In a Thursday blog post, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky, president of the company’s Windows group, announced a slew of app updates that will roll out to early adopters of Windows 8 RTMin the coming days and weeks. Starting tomorrow, a Bing update will be available to download in the Windows Store, with more updates rolling out [...]
The software giant says it has seen only a few attempts to exploit the weakness, which affects users of Internet Explorer versions 6 through 9. Microsoft said today it will issue a fix soon for a security flaw that affects users of Internet Explorer versions 6 through 9. Uncovered this past weekend, the security hole [...]
Continue reading …Researchers say a previously unknown hole in IE has already been used to deliver a trojan in real-world attacks. This screenshot shows a successful attack against Windows 7 running IE 9. (Credit: Rapid7) A previously unknown security hole in Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9 is being actively exploited to deliver a back door trojan [...]
Continue reading …Expect to pay just under $100 per copy for the consumer version if you’re a smaller OEM or putting together a homebrew PC, according to the latest scuttlebutt. Pricing information around Windows 8 has been trickling out over the past few months. I’ve received a new drip of information — this time about system-builder pricing [...]
Continue reading …Microsoft unveiled Office 2013 and the new Office 365 a couple months ago and launched a public beta to give everyone an opportunity to test it out. There were still two big question marks, though: “When will it be available?” and “How much will it cost?” Now we know the answerto one of those burning [...]
Continue reading …We’d heard that Microsoft was working around the clock to finish Windows Phone 8, and it appears that hard work has paid off: ZDNet and WPCentral are reporting that Redmond finished up the new operating system today. The news comes just hours after LiveSino posted images, said to be from a Windows Phone 8 team [...]
Continue reading …Microsoft CEO dispels rumors of a sub-$200 tablet, telling the Seattle Times that the Surface would probably be priced between $300 and $800. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiling the Surface tablet in June. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) If you hoped rumors that Microsoft’s tablet would sport a sub-$200 price tag were true, Steve Ballmer has dashed [...]
Continue reading …Company’s Office Home & Student 2013 bundle for ARM-based Windows devices, due to begin rolling out later this year, is slightly different from its x86-based counterpart. Microsoft let slip back in June that the version of Microsoft Office 2013 that would be available to Windows RT tablets and PC customers would be a “preview” test-build. [...]
Continue reading …Microsoft’s Windows Store — the built-in app store for Windows 8 and Windows RT — is open to all developers in 120 markets, as of today Of these 120 markets, 82 are newly supported, according to a new post on the “Windows Store for Developers” blog. (Here’s a list of the markets now supported.) To [...]
Continue reading …Microsoft today shared the entire list of pop-up stores it plans to open throughout North America this holiday season, and the company’s retail presence will be much larger than originally believed. 32 locations will span 20 US states in addition to shops in British Columbia, Toronto, and Alberta, Canada. It will also mark the debut [...]
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