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Since we now know that Microsoft is planning to scuttle the Windows 8 brand sooner than usual by releasing Windows 9 sometime in 2015, I think it’s safe to assume that they have learned a few lessons from the Windows 8 debacle. Well, at least one can hope.
While Windows 8.1 is a vast improvement over Windows 8, many irritants still remain that tend to frustrate seasoned Windows users.
Here are just a few of the lessons that Microsoft surely must have learned by now: [Read more…]
The guys and gals at Microsoft won’t tell you this, but it appears that they’ve grown weary of trying to rehabilitate the miserable reputation of Windows 8. And I believe in hindsight they know that miserable reputation was well-earned.
According to reports coming out of Redmond, Microsoft is planning to announce Windows 9 during the Build 2014 developer conference that’s coming up in April. [Read more…]
It appears that Intel has finally decided they no longer want their brand associated in any way with John McAfee, the multi-millionaire entrepreneur who founded the company behind the original McAfee Antivirus software suite.
Intel bought McAfee Security in 2010, and ever since it has had to deal with one public relations nightmare after another due to the off-the-wall lifestyle that McAfee took up after leaving the company. I won’t go into the details of what Mr. McAfee has done in recent years, but you can read all about him on this page if you’re interested. [Read more…]
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Like most people, I don’t like answering phone calls from numbers which have no caller ID info attached, and the anonymous calls I dislike the most are the ones from toll free numbers.
Personal experience has shown that the majority of calls from anonymous 800 numbers and their ilk are from people that it would probably be wise to avoid (i.e. scammers and shysters).
And trust me, there are a lot of scammers and miscreants out there. [Read more…]
Malware seems to be attacking our computers from every direction these days, but we still tend to take the security of the world’s most trafficked websites as a given. As it turns out, that could be a huge mistake.
According to online security firm Fox IT, hundreds of thousands of visitors to the massive network of Yahoo websites on or around January 3 were served ads that redirected their browsers to websites containing malware. Once on a computer, the malware exploits security holes in the JAVA framework that’s installed on the PC. [Read more…]