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Articles from October, 2009

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A classic example of a typical user’s browser. toolbar hell!
I removed IE from the desktop, taskbar, Start Menu, and even hid the icon in Windows Explorer. I then installed Firefox and Chrome and renamed them both “Internet.” But yet somehow my mother-in-law still found a way to use Internet Explorer and wonders why her c…

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Can this actually happen to a large organization? No backup plans? No disaster recovery site?
Wow. T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidiary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they’ve likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft’s servers due to a server failure. That means that any contacts, photo…

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Vista on a $5000 dollar laptop

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Julian in All News, Insights


This was exactly what we saw when we powered up this sony vaio TZ $5000 dollar laptop running on vista.
We where powering up this client’s laptop on this rather beautiful machine expecting it to boot in a second into its operating system.
But it didn’t, In fact we where treated with a vista loading screen that took a whole minute or 2 what happen next…

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Windows really have to stop all these rubbish innovation and just make existing windows OS works perfectly !. Trying to rush into the next phase in technology is not a wise move guys!.
Barence writes "Microsoft is planning to make Windows 8 a 128-bit operating system, according to details leaked from the software giant's Research…

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Whats new? 1,2,3,4,5 years they are still doing the same old thing. Security Patches. Patches Patches after Patches. They never learn don’t they ? We consumer!! do not want to keep patching my OS.
CWmike writes “Microsoft said it will deliver its largest-ever number of security updates on Tuesday to fix 13 flaws in every versio…

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