True Insight » Microsoft http://www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog Commentary on Today's Digital Culture Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:21:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Vista SP2 http://www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog/2009/05/27/vista-sp2/ http://www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog/2009/05/27/vista-sp2/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 16:34:48 +0000 Brett Edgar http://www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog/?p=225 So Vista SP2 is now available to the masses.  I’ve downloaded it and am in the process of installing it.  So far no problems, but it is claiming that my machine may reboot several times and the total installation time may be 1 hour or more.  Here’s hoping the upgrade goes smoothly and I still have full functionality when the process completes…I’ll post my results here later today.

]]> http://www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog/2009/05/27/vista-sp2/feed/ 0 Microsoft Attempting to Assassinate Google? http://www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog/2009/05/21/microsoft-attempting-to-assassinate-google/ http://www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog/2009/05/21/microsoft-attempting-to-assassinate-google/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 20:55:08 +0000 Brett Edgar http://www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog/?p=219 Microsoft appears set to display a new version of its search engine early next week.  The boys in Redmond have been scratching their heads trying to compete with the behemoth that is Google for the past few years.  Looks like this may be their latest attempt at assassination.

Sometimes I feel bad for Microsoft.  They have to compete with both Google and Apple.  Then I remember all the unfair things Microsoft has done to stifle competition in the past and I stop feeling bad.

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