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Comment Re: Old enough to remember (Score 2) 51

by dioscaido on Saturday October 28, 2023 @02:01PM (#63961881) Attached to: Intel CEO Dismisses 'Pretty Insignificant' Arm PC Challenge

MS is all in on ARMâ¦ Theyâ(TM)ve released an ARM64 native Office and Edge. Windows 11 has an x64 emulator in ARM with wicked performance to cover the gaps in the app space. The latest Surface offers the same Surface branded laptop with ARM chips (unlike the Pro X which stood out). Theyâ(TM)ve also brought ARM into Azure.

Comment Uh, Azure HCI? (Score 2) 35

by dioscaido on Saturday October 28, 2023 @01:53PM (#63961861) Attached to: Oxide Launches the World's First 'Commercial' Cloud Computer

Worlds first what? https://azure.microsoft.com/en...

Comment Re:Good idea, bad implementation (Score 1) 571

by dioscaido on Saturday April 12, 2008 @12:08PM (#23047190) Attached to: Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users

One year in, most big applications have updated to support limited users. And apparently only ~12% of users turn off UAC. It seems to be working.

I agree the burden of app compat on Windows is a major roadblock to having a clean OS, but this burden is enforced by the market, not just made up by Microsoft. And clearly UAC avoids an unecessarily abrupt break in app compat. Outside of Slashdot, where valid technical concerns exist around DRM, perf, and other areas, the biggest complaints around Vista in the main stream relate to application and driver compatibility issues. If Vista is a disaster now, it clearly would have been an epic disaster if they opted against UAC and instead broke all compatibility without workarounds.

A Bad Month for Firefox 195

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday February 24, 2007 @10:06AM from the and-its-bugs dept.

marty writes "Februrary is not a good month for Mozilla developers. Infoworld reports about the efforts of Polish researcher Michael Zalewski, who apparently kept finding new vulnerabilities in the popular browser on a daily basis through the month, first postponing the 2.0.0.2 update, and then finding a remotely exploitable flaw in it immediately after its release."

4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot 767

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @08:09PM from the honkin' dept.

jcatcw writes "David Short, an IBM consultant who works in the Global Services Division and has been beta testing Vista for two years, says users should consider 4GB of RAM if they really want optimum Vista performance. With Vista's minimum requirement of 512MB of RAM, Vista will deliver performance that's 'sub-XP,' he says. (Dell and others recommend 2GB.) One reason: SuperFetch, which fetches applications and data, and feeds them into RAM to make them accessible more quickly. More RAM means more caching."

Vista Zero-Day Exploit For Sale 233

Posted by kdawson on Saturday December 16, 2006 @05:02PM from the crack-bazaar dept.

Snakepit Bit writes "Underground hackers are hawking a zero-day exploit for Windows Vista at $50,000 a pop, according to computer security researchers at Trend Micro. The Windows Vista exploit, which has not been independently verified, was just one of many zero-days available for sale at an auction-style marketplace infiltrated by the anti-virus vendor. Prices for exploits for unpatched code execution flaws are in the $20,000 to $30,000 range. Bots and Trojan downloaders that typically hijack Windows machines for use in botnets were being sold for about $5,000." From the article: "According to [Trend Micro CTO Raimund] Genes, the typical price of a destructive exploit has increased dramatically, driving an underground market that could exceed the value of the legitimate security software business. 'I think the malware industry is making more money than the anti-malware industry,' Genes said."

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