Malwarebytes announced today that they have acquired AdwCleaner, the popular utility used to clean up adware, toolbars, and other potentially unwanted programs. Version 6 of the program was released this year. It receives more than 200,000 downloads a day and has been installed over 200 million times. AdwCleaner started in 2011 as the product of three French students. Two of … [Read more...]
Revised JDK 9 schedule proposed
Following the proposed 4-month delay of Java 9's release date going unopposed, the new schedule has been proposed on the Java newsgroup. The schedule information is also available on the JDK 9 project page. Here are the proposed dates for the interim milestones: 2016/05/26 Feature Complete 2016/12/22 Feature Extension Complete 2017/01/05 Rampdown Start 2017/02/09 All … [Read more...]
Quicken 2017 now available, first release independent of Intuit
Disclosure: 404techsupport.com is not an authorized reseller and is not affiliated with Quicken Inc. Quicken was spun off from Intuit in March and bought by H.I.G. Capital. They have just released their first titles since being independent and have pumped resources into product development and customer support teams. Quicken 2017 is an updated software tool to manage your … [Read more...]
Microsoft announcements at Ignite 2016
The first day of Microsoft's Ignite conference in Atlanta included a number of announcements in regards to Windows Server 2016, System Center 2016, Office 365, Windows 10, and other Microsoft products. The conference continues throughout the week, so there may be more to come but this compiles most of the announcements in one place. You can watch the recorded events or review … [Read more...]
General availability of Java 9 further delayed into 2017
Earlier this month, Mark Reinhold, the Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, proposed a delay to the Java 9 general availability release date. In the thread, it was stated that unless objections were raised in reply by a deadline of yesterday, the new proposed schedule would be adopted. All responses were positive and in agreement to introduce the four month … [Read more...]