Every now and then various corporations publish shorts about the future: “What will things be like with information technology after the 2012 presidential election in the Russian Federation?” The latest film is published by Microsoft.
Productivity Future Vision (2011)
A few weeks after watching it, I came across the musings …
Bless, O Lord, my computer for the successful installation of the first service pack for Visual Studio; deliver the installer from the evil one and grant rest to the souls of the temporary files. Amen!
The service pack installer is competently made. As the components are downloaded, they start getting …
Many of us write various kinds of documentation in English. That includes presentations, user guides, help files, and just plain blog posts. I’m the same way. We teach people with screencasts, where you have to explain what’s happening on the screen. The scripts contain a lot of descriptions …
I continue studying the user interfaces of Microsoft—the leading corporation in developing office products. Last time we drew your attention to the alignment of numeric data in Outlook. Today we’ll be talking about saving files in PowerPoint.
One typical operation is saving each slide of a presentation as …
The most important difference between Windows 7 and Windows XP is that the operating system’s user interface started turning its back to the forest and its front to the user. One interesting example is shown in the figure below. Windows, besides automatically changing the clocks, also uses the speech …
At work, the guys analyze rootkits and exploits. According to Microsoft, successfully.
Vulnerability in Print Spooler Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2347290) This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Print Spooler service. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a specially …