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Microsoft: Office Web will be available from Mac, Linux, iPhone Computerworld, MA - 16 hours ago run Channel 10 blog, someone identified as Sarah Perez spelled out system requirements for Office Web. According to Perez, the online versions of Word, ... More...

Just a few month back, I asked you to vote for Windows Vista Weblog for the best Windows Vista site competition. I thank you all guys for the support. As it turned out WVW finished 6th overall. I wanted to rank higher but nonetheless, I am definitely happy to make it in the finals and [...] More...

The saga of the Microsoft Windows Vista Capable class action suit continues. If you are interested in tracking this suit, the unsealed motion is found here.The detailed happenings can be found here.Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More...

Windows 7 Reviews: Radically Different Early Opinions Surface (CIO)With Windows 7, Microsoft learns from its mistakes (TheGlobeandMail)Windows 7: It’s not you, it’s us. Really.(InfoWorld)Tags: Microsoft, Vista, WindowsShare This More...

I am reading this post from MaximumPC about the release of Windows 1.0 25 years ago. The announcement was made by Bill Gates in 1983 at New York’s Helmsley Palace Hotel. He then announced that Windows 1.0 would be released in 1984 but as it turned out, they were a year late by releasing 1.0 [...] More...

Microsoft sales on Windows Vista has slowed down in the past quarter and the release of Windows 7 has not helped either. But amidst the slowdown, the U.S. military itself has launched the program to upgrade 30,000 PCs to Windows Vista to ensure the higher level of security of the organization. The U.S. military upgrade [...] More...

FryUp: BIF biffed already? Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - 4 hours ago "Was Windows Vista an ideal operating system? Not a chance. But without the constant bashing on the part of major technology and business journalists, ... More...

Microsoft Watch Windows Live Gets More Lively Microsoft Watch - 24 minutes ago The vast Internet might not care about your blog, but your friends or family certainly might. Microsoft is moving its current Windows Live Wave 3 beta ... More...

Windows tip: Stop a program from running at startup Sync, Canada - 12 minutes ago Windows Vista makes it a lot easier to see what's starting with your computer and stopping the ones that takes your computer 10 minutes to boot up. ... More...

Dell Inspiron Mini 12 on Vista: Bad idea Inquirer.net, Philippines - 5 hours ago I totally agree with them. Join the fray by commenting, tracking what others have to say, or linking to it from your blog. More...

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Why You'll Buy a Netbook On Black Friday InternetNews.com - 43 minutes ago But check before you buy, especially if you have Windows software you want to run. 9.) Watch out for Vista. Windows Vista is the latest Microsoft operating ... More...

anyone seen/know of a policy describing policy regarding bringing a computer to the company network?

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Add Some Windows 7 Features Today with These Hacks Gotta Be Mobile, CO - 27 minutes ago Paul Thurrott on The Supersite for Windows Blog has a list of three hacks that will let you in on three features of Windows 7 long before we even seen a ... More...

Meet the New Windows, Same as the Old Windows DaniWeb, VA - 27 minutes ago This week Vaughan-Nichols takes a look under the hood of the highly-vaunted Windows 7, and he finds nothing more than warmed over Vista stew, the same OS we ... More...

Gmail adds voice and video chat Yahoo! Tech, CA - 4 hours ago According to the Gmail blog, you can already download a plugin to enable this feature as long as you have Windows XP or Windows Vista installed on your ... More...

The Bias Of A Windows User That Prefers Linux The Nillabyte Perspective - 11 minutes ago For a perfect example, my first experience with installing and running Windows Vista was so terrible that I'll never be able to look at that operating ... More...

ITProPortal SMB Exploit Took 7 Years To Fix, Security Pros Say Redmondmag.com, CA - 34 minutes ago However, as Microsoft correctly states, exploitation is mitigated on Vista and Windows Server 2008. That said, Schultze considers the item to be "critical. ... Microsoft patches critical XML Core Services flaw SearchSecurity.com Microsoft security patch was seven years in the making Computerworld all 79 news articles More...

[Forwarded to Vista Security newsgroup via crosspost] RCPOLK wrote: > When I loaded Vista Home Prem. x64 I found two versions of IE 7. One > version > (default) is x32 bit and the other is x64 version. I would like for the > x64 > bit version to be the default program. > > Please be so kind to tell me how I can do this. > Thanking in advance for your help, > Bob

I think they do OS News - 3 hours ago You clean up the UI, listen to your client base (the E7 blog has done really well to open up a channel between MS engineers and the general public) and ... More...

Is Windows 7 M3 Build 6801 Really "Vista R2?" Maximum PC, CA - 10 minutes ago ... my Enterprise Desktop blog, the more I dug into Windows 7, the more I saw an OS that looked and felt like a slightly tweaked version of Windows Vista. ... More...

Windows 7: It's not you, it's us. Really. InfoWorld, CA - 10 minutes ago Was Windows Vista an ideal operating system? Not a chance. But without the constant bashing on the part of major technology and business journalists, ... More...

Increase Vista performance by trimming startup programs TechRepublic, KY - 15 minutes ago This blog post is available in the PDF format in a TechRepublic Download. You can investigate startup programs using a specially configured WMIC (Windows ... More...

Windows 7 Gets Unmasked in Benchmark Testing CIO, MA - 36 minutes ago Measured by runtime specs and performance benchmarks, Windows 7 M3 looks like Vista, and it runs like Vista. Welcome to Windows Vista R2! ... More...