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New AMD M690 Chipset provides Platform for advanced Windows Vista Premium experience
 
 
 
 
 
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AMD has announced the availability of the AMD M690 chipset. When this motherboard GPU is used in combination with the AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology, it can further enhance the mobile computing experience.

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Microsoft Nixes 'Big Bang' Service Pack For Windows Vista By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
Fri Mar 30, 12:00 PM ET

A senior Microsoft official said the company doesn't plan to issue a major service pack for Windows Vista because the operating system is "high quality right out of the gate." Another reason is that new tools such as Windows Update allow Microsoft to dribble out smaller fixes to its new OS whenever necessary.

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Hackers have stepped up attacks on computers running some versions of Windows, a day after Microsoft disclosed a hole related to the mouse cursor.
Microsoft Corp. sent out a security advisory Thursday warning customers that a vulnerability in “.ani” files — used to change the cursor into an hourglass while a program works, or into a dancing animal or other animation on specially designed Web sites — was allowing hackers to break into computers and install malicious software.

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced its new M690 chipset with integrated graphics allowing the use of Windows Vista features such as Areo, Flip and Flip 3D on appropriate versions of the operating system.
While the 690 was designed to work with AMD’s Athlon and Sempron processors, the M690 works with Turion 64 X2 dual-core mobile systems. Incorporating the ATI Radeon X1200 series GPU, AMD positions it as capable of delivering the full Vista graphical experience.

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Vista reviewed: Why the future could be more expensive than you expect Published: 31 March 2007 Bill Gates’s Microsoft has become the company that people love to hate. And while much of the anger directed its way seems to be based purely on its size and ability to dominate the global software market, campaigners now have a new reason to be cross with the giant. The long-awaited launch of its Vista operating platform earlier this year is costing both home and business users time and, even worse, money,

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More than 20 million licenses were sold in the opening month of general availability for the new operating system, as new tools and programs ease the transition for consumers.
REDMOND, Wash.(rushprnews) March 30, 2007 — Initial sales figures from Microsoft show its new operating system Windows Vista made a splash in its debut. In the first month of Windows Vista’s general availability, sales exceeded 20 million licenses, more than doubling the initial pace of sales for its predecessor, Windows XP. These initial figures reflect the broad interest in the security and usability enhancements in Windows Vista.

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A private security research outfit says it notified Microsoft about the animated cursor (.ani)
code execution vulnerability
since December 2006, a full four months ahead of yesterday’s discovery of
Internet Explorer drive-by attacks
According to Alexander Sotirov, chief reverse engineer at Determina, his research team discovered and reported the flaw to Microsoft last December. On January 3, 2007, Microsoft reserved

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"You can even run Windows software." That's the provocative promise that Apple has been making ever since June 2005, when it shocked its diehard supporters with the news that future Macs would run on Intel processors. A few months later, Apple backed up its promise by releasing a beta version of "Boot Camp," a program that allowed Mac users to install and run a copy of

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floating around that could allow attackers to take complete control of a users PC.  Microsoft has acknowledged the flaw in Windows animated cursor which allows developers to display small animations around the mouse pointer.
It is stated in the advisory that the attackers might hide other types of file extensions within the animation allowing the attacker to execute code on the affected system.  The attacker could create a specific type of web page for his purposes, send an email with a link in it and when a user clicks on the link, the vulnerability is exploited.

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