Beware of April 1 malware
Tomorrow is April Fools’ Day and that always spawns malware attacks. See the information at Sunbelt.
Via the PC Doctor.
Entries from March 2008
Will Windows 7 be modular?
There’s been speculation (wishful thinking?) that Windows 7 might have a reduced kernel and be more modular (like Linux) but Ed Bott makes a good case that this is not likely. Oh well, I had hopes but it did seem like a big change of direction for Microsoft. Maybe some day.
Did Xbox pick the right Hollywood producer?
Hollywood producer Peter Safran is expected to produce original content for Microsoft’s Xbox Live video service, according to a New York Times story today. With such film credits as “Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood” and “Scary Movie,” Safran might seem a perfect match for the Xbox 360, with its core demographic of teenage boys and young men. The Times says Safran will focus first on shows of less than 10 minutes, in genres “that appeal to the Xbox 360 audience,” such as comedy and horror. But it’s worth remembering that one of Microsoft’s big goals with the Xbox 360 was to broaden the audience beyond that core demographic, with more content to appeal to women, children and families.
Forrester: 95% of Business Users Run Windows
Mary Jo Foley quotes from a Forrester Research report:
Enterprises share of Windows users dropped by nearly 4% during the year, but Microsofts monopoly remains undisputed: Some 95% of business users run Windows. While 2007 was a big year for…
Forrester: Forget Macs. In business, it’s still all about Windows
In spite of the continual noise around Macs gaining marketshare, Windows still totally and completely rules the enterprise roost.
Exec: Windows Mobile to tap Xbox, Zune, etc.
Andy Lees, Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile chief, expects the division to start working more closely with other Microsoft groups — including Xbox, Zune, Windows, Windows Live and Office — to develop new experiences on mobile phones. That’s one of the tidbits I gathered in an interview with Lees last week while working on this story for today’s newspaper. Here’s an extended version of his comments on the subject:
Report: Mozilla enterprise browser share hits 18 percent
On the same day that Mozilla is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its Mozilla source code release, Forrester Research analysts have released a new study that shows that Firefox’s market share among business users has doubled in the past year, and is now at 18 percent.
Forrester released the results of its one-month study of 50,000 […]
New search site for legal information
You may not be a lawyer but you might want to look up a legal point some time. Lawyer or lay person, a new site called justia.com looks like a useful resource. AppScout says:
Legal information can be difficult to find: You have to dig through piles of books, page through thick court decisions, or know […]
OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learned
The votes have been tallied but it’s still not 100 percent certain that Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) document-format is going to become an ISO standard.
Windows Vista Wallpapers You Should Not Miss
I found this post about different Windows Vista Wallpapers you shouldn’t miss. You have the Vista Curves, Silky Embossed & Corporate Clean.
Go and see all the designs here.
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