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TrustedReviews who I get a lot of my reviews for Go Play AV site, have thrown out a bit of a teaser about Windows:

Nothing works with quite the same idiosyncrasies as a PC running Windows. Example Number 9,786,432: The Reboot, that ridiculous and time consuming element that is at the heart of keeping the OS up to date. But has Microsoft finally cracked it?

No. Sorry to tease and titillate, but MS Co-Pres of Platform Products Jim Allchin did it to us and – in the tradition of middle siblings passing down their beatings from older siblings to younger ones – I felt inclined to do it to you. What we do have however (in true Microsoft fashion) is a half way measure.

‘Restart Manager’ is its name and while it doesn’t eliminate the dreaded reboot it does remove the need to restart all your work.

Now.. if my grey matter is functioning correctly… Microsoft promised us that Windows 95 would virtually do away with rebooting!!!

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ZdNet report that analysts are advising business not to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest OS until it’s a couple of years old.

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Over at Microsoft Watch, Mary Jo Foley gives a run down on a project at Microsoft to develop a new operating system to answer the question: “What would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary goal of dependability?” What impact this has on the future of Windows is open to all sorts of wild hypothesizing, but the one thing for sure is, Microsoft aren’t putting all the eggs in one basket case.

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It’s nice to see the Microsoft CEO is as gracious to and respectful of his competitors as we all thought…
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In a blow to Microsoft, the US state of Massachusetts has proposed open formats for all documents created or saved by employees of the state, hence alienating MS Office.
“The proposal, which is open for comment until the end of next week before it takes effect, would represent a big boost for open source software such […]

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So, Vista is still in beta and the virus writers are hard at it. What caught my attention though, was a suggestion by Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer with Helsinki’s F-Secure Corp that “These are proof of concept viruses,” he said, “Where virus writers want to break new ground and write the first viruses for a new platform.”

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