Microsoft today released Beta of Windows Service Pack 2 to the MSDN subscribers. The Beta will be open to general public on Thursday. The Service Pack update also updates the Windows Server 2008.
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Complaints are pouring in on the latest Vista Service Pack 1, which is said to fix 551 bugs in the Windows Vista. People are complaining about slow shutdown times, the infamous “blue screen of death”, sidebar loading problems, remote assistance problems and several others related to drivers and performance on windowsvistablog. Even the tech guys […]
Are you getting lots of “Out of Memory” Errors in Windows Vista. That’s because the way the operating system manages virtual memory. In Vista applications have their own private address space. On 32 bit platforms, applications are generally limited to 2GB as their maximum size of virtual memory. Theses out of memory errors are […]
Last week it was Nokia batteries overheating, this week its Xbox 360 wheel’s. Microsoft will replace parts of its wireless racing wheel. Microsoft received over 50 reports that the wheel’s overheated and released smoke. Microsoft said, the problem is caused only when the unit is plugged into AC or DC outlet, otherwise its safe to […]
Microsoft launches online storage service. For each folder you create, you choose who has access to it. Add new folders, rename them, or change who has access at any time.
Features:
500 MB of free online storage, available from any computer with Internet access.
Create personal, shared, and public folders — you decide who has access to each […]
Microsoft to increase Windows Live Hotmail storage to 5GB from 2GB soon. The software giant acknowledged this in blog post.
“Just when you were wondering how you’d ever fill up 2 or 4 GB of mail, we’ve given you more storage,” wrote Ellie Powers-Boyle, a program manager for Windows Live Hotmail.
Microsoft’s new limit will leap […]
ReadyBoost allows us to use a flash memory device as memory and thus it improves system memory and boosts performance. The flash memory device serves as an additional memory cache that is, memory that the computer can access much more quickly than it can access data […]
Microsoft release a super bundle of security patches for nine security flaws, including four that keep hackers from breaking into computers through web pages.
Microsoft gave four web browsing related patches most “critical” rating. The updates affect many versions of windows, server, office, including Windows XP and Windows Vista. The other two updates target holes in […]