Microsoft
Secunia Software Inspector
It’s interesting how Windows users are always so concerned about having the latest updates for their operating system installed but don’t take the time to be sure their other software is up to date. I was recently turned on to the Secunia Software Inspector that checks for updates of installed software as well as Windows […]
Livingston Off Base On Vista Upgrade Use
Brian Livingston wrote a very controversial article in his Windows Secrets newsletter last week. The article was titled “Get Vista upgrade, never pay full price” and discusses how you can use an upgrade version of Vista to do a clean install of Microsoft’s new version of Windows. Upgrades are meant to install over Windows XP […]
Flaw in Windows Vista Speech Recognition?
A story on Engadget discusses how a malicious website can take over your Windows Vista computer with speech recognition enabled. Also, you have to see this video on YouTube.
Don’t Want To Activate Windows Vista? No Problem!
According to an article at PCWorld.com there has already been a Windows Vista hack. I can’t say that I’m surprised. The hack lets users of the corporate version of Vista forgo activation of the new Windows operating system.
IE7 Will Be An Automatic Update
According to this report Microsoft will be making IE7 a “high priority” update due to it’s security upgrades. This means that IE7 will be automatically updated on all computer running IE7 that has automatic updates turned on. Let the Microsoft bashing begin… again.