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Comment: Re:Apple (Score 1) 50

by jones_supa (#48379507) Attached to: Popular Smartphones Hacked At Mobile Pwn2Own 2014

iOS Safari is "special" and is the only iOS app that's allowed to have writable, executable pages. (As it is the only app allowed to run the JavaScript JIT compiler.)

Hmm... interesting... do PC web browsers do the same thing? In that case, one would think that if the OS implements NX protection, then the JS interpreter would not work.

+ - Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9879 Released

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa (887896) writes "Build 9879 of Windows 10 Technical Preview is being pushed out. One feature that is likely to be popular in 9879 is the ability to hide the Search and Task View buttons on the taskbar. Other improvements include new smooth window animations, in response to feedback that the previous animations were "a bit jarring". The "3 dots" — a stable of Modern UI design — are no more, and are replaced with 3 horizontal lines. A lot of issues with system hangs and app crashes have been fixed. A bunch of new touchpad gestures were introduced, too. OneDrive got a "selective sync" feature, allowing users to choose exactly what files and content they want synced to their PC. There are big improvements for Internet Explorer, with the introduction of new Edge rendering engine, focusing on interoperability. Edge will only be available in IE for 10% of testers. As the icing of the cake, Matroska Videos can now be directly watched in Media Player."

+ - Windows Gets Patch for Ancient Flaw

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa (887896) writes "Via last Patch Tuesday, Microsoft patched a critical flaw in Windows that has existed in every version since the introduction of Windows 95 more than 19 years ago. IBM security researchers discovered the flaw earlier this year and notified the software giant privately in May. The rare bug allows attackers to remotely execute code on an affected system. Internet Explorer 3.0 onwards can be used as an attack vector by convincing users to visit an URL. The actual vulnerability lies in the OLE Automation library (OLEAUT32.DLL)."

Comment: Re:Sounds like what Sun did (Score 1) 483

by jones_supa (#48370271) Attached to: Microsoft To Open Source<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET and Take It Cross-Platform

Here are the actual prices from MS catalogue as of today.

Visual Studio 2013 Community is intended for small teams and is $0. Even the free version is actually very feature-rich.
Visual Studio 2013 Professional is $499.
Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate, the edition for big software houses, comes with MSDN subscription and a pony, and costs $13,299.

+ - Microsoft Debuts Visual Studio 2015

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa (887896) writes "In addition to announcing that .NET is going open source and cross-platform, Microsoft today also unleashed a massive amount of Visual Studio news at its Connect() developer event in New York City. The company released Visual Studio 2015 Preview and .NET 2015 Preview, a new free Visual Studio Community 2013 offering, Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, a Visual Studio Online expansion, and a slew of smaller related updates. The Visual Studio 2015 Preview is freely available for trying it out."

+ - Geeky Trade Deal Could Boost Global Tech->

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa (887896) writes "Technology products look likely to gain more access to international markets as a result of upgrade between the U.S. and China on a 1996 tariff-eliminating trade agreement that President Obama announced Tuesday in Beijing. The agreement is expected to lower prices on a raft of new technology products by eliminating border tariffs — a price impact that's expected to be larger outside the United States, since U.S. tariffs on high-tech goods are generally lower than those overseas. "This is a win-win-win agreement for information and communication technology industries in the U.S., Europe, Japan and China, for businesses and consumers who purchase IT products and for the global economy", said Stephen Ezell, an analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a think tank that has estimated expanding the agreement could help create 60,000 American jobs by boosting exports."
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