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InternetNews February 6, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Caves In to Users on Windows 7 Security In the choice between protecting users from attack and not annoying them to death, Microsoft first chooses the latter, then backtracks when bloggers pummel their decision. |
PC Magazine July 11, 2007 David A. Karp |
Tame User Account Control You can get rid of Vista's annoying security prompts but doing so may place your system at risk. |
InternetNews March 29, 2010 |
Microsoft Security Linked to Admin Rights New study surveying Microsoft vulnerabilities concludes that most can be mitigated by tightening up admin permissions ahead of the monthly patch cycle. |
InternetNews January 4, 2007 Ed Sutherland |
Vista Exploit Looking For Achilles' Heel First Vista exploit could mean lasting problems for Microsoft, according to a security vendor. |
PC Magazine August 16, 2006 John Clyman |
The Pain of UAC When people ask me why they should care about Vista, my first answer isn't the Aero inter-face or new search capabilities; it's improved security. |
PC Magazine March 13, 2007 Neil J. Rubenking |
Enough With The Questions! Just Do It! ZoneAlarm 7 has added new features to cut back on firewall confirmation pop-ups, but it still asks questions nobody can understand. |
InternetNews August 3, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Vista Security Mostly Invisible But Thorough What you can't see in Vista is designed to keep malware from hurting you. |
PC Magazine March 15, 2006 John Clyman |
Regaining Trust Microsoft knows that Vista has to get security right with to main customer loyalty. All the interface and usability bells and whistles that a new OS can offer are irrelevant if a customers' machines and data safe are not safe. |
InternetNews December 26, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Vista Security Takes a Hit Vista is proving not to be as unsinkable as Microsoft claimed. |
PC World April 2006 Scott Spanbauer |
Windows Hacks: Vista Comes Into View Our hands-on, in-depth preview of XP's successor, Windows Vista. |
BusinessWeek March 26, 2007 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Vista: Slow And Dangerous Vista's security program is so annoying you're likely to turn it off. |
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Money For Vista, IE Bugs VeriSign's iDefense Labs has kicked off its Vulnerability Contributor Program, a challenge to find remote arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in Vista and Internet Explorer 7.0. VCP will pay $8,000 for the first six confirmed vulnerabilities. |
PC Magazine January 17, 2006 Larry Seltzer |
Security in IE7 The best security features in the next version of Internet Explorer will work only with Vista. |
PC Magazine November 30, 2006 Larry Seltzer |
Vista at Work What your business needs to know to make the switch. |
InternetNews September 12, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery Anxious to put and end to those annoying Apple ads and the negative perception around Vista, Microsoft's new OS may come a lot sooner than it has said. |
PC Magazine August 14, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking |
Unblock Start-Up Programs in Vista How to better integrate Startup Cop Pro with Windows Vista. |
InternetNews May 8, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Doom For Anti-Spyware Software? A Yankee Group report predicts Vista will harm the anti-spyware market, but that assumes people will buy Vista. |
PC World May 23, 2006 Yardena Arar |
Microsoft Unveils Windows Vista Beta 2 New beta delivers a host of tweaks, including three interface options. |
InternetNews July 13, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
MS Patch Day: 7 Alerts; 2 Critical The two critical flaws are found in the Windows Task Scheduler and HTML Help features. |
PC Magazine July 27, 2005 Michael J. Miller |
Hands On with Windows Vista Beta 1 Though still a work in progress, this major Windows revise includes numerous semi-invisible changes that could turn out be very important to end users. |
PC World November 22, 2006 Preston Gralla |
Everything You Need to Know About Windows Vista It's big, it's ambitious, and it's (finally) here. We give you the bottom line on what Vista does better than XP, where it needs improvement and how to perform the upgrade, step-by-step. |
BusinessWeek January 22, 2007 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Burglar-Proof Windows? The new security features may be annoying, but they're good for you. |
InternetNews October 9, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Patches IE, Office Holes A favorite target of virus writers, Internet Explorer, is the recipient of four new vulnerability fixes today from Microsoft in the latest of the company's regular monthly product updates. |
InternetNews November 17, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Pirated Vista, Office 2007 Already on The 'Net Pirates have already gotten their hands on Windows Vista and are circulating a "cracked" version of the operating system on the Internet. |
Wall Street & Technology May 31, 2007 Melanie Rodier |
Symark Software Releases PowerBroker 5.0 The software is designed to enhance security and simplify delegation of administrator privileges. New features include entitlement reporting, which provides a detailed list of the commands that can be run by IT administrators and other users. |
InternetNews October 28, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Windows 7 Gets Its Coming-Out Party Vista had problems - and developers at PDC got a chance to see how Windows' next incarnation aims to address many of them. |
PC World March 12, 2007 Dan Tynan |
Living With Vista: First 30 Days With the new version of Windows finally out, early users say they're bedeviled by hardware and software problems, but some love the OS anyway. |
PC Magazine April 18, 2007 Larry Seltzer |
Microsoft Asks: What Is Security? Tech industry observers felt a chill in the air this past February, and it wasn't just the weather. |
PC Magazine September 5, 2008 Neil J. Rubenking |
Avoid Confirmation at Start-Up in Vista Microsoft makes it hard to disable user authorization at start-up in Vista, but we've got the workaround. |
InternetNews March 12, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston |
DIY Users Set Up 'Vista Workstation' Bummed out by Vista's performance? What if there was a way to get a desktop edition of Vista that's faster than what you've got? |
PC Magazine October 10, 2007 Neil J. Rubenking |
Clean Install Using Vista Upgrade Vista requires the old Microsoft system to be on the computer before you install the upgrade. |
InternetNews February 3, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston |
XP/Vista SP Blockers to Expire as Vista Surges Microsoft to stop blocking downloads of Vista and XP service packs, while a new report shows corporate adoption for Vista is - surprise - beginning to take off. |
InternetNews February 21, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Yanks Vista SP1 Update File Just what Windows Vista needs, another technical glitch. |
PC Magazine April 4, 2007 Neil Randall |
Vista Tip: Command Window If you use the command window regularly, you'll be happy to know that you can access it from any Vista folder. |
PC Magazine June 8, 2006 John Clyman |
Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 With this release, the upcoming operating system is essentially feature-complete, and overall, it looks good, although the improved security can be intrusive. |
RootPrompt.org June 19, 2000 Noel D. |
Trust and the System Administrator A System Administrator has a strange relationship with the equipment they manage, with the people using their system and with the world outside their systems. I will overview some of the choices and decisions that Sys Admins must understand when building or maintaining their systems. |
InternetNews November 30, 2006 Steven Warren |
Why I Love Vista The pros and, well, pros of Windows Vista. |
PC Magazine November 16, 2004 Larry J. Seltzer |
Limited User Accounts Here's a clever way to bolster Windows PC security--with some catches. |
InternetNews October 16, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
EU: Adobe, Microsoft Need to Talk European regulators are bowing out of refereeing a dispute between Adobe and Microsoft over the shape of the upcoming Vista operating system. |
PC Magazine April 19, 2006 Clyman et al. |
Why You Want Vista Now! Microsoft Windows Vista will be available to businesses in November and consumers in January, so why order it now? Because it's more fun being the first to get the latest technology. Here is what to expect from the new software. |
InternetNews November 15, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
IT Adoption of Vista to Begin in 2008 A new report predicts Windows Vista deployments among enterprise customers are preparing to take off - just as soon as the first service pack arrives. |
InternetNews October 18, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Security Vendors Have a Vista Bone to Pick Microsoft calls meeting to soothe vendors' ruffled feathers over access to kernel. |
PC Magazine February 1, 2009 Matthew D. Sarrel |
Tech Tips (Vol. 28 No. 2) Useful tidbits from PCMag editorial staff, Labs analysts, and readers |
Popular Mechanics November 2008 Joel Johnson |
The 3 Biggest Vista Headaches, and How to Fix Them Questions are answered on Service Pack 1 update, incompatible programs, memory issues, and nagging software installation reminders. |
InternetNews December 11, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Spreads Holiday Security With 11 Fixes Microsoft on Tuesday issued its monthly update for December, which consists of seven security bulletins that fix 11 vulnerabilities. |
InternetNews February 22, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas |
Vista CTP Aims At Enterprise Microsoft released a community technical preview of Windows Vista, hoping to show corporate customers how the new operating system will reduce costs and boost productivity. But will it move businesses off their upgrade cycles? |
InternetNews October 29, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston |
Will 2008 Be Vista's Golden Year? Strong sales of Windows Vista helped propel Microsoft to its best first-quarter results since 1999, and the company, while cagey, is bullish on the near future. |
InternetNews March 21, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS Microsoft has the fewest holes and was fastest at plugging them, according to Symantec's security report. |
InternetNews January 30, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston |
Tool Cuts Vista Down to Size vLite is a free package that lets you exclude the Vista components that you don't want or need but are cramping your system's style before you even install Vista. |
InternetNews December 11, 2006 Michael Hickins |
Study: Vista to Spur Revenue, Jobs Growth Research firm IDC says Vista's effects will extend far beyond the $4 billion Microsoft stands to earn. Or will it? |