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Users of AOL client and e-mail services and Windows XP are caught in the middle of a compatibility conflict between the two applications and their creators.
Microsoft earlier this week issued a nearly finished version of Windows XP to testers, signaling it plans to release final code earlier than expected.
Microsoft has worked diligently to bring Windows together, culminating in the creation of the Home and Professional versions of Windows XP. But there are forces pulling these two OSes apart.
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So, it seems the WOW -- for Microsoft's Windows Vista -- is not now, but sometime in the future, maybe.
It's always funny watching an event force a company to break old habits and this IE zero day was enough for Microsoft to do it. As Microsoft Australia's strategic security advisor Stuart Strathdee said "we pulled all stops to get this patch out".
The only people who won't eventually move to Windows Vista are the Linux and Mac enthusiasts.
Reading the news via the handy (though often-ignored) AvantGo on my Pocket PC recently, I encountered an advertisement for a white paper from Microsoft offering a case study on costs of ownership for Linux versus Windows. This has the potential to be either informative or tragic, I said to myself, as I chose to download a copy.
When you make the upgrade to Windows XP, you may run into problems with legacy applications. Learn how you can use XP's Compatibility Mode to overcome issues with older applications.
Windows 7 will be one of Microsoft's greatest operating systems, if it fulfils the promise shown by the unofficial beta version we have been testing for the past couple of days.
Software giant claims businesses will rush to upgrade to Vista, but analysts paint a different picture.
For the second time in as many weeks a group of security professionals has released a third-party fix for a Windows flaw that is actively being used in cyberattacks.
Microsoft has worked diligently to bring Windows together, culminating in the creation of the Home and Professional versions of Windows XP. But there are forces pulling these two OSes apart.
Microsoft's Windows XP has received a fair amount of hype in the lead up to its release-Matt Lake and Josh Mehlman assess its usefulness for businesses.
Microsoft's new Windows XP--at least the beta builds I've been playing with--combines the best of Windows 2000 with what I like about Windows Me, and then goes a step further. And this is good.
The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)--which will undoubtedly play a significant role in the Internet's future--is an idea hatched in Microsoft's labs.
The new Mac operating system is gorgeous (and it works pretty well, too). Mac-heads will want it; Windows users will yawn.
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