Posts Tagged Microsoft
The future of gaming is OpenGL
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News, Linux, Open Source on March 11th, 2010
As a Linux user and Open Source enthusiast I always want to see people moving away from the proprietary stuff and into the Open Source world, but sometimes it’s easier to keep them where they are (stuck to Windows), specially when it comes to gaming. I am not a gamer, and would rather spend my [...]
Linux ClearOS to rival Microsoft’s SBS
Microsoft has dominated the small enterprise market with its out of the box feature rich SBS (Small Business Server). Linux has always trailed behind it and although most of the technology to rival Microsoft has been in place, it has always been a mammoth task to setup a server from scratch to do that. ClearOS [...]
Microsoft’s attempt to bribe its way to the top
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News on December 11th, 2009
Once again Microsoft is showing it’s dirty claws. According to a report in the Financial Times (also mentioned in the KPMRS Blog), Microsoft is planing to offer to pay publishers to remove their content from Google in an attempt to make its search engine Bing (no link on purpose) the #1 search engine.
According to [...]
Open .eps files on GIMP for Windows
Posted by ITechLog in Easy Tips, Open Source on September 18th, 2009
As usual this post is a self help note, but as it’s public I hope it helps someone else. If you want to open .eps or .ps files with GIMP on Windows you will need to install Ghostscript (download it from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/). After successful installation you will need to create an environment variable called GS_PROG [...]
Microsoft Security patches June 09
Microsoft has released its latest security bulletins covering 31 security vulnerabilities. In a total of 10 bulletins 5 turned out as critical, the highest security rating by Microsoft. See details below:
(extracted from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-jun.mspx)
MS08-018 (Critical): Fixes two privately reported vulnerabilities in implementations of Active Directory on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003, and [...]
Windows 7 RC available now
The Release Candidate for Windows 7 is now available to the public. Their servers have been struggling to deal with the demand of downloads according to the ZDnet website. There has been a lot of talk about Windows 7 being the OS that will release Microsoft of the embarrassment of Vista, it’s said to look [...]
IE 8 is ready
Microsoft plans to release today the “final” version of Internet Explorer 8. It won’t be added to Windows update yet but the curious IE user will be able to download it from the official IE website once it’s been released. Officials have said that there are only a few changes between the (RC) version and [...]
Microsoft Security patch for IE
Microsoft has released the security patch for Internet Explorer for all supported Operating Systems. This is an emergency patch as reports of a new secrity hole was found on IE 7. Microsoft says in its official security bulletin:
“This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user [...]
