Lengthy Boot Time Vista Issues Taken to Court
The interesting thing is that it is not Microsoft that is in trouble, but the companies that use the Windows Vista operating system on their employees’ machines. It turns out that the employees of said companies spend prolonged amounts of time just waiting for the OS to boot and shut down; this has lead them to ask for overtime; when the companies refused to pay for overtime, the employees sued....

Internet Explorer 8 RC1 for PCs in 2009, Troubled IE 6 for Smartphone Users
Now that the second Beta version of Internet Explorer 8 has been out for almost two months and that support for the software has been extended until the end of the year, Microsoft has come out and announced what it plans to do with its browser in 2009....

Moonlight Beta, the Microsoft Flash equivalent for Linux users
Microsoft is really not taking it easy at all on Adobe and their Flash player. Proof of that are the recent announcements that 2009 will debut with a third installment of Silverlight, and that Microsoft will continue its collaboration with Novell in order to further develop an open-source Silverlight equivalent that can be used by users running the Firefox browser on their Linux powered machines....

Gmail Themes, Google Gives its Mail Client a Facelift
The days when you had to rely on your own programming skills to come up with a Gmail skin are now over, we are glad to report. Google has made some minor changes to its Gmail client (small color changes and pixel shifts) and it also added a cool new feature, Gmail Themes....

Mac OS X in the Crosshairs of another Trojan
Mac OS X systems from Apple, besides being some of the most efficient operating systems around are also considered to be very safe. Even though this operating system is pretty much bulletproof, there are some Trojans out there, such as the OSX.Lamzev.A, that try to break through the defenses and infect the system....

Silverlight 3, the Future of Flash Extermination
The final version of Silverlight 2, or the Flash killer as some like to call it, was made available to the general public a little over a month ago, on the 14th of October to be more precise. Microsoft is now planning another Silverlight release, Silverlight 3, which is due to come out some time next year....

Early 2009 Release for the Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6
Jordan Hubbard, director of engineering of Unix Technologies with Apple, during a Mac OS X presentation at the Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA for short) has unwittingly revealed to the whole world that the upcoming Snow Leopard operating system will drop within the first quarter of 2009....

Advanced Screen Action Capture with liteCam 2.9
There are times when you need to record what you do on a computer, for example when you want to provide someone with a very comprehensive tutorial. Although I will admit there are several software applications that will let you perform a video recording of your actions, the thing that makes liteCam 2.9 stand out of the screencast software crowd is that it will let you record everything....

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