Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I’ve had to listen to clients kvetch for hours on end about how Microsoft makes their lives miserable and how everything would be better in a Microsoft-free world. Tony Bove wrote a whole book with that theme, Just Say No to Microsoft, and plenty of blogs have taken up the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
About half of the downloads claiming to be free versions of?Microsoft's Vista operating system are actually malicious Trojan horse software, security vendor DriveSentry warned Thursday.
With Vista's consumer launch just days away, hackers have been bombarding discussion boards with offers of "cracked" versions of Windows Vista, which are typically being ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Microsoft is working on a new tunneling protocol for Vista and Longhorn that will provide secure network access from anywhere on the Net.
The Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) creates a VPN tunnel that travels over Secure-HTTP, eliminating issues associated VPN connections based on the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) or Layer ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Want to see if your Windows XP-based PC can run Windows Vista? Just download, install, and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor.
This small software tool will scan your computer and create an easy-to-understand report of all known system, device, and program compatibility issues, and recommend ways to resolve them. Upgrade ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If it looks like spyware, acts like spyware, and transmits information like spyware--it's practically spyware, say some antispyware makers of the antipiracy features in Microsoft's controversial Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program.
Other antispyware firms aren't so concerned. "Microsoft has every right to protect itself from piracy," says J.J. Schoch, director of ...
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