the web faces attacks. While all these statements may sound inherently obvious to some readers, these topics are so important that we thought it would be good to talk in general about how we think about them overall. Over the coming weeks this blog series will talk about how we’re making progress against these challenges, to set the stage for the release of IE8 Beta 2 in August. Thanks, Dean Hachamovitch General Manager Internet Explorer http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8649630 More...

In this Windows IT Pro UPDATE commentary, I examine the swift-boating of Microsoft and explain why the company and its supporters shouldn't put up with this any longer. More...

Today we released the IE June Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers on Windows Update. For detailed information on the contents of this update, please see the following documentation: IE Blog Post: IE June Security Update Now Available Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 950759 If you are using IE8 Beta 1 for Developers, we encourage you to download this security update through Windows Update or the Microsoft Download Center today. Terry McCoy Program Manager Internet Explorer Security Edit: removed "today" from first sentence http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8648206 More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=PMKiTzKZMTUJ&imgurl=www.thehimalayantimes.com/Aeon/News/2008/06/16/images/20080615142205Photo-4.jpg width=80 height=61 alt="" border=1> Himalayan Times <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 PC Magazine - 3 hours ago Our goal is to ensure the migration process from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is straightforward." That is consistent with a May blog post by Chris Flores, ... Microsoft promises to support Windows XP until 2014 engadget all 6,511 news articles More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=Jmwt51rhYqIJ&imgurl=crave.cnet.com/i/bto/20080623/fuel_cell_%26_computer_270x179.jpg width=80 height=53 alt="" border=1> CNET News <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Development and Engineering Center CNET News, CA - 1 hour ago It can also double as a Windows Media Center Extender when interfacing with Media Center-enabled versions of Windows Vista--allowing the streaming of live ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=Jmwt51rhYqIJ&imgurl=crave.cnet.com/i/bto/20080623/fuel_cell_%26_computer_270x179.jpg width=80 height=53 alt="" border=1> CNET News <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Development and Engineering Center CNET News, CA - 30 minutes ago It can also double as a Windows Media Center Extender when interfacing with Media Center-enabled versions of Windows Vista--allowing the streaming of live ... More...

As I mentioned in my post on Cross Document Messaging, client side cross domain request is an important area of interest for AJAX developers looking for ways to avoid expensive server side proxying calls. While Cross Document Messaging is useful for allowing third party components or gadgets embedded in a page to communicate/converse using script on both sides, other cross domain scenarios like web services require access to cross domain content using network requests from a client side web application. For example, you may want to use your client side map based mashup to pinpoint Chinese restaurants for your current neighborhood. This could require the mashup to request a text file from Zagat.com with the locations of Zagat rated restaurants in the area which can then be superimposed on the map. Along those lines, a few proposals and implementations exist like XDomainRequest in IE8, JSONRequest and the W3C’s Web Applications Working Group’s Cross Site XMLHttpRequest (CS-XHR) draft specification, which combines an Access control framework with XMLHttpRequest or other features. While XDomainRequest is focused on enabling anonymous access of third party public data, Cross Site XMLHttpRequest has added functionality and consequently enables a broader set of scenarios that may appeal to the developer who may choose to use cross domain authentication and access control among other features. As can be expected with securing a large cross section of cross domain scenarios, a number of concerns have been identified with the CS-XHR draft by the web development community, the IE team members and members of the Web Apps Working Group. For a list of our recent feedback on security on CS-XHR and our take on important security principles in cross domain, please read our Security Whitepaper on Cross Domain. The paper also covers best practices and guidance for developers who will choose to build on the current draft if it’s supported by a future browser. Note that issues here are currently being discussed and some concerns may be mitigated as the draft evolves. Meanwhile, your participation in the Web Apps Working Group can add a broader perspective and help raise further issues in the draft so that browser vendors like us can implement it in the future, so if you want to help, sign up with the Web Applications Working Group public alias! For all those of you who would like cross domain public data and want it soon, there’s XDomainRequest in IE8. We’d love to hear feedback on XDR, and from projects that have been built using it. Hit the comments section with links or just email them to me. I’ll be blogging more about this feature in a few weeks! Sunava Dutta Program Manager http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8643269 More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's Hyper-V does the trick InfoWorld, CA - 1 hour ago ... versions of Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10; 32-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows XP Professional. ... More...