Microsoft
Windows XP is not done yet
Windows XP is still going, the 30th of June was supposed to be the day XP died.
A YEAR AGO Microsoft announced that Windows XP was deader than Elvis Presley and yet for some reason
the operating system appears to still be going strong.
Based upon user complaints, the Vole kept XP going and even found it a new market in the netbook world.
Microsoft will have to convince those XP users that Windows 7 is worth the money. Otherwise some of them
might decide to jump to some of the more friendly XP-ish flavours of Linux instead.
New PC’s will be used for Windows 7
A market research company, has come up with the prophecy that when Windows 7 is released everyone
will rush out and buy a new PC to run it on is based on the idea that there is a lot of pent-up demand for
Windows because companies refused to buy Vista. But will Windows 7 slow the migration to Macs? and
will Windows 7 will have the steepest adoption curve of any new OS release since Windows 95?
Who knows we will cetanly be watching this space.
Windows 7 – Credit Crunching Free for a Year!
Microsoft have effectively given away Windows 7 free for a year with the launch of Release Candidate.
The Release Candidate is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and has gone on unlimited sale.
The software will not expire until 1 June 2010, giving testers more than a year’s free access to Windows 7.
The software includes all the features that will be available in the final version although it has been said that
the software is not the finished product yet and final tests and performance enhancements are still being made.
Windows 7 is due to go one sale in 2010 but some companies have been letting it slip that it will be out by October
2009? Microsoft have stuck to their prevous statements by saying it will not be out until 2010.
Emergency Fix for internet explorer released today
The company says a patch for the web browser will be released today – rather than wait for its regular security update next month.
The flaw was discovered last week and attacks were “spreading like wildfire”, according to software security firm Trend Micro.
“When the patch is released people should run, not walk, to get it installed,” said Trend Micro researcher Paul Ferguson.
“This vulnerability is being actively exploited by cyber-criminals and getting worse every day.”
The security breach allows hackers to gain access to PCs by directing people to infected websites.
Internet security experts say the flaw is dangerous because nothing has to be downloaded for computers to be taken advantage of.
Teams of IT engineers have been working around the clock to deliver a fix for the defect.
Trend Micro believes as many as 10,000 sites have already been compromised to take advantage of the flaw.
John Curran, head of Microsoft’s Windows commercial business group in the UK, said: “Obviously when you are talking about a customer base of over one billion people, any amount of vulnerability is too much and any type of infection is going to see a large number of people affected by it.”
He added the flaw was primarily being exploited in China.