There is little doubt that Microsoft took some serious black eyes with the launch of Windows Vista. They failed to meet a stability and reliability mark that has haunted the OS. Microsoft has continued to battle that perception by spending over 300 million in advertising to improve the image of Windows...
The other day I came across an article by Brad Sams (who, for clarity's sake, I will refer to as Brad S.) at Neowin listing the six reasons that Apple's OS X will not go mainstream . No, it's not an Apple-bashing article from an MS fanboy. In fact, the article opens by saying Apple has a...
Today Microsoft shipped an update to Windows Search . Windows Search 4.0 includes the following improvements: Support for indexing encrypted documents of local file systems Reduced affect on Microsoft Exchange when you index e-mail in online mode, and there is no local cache (.ost) Support for indexing...
You know those really tiny notebooks, often called Netbooks. Well, according to an announcement today by Microsoft there will soon be a lot of these little guys running Windows. Microsoft is working with over 20 OEMs to bring Windows to these recently popularized devices. Microsoft is working with more...
Even before Microsoft has published the first beta of Windows 7 it is working to ensure it will not repeat the same failings of Windows Vista . In a March 21 2008 update to the Microsoft Hardware Logo Program Requirements Microsoft added a new provision for Logo Certification which will require every...
Steven Sinofsky gave an interview with CNet last week, that was published today, in which he talks about all the information lockdown happening in regards to Windows 7. The gist they wanted to get across was that we have shared things and will share with the people they think are appropriate...
On 11 December 2007 Microsoft is planning to release seven new security bulletins. Below is a summary in order of severity. For more information on affected software, see the Affected Software section of the Advance Notification page, linked below. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer can detect whether...
On September 13, 2007, Scott Dunn of Windows Secrets reported "Windows Update (WU) started altering files on users' systems without displaying any dialog box to request permission. The only files that have been reportedly altered to date are nine small executables on XP and nine on Vista that...
Further to Aubrey's post , Nate Clinton (Program Manager, Windows Update) explained the problem as " the latest version of Windows Update includes wups2.dll that was not originally present in Windows XP. Therefore, after the repair install of the OS, wups2.dll remains on the system but its registry...