Microsoft has posted a critical fix to Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) on its Windows Update site, and pushed it to users relying on Automatic Update. The problem, which has actually been public since December 2004, also affects Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. In some cases, installing third-party anti-virus or firewall software -- Microsoft didn't name makers or package titles -- can bring down the operating system in a Blue Screen of Death with a cryptic erro...

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Windows, the OS used by more than 90 percent of the world's computers, hasn't had a full revamp in five years. Computer makers are counting on Redmond to produce an upgrade that will make people run out to nab a new PC. After staying relatively mum on what the next version of Windows will look like, Microsoft is offering a peek at how the new OS will look, work and feel. Longhorn RoadMap: April 2005 Microsoft to distribute Longhorn preview for ISVs and OEMs at WinHEC in Seattle ...

Codenamed Vanderpool, the technology lets a computer or server run multiple operating systems (Windows and Linux) and applications on the same machine in independent partitions or "containers." Vanderpool: Introduction Intel’s virtualization technology, codenamed Vanderpool, is part of a collection of premier Intel designed and manufactured silicon technologies that deliver new and improved computing benefits for home and business users, and IT managers. Others in the market...

Gmail, the Web mail service operated by search engine Google, could be gearing up for its official launch, as people using the service have found recently that the number of invitations they can send out has increased from four to 50. Gmail, which was launched in April 2004 and is still officially in a testing phase, is not open to the general public. At first, Google let only select family and friends open accounts at Gmail. But it has slowly opened up membership more broadly to friends o...

Vanderpool Technology, or VT, is part of Intel's new strategy to provide users with benefits other than performance increases. VT will allow users to create virtual environments on their PCs in order to run separate operating systems on the same PC and it would also permit IT managers to upload patches or upgrades to one portion of the PC while the user runs their work applications on another environment. Intel will build support for VT into the chipsets it plans release around the middle o...

Welcome to the machine wars, where zombie armies--computers compromised and subverted by hackers--churn out spam and malicious code in relentless raids on the PCs of home users and the commercial world's IT systems. Spammers are bypassing similar image-recognition challenges, used by Internet service providers to prevent bulk registration of E-mail accounts, with scripts that trick Web surfers into solving picture puzzles for them. And 24 hours a day, bots search the Net for vulnerable system...

Intel plans to launch the second generation of its Centrino mobile processor platform at a Jan. 19 event at the San Francisco. The new platform, code-named Sonoma, will include a new version of Intel's Pentium M mobile processor, a new wireless chip, as well as a new chipset, which Intel says will have double the graphics performance of its current products. At the heart of the platform will be a new generation of Intel's Pentium M processor, code-named Dothan, which will have slightly fast...

Now that the exhibits have been packed up and hotels vacated, the time has come to reflect on last week's Consumer Electronics Show. CES offers a peek at the upcoming year in tech and although no one product stole the spotlight, Las Vegas was not without its usual dazzle. Read on as we highlight the important news from CES 2005. Some Important and Intereting events were: Motorola Adds Cell Phones to Clothing Entering a new phase in its efforts to modernize its aging brand, Motorol...

According to BBC New "The count of known viruses broke the 100,000 barrier and the number of new viruses grew by more than 50%." The BBC is reporting that there has been a 50% increase in the number of viruses released in 2004; as many as 100,000 viruses were seen 'in the wild', many of them doing serious damage to their targets. Bot-nets, computers infected with remote control software featured largely in 2004; equally prominent was the use of viruses and these bot-nets for cyber-crime...

Forty-five days and some 13 million downloads after its official release, Mozilla's Firefox browser is showing undeniable momentum--but does it signal the beginning of the end to Microsoft's monopoly over the basic software used to access the Web? Even as Firefox gathers steam, powerful brakes are poised to kick in that could limit its long-term growth: Interoperability has long dogged non-Microsoft browsers, which are often glitchy on some Web sites. Firefox claims some significant progr...

FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making. Published by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit group supporting open-source software that draws upon the skills of hundreds of volunteer programmers, Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks. Firefox installs in a snap, and it's free. Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9. Just over a month later, the foundation celebrated a remarkable milestone: 10 millio...

In an agreement with five major libraries, Google has begun an ambitious project to scan and index millions of books and periodicals. The information will be integrated into Google's Web search over the next several years. Launched in October, Google Print already offers glimpses of new books, but focuses primarily on publishers rather than libraries. The New York public library has agreed to submit books out of copyright, while Harvard will test the process with 40,000 titles. Oxford...

Microsoft's long-held dream of a new file system continues to be a years-off proposition. WinFS is not part of Longhorn and may not be possible even in the next update after that. Although Microsoft hopes to ship a test version of WinFS in late 2006, it could be several more years before the revamped storage mechanism finds its way into Windows Server. The software maker has already decided that WinFS will ship separately from Longhorn, the new desktop version of Windows that is due in ...

Microsoft will let customers configure the next major release of Windows Server for specific server tasks, rather than selling a host of different Windows Server Longhorn editions tailored to those tasks. The release, code-named Windows Server Longhorn and set to ship in 2007, will support much more granular role-based installation than does the current Windows Server 2003. This will include the option to install only the software code needed to support a certain role, such as terminal serv...