Beta testing to start late April, and ship in Fall 2007 New Features: Wireless connection - Help setup secure WIFI connections. Printer Sharing Support - Help connect printers to the local network. Management of Startup Programs - Includes speed boot time by automatically detecting rarely used programs...
Windows Live OneCare Team Blog: Windows Live OneCare (v1.5) and Windows Vista set to Launch Same Day As you may have heard, Microsoft announced some big news today – the Windows Vista has now been released to manufacturing and the general availability date is set for January 30, 2007! So what does this...
Windows Defender is now out of beta. Please update ASAP to get the latest version. Please note the beta version expired 12/31/06, so PLEASE do not let your anti-spyware expire! Still only runs on XP and Windows Server 2003. http://www.microsoft.com:80/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
New features: - Updated interface that looks close to the standardized Windows Live! / Vista look - Windows Vista support. (Sorry, 32-bit only) - It now stays orange to you install a beta version of IE 7 RC1. (I think it should not happen to IE 7 goes gold) - Also stays orange if your phishing filter...
Symantec did a great job with Norton products till they got very bloated. I am glad to see Microsoft pull a anti-virus pro from Symantec to work with OneCare and the corporate version in the near future. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2004336,00.as...
Newly discovered adware in the wild tries to dupe users into installing fake security applications. According to Panda Software's PandaLabs, the adware program, ProtectionBar, warns users that their computers are infected with malware, and they must purchase a license for the "security app" to remove...
Did you ever want to make a PC shared, but worried about the risks of the public doing things bad to it? Have public computers, but no funds to get a program to limit what a user does? Here is a new program from Microsoft which is free for Genuine installs of Windows XP. This will let you know of changes...
New worm will cause you machine to infest others and reboot and repeat. It will not damage your data, but your PC will be unusable till it is fixed. The fix for this worm is not for novices. Please go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com or the new site http://update.microsoft.com and get all the critical...
A spyware researcher has found that an update to Microsoft 's AntiSpyware program has changed how it flags programs from Claria, an adware developer. Last week, it was rumored that Microsoft was considering purchasing the company for its software technology to deliver personalized ads. http://www.betanews...
Looks like we get tabbed browsing. :) “Sources say that IE 7.0 – which is code-named "Rincon," they hear – will be a tabbed browser. IE 7.0 will feature international domain name (IDN) support; transparent Portable Network Graphics (PNG) support, which will allow for the display of...