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Cock Tease Ballmer May Save XP Yet Again
Steve Ballmer has offered a glimmer of hope to fans of the company’s Windows XP operating system, saying the company could reconsider its decision to phase out XP in June if customers show they want to keep it but so far they have not.Mr. Ballmer was adamant that “most people who buy PCs today buy [...]
Fixing Windows Update When it Gets Confused
Every second Tuesday of the month Microsoft issues a whack of patches for its products, mostly focusing around their core products – Windows and Office. Many XP/Vista installs are configured to download and install the patches automatically, without bothering the user unless a reboot is required in order to complete the installs. However, another option [...]
Microsoft: Don’t hate the finder, hate the vulnerability
At the ToorCon security conference held in Seattle this past week, Microsoft announced a major shift in it’s online security model. They have publicly pledged not to sue hackers into oblivion should they find security flaws in their online services, assuming you hack and tell that is. Generally, researchers are free to hack away on [...]
Ballmer: Vista is ‘a Work in Progress’
As PC users clamor for Microsoft to continue to support Windows XP, company CEO Steve Ballmer called the Vista OS “a work in progress” at an annual Seattle event on Thursday. I guess most of us missed that fine print when we paid full price at the time of purchase.
Yahoo! to Microsoft: How cheap do you think we are?
Recent pen-pals Microsoft and Yahoo have had yet another exchange. As expected, the latest “Dear Steve” letter responds to Microsoft’s initial 3 week ultimatum – otherwise known as ‘take our deal or we’ll take it to your shareholders.’ It’s been rumored that the email exchanges before PR got ahold of them actually went something like [...]
