Microsoft in Real battle for consumers This should be an interesting fight. Personally I use Real, but it certainly isn’t the end all be all. It has some flaws. (They still haven’t really dealt with the privacy debacle effectively.) Having WMP bundled with the OS is definitely going to make it harder on Real. But…
PCWorld.com – Microsoft Improves Security Plans Look it’s nice that MS is starting to take this seriously, but their track record does not induce a lot of faith in what they come up with. So please, prove me wrong Microsoft!
RIAA Wants to Hack Your PC This is sort of scary. As much as I don’t support piracy, I’m not sure giving the RIAA or whoever the legal protection to hack PC’s to stop it is a good thing! Isn’t that sort of like giving stores the right to break into someone’s house to look…
PCWorld.com – Former Fed Says XP Poses a Security Threat You know, it’s not often I defend MS, expecially when it comes to some of the things they’ve done with XP, but this guy is way off base. There has never been anything to stop you from getting completely rid of deleted files, lots of…
Gnomedex Rocked! The conference was not only informative but it was a lot of fun. What other conference gives you speakers like Steve Gibson , Mark Thomson from AnalogX.com , Robert Scoble, and David Lawrence from Online Tonight and not only lets you hear their presentatons but gives you the opportunity to hang out with…
Control with fine print Interesting stuff. I don’t think I’ll be getting Frontpage 2002 until MS fixes this “confusion”, and issues a clearer EULA.