Tag: Microsoft
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Naksujousi
Onnistuin hankkimaan koneeseeni vakoilu- ja mainosohjelman asentajan, joka ei lähde, ei sitten millään. Oma vikani, mitäs menin avaamaan sen PIF-tiedoston sokkona. Haksahduin siihen, koska luulin sitä kuvatiedostoksi, jollaiseksi se IRC-URLs.netissä oli luokiteltu.
No, edellisestä Windowsin uudelleenasennnuksesta onkin jo vierähtänyt hyvä tovi. Lähteepähän saman tien kaikki ylimääräinen karsta jota levylle on kertynyt.
Uusinta Ubuntuakin ajattelin taas kokeilla.
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Microsoft, Novell Reach Accord on Linux
“Microsoft Corp. reached a rapprochement with a major seller of the Linux operating system, a deal that makes a kind of peace between two opposing camps in the software industry. The deal with Novell Inc. is designed to make it easier for customers to use both Linux and Microsoft’s Windows software. […]
The deal effectively makes Microsoft a reseller of Suse Linux, Novell’s version of the operating system, and kicks off a broad technology collaboration between the two companies. At the heart of the deal is a ‘patent covenant’ under which Microsoft agreed not to file patent-infringement charges against users of Suse Linux, and Novell agreed not to sue users of Windows.”
Ohjelmistojätti Microsoft ryhtyy tukemaan Windowsin ja Linuxin rinnakkaiskäyttöä. Yhtiö on allekirjoittanut sopimuksen Linuxia jakelevan Novellin kanssa. […] Yhtiöt ryhtyvät myös kehittämään yhdessä käyttöjärjestelmien rinnakkaiskäyttöä helpottavia ohjelmistoratkaisuja. Lisäksi Microsoft ei perää patenttioikeuksiaan sellaisten ohjelmistoratkaisujen osalta, joista tullaan mahdollisesti liittämään Suse Linuxiin.
Yle24 via Juha
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Customizing toolbars in IE7
Via T. Schreiner: In order to bring the menu to the top, you need to adjust or set (if it isn’ there, which, by default, it isn’t) the following registry key to a DWORD value 1 (00000001):
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser].Via enhanceIE.com (via jsalpha2): To make the search box disappear, you need to adjust or set
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\InfoDelivery\Restrictions]to a DWORD value 1 (00000001). For my SP2 level XP installation, all the keys fromMicrosoft\onwards had to be created (i.e. the rest of the path wasn’t there by default).As for the rest of it… well, apparently there’s just no way of removing or even moving the other buttons for favorites’ manipulation and so on. (Yes, I know that if you unlock the toolbar, you can push it to the side, but you can’t chop it off it’s position and move it to, say, the other side of the tab bar, let alone moving it vertically.)
Wait a minute, you need to tweak the registry in order to customize IE7 toolbars to your liking, and even then you don’t get all that you want?!
You’ve got to be kidding me.
The GUI customization in IE7 is a joke compared to… well, I guess pretty much any other modern browser. Thank goodness there are better alternatives. (I’ll skip the cliché of linking to Firefox or Opera her… d’oh!)
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Internet Explorer 7 vulnerability discovered
A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information. […] Secunia has confirmed the vulnerability on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2. Other versions may also be affected.
Secunia via Tietoviikko
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IE 7 for XP Released
Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie.
The Finnish version is still lagging at RC1 while writing this.
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Zune’s Big Innovation: Viral DRM
“While Zune users will be able share music with friends, there’s a catch […]. [The recipients] of shared songs will only be able to listen to them three times or for three days, whichever comes first. […]
Zune accomplishes this amazingly stupid feat by wrapping shared music in a proprietary layer of DRM, regardless of what format the original content may be in. […] What Microsoft has created is a new form of viral DRM. Zune will intentionally infect your music with the DRM virus before passing it along to one of your friends. After three listens the poor song dies a horrible DRM enabled death. Talk about innovation.”