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Give Your Immune System a Workout - Lick Your Keyboard
This one is for all those germophobes in your office.
Another peril can be added to the hazards of the innocent-looking computer keyboard. Not content with encouraging repetitive strain injury, the type-pads sometimes harbour more filth than the average loo seat and house millions of bacteria which can cause diarrhoea and vomiting, a study has shown.
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Internal emails put NVIDIA platform on Vista in bad light
You may have heard of the recently launched "Vista Capable" lawsuit in which there is mounting evidence that Microsoft tweaked the minimum specifications of what constitutes a PC as Vista Capable, much to Intel’s delight. Judge Martha Pechman, who is overseeing the class-action, has ordered the release of over 150 pages of internal Microsoft [...]
Windows Home Server, still corrupting files till June 08
Microsoft has updated the infamous KB #946676, better known as "when certain programs are used to edit or transfer files that are stored on a Windows Home Server-based computer that has more than one hard drive, the files may become corrupted" article. Rest assured though, the fix is in - in June! Before anyone [...]
Microsoft prepares for Vista re-WOWing
Windows Vista is either a smash hit if you listen to Microsoft or a slow burn if you consider how it has failed to ignite PC sales. Despite lots of eye candy and new features, the general impression of Vista?especially in business environments?is that one should wait until Service Pack 1 (SP1) is released [...]
What Excel 2007 doesn’t know can hurt you
It’s the type of bug that, when discovered twenty years ago on the world’s leading spreadsheets of the time, generated controversy and sent thousands back to their software stores for refunds: Excel 2007 has a bug with the display of floating-point values, a Microsoft developer confirmed on his team’s blog yesterday. BetaNews confirmed the [...]
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