Internet Explorer got a black eye last week from a widely exploited zero-day vulnerability, but a recent NSS report shows that IE 9 does a better job of blocking malware than the other major browsers. It looks like the key to Microsoft’s success is their SmartScreen technology, which basically maintains a blacklist of […]
I finally (and reluctantly) upgraded my own production machines from Windows XP SP3 to Windows 7 this past month. (What with the new Android phone and the new OS, I feel like a new man!) We also recently upgraded one very […]
What should we do about Vista? The major hardware vendors are making it harder to get XP pre-installed, so licensing will begin to get dodgy. Also Microsoft will end “Mainstream support” of XP on 4/14/09 http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&C2=1173&x=13&y=13
At a large HMO I used to work for, they used to have a tough re-image policy. I believe that if a problem took more than two hours to solve, they would just have the desktop support person re-image the machine. This approach did lead to plenty of problems, lost user data, etc. But, if […]