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After Vista comes Vienna?

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

I know, Vista isn’t even released yet, but the web is talking about its successor . That’s not crazy, that’s the 21st century.
It seems that Windows Vienna will be the name of the new Windows operating system that comes after Vista. It was originally codenamed Windows Blackcomb. However, Windows Vienna will still probably be […]

Redesigned Windows Vista website

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Microsoft redesigned Windows Vista’s website.
The picture of the man at the top of the mountain was a very good idea.

OS vulnerabilities in 2005

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Statistics show that during 2005 the following number of vulnerabilities were found in the operating systems:
812 Windows operating system vulnerabilities;
2328 Unix/Linux operating vulnerabilities;
Furthermore, since Windows dominates the desktop OS, I tend to believe that most of the possible exploits and vulnerabilities were already discovered. However, since Linux has only a small share of the desktop, […]

How to copy the text of an error message

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Have you ever wondered how can you copy the text from a message box that is displaying an error? We all know the text cannot be selected, so you cannot do a Ctrl+C copy and then paste.
However there is a way, that few know of, which works with Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 […]

Why Linux cannot dominate the desktop

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Linux advocates generally have a negative attitude on message boards, newsgroups, blogs and chats, which leads to many conflicts with the users of Windows or Mac OS.
They are trying to convince these users that Linux is better, by repeatingly saying that Microsoft is evil and everyone should switch to Linux.
So you decide to give Linux […]