Month: January 2011

Windows 8 Should Virtualize Everything

The next Microsoft Windows operating system should put everything—and I mean everything—in a sandbox. There was a time when I disagreed with the idea that the core of Microsoft’s next major operating system, Windows 8, would be a hypervisor, or virtualized machine monitor. Now, however, I see the beauty of this approach, especially for consumers. […]

Windows 1.0: Happy Birthday

Here’s a walk down memory lane with Windows 1.0 and me. Windows 7 Windows version 1.0, which did not set the world on fire, is now 25 years old this month, and I’d like to share a few remembrances of the OS. First of all, it was useless. Like, seriously useless. But it was strangely […]

Microsoft Beefs Up Hotmail Security

Microsoft is beefing up security for Hotmail in order to curtail hijacking and phishing scams on legitimate accounts. “These updates will help you protect your password and, in the unlikely event that a hijacker gains access to your account, provide a more secure recovery path so you will always be able to get your account […]

The Absolute Best Google Sniper 2.0 Bonus

If you are probing a Google Sniper 2.0 Bonus then this is going to be the most important bulletin you ever read. Why exactly do I say that? Simply because I am going to announce some meaningful facts that you don’t want to miss at no possible cost. Before I get to the fact, let […]

How to Fix a Slow Windows 7 Computer in Minutes

Windows 7 from Microsoft had made a great impact with its cool features and interactive Graphic User Interface (GUI). It has avenged the RAM issues of Windows Vista by using lesser RAM space for GUI attributes and the speed troubles of Windows XP by intelligently utilizing RAM usage. However, like its successors, when the hard […]

Isn’t It About Time Microsoft Announced Some Exclusives?

LittleBigPlanet 2 [review] kicks off Sony’s PS3 exclusive push for 2011 in a matter of days now, and it’s going to be swiftly followed by the wonderful Killzone 3 [hands-on].  These two games alone will keep many gamers busy for a good few months – the former especially. But that’s not all that’s lined up […]

Microsoft Surface 2 is real and it looks amazing

Microsoft’s eternal Surface project that never seems to actually reach the consumers whose lives it has the potential to revolutionize has hit version two, and today at CES Microsoft gave it a public outing. The second incarnation runs on Windows 7 and has some very impressive hardware inside to make it leaps and bounds better […]

Microsoft 70-523 C SHARP

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Microsoft Lowering Prices on Older Xboxes

Microsoft apparently held a media roundtable Monday night after its Xbox press event, confirming that it will eventually phase out its existing models in favor of the new “slim” model. My colleague Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat reported: “The new Xbox 360 with a 250-gigabyte hard drive and the smaller black design will sell for $299,” […]

Passware Warns of Microsoft Risk

Password-recovery experts at Passware warned Friday that the security of Microsoft’s Bitlocker whole-disk encryption is seriously compromised on a computer configured to use sleep mode. The same is true of the open-source TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption tool. The company’s Passware Kit Forensic 1.03 can “decrypt hard disks encrypted with BitLocker or TrueCrypt in a matter of […]

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