Microsoft adds more news and SKUs about Windows 7. It will come in two primary flavors but there will be 5 or 6 versions – depending on how you look at it. Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly… http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1890&tag=nl.e589
The OS transition promises to be especially uneasy for Windows shops this year. Which version should you standardize as your corporate desktop? And has your first taste of Windows 7 changed your deployment plans? http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1863&tag=nl.e539
Microsoft may have gone too far in tweaking User Account Controls for Windows 7. Blogger Long Zheng recently demonstrated a serious hole in Win 7’s UAC, which could leave PCs wide-open to attacks. What’s more, Microsoft claims the hole is a feature and that they won’t fix it. http://www.insidetech.com/news/articles/3926-windows-7-uac-leaves-door-open-for-attacks?referral=IT_nlet_20090203
Last week, the hearts of many Mac fans skipped a beat when the Mactopia web page on Microsoft’s web site disappeared for several hours. As it turned out, it was just a simple glitch, and in a knee-jerk response to blogger Ted Bishop’s inquiry about the health of the Mac Business Unit in general, Microsoft…
Microsoft officials on January 30 reiterated that there will be no public Beta 2 of Windows 7 and the next milestone will be the Release Candidate (RC) test build of the operating system. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1858&tag=nl.e539
Yesterday I received an unsolicited email from a woman who was pitching me a service — one totally irrelevant to my life. In her signature, in which she included what she considers her credentials, she had the statement, “More than 2,000 followers on Twitter.” I gasped, somewhat in horror. I laughed, full of humor. http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=407&tag=nl.e539
Microsoft officials are calling the Internet Explorer 8 RC 1 build “platform-complete,” meaning that developers and users should expect no more programming or user-interface changes in the product from here on out. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1846&tag=nl.e539
Windows 7 is the final nail in the desktop Linux market’s coffin. Unless Microsoft gets stupid on pricing, it is game over for Linux netbook market share. http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=379&tag=nl.e539
Since President Obama was sworn in and Whitehouse.gov has switched to a new interface, there has been an endless amount of chatter about the state of the White House’s technology. Some discuss the shortcomings, while others defend it as just fine. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/01/23/addressing-the-state-of-the-white-house-technology
The third installment of Website Magazine’s immensely popular series on link building tactics and techniques focuses on advanced methods to increase inbound link counts. The more time you spend promoting your website however usually reveals that there are not actually any advanced link building methods; no silver bullets to catapult you to top of search…