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A Microsoft Future

Last week's "Microsoft Fantasy" here on GNC suggested that Microsoft was in danger of fading into irrelevance; that it should retreat to servers and gaming; that it should re-orient its mobile strategy around Android. I suggest that Microsoft is now very well positioned to offer far more than its competitors. And to negate any ad hominem attacks, I'm no Microsoft

Microsoft Gets No Love From IBM

"Firefox is now the gold standard for what an open, secure, and standards-compliant browser should be.” So says Bob Sutor, vice president of Open Source and Linux at IBM.  The new default browser for half a million IBM employees worldwide is now Firefox.  All newly deployed computers at IBM offices will be set with Firefox as its default browser, and

My Internet Explorer 6 Eulogy

Last week, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) got a full funeral and hopefully (soon) burial. I, too, am glad to see the older browser go: Even though there are some who will try to hold on for dear life. Nonetheless, if I was to have given a Eulogy for IE6, this is how it would have went. You know, I remember

Intrusion Alert!

I've spent a good amount of time this morning tracking down what I thought was a rumor about Microsoft forcing a .net add-on to Firefox.  Turns out the rumor was true.  And it's not a pretty thing to contemplate. Any Firefox user receiving a Microsoft update to either XP or Vista (and possibly Windows 7 but I cannot confirm this)

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GNC-2006-11-10

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Microsoft has released 10 very critical updates!

If your a IE user click tools Windows Update now and get the latest updates from Microsoft if you have not got them already. This 10 part update fixes a series of highly critical bugs. If you are the type that surfs to a lot of new websites every day you may already have a machine that has been compromised.

1 in 67 Websites contain IE security exploit

Asa Dotzer points to a pretty interesting study, now I am not one to buy into these types of studies on face value, but the sheer number of sites they found with exploits has made me begin to wonder why can't their be a way to get these sites shut down. If there is a way to detect the sites