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WinRadar AD Worx 1 (Windows)

WinRadar AD Worx is a freeware Active Directory administration tool that allows you to manage your network and perform tasks without leaving your desk. It helps to eliminate writing scripts and performing individual computer maintenance with its familiar domain controller interface. With its built-in features, it makes daily network administration...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Service Pack, Computer, CNS Software, WinRadar AD Worx, Productivity, Printers, Networking, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2007-07-13

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The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Microsoft Security Essentials or Forefront: Which should a Windows user choose?

Free for business use?Interesting... According to this table, MCE can be used in servers (2008 R2) and, since there is nothing in contrary, it seems that is also free for use by businesses - most of the other free offerings (Avast, AVG...) are only free for non-commercial use.RE: Microsoft Security...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Security, Microsoft Corp., MSE, Windows User, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest

Real standards[i]"That's important because Microsoft has of late embraced a standard-centric philosophy when it comes to what technology IE supports, and IE is of course the dominant browser on the market."[/i]Microsoft has never been particularly keen on supporting real standards, they've always preferred their own formats to maintain their monopoly.IE...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, XHTML, W3C, Microsoft Corp., standards, HTML, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, ISO

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Microsoft seeking Win 7 testers for netbooks?

Microsoft seeking Win 7 testers for netbooks?Garbageware 7Install Fedora 10 and be done...Gee, end users being the QC department? Status quo since 1995, then...Even if bugs are found, they may not be fixed until the next product release. (if that's true for application software, it's undoubtedly true for the...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, MS obviously, netbook, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

Microsoft to force Messenger users to upgrade

Microsoft to force Messenger users to upgradeNot to mentionno ads.Yeah, I use Pidgin. Also Xfire when playing a gme.Yeah, I use Pidgin, although I have a few issues with the way the devs do things . . .Actually, I've found that I'm using Xfire a lot more since it'll work...

Tags: Linux, Games, I-don't-know-what, Microsoft Corp., Messenger, Pidgin

Discussion threads 2007-09-13

Microsoft WGA servers are fixed, but no word on what went wrong

Microsoft WGA servers are fixed, but no word on what went wrongPerhaps the servers failed their own WGA tests and ran...... with reduced functionality. A chicken and egg thing. That would be funny.MSFT WGA Servers are fixedI would think that like a lot of other technology, a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., server, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, operating system, Microsoft WGA Server, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-08-25

#10: NoScript for Firefox (Ten free security utilities you should already be using)

#10: NoScript for Firefox Ten free security utilities you should already be usingSo why was NoScript the last one mentioned?The first entry should have been Firefox to replace Internet Exploder and the second should have been NoScript. Anything that requires you to sign up and allows a third party server...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, UNIX, security, America Online Inc., Mozilla Firefox, NoScript

Discussion threads 2007-07-25

Google's three rules

They roll out new applications for millions of users with surprising speed, especially compared to corporate IT. They build data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers - and millions of disk drives - and run it all on free software. Costly corporate kit, like RAID arrays and 15k FC...

Tags: Infrastructure, Clusters

Blog posts 2007-06-22

Ray Ozzie's view of the Web Office

Prior to the Thirty Years of Public Key Cryptography event at the Computer History Museum, I caught up with Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie. Of course, I asked him what his thinking was on delivering a full-blown Web office suite to compete with the likes of Google Docs &...

Tags: Web browsers, Groupware, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Web, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Web browser

Blog posts 2006-10-27

Clogging the EC antitrust bottleneck

Clogging the EC antitrust bottleneckMore justification of MS's "past and continuing abuse"Symatec should have a problem with MS bundling Windows Live OneCare onto versions of Vista, and PatchGuard's potential to break Symatec software.What will be the take up of MS OneCare from anti-virus users purely because it's bundled? Clearly a...

Tags: SECURITY, Viruses and worms, antitrust, Microsoft Corp., XPS, open standard, antivirus, Adobe Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-22

OpenMFG broadens open source benefits

A fully-supported ERP system for just $500 per month? That's right, said OpenMFG CEO Ned Lilly, calling from Norfolk, Virginia. (Your mileage will vary, and OpenMFG has a calculator on its site to help you with that.)Driving down the price of fully-supported software systems is an expected benefit from open...

Tags: OpenMFG, open source, Drupal

Blog posts 2006-07-14

Microsoft releases FAQ on Ecma submission

Already being lampooned as FUD by OASIS general council Andrew Updegrove OASIS is the the consortium that stewards the OpenDocument Format, Microsoft has posted a FAQ Frequently Asked Questions that it hopes will address any of the confusion around its convenant not to sue (developers who implement its file formats...

Tags: ECMA

Blog posts 2005-12-13

Swik.Net is a sweet new open source search engine

The folks at Sourcelabs yesterday launched Swik.Net, a sweet little search engine for open source projects.Sourcelabs' CEO, Bryan Sebastian and vp-marketing Cornelius Willis gave me the nickel tour this afternoon, and what they have is something the combines aspects of Google and a Wiki.Both Google and Freshmeat are credited on...

Tags: Swik, Cornelius Willis

Blog posts 2005-07-07