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It’s no secret that when you buy a new computer today you have no choice but to get it with Windows Vista; unless you buy a Mac or buy/build a Linux System. For the most part, the average consumer will buy a computer and most of those will head out to the nearest retailer buy an off-the-shelf desktop or laptop which will have Vista on it.This is to Microsoft’s advantage as it allows them to push Vista sales up and really doesn’t offer anyone a choice but this is the way things have always been since Windows 95; perhaps since Windows 3.1. Those of you who want to reminisce about the DOS days feel free to debate amongst yourselves, I wasn’t old enough at the time to remember enough about it nor do I feel like digging into 25 years worth of archives to debate every aspect of it.
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Rumors of Windows XP’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. I wrote about Dell’s downgrade program in a post earlier this week . It looks like Dell may have started something. Both HP and Lenovo now plan to offer Windows XP to business customers after Microsoft’s official cut-off date of June 30.
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Zero-Day Vulnerability Reported in Apple’s QuickTime for Windows XP and Vista
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GNUCitizen, a computer security consultancy, on Friday warned of a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s QuickTime media player for Windows XP and Windows Vista. “A remote vulnerability exists in the QuickTime player for Windows XP and Vista (latest service packs),” said company founder Petko D. Petkov in a blog post. “An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted QuickTime supported media file that allows remote code execution if a user visited a malicious Web site, opened a specially crafted attachment in e-mail, or opened a maliciously crafted media file from the desktop.”
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