Faster Forward Archive: Windows
Answers to more of your Microsoft Security Essentials questions
The state of computing security in Windows is anything but clear for a lot of home users. So I guess I should not have have been surprised that one column and blog posts at the start and end of this month did not suffice to explain Microsoft's new, free Microsoft...
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October 27, 2009; 4:08 PM ET |
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Microsoft to open Outlook data format
Microsoft announced Monday that it plans to pry the locks off the closed, proprietary format of its Outlook e-mail/contacts/calendar/tasks/notes application. By documenting the workings of Outlook's Personal Storage Table (PST) format--one of my least-favorite locked formats--Microsoft would make it far easier for developers to write Outlook-compatible software to complement or...
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October 26, 2009; 4:52 PM ET |
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Microsoft does Windows users a favor with Security Essentials
Some weeks, it can seem that my readers hate anti-virus software almost as much as viruses. It's not that people would prefer to see their computers get hacked -- a non-trivial risk with Windows, although Microsoft's last two releases have strengthened its defenses. It's that they don't enjoy having an...
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October 23, 2009; 11:51 AM ET |
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Windows 7 arrives; Windows Vista leaves
The waiting is over, and the upgrading can begin. Today, Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system arrives in stores and on new computers. Microsoft is celebrating the occasion with characteristic hype, staging a gala event in New York to unveil the software. For many PC users, Windows 7's arrival also...
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October 22, 2009; 11:47 AM ET |
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Windows 7: Our Long National Vista Nightmare Is Over
You're not going to have Windows Vista to kick around anymore; on Thursday, its successor Windows 7 debuts. As I write in today's column, 7 has issues of its own. You shouldn't mistake Microsoft's new release for some transcendental reinvention of Windows, or even an advance on the order of...
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Rob Pegoraro
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October 16, 2009; 10:49 AM ET |
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One Last Look at My Windows Vista Review
Those of us who write about computing for a living can be so busy trying out the next would-be-big thing that we often forget to follow up on our past predictions. So I was happy to see Technologizer tech writer Harry McCracken spent some time re-reading some of the first...
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October 14, 2009; 12:32 PM ET |
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