Windows XP may be dead to some, but Microsoft is quickly realizing it won’t soon be forgotten.
There’s a misconception with the crss.exe process as to whether it’s a virus or a necessary Windows process. Let’s dig a little deeper to understand what it is and how it differs from other processes with similar names.
Windows XP is still the favorite operating system by far due to its relative stability and ease of use, but there’s always room for improvement. Here’s a quick “Top Five” list of the easiest ways to speed up Windows XP to make it run more efficiently.
Windows 7 is here, but with years of bad Vista memories, does it have what it takes? Depending on how Windows 7 embraces new-age technologies such as cloud-computing and netbooks, it will determine whether Windows 7 is the future, or more of the same from an antiquated software giant.
Internet Explorer has never complied with W3C web standards, making it the least liked browser of web designers (and often of internet users as well). Internet Explorer 8 will be released soon, and although it claims to be fully W3C compatible, internet pundits fear it will fail the Acid test.
In recent world news, a MySpace profile has been determined to be a security risk. How is this possible? It pretends to be a Microsoft software update, trying to get unsuspecting users to click the activation button.
In a bit of an oopsie daisie, Microsoft’s OneCare anti-virus and Internet Security service claimed that Google’s Gmail contained a virus. It’s yet another false positive by protective software - will we ever be rid of the false positive syndrome?
The latest browsers from Microsoft and Mozilla, IE7 and Firefox 2.0, promise to protect you from phishing sites trying to steal your data. But a new report shows just how hopeless and unreliable both browsers are at this task. Psst… we’ve found a product that does the job much, much better - and it’s free!
Remember the Opera browser? Now in version 9 for PCs, it’s free and has advanced features you won’t find in Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. It also works with a range of devices and not just PCs, meaning that ‘a night at the Opera’ can now be a 24×7 browsing experience!
If you thought Jim Allchin meant you could run Vista without anti-virus, he now says we misunderstood him and he should have been clearer. His clear advice is to always use anti-virus and security software, no matter what computer you use.
The MacBook has received an update to Intel’s Core 2 Duo chip at last, closing the performance gap that existed only until the last few days. Now all’s that left is for the Mac Mini to be updated, and Apple’s stunning transformation to Intel’s latest will be complete.
The Zune is Microsoft’s great hope to defeat the dominance of the Apple iPod, and it’s coming to US stores on Tuesday the 14th. The question on some people’s lips is whether Apple will spoil the party and launch a widescreen wireless iPod on Monday…
With every new version of Windows, we’ve come to expect a range of new sounds. The beta versions of Vista just used the existing Windows XP sounds, but Windows Vista is set to aurally excite us thanks to the hard work of Robert Fripp, and the lead of the Vista sound project, Steve Ball. So how does it sound?
Microsoft Windows Chief Jim Allchin let his seven year old son run Vista without any anti-virus software and claimed he suffered no infections. The news has spread across the globe, with some thinking Allchin is crazy. But I’ve run XP without anti-virus for months earlier this year, and I didn’t get infected. Why did I do it, and why no infections?
Mcrosoft’s long awaited follow up to their most successful software besides Windows finally goes RTM. It’s only been three years since the last version, but oh so much is different – both within Office and the suddenly hyper competitive marketplace. Can Office survive the latest threats to its dominance?
Has your computer started slowing down? Is it taking a long time to start up? Crashing more often? Or perhaps it’s suffering from an overload of spam and pop-up advertising?