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The first interesting missive to arrive in my inbox came courtesy of the words of Microsoft COO, Kevin Turner, speaking at the July 26th Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2007. Turner decided to focus his attention on Vista security, rolling out the usual 'most secure Windows operating system...
Read More | Jul 29th, 2007 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Aug 2nd, 2007
Over the past few years, 3-D rendering in window managers has become a new trend in the desktop environment. OS X was the first to make fancy visual effects prominent in the way users interact with the windows in their desktop. Windows Vista has also jumped on the bandwagon with its Aero interface,...
Read More | Jul 11th, 2007 | Comments: 10 | Last Comment: Jul 16th, 2007
Word has it that the long awaited Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, also known as what Vista would have been if it were released when actually fully tested and ready, could be with us sooner than expected. While most industry commentators have been sticking to the official ‘sometime in the first...
Read More | Jul 9th, 2007
Steve Jobs is always good for a surprise announcement, although usually the media has got an idea of what is about to be revealed. Not so at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 in San Francisco today, where the Apple CEO shocked everyone by announcing that the much loved Safari web...
Read More | Jun 11th, 2007 | Comments: 9 | Last Comment: Jun 17th, 2007
Yeah, yeah, yeah – how can an operating system be environmentally unfriendly I hear you ask? User friendly, security friendly, productivity friendly even, but environmentally unfriendly? Well that is exactly the claim that I am prepared to make considering reports from the likes of ZDNet...
Read More | May 6th, 2007 | Comments: 14 | Last Comment: May 8th, 2007
As DaniWeb reported back in February, the trouble with asking what your customers want is that they have a habit of letting you know in no uncertain terms. When Dell did that at their IdeaStorm site, the masses yelled ‘what we want is Linux pre-installed’ and the Michael Dell yelled back ‘we...
Read More | May 2nd, 2007 | Comments: 7 | Last Comment: Jul 14th, 2007
Suggestions for a suitable epitaph are welcome, although I suspect ‘good riddance to insecure rubbish’ will stand the test of time as well as any other when it comes to the death of Windows XP. Yes, despite the fact that Vista has hardly set the world on fire if recent reports such as the US...
Read More | Apr 15th, 2007 | Comments: 6 | Last Comment: Apr 15th, 2007
The latest lawsuit against Vista, so it seems, is now attacking the marketing methods that Microsoft used to sell PCs. The prosecutors claim that Microsoft mislead customers by allowing PC manufacturers to place stickers on the machine that said "Vista capable", when in fact many of the PCs sold...
Read More | Apr 3rd, 2007 | Comments: 7 | Last Comment: Apr 6th, 2007
Reports that the Redmond giant has "dangerous security flaw with its animated cursors" are floating around. Sounds interesting, so you read it. It talks about how vulnerable everyone is to it, how long Microsoft has ignored the bug, but they don't go much farther than that. I may be missing...
Read More | Apr 2nd, 2007
Microsoft is aiming to broaden your web surfing horizons with their new "Deepfish" software available for the next version of Windows Mobile. Among other large improvements over the previous browsers used on the PDAs, this one includes a thumbnail view, which will allow you to view content in a...
Read More | Mar 31st, 2007
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