Windows Live OneCare 2.0 (beta) released
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Blog: Home networking tools are added to the service.
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This morning, BetaNews FileForum was alerted to the availability of the latest release candidate for Windows Vista Service Pack 1, just released from Microsoft.
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A rash of users of Microsoft's new Windows Live OneCare service, launched last January 30, have been reporting on Microsoft's support forums that virus scans performed by the service have resulted in the deletion of their OUTLOOK.PST files - the local, centralized repositories of e-mail, scheduling, and collaboration data used by Outlook.
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Windows Live QnA Search Now Open for Beta Testing The Question &#038; Answer human powered search alternative has expanded beyond Yahoo Answers &#038; Google and has now found a home with Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Live QnA. Windows Live has opened QnA up to the public for BETA testing and is looking for feedback on its product. Betsy [...]
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A beta version of its next-generation Total Protection 2.0 consumer security software.
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The latest beta of Mozilla's browser has been up and running for
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Microsoft releases a refresh of its first service pack for Vista to beta testers, indicating the final release might be near.
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Microsoft has provided beta testers with Release Candidates for Office Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS 2005) and Windows Messenger 5.1. This distribution marks the software's first major milestone since Microsoft publicly announced the opening of the beta program in May.
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(InfoWorld) - Nearly a year after Microsoft introduced Windows Live OneCare, the company's first foray into the security market is still getting low marks from analysts and users. A recent report comparing the antivirus products of various vendors ranked Microsoft's product at the bottom in terms of detecting potential security threats. At the same time, users are complaining that OneCare, which includes firewall, antivirus, backup, and antispyware software, quarantines the entire mail store of their Outlook and Outlook Express programs, making it impossible for them to retrieve e-mail. AV-Comparatives, a project in Austria overseen by security researcher Andreas Clementi, published the antivirus comparison report, which also looked at products from Symantec, McAfee, Kaspersky Lab, BitDefender, Fortinet, F-Secure, and several other antivirus products from smaller vendors. In detecting Windows viruses, worms, macros, scripts, and other OS threats, Microsoft ranked last out of the 15 vendors tested, detecting them 91 percent of the time. G Data Software AG's Anti-Virus Kit (AVK) ranked first with 99.6 percent detection, while products from three vendors -- Kaspersky Anti-Virus, MicroWorld Technologies eScan, and F-Secure Anti-Virus -- tied for second with 99 percent detection. TrustPort Antivirus Workstation from AED came in third with 98.9 percent detection. In preventing intrusion through backdoors, Trojans and in other malware detection, Windows OneCare also ranked last out of 13 vendors, with 79.6 percent detection. TrustPort came in first at 99.5 percent detection; AVK came in second with 99.4 percent detection; and AVIRA GmbH's AntiVir Personal Edition Premium came in third with 98.9 percent detection. If ranking low in its rates of malware and virus detection isn't enough to irk users, a recent update to the product has been quarantining the Outlook.PST file, which stores mail in Outlook and Outlook Express, users reported recently on a Microsoft Windows user form. "This is the most unacceptable act Microsoft has ever committed," groused one user on the forum. "I run a small business, and I am screwed. I have no way to respond to e-mails because I made the mistake of trusting Microsoft ... and all of my e-mails and contacts are gone." Microsoft confirmed the problem Friday and said it will update the Windows Live OneCare engine to fix the problem as part of its monthly patch release cycle. The company also offered the following step-by-step fix to recover lost e-mail in the meantime: *Â Close Outlook or Outlook Express *Â Click change OneCare settings in the main OneCare user interface *Â Click on the viruses and spyware tab *Â Click on the quarantine button, and then select the pst or dbx file, and then click on restore. To ensure that the problem does not continue until the next update, Microsoft said users should also do the following: *Â Click change OneCare setting in the main user interface *Â Click viruses and spyware tab *Â Click on the exclusions button *Â Click on the add folder button *Â Navigate to the specific folder that contains the .dbx or .pst file to be excluded. *Â Click OK.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft Corp. has opened up testing of a new Web-based service that allows parents to control what their kids do on the Internet. The service, called Windows Live OneCare Family Safety, is now available for trial in the U.S., according to Microsoft. It can be downloaded on the WindowsÂ Live Ideas Web site. "While we are still in the testing and development phase, OneCare Safety will offer some great features to help families create a safer and enjoyable online experience," Microsoft said in aÂ blog posting on the software's release. The Family Safety service has been available to a limited set ofÂ beta testers since earlier this year, but this is the first time that Microsoft has opened up to the general public. The company is not saying when users outside of the U.S. will be able to try out this product, but more information about that will be released, "very soon," Microsoft said. Family Safety lets parents block their kids from viewing sites relating to inappropriate subjects like pornography or alcohol. They can also get activity reports on what Web sites their children have been visiting. Because Family Safety is a Web-based service, parents can adjust settings or check in on their kids from any Internet-enabled PC. Microsoft is also offering guidelines on how children can safely use the Internet and tips on how parents can talk to kids about their online activity. Future versions of the service will let parents create "allow" lists to help them control their children's use of other Windows Live services such as instant messaging. The Windows Live services are part of Microsoft's broader effort to take on competitors like Google Inc., which has focused on creating new software that is hosted on the Internet, rather than written for Microsoft's Windows operating system. REFERENCES:Microsoft tests Windows Live parental controls, Feb. 23, 2006
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Microsoft has made a number of changes to its Windows Live offerings, including pushing some services out of beta and adding new features to others.
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As expected, Microsoft on Wednesday released its Windows Live software suite, including the global betas of several of its desktop products.
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Users can now access Windows Live services through mobile accounts and a single sign-on.
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Beta application is available as part of the new MSN Toolbar Suite.
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Microsoft is refreshing the beta release of its Visual Studio 2005 developer tool platform to feature the full range of technologies planned for the companyâs Team System application life cycle management system, Microsoft representatives acknowledged on Friday.
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This release fixes a number of minor bugs and inconsistencies. There are also several minor improvements throughout, and the provider libraries have been updated to recent versions. Gentle.NET is an RDBMS independent object persistence framework written in C# for .NET and Mono. It features automatic SQL generation and object construction, an SQL factory for creating custom queries, and much more. It has excellent performance and reasonably complete documentation.     Download the latest release from the project home page at: http://sf.net/projects/gopf   or visit the project community site for documentation and other related material at:  http://www.mertner.com/confluence
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Microsoft releases critical Explorer patch VNUNet.com