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Windows 7 is coming…

October 20, 2009 By Michael Kavka Leave a Comment

This Thursday is launch day for Windows 7. The question is what are you going to do about it?

Myself I’ve been using Win7 for almost 2 months now, thanks to having the Action Pack for work. It is a pretty robust system, loads fast and for the most part, just works.

Now, I’ve seen a bunch of the “official publication reviewers” talk about how the new taskbar is awful. The mini-previews make life more difficult. I have to disagree with them, cause hovering over any one of the previews brings it to the fore front as long as you hove over it, so its not as bad as people might think.

The only complaints I have about Windows 7 have to do with needed to upgrade a few pieces of software I use (audio editing stuff), which is to be expected, and the issues I have with BFGs lack of support for a known issue with the 9800 GTX+ OC card they put out (it locks with newer drivers, and the same card from other manufactures has an updated BIOS you can download to fix the same issue).

The UAC tends to go off more with older software that does require Admin access to run properly, at least with the UAC in the initial setting. I honestly don’t mind it too much, maybe because I do have some Ubuntu systems, and like the idea of knowing that something is going to run as Admin.

The real question is, will people finally embrace change, or is it going to be another case of, ‘We don’t wanna change,” killing what is really a good OS.

Filed Under: Computers, Reviews, Software Tagged With: BFG, Microsoft, Review, UAC, Windows 7

Well Well Well, Look what they figured out…

February 5, 2009 By Michael Kavka Leave a Comment

So it seems that a company called Beyond Trust did a little research into Microsoft’s disclosed vulnerabilities, and found that 92% of them could have been avoided if people didn’t have Admin rights.  You can read the full article at Computer World.

Honestly, I would have thought it was quite obvious that this was a big problem. Even with the UAC in Vista and Windows 7, it is a problem, and Microsoft just won’t admit to it.  Someone needs to hit them with a clue by four I think.

Filed Under: Computers Tagged With: Computer World, Computers, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Security, UAC, Vista, vulnerabilities, Windows, Windows 7, XP

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