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Tim Sneath, Microsoft’s Director of Windows and Silverlight technical evangelism, has posted a seriously complete list of Windows 7 secrets, tips, and tricks. It covers a range of things which are new to Win7, including the ridiculously new taskbar (hint: it actually works well now). One tip didn’t work out for me, though. Tim describes [...]

The news on the street is that Microsoft has confirmed that the new Xbox 360 Arcade units now shipping have gotten a RAM bump to 256MBs. This fixes an internal storage issue which has been plaguing owners to the point where Microsoft was giving out free external upgrades. You can go look at the site, [...]

Microsoft has not been on the top of the mobile web browser heap ever, so it doesn’t know what its like to be there. The only thing they know is what others have done and succeeded at, like Apple’s Mobile Safari and even Palm’s Blazer and the upcoming 3rd party SkyFire. So, IE6 for WinMo [...]

Surprise, surprise. Windows is a sieve and either the holes are getting larger or the malware authors are getting smarter. Regardless of which, Microsoft itself is reporting that it has witnessed an increase  of 13% in the number of malware objects which its own anti-malware tool has been removing. El Reg indicates some solidarity with [...]

Microsoft released a lot of details about various items its working on today at their Professional Developers Conference show. The big news was Windows 7 itself where they detailed a wide range of updated features and changes from how Vista works (or doesn’t, depending on which side of the fence you’re on). Steve Sinofsky also [...]