http://windowsfactor.com Windows XP, Vista, Seven and more ! Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:30:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The excitement is building! Today, at the first TechCrunch meet-up in Zurich, we will officially start the launch countdown, but we'd like to let you know first: We're thrilled to announce that we will launch the public beta on August 14! After almost four years of development and ... http://windowsfactor.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2664 Today an update was released to Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 via Microsoft update.This update offers a new build that is an upgrade to earlier Silverlight 2 builds. This update is included in current Silverlight installers. If your computer does not have Silverlight installed, the installer will be offered to ... http://windowsfactor.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2662 Windows Live Mesh is Microsoft's software+services data synchronization platform. Because of its complex nature, most people assume that file synchronization is all there is to Live Mesh, but in reality, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Microsoft has big plans for the service and syncing files between computers and ... http://windowsfactor.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2663 Jul 15, 2008 12:17 PM The future of a teenage computer hacker who accessed computers worldwide could be with the New Zealand Police.Eighteen-year-old Owen Walker from Whitianga was caught after a global investigation into an international cyber crime ring. His arrest followed an 18 month investigation by New Zealand, Dutch ... http://windowsfactor.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2661 Ina Fried: I've certainly given them a hard time about it, so it's only fair to point out that as of Friday morning, Microsoft's Vista Compatibility Center Web site is now live.The site, in beta form, lists about 9,000 hardware and software products and their Vista readiness. Microsoft had planned ... http://windowsfactor.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2659 IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip.The IBM documents have the eight-core Power7 being arranged in dual-chip modules. So, ... http://windowsfactor.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2660 The Scottish Government is investigating a cunning plan to use computer games to stop teenage girls becoming pregnant.The idea is to develop a computer game where a girl has to look after a baby for 72 hours and comes from an Expert Working Group on Infant Mental Health. If girls ... http://windowsfactor.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2658 Computer security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM believe computer software would be more secure if, like a perishable food product, it were labeled with an expiration date. In a newly published paper, Stefan Frei and Martin May of the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory at ETH Zurich, Thomas ... http://windowsfactor.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2655 Microsoft's Bill Gates, in an NBC interview with Tom Brokaw, said a deal with Yahoo is unlikely, according to a CNBC report Friday.Yahoo fell 2.81 percent to $20.77 per share in late morning trading, as the broader markets also slumped.During his interview, Gates said "I don't think that one is ... http://windowsfactor.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2653 In an unprecedented move, Microsoft has committed to providing support services for its soon to be retired Windows XP through 2014 -- a full 13 years after the operating system was originally released. In a letter sent to customers this week, Microsoft senior VP Bill Veghte said the software maker ... http://windowsfactor.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2654