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SP2 Clashes With More Than 40 Programs
News The list can be found under the heading "Some programs that seem to stop working when you install Windows XP Service Pack 2" on Microsoft's website. It's such incompatibilities that have prompted IBM to advise its staff to not install the service...
[August 16, 2004, 15:15]
Microsoft Goes On A Bug Hunt
News The problem lies in an ActiveX control called MS Active Setup, which can automatically install Microsoft-authenticated code onto a Windows-based machine. The install process can be triggered without any warning simply by visiting a Web page or...
[February 29, 2000, 10:44]
IE Flaws Open Back Door To Adware
News An adware purveyor has apparently used two previously unknown security flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to install a toolbar on victims' computers that triggers pop-up ads, researchers said this week.
[June 10, 2004, 8:45]
Microsoft Unveils Free Enterprise Search
News Microsoft claims that the standalone Search Server product will be easier to install and administer. Search Server 2008 Express will be free to download and use, with no imposed limitations on the number of documents that can be indexed, while the...
[November 6, 2007, 13:00]
Microsoft Reveals The Programs Vista SP1 Will Break
News The list is not considered to be comprehensive, and Microsoft has asked users who encounter problems with other applications to first restart their PC and, if they still encounter problems, to install a newer version of the program or contact the...
[February 21, 2008, 7:22]
Microsoft Pulls Vista SP1 Update
News Servicing stack update KB937287, released last week, contained updates to Windows Vista installation software, and was billed as being "necessary to successfully install and to remove Windows Vista SP1 [Service Pack 1] on all versions of Windows...
[February 20, 2008, 15:24]
Microsoft Phasing Out Windows 95
News As a result, Dell Computer and other computer makers no longer install the OS on new computers except under special circumstances. Beginning January 01, 2001, Dell is no longer licensed to factory install Windows 95," states an "end of life" notice...
[February 1, 2001, 8:11]
Microsoft: Vista UAC Designed To 'annoy Users'
News David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft, was the group program manager in charge of designing User Account Control (UAC), which, when activated, requires people to run Vista in standard user mode rather than having administrator...
[April 11, 2008, 11:52]
PC Vendors Snub Antitrust Altered Windows
News A Dell spokesman said on Tuesday that the company has no plans to install Windows XP N on its computers as customers expect to have a media player included. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Fujitsu Siemens all claimed to have no firm plans to...
[June 15, 2005, 14:35]
Changes To User Security In Vista
News Install Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) to connect to secure wireless networks Install critical Windows updates Install ActiveX Controls from sites approved by an administrator With Vista, Microsoft has made some interesting changes to user security...
[October 10, 2006, 16:50]
Beware Of Automatic Updates For XP
News With Windows Update, Microsoft gives users the option of having their OS automatically find, accept, and install patches and updates downloaded from the Microsoft Windows Update Web site. It is quite easy to download and install these patches using...
[November 9, 2001, 11:31]
IE7 Will Be 'high-priority' Update
News Microsoft recommends that all Windows users install the new browser when it ships, he added. Although IE 7 will be pushed out over Automatic Updates, people will be able to choose whether they want to install it or not, Schare said.
[July 27, 2006, 9:15]
Microsoft Hit With Another Antitrust Suit
News The complaint adds that Microsoft has wielded its "monopoly power to restrict how PC makers install competing media players while forcing every Windows user to take Microsoft's media player, whether they want it or not.
[December 19, 2003, 7:50]
Auntie Used As Bait In Spyware Scheme
News The Web sites take advantage of the vulnerability in Microsoft's Web browser to install a keystroke logger on vulnerable computers, according to security firm Websense. These sites typically install spyware, remote control software and Trojan...
[March 31, 2006, 9:25]
Russia Attacks Microsoft Licensing Costs
News He said: "If you want to install Linux you have to erase Microsoft and that increases the cost of each computer by $50. With] one that already has Windows installed on it, and you want to use open source, you have to install the operating system.
[February 19, 2007, 8:36]
How To Talk To Microsoft About Linux
Talkback Most Linux operating systems are available for free to download and install. But, I paid $6.00 US for a set of disks which I used to install Linux. The install took me 30 minutes and was error-free - and I didn't have to "activate" or "register...
[June 23, 2004, 20:04]
Virtualisation Not Key Driver For Server 2008 Adoption
News Although nearly half of companies are planning to install Windows Server 2008 within a year, virtualisation is not a key driver for adoption, a survey of ZDNet.co.uk readers has revealed. However, the survey also showed that many companies are in...
[February 29, 2008, 15:54]
IE 4.0 To Get Smoother Active Desktop, UI Tweaks
News IE has always been a granular install. You don't have to install the news reader or NetShow if you don't want them, for instance," he said. Gregory said that he personally estimates that Microsoft now has just over half the browsers being used in...
[August 27, 1997, 16:57]
Microsoft Quashes Rumours Of Dual-boot XO Laptop
News OLPC's director of security architecture, Ivan Krstić, said in a blog post on Thursday that the dual-boot idea never actually got very far, and that instead Microsoft was working on an install of XP for the XO that would be possible to "easily...
[January 11, 2008, 13:04]
Code Leak Spurs Windows Server 2003 Piracy
News Service Pack 1 would not install on pirated versions, but Microsoft offered no mechanism for turning off pirated copies. The code is first used to install the software and the second step uses the code to activate the software with Microsoft via...
[April 8, 2003, 7:28]
