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4 hrs ago | PR-inside.com

K7 Total Security Earns Coveted Virus Bulletin VB100 Certification On Windows XP

23 May, 2013 : K7 Computing Pvt. Ltd. one of India's leading data security and threat management companies announced today that K7 Total Security has been awarded the Virus Bulletin's VB100 award on Microsoft Windows XP Professional in April, 2013.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, Spyware, World News, India,

7 hrs ago | Softpedia

Plagiarism Finder 1.0.1.0

Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / XP 64 bit / 2008 / Vista 64 bit / 7 / 7 64 bit / 2008 64 bit / 2008 R2 / 8 / 8 64 bit / Server 2012 Plagiarism Finder is an easy to use application that will enable you to discover if any text strings written in a document are copied from another source.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Fri May 24, 2013

Ask Dave Taylor!

Enable ASP.NET on my Windows 8 system?

I've switched over to Microsoft Windows 8 from Windows Vista and one of my programs no longer works.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups

TechCrunch

Gillmor Gang Live 05.24.13

Steve Gillmor is a technology commentator, editor, and producer in the enterprise technology space.

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Related Topix: Startups, TechCrunch, Blog News, Microsoft, Science / Technology, Computers

MSDN Blogs

Case Study: COM+ 1.5 Rollup Package 934016 Installation failure on Win2003 SP2

Recently we worked with on customer, who tried to install KB934016 on Windows 2003 server, however the Update.exe interestingly just crashed and failed to launch.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

MSDN Blogs

[Sample Of May 23rd] MFC CTaskDialog sample

The CTaskDialog class replaces the standard Windows message box and has additional functionality such as new controls to gather information from the user.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups

Dixie's blog

Blog Post: Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service Bus

This is the top level group for Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation. Find blogs, samples, videos, and learning resources for various versions of workflow including 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0 here.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups

The Motley Fool

Stick With Microsoft, It Will Pay

Frank is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Tellme, Startups, Blog News, Science / Technology, Cisco

Thu May 23, 2013

CRN

HP's Whitman To Partners: Don't Give Up Hope On PCs

Page 1 of 2 Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman told CRN Thursday that the death of the PC market has been greatly exaggerated.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups

Neowin.net

Add the Aero glass look to Windows 8 with the beta of WindowBlinds 8

Start8 , Decor8 and ModernMix . Today, the company released a new version of one of its older software programs that adds a way to put in a much requested look to the Windows 8 desktop UI.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups

Information Technology

Splashtop 2 Launches on Windows Phone 8

San Jose, CA, May 23, 2013 -- Splashtop Inc., the worldwide leader in cross-device computing, announced the release of Splashtop 2 Remote Desktop for Microsoft Windows Phone 8, enabling a simple, one-click solution for remote access from the Windows Phone to a PC or Mac to enable personal cloud computing from home or work computers.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Science / Technology, PC, Cloud Computing

Computer Weekly

Where does Microsoft stand in the VDI space?

A quick audience poll at BriForum London 2013 indicated that 85% of the attendees either use or prefer using Citrix seamless remote applications over Microsoft applications.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, WAN, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science

PC World

For security's sake, upgrade to a newer version of Office

Russell Caplan still uses Office 2003, which Microsoft will stop supporting next year.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Science / Technology, Microsoft Office

ComputerWorld

Google engineer bashes Microsoft's handling of security researchers

A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" just days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash PCs or gain additional access rights.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Science / Technology

The Guardian

Microsoft Surface Pro: a device of many talents

There's much to like about Microsoft's Windows 8 hybrid tablet-laptop - but it's expensive if you don't need all the specs Microsoft created a stir when it unveiled its first two tablets - Surface RT and Surface Pro - at a mystery press conference in Los Angeles on 19 June last year.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Intel, Science / Technology

Wed May 22, 2013

AppleInsider

New Microsoft Windows 8 ad turns Apple's Siri against her maker

A recently aired Microsoft ad pits a tablet running the company's Windows 8 against the iPad, with the spot featuring an unlikely narrator: Apple's Siri virtual assistant.

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Related Topix: Ipad, Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups

Firebox.com

Message in a Bottle USB Flash Drive - 19.99

Once upon a time, the only way to communicate with people living overseas was to write a note, stuff it into a bottle and throw the thing into the ocean.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

CRN

Hortonworks Expands Big Data Ecosystem Into Microsoft Windows Arena

Hortonworks is shipping a Windows edition of its big data platform, a move channel partners say will help them meet customer demands for Windows-based big data applications.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups

Silcon Valley Moms

Druva Announces 'End-of-XP' Migration Tool as Support Sunsets

On the official Microsoft Blog, Editor Jeff Meisner said last month that, "A year from now will mark the final milestone for Windows XP - that of its end of support date." Starting on April 8th, 2014 Microsoft will no longer provide any type of support, updates, tech support for the now 11 year old operating system.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Tellme, Startups, Science / Technology

Lifehacker

How Can I Play my Old PC Games on a Modern Computer?

Dear Lifehacker, I have a couple old PC games from the Windows 95 days that I'd like to keep playing.

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Related Topix: PC, Computers, Science / Technology, The, Game., Video Games, Deep Silver, X360

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