E-tailer Amazon.com has once again jumped the gun with Windows XP by selling pre-order copies on its website by mistake. For a short time yesterday, Amazon.com offered copies of Windows XP Professional Edition for $299, or $199 as an upgrade.
Depending on the certificates corrupted, the act would prevent the victim from encrypting and decrypting email, encrypting files and complicate the use of secure websites, Microsoft advised. Microsoft admitted last night to a critical flaw in most...
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it has released a near-final test version of updates to its Windows and Windows Server operating systems. The company said it has reached the "release candidate" stage for Service Pack 1 of Windows Server 2003.
Specifically, Allchin said Microsoft will make better use of the no-execute chip feature, which helps prevent overflow errors. The software maker, which has been tooling around with the 64-bit version of Windows for the better part of two years, is...
The European Commission's attempt to increase competition by forcing Microsoft to offer a version of Windows XP without its Media Player looks increasingly forlorn, with many retailers and computer resellers now having indicated they won't sell...
The patch, which Microsoft had rated "critical", was designed to prevent attackers from exploiting a vulnerability that could allow a remote code execution. Microsoft on Thursday issued a "hotfix" for a fault in a security patch designed to correct...