The overall look of Windows 7 may seem to be a polished Vista theme, but make no mistake: this is a full replacement operating system, and more than just “Vista done right.” Features like driver support and battery management, Windows 7 is a far cry from a Vista Knock-off.
In my mind, Microsoft dug itself a hole with Vista. Microsoft was bombarded by complaints even after the first service pack was released, so they had to set the bar high for the Vista successor: Windows 7.
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Straight from a USA Today article proving viruses do just happen and they require an active effort on the user’s part to introduce them to a system.
A year after it first slithered onto the Internet, the Conficker worm remains as virulent as ever, despite an unprecedented eradication campaign. Meanwhile, a similar, though less heralded worm, Taterf, is gathering steam.
I read CIO magazine online daily. All-though I do not agree with their opinions most of the time (because they are too heavily driven by Gartner), I do agree with this article as it pertains to the SMB market.
It seems as if every CIO comes back from a conference cocktail party demanding IT “move to the cloud.” While this can mean many things; i.e. using software-as-a-service (SaaS), managed hosting, or application service providers (ASP), the demand often centers on moving applications out of your own budget-sucking data center and up to an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platform.
A recent phishing scam resulting in usernames and passwords of Microsoft’s Hotmail, Google’s Gmail, and possibly accounts of AOL and Yahoo users being posted online is cause for concern for anyone who uses any of those services. Rather than panic, there are simple ways to avoid becoming a victim or being further victimized, if your account has already been compromised.
Microsoft and Google said the compromised information likely came as a result of a phishing scam, through which millions of people are sent e-mail (often warnings about a fake security breach), asking them to click on a link to take them to a Web site so that they can enter their correct information.
