Sick of application forcing you to restart your PC after installing patches the operating system? I have a painful experience when the system automatically rebooted after installing Acrobat Reader’s patch, and I lost all my unsaved data.

Fortunately, the next Windows, Windows Vista, will have a new restart manager called “Freeze Dry“.

Perhaps in most instances, users won’t have to restart Windows Vista after installing the patches or updating an application even while the application is running. In fact, Windows Vista is doing a workaround trick by replacing the patched file and wait for the next time the application is restarted. It is at least useful for some people.
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“Freeze Dry” In Windows Vista

Microsoft is planning to release an anti-phishing filter for Internet Explorer 6.0 (IE6) (the version we are using in WinXP). This new feature will further enhance the web browser and make it a more secure one. Microsoft Phishing Filter is suppose to be integrated to the forthcoming IE7, which will be due next year, but now it will be released ahead of originally planned schedule.

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The Microsoft Phishing Filter will not only help provide consumers with a dynamic system of warning and protection against potential phishing attacks, but — more important — it will also benefit legitimate ISPs and Web commerce site developers that want to try to ensure that their brands are not being “spoofed” to propagate scams and that their legitimate outreach to customers is not confusing or misinterpreted by filtering software.

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Microsoft Phishing Filter

Just 2 weeks ago, Yahoo launched their latest Instant Messenger (IM), Yahoo IM 7.0. Today, Microsoft released its new MSN Messenger, MSN Messenger 7.5, to stay in competition.

I’ve just downloaded and installed it, nothing much different except with some slight enhancement. Among the new features, I saw the Voice Clip, which allows us to send voice clip right through MSN. Of course, you’ll need a microphone to record your voice, and the recipient will need to have either speaker or headphone to listen to it. Sending voice clip is totally FREE.
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Latest MSN Messenger 7.5 Released

We have seen the world record for overclocking of computer processor, which is a stunning 7.1335GHz !! Now let’s have a look of another stunning world record, a large group of people playing Counter Strike, the infamous network computer game, simultaneously. How many people do you think it’s possible?

There were 1073 people playing Counter-Strike 1.1 simultaneously in a LAN party in 2004!! This LAN party was taken place at the Elmia Exhibition and Congress center in Jönköping, Sweden and runs from Thursday morning to Sunday afternoon day and night. This LAN party was sponsored by Microsoft Sweden, while Unisys providing Unisys ES7000 32 CPU / 32 GB RAM Server, running on Microsoft Windows 2003 Datacenter Edition.
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Counter Strike Guinness World Record

This is a security alert to users of Windows 2000 and some early versions of Microsoft XP (I suppose Windows XP without SP1 & SP2 installed). A new worm has been found on Tuesday, August 16, 2005, infected computer systems using Microsoft operating systems (OS). The worm shut down computers in the United States, Germany and Asia, even big companies like CNN, ABC and The New York Times were affected.

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Lysa Myers, a virus researcher for the computer security firm McAfee, Inc., said the worm exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft’s plug-and-play service. “How it’s spreading is it’s looking for machines that are unpatched and running itself,” she said.

Symptoms of infection of this nasty worm include the repeated shutdown and rebooting of a computer, similar to the well known Blaster‘s.
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New Worm Shuts Down PC

Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0, the long await version of the next web browser for Microsoft Windows OS, will have its brand new logo. The new logo has a more stylish look with some shadowing. Furthermore, it has a gold ring like an orbit surrounding the letter “e“.

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This icon and text treatment will be used on the versions of IE 7 for Windows XPSP2, Server 2003 SP1, and x64 versions. We’ll have a slightly different look for the Windows Vista™ version, one that’s more consistent with the icons there. We’re not quite ready with that one yet, but we’ll share it here once we do.

I really hope this new logo would bring a new hope to IE, as Mozilla Firefox, IE closest rival, has surpassed another milestone, 80 million downloads.