August 2008 has been synonymous with three separate releases of DirectX for a variety of Windows operating systems. The DirectX refreshes are tailored to Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1, but also to Windows Server 2003.
Microsoft made available for download updated versions of the DirectX Software [...]
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The Office 2007 System is evolving, and so is Office 2003. As a direct result of end user feedback, Microsoft has worked to bridge Windows Live Translator with its Office productivity suites. For the time being, Windows Live Translator will have to be manually integrated into Office, but the Redmond company also plans to offer [...]
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If you ever felt that your iPhone (be it 3G or not) could be of more help to you when you’re in a foreign country, or if you simply need to translate something, Google has now optimized the Google Translate service to be used with Apple’s famous handset.
Of course, accessing the Google Translate website via [...]
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Microsoft is cooking a new testing program tailored to the future releases of Windows. The Redmond company confirmed Windows 7 as an evolution of Windows Vista, but this doesn’t seem to apply to the infrastructure that helped produce the current Windows client. In fact, not only for Windows 7, but “beyond” as Microsoft has put [...]
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Users must know that by setting up an account with Skype in order to make free online calls, they are also exposing themselves to a security problem. The thing is that if you no longer want to use your account and decide to get rid of it, you will find out that deleting it is [...]
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Many feel that their hands are tied behind their back when they want to login to their e-mail accounts, but they don’t have access to the Internet. Things are about to change, thanks to a Yahoo! technology that was announced today. Zimbra, for now available in Beta version, allows users access to Yahoo! Mail, Gmail [...]
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At long last, after months of speculation, Microsoft has revealed a few details regarding its upcoming DirectX 11. The company promises that, following the somewhat icy reception that the Vista only DirectX 10 has had, it will create a gaming graphics API that will improve the looks and the performance of AAA game titles.
The big [...]
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Windows Vista might not be the top seller that Microsoft had forecast before the operating system hit the shelves at the end of January 2007, but the latest Windows client is by no means a failure. Quite the opposite, in fact; according to the Redmond giant, Vista has sold over 180 million licenses in its [...]
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Mozilla assured as early as the past week that the first security and stability update for Firefox 3.0 would be available for download on July 16, and it looks like it lived up to its promise. Although official confirmation has yet to be made available, Firefox 3.0.1 is already up for grabs, one day following [...]
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Windows 7, Microsoft’s next iteration of the Windows client and the successor of Windows Vista, is nothing short of lost in translation. Windows 7 is planned to be nothing more than the evolution of Vista, with the Redmond company promising that the pain brought by the current Windows operating system will prove to be an [...]
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The introduction of Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista marked the evolution of various aspects of the Windows client with some reverberating all the way to Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1. As far as changes to the anti-piracy mitigations set in place are concerned, Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 SP1 both share not only the [...]
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According to Secure Computing, a company that specializes in providing Internet security appliances as security software solutions, there is a new Trojan out there that works by infecting all multimedia files (that would be music and movies) stored on the user’s machine. This threat has been identified by the previously mentioned company as “Trojan.ASF.Hijacker.gen”. The [...]
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At the Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 on July 8, in Huston, Texas, Brad Brooks, corporate vice president, Windows Consumer Product Marketing, announced that Microsoft was going to go live with the Windows Vista Compatibility Center. It is clear that the Redmond company is fighting the bad aura that is clinching to its latest Windows client [...]
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Now that Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3.0 are available to end users, the focus is bound to shift on Microsoft. The Redmond company has been cooking Internet Explorer 8 for over a year now, and is approximately one month away from releasing the second Beta build to the public. Since Beta 1 was set up [...]
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