Getting a non tech person to download a product that they already have is a challenge. My mom probably can’t tell the difference between OS X and Vista, yet you want her to download o new version of IE? Oh and from a special website? Yeeeaahhhh, it COULD happen, but only if it comes at [...]

Did you get all excited about the Windows 7 RC, so instead of waiting till Microsoft released it you downloaded it on torrent? Turns out that prerelease version had a nasty botnet built into it. But don’t worry, you were not the only one, it is spreading at roughly 500 machines an hour. Damballa reckons [...]
May 13, 2009 | Posted in
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Microsoft today released a patch for the hole found in PowerPoint. Sadly the patch doesn’t cover Mac or the older Works Suite. CNET has some more: Without the patch, the vulnerability can be exploited by getting a person to open a PowerPoint file rigged for the attack, Microsoft has said. When the file is opened, [...]
May 12, 2009 | Posted in
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Well can you believe it? Windows 7 actually shows up early with the Release Candidate. Microsoft just posted it for general public download here.
May 4, 2009 | Posted in
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Everyone is jumping on the info that Microsoft posted that MSDN and TechNet people can download the RC of Windows 7 right now, and everyone else on May 5th. I can tell you it isn’t in there right now for the TechNet people, but hopefully by May 5th it will be. I have to admit, [...]
April 18, 2009 | Posted in
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