Windows Enterprise Desktop
March 2011
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Interesting hunt for drive wipe utility
30 Mar 2011 -
Another interesting update lesson thanks to Secunia PSI
28 Mar 2011 -
Firefox 4 Downloads Dwarf IE 9's
25 Mar 2011
I've recently finished work on a forthcoming book about phishing attacks entitled Cyberheist, and have also updated my CISSP Study Guide and Computer Forensics JumpStart titles in the past three ...
With six or seven computers around my office at any given time, in various states of (dis)repair, I find myself devoting at least three or four hours a week to system checkups, diagnoses, updates, ...
Holy moly! Firefox 4 hit the streets on Tuesday, March 22, and quickly blew away IE 9 download numbers from the previous week. By the end of the first day, the count topped 4.7 million (ahead of IE ...
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IE9 Sets New Download Record
23 Mar 2011 -
Secunia Supplies Continuing Reminders of the Interesting State of Software Security
17 Mar 2011 -
Windows 7 and Restore Points
14 Mar 2011 -
Thin is In: MS Announces Windows Thin PC and More
11 Mar 2011 -
8 Absolutely Free e-Books from MS Press
06 Mar 2011 -
After the (snow) storm, a flurry of hiring activity for February
04 Mar 2011 -
More Changes for WU Pending on 3/8/2011 Patch Tuesday
04 Mar 2011
As of March 16, Ryan Gavin at Microsoft reported that IE9 more than 2.35 Million downloads of IE occurred in the first 24 hours following its release on Monday night, March 14, 2011. He also ...
I run Secunia PSI on all of my networked PCs (which means "all my PCs," in fact). Every now and then, the program smacks me with forcible reminders of how interesting it can be for network admins ...
In reading Michael Horowitz's "Defensive Computing" blog on ComputerWorld this morning (it's entitled "Windows 7 Restore: less trustworthy than XP?" I was reminded how things can go wonky in a ...
At yesterday's Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Customer Roundtable, the company soft-announced a beta date for Windows Thin PC (aka WinTPC) some time before the end of March, 2011. This is a ...
Snipped from the MS Born to Learn blog for March 3, here's a screencap of all the free e-books currently available online from Microsoft Press. Yes, you read right: free e-books. Check 'em out! You ...
Finally! The latest Employment Situation Summary from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released this morning shows some welcome and long-overdue signs of improvement in hiring numbers. But ...
Here's a tantalizing snippet referenced in the latest Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for March 2011. It's from KB article 894199 entitled "Description of Software Update Services ...
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Sunsets Ahead: Ed Bott Summarizes Windows Retirement Dates
02 Mar 2011
In the latest addition to his Microsoft Report ("How long will Microsoft support XP, Vista, and Windows 7?") Ed Bott sums up all the forthcoming retirement dates for mainstream and extended support ...