Tag: FUD

Microsoft has received an awful lot of positive feedback about Security Essentials. It's easily one of the best options Windows users have -- paid or free -- for malware and virus protection. InfoWorld thinks, however, that Security Essentials has a rather irritating and serious flaw: its update mechanism. The post I'm talking about takes issue with MSE "taking liberties" with users' ...

Over at Network World, there's a little but of a fuss being kicked up about a new patent filed by Microsoft. Here's the juicy bit: "A portable storage device includes an interface and one or more flash memories. The one or more flash memories store one or more executable files that can be executed by a host computer to which the device is coupled without altering any environment settings on the ...

If Internet Explorer can't beat Google Chrome on speed, security, or standards compliance, it appears as though they figured its Achilles Heel might be privacy. Earlier today, Microsoft's Peter LePage decided to attack Chrome because of its autocomplete feature -- a giant privacy risk, he claims. "As I start to type an address into the address bar, Fiddler [a debugging tool] shows that ...

Fanboy FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt), it comes from all sides of the computing landscape. The three most well known operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Apple's OSX and the open source Linux have been called everything and accused of almost anything you can imagine in one press outlet or another. Linux is lousy for games, Windows is a memory hog, OSX will force you get a Liberal Arts degree and ...