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Surfing on the sly with IE8's new "InPrivate" Internet

These new features are part of Microsoft's continuing Trustworthy Computing initiative to ensure that software and websites respect the user's privacy.

I might be a bit paranoid, but shouldn't that read:

These new features are part of Microsoft's continuing Trustworthy Computing initiative to ensure that software and websites must go through Microsoft to get a user's private information.

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In any field, people have heard that its better to spend the time to fix the root cause of a problem than to just address the symptoms. It's not just common sense, but it costs lest in the long run too. You'd think the largest software maker in the world, would have this drummed into their collective brain by now, but you'd be wrong.

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Much like my dad has done, another Windows Vista customer has "upgraded" a Vista machine to Windows XP.  So, I guess the PR Lady was somewhat correct?

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As much as we'd like to bash Microsoft, or whatever software vendor is affected by exploits, the truth is that user behavior also contributes to the poor security on some machines.  Jeff Atwood details his own experience with a PC that was infected because he surfed 1 website with an old version of IE6.

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Sandy passed along Clinton Forbe's "http://clintonforbes.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-amusing-preview-of-windows-vista.html">amusing
preview of Windows Vista.  The more of these I read, the more I come to the conclusion
that Vista is a huge horsepower hog that misses doing the little things right and focuses on making
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You might think that apple is poking fun at windows in this "http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/apple-getamac-security_480x376.mov" class=
"Vista Security">latest Mac advertisement, but you'd be fooling yourself.  But judging by
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News to make any Firefox fan sleep a little easier at night.  While Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)  is being installed more widely, its replacing installations of IE6.  That in and of itself shouldn't be that surprising.

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The register has a piece with Bill Gates talking about the next version of windows, which might be out by the next FIFA world cup. There are two item's I'd like to call your attention to.

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Count me in this group of developers who wish Microsoft would fix their broken Internet Explorer. I also wish all you people out there still running IE 5.5 would upgrade too!

But Zeldman warned against wishful thinking, noting that with hundreds of millions of people using Internet Explorer around the world, it would take more than CSS-savvy developers like him and Microsoft's toolmaker competitors to persuade Microsoft to tend to a battleground it no longer considers contested.

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Looks like Microsoft has given Mozilla, Opera, and other browser makers a small window of opportunity. The recent news leak that that latest IE6 service pack will be the last standalone browser means that if you want to upgrade your browser anytime soon, it won't be IE. ...click to continue reading.