Windows Protected Mode is a feature of Internet Explorer that guards your computer from malicious software. Protected Mode was introduced with Windows Vista, and, as of the release of Windows 8, the ...

Researchers have found a chink in Internet Explorer’s ‘protected mode’ security armour that hints at trouble for other Windows apps built around the technology, including Google’s Chrome and Adobe’s ...

Microsoft has been helping Adobe develop a sandbox similar to the Protected View in Office 2010. Adobe Reader Protected Mode, a sandboxing technology based on Microsoft's Practical Windows Sandboxing ...

A PC driver written for 32-bit Intel chips. Although 32 bits became available with the 386 in 1985, it took many years for drivers and applications to take advantage of the migration from 16 bits.

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Last time we talked about how the original PC has a limit of 640 kB for your programs and 1 MB in total. But of course those restrictions chafed. People demanded more memory, and there were ...