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Man I would live to win one of these 50 Magical HP GiveawaysNovember 28

Hey everyone, want to make your Christmas special? Enter the HP Magic Giveaway Contest on Gearlive.com and get the chance to win 4 computers and accessories you can share with family and friends or give to a charity you have in mind. :)

Some persons Christmas will be very special this year!

Here is a list of the prizes:

HP TouchSmart IQ816 – Windows 7, Windows 7, Windows 7!
HP HDX18 Premium Notebook PC
HP Pavilion dv4 Entertainment Notebook PC
HP Mini 1000 (Windows XP)
HP MediaSmart Connect
HP Photosmart C6380 Wireless All-in-One printer
HP

CNET: Microsoft ranked fifth worst spam service ISPNovember 25

Quote: Microsoft is listed fifth in the Top 10 list of the worst spam service ISPs compiled by Spamhaus.org.

Spammers are advertising links to sites that "peddle fake pharmacy products, porn, and Nigerian 419 scams" on Microsoft's Live.com and Livefilestore.com sites because they know that the Microsoft sites won't get blocked by antispam groups, writes Brian Krebs on his Security Fix Blog at the Washington Post.

Spamhaus has been alerting Microsoft to the problem for some time, but to no avail, Richard Cox, Spamhaus' chief information officer, told Krebs. Other security companies, including McAfee and Marshal, have also been warning about increases in spam and scams on Microsoft-hosted sites.

Read more here

I think I have said all I needed to say about this issue and the evidence is all over my Live Space to prove it.

http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!20273.entry
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!18809.entry

A Look at Windows Backup and Windows Update in 7November 25

Last week we focused on improvements to Windows Live Messenger 9.0 and the next version of Windows Media Player 12. This week we take a look at the improved capabilities in two important utilities that come with Windows 7, Update and Backup. The changes are not particularly overwhelming, but there are some nice additions and rearrangements that make the user experience even more welcoming. Previously I looked at Windows Vista Ultimate's Complete PC Backup feature in a tutorial here. Not much has changed in Windows 7 with the exception of support for Network backups which I will take a look at in this preview article. Lets start off with Windows Backup and Restore Center.

Backup and Restore explorer in Windows 7

E7 Blog – The Windows TaskbarNovember 24

The Windows Team delves into some of the improvements that have been made to the popular Windows Taskbar in Windows 7. Interestingly, the new Touch focused Taskbar’s history goes back as far as Windows 1.0 and the Windows Team has a screenshot that proves it.

Quote: Windows 1.0 supported zoomed (full-screen), tiled and icon (minimized) windows. Since there was no support for overlapping [that big debate between charless and billg, Steven], a dedicated portion of the desktop was kept visible at the bottom of the screen to surface non-tiled and non-zoomed windows. By minimizing a window or dragging it to the bottom of the screen, the person was able to populate this rudimentary taskbar with a large icon corresponding to the running window. She could then get back to this window by clicking or dragging this icon to the desktop. As simple as this mechanism seems today, it cemented an important concept that is with us even in Windows 7—when people switch between tasks, they are really switching between windows. Although it took Windows 95 to introduce a mature taskbar with launching, switching and notification functionality, the experience of surfacing and switching between windows via a dedicated region at the bottom of the screen is as ancient as Windows 1.0.