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News to know: Kubuntu; Vista betas; Google Apps; Amazon

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Kubuntu 7.04: Best distro for Windows users? Gallery rightDavid Berlind: Somewhere on a whiteboard at Google is a list like this. Donna Bogatin on Google.Mary Jo Foley: June 1 is D-Day for those still running Vista betas. Microsoft to roll out dynamic-language layer for .Net. Vista...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Vista beta gets slight tweaks

Vista beta gets slight tweaksVista is not needed more than ever ....Now that MS is till reeling fromt the "fine" in Europe, MS has to double up its efforts to make Vista a reality for everybody. Now that MS will have to actually document its desktop to server protocols for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Vista Beta

Discussion threads 2006-07-17

Microsoft says Vista beta testers better hurry

Microsoft says Vista beta testers better hurrythat's ridiculous"The Windows Vista Beta 2 code is available in limited quantities, and we've almost reached that limit and expect to close the program shortly," read: only a limited number of suckers should test it since the final windoze will be the same as...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, beta, beta tester, Vista Beta

Discussion threads 2006-06-29

Vista beta sucks up battery juice

Vista beta sucks up battery juiceSucks used in title for flaming purposes?anyway, yes, extra processes and shiny effects will do that, put more overhead on a system. A fancy new graphics card may put more heat in a system, requiring a big honky fan or a big passive heatsink,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Engineering, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista, laptop computer, battery, Vista Beta, battery juice, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-06-02

Vista Beta 2, Yahoo/eBay, AppExchange and more...

This week on The Dan & David Show, we cover the roll out of Vista Beta 2 (will it really ship in January?), the Yahoo/eBay tie up, and the ongoing barrage of prognostications about the outcome of a Microsoft and Google battle. David says the key metric for a Web...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Vista Beta, Vista Beta 2, podcast

Blog posts 2006-05-25

No Vista Beta 2 this year

No Vista Beta 2 this yearThis means not onWednesday?> "The third CTP release, planned for November, now will not happen until December, it said."Lot's of warning here in a meaningless statement. ;-)This means not onWednesday?> "The third CTP release, planned for November, now will not happen until December, it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), MS s/w, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Beta 2, Vista Beta

Discussion threads 2005-11-29

Photo Gallery: Installing the Vista beta

Photo Gallery: Installing the Vista betaHmmm... ;)I like the looks...Really Good The Installation look is glossy... They could have improved the look...skin-up the controls too.Why Don't MicroSoft Release these as the "Theme Pack Releases"... like Windows XP... - Longhorn Expansion...Something like that.. :D

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista Beta, Photo Gallery, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2005-09-23

Photo Gallery: Installing the Vista beta

Photo Gallery: Installing the Vista betaIcons look a lot like they were duped from OSXAlthough, I think you can probably control the oversized icons like you can in OSX, I don't think it will ever be as nice as the OSX dock. I'm sure a lot of things in Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OSX, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Beta, Photo Gallery

Discussion threads 2005-09-21

Photo Gallery: Installing the Vista beta

Photo Gallery: Installing the Vista betaVmware?Vmware works wonders for taking screen shots, no special hardware required and free 30 day trial last i checked! :) also does movies, avi/mpeg now. MarkLooks PrettyLooks can be a good selling point. I want to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Looks Pretty, Vista Beta, Photo Gallery, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2005-09-16

Photo Gallery: Installing the Vista beta

Photo Gallery: Installing the Vista betaMike Cox will love image 16for giving Windows XP it's new proper name.

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vista Beta, Photo Gallery, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2005-09-15

Views into Vista Beta 1

Views into Vista Beta 1Pretty picturesinstead of rock-solid performance - sounds EXACTLY like Windoze.How is the *performance*?From the pictures, I see features that I have had for quite some time. I'm more interested in Vista's stability and performance. How will it handle when it's put through its paces?More importantly, how...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Performance management, Microsoft Windows, Network technology, 64-bit, Vista Beta 1, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Beta, performance

Discussion threads 2005-07-27

Additional Resources

Coming on Patch Tuesday: 8 bulletins, 6 critical

The final Microsoft Patch Tuesday for 2008 will be a big one: 8 bulletins covering serious code execution flaws in a wide range of ubiquitous software. According to the company's advance notice mechanism,  six of the eight bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. The...

Tags: Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Bulletin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...

Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Clearing up the 32/64-bit memory limit confusion

Today Dwight Silverman ran a great piece on TechBlog which examines whether folks buying a new PC are best sticking with 32-bit Vista or making the leap to 64-bit Vista. It's a good piece but there's one bit that I feel deserves some clarification. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: 32-bit, RAM, Dwight, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-12-04

A new laptop for me is really all about the kids

It's no secret that I want one of the new MacBook Pros. I've blogged about it. I promised Santa I'd be a good boy for the rest of my whole entire life if I could have one. I've explained all of the great new features to my...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Laptop Computer, Computer, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Apple removes Mac antivirus language from site

Apple removes Mac antivirus language from siteProbably Windows"Previously, the company’s security message in its KnowledgeBase was as follows: “Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.” "I think they...

Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, antivirus, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-like

A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-likeCrawl Back Under Your RockWe didn't miss you.The only onesIts just that Mac does it better.Good for MacThinking like this will only keep Windows stagnant and drive up Apple market share. I thought the Mac ads were parody, but...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, team, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Apple's "install antivirus on your Mac" page is gone, but the idea lives on

Apple's "install antivirus on your Mac" page is gone, but the idea lives onCrApple will dieSaying that would probably not draw ignorant Mac customers to buy iCrap so they removed it. I have been using Vista x64 for about 2 years w/o any anti virus and I enjoy using my...

Tags: Desktops, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, antivirus, Aesop, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, malware, game

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Java SE 6 update 11 is out, 64-bit support still lacking

Two months after Java 6 update 10 was released, Sun has just released update 11. For many users the new version will automatically be detected and installed, but you can always get it from the Sun Java site. Developers should download the JDK package Java Development Kit...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., 64-Bit, Programming Languages, Java, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study

Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study1.48 Million?!Does the study actually list where this kind of money was saved? Because I honestly do not see it. There would have to be a HUGE difference in IT cost to account for that.RE: Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case studySounds...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Microsoft Corp., TCO, open source

Discussion threads 2008-12-03