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Early Peek At Windows Server 8
Microsoft officials showed off at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference a first public glimpse of its coming Windows Server 8 operating system. Windows Server 8, the server complement of Windows 8 client, is on the same development track and path as Windows 8 client.
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Microsoft Skips Apple's Copy, Paste with Bing 'Lasso'
Microsoft is rolling out a new version of its native Bing application
for Apple's iPad that, with a new user gesture, aims to ditch the
need to use Apple's built-in copy-and-paste feature. The v1.1 update is now live in the App Store.
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Second IE10 Platform Preview Available for Developers
IE10 Platform Preview 2, the same HTML5 engine seen in the recent public “Windows 8” demos, is now available for download. With this update, IE10 continues to deliver support for site-ready HTML5 technologies as well as improving performance.
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Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 Released
Microsoft has released the Office 2010 Service Pack 1 which combines improvements, new features and previously released updates in a single update pack. The update is available for free if downloaded from the Internet. Microsoft notes that Office 2010 SP1 contains all “public updates that were released through June 2011? and all “cumulative updates that were released through April 2011? in addition to “improvements in stability, performance, and in security”.
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Microsoft Updates its SkyDrive Cloud Storage
In case you're not aware, before Apple even thought of its iCloud service, Microsoft has been offering a similar service called SkyDrive. Although this is probably one of the most underrated Microsoft service, still there are significant SkyDrive users which accumulated through the years. And if you're one of these SkyDrive users, you'll be glad to know that Microsoft is finally giving the said service some much needed update.
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Microsoft Declares WebGL 'harmful' to Security
A security firm raised new concerns today about WebGL--but Microsoft piled on with an opinion that's likely more damaging to fans' hopes for a universal 3D Web graphics standard. "We believe that WebGL will likely become an ongoing source of hard-to-fix vulnerabilities," Microsoft said in a security blog post flatly titled "WebGL Considered Harmful." "In its current form, WebGL is not a technology Microsoft can endorse from a security perspective."
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IE 9.0.1 Available via Windows Update
The June 2011 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is now available via Windows Update. This security update resolves seven vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that were disclosed in coordination with Microsoft. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a malicious, specially crafted Web page using IE.
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Microsoft Releases Android to Windows Phone Porting Tool
Microsoft has released an Android to Windows Phone API mapping tool for developers which will help developers port existing Android applications to the Windows Phone platform. Like its iPhone counterpart, the tool doesn't actually port your code for you automatically. Instead, what it provides is a list of API mappings that acts like a translation dictionary from one platform to the next.
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Microsoft Shows Off Windows 8
Microsoft gave an early demonstration of the new look and capability of the next generation of Windows at the D9 conference. President of Windows Steven Sinofsky also gave an early preview even before he took the stage in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., to his conference hosts at the All Things D blog. For now it's called Windows 8, but Sinofsky says that's just a code name.