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Windows 7: Seven Points of Imperfection
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Since its highly ballyhooed rollout near the end of October, Windows 7 has been applauded by many as Microsoft's best operating system yet. But no OS is perfect, and that goes for Windows 7.
Windows 7 is earning high marks from many users. People "will appreciate significant improve...
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Inside Windows 7: Recovering Windows from System Degradation and Boot Failures
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Windows 7 is capable of certain levels of self-repair, as you've learned. One of the new capabilities in Windows is its ability to recover from serious failures that can impact the OS's ability to boot. How does Windows 7 handle these errors? Can you boot Windows 7 into Safe Mode or to an earlier functi...
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Google Chrome OS Unveiled: Speed, Simplicity, and Security Stressed
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Google opened its doors to the press Thursday to show off its hotly anticipated Chrome operating system for the first time. In a small auditorium in Mountain View, California, Google VP of Product Development Sundar Pichai took to the stage to give us a demonstration of what Chrome OS actual...
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Fedora 12 Takes Aim at Linux Networking
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Fedora 12, codenamed "Constantine," made its debut this week, aimed at providing users with a long list of improvements for both servers, desktops and netbooks.
While the latest installment of the Red Hat-sponsored community Linux distribution offers many new features, a...
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Microsoft issues Windows 7 security advisory
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Microsoft has confirmed that it is "investigating" reports of a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Windows Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. However, the company emphasized that the vulnerability could not be used to assume control of a machine or install mal...
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Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask Microsoft
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If Microsoft expects its customers to take license agreements seriously, it has a responsibility to communicate the terms of those agreements to its customers clearly and unambiguously. As I noted earlier this month, Microsoft does a generally poor job of explaining its complicated rul...
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Windows 7: First 100 Days
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It has been 100 days since the release-to-manufacturing copy of Windows 7 was available for download on MSDN and TechNet. I’ll put this very simply: I have never used an operating system which works so well, is as stable as it is, is aesthetically pleasing, and is a pleasure to use still even af...
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Microsoft confirms first Windows 7 zero-day bug
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Microsoft late on Friday confirmed that an unpatched vulnerability exists in Windows 7, but downplayed the problem, saying most users would be protected from attack by blocking two ports at the firewall.
In a security advisory, Microsoft acknowledged that a bug in SMB (Server Message...
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Windows 7 is quickly displacing Vista -- but not XP
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Windows 7 is surging. After an insanely popular beta cycle, Microsoft's latest and greatest has exploded out of the gate, grabbing more than 4 percent of the real-world usage base as tracked by InfoWorld's Windows Pulse service -- after only a few weeks of general availability. More tellingly, Win...
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Forced Upgrades Due From MS
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Forced Upgrades to Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forced-Upgrades-Windows-Live-Messenger-9-0-2009-14-0-8089-726-Final-Steps-126348.shtml Alan
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Win 7- Blocks only 1 out of 8 Trojans from executing, claims Sophos
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Microsoft Corp.'s decision to reduce the number of annoying security messages that Windows 7 delivers when users install software makes the new operating system more vulnerable to malware infection than Vista was, a researcher said today.
"UAC was neutered too much by Microsof...
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Win7 Upgrade Hack And MS's Response
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139837/Windows_7_install_trick_saves_up_to_100?taxonomyId=123 http://topnews.us/content/27996-microsoft-hacking-windows-7-upgrades-installing-full-version-illegal Disclaimer: Windows hacking is readily available throu...
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Is XP Mode under Windows 7 Worth the Hassle?
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Hmmmm.... I guess that it is a trade off.... Is XP Mode Under Windows 7 Worth The Hassle? For some reason this is starting to be a hot topic of conversation. The reason, I believe, is because people are looking at this as having to maintain not one, but two operating systems and to a certain extent...
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Review: Ubuntu 9.10 v Windows 7
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[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/oct/27/ubuntu-koala-windows7-review]Review:
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Windows 7 Upgrade From Vista to RTM not progressing, stuck at 62%
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**Possible Fix? - When upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 (by choosing Upgrade as install method), the setup installation process of Windows 7 may stop and hang at 62% indefinitely. Even if user restarts the Windows 7 upgrading process, the Install Windows
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Free Ubuntu 9.1 CD
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Microsoft blames Windows 7 upgrade mess on user confusion
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Microsoft yesterday blamed user confusion for the problems many have encountered trying to move from Vista to Windows 7 after buying a discounted upgrade offered to college students.
"Digital River and Microsoft are aware that some customers from the Windows 7 Academic Store had...
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"Should I Upgrade to Windows 7?"
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From WinPatrol's BillP: "Should I Upgrade to Windows 7?"
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Top 10 Windows 7 Booster Apps
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7 Things to know about Windows 7
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Nice simple read.... OK, so after eight years and a lot of grumbling -- Vista, anyone? -- Microsoft has finally released a new operating system that people seem excited about. Windows 7, which went on sale Thursday, promises a smoother user experience, multi-touchscreen capability and mo...
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The Ultimate Windows 7 Theme Pack
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Easy Update From Windows XP to Windows 7
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Got a USB drive? Check-out this Easy Update From Windows XP To Windows 7
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In-Depth Video Tour of Windows 7
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If you don't want to make the leap to the new OS until you've had a chance to take good look at it, check out my guided tour of Windows 7. Of course, you'll want to read PCMag.com's full Windows 7 review, but there's no better way to get a sense of how the operating system looks and feels than to see it i...
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Cnet Windows 7 Full Round-up and Coverage
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And right before the anticipated release!
Cnet Windows 7 Full Round-up and Coverage
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Ubuntu 9.10 - Almost Perfect!
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Well, this article thinks so!
Ubuntu 9.10 - Almost Perfect!
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Which Windows 7 version should you buy?
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Maybe you've tried out the beta or the RC for yourself. You know Windows 7 is worth getting – but which version of Windows 7 should you buy? Isn't it crazy how many different versions there are?
Actually no; this time around, the different versions make sense because each new version contai...
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Performance showdown: Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard
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As someone who uses both platforms for work and personal entertainment, I've been wanting to do a performance comparison between Windows 7 and Mac OS X since I first got my hands on the Windows 7 RTM (the final build of the OS) more than two months ago, but decided to wait until I could compare the...
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Torvalds calls Linux "bloated" and "scary."
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Has Linux become a victim of its own success?
At the LinuxCon conference in Portland this week, Linux creator Linus Torvalds dropped a bit of a bomb when he said that the open-source kernel had not become the “streamlined, hyper-efficient kernel I envisioned when I started writing Linux”...
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Google Chrome OS Browser
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Windows Vista: A Review Recap
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Most of Mary-Jo’s post involves Windows Vista beta testers’ reaction to the OS, but it got me wondering: How about the reviews that came out when Windows Vista was released? Negative reaction to Vista among consumers and businesses ended up preventing it from ever truly superseding Window...
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