Stories by Gregg Keizer

Analyst: Apple making smart moves with next OS, Snow Leopard

Apple has delivered another pre-release build of Snow Leopard, its next operating system, that includes developer tools to mimic the iPhone's location-sensing skills and boost the multi-touch function of the company's laptops, according to reports on the Web.

By Gregg Keizer | 09 February, 2009 09:14

Tags: snow leopard

MS cites 'click fatigue' for Windows 7 security change

Microsoft changed the default settings of one of its most important security features for Windows 7 because users balked at clicking more than two prompts a day, a company executive said Thursday.

By Gregg Keizer | 06 February, 2009 08:54

Tags: Microsoft, Windows 7

Identity thieves beat Obama to stimulus package punch

Although the US government's economic stimulus package hasn't even gotten out of Congress, scammers aren't waiting; they've launched multiple campaigns that tempt users into revealing personal information, a security researcher warned Thursday.

By Gregg Keizer | 06 February, 2009 09:26

Tags: identity theft

Removing admin rights stymies 92% of Microsoft's bugs

Nine of out 10 critical bugs reported by Microsoft last year could have been made moot, or at least made less dangerous, if people ran Windows without administrative rights, a developer of enterprise rights management software claimed Tuesday.

By Gregg Keizer | 05 February, 2009 08:33

Tags: bugs

Mozilla patches critical Firefox flaws

Mozilla Corp. has patched seven security vulnerabilities in Firefox, two of them labeled "critical," in the browser's first update for 2009.

By Gregg Keizer | 05 February, 2009 08:19

Tags: Firefox

Microsoft to offer XP-to-Windows 7 upgrades

Microsoft Tuesday confirmed that it will sell what it calls "upgrades" for Windows 7 to users running the aged Windows XP operating system.

By Gregg Keizer | 04 February, 2009 12:10

Tags: Windows 7, xp

Microsoft revs up 'Fix it' support tool

Microsoft has ramped up a new Windows support assistant nearly three months after it quietly debuted the automatic repair and configuration tool.

By Gregg Keizer | 04 February, 2009 09:03

Tags: Windows

MS to shove XP toward retirement with upcoming support shift

In 10 weeks, Microsoft will begin to retire Windows XP by shifting the seven-year-old OS into a more limited support plan.

By Gregg Keizer | 04 February, 2009 09:14

Tags: windows xp

Microsoft's IE loses more share, slides to new low

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) again lost market share last month, although at a slower rate than the previous two-month stretch, but still ended at a new low of 67.6% as rivals continued to steal users, a Web metrics firm reported Sunday.

By Gregg Keizer | 03 February, 2009 08:11

Tags: Firefox, Google, Microsoft, chrome, IE, mozilla

Windows 7, Mac OS X gain market share

Although the beta of Windows 7 quickly grabbed one-tenth of 1% of the operating system market share last month, Microsoft's OS continued its downward trend, a Web measurement company reported Sunday.

By Gregg Keizer | 03 February, 2009 09:00

Tags: Windows 7, operating systems market

Microsoft warns that Vista, XP upgrade blockers will expire

Microsoft is warning customers that tools for blocking automatic upgrades to the newest service packs of Windows Vista and Windows XP will expire in the coming months.

By Gregg Keizer | 02 February, 2009 10:58

Tags: windows xp

Microsoft: Next step for Windows 7 is a release candidate

The head of Microsoft's Windows development confirmed Friday that Windows 7 will take the unusual path of moving straight from a single beta, which was launched earlier this month, to a release candidate.

By Gregg Keizer | 02 February, 2009 11:19

Tags: Windows 7

Mozilla delays Firefox 3.1 again

Mozilla has delayed the third beta of Firefox 3.1 for the second time this month, a company executive said Thursday, citing troublesome bugs in the browser's new JavaScript engine as the reason.

By Gregg Keizer | 30 January, 2009 07:55

Tags: firefox 3.1, mozilla

Microsoft delivers Vista SP2 RC to testers, reports say

Microsoft has delivered a preliminary release candidate for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) to testers and is again on track to offer another public preview next month, according to several reports on the Web.

By Gregg Keizer | 30 January, 2009 06:04

Tags: Windows Vista, Microsoft

Fannie Mae engineer indicted for planting server bomb

A former Unix engineer for the US Federal National Mortgage Association, better known as Fannie Mae, has been accused of planting malicious code on the corporation's network that was to "destroy and alter" all of the data on the company's servers this Saturday, court documents show.

By Gregg Keizer | 30 January, 2009 08:12

Tags: fannie mae, security

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