Date: 11/06/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft, google

New Virtual Earth interface merges gaming world photorealism with images of real-world cities.
Photos: Virtual Earth 3D marries maps, search
Video: Microsoft takes on Google

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6132967.html

Date: 11/07/06 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

Limited attacks are already emerging for the 'extremely critical' flaw in ActiveX Control, Microsoft acknowledges.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6133028.html

Date: 11/08/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, microsoft

Search giant's CEO says the company is targeting the neo-network computer and not Microsoft with all its Web-based applications.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6133462.html

Date: 11/08/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: microsoft, google

Internet search engine leader, Google has warned Australia (why does Google start sounding like Microsoft with each passing day?) of going back to “pre-internet era” if the proposed changes to Australia’s copyright laws are legislated. “Given the vast size of the Internet, it is impossible for a search engine to contact personally each owner of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-warns-australia-of-going-back-to-pre-internet-era/

Date: 11/08/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

The big moves by Oracle and Microsoft, along with the newly-announced decision by Adobe to open source some code, has customers of all sizes asking the same question. Is this real?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/46728148/

Date: 11/11/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft moves Windows Live Mail out of beta in The Netherlands, but won't launch final version elsewhere until next year, later than scheduled.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6134643.html

Date: 11/13/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: microsoft

bare with me for a sec...

so i'm having hardware issues with my multi dvd burner, where it recognizes dvd's that are already burned or oem. but at soon as i put in a dvd-r or rw it 'becomes' a cd-rom. it also does dvd-ram so it barely burns to those, if i add tooo larg a file, it give me errors.

after taling to various people, and thinking i'd have to do this anyways, i finally broke and began to reinstall windows.
1- i have oem xp home with sp2 UPGRADE version
2- i have oem win 98 [and bootable copy]

so i go an drop the bootable copy in the drive, but it doesn load properly and goes stright to dos c: drive

so i goto my f: drive [which is technically my g: drive] and open the dir, and run setup.exe on f:\win98>

it runs scan disc instead, and i'm thinking it needs to do this to install...
so wrong

it precieded to call my i: [external] drive my d: [internal] drive and told me i had errors so i was like fix it, after it did the same to the c: drive...
and it renamed all my files into chk except one folder??? and the files that iomega installed to run the external drive, i wish i had created a recovery floppy at that point, but it prooved useless later anyways as i will explain, and it stopped 1/2 way through saying that there weren't enough filenames (ie: FILE0000.CHK ) for all the files in the drive [iomega external 160 GIG]... yeah
so it stopped and left me with 9,999 FILE####.CHK files and no idead wtf they were originally, it also told me to rename or DELETE? [fuck no!] the files so that it could create more... and finish running

i went and called microsoft and they gave me the run arround, though i do have two free service calls or tech supports since i'm still under warrenty, so i give em a chance, while my wife is flipping out i the back ground as we had important personal and leagal files, let alone programs installed, projects, videos, images, and iso/mds files too

so after recieving nill phone call at the apointed time i went to a friends and downloaded a couple of chk recovery programs 'unchk' and 'filechk' which both did a good job, but did not recognized all the files, and did not know all of the extentions to all the files in the hdd, their file names or their original locations, so i began weeding out the other files, like vob, which are large files anyways and weren't recognized, etc etc...

so then my dumb ass ran program again, and got fucked for it, it now says that the drive has 160 gigs, has 14 gigs free, but i can only see 40 gigs of files/folders in in the hdd

and i lost all the fils that had been renamed, got a bitchload more chk files, all small and got no idea WTF is going on anymore

i did creat a recovery floppy at that point, the second scandisk run, but i cannot find the disc anywhere

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/709812.html

Date: 11/13/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, web, microsoft

The Microsoft browser will soon use a green address bar to indicate that you can trust a Web site--but it will leave some smaller businesses out.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6134647.html

Date: 11/13/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: microsoft

For those that need to test pages in both MSIE 6.0 and MSIE 7.0 (which, I expect, means somewhere above 90% of this community), I've found that Jon Galloway's IE7 Standalone works pretty nicely. The quick way to install it:

1. Create a directory for IE7 on your hard drive. Personally, I like c:\Program Files\IE7, but the specific path isn't crucial.
   
2. Get an IE7 installer from Microsoft. Download it into that directory. Do not install it.
   
3. Also download Galloway's IE7 Standalone installer into the same directory. On Galloway's Downloads page, scroll down to "IE7 Standalone" and click the "download" link.
   
4. Unpack the files in Galloway's Zip file, so that you have two .reg files, two .bat files, a text file, an Internet Shortcut, and Microsoft's executable all in the same directory.
   
5. Run "IE7 standalone Setup.bat" to set it up.

Date: 11/13/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft is tagging Internet Explorer 7 as a "high priority" update, but the company is taking longer to distribute it than some expected.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6135040.html

Date: 11/14/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, virus, microsoft, google

An error in Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare security product caused it to flag Google's Gmail service as a virus.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6135154.html

Date: 11/15/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, microsoft

Microsoft's CEO says Web services as the most important technological development of the next decade.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6135689.html

Date: 11/15/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Don't be confused by the illusion of a truce; developers are no safer from Microsoft patents now than they were before. Instead, Microsoft has used this patent pledge to indicate that, in their view, the only good Free Software developer is an isolated, uncompensated, unimportant Free Software developer.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/49650354/

Date: 11/15/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

Microsoft's IE and Office, Apple's Mac OS X and people themselves are among the Internet's weak links, the security group says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6135844.html

Date: 11/17/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, microsoft

I think the most important question is whether Hilf can show Microsoft a way to profit from all this. The bottom line remains the bottom line. And there is no way on Earth Microsoft will ever earn the margins from open source it gets from proprietary software.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/50691871/

Date: 11/20/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology, asp, linux, microsoft

Users are in an uproar but, according to Groklaw, the threat is real, at least in regards those Linux users who also use Microsoft's .Net. Such enterprises will only be able to use the "open source" aspects of Microsoft's technology if they also switch to SUSE.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/51728130/

Date: 11/21/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

Q&A Steve Berkowitz, in charge of MSN and Windows Live, talks about what Microsoft has to do to make strides online.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6137490.html

Date: 11/21/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: java, linux, microsoft

Most of you don't appear to take Ballmer's threat seriously. That's good. But does it make you more likely to seek a strategy in the future that takes you away from Microsoft, say through the use of GPL Java and Linux?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/52156548/

Date: 11/27/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Americans are not going to knuckle-under to a Microsoft monopoly on software development. More particularly, the rest of the world won't. And Microsoft doesn't do politics particularly well.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/54603479/

Date: 11/29/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, microsoft

New version of WGA Notifications tool includes added changes in response to continued criticism of Microsoft over the software.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6139161.html