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The source code underlying Google’s Chrome Web browser suggests that Google used a reverse-engineering technique called disassembly to figure out how to employ a useful Windows Vista security feature, but the company said it didn’t, in fact, do so.The Chrome source code said a particular security feature available on Vista, Data Execution Prevention, can be used on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1, though it’s not documented for the older operating systems.
Sep 19
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You can use Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets for browsing eBay, checking train times and weather forecasts, and now there’s one to bring you the latest news and reviews from TechRadar, which we’ve just had created by ace gadget builders BuildAGadget.com.The TechRadar gadget brings the latest news to your desktop while also offering you a quick way to search our news and reviews without opening a browser. You can toggle the search options between news and product reviews by clicking the options icon on the gadget (it looks like a little spanner that appears at the top right-hand side of the gadget when you mouse over it), then selecting Options > Search, and choosing either ’search website’ or ’search product reviews’ from the drop-down menu.
Sep 18
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The last Windows upgrade cycle left a long time between drinks. Windows XP hit shelves in October 2001. Then it was more than five years before Windows Vista succeeded it in January 2007. Now, Microsoft seems ready to step back to its former upgrade pace, which saw it release a revision of Windows every couple of years in pre-XP times.
Sep 17
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Sep 16
The Windows 7 wheels are turning up at Microsoft. Sources close the company say that the latest milestone build - aka M3 – is being distributed internally for testing and that the pre-beta code is remarkably functional and quite stable.
That such an early version of Windows 7 could look so polished comes as no surprise. After all, the product’s underpinnings are still essentially Vista’s underpinnings, with a few tweaks here and there to improve performance/reduce memory footprint. Much heavy lifting was done during the post-XP/pre-Vista years, allowing Microsoft to leave the core mechanisms – device driver integration, kernel and service hardening, the base security model – relatively untouched.
Sep 16
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