Dell Offers Windows 7 Migration Service for Businesses

From DailyTech: With Windows 7 launching this week, there are many businesses and consumers looking to upgrade from Windows XP and Vista to the new OS. For the individual upgrading a single computer may not be that big of an issue, but for enterprise users with hundreds of thousand...

Office 2010 to enter public beta next month

From CNET News.com: Microsoft on Monday is announcing that it will release in November a public test version of Office 2010.

The software maker released a limited technology preview of the software in July and plans to release the final version next year. It also started testing of...

Intel to Ship Value-Based X25-X SSD in Q4

From Tom's Hardware: An Intel partner recently informed us that Intel has an upcoming value SSD called the X25-X, which will be based on 34nm Flash memory, thus providing consumers a lower pricetag and competitive performance.

The SSD will fall short in both price and speed in...

Acer Recalls Certain Ultra-Thin Notebooks For Consumers

From X-bit Labs: Acer, the world’s No. 2 maker of personal computers, initiated voluntary safety recall of its Acer Aspire Timeline thin notebooks that are based on Intel Corp.’s consumer ultra low-voltage (CULV) platform. Apparently, the company’s ultra-thin laptops may overheat in...

Microsoft issues first Windows 7 patches

From InfoWorld: Microsoft last week patched nine vulnerabilities, five marked "critical," in Windows 7, a move that will require users upgrading to the new operating system starting Thursday to download a security update to keep their PCs secure.

The patches were the first for...

Mozilla Unblocks Microsoft Add-on for Firefox

From PC World: Mozilla has now unblocked a Microsoft add-on thought to pose a danger due to a software vulnerability, but a second add-on remains blocked, the organization said on Sunday.

Microsoft has confirmed that the .NET Framework Assistant add-on can't be used as a "mechanism"...

Firefox blocks insecure .Net add-on--awkwardly

From CNET News.com: Mozilla on Friday disabled a Microsoft plug-in for Firefox called the .Net Framework Assistant because of a security problem--then scrambled to give people with patched systems an override option.

Mike Shaver, Mozilla's vice president of engineering, announced...

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