Back in August of 2007, NeoSmart Technologies released iReboot 1.0 - a tiny application that sits quietly and unobtrusively in the taskbar and is used to select which OS you’d like to reboot into.
iReboot isn’t by any means a major application, but it’s gathered a pretty strong following over the months, mostly by people [...]
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Want UAC-Free iReboot? You got it: iReboot 1.1 released!
Published by April 27th, 2008 in Microsoft, Programming, Security, Software, Windows 70 CommentsIntroducing NeoSmart Coverage of Windows 7
Published by March 16th, 2008 in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Windows 2 CommentsPress Notice: NeoSmart Technologies will by providing blow-by-blow reports regarding the next version of Windows, as the facts come in.
As always, NeoSmart Technologies remains committed to providing accurate and verifiable information from trustworthy sources. We’re also dedicated to providing reports/articles regarding content that our readers deem important and newsworthy; so you’ll always be able to [...]
As promised in our last post, we have some screenshots of Windows Internet Explorer 8 for those of you anxious to see where the latest iteration of Microsoft’s browser. While there are a couple of changes that stand out, most of the visual improvements are subtle and take some keen observation to notice.
The screenshots: [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Download Links
Published by March 5th, 2008 in Microsoft, Software 2 CommentsMicrosoft has just made Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 available to the public. The official site is currently not fully completed, so here are the links for those of you interested (each is approximately 11 MiB in size):
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Vista SP1 Doesn’t Kill Software, Bad Coders Do
Published by February 22nd, 2008 in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Programming, Software, Windows 2 CommentsYou can always trust The Register to do what it can to twist the facts into a nice, juicy headline. This time, it’s about Windows Vista SP1, and the very short list of software that’s adversely affected by its installation.
Don’t get this wrong: we’ve got our own reservations about SP1 (between performance and usability - [...]
Microsoft to Push Silverlight via Redesigned Website
Published by January 3rd, 2008 in Microsoft, Programming, Software, Windows 93 CommentsSeveral months ago, Microsoft inserted themselves into the RIA framework business - years too late and against pretty scary odds - with the initial release of the Silverlight framework. Microsoft Silverlight is the online counterpart to the Microsoft .NET 3.0 Framework and a direct Adobe Flash/Flex competitor.
Microsoft isn’t new to the whole “virtual” monopoly [...]
Microsoft’s .NET-Powered Windows Live Writer
Published by December 11th, 2007 in Microsoft, Programming, Software, Windows 20 CommentsBelieve it or not, Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is important in more ways than one. To most PC users, Windows Live Writer is simply the best tool that gets the “job” done. More importantly is how “job” is defined though, because WLW does things quite well and quite thorough.
Windows Live Writer has a huge range [...]
Windows Vista SP1 RC1, Server 2008 Nov. CTP Released to Testers
Published by November 15th, 2007 in Microsoft, Software, Windows 4 CommentsMicrosoft [[MSFT]] has just released another version of its most-eagerly anticipated Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, labeled as Release Candidate 1; along with another build of Windows Server 2008: the November CTP. Both releases are available to official testers from Microsoft Connect.
This is the third SP1 release made “available” to the public, starting with [...]
Microsoft FastCGI Updated - But Should You Upgrade?
Published by November 15th, 2007 in Microsoft, Reviews, Software, Windows 2 CommentsWe previously covered the final release of the IIS FastCGI module, jointly developed between Microsoft and Zend… But just this week, Microsoft [[MSFT]] announced the availability of the RTM of the IIS FastCGI module.
So what’s going on? We’ve downloaded the current release (which, by the way, is not compatible with the old one, you must uninstall [...]
FastCGI for IIS Final Released, Congratulations to the IIS Team!
Published by October 10th, 2007 in Microsoft, Reviews, Software 10 CommentsCongratulations are in order for Microsoft’s IIS development team - today they’ve just announced the public availability of the final version of the IIS-FastCGI ISAPI Extension - a long-awaited and much-improved way of running just about any open-source scripting engine on IIS, safely and quickly.
The Microsoft [[MSFT]] FastCGI module for IIS 5.1, 6, and 7 [...]
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