Three readers sent in suggestions for video driver problems with booting Windows 7 in Boot Camp 3 on an iMac. One was to run a repair computer option during the boot process. Another saw the problems on a real PC. A third said only 64-bit has the problem, that 32-bit Windows 7 works fine. Terry Thiel sent a precedure for fixing driver issues with .. more »

CIO magazine has named Microsoft Chief Information Officer Tony Scott to its CIO Hall of Fame for his vision and leadership in the field of information technology... more »

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VMware has released VMware Workstation 7. VMware Workstation 7 is a hosted hypervisor and is ideal for running multiple Operating Systems on workstation class hardware. Some of the new features of VMware Workstation 7 are: Windows 7 support - including Aero support. more..... more »

The Windows 7 Burger was a collaborative effort between Microsoft and Burger King to promote both companies in Japan for the Windows 7 release. The burger contains a whopping 7 layers of beef, which measures to a 5-inch (12cm) tower. The first 30 burgers were sold for 777 yen ($8.55 USD). Any Windows 7 burger after the first 30 were sold for 1450 .. more »

The BizSpark company of the day is Paper Terminal Pte Ltd, based in Singapore. Companys mission is to make it easier for individuals and businesses to get relevant information from paper documents into digital formats. You will find below an interview with Khasali, co-founder of Paper Terminal Pte Ltd. All the best to them and congrats for being .. more »

The Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team is very pleased to announce the release of new security baselines for Windows 7 and Windows Internet Explorer 8. These new baselines are now included with the Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series. Over...(read more).. more »

We’ve been receiving a number of performance complaints around Visual Studio 2010 (Beta 2) performance, and we’ve traced at least some of these back to bad video drivers / hardware.  If this is your situation you can easily work around the problem by forcing WPF into software emulation mode by changing one registry key: .. more »

Last week we shipped Beta 2 for broad distribution.  Many of you have already sent us comments and improvement suggestions (thanks!) At this point we are down to our final set of bug fixing, perf tuning, etc.  We’re very interested in your feedback so we can take action on it before we ship the final version.  To help make it easy, you can take .. more »

As of October 21st, the MSRT has removed the newly added threat, Win32/FakeScanti from 56,700 infected machines. For this month, it was the 12th most prevalent threat family worldwide and 7th in the US. Overall the MSRT has cleaned 2,516,235 machines this month from all kinds of malware infections. We all know the threat landscape is not homogenous .. more »

The BizSpark company of the day is Mobile Tracing Services SAS, based in France. They combine mobile phones and Web for professional services. You will find below an interview with Raynald Messi, CEO and Technical Manager of Mobile Tracing Services SAS. All the best to them and congrats for being the startup of the day! Raynald Messi, CEO and .. more »

Earlier today I put up the , “Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows 7 Upgrade is an Upgrade. What you need to know,” post here on my Blog and shortly afterwards I received the following question offline: “If I have an old PC with an OEM Windows license on it, can I just take that Windows license from that PC and us it to qualify for the Wi.. more »

around the corner and the release of the new Bing TV commercial it seems like everywhere you turn these days there are pale, strikingly good looking people with fangs...yes we are talking about vampires. Our Latest Bing advertisement is the first in a series of new commercials where we highlight specific ways Bing can help simplify your life and .. more »

Secret Cinema in London - new marketing campaign of Windows phone.. more »

Just in case you missed the big announcement last Friday, Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 is now released: SP2 provides: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support that enables customers to deploy and manage their Windows 7 client and server...(read more).. more »

Earlier this week I went along to the UK press launch of the Powermat wireless charging system. Now I saw this at CES in Las Vegas back in January of this year, but now it is finally coming out. Using wireless energy transfer, Powermat pairs an ultra-thin mat with a receiver that connects to your device. All you then have to do is place your device .. more »

Today, Windows 7 is released to cities around the world. Are you thinking about migrating your PCs to Windows 7 for your organizations? To help you with deploying Windows 7 successfully and quickly, Microsoft has been developing lots of great tools and...(read more).. more »

co-op "Extraction Mode" makes pre-ordering the game (thereby getting a one-month head-start with the new game mode) worthwhile? We suggest checking out the first glimpses of the co-op offering . Following in the vein of , Extraction pits four players up against wave after wave of masked, gun-toting enemies as they move from checkpoint to .. more »

Hi Don Nguyen here, I’m a senior security engineer with the Microsoft’s Information Security (InfoSec), ACE (Assessment, Consulting & Engineering) team. Continuing with our blog series on dogfooding, today I will be talking about phase 1: conduct a security design review, of our formal dogfooding process called, the First & Best program. In case.. more »

It's now been a little over 4 months since the brand was launched, and it seems like a good time to pull together a summary of our Bing-related research. Starting with the obvious points, in the UK 35% more people used Bing in August than used Live Search in August '08. In France, there were 93% more users of Bing in August than of Live Search a .. more »