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Microsoft: Vista feature designed to ‘annoy users’

Friday, April 11th, 2008

By way of the User Account Control feature, company set out to force independent software vendors to make their code more secure, says manager. SAN FRANCISCO–A Microsoft manager has said that one of the security features in Vista was deliberately designed to “annoy users” to put pressure on…
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Week in review: Teaming up against Google

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Microsoft offers to buy struggling Yahoo for $44.6 billion to better compete against Google. Also: Vista’s one-year anniversary. The fight for Internet dominance heated up this week with Microsoft offering to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in an effort to better compete with chief rival Google. “Today,…
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Poll: Businesses in U.S. warm to Vista

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Almost half IT decision makers are using or evaluating the OS, and 35 percent are in the process of migration, a CDW poll shows. Adoption of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system is starting to pick up among businesses in the U.S. Just under half–48 percent–of IT decision…
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0 comments | CDW Corp., Vista Migration, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Tim Ferguson, Software |

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