I've pored through hundreds of emails in the Vista "junk PC" lawsuit, and it still doesn't all add up. There are five nagging questions that ar...

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Auditors advise a bank's CIO to add an "authorization warning" that will show up on all PCs before log-on, and this pilot fish is tasked to wh...

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SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- I've owned six portable USB hard drives over the past 10 years, and all six of them have failed unrecoverably. Is it jus...

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IT Blogwatch, IT Blogwatch, egg, beans, and IT Blogwatch: in which a huge spammer loses his appeal against a nine year jail sentence. Not to men...

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Here's one of the more intriguing tidbits in the hundreds of pages of emails released as part of the Vista "junk PC" lawsuit: A Microsoft ex...

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The real mover behind the ill-fated "Vista Capable PC" scheme may be Intel, not Microsoft, recent emails in the Vista "junk PC" lawsuit reveal. A ...

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Old-fashioned relational databases don't cut it for analtics, says one vendor. read more ...

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GET IT Blogwatch: in which Russian bad guys might be selling the password to your FTP server. Not to mention a USB typing speedometer... USER Jaikumar Vij...

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IT-challenged users at this engineering firm sometimes bring their more vexing problems to this software manager pilot fish instead of the he...

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New behind-the-scenes emails just released in the Vista 'junk PC' lawsuit shows that top Microsoft execs were not just upset and derisive ab...

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