New ecosystem opportunities, Windows 8.1 updates shared at Computex

Hello Microsoft!

I want to talk about Surface RT, and give you some useful feedback for Windows 8.1 RT and improving your Product as best as possibile.

The latest May Updates were great for my Surface RT!

Although some old and new issues are still present, and I would like to report them with some new suggestions too.

Well, let's start:

-When I switch between open apps and I'm listening to music or audio (Music app, or Others) the sound lags and crackles for seconds before going back to normal. Many times it happens when launching intensive CPU apps like Office, and it's very annoying: please fix that;

-After waking from Standby (after many hours) the screen fickers with horizontal black bars before going back to the normal Lockscreen. Very ugly thing to see: please fix that too;

-Many 3D games performance are not so solid, please improve the 3D drivers and its performance;

-I noticed that the SoC inside the Surface RT, the NVIDIA Tegra 3, is using only 4 of the 5 Cores of the SoC, and having the 5th companion core Disabled, and not only that: all the four cores are "downclocked" compared to the official Tegra 3 Specs. Please, take advantage of the full Tegra 3 capabilities (5th Companion Core and Full Clock speeds of the 4 Cores), cause Surface RT, despite is already pretty good, needs to be faster and snappier;

-Going to Previous Page in IE10 Metro reload it and fade it for too many seconds: please, stop reloading it and just let it to be loaded back directly from the offline cache, for a faster and more fluid navigation;

-Please, support WebGL APIs in IE;

-Please, don't block "Torrent Clients" from the Store: they are really useful even outside the piracy area, and are totally legal;

-Please, make a valid "Windows Movie Maker" alternative for Windows RT. It really misses a basic video editing tool, and it cannot miss it considering the Surface "producivity" feaures;

-Please, improve "File History" including in its backups even all the System and Apps settings and personalisation (even the most advanced, like the Registry and Servicies ones), so that we can Backup and Restore the Surface even more easily. Or even better: create a "Skydrive Full Settings Backup"!

That's all for now.

And despite all of that, I still consider my Surface RT the best Tablet ever made, and even my best Laptop too, in one single device, and Windows 8 the best OS available yet.

Keep up the great work!

And Thank You. ;)

-Paolo

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New Office updates: OneNote application improvements & Skype more places

Office 365 Home Premium debuted a few weeks ago, and the first set of updates for the new Office has already arrived.

First, an updated OneNote Windows store app adds new color has (for handwriting on a tablet or other touch-screen), the ability to open notebook on Office 365 for enterprises and a few fixes also. Read more on the OneNote Blog.

Secondly, you can call more places with Skype. As part of Office 365 Home Premium or Office-365-University all primary participants 60 minutes of Skype calls per month to call landlines and mobile phones in selected markets, and now, you can call those minutes of 23 other countries.

The Skype app for Windows 8

Calling to landlines and mobiles in: Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand, United States and China.

Festnetz anrufen: Argentinien, Australien, Österreich, Belgien, Chile, Kroatien, Tschechische Republik, Dänemark, Estland, Finnland, Frankreich, Deutschland, Griechenland, Ungarn, Irland, Israel, Italien, Japan, Korea, Luxemburg, Malaysia, Niederlande, Neuseeland, Norwegen, Polen, Portugal, Russland, Slowakei, Spanien, Schweden, Schweiz, Taiwan, Vereinigtes Königreich, Venezuela, Brasilien, Südafrika, Marokko, Türkei, Kolumbien, Costa Rica, Mexiko, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, Bulgarien, Rumänien, Lettland, Litauen, Indonesien-Jakarta, Slowenien, Malta, Andorra, BruneiIsland und Guadeloupe.

This is only the first few updates. We will continue to new updates and enhancements that deliver both large and small in the new Office in the future. Stay tuned for more.

Office team

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Garage series: Goes under the hood of Office software updates

In this episode, our adventurous hosts go how software updates really succeed, lower for the new post. As they demystify, what is different when compared to the Office Professional plus 2013 MSI installation, and explain that optimized update service for Office 365 ProPlus click-to-run installation. Learn how the service works optional, so you look at your environment sanctioned updates on site or in the public cloud and find see how: leave default settings can set. Plus Yoni gets behind the wheel of a Ferrari F430 Spider to see if it will install Sydney, Australia-traffic in the today's XStream can beat.

Make sure you mark your calendar for new episodes , and learn more under www.microsoft.com/garage you can additional resources to discover and see the complete archive of all previous garage series shows.

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Adobe product security updates available

Adobe product security updates available « Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) Blog function clearSearch() {document.search_form.s.value = "";} adobe.com      Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) Blog / Adobe product security updates availableby Wendy PolandRoboHelp for Word (1)Shockwave Player (13)CreatedFebruary 14, 2012

Today, we released the following Security Bulletins:

APSB12-02 – Security update available for Adobe Shockwave Player (Critical Severity)APSB12-04 – Security update available for RoboHelp for Word (Important Severity)

Customers of the affected products should consult the relevant Security Bulletin(s) and apply updates as recommended. 

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Security updates released for Adobe Reader and Acrobat (APSB11-06)

Security updates released for Adobe Reader and Acrobat (APSB11-06) « Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) Blog function clearSearch() {document.search_form.s.value = "";} adobe.com      Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) Blog / Security updates released for Adobe Reader and Acrobat (APSB11-06)by David LenoeAcrobat (37)Reader (47)CreatedMarch 21, 2011

Today, a Security Bulletin (APSB11-06) has been posted to address a critical security issue (CVE-2011-0609) in the products, as referenced in Security Advisory APSA11-01. This Security Bulletin affects the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0.1) and earlier 10.x and 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Adobe recommends that users apply the updates for their product installations.

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