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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Competing With 'Free' - Or, Rather, 'Agile' InformationWeek, NY - 19 minutes ago Eg, XP on netbooks because Vista's too top-heavy for that environment and Windows Mobile isn't nearly enough. So what happens now? Barring going open source ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Promises To Fix User Access Control (UAC) in Windows 7 DABCC.com (press release), FL - 19 minutes ago The User Account Control feature in Windows Vista has been responsible for generating a significant amount of anti-Vista vitriol, mainly because of the ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=-9LyaNpPZdIJ&imgurl=news.stv.tv/assets/img/feedImg/34597-microsoft-says-deal-with-yahoo-still-makes-sense-200.jpg width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> stv.tv <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer Needs to Learn the Art of Shutting Up DaniWeb, VA - 31 minutes ago An aggressive voice over a really bad picture of Ballmer would say, "Even Steve Ballmer tells you to forget about Vista and wait for Windows 7. ... Ballmer: You can skip Vista Computerworld Ballmer: ‘Windows 7 will be Vista, but a lot better’ ZDNet Blogs Ballmer: It's OK to wait for Windows 7 ZDNet Asia TechRepublic all 344 news articles More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=NSusGUNgUVsJ&imgurl=i.techrepublic.com.com/gallery/242470-500-375.jpg width=80 height=60 alt="" border=1> ZDNet <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Gartner ITxpo 2008: The top 10 IT products ZDNet - 42 minutes ago The Thoughbook U1 is a ruggedized, ultra-mobile PC that runs Windows Vista Business (with XP downgrade option). The device has a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520 ... More...

In the final part of my Zune 3 Review, I examine Microsoft's Zune services: Zune Social, Zune Marketplace, and Zune Pass! More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=x9QBTZgX-98J&imgurl=images.dailytech.com/frontpage/fp__fp__steve-ballmer-whoah.jpg width=80 height=80 alt="" border=1> DailyTech <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer’s buzz on Windows 7 iTWire, Australia - 41 minutes ago Once we’ve all had a chance to use Windows 7, we’ll know whether it truly is a major update, compared with just a facelift on Windows Vista, ... Ballmer: You can skip Vista Computerworld Ballmer: ‘Windows 7 will be Vista, but a lot better’ ZDNet Blogs Ballmer: It's OK to wait for Windows 7 ZDNet Asia TechRepublic all 332 news articles More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP2 Before Windows 7 Hard OCP, TX - 11 minutes ago According to ZDNet’s “All About Microsoft” blog, Microsoft plans to have service pack 2 for Vista out before Windows 7 hits. Anonymous sources are cited but ... More...

In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and I discuss why the Apple Tax makes Macs more expensive, the Windows Secrets give-away, Windows 7, All-Star Bloggers at PDC 2008, and Hyper-V! More...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Symantec launches online PC tech support services ZDNet Asia, Asia - Oct 14, 2008 Both services are only available to customers using Windows XP and Vista, and are open to customers not currently using any Norton products. ... More...

I made a Sharp Analysis of the Windows 7 name and in an excerpt:Windows Vista was hyped to uncontrollable proportions by Microsoft (WOW Factor) and when it came out blazing, the heat quickly went ice cold. This only tells me that Microsoft isn’t done with Windows Vista and most probably a lot of the features [...] More...

Microsoft to Deliver Vista SP2 Before Windows 7 (Toms Hardware)Make Vista Great, Part 4: Solve Ultimate Edition Envy (PCMag)Windows 7: How you can get it now (TopNews)Sharp Analysis of Windows 7 as the Final Name for Windows Vista Successor (Techticles)Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More...

I found this image via Flickr, a bookshelf full of Windows Vista sidebar gadget books. It’s in Spanish. It’s been a while since I saw a shelf of books in Vista as most of my readings are in electronic format.Tags: sidebar, Vista, WindowsShare This More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Mulling 'Instant On' Feature for Windows PC World - Oct 16, 2008 Through its public relations firm, Microsoft confirmed on Thursday that the survey, screenshots of which were posted on the Engadget blog, was sent out to ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Pledges To Fix UAC in Windows 7 CRN, NY - 16 minutes ago By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb The User Account Control feature in Windows Vista has been responsible for generating a significant amount of anti-Vista ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Low-level MS guy says: Windows 7 is different, better CrunchGear, NY - 2 minutes ago details some of the under-the-hood stuff that’s going on with Windows 7 development. Although Ballmer has described 7 as being “Windows Vista with clean-up ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=Hdrsq_IJCMEJ&imgurl=s.wsj.net/media/skip_art_160_20081017163537.jpg width=57 height=80 alt="" border=1> Wall Street Journal Blogs <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 2 minutes ago In a blog post, Mike Nash, a vice president in the Microsoft group responsible for Windows, said that 7 uses the same computer-code base as Vista, ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> How do I… Extend laptop battery life in Windows Vista? TechRepublic, KY - 18 minutes ago This blog post is also available in the PDF format in a TechRepublic Download. The Vista Battery Saver Utility is a third-party application that claims to ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=0JiHmzTruJQJ&imgurl=images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20081017/0008028401f50a62d1e108.jpg width=80 height=46 alt="" border=1> China Internet Information Center| <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Panicking users rail against Microsoft anti-piracy crackdown China Internet Information Center|, China - 1 hour ago WGA is an updated service aimed at Windows XP, the biggest piracy victim among Microsoft operating systems. This will be OGA’s first introduction to China, ... Microsoft's new Windows XP anti-piracy measure aimed at boosting ... Interfax TMT China (subscription) all 2 news articles More...

Microsoft's new Windows XP anti-piracy measure aimed at boosting ... - Interfax TMT C <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's new Windows XP anti-piracy measure aimed at boosting ... Interfax TMT China (subscription), China - 2 minutes ago ... an industry analyst, wrote in his blog on Oct. 17. Wang predicted that Microsoft was instead aiming to turn its XP users to Vista through the campaign. ... More...

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Home Server Projects ZDNet UK, UK - 8 minutes ago I felt like I was wading through mush reading the Engineering Windows 7 blog. I've waited until now to read all of the accumulated postings. ... More...

<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=SrTWrXUiACgJ&imgurl=www.siliconrepublic.com/fs/img/news/200810/378x/windows7.jpg width=80 height=63 alt="" border=1> Siliconrepublic.com <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Ballmer: Windows 7 is Vista, just 'a lot better' Computerworld, MA - 59 minutes ago By Gregg Keizer October 16, 2008 (Computerworld) Windows 7 will be like Windows Vista, but more so, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer said today as he ... The Windows 7 name game, continued ZDNet Microsoft keeps 'Windows 7' name for next client OS NetworkWorld.com Microsoft defends "Windows 7" moniker National Business Review CNET News - Computerworld all 168 news articles More...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft's 'ordinary Joe' promises Windows 7 bliss Register, UK - 14 minutes ago Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has wheeled in an "ordinary" developer to re-assure folks that Microsoft won't repeat the mistakes of Windows Vista in Windows ... More...

Design criteria such as standard compliance, performance, reliability and security framed the design of IE8 as whole, for new as well as existing features. As a result, CSS expressions are no longer supported in IE8 standards mode. This change was announced previously on the IE blog, however, this post will provide a few more details about that decision. The following FAQ will give a quick overview of the feature, the rationale behind our design decision and what it may mean for your own site. What is a CSS expression ? Also known as ‘Dynamic Properties’, this proprietary CSS extension was introduced in Internet Explorer 5. Long before JavaScript libraries such as jQuery or Dojo were conceived, it allowed web developers to dynamically bind script to the page through CSS selectors. As an example, the following CSS declaration updates the background color of certain page blocks depending on the time of day : div.title { background-color: expression( (new Date()).getHours()%2 ? "#B8D4FF" : "#F08A00" ); } Why end support for expressions ? To comply with standards Expressions are proprietary to Internet Explorer and as such not interoperable. A common use-case for expressions was to fix IE bugs or to emulate those CSS 2.1 features not yet supported by the browser, for example, min-width and max-width. We have not only worked hard to fix these bugs in IE8 but our new layout engine supports the missing features natively. [*]To improve performance Expressions evaluation has a high runtime cost; web performance experts like Steve Souders recommend avoiding them to improve front-end performance [*]To reduce the browser attack surface Because they expose a script execution context, CSS expressions constitute a possible script injection attack vector. Are expressions still available in IE7 and Quirks mode ? Yes. For backward compatibility, CSS expressions are still executed in Quirks and IE7 Strict modes. But starting with IE8 Beta 2, they are ignored in IE8 Standards mode. Pages on my web site depend on CSS expressions. How does this affect me ? Thanks to IE8’s new layout engine, most expressions written to work around CSS 2.1 bugs and shortcomings should no longer be needed; we expect unsupported or incorrectly interpreted properties to work in a standard, interoperable way. For those expressions supporting more specific purposes, anything they do is inherently achievable using standard JavaScript, usually interoperably and at lower runtime costs. The specifics will of course depend on your application. Based on your feedback to this post, we may visit examples in future installments. Ending support for expressions - a feature often used to fix the very issues we have worked hard to address in this release – helps make IE8 more standard, faster and more secure for our users. Sylvain Galineau Program Manager http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9000139 More...