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POPSWindows XP Service Pack 3: Try It If You Dare Recently, Microsoft downplayed the significance of Windows XP SP3. In a white paper posted to its Web site, the company praised Windows Vista at XP's expense, reminding users that Vista boasted beefed-up security, for instance. The spokeswoman also chimed in. "Windows XP SP3 does not bring significant portions of Windows Vista functionality to Windows XP," she said. That may be so, but according to a Florida performance testing software developer, XP SP3 is not only 10% faster than XP SP2, but more than twice as fast as Vista SP1, claims that Microsoft disparaged within days. XP SP3, in fact, is the newest version of Vista's biggest rival , according to Forrester Research. U.S. and European businesses will delay Vista deployment, Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray said a month ago......
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POPSGoogle still kicking Yahoo and Microsoft's ass! The part I actually find most surprising is that over 40% of the U.S. search market doesn't use Google. But considering how hard Microsoft and Yahoo are trying to catch them, it's amazing that they haven't been able to make any progress.
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POPSInternet Explorer Confirmed (IE8) While this comes as a surprise to nobody, I just want to challenge Microsoft to build a browser that I want to switch *back* to. IE7 was not it, and I know they can do it.
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POPS 492,000 Database Servers Unprotected A survey by renowned database hacker David Litchfield has found a whopping 492,000 Microsoft SQL and Oracle database servers directly accessible to the Internet without firewall protection
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POPSImplementing Observer in .NET A very good article on this subject. I understood it all the way till the end, which I'll have to mess around with for a while I suppose.
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POPSMicrosoft Hires Porn Actress to market Live Search This is pretty old but I completely missed it so thought others might have as well to have Ms. Dewey do your search go to http://www.msdewey.com/ . Had a lot of fun playing around with it. Some of the terms have customized recordings that she says to you. For instance try the search term "love" at this site.
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POPSMicrosoft getting serious about buying Yahoo! Maybe, just maybe, the recent "losses" to Google in acquiring DoubleClick and YouTube were Microsoft's way of goading Google into acquiring those companies so that Microsoft could more easily acquire Yahoo without any anti-trust problems. Possible?
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POPSJapan's Homegrown Operating System METI and Japanese electronics makers are keen to move away from Windows and to nurture a homegrown OS in order to secure a leading position for Japanese firms in the info-appliance market Meanwhile, Microsoft has decided to reveal its source code to government organs and others, providing certain conditions are met. It has also announced that it will make the source code for Windows CE, its OS for info-appliances, freely available and will not object to manufacturers or others altering Windows CE or selling products installed with an adapted version. Some see these moves as a response to the success of Linux and TRON. Having started life as the invention of a university professor, TRON seems to have a bright future in cutting-edge electronics for the twenty-first century.
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