Additionally, SkyDrive users can share more easily with just one click right from File Explorer.

FORBES: Microsoft Adds New Features to SkyDrive, Including Selective Sync

In addition, while Surface doesn't run most old-style Windows apps, it includes some standard old Windows programs like the calculator, notepad and file explorer.

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Also today, the Redmond giant announced several new features to SkyDrive including the ability to select what you sync along with the ability to share files and folders right from the Windows File Explorer.

FORBES: Microsoft Adds New Features to SkyDrive, Including Selective Sync

The Taskbar contains only icons for Internet Explorer, the Explorer file browser, and Microsoft's free email, photo and moviemaking programs.

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In their paper, Mr Mohan and Dr Hamlen demonstrate the feasibility of this by having their program construct two simple algorithms not full-blown viruses, but the sorts of things that a virus author might find useful using only gadgets harvested from Explorer, the file browser included with Windows.

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Its sandbox was found to be the strictest, while Accuvant says that Internet Explorer allowed hackers some file-reading capabilities even as it prevented them from installing malware.

FORBES: Updated with a response from Mozilla.

What's even cooler is that an intrepid explorer on Howard Forums discovered that if you rename an mp3 file (max size 190k) with a .mid extension and an email it to your phone.

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