Top 10 Absolute Worst Windows Applications in 2007
Think Windows Vista is bad? Well, the fact of the matter is that is largely a subjective perspective that is little open to dispute. However, when it comes down to what users can integrate with the operating system, the situation is a tad more severe.
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5.11.2007 Microsoft's worst nightmare - choices
There have been a couple of leaks of late in the ongoing Microsoft antitrust trial in the European Union that could spell bad news for the Softies if they’re true.
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8.6.2009 One of the worst operating system experiences ever encountered
VIRTUAL MICROSOFT employee, columnist Gary Krakow, says installing Vista Beta 2, "was one of the worst operating system experiences that I?ve ever encountered."
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26.5.2006 Will My Applications Work on Windows Vista?
One of the big concerns of anyone considering moving to Windows Vista is? How many of my applications will work on Windows Vista?
We have spent a lot of time trying to answer that very question for our company so I will share with you some of the common problem areas we found for applications to help give you an idea of what applications might have problems for you.
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8.1.2006 Windows 7 Context-Aware Applications
According to Microsoft, Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, will be designed to support context-aware applications. The Redmond giant is even cooking an application programming interface to enable the development of context-aware programs for the next iteration of Windows.
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27.9.2008 Zune HD applications confirmed
It's been debated for some time as to whether or not the Zune HD will feature apps, similar to its competitor, Apple's iPod touch; many people expected the more logical solution, that it would, though it had yet to be confirmed by Microsoft itself.
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23.8.2009 Attackers switching to applications, media players
Online criminals shifted their attacks in 2005 from operating systems such as Windows to media players and software programs, according to a study released Tuesday.
Among the software programs under attack are antivirus software, according to the SANS Institute, a nonprofit research group based in Bethesda, Md.
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22.11.2005 Only 104 Applications Certified for Windows Vista
Microsoft on Wednesday posted a page listing 787 applications that have been tested on Windows Vista, thus far only 104 applications have received certification, most of them being Microsoft's own applications along with companies like Ahead, Cyberlink and Trend Micro to name a few.
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22.2.2007 TrayIt - Keep Running Applications Under System Tray
Release candidate for Version 4 of TrayIt! is finally out. It has an improved graphical interface and usability and also supports a lot of new features like window grouping, and support for SDI-type application like MS Excel or PowerPoint.
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2.3.2009 Ultimately, Touch Will Make the Killer Windows 7 Applications
Undoubtedly it is the ecosystem of third-party software solutions that make Windows the platform that it is today, sharing the operating system's success.
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12.11.2008 Microsoft starts Windows Vista Media Center Beta applications
Microsoft recently began surveying current beta testers of Windows Vista to see which testers qualify for an upcoming Windows Vista Media Center Beta. The survey, which only current Vista testers can take, is located at Microsoft Connect.
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Vista to Windows 7 Upgrades Kill Access to OEM Recovery Applications
Users that upgrade Windows Vista OEM computers to Windows 7 might find that the recovery applications set in place by the original equipment manufacturer are no longer accessible.
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9.10.2009 All Windows 7 Software Applications Will Also Support Windows 7 x64 Bit
While Microsoft will release the Alpha Version of Windows 7 Logo Testing Kit on April 14th-- we already know a few of Microsoft's official requirements!
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13.4.2009Microsoft's worst run project: Windows 2000
Microsofts Iain McDonald,
director of project management
for Windows Server, says the
worst run project at the
software giant was Windows
2000.
That tidbit
comes from an
interview
Mary Jo Foley just posted.
To folks that arent
familiar with the intricacies
of Microsoft this revelation
is a bit of a stunner. Was
Windows 2000 really a worse
run project than Vista, which
had a do-over in the middle of
the project? Windows ME? That
couldnt have been so hot. When
you ponder all of Microsofts
worst hits“and the projects
behind them“Windows 2000
doesnt instantly register. In
fact, Ed Bott gave Windows
2000 a 9 on a 10 scale in his
rating of Windows versions...
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04.07.2007Top 10 worst IT disasters of all time
Following the loss of the personal records of some 25 million child benefit recipients by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs this month, the UK
government will be acutely aware of how quickly mismanagement of technology can lead to serious problems. While technology wasn't to blame per se
in the HMRC data loss, there are plenty of recorded examples where faulty hardware and software have cost the organisations concerned dearly, both
financially and in terms of reputation -- and resulted in some near misses for the public.
Here's our considered list of some of the
worst IT-related disasters and failures. The order is subjective -- with number one being the worst -- so feel free to comment using the Talkback
facility below if you disagree or have suggestions for disasters we may have missed.
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23.11.2007UK Illegal downloads: which ISP's customers are the worst?
New research has shown that the customers of just three of Britain's leading ISPs are responsible for more than 60% of illegal downloads.
Internet intelligence firm, Envisional, has been tracking music torrent downloads for the past couple of months, analysing the IP address of
those downloading and uploading content and matching it to their ISP.
The company traced more than 28,000 unique IP addresses in June
alone and found that 22.6% of them were Carphone Warehouse customers, with 21.6% from Virgin Media and 21.2% from BT.
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01.08.2008Plugged In: Microsoft Office
Opens Up?
Plus: TiVo recordings on
iPods, and Amazon's
worst-paying job...
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29.12.2005Safari and Chrome: Tied For the Worst Password Manager
Safari and Chrome are
tied for the worst password manager built into a major Web browser
according to a new study on the issue produced by Chapin Information Services. One problem is that some password managers can be tricked into
submitting different password credentials to different parts of the same Web site. The bug has been fixed in Firefox, but Chrome and Safari are still
vulnerable to this kind of attack.
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15.12.2008Microsoft security group makes 'worst jobs' list
What do whale-feces
researchers, hazmat divers,
and employees of Microsoft's
Security Response Center have
in common? They all made
Popular Science magazine's
2007 list of the absolute
worst jobs in science.
Popular Science has been
compiling the list since 2003,
as "a way to celebrate the
crazy variety of jobs that
there are in science," said
Michael Moyer, the magazine's
executive editor. Past
entrants have included
barnyard masturbator, Kansas
biology teacher, and U.S.
Metric system advocate.
Moyer said Microsoft's
Security Response Center
(MSRC) made the grade this
year because the job is just
so hard and thankless. "It's
one of those classic jobs,
which isn't gross or
dangerous in any way, but the
overwhelmingness of the task
at hand makes it so daunting
that only the most intrepid
would venture there." ..
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27.06.2007Firefox 3 Getting A Visual Makeover
Software isnt just about functionality anymore, users want brains and beauty. And beauty, as we know, is in the eye of the beholder, which is why the
team behind Firefox 3 plans to ditch the unified cross-platform look of the browser in favor of a sexier look tailored to specific operating systems.
Rather than a single look across all platforms, which is the way Firefox currently ships, Firefox 3 will feature different skins for Windows XP,
Windows Vista, Mac OS X and various Linux distributions. Alex Faaborg, Mozilla’s interface designer, posted a note on his blog yesterday about
the divergent themes coming for Firefox 3. Echoing the sentiments of many a Mac Firefox user, Faaborg writes, “personally I think a unified
cross platform UI results in applications that at best feel foreign everywhere, and at worst don’t even feel like real applications.”
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21.10.2007CES 2006: Picks and Pans
From head-turning audio
players to high-tech fitness
trainers and bizarre celebrity
sightings, here's the best
and worst of this year's
show...
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09.01.2006Laptop Mag Determines Acer, Dell and HP Have the Worst Tech Support
Laptop magazine went through the painstaking
process of calling the tech support of every major notebook manufacturer. And they timed their waits before asking one of two very basic questions.
The results may not surprise you.
Apple scored the highest with an A overall (that's a combined score of online and phone tech
support). HP, Acer and Dell tied for lowest with C- each.
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07.08.2009Qualcomm gives the first hints of a market battle with OLPC
With Europe, North America, and Japan facing some of the worst economic conditions in decades, manufacturers are looking to China and Southeast Asia
for shelter. Now, a connectivity provider says it has a plan...
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12.11.2008Report: Q4 PC shipment growth worst since 2002
Research company
Gartner has released its analysis
of the PC industry for the fourth quarter of 2008, finding that PC shipment growth was the worst since 2002. Just over 78 million units were shipped,
marking an increase of just 1.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007. Aside from the number of devices, companies took an even larger hit when
comparing revenue. Contributing factors included falling average selling prices and the expansion of lower-priced segments such as netbooks.
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15.01.2009Karaoke to become a keynote beta feature of MySpace
In what could either be described as the next innovation in two-way media streaming or Simon Cowell's worst nightmare made real, the world's leading
social network site is launching a karaoke service...
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30.04.2008Microsoft ranked fifth worst spam service ISP
Microsoft is listed fifth in the Top 10 list of the worst spam service ISPs compiled by
Spamhaus.org.
Spammers are advertising links to sites that
"peddle fake pharmacy products, porn, and Nigerian 419 scams" on Microsoft's Live.com and Livefilestore.com sites because they know that the
Microsoft sites won't get blocked by antispam groups, writes Brian Krebs on his
Security Fix Blog at the Washington
Post .
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26.11.2008AMD confirms 10% workforce cut, declining outlook
The worst is not over by a long shot for AMD. This afternoon, the company confirmed it would have to make very painful cuts, the repercussions of
which are already being felt in terms of declining revenues...
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08.04.2008PS3 Sales Dropping in Japan
There is increasing evidence
worldwide that sales of the
PlayStation 3 are beginning to
slow significantly. A firm
says sales of the console in
Japan this past week were the
worst since launch...
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19.01.2007Desperate for an edge, Yahoo adds a 'Plus' to its 'Open Strategy'
On what could possibly have been the worst possible day for the company to throw a party, yesterday Yahoo lifted the veil on its new suite of
open source services designed to work like browser add-ons...
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19.11.2008Amid a gloomy day for the economy, financial sites band together
As Wall Street wades through what former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Sunday called the worst events he's seen in his career by far,
new sites dedicated to financial and business communications have launched...
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16.09.2008SanDisk juggles its assets in advance of NAND flash downturn
In the latest indication that manufacturers are bracing themselves for the worst, the leading provider of flash memory cards for countries including
the US is reducing its stake in two key factories where NAND flash is made...
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20.10.2008Top 10 IT disasters of all time
Following the loss of the personal records of some 25 million child benefit recipients by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs this month, the UK
government will be acutely aware of how quickly mismanagement of technology can lead to serious problems.
While technology
wasn't to blame per se in the
HMRC data loss, there
are plenty of recorded examples where faulty hardware and software have cost the organisations concerned dearly, both financially and in terms of
reputation and resulted in some near misses for the public.
Here's our considered list of some of the worst IT-related
disasters and failures. The order is subjective with number one being the worst so feel free to comment using the Talkback facility below if you
disagree or have suggestions for disasters we may have missed.
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23.11.2007Cisco Addresses Wi-Fi Security Issues
A host of wireless
vulnerabilities have been
patched in several Cisco
devices, the company revealed
Thursday in two separate
advisories. The worst of the
issues could allow an attacker
to gain full control of a
network, the company says...
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