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Waiting for Windows 8, DirectX SDK Evolution Freezes

By JMH on July 29, 2011, 11:52 pm

While Microsoft has been hard at work building the next major iteration of Windows, some of the resources provided for Windows 7 and earlier Windows c...

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Firefox 6 Final, Firefox 7 Beta and Firefox 8 Aurora in About 3 Weeks

By JMH on July 29, 2011, 11:50 pm

The next major iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser, Firefox 6, is now less than a month away. In fact, the plan is to release Firefox 6 Final i...

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Windows 8 Tiles For Windows 7

By Conduct on July 29, 2011, 7:37 pm

Metro UI. For all we know will be an integral part of the Windows 8 Operating System. Part of Metro UI is a tile based design that you may have seen o...

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Windows Server 8 Sneak Preview.

By JMH on July 29, 2011, 10:07 am

We have not really heard a lot about Microsoft’s upcoming server operating system Windows Server 8. Information are hard to come by at this point in t...

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Windows 7 SP1 System Update Readiness Tool

By JMH on July 29, 2011, 3:02 am

Updated continually by Microsoft, the latest version of the System Update Readiness Tool is designed to play nice with Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)....

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Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis: Introducing Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference

By JMH on July 29, 2011, 3:00 am

Many of you use Sysinternals tools to help you manage computing responsibilities ranging from monitoring/understanding pr

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Fix Windows 7 SP1 USB Storage Device Access Failures

By JMH on July 29, 2011, 2:56 am

In specific scenarios, customers attempting to access a USB storage device from Windows 7 will be unable to do so. In the eventuality that the process...

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The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient and immune to dust

By JMH on July 28, 2011, 10:25 am

There’s a fundamental flaw with fan-and-heatsink cooling systems: no matter how hard the fan blows, a boundary layer of motionless, highly-insulating ...

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Automated Fix for Windows 7 SP1 Install Failures 0x8004a029, 0x80004005 - E_FAIL

By JMH on July 28, 2011, 6:48 am

A few months ago Microsoft confirmed that some customers were experiencing issues when attempting to install Service Pack 1 for Windows 7. Specificall...

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Google+ Identity Crisis: What’s at Stake With Real Names and Privacy

By JMH on July 27, 2011, 12:55 am

After a steady stream of angry blog posts and heated debate among its own users over the value of pseudonymity on the web, Google announced Monday tha...

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