Traenk is still upset by his recent dive into Windows security.  So much more was promised when the merger of Windows 9x and NT lines was announced, so long ago. I honestly expected better.Long ago, Microsoft announced that it would merge the then NT and Windows 9x lines of products.  Wow!  That means a file access control system, logging, different accounts and filespaces for accounts!  Finally!  We would have a secure version of Windows for our homes!And we do have the potential.  If you opt for the home versions of Windows, the ones most likely sold with a...

According to Sina Tech, Microsoft will launch its new Surface RT tablet equipped with Qualcomm processor .The source said, some of the new Surface RT will use Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, this processor will provide faster wireless data connection speed.The current Surface RT uses Nvidia's Tegra processor. Some versions of the Surface RT will continue to use Tegra processor.By adding Qualcomm processor as another option, Microsoft will further expand Surface RT function. Despite Microsoft has high expectations on Surface RT, but the Surface RT tablet sales are not satisfying. IDC data show t...

Several days ago, one of our customers submitted a sample (SHA1: fbe71968d4c5399c2906b56d9feadf19a35beb97, detected as TrojanDropper:Win32/Vundo.L). This trojan hijacks  the hosts “vk.com” and “vkontakte.ru” (both social networking sites in Russia)and redirects them to 92.38.209.252, but achieves this in an unusual way. A common  method used to hijack a website and redirect it to a site of the attacker’s choice is to add an entry in the Windows hosts file located in the %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc directory. However, when we open this file on an ...

Have you ever frustrated when you want to add page number in a Microsoft word document start from page 2 or later. The way to ease you is to add sections to the word document in which page you want to add page number. The procedures are (in Word 2007) :1. Goto Page Layout->Breaks->Section breaks.2. In Section Breaks zone, you can choose Next Page and some others way to set sections.3. Then when you want to add the page number into next section. Go to Insert->Page Number->Format Page Number. 4. In Page numbering area, check the start at and set the page number to 1. Then c...

Google Apps team annouced not supporting IE 8 and lower version of IE, this will affect every Google App user including commercial, education and government. The time for leaving IE 8 is 15 November, at that time, IE 10 will be released for a few weeks.Google Apps team explained here:As we announced last year, we support the latest version of Google Chrome (which automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available) as well as the current and prior major release of Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. Each time a new version of one of th...

According to TheVerge, Microsoft Windows 8.1 will be released on October 18. Windows 8 users can download the free update on Windows Store one day before the release date, There will be a formal release press on October 18. In next few weeks, Windows 8 RTM will be open to PC manufacturers and partners.In this year's WPC, Microsoft demonstrated their latest Windows 8.1 on various devices most of the time, including the 8-inch Tablet PC, laptops, desktops and even streamed content from PC to Xbox One. The Windows 8.1 highlights include the come back of "Start button", support for multi-screen ap...

Microsoft launched Office Store, with the intention to build an application platform for Office. The Office Store, is an Office application platform that allows third-party developers to build Office-related applications, used to enhance the functionality and usability of the Office.Microsoft Office product manager, said: "The launch of the Office Store based on three considerations: integration, simplicity and developer opportunity. Integration refers to that we hope to help users bring some web-based or external tools Office into Office; csimplicity refers to that the Office Store applicatio...

For a long time, there is a doubt among lots of Windows users especially those English speaking users, that is why Microsoft chooses Alt+F4 to close a window instead of Alt+Q. Alt+Q is more comfortable to press for many keyboards, also Q represents Quit and it is easier for people to understand. Recently Microsoft answered this doubt.Raymond Chen, longtime Microsoft developer and semi-official Windows historian, said the reason is that not everyone speaks English. It doesn't work that way in many other languages. You have to choose a common key sequence which people fr...