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Changes to UAC in Vista SP1: Much less than meets the eye

A video is making the rounds showing how Vista SP1 has significantly improved Vista's immensely annoying User Account Control (UAC). But there appears to be less to the improvement than meets the eye --- hardly any changes were made to UAC in SP1, and it remains a very big Vista annoyance. I've got details in my blog.

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Global News Update: Friday, May 16, 2008

In today's podcast: Yahoo responds to Icahn; OLPC puts Windows XP on the XO laptop; and Sharp reveals fuel-cell prototype.

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Microhoo: ready... PROXY FIGHT!

It's IT Blogwatch: in which billionaire investor Carl Icahn starts a proxy fight to restart the Microsoft/Yahoo merger talks. Not to mention a bizarre German street performer...

Juan Carlos Perez reports:

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I mess with Microsoft's Manos, he messes with me...

"Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with him," says Robert De Niro, playing gangster Al Capone in one of my favorite movies, The Untouchables. That line popped into my head while reading Mike Manos' vigorous, occasionally-mulish rebuttal to my article last week with, admittedly, the rather provocative title, '6 reasons why Microsoft's container-based approach to data centers won't work' (and, yes, the even more goading kicker, 'Are you listening, Microsoft?')

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OpenOffice 3 review: Who needs Microsoft Office?

I've just put the beta of OpenOffice 3 through its paces, and found that the office suite can do just about anything that Microsoft Office can do, supports a wide variety of formats...and, of course, is free. Given all that, who needs Microsoft Office? Check out my blog for details and screenshots.

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Bill Gates shows CEOs how to waste research money

KOS, GREECE -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates showed off a Microsoft Research project at his annual CEO Summit today called TouchWall.

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The Philadelphia Experiment

Earthlink partnership with Philly crashes and burns, defeated by mocha lattes and Big Macs

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Why Mac OS isn't the best OS around

When I recently explained one of the many reasons why I prefer desktop Linux to Windows, even over my favorite desktop Windows, XP SP3, I got a lot of people telling me I was full of hooey because I barely even mentioned Mac OS X.

Good enough, here's my take on Apple's Mac OS X.

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The best Outlook add-in --- ever

I'm a long-time Outlook user, and I've tried more add-ins than I care to count. I just started using a free one called Xobni, and I'm here to report it's the best add-in I've ever tried. This is one of the few that actually delivers, and does it in a big way. I've got details in my blog.

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The best desktop OS is...

Dear me. Just because I recently talked about Windows XP SP3's virtues and vices, some people seem to think I've turned away from my beloved Linux systems. Nope, I'm still a rock-solid Linux desktop user.

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Microsoft tries to squash Linux on ultra-portables

Worried about the explosive growth of Linux on inexpensive, ultra-portable PCs like the Asus Eee PC, Microsoft has launched a campaign to offer Windows XP at steep discounts to makers of low-cost portables. Insider documents reveal that Microsoft is also trying to make sure those portables don't become so powerful that they cannibalize sales from higher-end Windows PCs.

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Fixing the XP SP3 reboot blues

What can I say? For me, XP SP3 was the cat's meow, the best Windows client operating system ever. But, for other people 'upgrading' to XP SP 3 is like being fed to a roaring lion.

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OpenOffice 3.0 beta arrives

Oooh, it's IT Blogwatch: in which OpenOffice.org 3.0 breaks cover, to delight and frustrate in equal measure. Not to mention two new entries for the Uxbridge English Dictionary...

Peter Cohen reports:

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What a pretty mess: a botnet map

Security people can talk until they're blue in the face about the dangers of unsecured Windows PCs and how they can be used in botnets. Does anyone listen?

Well, it sure doesn't seem like it some days. Perhaps this Botnet map from CSO will help get the message across.

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Report: Apple is at the bottom of the environmental barrel

Apple may be the darling of the hipper-than-thou crowd, but when it comes to climate change, it has one of the worse environmental records of any tech company, according to a new survey. Microsoft beats it by a considerable margin, and IBM is best of all the techs. I have all the results in my blog.

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