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Wed, Jul 15 2009 11:12

What Developers should know about Windows 7 without Internet Explorer

As you've probably read before, in Europe Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer. This edition will be called "Windows 7 E" and Internet Explorer will not be included for legal reasons. Users will be able to install IE themselves...
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Sat, Jul 4 2009 12:39

MSI Compatibility: Lying about VersionNT and ServicePackLevel

MSI 5 on Windows 7 introduces a new application compatibility setting, as Chris Jackson describes in his blog . To work around too strict OS version checks in LaunchConditions, Windows Installer can automatically try several variations of values for the...
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Wed, Jun 24 2009 17:18

False Positives in Windows 7's Installer Detection

When User Account Control (UAC ) was introduced in Windows Vista it would have caused problems for many existing setups because they required full administrator permissions. Therefore Microsoft added heuristical detection for installers. For instance...
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Thu, Jun 11 2009 10:44

Why UAC isn’t a security boundary, and how auto-elevation works on Windows 7

Mark Russinovich (of SysInternals fame and now employed as a Technical Fellow at Microsoft) has published an interesting article about User Account Control (UAC) in the July issue of TechNet Magazine. He discusses the goal of UAC, why it could be circumvented...
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