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POPSImmunet: New Cloud-Based Anti-Virus Program Note that I haven't actually used this, since I haven't booted up Windows in a while. Also, Windows 7 will still think you don't have an anti-virus program if you run Immunet in Vista-compatible mode.
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POPSHistory of the Hard Drive The video is kind of stilted in places, but the Twilight Zone style music at the beginning and shots of the engineers "relaxing at home in the evening" are funny.
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POPSWindows 7 = "Vista Done Right" I'm willing to go along with this analysis. There were several good things about Vista. If they could just improve a few simple things (like the choice between no security and annoying User Account Control dialogs every five minutes) and not increase the required specs to something half of new PCs have trouble running, they'll have done a good job. Personally, I'll probably always prefer Linux, but if the masses are going to have an OS shoved down their throats, it would be nice to have a decent one.
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POPSCubans allowed to buy products they can't afford This is interesting. On the one hand, the new access to personal computers creates a new, de-facto freedom of the press (even without internet access to blog or post on forums, all you need is a printer to distribute anti-government literature). On the other hand, only the well-off can afford this stuff, and the well-off are less likely to agitate against the system, particularly if the system gives them cell phones and computers.
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POPSFirefox still more secure than IE Though the author seems to go out of his way to praise Microsoft and make Firefox look bad, he was forced to admit that Mozilla patches vulnerabilities faster than Microsoft. Then if you stop looking at irrelevant stats like how many vulnerabilities are discovered in a given length of time and start looking at how many vulnerabilites remain unpatched now and how severe they are, FF comes out on top by a long shot (4 vs. 18, Less Critical vs. Moderately Critical according to Secunia.com). And that's a pretty good showing by Microsoft, who usually can be counted on to leave an Extremely Critical flaw unpatched for months at a time.
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POPSFSF launches anti-Vista campaign It's pretty much conventional wisdom that no Microsoft operating system is as good as it claims to be, but this may be the earliest campaign against an OS ever.
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