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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/arcade/" rel="tag"Arcade/a, a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a
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evidence was clearly seen at TGS this year. emTekken 6/em's announcement for home consoles is one
of the bigger stories on the show floor this year. (Probably because there wasn't that much else
happening ...) Capcom's revival of the emStreet Fighter/em franchise in a
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Genbeta -
1 hours and 8 minutes ago
pimg id="image47894" src="http://img.genbeta.com/2008/10/win7_68xx_uac.jpg" class="centro" alt="UAC
de Win7" /No cabe duda de que el strongControl de Cuentas de Usuario/strong es, por lejos, la
característica de Windows Vista que más polémica ha causado. Se trata de una
de las emfeatures/em que más rechazo provoca en el usuario común, y corresponde a uno
de los principales responsables de mala fama de la que goza el último sistema operativo de
Microsoft. En Redmond han tomado conciencia de las quejas de la gente, y por ello han decidido
regular la presencia de estas alertas de seguridad en Windows 7./p pConcretamente, lo que se
ofrecerá es un control más granular a la hora de configurar el UAC,
permitiéndosele al usuario modificar la cantidad de alertas de sistema que desea ver, o
incluso desactivar completamente los avisos de este tipo (las que aparecen cuando cambiamos
determinadas configuraciones) pero dejar funcionando las alertas que se muestran cuando una
aplicación requiere de permisos de administrador para continuar. /pa name="more"/a/p pAhora
cabe preguntarse, strong¿ha habido algún beneficio con la incorporación del
Control de Cuentas de Usuario en Windows?/strong Pues sí, generalmente cuando se habla del
UAC solo se relata su faceta negativa, el impacto en la productividad del usuario al llenarlo con
alertas de seguridad que, en muchos casos, están simplemente emde más/em. Pero
también debemos reconocer que el UAC ha significado una mejora significativa en la seguridad
de Windows, al notificarnos cada vez que un elemento desea entrar en el área protegida del
sistema./p pNo solo eso, sino que gracias a esta medida los desarrolladores se han visto forzados a
rediseñar sus aplicaciones para evitar que estas requieran de permisos de administrador para
funcionar. Es así como en enero de 2007 (cuando Windows Vista fue lanzado para el
público general) los usuarios se topaban con alertas de este tipo en el 50% de las sesiones,
luego esta cifra se redujo al 39% hacia finales del mismo año, y con la llegada del Service
Pack 1 stronglas sesiones con mensajes de seguridad bajaron a un 33%/strong./p pimg id="image47895"
src="http://img.genbeta.com/2008/10/aplicacionesPrivilegiosUAC.png" class="centro"
alt="Aplicaciones que generan cuadros del UAC en Vista" //p pPero, de todas maneras siguen
existiendo muchas aplicaciones #8220;mal hechas#8221; que necesitan de permisos de administrador
simplemente para ejecutarse (por dar un ejemplo, WinRAR). Este problema no es menor, ya que cuando
no existía el UAC strongestos programas no podían ser usados por usuarios con
#8220;cuentas estándar#8221;/strong (como las de los empleados de muchas empresas o las
sometidas a Control Parental). Y ahí nos topamos con otro beneficio del UAC, al forzar a los
programadores a hacer aplicaciones que no requieran cambios en los niveles de seguridad se
solucionan los problemas de incompatibilidad entre las cuentas de administrador y las
estándar. Los emdevelopers/em parecen haber entendido ese mensaje, ya que de otra manera no
se explica que, según las cifras de Microsoft, la cantidad de aplicaciones que generan
mensajes del UAC se stronghaya reducido en un 80%/strong durante los 20 meses que Vista ha estado
disponible para los usuarios finales./p pEntonces, no todo es tan negro. El strongUAC ha cumplido
con los objetivos por los que fue implementado/strong, pero también es cierto que la forma
en que funcionó en un primer momento no era la óptima (¿como se pueden pedir
permisos de administrador para copiar archivos de otros usuarios?), y que aun con las
modificaciones introducidas en el Service Pack 1 siguen siendo emdemasiadas /emalertas de
seguridad. Por eso, los a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/default.aspx"desarrolladores de Windows
7/a mencionan que, además de las opciones de control más granular sobre el UAC que ya
mencionamos, están trabajando para strongreducir las alertas innecesarias en las funciones
de sistema/strong. Por ejemplo, se evitarán que hayan superposiciones de alertas, como las
que ocurren en Windows a la hora de descargar un archivo ejecutable, o el emclásico/em de a
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37s/151250154/sizes/l/"los 7 pasos que se requerían en
Vista RTM para eliminar un acceso directo del escritorio/a./p pEn Redmond también dicen
estar trabajando en mejorar los cuadros de diálogo del UAC, para que estos strongentreguen
más información relevante al usuario/strong y le permitan discriminar
fácilmente entre los que sean críticos (elementos intrusos) y aquellos de menor
importancia (desinstalar aplicaciones, modificar opciones, etc)./p pSi sumamos el trabajo de
terceros por mejorar la forma en que sus aplicaciones interactúan con Windows a el esfuerzo
de Microsoft para reducir las alertas en tareas de sistema, nos encontramos con strongun escenario
bastante prometedor/strong. Los mismos desarrolladores de Windows 7 mencionan que el objetivo es
que las alertas del UAC sean tan escasas que cuando aparezcan sea, en lo posible, solo para
cuestiones emrealmente importantes/em a las que el usuario debe prestar atención./p
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Xbox360 France.com -
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Lors du salon du Tokyo Game Show 08, Aaron Greenberg a annoncé catégoriquement que
Microsoft n'était pas intéressé par le format Blu-Ray pour sa Xbox 360. Voici
le dicours prononcé : « Nous n'avons aucun plan pour intégrer le Blu-Ray dans
l'expérience Xbox. Nous pensons qu'on ne devrait pas force...
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Joystiq -
1 hours and 30 minutes ago
pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a
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Shortly after learning that the Flood would be a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/08/roll-up-your-pants-the-flood-confirmed-in-halo-wars/"making
an appearance in emHalo Wars/em/a, we were whisked away to a meeting with Ensemble's Graeme Divine
where we immediately asked: "Is the Flood a playable race?" As quickly as we asked it, we were
answered: no. With an emphasis on the story-driven single-player campaign, Divine told us that the
multiplayer component would only include the UNSC and Covenant forces, as already revealed, and the
campaign would only be playable as the UNSC, not the Covenant. br /br /But that brings up another
issue: how is the Flood present in a prequel taking place 20 years before the events in emHalo:
Combat Evolved/em? The more Halo-aware amongst you (read: total nerds) will recall that the
introduction of the mysterious Flood in that seminal title was a surprise to the player and,
indeed, to the entire UNSC command. When asked if they're a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retconned"retconning/a the Flood earlier into the emHalo/em
timeline, Divine said that the events observed in Halo 1 "was the first time UNSC knew about the
Flood." So how does the existence of the parasitic aliens twenty years earlier go entirely
unrecorded? Unsurprisingly, they're not saying (our guess: everyone dies). br /div
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1 hours and 38 minutes ago
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox
360, Strategy, TGS
Shortly after learning that the Flood would be making an appearance in Halo Wars, we were whisked away to a meeting with
Ensemble's Graeme Divine where we immediately asked: "Is the Flood a playable race?" As quickly as
we asked it, we were answered: no. With an emphasis on the story-driven single-player campaign,
Divine told us that the multiplayer component would only include the UNSC and Covenant forces, as
already revealed, and the campaign would only be playable as the UNSC, not the Covenant.
But that brings up another issue: how is the Flood present in a prequel taking place 20 years
before the events in Halo: Combat Evolved? The more Halo-aware amongst you (read: total
nerds) will recall that the introduction of the mysterious Flood in that seminal title was a
surprise to the player and, indeed, to the entire UNSC command. When asked if they're retconning the Flood earlier into the
Halo timeline, Divine said that the events observed in Halo 1 "was the first time UNSC
knew about the Flood." So how does the existence of the parasitic aliens twenty years earlier go
entirely unrecorded? Unsurprisingly, they're not saying (our guess: everyone dies).
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Joystiq -
2 hours and 28 minutes ago
pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a
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//abr /smallemtake the tour/em/small/div br /Nestled comfortably alongside major content partners
like Capcom, Electronic Arts, and Square Enix is the Microsoft booth - a bright white oasis of
relatively line-free gaming. Seriously, our wait in the Resident Evil 5 co-op line at Microsoft's
booth this morning: approximately five minutes. The wait at Capcom's emResident Evil 5/em booth?
Think "infinity." Check out our gallery below for a quick walkthrough of what the big M's got on
display at TGS this year.br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a
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Mac Forums - iPod touch -
3 hours and 6 minutes ago
Alright guys here is a little bit of a complex question (or at least I think it is)
I downloaded crossover because I wanted to use some windows programs like .exe
the program I want to use requires .NET Framework so I installed that.
However, in order to insteall .NET Framework I need to get internet explorer for windows. Microsoft
Interent Explorer 5.01.
I went on this site http://www.microsoft.com/windows/int...wnload-ie.aspx tried downloading internet
explorer 8 and 7 but when I launch this comes up
"Extraction Failed. Newer Windows Version Needed"
Does anybody have any idea what to do?
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3 hours and 8 minutes ago
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360, TGS
For the first two and a half years of the Xbox 360's lifespan, owners eagerly looked forward to
regular "spring" and "fall" updates, packing more functionality into their consoles through (what
Microsoft marketing would later call) the "magic of software." With the absence of a spring update this year and the subsequent announcement of the New Xbox Experience we wanted
to know if Microsoft would return to the biannual updates ...
So we asked John Schappert during our sitdown earlier this week in Tokyo. He said, "I don't know if we're going to
tie ourselves to a spring fall release schedule" and continued, "I like staying focused on bigger,
more impactful releases ... maybe it'll be twice a year, maybe less frequently, to-be-determined."
Speaking of what those future updates could consist of, Schappert said that Microsoft is asking
itself, "What's the next big launch? What do we bring? When can we bring it? And how can we do it
in a big way?"
The NXE is certainly a bigger, more impactful release. We're assuming, however, that Microsoft
doesn't plan on reinventing the wheel every couple years in which case what "big" functionality
should we expect in future Dashboard updates, regardless of when they're released? No, really,
we're asking you.
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Joystiq -
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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a
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//div For the first two and a half years of the Xbox 360's lifespan, owners eagerly looked forward
to regular "spring" and "fall" updates, packing more functionality into their consoles through
(what Microsoft marketing would later call) the "magic of software." With the a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/22/microsoft-no-spring-dashboard-update-this-year/"absence of
a spring update/a this year and the subsequent announcement of the a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/New-Xbox-Experience/"New Xbox Experience/a we wanted to know if
Microsoft would return to the biannual updates ... br /br /So we asked John Schappert during our a
href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/09/tgs-08-john-schappert-on-nxe-halo-3-recon-and-xbox-in-japan/"sitdown
earlier this week/a in Tokyo. He said, "I don't know if we're going to tie ourselves to a spring
fall release schedule" and continued, "I like staying focused on bigger, more impactful releases
... maybe it'll be twice a year, maybe less frequently, to-be-determined." Speaking of what those
future updates could consist of, Schappert said that Microsoft is asking itself, "What's the next
big launch? What do we bring? When can we bring it? And how can we do it in a big way?"br /br /The
NXE is certainly a bigger, more impactful release. We're assuming, however, that Microsoft doesn't
plan on reinventing the wheel every couple years in which case what "big" functionality should we
expect in future Dashboard updates, regardless of when they're released? No, really, we're asking
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analogue stick now allows you to strafe to the left and right, with aiming (enabled via the left
trigger) and turning assigned to the right analogue stick. The controls are a step away from
emResident Evil 4/em's tank controls and feel considerably more familiar and intuitive.br /br
/We're relieved -- and you may be inclined to disagree -- that Chris Redfield and his spirited
partner are still unable to move and shoot at the same time. By not entirely giving in to the
demands of shooter fans and placing one significant limit on your offensive capabilities, Capcom
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 Microsoft is planning to reduce the number of annoying warning popups appearing
in Windows 7. Also known as user account control prompts, these things are proven to all too often
either lull us into a robotic state of acceptance (clicking "yes" without reading) or a more active
state of wrath. (YES, you stupid computer, I do want to install the Adobe suite that just
cost me a month's salary!) The reason Windows programmers are able to reduce the warnings is funny:
Most of them come from Windows itself.
We've all been there: The screen goes dark and suddenly Windows is warning us of a potential threat
to our very lives! Even though this occasionally draws our attention to malware that's
trying to sneak in, internal Microsoft studies show that the UAC prompts have been a security
threat as well as a sanity challenger. But it's apparently self-inflicted, as 29 of the top 50 UAC
prompts in Vista SP1 are Windows components.
According to Ben Fathi, a programmer who blogs on the Engineering Win 7 site, another leading cause
of annoyance is duplicate warnings: IE7 will point out something, and then Windows will go and
point out the same thing. Even if it is a threat—and it very likely could
be—the redundance factor gets people all grumpy.
What makes us happy is that—long before Win 7 is in beta release—Microsoft
already knows this, and has compiled a list of the challenges for the team: • Reduce
unnecessary or duplicated prompts in Windows and the ecosystem, such that critical prompts can be
more easily identified.
• Enable our customers to be more confident that they are in control of their systems.
• Make prompts informative such that people can make more confident choices.
• Provide better and more obvious control over the mechanism.
Good for you, guys. Too bad this list wasn't around during Vista development. [ Engineering
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