Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips New Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface is available and it will enable companies to have a new way to connect with customers. Microsoft Surface Technology Virtual tours of different business operations will be available with Microsoft Surface.

At the upcoming MalCon security conference in Mumbai, Austrian independent developer and security analyst Peter Kleissner is scheduled to release the first known “bootkit” for Windows 8—an exploit that is able to load from a hard drive’s master boot record and reside in memory all the way through the startup of the operating system, providing root access to the system. The exploit allegedly defeats the secure boot features of Windows 8′s new Boot Loader. Kleissner will also present a paper called “The Art of Bootkit Development.” Kleissner previously developed the Stoned bootkit, a proof-of-concept exploit that could attack Windows XP, Vista, and 7, as well as Windows Server 2003.

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Sometimes it does become rather difficult trying to search out an oft-accessed folder, especially if there are many folders in that mother folder.

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips We’ve only just had Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” rolled out but now Microsoft have released another ‘minor’ update to their smartphone operating system.  The new update, v7.10.7740 (Mango was 7.10.7720) has now begun distribution and fixes a couple of minor issues. The first fix is how Windows phone works with Exchange Server.  Microsoft say the fix includes the original message in a forward or response when you send or reply.  The second minor fix addresses a “voicemail notification issue”.

I have covered TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, before here on Ghacks. TED is about sharing ideas on stage with an audience and on the Internet. When you look at the list of speakers, you will notice that it ranges from everyday people fighting for a cause to book authors and celebrities and visionaries such as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

One feature of Linux that you may have liked that is you can switch between different virtual desktops. You can do so for Windows by using a free  program named ‘Desktops’. Desktops from…