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Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 SP1 Public Release will be on Feb 22

by Erslan on February 10, 2011

Speculations about the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Final (RTM) are over now as Microsoft has officially announced the availability of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. Read the excerpt below from their official blog post: Today we officially handed off the final release (RTM) of Windows 7 [...]

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Microsoft to Fix 22 Bugs Next Patch, three critical

by Erslan on February 6, 2011

Microsoft has given advance notice that the company intends to address atotal of 22 security issues in its next Patch Tuesday updatecovering everything from Windows and Internet Explorer to Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, and its IIS server application. In all Microsoft will issue 12 bulletins, covering nine issues the company considers Important and three rated [...]

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Microsoft paid $200 million in patent dispute

by Ronio on May 17, 2010

Microsoft will pay VirnetX Holding $200 million to settle a patent dispute over VPN technology in Windows, the companies announced Monday. As part of the settlement, Microsoft will also obtain a license to use VirnetX technology in Microsoft products.VirnetX first sued Microsoft in 2007, claiming the software giant had violated two of its VPN (virtual [...]

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IE9 Won’t Support Windows XP

by Erslan on March 18, 2010

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Windows XP users will not be able to run the final version of Internet Explorer 9, according to Microsoft executives, cutting out a decade-old, yet still popular operating system. In fact, the Windows IE9 Platform Preview, as well as the final version, won’t run on anything but the latest Microsoft operating systems. Users trying to [...]

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