Archive for November, 2014

Why Microsoft is updating Windows PCs for a security vulnerability on the server

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When Microsoft published a critical update this month for multiple versions of Windows Server, it also released a fix for several previous versions of the Windows client OS which includes even the technical preview for Windows 10.

It’s critical to get the patch out for Windows Server: An develpment affecting Windows Server 2008 R2 and earlier versions has already been detected, and Windows Server 2012 and later releases are vulnerable to a related but more difficult attack.

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Microsoft focusing much more on Android and iOS than Windows users

Two days ago, Microsoft started using an official account on Instagram with the first post of a short video called “#DoMore”. It means Microsoft just became more open, which is definitely good.

However, the pity is that the Instagram Beta of Windows Phone still has no uploading function for short videos. That’s why there were so many questions below about which cellphone Microsoft used to send the first post. “We used Windows Movie Maker to upload that short video on Windows Phone.” The company had to respond. And the following three posts are all images.

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How Robots Fight against Ebola

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Hearing the word “Ebola”, people immediately think of protection suit and isolation room in hospital. However, the engineering science professor Ken Goldberg, who is from Berkeley Campus, University of California, US, came up with an idea – using robots to perform particular tasks protect humans from getting infected.

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