A small piece of software that is added to an existing system program or protocol in order to provide some enhancement.
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- A halloween challenge: Windows 7 vs MacOS X
- A halloween challenge: Windows 7 vs MacOS XThere is only one advantage of Windows over Mac OS XDirectX.RE: A halloween challenge: Windows 7 vs MacOS XThe challenge should be: what can you do on an exorbitantly expensive Mac that you can't do right now in Windows for a fraction of...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-01
- Psystar files answer to Apple complaint
- Psystar files answer to Apple complaintBut they don'tYou have to modify Leopard to get it to run on non-Apple hardware.Case closed, Psystar loses.Especially the asinine argument that OS X is not a copyrightable work.Except....I would imagine Psystar is well backed in its endeavor. Or would be. There is...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
- Intense and really thoughtful ranting from the OLPC frontSugar on the $299 EEE.I would be willing to bet that Asus would be more than willing to integrate mesh, provide a 33% discount to $199 if a new organization, one that carried out the vision of an education tool to the...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- TechNet Webcast: Mitigating Application Issues Using Shims (Level 400)
- The presenter of this webcast explores many of the compatibility issues that the Windows team has experienced at customer sites in the context of what can be fixed without updating the application, and how to fix it. The Windows Application Compatibility Infrastructure Shim Infrastructure is a powerful tool for resolving...
- Webcasts 2008-04-24
- Microsoft-Yahoo: They don't call it a hostile takeover for nothing...
- Microsoft-Yahoo: They don't call it a hostile takeover for nothing...Off we goI think the takeover is a bad idea, but what do I know? Time will tell who's right. I'd still hate to see Yahoo go down in flames since, IMHO, they're a good company and I don't...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- What will run on Windows Server 2008 -- and when?
- What will run on Windows Server 2008 -- and when?Help me understandIf Microsoft themselves end up having to do this much rewriting of existing applications to run on a new version, how much does the rest of the world end up spending for each upgrade cycle?Wouldn't it make more sense...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- Microsoft's open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand words
- Microsoft's open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand wordsWell, I can say one thing for sure....It looks like MS is a little worried that Linux has managed to grow despite their best efforts....or they wouldn't be making the effort.Gates don't do anything for free......and neither does any other for...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- Managing Shims in the Enterprise: Practical Advice for Application Compatibility Mitigation
- When addressing application compatibility issues in preparation for a deployment of Windows Vista, among the most flexible and powerful tools available are application compatibility fixes, or shims. However, most organizations do not leverage shims to the extent that they could, either because they don't understand the underlying technology or because...
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Office XP Utility: Managed Smart Tag Security Shim (exe)
- Deploying and installing managed code smart tags securely in Microsoft Office XP currently requires the assembly be hosted in an unmanaged smart tag proxy component called a "shim". This smart tag shim solution template, properly configured, allows you to successfully deploy your managed smart tags under the highest Office XP...
- Software downloads 2007-10-05
- Office 2003 Sample: Isolating Microsoft Office Extensions with the COM Shim Wizard (msi)
- Office 2003 Sample: Isolating Microsoft Office Extensions with the COM Shim Wizard code sample accompanies the MSDN article "Isolating Microsoft Office Extensions with the COM Shim Wizard Version 2.0." To view this article, click the link of the same name in the Related Resources box. Learn about a set of...
- Software downloads 2007-10-02
- Managed COM Add-In Shim (exe)
- This sample demonstrates how to securely install and deploy managed COM add-ins in Microsoft Office XP. This article also describes how to build unmanaged COM add-in proxies called shims in both Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Microsoft Visual C++ and how they work. This version is the first release on...
- Software downloads 2007-09-18
- Outlook 2002 Sample: Trust Managed Outlook Add-ins with the Shim (exe)
- Outlook 2002 Sample: Trust Managed Outlook Add-ins with the Shim accompanies the article using the COM Add-in Shim to Trust Outlook 2002 Add-ins Built with Visual Studio .NET. How to use the COM add-in shim solution template to trust an Outlook add-in using the Trusted Code page of the Administrative...
- Software downloads 2007-09-17
- Office Tool: COM Shim Wizards (exe)
- Office Tool: COM Shim Wizards provides Visual Studio .NET wizards to help you create shims for three types of managed Office extensions: COM add-ins, smart tags, and real-time data components. Use COM shims to help achieve better security and isolation for your managed Office extensions. This version is the first...
- Software downloads 2007-08-31
- Firefox improved on Vista, but still no protected mode
- Since our last article on Firefox's problems with Vista, considerable progress has been made to improve the browser for Microsoft's newest operating system. We caught up with Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering at the Mozilla Foundation, to bring us up to date.[ZDNet] When Vista first came out, users reported a...
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- Vista Service Pack 1: It lives
- With all the Microsoft-created confusion out there around when -- and even whether -- the company plans to deliver the first service pack SP for Windows Vista, it's nice to see some concrete proof that Vista SP1 does exist.The WinFuture.de folks managed to grab a quick snapshot of a machine...
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- QuickBooks Vista problems are six years in the making
- David Berlind and Mary Jo Foley have been intensely following the story of QuickBooks incompatibility with Windows Vista. Mary Jo is questioning if Microsoft is responsible for this latest failure of QuickBooks (anything before QuickBooks 2007) incompatibility and went even further to give Intuit a free pass. Here...
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- Firefox still struggling with Vista changes
- Firefox still struggling with Vista changesWell it's good to see...That Mozilla is doing this, as I would not use IE7 on the internet unless I absolutely have to. In which case it would just be another reason for me not to switch to vista.. Yet.Hmmm...Just coincidence that you can't set...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-20
- Firefox still struggling with Vista changes
- The Mozilla foundation released Firefox 2.0.0.1 today, in order to pre-emptively fix some security problems and improve compatibility with Windows Vista. But 100% support of Vista is proving to be more difficult than originally imagined. For example, one user on a community thread in January 2006 optimistically wrote: Firefox doesnt...
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- Trust is key in open source
- Trust is key in open sourceGood observations.Thinking further, is it possible for a movement with its wellsprings in opposition to profit ever to be comfortable with profit?Can trust continue reliably, or are corporations reliant on open source permanently suspicious of their contributors, and those contributors permanently doubtful that a corporation,...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- Could Adobe's contribution to Mozilla force MS to take Internet Explorer open source?
- Could Adobe's contribution to Mozilla force MS to take Internet Explorer open source?Xen Enterprise 3.1 for Windows and Linuxre XenSource:And the plot just got (yesterday's announcement) 'thicker'.Press Release [url=http://www.xensource.com/news/pr110606xe.html]here[/url]Run the demo [url=http://www.xensource.com/media/xe31demo/xe_31_demo.html]here[/url]Is it any wonder that MS is cozying up to Novell/SUSE (Xen standard in SLED/SLED)?OK, That should do it!Not...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-07
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