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The Patch Deluge: AI & The Race To Save The World
Don’t worry, be happy! I was just trying to scare you with all that doom and gloom. The same AI systems that can find vulnerabilities can also fix them. The same AI tools that can write exploits can write patches. The same machine intelligence that helps attackers…
ONECARE & DEFENDER UPDATES
Windows Live OneCare users will receive an automatic update to version 1.5 at the end of January. Most changes are modest, but there will be more options for backups –…
ADOBE ACROBAT 8 PROFESSIONAL
PDFs have become the common language for shared documents in most businesses and law offices, but the frequent upgrades to Acrobat have been uncompelling, with a confusing…
WINDOWS VISTA TEST DRIVE
If you’re curious, Microsoft has created a web site that lets you test drive a credible imitation of Windows Vista Business Edition. Get a look at the visuals, poke at some…
APPLE IPHONE
You’ll see lots of press about the Apple iPhone. Here’s as good a summary as I’ve seen today: “The iPhone is much higher-end than I thought it would be:…
MICROSOFT OFFICE STUDENT EDITION
Here’s an article with an interesting statistic: Microsoft Office 2003 Student And Teacher Edition made up 80% of all sales of productivity suites in 2006. Microsoft…
WINDOWS HOME SERVER
Microsoft is taking the wraps off “Windows Home Server” today at a trade show. The first details are just coming out from people freed from their nondisclosure…
AMAZON’S SECRET PRICE GUARANTEE
I can’t vouch for this, but Timothy Noah at Slate writes that Amazon has a 30-day price guarantee – if the Amazon price drops on any item within thirty days after you…
APPLE AND PROPRIETARY FILE FORMATS
Microsoft will take some well-deserved heat for letting copy protection drive it to make bad decisions for technology and consumers, but Apple has also played an unappealing role…
WINDOWS VISTA & CONTENT PROTECTION
The entertainment industry is obsessed with copy protection and has been browbeating legislators, courts, hardware manufacturers and content creators with demands for more…
RIAA DECLARES INSANITY
The RIAA is resorting to even more bizarre behavior in its quest to be institutionalized for its own protection. AllOfMP3.com is a Russian site that has been thumbing its nose at…
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…
THE IE7 MENU BAR
The team developing Internet Explorer 7 tried to maximize the screen space available for web pages by shrinking or removing some familiar parts of IE6. The missing menu bar has…
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,…
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…
FIX FOR SLOW IE7 PHISHING FILTER
A few people have complained that Internet browsing was slow or erratic after installing Internet Explorer 7. I haven’t been able to find a pattern to explain that –…