27 month ago
kayodeok : Windows Vista Beta: How to dual-boot Windows XP and Windows Vista - I don't recommend you be as dumb as I was, but in case you are and you want to dual-boot XP and Vista? Here's how I got it done
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30 month ago
kayodeok : What's Really Behind the Windows Vista Delay? - To say that Microsoft's bombshell decision to delay the launch of Windows Vista until 2007 was due to quality concerns is an oversimplification. Microsoft actually is pushing the Vista launch back to January 2007 to appease the marketing gurus as much as
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30 month ago
kayodeok : Microsoft Updates Windows Vista Road Map - Business availability for Windows Vista in November 2006, consumer availability in January 2007
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30 month ago
kayodeok : Why doesn't Windows File Protection use ACLs to protect files? - Windows File Protection works by replacing files after they have been overwritten. Why didn't Windows just apply ACLs to deny write permission to the files? We tried that. It didn't work.
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30 month ago
kayodeok : IEBlog : Security tweaks in IE7 - As we’ve described previously, we’ve made some major architectural improvements to improve browsing security in Internet Explorer 7, including Protected Mode, Phishing Filter, Enhanced Validation SSL, and other features in support of our ove
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30 month ago
kayodeok : Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor - Windows Vista won't have a backdoor that could be used by police forces to get into encrypted files, Microsoft has stressed
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30 month ago
kayodeok : Why Windows Vista will suck - Unfortunately, while Microsoft has worked hard on improving Vista's security, it's still pretty much the same old rickety kernel underneath it.
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30 month ago
kayodeok : Why Windows Vista Won't Suck - The whole kernel has been reorganized and rewritten to help prevent software from affecting the system in unsavory ways. In Vista, it should be much more difficult for unauthorized programs (like Viruses and Trojans) to affect the core of the OS and secre
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Aaron Margosis' WebLog : Fixing "LUA bugs", Part I - In this mini-series of posts, I’ll lay out a systematic approach for working around LUA bugs that minimizes exposure. I’ll discuss approaches from most-preferred to least-preferred, with some of the pros and cons of each. By the way, while
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Britain wants access to encrypted Vista hard drives - The issue is BitLocker Drive Encryption, slated for inclusion in Vista. The system can encrypt a user's entire hard drive, making it almost impossible to access data if the drive is removed from the computer or otherwise tampered with
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Gates: End to passwords in sight - For years, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has had his sights set on the password as the weak link in the computer security chain. Now, with Windows Vista, Gates feels he finally has the right weapons to supplant the password as a means of verifying who is
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31 month ago
kayodeok : IEBlog : IE7 Printing: An Experience You Won’t Want To Miss - The key here is that all content on the screen is available to the user and that annoying extra white-space is avoided. No one likes to get extra pages with just one or two lines of content on an otherwise completely blank page of paper
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Exploring Internet Explorer: Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7 - Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7
Richard Rutter : CSS compatibility in IE7 - MSDN article detailing the changes from IE6.
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Exploring Internet Explorer - Here you will find answers to the riddles and mysteries of Internet Explorer from the various members of the Internet Explorer Development Team
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31 month ago
kayodeok : IEBlog : What’s New for CSS in Beta 2 Preview? - We had 3 objectives, in priority: Fix some really nasty bugs posted on sites like positioniseverything.net, Revise parts of our existing CSS implementation to be true to the spec, Add the most-requested new CSS functionality to IE
Richard Rutter : What’s New for CSS in IE7 b2? - IEBlog – the horse’s mouth.
Paul Hammond : IEBlog : What’s New for CSS in Beta 2 Preview? - we believe a move to a more standard compliant implementation benefits everyone in the long run
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Asa Dotzler - Firefox and more: my thoughts on the preview of ie 7 beta 2 - Asa Dotzler reviews Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2
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31 month ago
kayodeok : IEBlog : A New Look for IE - One of the most obvious changes since Beta 1 is in the toolbar area. We focused on building a smaller, more compact UI that exposes only the most commonly used features, saving space for the content and tab areas
Douglas Bowman : A New Look for IE - Stepping through some of the new UI in Internet Explorer. Possibly the most interesting new feature is the ability to zoom the entire page, instead of just the text (following Opera's lead).
deusx : IEBlog : A New Look for IE - Is it just me, or does this look like a GUI widget test demo? 3 different styles of buttons, in various colors, in seemingly random arrangement. Tabs squished in between other semi-related buttons. This is improvement?
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31 month ago
kayodeok : IEBlog : Frequently Asked Questions for the IE7 Beta 2 Preview - Frequently Asked Questions for the IE7 Beta 2 Preview
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Release Notes for Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview - These Release Notes give you information on installation of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview and on known bugs and possible workarounds for those bugs
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Microsoft's OneCare firewall draws fire: "The firewall component in Microsoft's Windows OneCare security bundle has holes" - The security software, available in a public beta version, by default allows applications that use the Java Virtual Machine or have a digital signature to connect to the Internet
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31 month ago
deusx : Dave's Wordpress Blog - Microsoft ships RSS platform - "This release is significant for publishers who provide RSS 2.0 feeds for their content because this is the first Microsoft release that includes comprehensive support for RSS not only on the producing side, but also on the consuming side."
kayodeok : Microsoft ships RSS platform - Microsoft has released a public beta of version 7 of their Internet Explorer web browser [...] This release is significant for publishers who provide RSS 2.0 feeds for their content because this is the first Microsoft release that includes comprehensive s
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31 month ago
Simon Willison : Channel9 Wiki: InternetExplorerProgrammingBugs - This page is a gold mine.
kayodeok : Channel9 Wiki: Internet Explorer Programming Bugs - Summary: Internet Explorer Feedback about programming-related bugs
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32 month ago
kayodeok : PCWorld.com - Microsoft Readies Two-Way Firewall for Vista: Administrator-run firewall expected to be 'highly configurable.' - For its upcoming Windows Vista operating system, Microsoft is readying a new, highly configurable firewall designed to give administrators much greater control over which applications can run on the systems they manage
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kayodeok : The New Windows Firewall in Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" - The new Windows Firewall in Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" has the following enhancements over the current Windows Firewall in Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1:
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33 month ago
kayodeok : IEBlog : Dude, where’'s my intranet zone? (… and more about the changes to IE7 security zones) - The Internet zone will run in Protected Mode on Windows Vista which helps provide defense-in-depth against some of the attacks IE has faced in the past. ActiveX Opt-In will also help reduce the attack surface of ActiveX controls in the internet zone (this
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