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Windows 7, Mac OS make gains in January
News Apple's Mac OS continues move up among operating systems accessing the Web, as Windows 7 surges after Microsoft releases its public beta, Net Applications says.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Web sites, Microsoft Corp., Web metrics, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS, operating system, January
Testers get near-final Vista SP2
News Microsoft has started private testing of a "release candidate" version of Vista Service Pack 2. The final version is due out by June.
Tags: Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Service Pack 2, release candidate, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, public beta
Internet Explorer 8 to get antimalware protection
News In preparing for the second beta, Microsoft announces security enhancements to Internet Explorer 8 expected in August.
Tags: Web browsers, Security, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer, public beta, administrator privilege
Microsoft to release free security software soon
News Software maker will release its Microsoft Security Essentials "in the coming weeks," according to a note sent to testers.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Authentication and encryption, Security, Antivirus Software, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, antivirus, Facebook, Microsoft Windows
Microsoft lifts download limit for Windows 7 beta
News Acknowledging that its release of Windows 7 public beta "was not ideal", Microsoft suspends the software's 2.5 million download limit for a couple of weeks.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Beta, software, Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft Windows, News.com
Microsoft to offer hosted security for Exchange
News Software giant announces its first Forefront-branded hosted security service, which is designed to keep spam and malware out of Exchange e-mail inboxes.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Infrastructure/architecture management, Microsoft Corp., Security, Guardium, Q1 Labs Inc., StillSecure, Application Security, e-mail
Amazon offers more cloud control
News Company's cloud-computing arm unveils the public beta for three features to help users monitor cloud resources, adjust capacity and balance traffic loads.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web Service, On-demand, Europe, Amazon Web Services, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., public beta, blog, S3 Inc.
Microsoft pushes back Stirling release
News The product, designed to manage Microsoft and third-party security software, has been delayed due to interoperability concerns.
Tags: PC security, Software integration, Network security, Security applications/tools, Microsoft Corp., Security, Product, IT Professional, Stirling, threat management
Microsoft's free antimalware beta to arrive next week
News Free antimalware service, which is replacing Microsoft's subscription-based suite, will be available for public beta on Tuesday.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Antivirus software, Viruses and worms, Malware, Security, Mobile, Antivirus Software, antivirus, Beta, Microsoft Windows
Microsoft may let Windows 7 users turn browser off
News Testers say post-beta versions of the new operating system have added an option to turn off the built-in Internet Explorer 8 Web browser.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, European Union, Microsoft Windows 7, control panel, Microsoft Internet Explorer, release candidate, Microsoft Windows, public beta
Next Exchange features e-mail 'mute' button
News Microsoft has started beta testing of Exchange 2010, which includes conversation threading as well as the ability to ignore a particular discussion.
Tags: Web services, Services, E-mail servers, Microsoft Corp., Archiving, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Server, e-mail, software, public beta
Microsoft testing next Exchange
News The new version, code-named E14, is being further tweaked to run as a hosted service, as well as a server.
Tags: E-mail clients, E-mail servers, Microsoft Corp., IBM Lotus Notes, Web client, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, e-mail, software, public beta, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 available to developers
News Under-the-hood enhancements to the browser take advantage of a new rendering engine, Gecko 1.9.1.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Developer, CSS, Mozilla Firefox, performance, Web application, JavaScript, Mozilla Web browser, public beta
Mosso to add cloud-based storage
News The unit of Rackspace Hosting plans to add storage to its hosting lineup of cloud computing services.
Tags: Web 2.0, Storage, Database, managed hosting, Storage, Cloud Computing, operating system, software, Microsoft .NET, Rackspace
Users warn of problems with IE8 Beta 2
News While hiccups are expected from beta software, some problems appear to exist within Microsoft's own services.
Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, Beta, ClearType, Knowledgebase, software, MSN Hotmail
