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Microsoft is considering releasing a fix for a bug in Internet Explorer, as malicious hackers are actively exploiting the bug online. The bug could be deemed serious enough that waiting for the usual monthly patches would put too many users at risk.
The bug means that “hackers” can take over Windows machines and install ad/spyware which [...]

According to the BBC, the launch of Sony’s long-awaited PlayStation 3 games console in Europe has been delayed until March 2007.
Ken Kutaragi, head of Sony’s global computer entertainment division, said the machine would still be launched in November in the US and in Japan.
Mr Kutaragi blamed the European delay on problems in mass producing elements [...]

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Now you can, as Microsoft is to offer a consumer version of professional tools used to develop videogames for the Xbox 360.
The software will let non-professionals develop titles and then share them via the Xbox Live online service.
Microsoft executive Peter Moore said: “It’s our first step of creating a YouTube for videogames.”
The program will seek [...]

Recently, the internet giant handed out to researchers, the serach terms that over 650,000 of its subcribers used, in what was apparently an “innocent attempt to reach out to the academic community with research tools”.
Whilst the terms could not be linked to specific individuals, they could have contained personally identifiable information. This has upset many [...]

Technology that transforms digital images into 3D models will be unveiled at a conference on Thursday.
Microsoft’s Photosynth takes collections of images, analyses them for similarities, and then displays them in a reconstructed 3D space.
The system, to be previewed at a computer graphics meeting in Boston, will allow users to walk or fly through a scene [...]

To the suprise of many, starting on 2nd August 2006 at 6pm (PDT), Microsoft will be charging users $1.50 (£0.80) per download of Office2007.
This move apparently came round after the Office beta was alot more popular than expected, and with 3million downloads, that was five hundred percent more than Microsoft thought it would be.
Existing users [...]

Update: Stuffplug has now been released an is available here!
Yes that’s right! A techthisout.net exclusive preview of the newest pre-beta build of StuffPlug3, the very popular (now stand-alone!) add-on for Windows Live Messenger (which from now on will be reffered to as WLM).
It installed easily and quickly, but the installer isn’t the final one that [...]

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