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i was browsing using Windows xp, and the only way to see the original page is to click on the cached page in google.
thats shame really and bad behavior. they want us to buy windows 8.x by force.

Nothing quite nefarious as that. It's just that because your browser is reporting that you're using ...

RS/6000 systems are still in wide use in banks. Quite possibly the best computers ever made for the corporate world.

The nostalgia is strong in this one! I loved working on the RS/6000 back in the day. I used to go to the AIX conferences that IBM would hold in Dallas and had a great time, aside ...

I do not imagine the adoption of Windows 7 will be as good as Microsoft is hoping.

I saw this post from last year and it gave me a pretty good chuckle. Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in the history of personal computing. Over 150 million copies of Windows 7 have been sold since ...

This may be right for the normal end users, but at least in big companies, this is wrong. Windows XP is the most used OS in the buisness sector.

Absolutely, and by a large margin. Globally, over 60% of systems out there are still running XP, with Vista at about 15% and Win7 a bit over 12%. A ...

It doesn´t matter which MS OS you are using, all of them will receive updates and patches and there is no end to it until MS pulls the plug.

Not to belabor the point, but the plug was pulled on Windows 98 on July 11, 2006. No new security updates have been published for the operating system since ...

Windows 98 is perfect for surfing, emails, music, movies, chat, writing a letter, etc etc which is what most people are doing anyway.

Yeah, it's perfect if you like using an operating system that hasn't been supported for years, doesn't receive any security updates, where drivers aren't available ...

That's generally a server configuration related problem, although some browsers can side-step the issue. What you'll find is some servers (Apache is notorious for this) will ship with a default configuration that says if the MIME type for a given file extension is unknown, default to text/plain (it ...

When you consider hardware enabled DRM video cards, monitors, graphics cards, optical drives, etc are not even on the market yet. Your experience proves nothing but a total lack of understanding of the topic being discussed.

I understand the issue perfectly, and that was my point (and some of the ...

And have you even read about the media DRM issues with Vista yet?

Have you even read about the potential issues with Windows Activation
and Verification processes?

Oh yeah, and one more thing... If MS still has the guts of Internet
Explorer built into the system, then Vista is headed down the ...

Someone has been reading and/or listening to Gibson's FUD, the "Bill O'Reily" of the computer world. The man certainly knows how to whip up a frenzy and howl about how the sky is getting ready to fall right now . I remember his hair-pulling and jumping about a few years back about how if Microsoft ...

Certification doesn't insure that a driver is bug-free, that's not its purpose. It's a hoop that, for the most part, only legitimate companies would jump through and certificates can be revoked if the situation warrants it. Administrators can set various policies as to how strict "enforcement" is in ...

However, because you can't forsee every risk doesn't mean that you don't take reasonable precautions against any risks. And that's what the Windows 9x hybrids were; completely open and unprotected in virtually every sense of the word.

I may not know that a 747 is going to crash into my house a week ...

Back then most of today's vulnerabilities didn't exist... you can't protect against what you don't know is coming or possible. Hindsight is 20/20.

But you can forsee where something can cause problems. Allowing processes to inject code into another process? Allowing a process to install a system ...

An unsigned driver wouldn't get installed in the first place under normal conditions, so yes, if there is one the operating system should disabled it. And if there's found to be a driver out there that is hostile or meant to defeat aspects of the security system, then they should be able to revoke ...

If there is a lesson to be learned from the past 15 years or so, there is no such thing as being "too paranoid about security" because everyone is out to get you. To think otherwise is to live in a dreamworld that is not only dangerous to you, but to others.

It's not that Microsoft has gone too far ...