by Krishna Mohan
Windows Media Player 11 offers great new ways to store and enjoy all of your digital media. It’s easier than ever to access all of your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV on your computer. Play it, view it, organize it, and sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go, or share with devices around your home – all from one place. Windows Media Player 11 is designed to work with all versions of Windows XP with Service Pack 2, including Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional.
Download: Windows Media Player 11 Final x86
Download: Windows Media Player 11 Final x64
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by Krishna Mohan
Mozilla recently posted that just 24 hours after Mozilla Firefox 2.0 to the public on 24th October, 2 million people downloaded it – that is 30 downloads a second. To compare this figure with Microsoft’s IE7 release of only half a million downloads in the first 24 hours, it becomes clear there is a active community that follows Mozilla and anticipates new versions.
Looking back on previous Firefox milestone releases:
- Firefox 1.0: 1 million downloads in the first 24 hours.
- Firefox 1.5: 1.5 million downloads in the first 24 hours
- Firefox 2: 2 million (actually slightly more) people using Firefox 2 in the first 24 hours.
IE7 was released last Wednesday. In the first four days over three million of you have already downloaded the final release.
Looks like Firefox has beaten IE7.
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by Krishna Mohan
Controversy has emerged over PatchGuard, the kernel protection service scheduled to be included in the 64-bit version of Windows Vista. Microsoft’s PatchGuard technology, scheduled for inclusion in the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, has caused a furor from certain antivirus vendors, who charged that Microsoft was gaining an “unfair advantage” by not allowing them unfettered access to the kernel. Now, security firm Authentium is claiming that they have cracked PatchGuard, and will use the technique to disable the protection, install the kernel patches that come with their own software, and then restore PatchGuard once the installation is complete. Authentium’s claims have not yet been independently confirmed at this time.
Authentium’s unconfirmed hack is not the only known exploit of PatchGuard. A public description of how to bypass PatchGuard has been known about for some time. Microsoft has not commented on the exploit, but one assumes that the company is working on a patch. Microsoft could easily push critical updates to close this hole, or the Authentium hole, at any time.
For all the fuss going on over PatchGuard, it would be understandable to assume that this is a completely new technology that Microsoft is introducing with Windows Vista. In fact, PatchGuard has been around since the 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional were released. It works by utilizing special hardware features in 64-bit x86 processors to monitor and prevent device drivers or other kernel-mode software from modifying the Windows kernel itself.
Ars Technica:Security company claims Vista’s PatchGuard cracked
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