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InfoWorld - Microsoft has replaced its controversial anti-Linux*"Get the Facts" Web site*with a kinder, gentler site explaining how its Windows Server operating system compares to open-source Linux as well as other competitive OSes. Link To Original Article

PC World - Skype has launched a package for small businesses that bundles up the company's software with call credits and subscriptions for multiple users. Link To Original Article

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First it was China. Now India and Brazil. The rout of Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) standardization efforts is now essentially complete. When the world's fastest growing economies reject Microsoft, Microsoft has a problem. What am I talking about? I'm talking about India's and Brazil's separate rejections of Microsoft's attempts to standardize its Open Office XML. Microsoft is holding out hope that if it resolves all 200 of India's complaints with its submission, it will have OOXML approved. Yes, but this largely misses the point. ... Link To Original Article

PC World - An old worm known as Slammer, which originated back in January 2003, is still going strong according to Gunter Ollmann, director of security strategy at IBM's Internet Security Systems (IBM ISS). Link To Original Article

IT managers in small, midsize companies believe staff members are responsible for online-security problems, survey finds. Link To Original Article

The unfortunate thing about writing all your thoughts down in a blog is that it makes it very clear just how wrong I can be sometimes. My "code" is online, for everyone to see, analyze, and critique. And critique you do. :-) A case in point is my fulminations earlier Thursday on XenSource and its alleged abandonment of the Xen project. John Vigeant, a friend from my Novell days and XenSource's director of Business Development, kindly swatted me in an e-mail for errors in my post. Witness my sackcloth and ashes (with John's permission--he must have some perverse pleasure in seeing me don this hairshirt :-): ... Link To Original Article

TechWeb - Some users reported connection problems with the gaming receiver, others said they couldn't get the receiver to work at all, and still others reported conflicts with third-party peripherals. Link To Original Article

After installing an update to Windows Update (Vista Home Premium) on 8-23-07 The interface does not display properly. There is no text or active links in the window except for one of the two help icons.

i have win xp profesional on my pc, with all updates on. when i have started my pc, after insert my password 4 login, don't appear my personal desktop, but pc remain on "blu screen".. if i push esc, pc upload my personal desktop. i have find more information on administrator event without successful. anyone can help me to solve thi problem?

i have win xp profesional on my pc, with all updates on. when i have started my pc, after insert my password 4 login, don't appear my personal desktop, but pc remain on "blu screen".. if i push esc, pc upload my personal desktop. i have find more information on administrator event without successful. anyone can help me to solve thi problem?

I Have turned on bitlocker encryption application in my machine. However unable to see keys to save and showing message as "there are no keys to duplicate for this volume". Please guide me how to save or take printout of keys. Thanks ....

Is it just me or do any of you have a problem when trying to watch video podcasts? It just turns a blank white screen and only the audio plays. I can play the podcasts directly from the folder on quicktime, but thats really weaksauce and inconvenient Installing vista is such a hassle. Literally about 90% of all my programs need special drivers and ive spent hours installing them and rebooting the freakin computer like 100 times. I got the latest version of itunes 7.3 -- kptrikstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kptrikstar's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=29701 View this thread: http://…

I have 3 systems, 1 with Home Premium and 2 with Home Basic On these systems are set up the following accounts Premium - My account, admin priviledges / wifes account, admin priviledges 1st Basic - My account, admin priviledges / 3 * kids accounts, user priviledges 2nd Basic - My account, admin priviledges / wifes account, admin priviledges On all of these, my account was the one created at startup. After using these systems for a week or 2, my wife's accounts are suddenly telling her that her password will expire in X days and that it needs changed. My account, which is technically older does not, and the kids accounts are not doing it either. On …

From: "BillyG" <3d@humaneyes.com> Subject: must read Message-ID: <#vnTwHt5HHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:39:34 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82-76-51-172.rdsnet.ro 82.76.51.172 Path: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl Lines: 1 Xref: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware:315248 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000768-3, 08/25/2007), Inbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean what? must type words "BillyG" <3d@humaneyes.com> wrote in message news:%23vnTwHt5HHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... |

>From time to time when I am running applications like MS Office or Text Editor on vista I am getting the following error message "Couldn't start the Dispatch Table", I just click OK and it disappears. Nothing being affected, but it is indication that something is not right on my system. I wounder if someone experience similar message, or know what is the reason for this. Thanks

Hello, I am running windows vista ultimate, when I check for new updates I am not getting the list of available MUI packs. I used to see them but now they are just gone. Anyone know what is wrong? This is not computer related, as I have checked on my broithers computer as well which is also running vista ultimate and they are not showing either.

I am trying to track down the cause of BS error message. I have the memory address where the error occurred - how do I find out what program is resident at this address? (0x805A1F33). Thanks! ~Deborah Witmer

hi, a while ago i had a good project in visual studio 2005 (vc++), with a good build and a good .exe file. it used some basic openAL functionality, with muliple buffers and sources. the sounds played perfectly at the right moments. i wanted to check the compatibilty and set the comp. mode (in .exe file prop's) to '95 and medium res. or something. since then i have an openAL problem with my project, in that sometimes a source won't play. i have set the comp. mode back to normal immediately after, but i have kept the .exe file from the build in my solution folder, with a different name, for back-checking possibilities. i don't exactly know, what the com…

hi, a while ago i had a good project in visual studio 2005 (vc++), with a good build and a good .exe file. it used some basic openAL functionality, with muliple buffers and sources. the sounds played perfectly at the right moments. i wanted to check the compatibilty and set the comp. mode (in .exe file prop's) to '95 and medium res. or something. since then i have an openAL problem with my project, in that sometimes a source won't play. i have set the comp. mode back to normal immediately after, but i have kept the .exe file from the build in my solution folder, with a different name, for back-checking possibilities. i don't exactly know, what the com…

Have a look at my answer that listed under your question. I fixed mine with this. Let me know how you get on. Thanks. "groot" wrote: > I get an error code 0x643 when I try to download this update. Can anyone > help or even know if this update is really necessary or can I do without it. > Thanks

Hello, I am running windows vista ultimate, when I check for new updates I am not getting the list of available MUI packs. I used to see them but now they are just gone. Anyone know what is wrong? This is not computer related, as I have checked on my broithers computer as well which is also running vista ultimate and they are not showing either.

This is for anyone who's having trouble with WU (BITS/AU): http://castlecops.com/t106642-How_To_Fix_Windows_Update_BITS_Newly_Edited..html -or- http://www.castlecops.com/postlite106642-.html [i wrote it -- I would have posted the entire set of instructions here, but I wasn't sure if I could upload the Zip file with the Registry fixes on this N.G., so anyone could subsequently download it. However, the necessary File ready for downloading, along with the lengthy instructions, are all located at the above link.] If the above link doesn't work, go to: http://castlecops.com/ Click "Forums" right below the Castlecops logo, then go to the "General Computer Proble…

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