PUBLIC MARKS from amanzi with tag windows

The most exciting product announced during Bill Gates’s keynote presentation today at CES was Microsoft’s new server product for home users called Windows Home Server. This is not just a server product rebranded for home users, Microsoft have really created an innovated product which aims to solve all of the storage problems that home users have.

Be prepared to turn off Vista's new UAC to fix problems when Vista is released. Touted as one of the best security features's of Vista, it will leave a lot of users thinking that it causes more problems than it solves.

This is the first in a series of posts about some of the hidden features that you probably haven’t heard mentioned anywhere else. First up, the snipping tool, which is used to grab screenshots and save them to common image formats.

Updated review on the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta email/feeds/news/contacts/calendar client with updated screenshots. This is an overhaul of the antiquated Outlook Express client and is targeted towards MSN/Live/Spaces users mainly.

"The main goal of User Account Control is to reduce the exposure and attack surface of the operating system by requiring that all users run in standard user mode..." It all sounds good, but there are two fundamental flaws with the way it has been implemented in Vista.