New Media + IT

Just upgraded my Windows Live Messenger 8 to the 8.5 beta. So far I haven't seen any new features but mostly design improvements.
I found the installer at FileHippo.com (it's also available from Microsoft's Live.com site) and I could log in without any problems, but that may be because I'm enrolled at the Windows Live [...]

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[ categorized as: Instant messaging, Microsoft, Windows ]

MSBlog has an interesting, and incredibly disturbing, blog post about how much you can do with a Vista bootable DVD.
All a person has to do is to boot a computer into the recovery mode using the command prompt, which doesn't require user name or password. This means, that the cracker can get full access to [...]

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Security, Software, Windows ]

Is Ubuntu (Linux) ready for the desktop?
I haven't read it yet, but InformationWeek has done a comparison between Ubuntu and Windows Vista.
It's quite a long article, but you can skip right to the conclusion. :-)
Found via Digg.
Update 1:
Ubuntu News also has a take on the comparison.

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[ categorized as: Linux, Microsoft, Open source, Windows ]

Just got a notification in my Windows Media Player, that an update was available. After the upgrade all of my wave files (.wav) now have this logo:

I'm guessing this is Windows Media Player's work, since the same icon is used inside the media player. I like it.

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Windows ]

If you consider upgrading/installing Microsoft Vista, perhaps you should take a lisk of "The Most Annoying Things About Windows Vista" at PC World.
Found via Winforums blog.

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Windows ]

If you're a Mac person (I'm not) and can understand Danish (I can) then you might appreciate this joke cartoon from Engineering Weekly.
Basically, the guy standing up is saying: »I think it's working now. But isn't it just a poor copy of Apple's Dashboard?«
And the guy on the floor says: »It just needed more RAM«.
I [...]

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[ categorized as: Mac, Microsoft, Windows ]

I found this via Computerworld Denmark, but apparently you can test drive Windows Vista in your browser at WindowsVistatestdrive.com.
The test drive requires Internet Explorer 6 at least, and apparently it doesn't work if you live in Denmark. Here's the error box I got, when I tried to click around the in-browser Vista:

Looks like something the [...]

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[ categorized as: Windows ]

Then pay $259.00.
Found via Mike Walker's blog.

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Windows ]

Recently I got a new laptop.
As the first thing I installed a firewall and went to Windows Update — only to find out, that there (not surprisingly) was a bunch of updates ready.
Now, after I've installed all these updates, I've noticed that it takes my laptop longer time to boot. The time from when the [...]

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Windows ]