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March 26th, 2007

Wildstrom Calls Vista “Slow and Dangerous”

A recent review by Steve Wildstrom of Business Week is enough to send potential Vista users running in the opposite direction. Read the entire column here.

March 21st, 2007

Talking about Agencies uncertain about move to Vista

More testing needed before Vista deployment:

Microsoft introduced the latest version of its operating system in grand fashion, with parties at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and other tony venues and the ever-present theme, “The ‘wow’ starts now.” But for many agencies the wow will come later rather than now.

March 14th, 2007

Talking about The 50 Most Important People on the Web

And you thought YOU were the person of the year?

Here’s who’s shaping what you read, watch, hear, write, buy, sell, befriend, flame, and otherwise do online.

Note: #16 and #17.

March 10th, 2007

Talking about If the Time Bomb Goes Off, You Should…

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What is Microsoft’s big advice for dealing with the daylight-saving time change on Sunday? Check your calendar.

March 8th, 2007

Security Bites Podcast: Highlights from Black Hat DC

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Once again, a vendor attempted to block a security presentation at Black Hat. CNET News.com’s Joris Evers reports from Arlington, Va., where RFID-tag maker HID Global objected to some material in a presentation by researchers from IOActive. A redacted version of the presentation took place instead. Also at the conference, a security researcher from NGS Software showed that ROM memory could also be a hiding ground for rootkit attacks…

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March 2nd, 2007

Talking about Superfetch, RAM and the meaning of life.

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The analysis and reviews of Vista are starting to come in - especially with respect to one of my favorite features - Superfetch. I blogged a bit about this in the past (about how Superfetch will proactively fetch applications into memory based on usage patterns so that they are already paged in from disk before you need them) but I have some real world experience with Vista on a variety of memory configurations and processors now and I’ll offer my own real world experiences…

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