I see this incident more as a “lessons learned”, than a design flaw that millions of users are suffering with.

Here we are at the LA Convention Center, attending the FREE Windows 7 Seminar: Boot Camp . We managed to “ sell out ” (just a reminder– it is free) this event, getting more than 1200 registrations. This day is all about learning what’s new in the Windows 7 kernel, how developers can take advantage of these feature, and then learn how to take advantage of some “user mode” features like multitouch, taskbar, sensor and location, and others.

I have seen some .reg files, which are not a complete registry (like a backup), but they just make certain edits and patches when clicked. How can I make such a file?

Hi all We’ve got 2 domain joined machines (XP SP2) located at a remove office.

While manual Microsoft Updates (MU) worked

out of nowhere my 2003 installed software updated to 2007 in a scheduled microsoft update. now it wants the encryption key and all my work is in compatibilty mode.

Just as an FYI, for those of you that used Microsoft’s recommended mitigations for MS08-078 . If you unregistered the MSXML Island object you need to manually re-create the registry entries after you install the patch to restore the functionality. The patch does not re-create the registry entries.

The IE Cumulative Security Update for December 2008 is now available via Windows Update . Alternatively, you can receive this and all other Microsoft updates via the new Microsoft Update

on just the Possibly one of the recent Windows updates broke something. You could try rolling back your recent updates and see if that was what …

The next public update of IE8 (for Windows Vista- and Windows XP-based operating systems as well as the Windows 7 Beta) includes improvements to Compatibility View that help end-users when they visit web sites that are not yet ready for IE8’s new, more standards-compliant defaults. This blog post describes the technical background and how this new functionality works. A Brief History of Standards, Interoperability, Compatibility, and IE8 As we improve the interoperability of Internet Explorer by delivering better implementations of web standards, some users may face compatibility issues with sites that rely on the behavior of previous versions of Internet Explorer.

As expected, we are seeing another wave of attacks exploiting the vulnerability detailed in security bulletin MS08-067. Early last week we blogged about MS08-067 exploits

Right click on My Computer/Properties/Automatic Updates tab and choose Turn Off Automatic Updates. Alias

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