Monday, April 14th, 2008 @ 12:26:17.
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While I do understand their point (and, personally, I like the similar feature in OSX), the attitude is very indicitive of Microsoft’s problems (not to mention certain governement officials…).
David Cross:
“The reason we put UAC into the (Vista) platform was to annoy users–I’m serious,” said Cross, speaking at the RSA Conference here Thursday. “Most users had administrator privileges on previous Windows systems and most applications needed administrator privileges to install or run.”
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 @ 07:36:53.
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I can’t even imagine the size of this problem, if true
I also don’t understand the logic behind the decision that spawned this. If going to Windows7 means buying all new software, and/or patching code so extensively as to pale the Y2K crisis (and, contrary to the post, I believe it would far exceed Y2K) why does Gates et al. think that anyone would bother staying with the MS product line? At that point, you are faced with two choices: virtually start over from scratch, or actually start over from scratch.
I have a very hard time believing this is true, but I also have a very hard time believing Vista got released.
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 @ 06:35:46.
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Again, I should preface this by saying I am, in fact, behind a firewall of no shallow depth.
However, I find it hard to believe that the firewall is causing all of IE7 to take forever, simply fail, or behave poorly in general.
For example…I have three tabs open. None of them are on pages of any complexity. No youtube, no flash, no video or audio or anything. I am in tab 1. I click on tab 3. 4 seconds go by before tab 3 activates and comes to front. That is utterly unacceptable.
Can anyone tell me why, exactly, this monstrosity is beating out Firefox? Why aren’t IT managers doing something about this?
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Monday, March 17th, 2008 @ 07:19:59.
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So I was VERY excited when I heard Firefox3 would have tags for bookmarks. But, even better, it does the below! W00t! Seems to me that a site with a well written description should be VERY helpful
Macworld | Hands on with Firefox 3
So how exactly do you use the tags you’ve created? You just enter one of them in the URL bar, and Firefox 3 goes and finds the sites in your bookmarks that match that tag, and displays them in a drop-down menu:
At the far right of each displayed URL, a small graphic indicates the source of the match. In this case, the first three matches were found based on their tags, and the last came from the bookmarked site’s description. When you open the full Bookmarks screen, you can see all of your tags and which sites are associated with each tag.
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