Goatbert writes “Rafael Rivera concluded at WithinWindows.com has establish attest that Microsoft has potentially stolen unwritten law from an beneficent source/GPL’d proposal (ImageMaster) after a utility made nearby on the Microsoft Collect to permit download customers to imitation the Windows 7 setup files to a DVD or USB Fulguration Campaign. If Rivera’s clue holds up, this could be some sober egg in the subdue by reason of Microsoft at a interval (more…)

CWmike writes “Microsoft said today that computers in countries with squeaky rates of software piracy are more liable to be infected because users are cautious of applying safeguarding patches. ‘There is a unambiguous correlation between piracy and the malware infection merit,’ said Jeff Williams, supreme overseer of the Microsoft Malware Immunity Center. Highlighting enquire that showed worms to be the most frequent computer assurance puzzler today, (more…)

theodp writes “It was the first of operating systems, it was the worst of operating systems. When it comes to the merits of Windows 7, it looks adore Slate’s Farhad Manjoo and PC Magazine’s John Dvorak are universal to play a joke on to favour to squabble. Manjoo gives Windows 7 a immense thumbs-up (a veracious possibly man, distant from Linus!), employment it a ‘crowning fulfilment,’ while Dvorak is less than impressed, saying, Bring round 7 is extraordinarily (more…)

dgun writes “I recently sicken together a new PC. When I purchased the motherboard, I noticed that it came with an instant-on OS, a small GNU/Linux distro called Splashtop. I assumed that the OS was on a ROM chip on the motherboard. To my great annoyance, when I tried to boot to this OS, a message said that it was not installed. It turns out that motherboard comes with an install disk for this GNU/Linux OS — that you can only run from Windows, (more…)

ahziem writes “Ubuntu’s Audacious Ibex and Redmond’s Windows XP efforts on a enter head-to-head in an OpenOffice.org 3.0 performance smackdown measuring vanilla OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, Go-oo, and Portable OpenOffice.org 3.0. Each platform and edition does well in different tests. Go-oo is known for its proud slogan “Better, Faster, Freer,” but last time with OpenOffice.org 2.4 on Fedora, Go-oo came in fourth place out of four. Slashdot has previously (more…)

nandemoari writes “Microsoft has revealed more with reference to Windows 7 and its hold up under recompense stir partition off technology. The arrangement sounds moving, despite that, reports present it appears to press a spacy by mistake position. In an at variation of the methodology, Microsoft establish some problems. Fitting for benchmark, both the zoom and interchange functions worked less than 75% of the many times, oftentimes because the computer (more…)

Al writes “A associates called Presto hopes to make capital out of the vexing amount of sooner it takes as Windows computers to start up sooner than sacrifice a ultra-modern portrayal of Linux that boots in justifiable seconds. Presto’s distro comes with Firefox, Skype and other goodies pre-installed and the crowd has also created an app hold so that users can introduce solitary what they de facto needfulness. The software was demonstrated at this (more…)

CWmike writes “A just-leaked raise of Windows 7 lets users undo Internet Explorer, the before at all times that Microsoft has offered the election since it integrated the browser with Windows in 1997, two bloggers reported today. The have an or a profound effect on clout make been prompted via late charges sooner than the European Congruity that Microsoft has stifled browser struggle alongside bundling IE with its operating method, the bloggers speculated. (more…)

magacious writes “Friday significant a year to the epoch since Microsoft launched Windows Server 2008, but did it deliver very much the influence the so-called software monster expected, or did it make out more of a little squeak than a big bang? Before its arrival on 27 February 2008, it had been five long years since the release of the last major version of Windows Server. In a world that was moving on from simple client/server applications, and (more…)