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Now that smart phones have decent cameras, many people won't need to carry an additional gadget with them all the time. But we're also going to want to make sure those memories we record get properly archived, at home on Windows PCs, and in the cloud via connected services.
more The Windows 8 Start screen is just the latest in a long line of Windows user interfaces, some evolutionary, some revolutionary. But understood in retrospect, this new UI makes plenty of sense, and it certainly has precedent in Windows UIs past.
more Tracking Protection is a new IE 9 feature that limits the browser's communication with certain web sites, which in turn prevents content on those sites from tracking your online activities. Tracking Protection performs its magic using one or more tracking protection lists, each of which works like a combination white list and black list.
more When Microsoft released the public Beta version of Internet Explorer 9 last fall, I began writing a series of Feature Focus articles that touched on each major new feature in this important browser release. Now, with the final version of IE 9 available, it's time to take another look at those new features and update the series to address features that were added after the Beta.
more Internet Explorer 9 is faster, more secure, more standards compliant, and more efficient than any previous IE version, and if you're using Windows 7, it offers the best OS integration features around. It's available today. Should you switch?
more Today, Microsoft is releasing the final major pre-release milestone of Internet Explorer 9, a release candidate build that the company tells me is very, very close to final. I've only had the RC build for a short time, so a full review isn't yet possible. But I'll save that for the final release of IE: For now, let's take a look at what's new in the release candidate.
more Microsoft this week quietly released a second major version of its free security solution for individuals and very small businesses, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 2.0. This version of the product looks and works much like its predecessor, but unlike the original version, which appeared in September 2009, the new version offers deeper integration with other Windows-based security technologies
more Like other browsers, Internet Explorer 9 dispenses with the traditionally separate address bar and search box, replacing both with a single control that Microsoft calls the One Box.
more When Microsoft launched the "wave 3" version of its Windows Live Essentials suite back in January (see my review), one big piece of the puzzle was missing: Windows Live Movie Maker, a major reworking ...
more Late last week, Microsoft announced something that virtually no one--myself included--saw coming. Rather than continue with its previous approach to dealing with antitrust regulators from the EU--an a...
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