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The hidden Windows 7 features

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A programmer has unlocked several still-unfinished features of Windows 7 that Microsoft Corp. has hidden from users who received the alpha build at two recent developer conferences.

Over the weekend, Rafael Rivera, a developer for a Virginia-based company that sells secure messaging software to the U.S. government, posted a utility he dubbed “Blue Badge” that patches nine system files in Windows 7, including “explorer.exe” and “shell32.dll.” The tool disables the protection scheme that Microsoft added to the alpha to keep eyes off some features that still need work.
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ActiveX bugs pose threat to Vista, Microsoft reports

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Although computers running Windows Vista are significantly less likely to be infected with attack code than machines running Windows XP, the newer operating system continues to be threatened by Microsoft Corp.’s own ActiveX browser plug-in technology, according to a report issued Monday by the company.

In the most recent installment of its twice-yearly security intelligence report, Microsoft said that PCs running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) were more than three times as likely to be infected with malware as computers running Windows Vista SP1. Machines powered by the newest XP security update, SP3, meanwhile, were more than twice as likely to be infected.

According to Microsoft, in the six months from January to June, its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) cleaned malware from just three Vista SP1 machines per thousand times the tool was run. Meanwhile, during the same period, MSRT found and wiped malicious code from 10 Windows XP SP2 systems and eight XP SP3 PCs per thousand executions. Microsoft updates and automatically redistributes the software tool to Windows users each month on Patch Tuesday. Read more

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Microsoft proposes to combine the resources of mobile devices

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It’s no secret that one of the major problems of mobile devices is limited resources. In a compact body can fit a small screen, as is usually small amount of available memory, processor clock speed, etc. But why not combine the capabilities of several mobile phones in a high-performance system? That suggests the patent Microsoft Mobile device collaboration - “Combining mobile devices.” The development of the methods described the joint work of several nearby devices as a single computer system. It may be a general display, memory, processor, storage, etc.

Microsoft proposes to combine the resources of mobile devices

In a few ways to use such a method Microsoft offers:

• Joining a few small displays in one
• Collaborate processors and memory to improve productivity
• Pooling resources to improve battery duration offline
• Merger drives in a single, high yield
• Merger to generate stereo speakers and cameras to create a stereo, etc.

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