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October 2009 Security Bulletin

The Trustworthy Computing security response communications team has just released this months Security Bulletin to TechNet EDGE This Bulletin contains details about the 13 released bulletins, 8 being critical and 5 being important, plus other advisories. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:15 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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Windows 7 : Windows XP Mode RELEASE CANDIDATE Available for Download

Windows XP Mode is specially designed for small and medium-sized businesses to help ease the migration process to Windows 7 by providing additional compatibility for their older productivity applications. The newly updated Windows XP Mode now works with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:59 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 SP2 Released

You can now download the latest Service Pack (SP2) for Vista and Windows Server. The Service Pack, which is a consolidation of a number of small fixes into one larger downloadable, was uploaded to the Download Center on Tuesday. As before, there is only Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 2:50 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

April 2008 Security Bulletin on TechNet Edge

Yep we have patch Tuesday, but what does this really mean? The guys in the Trustworthy Computing team have started a show on TechNet EDGE which provides details of each vulnerability and its potential threat. You can get details about the latest updates Read More...
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 5:11 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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The Windows Client Profile

Jaime Rodriguez in the team put together a detailed view of the Client Profile a while back, which is a subset of assemblies already contained within .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. With all the noise about Silverlight, this hidden gem seemed to get Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 01, 2009 5:54 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

IE8 RC1 is released – Deployment Guidance

Today we launched IE8 RC1. David in the team spoke to Jane Maliouta for EDGE , who is the program manager in charge of deployment and setup of IE8. She talked about what’s new in setup with RC1 and provides inside details on deployment with IE8. David Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:54 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Windows Vista Sp2 / Windows Server SP2

The Customer Preview Program (CPP) for Windows Vista® Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available so that you can download and test this release. Windows Vista SP2 is a traditional service pack release with all cumulative released security updates available Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:39 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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Skipping Windows Vista for Windows 7

Steve Ballmer was at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo conference today, talking about a number of issues. The big question was about Vista deployments and what should companies do. He answered by saying that the adoption rate for Vista, is two times that of Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:42 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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Windows 7

The old king is dead, long live the king… or so they say. On the Vista blog site, Mike Nash has just announced that the next release of Windows, which is currently codenamed “Windows 7” will in fact be called “Windows 7” in the final release. Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 11:16 PM by neilhut | 6 Comments
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Two Weeks to GO : THe PDC Awaits

Well at this time in two weeks, the first PDC keynote will just be about to start. I personally can not wait for it to kick off. Even in these tough times it looks highly likely that we are still going to sell out and I believe that the attendees will Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 4:57 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Anybody ready for Visual Simulation

The team that brought you Flight Simulator has been working for a while to separate the core simulation engine away from the packaged product so that it can be used in other applications that require real world simulation. Out of this came Microsoft ESP. Read More...
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 2:18 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Group Policy Preferences

Chris Henley put together a really detailed screen cast on Group Policy Preferences which is a key feature which came out in Windows Server 2008. This makes it possible to setup computer or user settings without necessarily knowing how to script them.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:13 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

WPF Application Quality Guide

In light of the rapid adoption of the WPF and the continuous requests from partners and customers, yesterday the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) team release the third preliminary version of the “WPF Application Quality Guide”. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:19 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Windows 7 bits given out a the PDC

I guess the news is out. Mary Jo Foley blogged about the fact that the PDC will be giving exclusive access to Windows 7 bits to all PDC attendees . I guess that's one great reason to attend the actual PDC conference. Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:19 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Under the Hood: Windows Vista Performance...Need Answers?

  Mark Russinovich and a panel of industry experts are going to be talking live in around 45 mins in a virtual roundtable to explore your 'top of mind' performance issues, common misconfigurations, and tips on how to fix them. From boot times and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:19 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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