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Microsoft will take the fight to pirates with new security features in Vista SP1
Microsoft has big plans in store for its Windows Vista operating system. The company released a release candidate version of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista in mid-November. SP1 is supposed to address a number of performance-related issues with Vista and […]

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Despite the long wait for the release of Windows Vista early this year, it came (not surprisingly) with numerous bugs that needed immediate attention. Some bugs were glaringly disgusting while others aren’t easily seen.
Mircosoft released its Service Pack 1 beta to a selected number of testers late last September. This update fixed most of the […]

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You Don’t Try Before You Buy–We all want to believe all the propoganda from people selling us something we don’t need. So why would you want to be able to test-drive an operating system via liveCD before you install it. Tell ‘em you don’t need any guarantees either, you’ll take it as-is, sight unseen.
Installation of […]

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1. ONLINE SHOPPING: People are scared to do online transaction because they are worried that people can steal their credit card details. The danger of online shopping lies with an unsecured PC (without firewall and anti-viruses) combined with poor computing habits (frequent sites that cannot be trusted, etc). To ensure that you can have a […]

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Indianapolis (IN) - During a phone conference today, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth made the comment that he’s seeing Ubuntu move into spaces which are not just horizontal migrations away from UNIX or other Linux distributions.  He’s actually seeing Ubuntu as a cost-effective and viable out-of-the-box alternative OS on new machines, even as a Windows replacement.  […]

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Microsoft has planned to release its third service pack (SP3) for Windows XP. This is good news for those who do not plan to upgrade to Vista anytime soon or for those who choose to downgrade their Vista to Windows XP (Microsoft provides downgrades for unhappy VISTA users). Windows XP seems to become a “loved” […]

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Dig this you opensource fans!

Windows Vista is Microsoft’s current flagship operating system for consumers. The operating system launched in late November for OEMs and was released to consumers on January 30.
Microsoft has long-touted the operating system as a revolutionary product for desktops and notebooks — a product that would leave no consumers longing for the […]

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The much awaited Fedora 7 (codenamed Moonshine) is released today. The much awaited new Fedora distro differs from the previous releases and it also made do without the attached trademark “Core” (i.e Fedora Core 6/5/4/3/1). Taken from Fedora’s wiki page:
The next version of Fedora will be released on May 31st. It will be called “Fedora […]

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If you earned $34 million a day from Windows and Office, you too would try to spook the market with patent threats

Last week, Microsoft (MSFT) initiated what can only be described as a rather bizarre public-relations campaign in which they alleged that Linux and Open Office may violate hundreds of the software maker’s patents. While […]

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The love-hate relationship between Windows users and Linux users has existed for many years. Advocates for free open-source software feel the open-source industry develops and improves software an order of magnitude greater than anything Microsoft can dish out. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant feels otherwise, claiming that free software curbs innovation and progress.
Innovation and progress is […]

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