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Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7
blogs.msdn.com - 1/30/2009
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Many posts start with a thank you and
I want to start this post with an extra...
special thank you on behalf of the entire Windows team for all the installs and usage we are seeing of teh Windows 7 Beta. We’ve had millions of installations of Windows 7 ...
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Microsoft fixes Windows 7 UAC exploit code in post-beta builds
D' Technology Weblog —
... recent feedback has been of the form of, “I’ll set it to ‘Always Notify,’ but ‘regular people’ also need to be more secure.” I am sure security conscious people feel that way, and I am glad that Windows 7 has the setting that works great for their needs. But what do these so called “regular people” want? How to choose the default, while honoring our secure design principles, for these people is a very interesting question, explain Jon over at IE7 blog. ...
Microsoft Admits Defeat, Will Patch Windows 7 Security Hole [Windows 7]
Gizmodo —
Who said whiny bloggers can't get anything done? Microsoft admits they screwed up with the User Account Control security hole, and how they responded to it. It'll be patched in the next Windows 7 release. Here's what that patch entails: First, the UAC control panel will run in a high integrity process, which requires elevation. That was already in the works before this discussion and doing this prevents all the mechanics around SendKeys and the like from working. Second, changing the level of the UAC will also prompt for ...
Stop Paying for Windows Security; Microsoft's Security Tools Are Good Enough [Opinion]
Lifehacker —
... . The original intent was to change the way Windows works so that you can more easily run software as a standard user account , instead of running as administrator all the time. So there you have it if you aren't going to run as a standard user or turn the slider all the way to the top, you ...
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