Tales from the Bizarro world


Ed Bott on Vista UAC

Ed Bott contiunes his excellent series of articles on fixing Windows Vista with an article on taming Vista UAC. The UAC is an excellent security feature in my opinion and in daily use I do not see UAC any more often than I would see Leopard’s permission request window so I can’t see the […]

XP3 Pulled From Windows Update

Microsoft have pulled Windows XP SP3 from Windows Update at the last moment due to incompatibility issues. Paul Thurrott has the following quote from Microsoft on his blog regarding the delay:In the last few days, we have uncovered a compatibility issue betweenMicrosoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) and Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista Service […]

Microsoft COFEE device

I’ve been keeping up today with a story that was reported in the Seattle Times regading the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor device Microsoft has made available to law enforcement agencies. So far I’ve read Ed Bott’s response and recently The Register’s response and I have to say that I think that they are overreacting […]