Microsoft’s WGA Comes Back to Life, Unbidden
Microsoft’s sad attempt to fight software piracy at the expense of its ordinary end users continues to leave me cold. For the second time since last year, Microsoft released a new update of the WGA...
View ArticleHands On: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta
It will come as no to surprise to those of you who’ve been at this computer technology thang for a while that — given that Vista sales haven’t been great over the nearly one year since Microsoft...
View ArticleWindows XP or Vista?
There are two main types of Windows users in the world. Which kind are you: Windows XP or Windows Vista? The recent news that testers at Devil Mountain Software found Microsoft’s beta of Windows XP...
View ArticleReader Email: Issues with Windows XP SP2C, and InfoWorld’s ‘Save XP’ Campaign
The following is an excerpt from an email message sent to me by Dan McCoy, an SNB reader and VAR who configures and sells Windows XP PCs to businesses. The issue McCoy details is apparently localized...
View ArticleWindows 7 Beta 1: I’m not impressed
I am not impressed with Windows 7 Beta 1. While virtually every reviewer, including my friend and Computerworld‘s lead Windows editor and reviewer, Preston Gralla, is for the most part praising Windows...
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