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UAC Fix in Windows 7 Creates Security Hole, Blogger Says
PC World – USA
Microsoft made the change to UAC, a feature that was introduced with Windows Vista, to make it more user-friendly in Windows 7. But the change has allowed …
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Windows 7 less annoying, but also less secure?
CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA
With Windows Vista, the operating system popped up a warning any time a major change was being made to the system, whether by the OS or by a third-party …
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Windows 7 Testers Uncover UAC Security Issue
ChannelWeb – Manhasset,NY,USA
… and said it stemmed from Microsoft’s efforts to make UAC in Windows 7 less annoying than it was when it was introduced with Windows Vista. …
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Keep a Spare PC at the Ready for Emergencies
Washington Post – United States
I’ve seen that on old, malware-infested XP boxes, but a quad-core Vista machine just 10 days out of the box? Something was definitely amiss. …
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Microsoft’s Netbook Woes Also Mean Linux Yays … Right?
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
Maybe not the whole meal, but what I do see happening is the emergence of a computing market that couldn’t have existed before, one where Windows is …
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Is it lights out for desktop Linux?
Yahoo! Tech – Sunnyvale,CA,USA
Windows 7 is looking good, runs well on netbooks (unlike Vista), and will be pushed far harder for that platform than XP has ever been. …
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Microsoft: Next step for Windows 7 is a release candidate
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
It delivered two betas and two release candidates for Windows Vista, for example, during that OS’s trouble-plagued development. …
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Crysis Warhead Patch Adds 64-Bit Support
Ve3d.com – USA
Added 64-bit executables for Windows XP x64 and Windows Vista 64-bit version. In Windows XP x64 a new shortcut will be placed under the Crysis Warhead …
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Mobile is the New Desktop
Linux Magazine (registration) – San Francisco,CA,USA
MS knows this and, on the one hand, has cut way back on the amount it charges OEMs for the netbook-version of Windows, while, on the other, going so far as …
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Home Electronics: Seven things you should know about Windows 7
The Gazette (Montreal) – Quebec,Canada
based software company, looking to win over skeptics disappointed with the much-hyped but often maligned Windows Vista. Available sometime in 2010, …
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