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I really don’t want to use Windows anymore
Every week, more and more bits of malware seem to be making their way past commercial anti-virus, firewall anti-virus, and ISP anti-virus software. New patches and downloads abound, and I’ve still re-imaged 3 computers in the last 2 weeks due to massive infestations. This is to say nothing of the home computers about which my [...]
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Microsoft-hosted Online security-service for business users due in 2010
Microsoft’s just-announced free anti-virus/anti-malware service, codenamed Morro, isn’t the only new Microsoft security service in the works.
Company officials made a passing reference at their SharePoint Online/Exchange Online launch earlier this week to a new Microsoft-hosted service that will be part of the Online family. A Microsoft blog posting on November 18 shed a bit more [...] -
How Apple gained the upper hand on Microsoft
I’ve just been working my way through hundreds of emails released as part of the Vista Capable lawsuit (if you want to read along at home with me, you can download them from here) and there’s one phrase that keep coming across that might explain why Apple got the upper hand on Microsoft with Vista.
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The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later
Two years ago this month, Microsoft forged its controversial partnership with Novell that, among other things, had the two companies agreeing not to sue each other over intellectual property issues, in part to protect Suse Linux users over any patent litigation from Microsoft.
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Two more Microsoft Labs deliverables debut
Two of Microsoft’s hybrid research-product labs made available test versions of new wares this week.
Microsoft’s Live Labs — the unit that married Microsoft Researchers with MSN developers — quietly delivered a new spinoff to its Seadragon technology. (Seadragon is best known as the technology powering Deep Zoom, a seamless-browsing feature of Microsoft’s Silverlight.) The new [...] -
Microsoft Demos New SQL Server Features at PASS
Microsoft today previewed the ability to centrally manage applications and resources in the planned upgrade of SQL Server, code-named "Kilimanjaro."
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The company introduced the centralized app and system management capability at the annual Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Conference, being held this week in Seattle. Though PASS is an independent user association, Microsoft typically has [...] -
IE8: What’s After Beta 2
The announcement of IE8 Beta 2 started an important and public phase of the product development cycle getting broad public feedback. The team is providing detailed information and answering questions about the product in many different places. Now’s a good time to talk about what comes next.
Since the release of Beta 2, the team has [...] -
I installed Ubuntu, and it asks me for a username…
…and password. I remember the password but not the username? I don’t even remember it asking me to type in a username. Is there anyway to get it back without re-installing it?