Monday, May 11, 2009

Windows 7 First Big Boo-Boo

Windows 7 patches, both fake and real, in the hopper

Microsoft has made available a patch to a Windows 7 bug in the Release Candidate (RC) and is preparing to roll out some “fake” test patches to verify Windows 7’s automatic-updating abilities this week. Microsoft posted on May 8 an update that fixes incorrect access control list (ACL) settings on the root of the system drive in the 32-bit RC version of the product.

15 things you need to know about Windows 7

It has been said by a few that Windows 7 isn't very different from Vista. That assumption, however, would be a mistake. The reality is that Windows 7 is packed with new developments – it's just that most people aren't talking about them.

Sirius XM sticks it to subscribers

The family plan package went from $6.99 to $8.99 a month and there's a monthly $2.99 fee to receive Sirius XM stations over the Internet. That service was previously free.

Wolfram Alpha shows data in a way Google can't

Wolfram Alpha is like a cross between a research library, a graphing calculator, and a search engine. But does Wolfram Research's "computational knowledge engine," set to debut publicly later this month, live up to its hype as a Web site that Google needs to be afraid of?

Top 10 Tiny & Awesome Windows Utilities – Windows

It's the little things that make a Windows system great—like utilities that use less than 10MB of memory to make your life easier. Here are 10 apps that pack a lot of greatness into very little space.

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