Could come someone kindly explain what the heck this Microsoft Commercial featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld is suppose to be about? It makes about as much sense as an episode of Seinfeld! I am guessing it could be something to do with Windows 7, but really don’t have a clue… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6amk3P-hY] ETA: Just saw a shorter version on The Discovery Channel the other night. Found via Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog
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AT&T is trying to get in the to the web browser market now with their own browser called Pogo. Before you run out and download this keep in mind, it is still in development and in limited private beta. You can sign up to be notified when the public beta will be opened. Further, unless you have a really powerful machine don’t even bother as the performance would stink. I am sure you are thinking “It is a web browser, how powerful of a machine would I need?” Well, the minimum requirements are 1.6GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, and a…
Despite protests, petitions and lobbying to keep Windows XP as an alternative to Vista, Microsoft has announced today they are still planning on phasing out Windows XP on June 30th (which had been extended from January 31st). After this date Windows XP will no longer come pre-installed on most new PC’s. There is however an exception, “ultra-low cost” machines. These include Asus Eee PC, Intel Classmate PC and those PCs generally lack the hardware needed to run Windows Vista. In this case Windows XP will still be available for these machines until June 30, 2010 or one-year after the release…
A couple of my pet peeves with software are applications that once installed, are very difficult if not impossible to completely remove from your system without nuking you hard drive. The other type of software is the kind that makes a mess on your system when it is installed. Case in point for this post, is QuickTime. Since I use iTunes, I have to have QuickTime on my system. I never use the QuickTime player as I use GOM Player (QuickTime videos via the QuickTime Alternative codec) for all my video player needs. So I launched iTunes which I hadn’t…
I’ve been using Windows Vista for about a month or so now. I ended up removing Norton on day one choosing to using Avast! and Zone Alarm. I been wanting to try out the new Comodo Firewall which recently became Vista compatible, however I have heard when used with Avast has a very adverse affect on Windows startup time. Up until the other day everything had been running fairly smoothly. I do have this occasional issue with Thunderbird and/or Firefox where I go run the application and it won’t run. Click again and either it still does nothing or I…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zADyh0JQh8] Found via CybertNet News.
As was pointed out in this week’s update meeting notes, there are some issues with the recent Fx 2.0.0.8 upgrade. As of Monday morning this was the list of known Regressions: 391412/400406 – layout regression with CSS (Win XP/Vista, Mac, Linux) 400421 – dynamically removing an <area> makes the whole map disappear (Win XP/Vista, Mac, Linux) 400467 – After upgrading to FF 2.0.0.8 Java applets stop working on Vista [Fx 2.0.0.8/JAVA/Vista Issues] 400714 – Flash crashes on Mac have skyrocketed in FF 2008 Here are a couple more we have found from Mozilla Developer News and the appear only to…
Could it be a sign that there is a major consumer resistance to migrating to Windows Vista? Last week Microsoft extended the cut-off date for Windows XP sales. Microsoft says this was brought on by consumer feedback. With the extension, major computer makers will be allowed to continue offering Windows XP through June 30, 2009. For the smaller makers though, the cut-off is still January 30, 2009. However the Windows XP Starter Edition which is available on ‘ultra-low-cost’ PC’s will be available through June 30, 2010. Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog
It seems Microsoft (M$) pushed (as in not telling/notifying anyone) a ‘stealth’ update of the Windows Update. This happened back on August 23rd or in my case (any many others running XP) July 30th. Further even if you told M$ you didn’t want their stinkin’ updates, you got updated. To see if your Windows Updates files were secretly updated find your windows/system32 folder and look for these files and see if they were updated to version 7.0.6000.381 (right click on the file, select properties then click the versions tab): Vista: wuapi.dll wuapp.exe wuauclt.exe wuaueng.dll wucltux.dll wudriver.dll wups.dll wups2.dll wuwebv.dll XP:…
From Mozilla Links GNUCITIZEN, a “creative hacker organization”, has disclosed details on a severe security vulnerability affecting Firefox users that have installed the QuickTime plugin on Windows or Mac OS X, which at a minimum includes all iTunes users. The vulnerability is based on QuickTime Media Link files (.qtl), simple XML files that include details about the media file to be played (like an .avi, .mov or .mp3) and other settings. However one of these parameters, qtnext, allows the publisher to specify a URL (web address) to be displayed when the media file ends. The URL could be a JavaScript…