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NB1 writes "Microsoft's Open Source Technology Center used to make news by partnering with SugarCRM, MySQL, and other commercial open-source projects. Those partnerships seem to have hit a dry spell over the past two years, with little in the way of new announcements, but this doesn't mean that Microsoft's OSTC has been inactive.
Quite the contrary. As its work with the PHP community suggest, the OSTC has actually been in overdrive. In an interview with the PHP Classes blog, Microsoft gives some background as to the motivations behind its work with the scripting language...
Posted by Raven on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 @ 11:15:43 EST (938 reads) (Read More... | 2244 bytes more | Score: 0)
Cosmos: An open-source .Net-based microkernel OS is born
Cosmos is a set of operating system legos written completely in C# that allow developers to easily build custom OSes with little OS experience by simply selecting new project in Visual Studio, then pressing F5 to build, deploy, and debug.
Cosmos is an independent project from Microsoft. I’m a former Microsoft FTE (full-time employee) myself and still heavily involved with Microsoft as I am Microsoft Regional Director, but Cosmos is independent. Cosmos is licensed under the BSD license though, so generally there are no issues….We are free to support anything we want.
Posted by Raven on Thursday, February 07, 2008 @ 12:11:51 EST (812 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Microsoft releases tools to boost Web accessibility
nb1 writes "Microsoft on Thursday is expected to release a new set of developer tools for products that improve the Internet's accessibility for people with disabilities. The tools, called UI Automation, can be used royalty-free, according to Microsoft's Windows Accessibility lead Norm Hodne, as long as the resulting applications are built to perform within all platforms, e.g. Windows or Linux.
Microsoft formally donated the UI (user interface) Automation developer tools to the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA), an engineering working group that the software giant helped form last November in partnership with tech companies like Oracle, Novell, Hewlett-Packard and Adobe Systems, as well as assistive-technology developers like GW Micro. The working group's mission is to pave the way for standards in the industry for text-to-speech software, screen readers and other assistive products
Posted by Raven on Friday, January 18, 2008 @ 14:56:53 EST (822 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Microsoft Unleashes Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate
By Kevin McLaughlin, CMP Channel
4:02 PM EST Wed. Dec. 19, 2007
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) Tuesday unveiled the first release candidate for Windows XP service pack 3 (SP3), moving the long awaited final batch of tweaks and fixes for XP closer to reality.
Originally slated for release in 2006, XP SP3 has been pushed back on numerous occasions, and this marks the first time it has been available for public download.
Earlier this month, Microsoft launched the first release candiate for Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft plans to launch Windows XP SP3 sometime in the first half of next year, with Vista SP1 due in in the first quarter.
XP SP3 includes all of the fixes Microsoft has released since launching XP in 2001, as well as some minor new features that are part of Windows Vista. These include: support for Microsoft's Network Access Protection security technology; 'keyless activation', which lets IT administrators install SP3 without entering product keys for each copy; and detection of so-called 'black hole' network routers that can slow network performance.
Posted by Raven on Friday, December 21, 2007 @ 02:17:03 EST (744 reads) (Read More... | 2256 bytes more | Score: 0)
Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007
,"Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 uses the HTML parsing and rendering engine from Microsoft Office Word 2007 to display HTML message bodies. The same HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS) support available in Word 2007 is available in Outlook 2007."
The limitations imposed by Word 2007 are described in detail in the article, but here are a few highlights:
* no support for background images (HTML or CSS)
* no support for forms
* no support for Flash, or other plugins
* no support for CSS floats
* no support for replacing bullets with images in unordered lists
* no support for CSS positioning
* no support for animated GIFs
In short, unless your HTML emails are very, very simple, you're going to run into problems with Outlook 2007, and in most cases the only solution to those problems will be to reduce the complexity of your HTML email design to accommodate Outlook's limited feature set.
Posted by Raven on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 @ 06:49:36 EST (1890 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Microsoft now decides to accept outside security for Vista
Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:21 AM CET
Microsoft agreed to make it easier for customers of its forthcoming Vista operating system to use outside security vendors, such as those who make popular antivirus and anti-spyware programs.
Until now, Microsoft had planned to block those companies from installing their products in the deepest levels of the new operating system, which is scheduled for release early next year.
Posted by Raven on Monday, October 23, 2006 @ 16:26:23 EDT (792 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Microsoft teams up with Mozilla
68_andahalf_68 writes "The Mozilla Foundation and Microsoft have decided on a common icon between their
two browsers.
According to the Vole Bogs, here, Volish servitors met with John Lilly and Chris
Beard from Mozilla and agreed to use the Firefox RSS Feed icon in IE too.
The blog says that Microsoft will be using the icon in the IE7 command bar
whenever a page has a feed associated with it, and it will appear in other
places in the browser whenever we need a visual to represent RSS and feeds.
"This isn’t the first time that we’ve worked with the Mozilla team to exchange
ideas and encourage consistency between browsers, and we’re sure it won’t be the
last," the blog said.
IE7 will get a public pre-release build next year.
Posted by Raven on Saturday, December 17, 2005 @ 20:20:02 EST (1259 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Microsoft warns of critical Windows flaw
Windows security flaw could allow hackers to take over PCs through malicious Web sites.
December 13, 2005: 9:04 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday warned users of its Windows operating system of a "critical" security flaw in its software that could allow attackers to take complete control of a computer.
The world's largest software maker issued a patch to fix the problem as part of its monthly security bulletin. The problem mainly affects the Windows operating system and Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser.
Computer security experts and Microsoft urged users to download and install the patch available at www.microsoft.com/security.
Microsoft said the vulnerability exists in its Internet Explorer Web browser, which an attacker could exploit to take over a PC by running software code after luring users to malicious Web pages.
Microsoft also issued one other security warning it rated at its second-highest level of "important."
Posted by Raven on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 @ 09:39:46 EST (1033 reads) (Read More... | 2151 bytes more | Score: 5)
Have I Told You How Much I Hate Microsoft?
In the beginning was XP and XP begat XP SP1. And things were mostly working. Then, XP SP1 begat XP SP2 and my life became hell.
Having had enough, this morning at 7:00 am I decide to follow Microsoft's 3 step easy unistall Run appwiz.cpl Select show updates Click remove Live happily ever after
7 hours later, at least 12-15 reboots, scouring the Inernet for how to work around the BSOD, how to trick the installer into letting me do things, on and on, I am now back to XP SP1 and never to return to XP SP2 until they get it really fixed.
And before you say it, I have to have XP to be compatible with my employer. I hate Microsoft.
Posted by Raven on Friday, October 15, 2004 @ 14:27:49 EDT (1534 reads) ( | Score: 0)
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Windows security flaw could allow hackers to take over PCs through malicious Web sites.
