Posts Tagged ‘Windows XP’

Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Microsoft made an experiment in order to find out the opinion of the users about Windows Vista and the result is very promising. Mojave was actually Windows Vista. The Redmond-based company asked some XP users in San Francisco to tell their experience about a new Windows version that the company said that was codenamed ‘Mojave.’

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Windows XP SP3 Ships with Vulnerable Flash Player

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes an older version of Adobe’s Flash Player that’s vulnerable to recently-spotted attacks.

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Internet Explorer will Release Second Beta Version in Oct.

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

According to Nick MacKechnie, a senior technical account manager at Microsoft New Zealand, we can expect the next beta of Internet Explorer 8 to arrive in the third quarter of this year. And unlike the current test version, which is marked as a “developer preview,” this version will be a public beta targeted at all consumers. IE8, the follow-on to 2006’s IE7, was released in Beta 1 nearly three months ago.

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Vista Released SP1 Via Automatic Update

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 contains changes focused on addressing specific reliability and performance issues, supporting new types of hardware, and adding support for several emerging standards. Windows Vista SP1 also addresses some management, deployment, and support challenges. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will download automatically to PCs that have the automatic update feature of the OS turned on, the company said.

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Microsoft Fixed Blaster Worm Attack

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Microsoft patches a critical flaw in the Windows operating system that could be used by criminals to create a self-copying computer worm attack.

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