HTML 5 in Internet Explorer may mean Microsoft is rejoined the league of civilized nations on browsers, but another Microsoft technology remains under lock and key more firmly than ever. Microsoft’s Silverlight media player has, with version 4 due next month, gone from being closed source but able to work on other platforms – the [...]

Brief Description Service Pack 2, the latest service pack for both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, supports new types of hardware and emerging hardware standards, includes all of the updates that have been delivered since SP1, and simplifies deployment, for consumers, developers, and IT professionals. Quick Details File Name: Windows6.0-KB948465-X86.exe Version: 948465 Knowledge Base [...]

Microsoft confirmed Windows 7 to launch on October 22. Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it is planning for Windows 7 to hit retail shelves and start showing up on new PCs on October 22. Microsoft revealed that it will complete development of Windows 7 in late July and then make the system broadly available to [...]

Microsoft has forgone its Live search engine in favour of the newly launched Bing, now in beta. For those in the know, the service formerly went under the name of Kumo, which sounds better to us, but hey, a good engine is a good engine, and Bing does work well. 9af901df The design overall is [...]