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Internet Explorer Security Update Available

Microsoft officially released a security update for Internet Explorer which addresses the security flaw i wrote about yesterday. Usually Microsoft sends security patches once in a month via windows update, but this time due to the critical security but they are sending out-of-band update. Users ... Read More →

Internet Explorer users shift to other browsers

Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are advised to shift to other browsers due to a serious security flaw in IE according to Gaurdian. The security flaw was spotted last week when hackers started attacking IE 7 users. Other versions of IE, IE 5 and IE 6 are also vulnerable to the flaw. ... Read More →

Thumbtack: Bookmarking App from Microsoft Live Labs

Microsoft Live Labs announced today a new bookmarking tool called Thumbtack that allows users to collects snippets of information from the web, organize and share it with others. This is not yet another social bookmarking tool but more like to organize ones own web notes collections. There are ... Read More →

Oxite: Open Source Content Management System from Microsoft

Microsoft today released an early version of a Content Management System called Oxite aimed at developers who want to build blogs or CMS with ASP.NET MVC. Oxite supports essential features for blogs like pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting (with optional moderation), ... Read More →

Download Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta and Windows Server 2008 SP2 beta are available to download from Microsoft Download center. Few days back it was released for MSDN and Technet subscribers and from yesterday it is available for general public. This update is available to users who have any of these ... Read More →

Microsoft Live Image Search finds similar images

Microsoft Live image search engine added one cool feature, similar images in image search results. These similar image search results will improve your search and finds related images with out you being modify your search to get related images. ... Read More →

Windows 7 Screenshots from PDC 2008

Microsoft demoed a pre release of its next OS Windows 7 at PDC 2008. The build used for demo is 6933.winmain.081020-1842 according to Neowin. Windows 7 has some new features and enhancements to User interface compared to vista. ... Read More →

Windows Live Adds Support for OpenID

Windows Live now became an OpenID provider, the release is meant for a technology preview and users are advised to wait for the final release to use Windows live ID as OpenID. The Windows Live ID Provider enables anyone with a windows live ID account to setup an OpenID alias to use at OpenID ... Read More →