Archive for the 'Billyware' Category

1st December Comments

Latest Microsoft Patches Cause Black Screen of Death

Posted on December 1st, 2009 at 7:30 am

 
Latest Microsoft Patches Cause Black Screen of Death
If you have been affected with this “new feature” you will want to read the rest of the article, Baldy

Latest Microsoft Patches Cause Black Screen of Death

25th November Comments

With Windows 7, Only Half of Samba Stops Working

Posted on November 25th, 2009 at 7:11 am

 
Bringing Windows 7 clients into your Linux network is exactly what the fine Samba server is made for. But every Windows release comes with new interop roadblocks, and Windows 7 is no exception. Charlie Schluting shows how to get past the latest ones.
You better  pay attention to this one Slick, and have Raven check [...]

23rd October Comments

Windows 7 Review (Not Linux but interesting read)

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 at 5:22 am

 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,…est=latestnewsNotice how W7 is copying features of Linux/Mac. Also, the author states their is no real reason to switch to W7. Without saying it, he could be summarized as stating W7 is a polished Vista.
Darn it is cute they way they have “found” so many new features to add in now, humm Linux has had [...]

28th February Comments

Official: Windows 7 has more than 2000 bugs

Posted on February 28th, 2009 at 8:04 am

 
Steven Sinofsky, the Senior Vice President for the Microsoft Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, in an attempt to quell a beta tester rebellion over a perceived lack of feedback concerning bug reporting has made an astonishing confession: Windows 7 has at least 2000 bugs.
Gads only 2000! Not that security or ease of use [...]

30th January Comments

The oldest trick in the book, literally, defeats UAC in Windows 7

Posted on January 30th, 2009 at 11:28 am

Though the fellows sounding the warning today are the best in the business, it didn’t take a lot of know-how to develop a proof-of-concept that the new User Access Control panel can be disabled by VBScript.
Windows 7 is still in the public beta process, and will be for some months to come. The purpose of [...]

18th January Comments

Wisconsin Girl Cancels Online College Courses Thanks To A Mind Blown By Her Ubuntu Dell

Posted on January 18th, 2009 at 8:23 am

 
God bless local news. Annie Schubert was expecting a "bread and butter" Dell running Windows for school. But when she fired up her accidental Ubuntu machine, confusion was only the beginning of her problems. You see, Annie was ready to enroll in online classes at Madison Area Technical College (emphasis mine), so she bought a [...]

20th August Comments

A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP

Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 4:30 am

 
Vista’s death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP. In a survey of more than 3,000 computers, performance testing software developer Devil Mountain Software estimated that more than one in three new [...]

15th August Comments

Did Microsoft Forget a Patch?

Posted on August 15th, 2008 at 9:14 am

Lost in the shuffle of this month’s Patch Tuesday barrage is the fact that a critical vulnerability in the ever-present Windows Media Player (WMP) was not fixed “because of a last minute quality issue.”
Microsoft originally listed the WMP update in the advance notice for August but, when the patches dropped on Tuesday, it had slipped [...]

7th July Comments

XP SP3 to reach most users ’shortly,’ says Microsoft

Posted on July 7th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

July 7, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. today said that it would begin pushing Windows XP Service Pack 3 to most users “shortly.”
The announcement, made by Nick MacKechnie, a senior manager for Microsoft’s New Zealand operations, was not unexpected, since the company had previously said that it would release Windows XP SP3 to Automatic Updates sometime [...]

25th June Comments

Bill Gates’ greatest hits and misses

Posted on June 25th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

June 30 marks Gates’ last official day of work at Microsoft. While the software giant’s founder will continue on as chairman, he will no longer be a full-time employee. ZDNet’s editor in chief, Larry Dignan, rates Gates’ many conference keynotes and product launches, separating the successful from those that missed the mark.
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