Learn how implementing SDL helps write more secure code by reducing the number and severity of vulnerabilities in your code.
Download the Simplified Implementation of the Microsoft SDL to learn about the software development security activities you should perform in order to improve the security of your code.
After a very unsucessful few weeks, the KIN failed to please its target audience and what made the device an even harder sell, was the cost of the accompanying data plan, which rivaled a smartphones. We all knew this day was coming, we just figured Microsoft would force the KIN on us for a bit longer.
Microsoft have just come out with a very misleading statement in a blog post about the future of the Anytime Upgrade system for Windows 7, that would have left many customers wondering if the feature was being pulled completely. Right now, with the purchase of any new PC, you can upgrade from Windows 7 Starter to [...]
In a previous blog post Greg Shultz showed you how to add Independence Day wallpaper. We kick it up a bit with a Photo Gallery of patriotic images.
Discover how to thoroughly test your computers memory and diagnose crashes and blue screen errors with Memtest and our handy tutorial.Due to a few leaked documents, we now have a small idea of what to expect in the next version of Microsoft Windows. A Windows Store, a new application platform, quicker startup/shutdown, location awareness, sensors and new technology–are just a few of the things we might expect. (See George Garza’s “The Virtuous Product Cycle“) We [...]
Home Articles Farewell to the CD How to backup Small Business Server 2008 on Hyper-V Is high-resolution audio like SACD audibly better than than CD Simple CRUD with Silverlight 2.0 Very simple VB 2008 database app with databinding A simple Delphi wrapper for Sqlite 3 Microsoft’s Jean Paoli on the XML document debate Scott Guthrie on NET futures A simple VB Web Monitor Counting Primes in Flash and Silverlight Images of Sun Welcome to ITWriting.com Reviews Review : Toshiba NB300 and NB305 Netbook Review : LG GW620 Android Smartphone Review : Logitech Squeezebox Touch Office 2010 Pictorial Review Office 2010 Pictorial Review part 2 Office 2010 Pictorial Review part 3 Office 2010 Pictorial Preview part 4 Logitech Squeezebox Boom review Camera , Flash , Action : LG Viewty review Forthcoming
This blog covers the early development of the Internet, Search Engines, and the inherent risks with the malicious applications called Malware and how you can protect your computer and its data. The Development of the World Wide Web Within the World Wide Web, there are many strange creatures. You will find Spiders, Web Crawlers and Bots. [...]
When you think of Apple several things come to mind like engaging products, state of the art, cutting edge, surprise and wonder. When you think of Microsoft you think of big, steady, and rock solid. One evokes product loyalty because they want to be loyal, the other evokes product loyalty because you have to be.
While one of the whole points of Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 operating system is that it will be connected at all times to every aspect of your life, some people might prefer to keep certain aspects separate, and so Microsoft have released a Twitter concept app. There’s plenty of screenshots (below) and it’s a [...]
Greg Shultz is feeling patriotic for U.S. Independence Day and is expressing it with some tweaking of Windows 7 themes. He shows you how it's done.
Believe me when I say this, this is a must-have little utility. Even if you decide not to keep it installed on your PC, it's definitely worth taking a look. I originally heard about this piece of software during the Windows Weekly podcast I normally listen to and then I also found out that many other websites were also lauding the simple application as well.
Record, edit and archive your cassettes and other analogue audio recordings for free with our Audacity tutorials - Tutorial 4 - Installing the LAME Mp3 encoder.
Enable playback of your sound cards line in input in Windows Vista with this handy tutorial.
Record, edit and archive your cassettes and other analogue audio recordings for free with our Audacity tutorials - Tutorial 1 - Install Audacity
Desperate to find that piece of missing information? You thought you had saved in on your computer but, after a fruitless search, you can’t find it. Then you remember you found it on the Internet. The problem is howto retrieve that vital piece of information? The answer is to use a Web Search Engine. The first one that springs [...]
Whether you’re desktop is a jungle of gadgets or you just want them to appear only when you need them, this hack is certainly for you. We’re going to show you how to “force” Windows 7 (and even Vista) to make a desktop gadget almost invisible and only show up when the mouse pointer is hovered over its location. Why “almost”? We’ll get onto this in [...]
In this How do I blog post Jack Wallen shows you how to create right-click menu entries for both Defragmenting and Disk Cleanup.
Different folk use different methods of controlling their computer and inputting data. Data Input The typewriter keyboard was invented by Christopher Sholes in 1868. It was adapted to the computer. Along came the computer mouse invented by Douglas C. Englehart in 1968. The next breakthrough came with the development of Voice Recognition software where using [...]
Home Articles Farewell to the CD How to backup Small Business Server 2008 on Hyper-V Is high-resolution audio like SACD audibly better than than CD Simple CRUD with Silverlight 2.0 Very simple VB 2008 database app with databinding A simple Delphi wrapper for Sqlite 3 Microsoft’s Jean Paoli on the XML document debate Scott Guthrie on NET futures A simple VB Web Monitor Counting Primes in Flash and Silverlight Images of Sun Welcome to ITWriting.com Reviews Review : Toshiba NB300 and NB305 Netbook Review : LG GW620 Android Smartphone Review : Logitech Squeezebox Touch Office 2010 Pictorial Review Office 2010 Pictorial Review part 2 Office 2010 Pictorial Review part 3 Office 2010 Pictorial Preview part 4 Logitech Squeezebox Boom review Camera , Flash , Action : LG Viewty review ForthcomingMany of the visionary technologies that have been in the news these last few years are limited to small niche markets. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the like have made their contribution to the social networking scene but to the full computer scene . That is where Microsoft still holds the edge.
Having taught computers to a wide range of beginners, one of the things I found that confused many older students was the multiple ways you could perform tasks in Windows. Starting a program is a good example of this multiplicity. All versions of Windows provided alternate ways to open programs. The most common method was [...]
It may be quite a bit longer before we start seeing some previews into what Windows 8 might look like, but the next-gen Internet Explorer is taking shape every 8 weeks for us to see. Since the future of computing in most users eyes will be in the cloud, it makes sense to begin developing [...]It was only a matter of time until someone posted a copy of a beta release build of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 publicly. The release is then spread via P2P services with no option to control or block the release from being downloaded. The leaked Windows 7 SP1 release has the build number 7601.16562.100603-1800. [...]In an event at the Cannes Lions advertising conference Microsoft have apparently confirmed an October launch date for the first handsets featuring their new smart phone OS. In a video posted on YouTube, Mich Mathews, the VP for Marketing at the company, confirmed the October launch. This merely confirms what many have speculated for some [...]
The TechRepublic Microsoft Windows Blog member poll: When was the last time you performed an offsite data backup?Some Microsoft Windows 8 documents have been leaked online that seem to hint that some of the areas of focus for Windows 8 will be further improvements in speed, and greater empowerment of users allowing them to easily tweak and optimise their machines without calling a support desk or a more knowledgeable friend. Two Windows 8 features [...]
As most regular readers will know, I’m a big fan of Windows 7 Media Center. Previously I’d only used my media centers to watch downloaded tv shows, listen to music and to view photos but I’ve recently moved to Sky after 11 years with Telewest/Virgin Media and after lots and lots of tweaking and testing [...]
7Plus is an open source application aimed at speeding up your work flow and efficiency by breaking tasks into manageable categories.Using HTML5 with the new features should boost browser performance, which has been one of the main criticisms of Internet Explorer. 
: Home Articles Farewell to the CD How to backup Small Business Server 2008 on Hyper-V Is high-resolution audio like SACD audibly better than than CD Simple CRUD with Silverlight 2.0 Very simple VB 2008 database app with databinding A simple Delphi wrapper for Sqlite 3 Microsoft’s Jean Paoli on the XML document debate Scott Guthrie on NET futures A simple VB Web Monitor Counting Primes in Flash and Silverlight Images of Sun Welcome to ITWriting.com Reviews Review : Toshiba NB300 and NB305 Netbook Review : LG GW620 Android Smartphone Review : Logitech Squeezebox Touch Office 2010 Pictorial Review Office 2010 Pictorial Review part 2 Office 2010 Pictorial Review part 3 Office 2010 Pictorial Preview part 4 Logitech Squeezebox Boom review Camera , Flash , Action : LG Viewty review ForthcomingWe all know how successful Windows 7 has proven to be since it was released last October and in those 8 months since it’s release, Microsoft have managed to sell an impressive 150 million copies of it. Microsoft announced the incredible milestone on their Windows Team Blog, those 150 million sales figures, translate into approximately 7 copies of [...]
Microsoft are, later today and hopefully by the time you read this, releasing a public beta of their new Live Essentials Suite 4. The beta, which will be available in English, French, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish, will be available to download HERE. The new suite offers a great many improvements over previous [...]
Use your favorite photo RSS feeds to create an ever-changing Microsoft Windows 7 desktop background slideshow.
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Greg Shultz provides more details on the looming official support deadline and what it will mean to Microsoft Windows XP SP2 users.
In a totally shocking move by a company that historically does not support its different services across other services, Microsoft closed down the Marketplace on Monday night and it didn’t come back up until mid-morning on Tuesday. Normally this is the case when Microsoft is doing some background work with the software or servers, but [...]Microsoft seem to have this year pretty much sorted and wrapped up. They’ve got Windows 7 – with a service pack, Office 2010 and Microsoft Kinect along with the Xbox 360 Slim. They’ve even revamped their mobile department and have Windows Phone 7 coming along pretty soon too. But after that, what’s going to be [...]
Let’s face it, we hate to spend money on something we can get for free, but then there’s the old saying, “You always get what you pay for”. If you pay nothing, sometimes that’s exactly what you get. I’m a religious user of the Microsoft Office application suite, especially: Outlook, Excel and Word, in that [...]Now that Microsoft have officially launched Office Web Apps they’ve already started ramping up the pressure on users of Google’s Apps service to switch, and they’re highlighting cases where some big names are doing this already. One such company is China Navigation. They say… China Navigation is a customer with 300 employees located throughout Asia [...]
The last screen presents options for taking new ones and uploading photos. Additionally, your online Windows Live gallery is available to view. You can also caption photos and e-mail them along.I know I’ve written about study’s and surveys carried out before about how large corporations and the like are impressed with Windows 7 and are getting ready to roll it out. But now I have something different for you, news that even the small businesses are gearing up for an increase in spending for 2010 [...]
When you have a company as large and as expansive as Microsoft, you’re bound to have areas where you excel and then areas where you are held back by the levels and levels of bureaucracy which exists. Recently, we’ve seen Microsoft take some major leaps forward with regards to its desktop OS. Its latest version [...]
How did your peers answer this question: When was the last time you had to deal with an actual computer virus?
To mark the 25th anniversary of their laptop business, Toshiba have revived their old Libretto brand to bring the world a concept device with dual 7” touch screens. With a machine that’s very reminiscent of the will-they won’t-they Courier tablet concept from Microsoft, this Windows 7 device packs a 1.2GHz Intel U5400 processor, 2Gb of [...]So as the service attacks continue it becomes imperative that they be controlled or at least serviced by one central location. The service organisations that will participate in the service include financial institutions, retailers, service providers, academic researchers, technology companies, consumer advocates and government agencies. The other day, somebody asked me what was the difference between the upgrade version of Windows 7 and the Full Version. They were looking to buy Windows 7 and saw these two editions, and couldn’t work out what was difference except for the price. So I’ve decided to write this post and clear up things [...]
There are a huge number of third-party tools to allow you to securely wipe all the data on a hard disk in Windows, but did you know that Windows 7 itself contains a hidden utility for not only wiping data on drives, but also down to specific folders if you wish? While I’ve been writing [...]No, this is not market research conducted by Windows 7 News on behalf of Microsoft. And yes it’s because we’re interested in seeing how you’re getting along with Windows 7. How’s your overall user experience? Are you using it right now? Do you even intend to upgrade sooner or later? Or would you rather stick to dear Windows XP? You’ve heard news from us [...]I wish I’d followed the advice from a good friend of mine who told me “Don’t tinker! Leave well alone!” for if I’d followed his advice I wouldn’t be bugged with this error message — “The file can’t be previewed because of an error in the Microsoft Office Word previewer.” Now the problem seems to [...]I remember one of the first things that I noticed about Windows 7 was the nice new boot animation. It was simple yet beautiful at the same time, in fact I even wrote an article on how it came to be. Then today as I was browsing the web, I came across this article from [...]
Remember that movie Minority Report with Tom Cruise? This movie has become the loosely-based benchmark for what people think computing might be in the future. Every time you see someone trying to imitate our computer advancements in the next few decades, there is a Minority Report reference shortly following. This is because we been using the [...]
A few days ago, we mentioned at Windows 7 News how to change the icon of a library in Windows 7 using a little nifty tool called “Library Icon Changer”. The program doesn’t require any installation to run and is straightforward. Although this is wonderful news for the majority of users, there are still some people who prefer to do things the hard way. That is, [...]
After more Web Research I found an alternative method to make Preview work in the Open file dialog box in Word and PowerPoint BUT unfortunately NOT in Excel. This different approach involves accessing the Properties dialog box for both Word and PowerPoint and making changes in the Compatibility Tab dialog box. Here’s how you do it! Click the Start button. [...]The TechRepublic Microsoft Windows Blog member poll: Is your organization planning to deploy virtual Windows?
Along with its partners, Microsoft is displaying the possibilities with the latest in embedded technologies based on Windows 7. Here are some of the technologies now available that use the Embedded Standard.
Richard Corfield has an application that requires a person to click a confirmation over and over. He takes advantage of MouseKeys to save some time.
Since the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has had a soft spot for students and has offered a discount for any student who has an eligible student email address. Originally, students could get a copy of the OS for $59.99, which is down from the $199.99 that most users pay. However, Microsoft has decided to [...]
Some programs will need to run in administrator mode for them to function properly. And it may be hard to remember which of those programs should run in administrator mode in order to utilize all of the features.
After much research I finally found a partial solution to my problem concerning file preview in Word 2010. The problem! In my previous blogs on this subject some commentators felt I was making a big fuss out of nothing. I spend a lot of time researching in this particular problem and found there is much [...]
A few months before joining Windows 7 News I wrote about a way to create a System Launch area on the Windows 7 taskbar, into which you could drop things such as the Recycle Bin to get it off the desktop. It proved very popular and I myself still use it today, but that might [...]Windows 7 SP1 may still be a couple of months down the line, but Microsoft have already begun assembling the group of testers who will receive the first beta of Service Pack (SP) 1 for Windows 7 along with Windows Server 2008 R2 in July. The guys from Redmond have started sending out invitations to those who [...]
Hotmail also has social networking capabilities with the ability to create and send photo albums right from Hotmail. Just one thing here, you may not see these features today, but everyone will be upgraded this summer. It's a technology issue
At last Office 2010 is out in the public domain. I’ve just bought a copy for $177 AU, the cheapest around as far as I can see. After using the Beta version for six months or more I couldn’t wait to see how it comes up. Well it certainly contains a few changes. I’ve been [...]While Microsoft twiddles its thumbs in the tablet PC market and slowly progresses their new mobile platform for release later this year, there is still one major platform where Windows reigns supreme in every category, one in particular, is gaming. Thanks to the new release of Steam for Mac OSX, Apple fans can now claim [...]
Besides Office 2010, users can also purchase Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010. The software will be available in over 35000 retail outlets around the world.Today Office 2010 finally went on sale for the general public and along with that Microsoft decided to release the download figures it had for its Beta test. According to their figures, the Office 2010 beta was even bigger than the Windows 7 beta. Office 2010 beta was downloaded over 9 million times since it’s [...]
Windows 7 is customizable in so many ways it is sometimes daunting to new users and experienced users alike. Changing wallpapers, themes, window properties, fonts, sizes and icons are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to making your copy of Windows 7 look and feel the way you want it to. Some of the [...]
You know what it’s like when you’re sitting on really great news for several months but you can’t tell anyone? This is even worse writing for Windows 7 News every day knowing I’m sitting on a great nugget :} Well after a long period of frustration I can now officially announce that I’ve been signed [...]