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This week, at the Game Developers Conference, Microsoft is slated to begin explaining part of its Windows Phone 7 tooling story -- specifically how it plans to get more games developed for its new mobile platform. One key to that story is its XNA Game Studio tool suite.
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In 1985, almost all PCs sat on desktops, the Internet was a Defense Department research project, and the cell phone revolution had barely gotten underway. It was also the year that Microsoft launched a DOS front-end called Windows 1.0 .
Over the...
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(posted 15 Hours Ago)
Alright, we're going to be straight with you: you're not going to like this. See, Microsoft just showed us a pair of 3D games running on its ASUS Windows Phone prototype and built with its brand new XNA Game Studio 4.0 , but wouldn't let us nab ...
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(posted 4 Days Ago)
Guess we don't have to wait until MIX to have all our Windows Phone 7 Series questions answered! Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared co...
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Although Microsoft has dropped a plan to wait nearly two years after Windows 7's launch to issue a first service pack, it won't deliver the update before late this year, a site that has accurately predicted past Windows timetables said.
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(posted 22 Hours Ago)
Today we are releasing two Important security bulletins addressing eight vulnerabilities in Windows and Microsoft Office. Both bulletins have an aggregate Exploitability Index rating of “1” so we recommend that customers deploy these updates as soon...
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(posted 5 Days Ago)
# askthereaders
According to researchers behind a white paper on computer vulnerabilities the typical Windows user has to patch their computer an average of 75 times a year. Many simply ignore the task. We want to hear how you keep things current. More »
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(posted 24 Hours Ago)
Hi everyone,
Today we released Security Advisory 981374 addressing a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. Internet Explorer 8 is not affected by this issue. Customers using Internet Explorer 6 o...
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Apple iPad’s Oscar evening debut on millions of TVs may have been the talk of the town Monday morning but not for long. Rival PC maker HP has launched a sneak attack on the iPad.
HP released a video introducing its tablet called the Sl...
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(posted 3 Days Ago)
VPN software gives you access to private networks as though you're sitting at a local computer on that network, giving you access to shared folders and tons more handy stuff. Here's a look at five of the most popular VPN tools. Photo by Noah Sus...
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(posted 21 Hours Ago)
Wha? Apparently the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a bit of malware, Arucer.dll, which allows remote system access on port 7777. CERT warns :
An attacker is able to remotely control a system, including the ability to list direct...
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It's official, Valve's digital distribution service Steam is coming to Mac, and bringing Left 4 Dead 2 , Team Fortress 2 , Counter-Strike , Portal , and the Half-Life series (along with Source) with it this April. But there's more. Apparentl...
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# downloads
Windows only: Free application Tableau Public creates beautiful visualizations from your data and lets you publish them to the web, where uses can interact with your charts and graphs with live updates. More »
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(posted 17 Hours Ago)
Mac only: Multiple monitors do great things for your desktop space, but your menu bar sticks to one screen. If you're looking for more menu access, free utility SecondBar puts one at the top of each monitor. As veteran Mac users know, each applica...
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(posted 6 Days Ago)
These are the first photos of Microsoft's Project Pink phones, snatched from deep within the bowels of the Microsoft/Verizon industrio-complex —not the Turtle , but the larger, Sidekick-like Pure . This doesn't look like Windows Phone 7...
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(posted 6 Days Ago)
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/Windows_Phone_7_Series_uses_Silverlight_won_t_run_6_5_apps'; Microsoft is keen on unveiling the meat of its developer story around Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10 in less than two weeks, but with G...
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(posted 11 Days Ago)
Introduction
The story first hit in last week on the Slovakian tech site DSL.sk . Since I am not linguistically equipped to follow the Slovakian tech scene, I didn’t hear about the story until it was brought up in English on TechCrunch ...
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(posted 2 Days Ago)
Here is a misunderstanding I come across from time to time. I will be talking with a Partner or see a conversation between a couple of Partners and someone will say something like, “My client does not qualify for Volume Licensing because they...
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(posted 17 Hours Ago)
There has been a lot of buzz in the mobile space lately, and I suspect there will be even more around Windows Phone 7 at next week’s Microsoft Mix conference . One thing I wanted to clarify as it may have been lost i...
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(posted 19 Hours Ago)
Microsoft fixed eight flaws in Windows and Office today, but passed on patching one Windows component because it cannot be automatically updated.
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Microsoft adds XNA Game Studio 4.0 to its Windows Phone 7 arsenal
