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Windows Server 2008 pricing announced
IT admins: this is the moment you've all been waiting for. After years of waiting, Microsoft has gone ahead and announced the availability, pricing and version info for Read more...
Want 4GB of RAM? You'll have to pick up Vista x64
In the geek world, Vista tends to be a divider, not a uniter and one of the main points of contention continues to be the question of how much RAM is enough. Some folks (most of whom reside in a
Read more...How to: Choose between 32-bit and 64-bit Vista
So, you've decided to upgrade to Vista but you're not sure which version you need: the 32-bit one or the 64-bit version. ZDnet's George Ou has a
Read more...ALSO NOTED: HP Update; New MacBook is "fast as all get out"; and much more...
> HP Update: Former HP chairman pleads not guilty. Article
> ComputerWorld thinks that Apple's new Core 2 Duo-based MacBook is "fast as all get out." Article
> Is it time to go 64-bit? …
Read more...Dell unveils yet another AMD laptop
Last week, Dell released the details on their first AMD-based laptop, the Inspiron 1501 series. Yesterday, Dell announced yet another portable with an AMD chip inside and this time around, it's aimed at enterprise customers. The Latitude 131L notebook will ship with either the 64-bit Turion 64 X2 TL-50 dual-core processor or the single-core Sempron 3500+ processor: the two configurations …
Read more...Microsoft blocks Vista hack, opens new can of worms
At the Black Hat convention back in August, Polish researcher Joanna Rutkowska demonstrated a Vista hack that bypassed security in the 64-bit version of Vista to run unsigned driver code, which could be used to install malicious drivers on a user's hard drive. So here's the good news: Microsoft has since made changes to Vista's code that prevent such an attack. The bad news? Apparently, the company addressed the vulnerability by blocking write-access to raw disk sectors for applications …
Read more...Microsoft to meet with security vendors
Another day, another update on the continuing saga that is Vista security. Let's recap: Microsoft announced a kernel-level API last Friday that security companies rejected as a "red herring". Well, Microsoft has responded by scheduling a briefing for today to instruct security companies on how to disable Windows Security Center and how to access Vista's 64-bit kernel. It still …
Read more...Microsoft to security vendors: Hands off my kernel
As you might recall, on Monday we reported on McAfee's public shaming of Microsoft in an advertisement printed in the Financial Times that took the form of an open letter to "computer users around the world." In the ad, McAfee accused Microsoft of incorporating "inherent weaknesses" into their upcoming Vista operating system. Well, The New York Times reports today that other major security companies have joined the …
Read more...Red Hat debuts enterprise Linux beta
Red Hat released Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 this weekend. The test version of the open-source operating system is two months late because of memory problems in the kernel debugging process. Surprisingly, it includes Xen virtualization tools: Red Hat's CTO recently said Xen was not yet ready for enterprise use. Beta 1 also has client and server versions, clustering options and support for a variety of 32 and 64-bit microprocessors. However, users will have to uninstall it to move from the …
Read more...Third Symantec report finds Vista bugs
Symantec says it's found some security flaws in the heart of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista software. There are problems with the 64-bit version's kernel, in which malicious code could disable security measures, officials said. That basically repeats what security experts found at last week's Black Hat conference, although in this case Microsoft says it is irrelevant because Symantec tested on older beta versions. There are also critics who assert that Symantec, with which Microsoft …
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