Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1 Beta – PC Advisor

Analyze your Windows system for common security misconfigurations. The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer scans for missing hotfixes and bugs in Office 2000, Office XP, and Internet Explorer 5.01 that’s running on Windows 2000 or XP. You can run

Minimum Windows Requirements – NFL
Pentium III 1GHz or higher or equivalent AMD processor with a minimum of 512MB of memory One of the following operating systems, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, or Windows Media Center Edition Microsoft Internet

New Windows offers similar experience to milestones with some – DailyTech
With Windows 7 scheduled to hit retailers mid-to-late 2009, Microsoft has been working in a frenzy to prepare for its launch. It bumped up the development schedule for Windows Vista’s second service pack, airing its beta early this month . Windows 7

Internet Explorer: How safe is it? – Houston Chronicle
Microsoft is famous for issuing security-related fixes to Windows and its software applications on the second Tuesday of each month, a day that’s come to be known with near-affection as Patch Tuesday. Occasionally, though, the company will issue

No doubt about this: Hope floats for Miami Dolphins – Miami Herald
Coach Tony Sparano and other Dolphins discuss how they’ve come back from being losers last year to division winners in 2008. Everywhere but inside the joyous Dolphins locker room Sunday, the immediate prevailing thought was that Miami’s miraculous

First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1 – Tech.slashdot.org
The other A. N. Other writes “It seems that Microsoft couldn’t keep the lid on Windows 7 beta 1 until the new year. By now, several news outlets have their hands on the beta 1 code and have posted screenshots and information about this build. ZDNet’s

The Digital Home – CNET News
Windows 7 will hit store shelves sometime next year. And if I had to guess exactly when it would happen, November 2 would be my answer. Yes, I know that Microsoft has said that it plans on releasing Windows 7 by early 2010 and there has been no

Windows XP pauses again in its shuffle out the door – Beta News
Microsoft is making an accommodation through a flexible inventory program that will allow distributors to place their final orders by January 31, 2009 and take delivery against those orders through May 30, 2009. This is not an extension of sales

Get Windows 7′s features on your Vista or XP PC – Techradar.com
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer recently told the world that “Windows 7 will be Vista, but a lot better.” That sounds great, unless you bought Windows Vista believing that it was ‘a lot better’ than your version of XP and just found out that you may

Read all ‘SQL Server’ posts in Security – CNET News
Microsoft is investigating reports of a flaw that could allow someone to remotely execute code on a system running certain versions of SQL Server. “Microsoft is aware that exploit code has been published on the Internet for the vulnerability