Today, the regional registrar APNIC, which is responsible for allocating IP addresses in Asia, has run out of freely available IPv4 addresses. This means that everyone who requests an IPv4 address in countries like China and India (where Internet usage is growing very rapidly) will not be able to get one. The next registrar that [...]
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One of the questions that we often get about the SocketTools Library Edition is about support for other C/C++ compilers and third-party languages. As a collection of standard dynamic link libraries (DLLs), SocketTools can be used by virtually any programming language available for the Windows platform. The documentation is primarily focused around Visual C++ development [...]
Microsoft has announced the end of technical support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 on July 13, 2010. This means that after this date, paid support and operating system updates from Microsoft, including security updates, will no longer be available for those platforms. It’s recommended that you upgrade these platforms as soon as possible. [...]
Microsoft announced that Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009 and will be generally available in October. This new version of Windows is essentially an incremental release that builds on the features introduced with Windows Vista, with a focus on increased hardware and software compatibility, improved performance and new, redesigned shell. The [...]
Technical support for version 5.0 of all SocketTools Editions, all SocketWrench Editions, and the File Transfer and Internet Mail products will officially end on June 30, 2009. It is recommended that those developers who are currently using version 5.0 download the last available build. Links to download the product files can be found in Knowledge [...]
Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing on February 4th and is available to volume licensees and MSDN subscribers. The operating system will be officially released on February 27th as part of a larger product launch that also includes Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Additional information about Windows Server 2008 is available [...]
One of the more frequent questions that we get from customers is whether an update is available for their software, or when a new version has been released. We have a number of RSS newsfeeds that can easily provide you with exactly that kind of information. You can subscribe to these feeds and receive update [...]