Want to test Vista SP1? Anyone can, starting next week by ZDNet‘s Mary Jo Foley As you heard here last week, Microsoft is making the Release Candidate (RC) test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers this week and to the general public the week of December [...]
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With SP1, Microsoft plans to ditch the Vista “kill switch” by ZDNet‘s Ed Bott When SP1 ships sometime in early 2008, it will strip away one of Vista’s most annoying features and remove one of the most persistent objections to Vista’s adoption. Microsoft plans to remove the infamous “kill switch” from Windows Vista when SP1 [...]
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Why is Microsoft watering down WGA on Vista SP1? by ZDNet‘s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Yesterday’s revelation that Microsoft would be watering down Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) in Windows Vista SP1 came as a bit of a surprise to me. Why, if WGA has been so successful in the prevention of piracy, and why if the mechanism [...]
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Microsoft addresses new reports of forced Windows updates and reboots by ZDNet‘s Mary Jo Foley Microsoft has posted a long and complex explanation to its Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) blog, explaining the latest case of why software updates are being pushed to users who believe they’ve turned automatic updating off. Here’s the abridged version [...]
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Microsoft slaps bandaid on IE, MS Word by ZDNet‘s Ryan Naraine Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer browser has undergone a security makeover to correct at least four vulnerabilities that could be used in code execution attacks if a user simply surfs to a maliciously rigged Web page.
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Vista is getting better … slowly by ZDNet‘s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes While there can be no doubt that Vista RTM was buggy and caused some early adopters a lot of headaches, things are now getting better … slowly.
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