Still haven’t made up your mind about Internet Explorer 7? No problem, you can always uninstall it and revert to the Internet Explorer 6 web browser that came with your operating system. Unless you’ve upgraded to Windows XP SP3, that is. Because Microsoft is telling computer users that if they install IE7 before XP SP3, [...]
If you’ve got Windows XP SP2, you might want to check the good ol’ Windows Update page today. A week after delaying the launch of Windows XP SP3, Microsoft today released the update through Windows Update. That means even if you don’t go out of your way to download it, there’s a good chance you’ll [...]
**Update**: For the last month or two I’ve been telling you that Microsoft planned to release Windows XP Service Pack 3 through Windows Update today, meaning most Windows XP users would download and install it automatically. But then Microsoft decided to go and make liars of all of us who reported so, by holding off [...]
The new Service Pack 1 version of Windows Vista allows end users to purchase the ‘upgrade edition’ and install it on any PC — with no need to purchase the more expensive “full edition.” The same behavior was present when Vista was originally released, but the fact that the trick wasn’t removed from SP1 suggests [...]
From the Article: “Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista couldn’t have arrived soon enough; this is only exacerbated after I realised that the “Hotfixes and Security Updates” document was 77 pages long. Microsoft generalises these improvements in its “Overview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1” document which details several sections under the broad compass of [...]
Yesterday, Apple issued a record-breaking security update that patched nearly 90 vulnerabilities in both its own code and the third-party applications it bundles with its Tiger and Leopard operating systems. Security Update 2008-002 plugged 87 holes in the client and server editions of Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS 10.5, This single update’s total [...]
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to Windows Vista that addresses feedback from customers. In addition to previously released updates, SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues; supporting new types of hardware; and adding support for several emerging standards. SP1 also will continue to make it [...]
There’ve been a thousand and one ways to get your hands on Windows Vista SP1 or various beta versions over the past few months. But Microsoft is set to post the manual installer for Vista SP1 on March 18. If you’re not in a hurry, you can wait until April when the update will be [...]
It hasn’t even been released yet, but iPhone hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple’s iPhone 2.0 software.
The iPhone Dev Team said yesterday it has figured out a way to hack into the iPhone’s bootloader by taking advantage of the way the iPhone authorizes code that can be written to [...]
As anyone who’s reinstalled Windows XP knows, there have been a lot, and I mean a lot, of updates issued for the operating system, and waiting for them to install (/restart/install/restart) can be laborious, to say the least. Luckily, one helpful soul has done the good work of compiling all the patches made to Windows [...]
So you may have heard, Apple threw a little press event today. And while we won’t get into all of the gritty details (Engadget has already done a pretty good job of that), we did want to highlight a few of the more exciting announcements related to the iPhone SDK:
Apple has licensed Microsoft’s ActiveSync technology [...]
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is marching closer to its scheduled April launch. Canonical has released the 5th Alpha of the next generation of the popular Linux distribution. Among other things, Alpha 5 comes with a new installation option: Users can either run and install Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 using a LiveCD, or they can use [...]
As mentioned in our February 6 update, release to manufacturing (RTM) means exactly that - Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is final and is now released for manufacturing, and to the OEMs for integration with their systems. Public upgrades would come later. In April, as it turns out. Today, we were able to lay our [...]
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 is available to the public. Specific registry settings will allow you to be offered SP3 via Windows Update.
Download the script and run it on a machine currently running Windows XP Service Pack 2. The script sets a registry key on your system. The registry key is required [...]
Want the security goodness of 10.5.2 in a familiar, Tiger-iffic package? You want the new, much improved Security Update 2008-001, available now for client and server versions of 10.4.11. The update includes fixes for URL vulnerabilities in Mail, Terminal and Safari, patches for Parental Controls and X11, and more.
You can find this update in Software [...]
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