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Businesses finally moving to Vista?January 16

It’s been a while, but it seems that maybe, just maybe, business are starting to slowly move to Vista.

While it has been slow going, I was certain that things would trend this way simply because Microsoft products remain the officeplace standard.

We’d be curious to hear from anyone who is currently testing or implementing Vista in their place of work! Has it been a negative or positive experience?

OS X Tiger vs. Vista vs. Ubuntu SecurityNovember 14 2007

Rich recently posted a 15-point comparison of the three operating systems on his blog.

Congrats on a well-written article even if I have some minor disagreements. For example, I find IE7 to be far superior to Firefox in terms of ease-of-use. I’d also agree with a commenter who posits that IE7 in secure mode is safe as houses when run with UAC. It may be annoying as hell, but it’s safe.

I’d also disagree that Mac’s onboard malware protection is any better than Windows Defender. Defender also has added value in that you can work with startup programs and elect to enable or disable specific elements.

Leopard versus VistaNovember 2 2007

Here’s a “serious yet irreverent” look at Mac’s new OS, Leopard, and Windows Vista: here.

Seems that Microsoft isn’t the only shop out there putting out operating systems with major delays and a good portion of the audience not feeling the “wow” factor.