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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> CTP2 of Windows PowerShell V2 Released Redmond Developer News, CA - 8 hours ago CTP2 works on "x86 and x64 platforms of Windows XP-SP2, Windows Server 2003-SP2, Windows Vista-SP1, and Windows Server 2008," according to Microsoft. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

hi guys , i was trying to install WMP11 on my Windows Vista Business N SP1 but the installation does not complete it's just closes automatically any solution for that ? thanks in advance PS : is Microsoft really Wanna Buy Facebook? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

How to make HTTPS POST requests and how to handle responses in windows application using c#. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I hate to ask this again and again but maybe anybody from Microsoft can submit a quick response: Why is Expression Blend (Studio) Version 2 not yet available via MSDN while the older version has been made available? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I managed to get my data via WCF to my client app, now, if I have a huge list of for example persons, and each person has a coulpe of fields like "Name" "Address" etc, using a ListBox to list them, do I have to download the whole list into my ListBox? Is it possible to have some data aware control which doesn't download it "all"? Sort'a like DataGrid? What is the best way to do this? IMPORTANT POINT : There are more than one client using this at the same time as well. What if client 1 changes the DB, how does client 2 get aware of this change? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I am self taught with html, and i was wonderting if any of you could help me out. I'm trying to crea a dice rolling script that will input a command directly into an irc script. The irc script is PJIRC if that makes any difference.* I'm using the following code A:* B:* C:

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? Computerworld, MA - 1 hour ago Finally, with Leopard came the official version of Boot Camp, which allows you to run later versions of Windows XP or Vista natively on a Mac. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> OpenOffice 3 beta: More compatibility, new features ZDNet Asia, Asia - 1 hour ago By Seth Rosenblatt, CNET News.com Sun Microsystems has released the first beta for OpenOffice.org 3 for Windows and Mac. The new version of OpenOffice, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? Computerworld, MA - 30 minutes ago Finally, with Leopard came the official version of Boot Camp, which allows you to run later versions of Windows XP or Vista natively on a Mac. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Remember the xbox live Christmas fiasco and how*Microsoft said they would be giving us all a free xbox live arcade game because of the issues... Well, that was like 5 months ago, where the heck is my free game? http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Marc Whitten wrote: Dear Xbox LIVE Members:**************************************************************************************************** * During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records.* This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service.* * As a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you experienced intermittent Xbox LIVE issues over the holiday break.* While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance. *I would like to take this moment to thank each and every one of you for your patience and understanding as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a stable state.* * At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service.* And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge.* In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you.* * Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today!* * Sincerely, * Marc Whitten General Manager, Xbox LIVE Gamertag: Notwen http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/01/03/xbox-live-holiday-performance.aspx More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> IE-only marketing campaign skewed Firefox, Safari numbers Computerworld, Norway - 3 hours ago On April 23, Microsoft began pushing SP1 to users who had set Windows Update to automatically download and install the upgrade. "The timing of this got us ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> CTP2 of Windows PowerShell V2 Released Redmond Channel Partner, CA - 26 minutes ago CTP2 works on "x86 and x64 platforms of Windows XP-SP2, Windows Server 2003-SP2, Windows Vista-SP1, and Windows Server 2008," according to Microsoft. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ross Rubin Editorial on Linux Internet Devices Palm Infocenter - 8 hours ago "It is no coincidence that, mirroring Microsoft's product gap between Windows Mobile and Windows Vista, the historically hazy and suddenly hot device space ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Yahoo, Microsoft: Off again ... on again? ITworld.com, MA - 18 minutes ago ... wrote in a blog posting that Microsoft's struggling Internet business -- and the fallout from problems surrounding its Windows Vista OS -- make a deal ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Analysis: Yahoo-Microsoft merger back on the table? Macworld, CA - 28 minutes ago ... wrote in a blog posting that Microsoft’s struggling Internet business—and the fallout from problems surrounding its Windows Vista OS—make a deal with ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Yahoo, Microsoft: Off Again ... on Again? PC World - 30 minutes ago ... wrote in a blog posting that Microsoft's struggling Internet business -- and the fallout from problems surrounding its Windows Vista OS -- make a deal ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> IE-only marketing campaign skewed Firefox, Safari numbers Computerworld, Norway - 1 hour ago On April 23, Microsoft began pushing SP1 to users who had set Windows Update to automatically download and install the upgrade. "The timing of this got us ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ BetaNews <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> XP SP3 distribution proceeds after auto download filter put in place BetaNews - May 6, 2008 "In contrast, Windows Vista SP1 will finally run on one of my computers without any ongoing problems. That's the best I can say for it," Steven added. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> IE-only marketing campaign skewed Firefox, Safari numbers Computerworld, Norway - 30 minutes ago "Originally, we had a couple of theories, one of which was that this was related to Vista and SP1," he added. On April 23, Microsoft began pushing SP1 to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> The Choice command is back in Windows Vista TechRepublic, KY - 19 minutes ago Well, I recently discovered that Microsoft put the Choice command back in Windows Vista and made it a bit more powerful. Since the Choice command can come ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, I’m Matt Crowley, Program Manager for Extensibility with Internet Explorer. The team was very excited to be at the RSA security conference last month discussing the security features of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. In this, the second part of the IE8 Security blog series, I describe the ActiveX improvements in IE8 and summarize the existing ActiveX-related security features carried over from earlier browser versions. Per-User (Non-Admin) ActiveX Running IE8 in Windows Vista, a standard user may install ActiveX controls in their own user profile without requiring administrative privileges. This improvement makes it easier for an organization to realize the full benefit of User Account Control by enabling standard users to install ActiveX controls used in their day-to-day browsing. If a user happens to install a malicious ActiveX control, the overall system will be unaffected, as the control was installed only under the user’s account. Since installations can be restricted to a user profile, the risk and cost of compromise (and, in turn, the total cost of administering users on a machine) will be lowered significantly. Per-User ActiveX was designed with compatibility in mind—most existing ActiveX controls will not have to be rewritten to benefit from this feature; the only change will be repackaging. As in Internet Explorer 7, when a webpage attempts to install a control, an Information Bar is displayed to the user. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/InfoBar.png By clicking on the information bar, users can choose to either install the control machine-wide, or install it only for their own user account. The options in this menu will vary depending on the packaging of the control and the rights of the user. The available options depend on Group Policy settings for per-user ActiveX installations and whether or not the control has been packaged to allow per-user installation. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/ClickInfoBar.png While this feature offers the possibility of lowering total cost of ownership, IT Administrators running managed environments may elect to disable this feature via Group Policy. For more information regarding Per-User ActiveX, please refer to the Non-Admin ActiveX Controls article in MSDN’s IE8 Beta 1 Whitepapers. ActiveX Opt-In Recognizing that any binary extensibility mechanism increases attack surface, ActiveX Opt-In was introduced with Internet Explorer 7. By default, ActiveX Opt-In disables most controls on a user's machine. When the user encounters a Web page with a disabled ActiveX control, they will see an Information bar with the following text: "This website wants to run the following add-on "ABC Control" from "XYZ Publisher". If you trust the website and the add-on and want to allow it to run, click here …" The user can then choose to enable the ActiveX control from this Information bar. ActiveX Opt-In allows some controls to run by default: A small list of common controls intended for use in the browser. Controls which were used in IE on a user’s machine before upgrading to IE8. Controls which are installed through IE.For more information on ActiveX Opt-In, please refer to the MSDN Article Best Practices for ActiveX. Per-Site ActiveX When a user navigates to a Web site containing an ActiveX control, IE8 performs a number of checks, including a determination of where a control is permitted to run. This check is referred to as Per-Site ActiveX, a defense mechanism to help prevent malicious repurposing of controls. If a control is installed, but is not permitted to run on a specific website, an Information Bar appears asking the user whether or not the control should be permitted to run on the current website. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/RunActiveXPrompt.png Users can use the Information bar to allow the control for a specific Web site or allow the control for all Web sites. http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/ClickRunActive.png IT Professionals administering a system of computers running Internet Explorer 8 may choose to preset allowed controls and their associated domains. Such settings can be configured using Group Policy. For more information regarding Per-Site ActiveX, please refer to the Per-Site ActiveX article in MSDN’s IE8 Beta 1 Whitepapers. Enforcing Per-Site with ATL SiteLock Technology If your ActiveX control is designed for use only on your web site, then locking it to the domain of that Web site will make it harder for other sites to repurpose the control in a malicious manner. See Developing Safer ActiveX Controls Using the Sitelock Template for more information. Reducing Exploit Risk with DEP/NX, “Killbits,” and Servicing Working with your processor and Windows, IE8 helps reduce the exploitation of vulnerable controls through Data Execution Prevention. See the previous post in this series, IE8 Security Part I: DEP/NX Memory Protection, for more information on how to ensure that your ActiveX controls are DEP/NX compatible, as well as information on how to opt-in to other available protections. If a vulnerable control has been exploited, IE has included a poison-pill option—the “killbit”— to block usage of specific controls within the browser. Vendors who are aware of a vulnerability in their control should contact Microsoft to setup a killbit for a future software update package. For more information, please refer to Knowledge Base article 240797, How to stop an ActiveX control from running in Internet Explorer. As with standard desktop software, it is important to keep controls up-to-date to ensure compatibility with newer systems and lower the risk of compromise through evolving security threats. For more information on updating ActiveX controls, please refer to the IE Blog entry Good Practices for ActiveX Updates. Working with Users through Manage Add-Ons While most end users aren’t aware of the inner-workings of ActiveX controls or their enterprise policy on them (if applicable), users are able to find out information about the controls installed for use in Internet Explorer through Manage Add-Ons. It is important for developers to ensure that their controls are not only performant and secure, but also open in the information they provide. Controls are identified by Name, Publisher, Version, and Class ID within the Manage Add-Ons interface. Given this, control developers are encouraged to include this metadata in release builds of their controls. For more information on making sure that your ActiveX control properly conveys information about itself to users, please refer to Christopher Vaughan’s post Add-on Management Improvements in Internet Explorer 8 as well as the MSDN Article Best Practices for ActiveX. Thanks for your help in ensuring your ActiveX controls are secure! Matthew David Crowley Program Manager Internet Explorer Extensibility http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8466300 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Hipsters to Browse the Aisles for Vista? Conde Nast Portfolio, NY - 30 minutes ago The blog went so far as to mock up an illustration with Ned Flanders outside a Microsoft store with a sign reading "Vista Rocks." Even if Microsoft does end ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> IE-only marketing campaign skewed Firefox, Safari numbers Computerworld, MA - 8 minutes ago "Originally, we had a couple of theories, one of which was that this was related to Vista and SP1," he added. On April 23, Microsoft began pushing SP1 to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I can't remember the last time I clicked "Watch" and got the front-page video to start playing in WMP. It always works inside the Silverlight app, but that thing won't go full screen, or detach from the browser, or anything - frustrates me. I clicked download, and it opened up a new tab, with WMP embeded in the full space provided...it's now been loading forever... Anybody else having simliar issues? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> FAQ: What you should know before installing Windows XP SP3 ITworld.com, MA - 27 minutes ago New installations of Windows XP SP3 will give users the same 30-day grace period currently offered to Vista customers before they're required to enter a ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds