The ‘Catastrophic’ Windows 7 bug and security vulnerability that never was

Perhaps I should’ve used a different headline for this post. Something like “InfoWorld’s conspiracy to derail the Windows 7 product launch”. But that would be giving in to exactly the temptation I want to highlight— the one many bloggers, writers, and editors fall victim to, or otherwise find hard to resist in the quest for […]

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Trust Thy Certificate? New SSL Vulnerabilities Revealed At BlackHat 2009

It’s BlackHat time in Vegas, and I was expecting some interesting security revelations to make headlines, but not as serious as the SSL vulnerability revealed by independent security researcher Moxie Marlinspike. Moxie showed a way to intercept SSL traffic using what he calls a null-termination certificate. Reportedly, some programs terminate processing of a certificate’s subject […]

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Ready, Set, 7: Windows 7 Released To Manufacturing

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 were released to manufacturing (RTMed) today. These will become generally available on October 22nd. IT Pros and developers with TechNet or MSDN subscriptions will be able to download the English version on August 6th, with other languages following on October 1st. If you’ve been waiting to get a […]

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UAE BlackBerry Update A Surveillance App

Unsuspecting BlackBerry customers in the UAE have been pushed out a surveillance app disguised as a BlackBerry update by telco Etisalat. Rather than improve BlackBerry handheld performance, the update emails received messages back to a central server! After downloading the app developed by Milpitas, CA-based SS8, a provider of communications intercept and surveillance solutions, users […]

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Windows 7 and Direct Access: The Anywhere Experience

Over the past few weeks, Windows 7 Release Candidate has been widely downloaded, used, praised (including by some very vocal critics), and loved. It’s easy to fall in love with the Windows 7 user experience, and I don’t just mean the lovely wallpapers and themes that are in stark contrast to the kind of visual […]

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User Self-Service: Message Tracking from OWA

One of the things on top of my Exchange wish lists, and I’m sure on the Exchange wish lists of many Exchange folks, is allowing users to help themselves with common tasks such as managing Distribution Groups, and tracking the status of their own messages as I suggested in Message Tracking as part of OWA/Outlook […]

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Macs discover AutoDiscover: Exchange Server Support in Snow Leopard

Apple’s iPhone and new Mac hardware announcements are certainly going to get a lot more airplay today, but there’s something Exchange users (who use Macs) will welcome. Snow Leopard, Apple’s forthcoming Mac OS upgrade adds Exchange Server support to the Mac. From Phil Schiller’s keynote at Apple’s WWDC 2009, the following screenshot (courtesy Engadget) shows […]

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Microsoft responds to VMWare’s FUD

Much as I love blogging, I’m quite enjoying this unannounced break the past 3 weeks or so! A lot of interesting news, events (including TechEd 2009 in L.A.) and tidbits over the past weeks, and I’m sure you’ve kept up with it. (Incidentally, this also happened to be the first year in a long while […]

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Windows 7’s Windows XP Mode: Removing Application Compatiblity From The Equation

Earlier yesterday, Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera revealed a secret new feature in Windows 7— Windows XP Mode (XPM). XPM allows you to run Windows XP in a virtualized session, and includes a license for Windows XP SP3. As Thurrott & Rivera’s blog post says: Windows XP Mode dramatically changes the compatibility story for Windows […]

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Using Outlook’s Instant Search on Windows Server 2008

If you have Microsoft Outlook 2007 installed on Windows Server 2008 (perhaps because you’re also using a lab server as your workstation, or require Outlook for testing), when you start Outlook it complains about Windows Search service not being installed and that Outlook cannot provide fast search results when using the Instant Search feature. Figure […]

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