Microsoft plugs 15 holes, including critical drive-by bug
Microsoft today patched 15 vulnerabilities in Windows, Windows Server, Excel and Word, including one that will probably be exploited quickly by hackers. None affect Windows 7, the company's newest operating system.
Windows 7 early adoption rate outpaces Vista's
Windows 7 has broken the 4% market share barrier in less than three weeks, a mark that took Windows Vista five months to reach, a Web metrics company said today.
Microsoft, Novell say alliance still bearing fruit
The alliance between Microsoft Corp. and Novell Corp. continues to bear fruit three years after it was first signed, say the two companies, one the world's largest proprietary software vendor and the other one of the largest of open-source software.
Dell, HP customers rage at Windows 7 upgrade delays
Dell and HP customers are angry that they have not yet received the Windows 7 upgrades promised them when they purchased new PCs earlier this year, according to messages on the companies' support forums.
Migrate to Windows 7--Slowly, Part 6: iTunes
In Part 5 of my series on how to migrate to Windows 7 a little bit at a time, you learned a simple way to sync your Firefox and/or Internet Explorer bookmarks.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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