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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Geek Week: Sleazy campaigns, MS & Google make peace Australian Techworld, Australia - 11 minutes ago Politics is infecting everything these days, from YouTube to email to, yes, Cringely's blog. Thank god Microsoft and Google finally decided to get along. ... More...
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Home directory in Vista is mapped to your own user top level directory wherein you can access you documents, downloads, pictures, etc. You own home directory is the root where you can save files and other stuff. Previously, you are used to dumping everything in the root of C; but Vista would disallow you to [...] More...
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The image above is a green leafy Windows Vista wallpaper . Found here.Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> WinInfo Short Takes: Week of October 13, 2008 Windows IT Pro, CO - 16 minutes ago An often irreverent look at some of the week's other news, including a Windows Vista Secrets SP1 Edition give-away, Yahoo! and wishful thinking, ... More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Exploit code loose for six-month-old Windows bug Computerworld, MA - 5 minutes ago On Thursday, Microsoft revised a security advisory it first posted April 19 about a bug in Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008 that could be ... More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> My New PC is a Mac Mini Seattle Post Intelligencer - 21 minutes ago I am going to install Windows on it via Boot Camp and need to decide between choosing XP and Vista. I am leaning towards XP. My old Mac iBook was dead as a ... More...
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<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=Mgwd33hDla0J&imgurl=www.lifehacker.com.au/UAC.jpg width=80 height=34 alt="" border=1> Lifehacker Australia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Kind Of Promises To Fix UAC Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 16 hours ago Sadly, Microsoft hasn't pledged to kill off UAC when Windows 7 arrives, but in a new post on its Engineering Windows 7 blog, it has suggested that it will ... More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Lifehacker Confessions: The Tips and Tricks I'm Not Using Lifehacker, CA - 23 minutes ago My laptop came loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium, however, and Launchy was one of many utility apps I always had running, but after a few months, ... More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Geek Week: Campaigns mired in sleaze, Microsoft & Google make peace InfoWorld, CA - 44 minutes ago Politics is infecting everything these days, from YouTube to email to, yes, Cringely's blog. Thank god Microsoft and Google finally decided to get along. ... More...
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How to Guide: Recover Windows Vista Password Forgotten (Techticles)Oracle Fusion Middleware (Techticles)Symantec Enterprise Vault (Techticles)Vista “junk PC” suit: What did Ballmer know and when did he know it? (ComputerWorld)Vista is alive and kicking (InfoWorld)Microsoft to improve Vista’s problematic UAC in Windows 7 (NetworkWorld)Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More...
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RE: The blog is great... - OS News <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> RE: The blog is great... OS News - 1 hour ago I was reading a trade journal the other day where sinofsky was talking about the expectations they built up during vista development by the transparency in ... More...
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Join members of the Internet Explorer team for an Expert Zone chat next Thursday, October 16th at 10.00 PDT/17.00 UTC. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered by members of the IE product team. Thank you to all who have attended the chats to date! If you can’t join us online, all chat transcripts are published here. We want to hear your feedback on IE8 Beta 2! Kristen Kibble Program Manager P.S. Upcoming IE chat dates are posted here. http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8993363 More...
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RE: The blog is great... - OS News <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> RE: The blog is great... OS News - 33 minutes ago Don't rush Windows 7, dont set a date and extract features or enhancements to get there. if it gets done "when it's done" thats fine. just do it right and ... More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Rethinking User Account Control OS News - 7 minutes ago The Engineering 7 blog continues its trend of detailing the real issues that people deal with when it comes to Windows. We have already covered their ... More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Clouds on Vista's horizon to be dubbed Strata? engadget, CA - 16 minutes ago by Tim Stevens, posted Oct 9th 2008 at 3:29PM When Ballmer dropped a few sprinkles of information about Vista's successor, he dubbed it "Windows Cloud," but ... More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft to improve Vista's problematic UAC in Windows 7 NetworkWorld.com, MA - 23 minutes ago On the company's Engineering Windows 7 blog, Microsoft called UAC one of the "most controversial" features of Vista, and said it will tweak UAC in Windows 7 ... More...
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<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=0iQL3GNJu0sJ&imgurl=vista.blorge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/uac.jpg width=80 height=53 alt="" border=1> TECH.BLORGE.com <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 UAC could be less of a nag TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - 25 minutes ago The comments come in a lengthy article on the official Engineering Windows 7 blog. Writer Ben Fathi says the goal in the new system is to refine UAC so that ... More...
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T-Mobile will soon deliver the first smart phone based on Google's new Android platform. Check it out in this Google Android Preview! More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Theme XP In Dark Blue, No Hacking Required Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 2 minutes ago The Ask VG blog points us to a dark blue, modern-looking "Embedded" theme for Windows XP, designed and signed by Microsoft. That means no file hacking—just ... More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Kinder, gentler account control in Windows 7 guardian.co.uk, UK - 7 minutes ago User Account Control (UAC) added greatly to the security of Windows Vista, but some people -- and plenty of vocal geeks -- have found it annoying. ... More...
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Microsoft will ship its New Xbox Experience to Xbox 360 users on November 19. Here's a look at the new Games Marketplace! More...
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Jason Hiner has written over at ZDnet and article which lists the top 5 reasons why Windows Vista failed.I agree on only two of his five reasons. Below are my comments on each his reasons:5.* Apple successfully demonized Vista - why do people keep on putting Apple on the equation? Jason himself has outlined that [...] More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> An Unblinking Look at User Access Control Technologizer, CA - 18 minutes ago If you were to list all the things that contributed to Windows Vista’s lackluster reputation, I’m not sure if UAC would be in the top four or five. ... More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Hotmail's many ways of closing your mail account Australian Personal Computer, Australia - 1 hour ago One user, Tom Raftery, writes on his blog "I Logged into my Windows Live email account yesterday only to find all my email deleted. ... More...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> No surprise: Microsoft to fine-tune UAC in Windows 7 ZDNet - 2 minutes ago UAC, which debuted with Windows Vista, provides users with standard user rights, as opposed to uber administrative rights, by default. ... More...