Microsoft has released a Tool to fix an inconsistency  found in the Windows 7 x64 systems. If you are running Windows 7 x64 based system, you might be not able to get some updates even if your..

We’re all used to Microsoft’s customary Patch Tuesdays, where Microsoft releases most of its security updates for its Windows and Office product families. It’s also not unheard of to see emergency out-of-band security updates, like the one released earlier this week to patch holes in Internet Explorer

HP last night posted a (rather boring) five-minute video (even the interviewer seems to forget where she is at some points) giving further details about the HP Slate that Steve Ballmer showed off during his keynote at CES 2010 . It was first posted on the hpcomputers YouTube channel with the heading “SPECIAL REPORT! The HP Slate.” The interviewee is CTO Phil McKinney, who we’ve seen showing prototypes of HP touch devices before. We’ve watched the video so that you don’t have to (despite its lacking presentation, the details are interesting), but in case you’re interested, we’ve also embedded it below: The project started five years ago at HP Labs in the UK, germinated by the concept of an e-reader device

Monday night, Microsoft released a slew of updates for Windows, the majority of which were targeted for the latest versions of the client and server operating systems. None of these are security updates: this wasn’t Patch Tuesday and Microsoft is not yet ready to address the 17-year-old Windows flaw . The most important update is just like the first stability and reliability update for the OSes, but smaller: Windows 7 32-bit (1.2MB), Windows 7 64-bit (1.7MB), Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit (1.7MB), and Windows Server 2008 R2 Itanium (2.1MB).