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Windows Vista Google Alerts for 28 August 2008Yesterday

Google News Alert for: windows vista

How do I enable CTRL + ALT + DELETE in Windows Vista?
TechRepublic - Louisville,KY,USA
In this post, Steven S. Warren shows you how to bring the CTRL + ALT + Delete out of extinction in Windows Vista. Did you like using the CTRL - ALT - DELETE …
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Voicemails can be saved on audiotape
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
Q. I’m trying to use my old HP Inkjet 1200 printer with my new laptop that uses Windows Vista, but the computer will not accept the printer’s CD that …
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How Windows Vista is turning people to Linux
iTWire - Australia
One reason for this is, with equal certainty, the mess that is Windows Vista. Here’s how it’s actively driving new interest in Linux. …
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IE8 Beta 2 InPrivate Feature DetailsYesterday

InPrivate

With today’s release of IE8 Beta 2, one of the more prominent features that has been discussed over the last few days is InPrivate browsing.

I have just finished perusing this feature myself and reading the info the Windows help file about it and was surprised to learn that this is not anonymous surfing – in other words it does not hide your identity/location from the sites you visit like typical anonymous surfing does.  Here is exactly what InPrivate browsing is not from the help file:

What InPrivate Browsing doesn’t do

  • While InPrivate Browsing keeps other people who might be using your computer from seeing what you visited on the web, it does not prevent someone on your network—such as a network administrator or hacker—from seeing where you went.

  • InPrivate Browsing does not necessarily provide you with anonymity on the Internet. That means that websites might be ab

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ReleasedAugust 27

ie8beta

Microsoft and the IE8 team have announced the released of IE8 Beta 2 – this one is geared towards the consumers now instead of just developers like Beta 1 was.  This one has not only got all the bugs from the Beta 1 taken care of but they have added a few new features as well as enhancing some others:

Web Slices

InPrivate Browsing

Compatibility View

Smart Screen Filter

Accelerators

Search Suggestions

Windows Vita Google Alerts for 27 August 2008August 27

Google News Alert for: windows vista

Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing front
ZDNet - USA
Whether you think — from a technology standpoint — Windows Vista finally is the product it should have been when Microsoft released it to manufacturing in …
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Mini PC comes with Windows Vista Home Premium pre-installed.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room - New York,NY,USA
… Radeon HD 4850 graphics card, 4 GB DDR2-800 memory, 1 TB SATA2 hard disk, DVD writer and with Windows Vista Home Premium operating system pre-installed. …
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Don’t listen to the doom-sayers on Vista
Techworld.com - London,UK
By Eric Lai, Computerworld (US online) Twenty-one months after its initial release, what do we know about Windows Vista ? That home users hate it, …
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Windows Vista Google Alerts for 26 August 2008August 26

Google News Alert for: windows vista

‘Blackouts’ for users of pirated Windows
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
“Why isn’t it also targeting users who have pirated copies of Windows Vista?” “So if I’m using a pirated copy of Vista at this time, I won’t be hassled? …
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Filling in the gaps in Windows Vista/Server 2008
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
My top eight Vista/Server 2008 utilities I simply cannot live without (at least until Windows 7 fixes everything). We all have them. …
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To Sell Online Software, Firms Must Employ Old-School Tactics
Wall Street Journal - USA
s Windows Vista operating system is starting to pick up, according to a study released Friday by Forrester Research. The evidence: From October 2007 to June …