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The Windows Media Center SDK has been posted to GitHub 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- April 25, 2019
Windows Media Center first appeared in Windows XP REMEMBER Windows Media Center? The alternative shell from Vista and Windows 7 was abandoned in Windows 8 (though it was still available as an optional extra before being completely removed in Windows 10) not least because it was offering a competitor to Xbox functionality, a far more lucrative market
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BT Tower displays Windows 7 error message to Londoners 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- April 9, 2019
BRITISH TELECOM GIANT BT (acronym redundant, we’re told) has been left with high-rise blushes after the BT Tower in London spent most of the weekend showing an error message. The iconic block, which has been a part of the London skyline since the sixties, has an ‘information band’ positioned outside the 36th and 37th floor, which
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Microsoft pledges smoother Windows updates 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- April 8, 2019
Microsoft has announced a plan to improve the Windows 10 ‘update experience‘, following the epic disaster that was the release of the company’s Windows 10 October 2018 Update. The Windows 10 October 2018 Update, announced back in September, was the second of the company’s biannual feature updates for the year just gone. In it, the
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Windows 10 v1809 (that’s the October 2018 release) is now business ready, claims Microsoft 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- April 1, 2019
Microsoft’s troubled Windows 10 October 2018 Update – version 1809 – is finally business ready, the company has claimed. The release of the Update to corporate PCs will come just weeks before the company’s spring update is supposed to be pushed out. Windows 10 version 1809 was originally pushed out in October 2018, then suspended, before
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Microsoft changes DHCP to ‘Dammit! Hacked! Compromised! Pwned!’ Big bunch of security fixes land for Windows • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- March 13, 2019
Patch Tuesday It’s the second Tuesday of the month, and you know what that means: a fresh dump of security fixes from Microsoft, Adobe and others. The March edition of Patch Tuesday includes fixes for 64 CVE-listed vulnerabilities, while Adobe addressed a pair of bugs in Photoshop and Digital Editions. Even SAP has got in
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WannaCry-hero Hutchins’ trial date set, Microsoft readies Google’s Spectre V2 fix for Windows 10, Coinhive axed, and more • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- March 3, 2019
Roundup Here’s your weekend rapid-fire roundup of infosec news, ahead of next week’s RSA Conference, beyond what we’ve already covered. Hutchins’ trial date set: After 18 months in legal limbo in America, Brit malware reverse-engineer Marcus Hutchins, who halted the 2017 Wannacry ransomware outbreak, this week learned he will go before a jury in July.
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