October 29th, 2007

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Leopard will open the Mac OS X floodgates (and embarrass Microsoft)
The writer believes OS X will outsell Vista by a staggering margin. The current OS X installed base is less than 25 million, with Vista having so far sold around 88 million copies. That’s a heck of a lot of upgrades and new sales Apple [...]

Written by Joe on October 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Crash windows vista in 10 seconds

This video shows how you can ‘crash’ Vista using a two key combination. By holding down the ‘Windows’ key and the ‘E’ key, you begin opening Explorer windows. If you open enough of them, it bogs down Vista and makes it unresponsive.

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Drinking Windows Vista

Apparently Windows Vista tastes like bubbles, according to these three random guys.

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Mediaroom Personal Server not so personal, a development tool for 3rd-party developers

Microsoft’s ingenious naming conventions has failed me miserably. A knowledgeable person has contacted me and corrected my prediction about what the Mediaroom Personal Server is. It is not, as “personal” might suggest, a consumer product. It is a development platform for third-parties to develop Mediaroom solutions with.
The server allows the full Mediaroom environment to be [...]

Written by Long Zheng on October 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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ESET AU offers free ‘upgrades’ from other AVs: how companies should treat their competitors’ customers

Often just because you’re using a product that is in direct competition to a company’s offerings, you’ll be treated like second-class citizens who don’t know what’s good for them. Security software companies aren’t known for their kindness or generosity to each other, so what ESET Australia announced today deserves to be recognized.
Currently limited only to [...]

Written by Long Zheng on October 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Mozilla Separating Browser from the App

New Prism effort seeks to change the Web-based app paradigm and bring them out of the browser and onto the desktop.

Written by WinPlanet Windows Software News on October 29th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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