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- Packaged software, an accident of history
- "government engineered" ????"dysfunctional business model"Sounds like someone is looking for a new "revenue stream"!This sounds suspiciously like the "lease a car" vs "rent a car" debate. Change the looks of the same old clunker to "generate sales" without really improving anything.Feudal Europe had the royalty owning the land and...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web Standard, software, accident
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- More Windows 7 XP Mode questions and more Microsoft answers
- More Windows 7 XP Mode questions and more Microsoft answersSecurityAs I asked PT who as far as I know never got back to me, will applications running in XP mode be only as secure as the security features that came with XP, or will they be also protected by post-XP...
- Tags: Operating systems, XP Mode, Microsoft Windows XP, More Windows 7 XP Mode, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Windows, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- Addressing software freedom in cloud computing
- Addressing software freedom in cloud computingDon't see itThe "cloud" is overrated.I think it is a mistake to trust your data and the security of that data to third parties on the net.Maybe for a rarely used app for which the resulting data would be kept locally.No way would I move...
- Tags: software freedom, cloud computing, software
- Discussion threads 2009-02-23
- IT jobs outlook for 2009: The good and the bad
- A depressing string of layoff announcements across the corporate world has gotten 2009 off to an inauspicious start. So what do the trends mean for IT employment in 2009? Here’s a sober look at both the good signs and the bad. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- ...
- Tags: Job, Layoff, Information Technology, Salary, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Kaspersky Internet Security 2009
- We were disappointed with Kaspersky Internet Security 2009. While there are significant improvements to the anti-malicious-software engine in Kaspersky Internet Security 2009--it is faster--we only saw evidence of that during the file scan test. In our application and boot tests, the numbers were actually worse than last year. This highlights...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Kaspersky, KIS 2009, Kaspersky Internet security 2009, Kaspersky Internet Security, Microsoft Windows
- Product reviews 2008-11-14
- Adventures in CA support
- I received an Email notice this morning that my support agreement with CA for their Internet Security Suite was ending and that I should pay for an update. Since I'm well aware of how long a Windows XP system will survive on the network without a security breach, I dutifully...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., File Servers, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- iPhone 2.1 first impressions: So far, so good
- Now that I've finally got the 2.1 upgrade installed, I must say, the early returns are looking promising. Up until now when friends and family have asked me whether or not I thought they should get an...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Battery, 3G, Cellular Phones, Engineering, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Is iTunes 8 causing BSODs on your Vista system?
- Is iTunes 8 causing BSODs on your Vista system?No BSOD but ITFITF - It Takes Forever to load anything now in iT8.Phone syncs okay, but feels like iTunes is running in molasses.....When I open iTunes, I will get a time out error from the iTunes store site most times....Version 7,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Digital media, iTunes 7, Apple iTunes, BSOD, Microsoft Windows Vista, iTunes 8, Vista System
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Robert Meltzer, CEO of VisaNow offers this guest blog post on the questions we should be asking the candidates on the ever-contentious H1-B issue. Consistently throughout U.S. history, immigration has been a divisive topic. Cultural biases, misconceptions, racism and fear continue to influence both opponents and...
- Tags: U.S., H-1B Visa, Immigration System, H-1B, Government, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email
- Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Tags: Dion Hinchcliffe, Itasca, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, Mashup, Mashup Exchange, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Serena, SnapLogic, Web
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- WWWinamp 4.2 Build 3018 (Windows)
- WWWinamp is a web server which allows you to control a copy of WinAMP on the host computer through the web browser. This solution is perfect for people who prefer to use WinAMP on their Home Theater PC's or for people who wish to have remote control of their instance...
- Tags: Source Code, Winamp, NullSoft, Microsoft Windows, WWWinamp, Halo8, Digital Music, Digital Media, Web Servers, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-04-08
- What is the rate of Mac OS X Leopard adoption?
- Back at the Macworld Expo in January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that some 20 percent of the installed base was running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. But do we have any sense of the current adoption rate for Leopard? Of course, Apple has the best statistics...
- Tags: Developer, Security, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X Leopard, Apple Inc., Leopard, Tiger, Atomic Bird, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- With SP1, Microsoft plans to ditch the Vista "kill switch"
- With SP1, Microsoft plans to ditch the Vista "kill switch"Pricing is tricky for any company ...Saying that Windows is "too expensive" and it being so are two different things. Companies price products at levels that "the market will bear" - meaning that companies need to balance sales volume against...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, SP1, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- Windows automatically updating itself: Case closed?
- It's time for the latest -- and possibly final -- installment of the seemingly never-ending saga of "Why is my copy of Windows automatically updating and rebooting itself?" In the last episode, the Windows Update Product team stated on its blog on October 12 that neither Automatic...
- Tags: David Berlind, Microsoft Windows Update, Automatic Update, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., User, Microsoft Windows, Patches, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Excel 2002 Update: October 16, 2002 exc1003 (Windows)
- Excel 2002 Update: October 16, 2002 offers you the highest levels of stability and security available for Microsoft Excel 2002. Excel 2002 Update: October 16, 2002 prevents users from unintentionally updating links to external data within Excel spreadsheets. This Excel 2002 update is part of Microsoft's continued effort to provide...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Excel 2002, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-10-05
- Microsoft dodging the real stealth update issues
- Microsoft dodging the real stealth update issuesWhy haven't I been updated?I've got Windows Update set to notify me, but not download or install updates. Also, as of Tuesday, 9/11, my machine is fully patched. Yet, all of the dll files listed in the original article as having been updated...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., stealth update, real stealth update
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Tech Shakedown #5: Microsoft justifies Vista's forcing of unwanted reboots
- Two weeks ago, I posted a ZDNet Technology Shakedown video showing how, after downloading and installing some updates, Windows Vista initiated a forced reboot of itself without allowing me the option to postpone that reboot. The options were there. But they were inaccessible. I was critical of...
- Tags: System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Reboot, Microsoft Corp., User, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- WinDVD 8 and AACS key revocation
- Ive had a few questions from readers regarding the implication of the AACS key for WinDVD 8 being revoked (as covered on, for example, Slashdot).First off, has the AACS key for WinDVD 8 been revoked? The answer is yes, as you can read in this press release by InterVideo:To...
- Tags: Software, HD-DVD, DRM, Blu-ray
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Problems arise with Vista's validation
- Last year, when Microsoft announced a new anti-piracy infrastructure for Windows Vista, I was skeptical. Heres what I wrote at the time:Whats most distressing about the SPP announcement is Microsofts continued insistence that its anti-piracy tools are nearly perfect and that innocent victims never suffer from errors in their code....
- Tags: WGA, Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
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