Latest Microsoft Patches Cause Black Screen of Death

If you have been affected with this “new feature” you will want to read the rest of the article, Baldy

Latest Microsoft Patches Cause Black Screen of Death

Bringing Windows 7 clients into your Linux network is exactly what the fine Samba server is made for. But every Windows release comes with new interop roadblocks, and Windows 7 is no exception. Charlie Schluting shows how to get past the latest ones.

You better  pay attention to this one Slick, and have Raven check it out to fix your laptop. Baldy

With Windows 7, Only Half of Samba Stops Working

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,…est=latestnews
Notice how W7 is copying features of Linux/Mac. Also, the author states their is no real reason to switch to W7. Without saying it, he could be summarized as stating W7 is a polished Vista.

Darn it is cute they way they have “found” so many new features to add in now, humm Linux has had them for years, Baldy

Windows 7 Review (Not Linux but interesting read)

Apparently, Internet Explorer is on its way out. JCXP.net is saying that Internet Explorer 8 will be the last traditional version of Microsoft’s web browser, and that Microsoft’s next web browser will be based on a promising Microsoft Research project dubbed “Gazelle”.

Reading through the Microsoft Research paper on Gazelle, it becomes clear that it is an intricate beast. It relies on a “browser kernel”, 5000 lines of C# code, that exposes the underlying system to webpages using a set of system calls. Web content does not interact with the actual operating system at all; all communication goes through the sandboxed browser kernel. The browser kernel takes care of all resource protection and sharing.

Okay I will beleive it when I see it, Baldy

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iTWire – Can Microsoft’s Kumo take on Google’s Sumo

Once again one of Microsoft’s worst kept secrets has been leaked, this time a new search engine called Kumo, that is supposed to especially good at searching for images. Is Kumo the saviour that Microsoft has been waiting for to take on Google’s 800 pound sumo or is it just a warmed up version of Live Search?

Steven Sinofsky, the Senior Vice President for the Microsoft Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, in an attempt to quell a beta tester rebellion over a perceived lack of feedback concerning bug reporting has made an astonishing confession: Windows 7 has at least 2000 bugs.

Gads only 2000! Not that security or ease of use really matters anymore right just release then darn thing and then 42 service paks to make it user friendly. Baldy

Official: Windows 7 has more than 2000 bugs

Though the fellows sounding the warning today are the best in the business, it didn’t take a lot of know-how to develop a proof-of-concept that the new User Access Control panel can be disabled by VBScript.

Windows 7 is still in the public beta process, and will be for some months to come. The purpose of true beta testing is to isolate and identify serious problems (we should know). So it’s to any researcher’s credit that a potentially threatening problem be brought into the open prior to Microsoft finalizing the code for everyday use.

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God bless local news. Annie Schubert was expecting a “bread and butter” Dell running Windows for school. But when she fired up her accidental Ubuntu machine, confusion was only the beginning of her problems. You see, Annie was ready to enroll in online classes at Madison Area Technical College (emphasis mine), so she bought a Dell laptop with Ubuntu pre-loaded. MATC lists as its requirements Microsoft Word and internet access, so when her Verizon DSL install CD wouldn’t work and the word “Microsoft” was nowhere to be found, she called Dell. There, a gracious callcenter support drone told her that Ubuntu was just fine for everything she needed to do (true, I would say) and that it’s just perfect for college students. Annie agreed.

No where should it say in order to get a higher education you must be a windows user, Baldy

Wisconsin Girl Cancels Online College Courses Thanks To A Mind Blown By Her Ubuntu Dell

Vista’s death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP. In a survey of more than 3,000 computers, performance testing software developer Devil Mountain Software estimated that more than one in three new machines had either been downgraded by vendors such as Dell, or by customers once they bought the PC.

Well this proves it Vista really does suck, On the plus side for Vista if you have tons of memory and tons of time to wait it does work and has lots of eye candy beyond that nevermind, Baldy

 

A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP

Open Office vs. MS Office – the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition – Jamie’s Random Musings on Video IM – J.A. Watson’s Blog at ZDNet.co.uk Community

Open Office vs. MS Office – the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition

Posted by J.A. Watson

As I have been going around alternately prodding my friends and family to try Linux, or asking them if they thought it would be possible, one thing I have heard repeatedly is that a lot of people use Microsoft Office and are concerned about their Office documents on Linux. I should also mention that a lot of them are very angry that Microsoft has changed the default document format in Office 2007 (again), such that it is incompatible with previous Office versions. Yes, of course, I know there are converters and such, but it’s just one more thing for users to have to worry about – and in general they aren’t confronted with it, or sometimes even aware of it, until they send a critical document to a colleague and discover that the colleague can’t open it…