Microsoft urges users to disable SMB; Killer new desktop virtualization for W7

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The bug is in SMB (Server Message Block) 2, a Microsoft-made network file- and print-sharing protocol that ships with Windows, affects Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and preview releases of Windows 7. Read full story Related News: From Microsoft Subnet This is Network World's Microsoft Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Microsoft Subnet, your daily source for Microsoft news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more. Virtual Computer offers killer new desktop virtualization for W7 The Microsoft Subnet blog: Virtual Computer just might have a perfect solution to the XP-to-Windows 7 upgrade problem: its new, affordable, bare metal desktop hypervisor. Microsoft signs up as gold sponsor for Google's SVG conference The Microsoft Subnet blog: Microsoft has announced that it will be a gold sponsor of Google's Scalable Vector Graphics show even though Internet Explorer still doesn't support the 10-year-old SVG standard. 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During testing, we noticed that once the form was submitted, the rich-text field in InfoPath displayed as a Single Line of Text field in SharePoint. Microsoft sues five alleged click-fraud scammers The Microsoft Subnet blog: Microsoft filed lawsuits against five companies Thursday, accusing them of new form of scam it dubs "maladvertising," the use of deceptive advertisements to trick victims into installing software on their computers. Sniffing Your Windows Server Network Glenn Weadock: In my Server 2008 class this week, a student ran into a situation where rebooting a domain controller seemed to take forever. (Sound familiar?) It seemed ridiculous that the domain controller should require nearly 15 minutes to "prepare network connections." Microsoft releases CTP of its cloud mgt. API, deletes some cloud services The Microsoft Subnet blog: Microsoft released the community technology preview of its management API for its cloud service, Windows Azure. 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