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Firefox 3.1 to jump on privacy bandwagon?
News Photos: The jet pack blasts off The Firefox community, notably developer Ehsan Akhgari, has been working on the feature since last year, but private browsing did not make it into June's release of... [16 Sep 2008]
IE8 unleashed as Microsoft plays Firefox catch-up
News Photos: The jet pack blasts off In another feature, known as InPrivate, Microsoft allows the user to suspend caching functions while you surf, useful if the you are using a public computer perhaps.... [28 Aug 2008]
Brics demand feature-packed mobiles
News According to IDC, semiconductor manufacturers are scrambling to pack more components within chips, which help drive costs down by lowering supply chain complexity and saving on phone real estate, making the chips more... [09 Jun 2008]
Windows exec plugs Vista's "green agenda"
News Curran added that the release of Vista Service Pack 1 was "a major milestone", and claimed Vista was "the fastest-selling operating system in the history of operating systems". Curran said that, after security, the most... [27 May 2008]
Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft
News The company also said it was ready with the first "service pack" update for Mac Office 2008, adding things like reliability and performance tweaks, as well as some changes aimed at boosting security. That... [13 May 2008]
Windows Server 2008: Microsoft has listened to users
News Regarding take-up, Illsley said companies will want to see customer case studies and may wait for problems to be ironed out by the first service pack before deciding to take it up. Davis singled out the BitLocker drive... [26 Feb 2008]
Microsoft: 'These programs won't work after Vista SP1…'
News The company said: "Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains many security, reliability and feature updates for Windows Vista. The problems with SP1 will only make backwards compatibility issues worse,... [21 Feb 2008]
Details of Vista SP1 revealed
News Microsoft has revealed details of the changes to its Vista operating system that should come through in Service Pack 1, which is currently in beta form. Microsoft promised to cut the time spent copying files on a single... [12 Dec 2007]
Vista SP1 'lacks wow factor', says Microsoft
News Microsoft's Pete McKiernan, a senior product manager for Windows, told silicon.com sister site CNET News.com one of the purposes of a service pack is to include all the patches that have been released in one package. [04 Oct 2007]
Vista SP1 beta sent to 12,000 testers
News Microsoft has released a beta version of the first service pack of Windows Vista to about 12,000 testers. Microsoft had said back in August it expected to start private testing of the service pack within... [25 Sep 2007]
Microsoft details Vista search tweaks
News The changes are coming with the first service pack to Windows Vista. The software maker also said it has provided an interim test version of the service pack to the technical committee that was appointed... [13 Sep 2007]
Vista SP1 coming early next year
News Microsoft's largest prior discussion of the Vista service pack came in a June court filing, in which the company agreed to make changes to Vista's desktop search feature in response to complaints from... [30 Aug 2007]
Microsoft to open Vista to Google
News In a filing made jointly with the Justice Department on Tuesday night, Microsoft said it would change the search feature as part of the first service pack to Windows Vista. In the filing, Microsoft... [20 Jun 2007]
Office 2003 gets security upgrade
News Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 will be focused on security, said Joshua Edwards, a technical product manager for Office at Microsoft. For example, in Office 2007 it is possible to replace the standard AES encryption with... [27 Apr 2007]
Google going after PowerPoint?
News And what does Google plan to do with the third-party application created for the Google Pack software suite that deletes DoubleClick cookies? Google is adding a feature to its Docs & Spreadsheets... [18 Apr 2007]
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