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More IE7 Beta 2 Info!

First of all thanks for all the comments on the Podcast about the interview I did with one of the program managers from the IE7 team, about the Beta 2 release. Thus far the show has been downloaded about 4000 times which breaks all kinds of records here for the first 2 hours of it's release. Over on the IE

Microsoft IE7 XP Beta Release Interview on Geek News Central!

Microsoft IE7 Beta Release Interview on Geek News Central 2006-01-31 #142 this Interview took place with a Microsoft IE7 Product Manager on the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2. I spent 20 minutes talking with Margaret Cobb about the the IE7 beta released today, we cover a lot of the

Marketing Windows Vista

You may think to yourself, who in their right mind will go out and buy Windows Vista when it arrives maybe later this year, maybe next? After all, the only basic features that are new and needed it brings to the table will be some security and RSS features, the rest are just efforts to make their GUI look more like OSX. We also have heard that much of the hardware you have running on your PC today might not run on Vista. But Microsoft has a plan.

Do you know Windows Media Center Software Development Kit

I am looking for a programmer that has experience or can come up to speed very quickly on the software development kit (SDK) for the Windows Media Center Edition. If you have that experience you need to drop me a line geeknews@gmail.com

Many Internet users forgoing Security

Do you want to understand why millions of computers are being used as bots or have been over run with spyware checkout the reasons people are shutting off the firewall provide by Windows OneCare Live. This is from the teams blog. Based on our investigation, there are four primary reasons people are turning off their firewall. 1. Do not think

Is the Apple announcements that Big a deal?

I have gotten some comments by readers that ask why I hate Apple. The plain fact of the matter is I don't, but what they hate is criticism of their beloved company. I call Microsoft and other companies to task all the time here. I don't discriminate I am a equal opportunity call them to the carpet writer. One question

Microsoft Patches Security Issues Windows

Microsoft released more patches today that deal with ongoing security issues that have been showing up in recent weeks. Nice to see them get the patches out quicker but the question remains how long before something comes down the net that takes all of our machines out. [PCWorld.com]