Archive for March, 2008
Beware of April 1 malware
Tomorrow is April Fools’ Day and that always spawns malware attacks. See the information at Sunbelt.
Via the PC Doctor.
Will Windows 7 be modular?
There’s been speculation (wishful thinking?) that Windows 7 might have a reduced kernel and be more modular (like Linux) but Ed Bott makes a good case that this is not likely. Oh well, I had hopes but it did seem like a big change of direction for Microsoft. Maybe some day.
New search site for legal information
You may not be a lawyer but you might want to look up a legal point some time. Lawyer or lay person, a new site called justia.com looks like a useful resource. AppScout says:
Legal information can be difficult to find: You have to dig through piles of books, page through thick court decisions, or know [...]
Companies don’t read their own EULAs
PC users aren’t the only ones not reading the turgid legalese present in End User License Agreements (EULAs). The companies themselves aren’t either. Apple recently released a version of its Safari browser specifically for Windows systems but included a EULA that said the software could only be used on Apple systems. That has been corrected [...]
Tax scams
It’s income tax season in the US and many filers are using the Internet to prepare their returns. This provides a hunting ground for the scam artists so beware. PC World has some details:
Scam artists exploiting tax season have devised a range of new online cons: fake tax documents that contain malicious surprises; mass distribution [...]
The Mac gaining in corporations
Windows Vista has not been a big success with businesses and that has helped Mac sales. The Mac has been largely absent from business use and is primarily a consumer and niche product. Recently, however, corporate interest has picked up. What I find interesting is the level of satisfaction expressed by the actual users of [...]
More on opening email attachments
In a previous post I discussed some common file types and scenarios that cause average PC users to have trouble opening an email attachment. A file type that I didn’t mention is the Microsoft Works file WPS. This type of file is created by the word processor that Works used to have instead of Word. [...]
Does the Mac have a better user interface than Windows?
There’s a debate going on over at this ZDNet link about the relative merits of the user interfaces in Windows and Mac computers. The author says that Apple pays more attention to the user interface than Microsoft and that the Mac interface is much more elegant. There are a lot of comments posted and there [...]
Opinion about Vista SP1
Here’s another post from Scot Finnie. He gives his opinion about service pack 1 for Vista:
Unless you have to install Vista SP1, I’d at least wait for the dust to settle. Vista SP1 has only one true reason for being — to help Microsoft sell Vista to enterprise customers, among whom the conventional wisdom has [...]
Recommendation for a firewall
In his latest posting, Scot Finnie gives the results of tests of firewall software that he has been carrying out for some time. His recommendation is Online Armor. He prefers the commercial product (around $40) although there is a free version. The free Comodo Firewall Pro is the runner-up although Finnie thinks it’s too complicated [...]
Microsoft offers a little more for Yahoo
It is being reported that Microsoft upped its bid to $34/share for Yahoo. If true, a final deal may be near.