Comment Microsofts marketing (Score 4, Funny) 304
I can see Microsoft's new marketing campaign now. "PS3's are for terrorists"
Submission + - DoJ, states divided on Microsoft antitrust success (cbronline.com)
Rob writes: Computer Business Review is reporting that the US Department of Justice and five States
have declared themselves satisfied with the antitrust enforcement efforts taken against
Microsoft despite a further seven States maintaining they have had 'little or no
discernible impact in the marketplace.' While the US DoJ and five States — New York,
Louisiana, Maryland, Ohio, and Wisconsin (The New York Group) — reported that the final
judgments have succeeded in increasing competition to the benefit of consumers, seven
States making up the California
Group are not convinced.
Submission + - Critical Security Bug in FireFox (com.com) 1
Gypsy2012 writes: "This article from CNet says "A "highly critical" security flaw has been discovered in Firefox, which could allow a malicious attacker to gain remote control of a user's system, according to an advisory issued by Secunia." Looks like it's a good idea to make sure the 'firefox://' URI handler is not registered on your system."
Submission + - Latest AACS revision defeated a week before releas
stevedcc writes: "Ars Technica is running a story about next week's release of AACS, which is intended to fix the current compromises. The only problem is, the patched version has already been cracked. From the article:
"Despite the best efforts of the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) Licensing Administration (AACS LA), content pirates remain one step ahead. A new volume key used by high-def films scheduled for release next week has already been cracked.
Submission + - The First Terabyte Hard Drive--Review
mikemuch writes: "ExtremeTech has a review and benchmarks of the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB Hard Drive, which ushers in the terabyte age. It performs well on HDTach and PCMark benchmarks, though not as speedily as professional-grade drives. It could be just the ticket for digital media junkies."
Submission + - Firefox going the big and bloated IE way?
abhinav_pc writes: Wired is carrying an article on Firefox becoming big and bloated much like its bête noire competetor, IE. From the article: "... with Firefox 3.0 poised for release this summer, the "IE killer" is in danger of morphing into an early Fat Elvis ...
Submission + - Malware Hijacks Windows Update
clickclickdrone writes: "The BBC are reporting a new piece of malware is in the wild that can hijack Windows Update's functionality and bypass firewalls allowing it to install malicious code on users PCs. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6657677.stm notes the new code was discovered by Frank Boldewin at http://www.reconstruction.org/ in an email.
The attack utilises the BITS system but as ever, the best way to avoid it is common sense and an up to date AV package.
To be honest, I'm surprised it's taken this long to find a way to use Windows Update as a way in to otherwise secure systems."
The attack utilises the BITS system but as ever, the best way to avoid it is common sense and an up to date AV package.
To be honest, I'm surprised it's taken this long to find a way to use Windows Update as a way in to otherwise secure systems."
Submission + - Vista sells 40 M licenses in 100 days.
Gary writes: "In the first 100 days since its launch in Jan 30 Windows Vista has sold an astounding 40 million licenses. Bill Gates gives the credit to accelerating consumer shift to digital lifestyles which has made it the fastest selling operating system in history. Surprisingly the more expensive premium editions accounted for 78 percent of Vista sales. With around 400,000 licenses a day new Vista users will take 8 weeks to beat Mac users, 4 days to exceed Mac sales and 3 days to exceed Linux desktop users."
