Symantec Corp. has released a report a few days ago that Microsoft’s Windows operating system is more secure than either Mac OS X or Linux.

In the report, they listed how many vulnerabilities each operating system had, how many of them are high priorities, and what is the average fix time for those vulnerabilties.

Windows came in first place. The second place is taken by Red Hat Linux. Apple’s Mac OS X came in third place while Sun came in last place.

Anuj Nayar from Apple said, “Apple takes security very seriously and has a great track record of addressing vulnerabilities before they affect you. ”

Source: Macobserver

You’ve prepared, preened and posted, checkout out your body language and made sure you’ve got something noteworthy to ask and say at your interview (imagine how the candidates feel!). Now let’s get this show on the road!
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A ReviewMe.com Review:

Your business is up and running, your phone is always ringing with new clients, you have hired a handful of techies to go out and do onsite jobs and you even have a secretary to take calls and manage paperwork. Business is booming.

It is at this point in your businesses life you will need to start thinking about how to store and manage this information. Many new onsite repair businesses start with an application such as Outlook which is great for one man operations but is poor when multiple users need to access it without an exchange server.
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The Register has released an article about Microsoft’s search engine called “Windows Live”. The article claimed that the search engine returns more malware-infected sites than its competitors such as Google and Yahoo.

It gives an example of how users can test their claim so they (the users) can see the results for themselves.

A statement was released by a Microsoft representative and it says “to the extent that spammers are successful in essentially manipulating results, they will hurt the user experience on all search engines”.

The article also shows that some of the sites only infects computers which are not US-based.

Source: The Register

System Info for Windows (aka SIW) is a stand alone application for gathering information about the computer it is run on. Like other system information tools such as Aida32 or Everest it will display your CPU and Motherboards speeds and make, system temperature, operating system CD keys etc..

However, SIW displays so much more its frightening. For example, all your saved passwords such as outlook express, outlook, msn, icq, aim, trillian and any password you saved in your browser in plain text. Read on for a complete list of information it can display.
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A person who is an employee of Microsoft Corp. from Denmark has released new information about the next Windows operating system.

The improvements that are planned for the next OS include improved wireless connectivity and converged network and internet search capabilities.

For security improvements, the new features will include extending data protection to peripheral devices and more capabilities on usage monitory.

The codename of the new Windows operating system that Microsoft is currently working on is called Windows Seven.

Other improvements include improved mobiled connectivity and easier search functions for finding information.

Microsoft has not yet made a response about this particular news.

Source: PC World

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PC Advisor has posted an article which gives people some advice when their computers that has a Windows operating system would not boot.

It says that if there is no noise that you can hear after you power up your PC, your PSU may have been damaged or it may be unplugged from the PC’s motherboard although that is a very unlikely scenario if a user has not opened his PC for a while.

Another problem that users may encounter is that there may be software conflict which prevents Windows from booting up correctly.

If Windows won’t load in safe mode, users should use the recovery console which is located in a boot-able disc.

Source: PC Advisor

A news has been released that Microsoft admitted that their OneCare software, which is a software designed to fight viruses and keep a user’s computer safe, is not as good as it should have been.

Jimmy Kuo who is a member of the security research at Microsoft said “The recent detection numbers were not stellar. We missed capturing a VB100 [Virus Bulletin 100] in the last test because we missed one virus. As a result, we have adopted new methodologies to … look more closely at families of viruses that have been found to be ‘in the wild,’ [those] found actively spreading among users.”

Source: Computerworld

Life would have been easier without choices, wouldn’t it? Sure it might be dull, but at least we wouldn’t have to choose, occasionally make mistakes, and suffer the consequences. It happens all the same in the IT world, where we occasionally have to choose between one and another, be it between Intel and AMD, NVIDIA and ATI, or in the case of this article; FireWire and USB.
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