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Latest Microsoft Patches Cause Black Screen of Death

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

 
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
Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox

With Windows 7, Only Half of Samba Stops Working

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

 
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 [...]

Windows 7 Review (Not Linux but interesting read)

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,…est=latestnewsNotice 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 [...]

Microsoft’s Next Browser To Be Based on Gazelle?

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

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 [...]

Can Microsoft’s Kumo take on Google’s Sumo

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

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 [...]

Official: Windows 7 has more than 2000 bugs

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

 
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 [...]

The oldest trick in the book, literally, defeats UAC in Windows 7

Friday, January 30th, 2009

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 [...]

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

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

 
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 [...]

A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

 
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 [...]

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

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

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 [...]

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