Tag: windows_xp

  • Vista sales numbers don't add up (to much!)

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft are boasting that Vista is selling twice as fast as XP did when it shipped originally. From the Microsoft release: Initial sales figures from Microsoft show its new operating system Windows Vista made a splash in its debut. In the first month of Windows Vista’s general availability, sales exceeded 20 million licenses, more than…

  • Critical vulnerabilities or a clever marketing ploy?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft released updates for critical vulnerabilities in Windows (2000, XP and 2003). This includes fixes for three vulnerabilities that “criminal hackers are already exploiting” according to Brian Krebs. The patches fix vulnerabilities which can allow remote code execution (it doesn’t come much worse than that!). Personally, I think they are trying to scare people into…

  • Running Windows on OS X

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    Tom Raftery
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    Actually Sprinting Windows on OS X might be a more accurate post title or Screaming Windows, or… Parallels is virtualisation software which allows you to run other OS’s on your Mac. I splashed out recently and bought myself a new 15″ MacBook Pro (2.16ghz intel core duo, 2gb ram, 120gb hd). Now that I have…

  • Who wants to run Windows on a Mac?

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    It looks like Apple have decided to make it easy to install Windows on your Mac with their Beta release of their new Boot Camp product. You can download a public beta today and try it out if you have an Intel based Mac and are running the latest version of OS X (10.4.6). This…