Tag: Microsoft

  • Scareware Tops Security Threats List

    Lawrence Walsh

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    "Some situations and some programs do nothing but scare people and use an exploit to get on a screen and present an alert to users," says Jimmy Kuo, principle architect at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center and principle researcher of the study. “It usually does nothing; it takes advantage of name squatting and lands you… Read more

  • Microsoft Extends Windows XP Support, Again

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    The Rasputin of operating systems defies yet another planned death date, as a leaked internal memo from Microsoft makes it clear that Windows XP will continue to live on. In the memo, Microsoft says it will continue support for Windows XP beyond its latest retirement date of May 30, 2009. Unconfirmed rumors are also circulating… Read more

  • HP Android Netbook to Muscle Out Microsoft Windows, Intel Atom

    Jessica Davis

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    The use of Google’s Linux-based operating system Android in netbooks has the potential to muscle computing incumbents Microsoft and Intel out of the mini-PC computing space as more mobile phone components make their way into PCs. The end result would likely be even less expensive netbooks based on technologies originally designed for phones, such as… Read more

  • Microsoft Adds Apps to Windows Marketplace for Mobile

    Jessica Davis

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    Even as Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners gained the power to download the Skype application from Apple’s App Store, Microsoft was lining up its partners for its own next generation of Windows phones, Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Microsoft announced that EA Mobile, the mobile unit of the Electronic Arts gaming… Read more

  • Microsoft to Apple Buyers: It’s Hip to Be Square

    Lawrence Walsh

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    The surprise hit of the PC market is netbooks. Small Windows- and Linux-based devices provide just enough processing power and functionality in an affordable package (many cases $200 to $300) that consumers and many mobile business users are snapping them up faster than any conventional PC notebook or Mac. That’s got many thinking that in… Read more

  • Microsoft Passes Buck on Internet Explorer Error

    Microsoft Passes Buck on Internet Explorer Error

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    Many users (myself included) are complaining of an error that seems to be cropping up more and more with all versions of Internet Explorer: “Internet Explorer Can Not Open the Internet Site – Operation Aborted” This error is a growing nuisance, but I figured it would disappear with an upgrade to IE8 or by installing… Read more