HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I’ll be back in 2007. Happy new year and best wishes to all!Windows Vista is right around the corner, and the press is heating up – it’s full of flaws! No one wants it! A hacker is selling a way to exploit it for $50,000! Keep some perspective as you...

QUICKBOOKS, IE7 AND COMPUTER SECURITY

Intuit has finally released updates for various versions of Quickbooks to make them more or less compatible with Internet Explorer 7. Here’s the IE7 compatibility chart, with links to the various updates.This is an odd issue with a long history. For years,...

NETWORK FILE INDEXING ADDED TO VISTA

My first impression was that the Vista developers had left Vista in a crippled state, unable to index shared network folders, but apparently they were just running late. Today Microsoft released a Vista-compatible add-in for Windows Desktop Search for indexing mapped...

VIRAL ADVERTISING

The folks responsible for promoting Windows Vista are trying hard to be hip – check out http://clearification.com. Microsoft is footing the bill for Demetri Martin, a Daily Show regular, to film short episodes of a random and mildly amusing story that features...

WINDOWS VISTA & SECURITY VENDORS

You may have seen news coverage of complaints by Symantec, McAfee and others about security changes in Vista. Basically they complain that Vista’s security is locked up so tightly that they are unable to take over the system in the way they think is best for...