The Microsoft Security Response team published a security advisory yesterday. The team is investigating a publicly reported vulnerability that is affecting 64-bit editions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium systems. The vulnerability was discovered in the Windows Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll) which is used [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

AutoPatcher was one of the first software based services that allowed Windows users to download all released service packs and patches for their operating system and Microsoft Office. The service had been in deer troubles in the past thanks to an disagreement with Microsoft. They did come back from that and have changed the way [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft has released a patch yesterday that is fixing a bug that some Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users are experiencing after resuming their operating systems from hibernation or sleep state. These users experience stop error messages when resuming the system, to be precise one or multiple of the following stop error messages: [...]

Categories: Windows

Did anyone really think that this would not happen eventually? That was my first though when I read the news that a Windows 7 OEM activation crack – or patch, does not really matter how you call it – was already available in various P2P networks and other sources. The crack turns the Windows 7 [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Windows

The Windows 7 M3 build that Microsoft distributed at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles made its way to various P2P networks less than 24 hours after the distribution. It became known shortly thereafter that Microsoft did lock some of the features of the upcoming operating system in that build including the new [...]

Categories: Software, Windows