Category: Windows

  • Long shot

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    Guys, I know this is a long shot but I thought, what the hey, it is worth a try! I have a friend who booked time in a data centre for tomorrow to upgrade his server from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition. Unfortunately, his supplier hasn’t come through with the media…

  • Don't buy Sony label music!

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    The title of this post may be a little alarmist but Sony has included Rootkit software on its music CDs recently in an effort to stop users copying music more than three times. The rootkit software was discovered by security expert Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals accidentally and he wrote about it last week. Mark explained:…

  • Intel based Macs to run multiple OSs

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    I see where Apple has applied for a patent that allows the computer maker to protect the installation of Mac OS X so that it can only be used on Apple produced hardware. No real surprise there. However, the patent also describes a method whereby Apple hardware could be used to run other Operating Systems:…

  • Microsoft 2.0? Yawn.

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    The online world is buzzing with the news of Microsoft’s conversion to Web 2.0! Tim O’Reilly is quite positive about it: Overall, leaves me with a lot of optimism that Microsoft is fully engaged with the right problems, and we’ll be hearing a lot more from them. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch said: After what I…

  • Windows based Treo launched!

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    I see that the Windows based Treo I speculated about a couple of days ago has been released – Engadget has a first look at it here. This has to be bad news for the Palm OS – that’s one down (Palm) for Microsoft and one to go (Symbian)!

  • Start.com updates but still ignores Mac

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    Start.com announced on their blog that they have released a new version of their portal site – this time simply at start.com and no longer at start.com/3/ – a sensible, if overdue, move. The rest of the updates to the portal are: feed read/unread support more/fewer headlines auto-refresh for feeds many improvemens on: look and…

  • Microsoft releases critical fixes

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    Overnight Microsoft released 3 critical, 1 important and 2 moderate fixes for Internet Explorer and Windows. The vulnerabilities patched allow remote code execution, denial of service and local elevation of privilige. Any internet Explorer and/or Windows users are strongly advised to patch their systems with these upgrades. More info and updates available here.

  • Browse, Search, Subscribe – the new Internet paradigm

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    In case you missed it, Microsoft made three RSS related announcements at Gnomedex last week. They announced that: they are building support for RSS into their next operating system (code named longhorn) scheduled for release at the end of 2006 (I hope that sucking sound wasn’t the sound of you holding your breath!) the next…