Microsoft’s new OS tools will let you restore a system to pristine factory condition in minutes, or clean up OS performance without losing personal data. Microsoft is looking to make PCs more like consumer electronics products such as smartphones and TVs by adding a feature to Windows that will let users restore their systems to [...]
January 6, 2012 | Posted in
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The Consumer Electronics Show–a trade event that promises to showcase the latest and best gadgets that many prominent tech purveyors have to offer–kicks off next week. What can you expect? Joshua Topolsky writes: For starters, the two worlds of tablets and super-thin laptops (ultrabooks, as we’ve taken to calling them in the industry) are getting [...]
Despite Microsoft’s claims earlier this year that its Windows Phone 7.5 Mango devices running IE 9 would beat out mobile Safari in browser benchmark tests, the latest video comparison uploaded by 359gsm shows quite the opposite. Placed side by side, the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 4 both beat out the Nokia Lumia 800. The [...]
For a slow holiday news week, there’s been plenty of chatter over the last few days about Windows Phone 7. It all started Tuesday when several tech blogs posted editorials on why Microsoft’s operating system was failing, a fact that Mobile Burn’s Dan Seifert wryly pointed out on Twitter. And then, almost as if in [...]
December 31, 2011 | Posted in
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Microsoft has found the root cause behind the SMS vulnerability in its Windows Phone operating system. The bug was reported earlier this month by Khaled Salameh, who found that the platform could be exploited via a malicious SMS message that forces a Windows Phone device to reboot and then disables its messaging hub. Although it’s [...]