Anith Gopal

If you are thinking about getting more out of your PC then here are a possible 9 new years PC resolutions you could consider… Back up your data automatically Think about online safety on your computer with features such as the Action Center , Parental Controls and Windows Live Family Safety Speed up your computer with ReadyBoost Customise your PC with free downloads Save time with keyboard shortcuts and the One Box in Internet Explorer 9 Organise your files with Libraries in Windows 7, and pinning files to the taskbar Conserve more battery power Use Windows Live Messenger to stay in touch with friends and family for free Share pictures with your friends and family with Windows Live Photo Gallery Rob Technorati Tags: Windows 7 , IE9 , Internet Explorer , Windows Live

  This is a guest post by Pankaj Arora, Senior Manager in the Global Strategic Initiatives team, Microsoft IT. See his prior post about the new book , “To the Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise.” The first step to cloud adoption is to explore and understand cloud computing – its service delivery models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), environment models (public, private, etc.), and technology building blocks.

One of the things we talk quite a bit about with Windows 8 is making sure Windows is a safe, secure, and reliable computing environment.

Senior attorney for Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), Richard Boscovich, appeared on Seattle’s NBC news last week to confirm that Microsoft will not cold call you to fix your computer.

In today’s post, I’ll provide a high-level overview of features in Internet Explorer that impact the loading of ActiveX controls.

Back in the summer of 2009, I blogged about Windows 7’s new support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 . These new protocols are disabled by default, but can be enabled using Group Policy or the Advanced Tab of the Internet Control Panel: Some adventurous Internet Explorer users have found that if they enable these new protocols, some secure sites will fail to load: Upon encountering an error like this, a user might try to see what’s going wrong by enabling Fiddler’s HTTPS Decryption feature and re-visiting the site. When they do that, they find that the site starts working correctly.

This post is triggered by the following tweet (emphasis is mine): We are hiring – CSS is looking for a Windows Azure Security Architect . Location is North America. For info: http://bit.ly/hf5DKk Pls RT I was intrigued on the spot – I wanted to know what skills required for such role.

Adding OpenID as identity provider using Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) v2 Management Service is in general similar to the procedures outlined in the following posts: Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) v2 – Programmatically Adding Facebook as an Identity Provider Using Management Service Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service v2 – Adding Identity Provider Using Management Service (AD FS 2.0) The key differences are as follows: Change protocol type to OpenID // Create Identity Provider IdentityProvider identityProvider = new IdentityProvider () { DisplayName = identityProviderName, Description = identityProviderName, WebSSOProtocolType = "OpenId" , IssuerId = issuer.Id }; svc.AddObject( "IdentityProviders" , identityProvider); Remove code related to IdentityProviderKey altogether Update sign in address as per your OpenID provider IdentityProviderAddress signInAddress = new IdentityProviderAddress () { Address = "https://www.myopenid.com/server" , EndpointType = "SignIn" , IdentityProvider = identityProvider, }; svc.AddRelatedObject(identityProvider, "IdentityProviderAddresses" , signInAddress); Another caveat is when creating rules using Management Portal – you cannot auto generate rules. Instead, create manually at least one pass through rule so that all incoming claims from your OpenID provider will be available.

Rule one of security: Don’t assume that your software is safe.  Apple users (not Apple Corporation) make the assumption that their software is secure from viral attacks.  Is this true?  How do you determine if one system is more secure than the other? You could ask Apple or Microsoft, or a Linux user group.  In reality both corporations  and usergroups are going to give you as honest as an answer as they can.  None of these corporations are going to cause mistrust with…( read more )

Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here , is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.” This issue affects all versions of WordPress prior to 3.0.4, so if you are still on a 2.X release you need to update as well

The IE Cumulative Security Update for December 2010 is now available via Windows Update .

Google is pulling in all stops to win over all skeptics to the Google Chrome OS way of computing.