If you install Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (XP SP3) and either already have, or upgrade to, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), you will never again be able to use IE6. That is the word on Microsoft Developer Network's Internet Explorer blog, where Microsoft have just published an article on IE and XP Service Pack 3 that may cause you to think again before upgrading your version of Internet Explorer. Prematurely installing Service Pack 3 will block your ability to downgrade IE7/8 back to IE6, and as we've told you here, while IE6 is pretty stable, IE7 is fraught with peril.
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If you install Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (XP SP3) and either already have, or upgrade to, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), you will never again be able to use IE6. That is the word on Microsoft Developer Network's Internet Explorer blog, where Microsoft have just published an article on IE and XP Service Pack 3 that may cause you to think again before upgrading your version of Internet Explorer. Prematurely installing Service Pack 3 will block your ability to downgrade IE7/8 back to IE6, and as we've told you here, while IE6 is pretty stable, IE7 is fraught with peril. Poor misunderstood and beleaguered Microsoft. Though at times they can appear to be their own worst enemy, at others they appear more to be the victims of others in the operating system ecosystem, over whom they have no control and seemingly little influence. Leading among the causes of Vista crashes are drivers by Nvidia, followed by drivers by Intel and ATI (now AMD). If you have been experiencing Microsoft Vista problems - such as the infamous "nvlddmkm has stopped working" issue - you may need the Vista 940105 patch. While there's been an outpouring of more than the usual amount of angst regarding Windows Vista problems lately, due to the incompatability of some Vista drivers, this isn't a Vista vs XP issue, and in fact some problems with Vista are not Vista's fault. In this particular case, applying the Vista 940105 patch should fix your problems. So instead of jumping on the "Vista sucks" bandwagon, try downloading the Vista 940105 patch. Microsoft has announced this week a security hole in MS Word - well, actually it's in the Jet Database engine, but that creates a vulnerability in MS Word, which attackers can exploit to gain remote access and control of your computer. Nearly all versions of Windows, including XP, 2000 (2K) and many Windows Server editions, are vulnerable. In fact the only versions of Windows not vulnerable to this attack are Vista, and Windows Server 2003 SP2. According to a tip received by the Internet Patrol, the resident evil behind the throngs of social networking and other sites that are tricking people into logging into their AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail accounts, and scraping their address book, has a name, and that name is Sigma Visual Technologies. Sigma Visual Technologies provides software that allows sites to get their users to import and email all of their contacts in their address books. Put another way, it lets these sites scrape and spam your contacts. In your name! Today was an eventful day for mobile handheld device owners. First, the RIM Blackberry network went down - again - leaving thousands of Blackberry users in the dark. Then, it was announced that Microsoft was buying Palo Alto-based Danger, the company behind the Danger Hiptop - more popularly known as the Tmobile Sidekick. Microsoft's sexy Santa Claws instant message buddy bot started spewing bad Santa porn to a couple of young girls who had sent a special letter to Santa bot. During the Santa chat session, the girls offered Santa Clause some pizza. But when told to "eat it", the dirty Santa responded with "It's fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else... " (Santas little helper, perhaps?) At this point the girls' uncle stepped in and told the evil Santa that he was a dirty bastard, and that naughty Santa responded "I think you're dirty bastard" (apparently he was also drunk Santa, or, at least, inarticulate Santa). Must be Santa bot had a flaw, for never before in Santa Claus history has he been known to be a perv! The mega popular Facebook site has joined the ranks of social networking sites that trick you into providing your password so that they can steal your AOL , Yahoo, MSN, or other address book, and spam all of your contacts. Only this time it's with a twist - they are actually spamming your AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) contacts in your Buddy List! The spam starts out like this: "According to his Facebook status, Friend's Name (their username) is now "Friend's Nickname". Friend invites you to join Facebook and keep up with what he and your other friends are doing." What we want to know is WHY are AOL, Yahoo, and MSN continuing to let this go on? Microsoft has announced a new software product and platform to allow people to store their electronic medical records online and share them with health care providers and technologists, insurance providers, and medical device providers. Dubbed Microsoft Health Vault, Microsoft says that it will allow people to "collect, store, and share health information." But should you? If you're looking for free online music downloads - legal free music downloads and free music videos downloads - then have we got news for you! Spiral Frog is a new free legal music downloads service offering free music downloads! That's right, absolutely free music downloads! Rather than charge for its music downloads it is instead advertising supported - so you get music downloads free while Spiral Frog gets to show you ads. The twist is that these totally free music downloads will not play on iPods or Zunes. It also won't work with any Apple computer. So you can get all your music downloads free, but they won't work with your Mac, iPod or Zune. That is because Spiral Frog relies on the Microsoft Digital Rights Management (DRM) system its free music downloads. When it comes to computer safety and Internet security issues, even the best Internet security and computer Internet security software may be no match for the enemy within. Because it turns out that Microsoft announces an average of two new threats every week to your Microsoft Windows computer safety! And no, automatic Microsoft Windows updates and having Windows service pack 2 isn't going to protect you. For the third time in as many months, Hotmail is down, and users across the country cannot get to the Hotmail servers to read and retrieve their email. Users across the world are flocking to our site, searching for information and help with queries such as "hotmail down", "hotmail down?", "hotmail is down", "is hotmail down", "is hotmail down?", "hotmail servers down", "hotmail down today", "hotmail servers", and "hotmail outage". If this has affected you, then it probably really is time to switch to Gmail or Yahoo. If you must have free email, we strongly recommend switching from Hotmail to another free email service provider such as Yahoo, AOL, or Gmail. We personally recommend either Yahoo or AOL. If you use MSN Messenger or email, chances are that at some point you will find yourself using, or wanting, emoticons for MSN. Emoticons are emotional graphics - visual ways to express the way you feel when words alone just aren't enough. Of course, you probably knew that. But what you may not have known is just how many emoticons for MSN there are (such as alien, 3d, and even erotic adult emoticons!) - or where to get them. Or how to create or make your own emoticons for MSN! Breaking News: Hotmail experienced what appeared to be a nationwide outage today - perhaps worldwide - with Internet Patrol users reporting being unable to access their Hotmail accounts all across the United States, from Los Angeles to New York, from Oregon to Texas, from DC to Chicago to South Carolina and Wisconsin. Microsoft has filed a patent to allow them to scrape your hard drive, searching through the contents of your files, to serve you targeted advertising that they just know you'll want to see because it will be based on the contents of those files. It's kind of like having Bill Gates reading your computer over your shoulder and saying "Ooh, I have just the thing for you!" Microsoft this week issued seven "critical" Microsoft Windows updates and patches, including an Internet Explorer update, and they want to make sure that you update your Windows! Because each of the seven updates and patches are rated as "critical", it really is advised that if you are running a computer with Windows, you pay immediate attention to these. Can't get into your Hotmail email? Not getting that expected email from a Hotmail user? That's because the Hotmail servers are down, again. Millions of PCs that were sold as being "Windows Vista Capable" aren't, according to a lawsuit filed this week against Microsoft. The Windows Vista lawsuit, on behalf of an as yet undetermined number of consumers who purchased PCs in the past year with the expectation that they would be able to run all of the Windows Vista features, alleges that Microsoft knowningly and intentionally mislead consumers by allowing PC manufacturers to label PCs on the market as "Windows Vista Capable" when that meant only that the PC hardware would be able to run Vista Basic, and would not be able to run all the features that everyone is anticipating from Vista. Recently I started getting invitations to join Flixster from complete strangers. Obviously, this was spam, but why were these complete strangers sending it to me? And why were they always from AOL and Hotmail? Now people are asking - is Flixstr accessing your AOL and Hotmail contacts list and spamming them in your name? Microsoft joined the Internet Video sites today with its launch of Microsoft Soapbox. The new free Internet video site, offering free Internet video clips contributed by users, like YouTube and YouTube owner Google's Google Video, hopes to capture YouTube viewers' hearts and allegiance. On first glance, Microsoft Soapbox looks like YouTube and Google Video in the ways that you would expect. But is Microsoft Soapbox similar to YouTube enough to really be a contender? And is "similar to YouTube" enough, or does it need to be far better? Microsoft has issued alerts and updates this week for both Windows Media Player and Outlook Express, explaining that both are open to serious attack, which could render a user's computer under the control from someone out on the Internet. The Outlook Express update affects Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 and 6, and the Windows Media Player issue affects both Windows Media Format Series Runtime, and Windows Media Player 6.4 (and even affects people running later versions of Windows Media Player such as Windows Media Player 11). Microsoft has advised that they are working on investigating a vulnerability in Word for Windows and Mac which allows attackers to gain access to a user's home computer. All of the following version of Word are at risk: Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac, as well as Microsoft Works 2004, 2005, and 2006. If you are running Windows, and are connected to the Internet, chances are you have started receiving messages from your Windows system telling you that IE7 - Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 - is ready for you to download and install, to upgrade whatever version of IE you are currently using. So, should you download and install IE7? There have already been many people who have regretted installing IE7. If you've been wondering about the Microsoft Zune MP3 music player, and in particular if you have been wondering how much it will cost and where you can buy it, wonder no more. Because Wal-mart accidentally (or not?) leaked that information earlier this week. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through its United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has warned all Americans running Windows to make haste to apply the MS06-040 patch which was issued by Microsoft this week. The MS06-040 patch corrects a flaw which makes computers running Windows particularly vulnerable. Microsoft this week announced the launch of their Windows Live Spaces service. According to Microsoft, the Windows Live Spaces service offers "social networking features designed to help users discover and connect with friends through their trusted contacts and allows customers to personalize their Windows Live Spaces with gadgets." In other words, a direct run-up against MySpace. But they do have the Windows Live Gadgets - can MySpace gadgets be far behind? You might have heard the word "Zune" recently in the news, or near the office water cooler. Zune is the codename, now nearly certainly confirmed as the actual name, for what some are dubbing "the iPod killer": Microsoft's new Zune MP3 player. In addition to the Zune music player, of course, Microsoft has their own iZune music store to go with it. Ok, just kidding, it's not really called "iZune", it's called "Urge". A security hole has hit Microsoft Excel, of all programs. We're used to security holes in our browsers, our instant messenger programs, and even,sometimes, Word. But in our spreadsheet program? In Excel?? Robert Scoble, Microsoft's chief blogger, is leaving Microsoft to join start-up PodTech.net, amid much speculation as to why. Did Microsoft not treat him well? "No!" says Scoble, emphatically. The Microsoft patches for May, 2006 are out, including two that affect Windows XP, and one that affects Exchange. Google is complaining loudly that Microsoft has made their own search engine, MSN Search, the default search engine for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) - well they would now, wouldn't they? This despite the fact that Google is the default search engine for Firefox, Safari and Opera. Microsoft has just released the pre-release beta version of Windows Explorer 7 (IE7), and would like you to help them test it! Got an IRQL_NOT_GREATER_OR_LESS_THAN error? Plagued by Stop 0x0000000A (0xFFFFFFE8, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x804DA07F) and a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)? Read on... No more support for some versions of Microsoft Windows. Microsoft has announced that they are going to cease providing support for Microsoft Windows ME, Windows 98, and Windows 98SE, effective in less than 90 days. MSN has partnered with London's National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to offer a "Make Your Clicks Count" charity search campaign. Microsoft this week, on what has become known as "Patch Tuesday" (the second Tuesday of every month), has issued seven security updates for the Windows operating system, classifying two of them as critical updates. Microsoft has said this week that they are receiving reports of a newly-discovered vulnerability in some versions of Internet Explorer. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability can be exploited in one of four different ways, involving any one of WMF images, email attachments, link poisoning, or getting a user to view an email message in the Outlook Express preview pane. The Feds want your search records from Google, in a lawsuit designed to prove how much searching there is being done for child pornography. Should you be worried? You bet you should. And guess what. AOL, MSN and Yahoo have already given those records up. Microsoft has released the WMF patch for the Windows Metafile WMF security issue nearly a week early. And you should get the WMF patch right now! Microsoft and Google have settled the lawsuit which resulted from Google's poaching of top executive Kai-Fu Lee. Is this the end of it? Formal Announcement of the Microsoft Instant Messenger and Yahoo IM Partnership comes from Yahoo and Microsoft. Yahoo IM and MSN Instant Messenger are about to start talking to each other, so that users of one service can easily chat with their friends on the other service. Can you repair Internet Explorer? There are ways to repair Internet Explorer, however they can be tricky, and is it worth it? Is Microsoft about to buy AOL? Or at least a stake in Time Warner's AOL? That's what the rumours are, and nobody is denying them. Microsoft Corporation has been granted a patent on the "double click". We kid you not. |
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