Important Patch For Internet Explorer, Update Immediately!

Archived in the category: Security, Windows
Posted by okorioth on 23 Jan 10 - 0 Comments

If you have not heard the news this month, theres a little spat going on between Google and China over hacking and such. Turns out one of the techniques used to hack Google and other companies was through a security exploit in all versions of Internet Explorer, known as the Aurora exploit. Microsoft has since […]

Microsoft Releases Massive Batch of Security Updates For October

Archived in the category: Security, Windows
Posted by okorioth on 13 Oct 09 - 0 Comments

Its the second Tuesday of the month, and that of course means in the Microsoft camp its patch Tuesday. And what a whopper this one is, in fact its the largest amount of patches ever released at one time.  The range of patches pretty much covers almost every major product line, from Windows, Server, SQL, […]

No More Internet Exploder 6

Archived in the category: Security
Posted by okorioth on 11 Aug 09 - 0 Comments

I have decided enough is enough and am joining the Internet campaign to eradicate the existence of Internet Explorer 6. Its old, full of security holes and frankly just does not play nice with Internet standards. If you are browsing this site with this version you will have no doubt noticed the huge warning banner […]

Microsoft Announces Windows 7 Pricing

Archived in the category: General
Posted by okorioth on 25 Jun 09 - 0 Comments

So, the cat is finally out of the bag. As an update to my previous post, Microsoft has finally released details on what Windows 7 is going to cost.  Via this blog posting; The estimated retail prices for upgrade packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are: Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99 […]

Windows 7 gets a release date

Archived in the category: Windows
Posted by okorioth on 03 Jun 09 - 0 Comments

The news was flying around the intertubes yesterday, Windows 7 will be generally available on October 22nd this year, just in time for the holidays of course.  So if you are thinking of upgrading your computer, it may be in your best interest to wait. Windows 7 so far has proved, via the beta program, […]

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 now available

Archived in the category: Windows
Posted by okorioth on 26 May 09 - 0 Comments

For those of you who can’t wait to dive into new releases from Microsoft, Vista users can now download service pack 2 directly from Microsoft ahead of the scheduled  Updates rollout (happening sometime next month). 32 bit is here 64 bit is here So what does this do? Upgrade to Windows 7? Uhm..not quite sorry. […]

Countdown to Conficker

Archived in the category: Security, Windows
Posted by okorioth on 27 Mar 09 - 1 Comment

Hopefully, many of you know already about the Conficker worm which has been in the news as of late. There are many millions of infected machines out there today, and the clock is ticking on an April 1st deadline. What happens on April 1st 2009 is anybodys guess, but it more than likely won’t be […]

Microsoft’s Next Operating System will be called..7?

Archived in the category: Windows
Posted by okorioth on 14 Oct 08 - 2 Comments

Yep, you heard that right. Just announced yesterday the folks in Redmond are steaming full ahead for the next iteration of Windows which will simply be called..Windows 7. After all these crazy naming schemes, could they not have done this since the beginning (kinda like the Mac OS series names)? I have a feeling this […]

Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment

Archived in the category: Windows
Posted by okorioth on 29 Jul 08 - 0 Comments

Microsoft has finally come around to the idea that it needs to do something about the poor perceptions in the marketplace about the crappiness of Vista. Sure, the original release was plagued with stability issues and other annoyances which were mostly fixed with the release of Service Pack 1. But that didn’t seem to change […]

Microsoft Security Updates for March

Archived in the category: Security
Posted by okorioth on 11 Mar 08 - 0 Comments

Its getting to be that time of the month again, and as usual there are a whole bunch of updates coming out for March. As posted on CERT, MS will have patches for a whole range of products including ones for Office which will patch some serious holes, ones that will plug a remote code […]