Tag Archive: windows

Jun
15

It’s not a netbook!

Q: How do you make the world stop buying so many netbooks? A: Stop calling them netbooks. That’s the bizarre advice from Microsoft, suggested by one corporate overlord at this week’s Computex trade show in Taipei. His beef? The term “netbook” implies a notebook that is useful only for surfing the net, but since today’s mini-notebooks …

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Apr
22

10 security threats to watch out for in 2009

We’re well into the new year now, and we’re beginning to see trends emerging on the security front. Some of the threats we’ll see this year will be similar to those in years past (after all, many of the basic con games now being perpetuated online were around long before the advent of computers and …

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Apr
22

10 seriously annoying default configurations

We all have them: Stupid default configurations that we either have to change or live with. Some of them may seem pointless and irritating, although there’s usually some situation where they make sense. Regardless, when configurations are wrong for us, they get under our skin more often than they help us get on our way. …

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