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Solve : Microsoft sets Windows 8 launch for Oct. 26, 2012? |
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Answer» MICROSOFT sets Windows 8 LAUNCH as Oct. 26 Microsoft TODAY announced that it will start selling Windows 8 on Friday, Oct. 26, a little more than three months from now. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229342/Microsoft_sets_Windows_8_launch_as_Oct._26 |
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Solve : Adobe Confirms No Flash Support For Jelly Bean (Android)? |
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Answer» Well this is just great news. Adobe ISSUED the following statement: It has the potential of doing a lot of damage to the Android user base. Quote If the mobile transition from Flash to HTML5 is a SMOOTH one, this hopefully won’t be that big of a deal. But at the same time, it’s pretty crazy that Adobe actually recommends uninstalling Flash if you have Jelly Bean on your device.Stupid move...Yeah, bad move. Here is a possibility. Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightspark Quote Lightspark is a free and open source SWF player released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License ..Hmm, This isn't a great choice, what with the main difference being that while Flash has issues with crashing and stability, HTML5 has the problem where it doesn't work at all.Why Adobe? Why take your OWN platform, and kill it off for mobile devices??? Now people will look to MAKE stuff with HTML5 over Flash... they're the ones losing profit.Adobe AIR will still be there and if I understand things right that's what they are beginning to offer to developers. Oracle's taking over the Java development has pushed Adobe to get more aggressive with HTML5. Adobe has also been buying out a lot of companies for their technology. Hopefully it will be a smooth transition but that I think is up to if developers are willing to follow Adobe or turn their attention to Oracle/Java.Quote from: evilfantasy on July 11, 2012, 03:18:39 PM Adobe AIR will still be there and if I understand things right that's what they are beginning to offer to developers. Oracle's taking over the Java development has pushed Adobe to get more aggressive with HTML5. Adobe has also been buying out a lot of companies for their technology. Hopefully it will be a smooth transition but that I think is up to if developers are willing to follow Adobe or turn their attention to Oracle/Java. Yeah I completely understand all that, I think it would be better to phase out the development tools rather than the viewing software. Just consider how much of the web already uses flash... and I bet most developers aren't going to recreate their current flash items to HTML or something else. Thats the bit I just don't understand.I agree it's a bold move. Adobe will likely take some heat over it. On the flip side though. Apple devices have never used flash and it hasn't hurt them one little bit. Because Apple has their own alternative... These people developing phone/tablet OS's do not have that advantage. Just ran across this. Dated Nov 09 2011 Adobe makes it official: Adobe AIR now its focus for mobile, HTML5 takes over the web Quote from: Phil Nickelson | Nov 09 2011 | 10:39 am Adobe this morning confirmed a ZDNet report that Flash Player would be going the way of the dinosaurs, marking a fairly major shift in the company's mobile strategy. Instead, Adobe will focus on AIR for cross-platform mobile applications, and to ramp up its contributions to HTML5 -- with which it also had been working all along. The story has been out there for a while so maybe developers aren't considering the change to be a big deal? Of course one of the first replies was an Apple fanboy stating how Apple has been right all along. That crap gets really old after a while. I wonder if the Android faithful stalk Apple news boards and chime in on EVERY topic with how Android is better? I doubt it...Quote from: evilfantasy on July 12, 2012, 05:34:08 PM Apple fanboy stating how Apple has been right all along. That crap gets really old after a while. I wonder if the Android faithful stalk Apple news boards and chime in on EVERY topic with how Android is better? I doubt it... The thing I find funny is just about every person I know that owns an Apple PC talks about how superior it is over a Windows PC and how Windows is crap yet they all have their PCs setup to dual BOOT with Windows.Are they working on a new version of flash that will work?Quote from: TheWaffle on July 17, 2012, 05:05:29 PM Are they working on a new version of flash that will work? Not for mobile devices. Desktops ... still get flash as far as I know. |
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Solve : More Massive Credit Card Rips.? |
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Answer» More Massive Credit Card Rips. Litan, the Gartner analyst, is skeptical about whether the credit card industry will invest the money and time required to switch to a more secure system, like "smart cards" embedded with chips, which are used in some foreign countries. Some foreign countries... just a few dinky little countries, you'd think, to hear that American... I have had an EMV card for 8 years here in Britain, and around 100 countries around the world have already migrated, in fact the developed world outside the US are either using them or planning the changeover. In Europe migration to EMV is nearly 100% now. Fraud figures have shown a clear decline (80% drop in France) when compared to magnetic stripe only, and fraud has moved to areas where there is no chip enabled infrastructure, like the USA or to card not present transactions, such as Internet payments. The U.S. market has been caused to stir following announcements by Visa and MasterCard of specific incentives to migrate to EMV. The United States had previously rejected the migration to EMV on the basis of a nonexistent business case and a complex infrastructure. The attitude of some issuers initially began to CHANGE as they FOUND U.S. cardholders were increasingly facing issues when travelling abroad and trying to pay with magnetic stripe cards in markets where merchants rejected non-chip payments. My bank card has a chip. Then again, I'm also in a dinky little country too. Quote Why is it worse?The only reason think it's worse is because, based on your other thread, you've had to deal with it yourself.Thank you both. EMV From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I never knew. Media here never mentions 'smart cards'. You would think that would be an obvious solution. Yet the mass media has done NOTHING to educate nus average citizens that there could be an alternative. Yeah, I have been ripped off. So fart they have not stolen my identity. Just my money. Here in the USA you can buy you kid a cheap toy with a Integrated Circuit. Like a watch. for $1. And that has more smart silicon that your credit card. Because the credit card does not even know what time it is. No silicon at all. But the the Major companies can not afford even a toy watch that keeps time. |
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Solve : Half of all U.S. households own at least one Apple product? |
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Answer» I'm not among them yet but I thought you might find this INTERESTING: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apples-growing-american-homes-151713703.htmlI also belong to the half that does not. Ditto...To update this topic. |
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Solve : Samsung vs. Apple saga….? |
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Answer» Quote An update from the never ending Samsung vs. Apple saga….Source: electronista It's kind of funny how the more noise Apple makes with this COPYRIGHT stuff the closer Samsung comes to equaling their sales. Android/Samsung is putting out a superior product IMO and I think others, including Apple fans, are taking note. Apple will soon be in the middle of the pack. Off TOPIC... My dad called the other day saying he was having problems with his phone. This is a guy who has never wanted anything but a flip phone because it's all he needed. A phone. I get there and he pulls out a Samsung GALAXY S III saying he needs help figuring it out. WOW!!! From the packaging to the phone itself is just awesome. I dare say that is the best phone on the market right now and I can't see even the next iPhone rivaling it.Quote from: evilfantasy on July 16, 2012, 03:30:19 PM Off topic... My dad called the other day saying he was having problems with his phone. This is a guy who has never wanted anything but a flip phone because it's all he needed. A phone. I get there and he pulls out a Samsung GALAXY S III saying he needs help figuring it out. WOW!!! From the packaging to the phone itself is just awesome. I dare say that is the best phone on the market right now and I can't see even the next iPhone rivaling it.God, the American's are so BEHIND when it comes to phones. This is what I have: http://www.htc.com/uk/smartphones/htc-one-x/ My mam has a Galaxy S3.Cell phones are usually 'new' until the next version comes out next week lol. I think the S III will last a while as a contender though. On the topic of phones, in my job search I've had to give somebody elses cellphone number as a contact information, one of them left me a voicemail, or something, so they give me the phone. I had no idea how to get to voicemail "Oh, you just phone the phone itself" "yeah, that makes sense..." I say to nobody in particular. After a few seconds, I have another question. "How do I place a call" haha... "How do I change the volume" etc. And then when I was playing it over and over again and TRYING to transcribe the important info from it (Why must people talk so fast :/) it went into sleep mode and then it was back to the start. And I needed help to get to the voicemail again! Annoying part being that every time I replayed it I had to wait for the robot lady to finish telling me when it was received and how long until it expires. Needless to say, they aren't really my thing, it would seem. |
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Solve : This appears to have been around for a while but being brought to the fore now? |
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Answer» http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/05/28/tech-malware-flame-cyberattack.html truenorth |
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Solve : UK white spaces trials? |
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Answer» UK white spaces broadband trials a success |
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Solve : Microsoft activates default Do Not Track in Internet Explorer 10? |
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Answer» Microsoft activates default Do Not Track in Internet Explorer 10 The sixth platform preview of Internet Explorer 10, included in the release preview of Windows 8, not only includes the Do Not Track feature, it also has it activated by default. This makes Microsoft the leader among browser makers in protecting users from over-curious advertising networks. http://bit.ly/K2KdFy Wow given THEIR history of such touchy feely behavior over their existence they would have not been high on my list to be a leader in that field.truenorthQuote from: truenorth on June 01, 2012, 04:45:40 PM Wow given THEIR history of such touchy feely behaviorConsidering Do Not Track is based on P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) which was suggested by Microsoft themselves and implemented first in Internet Explorer 6, it really is not that surprising at all. Microsoft has often been the first to implement- or even submitter of the spec- for a number of privacy-related web-browsing features. BC Notwithstanding your comments above all of which are undoubtedly true i would draw to your attention the linked article which reflects what i believe has been a long standing issue in regards to Microsoft's efforts or lack of in regards to privacy issues over time.In some instances as is evidenced in the article legal actions have been instituted against them on the issue and only through that have they altered their procedures in the privacy arena. As is noted in the article there has long been a high degree of tension in the industry re the assertions of one against another on the subject of who does what. Personally i would welcome more stringent controls on privacy of personal information but not at the expense of web freedom.The user also bears a responsibility to try and be cognizant of their need to protect private in formation. http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/microsoft-attacks-google-privacy-policy-with-ads-gmail-man.php truenorth P.S. Please do NOT interpret my reference to Microsoft as a hate of them. All of society owe them a great deal of recognition for the technological marvels that we enjoy today in part due to their products."As CNET reported" Considering that's the home of SJVN I'm not surprised. Anyway, My point is that for any company there should be no such thing as an "INHERENT" trust. People love to pick on MS, but countless people intrinsically trust Google, Mozilla, and Canonical, to the point where they don't know what to do when it's revealed that these companies are in fact companies too. (Mozilla got a lot of it's revenue earlier on by partnering with google and setting google as it's default start page, Google makes it's revenue through ad services, and Canonical, well, It's just a financial sink for Mark to throw his money at. Anyway, back to browsers, they still all suck awfully. Come to think of it though the only one I cannot think of a good reason for it's suckage is IE, unless "history" counts. (IE6 doesn't support modern standards, so for some reason we should assume the same for later versions, according to some pundits, primarily Linux users whose LAST experience with windows was with Windows 98 when they were 12). Firefox is consuming more memory on this system than Visual Studio, Google Chrome fails at looking OS native on the majority of systems, instead trying to look like some sort of half-breed windows 7/Luna hybrid,(or on win7 with aero, completely broken) Opera only works well with 100% web standard web sites which excludes it from about 90% of the internet, Safari isn't even worth mentioning. Part of the problem is that the entire web ecosystem has changed and in doing so is trying to repurpose old tools to do new things. HTML was designed to markup basic text and provide hyperlinks, but now it's being used to present the underlying foundation of which AJAX, CSS, and various other technologies can do their tasks, meanwhile, somebody noticed that HTML was similar to XML and decided that they should make a version that was XML compliant, thus was born the lobotomized brother of HTML, which abandons usability in favour of parsability (XHTML). Even flash was somehow retooled from a vector graphics animation package (Macromedia Director and Macromedia Flash) to Full motion video (YouTube) Which is pretty much the only reason it's still around. HTML5 support is still about as fractured as support for HTML4 and CSS2 was with IE4 and NS3. Ever see a box shadow on a element? Non-standard. Whatever the case, the longer the W3C and other standards bodies squabble about standards, and RECOMMENDATIONS, or whatever it is they spend their time doing, the more likely the idea of the "open web" (which is in MANY ways laughable anyway) will die. Google, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. are not pissing away years and years in endless turf wars and meaningless posturing akin to people like Ian Hickson. They are moving to monetize every last bit of the web they can. (And to be honest, this what they've all been trying to do since the web really exploded with the introduction of broadband around the year 2000, with varying degrees of success). What's a bit sad though is that unlike a company, you can't really take any action against a standards body. They are supposed to move slowly, and most of the reason they ever have issues is because they have some psychotic squeaky wheel trying to take credit for everything and ignoring any and all user input. But since nobody is really in charge it's like a House of Commons/House of Lords without a speaker- just a bunch of mindless rabble, and at the end of the day they call it "organization". Meanwhile, browsers continue to make big claims- "Best browser ever" "fastest browser ever" "Most secure browser ever" while all supporting non-standard technologies like webkit- moz- and ms- prefixed CSS selectors (webkit- works with chrome, moz- works with firefox, and ms- works with IE, and none work with other browsers, meaning you need to determine the browser and use the appropriate vendor-specific CSS selector or attribute, all of which seem to have their own specific syntax and fiobles, and hope you can get them working similarly. And then at some point in the future I guess one of the three implementations will be chosen as a standards and over two thirds of the people who chose the "wrong one" will have to fix their implementation and the ones that chose the right one will still need to change their CSS to use the new tag NAME without the prefix. |
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Solve : New From Microsoft? |
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Answer» http://blogs.canada.com/2012/06/04/e3-2012-microsoft-shows-off-halo-4-and-new-smartglass-technology/ truenorthI READ that they were showing off halo 4 and their newest advancement in SMARTASS technology. |
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Solve : 6.5 Million Wet Passwords? |
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Answer» FULL Story... I don't or never would use that service... For those who do i say...oh well.Don't know if it is just me but your LINK doesn't work for me in SeaMonkey results in "web page not found' truenorthQuote from: truenorth on JUNE 07, 2012, 10:48:50 AM Don't know if it is just me but your link doesn't work for me in SeaMonkey results in "web page not found' truenorthIt's from the BBC. TRY this: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18338956 |
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Solve : Check if your Yahoo Account has been compromised? |
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Answer» Check if your Yahoo Account has been compromised as part of the recent Yahoo Voice Password leak. |
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Solve : Jelly Bean Overview? |
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Answer» Quote Android 4.1 JELLY Bean OverviewIt's supposed to begin rolling out to one of my devices on or around the 19th of this month. Can't WAIT!P.S. I received my Soak TEST invite Sunday morning. RUMOR has it this invite is for Jelly Bean. SWEET! (no pun intended) Source |
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Solve : Virus Spoofs MS Update? |
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Answer» This story came out earlier this year. But it it is still in reports. But the fake update can't affect you unless you already are partially infected, right?Did you read the article? This is an old issue that has not been resolved. It is being under reported. Do you never get any infections? The fake update has a security certificate that will pass the test. So your virus scans and internet watchdog will not catch it. Partially infested? Yes. it is a three step process. But how would you know if the first or second step is in place? I regularly scan my system. But about once a moth something odd shows up. Most of then time the virus software takes care of it. Other times I have to pay attention and notice that the laptops not responding the way it used to. What motivated me to post this here is to find out if others have had odd problems. Just last week I had a remarkable event that really took some work on my part. After a big bunchy MS update , my wireless DRIVER starting behaving strangely. Had to un install and re install it. Works good now. No evidence of what went wrong. Quote from: Helpmeh on June 25, 2012, 09:33:31 AM But the fake update can't affect you unless you already are partially infected, right?Correct. Only machines infected with a particular trojan, which then makes changes to valid root certificates on the machine will be affected. The appearance of the malware in Windows Update only occurs after a machine is infected, which in and of itself is not surprising. MS has since issued patches that prevent the Terminal SERVICES service from issuing root certificates, which was how the trojan worked to allow Windows Update to work as a trojan downloader. In actual fact, all it really circumvented was most firewall systems, which allow windows update through by default. Most trojans try to download it themselves, this one instead changed the system configuration to allow the download to occur as part of Windows Update. Quote Yes. it is a three step process. But how would you know if the first or second step is in place?The root trojan downloader (or, rather, the root trojan download delegator, which does the task of making windows update download the malware) should set off any well-configured Anti-virus or malware program particularly as it tampers with root certificate authorities on the local machine. I'm not really sure how a wireless driver behaving strangely is somehow relevant to this, either. A car analogy would be to note that car thieves steal stereos, and then note that your car's dipstick has crusty deposits on the end.Everybody read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2718704 Quote Microsoft has released a Microsoft security advisory about this issue for IT professionals. The security advisory CONTAINS additional security-related information. To view the security advisory, visit the following Microsoft website: The 2718704 was released June 5 and it relates to most versions of Windows. It is a very serious issue. |
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Solve : A new Facebook shenanigan? |
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Answer» I haven't done a bunch of reading on this yet but here ya go. |
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Solve : Apple retracts Mac OS X isn’t susceptible to viruses claim? |
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Answer» Quote from: The WINDOWS Club In wake of the recent Flashback botnet which plagued more than 600,000 computers RUNNING on Apple’s MAC OS X and the security ‘BROUHAHA’ that ensued later on, Apple has removed a statement on its website that earlier said that Mac OS X isn’t susceptible to viruses. Apple removed the previous statement “It doesn’t get PC viruses” and replaced it with “It’s built to be SAFE“. Source and full story: Apple quietly changes OS X security message on its website |
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Solve : Soon to be new Google offering? |
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Answer» http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/07/google-sends-fleet-of-planes-to-create-3d-map-of-earth/ truenorthThat's cool.It's a "Maps War" with of all people, Apple... Feature Showdown: Apple Maps for IOS vs. Google Maps for iOSI read all the posts.It is so MUCH INFORMATIVE and great.I thanks to all for posting and NEW techniques. |
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Solve : Phandroid forums hacked - 1 million accounts compromised? |
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Answer» How MANY times this year am I going to be forced to change a PASSWORD! Didn't Take Long ... Was getting READY to post that. Sad... |
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Solve : Tonight is the longest night of the year.? |
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Answer» Tonight is the longest night of the year. WOW! Rock around the Clock. We can party longer tonight! Quote Question: Should I leave my PC off just before this happens?Isn't the "longest night" the Winter Solstice? (Dec 21/22 in the northern hemispshere, June 21/22 in the southern) But when it is long in the north, it is short in the south. Tonight is long north and south! Should I have SAID it this way? The longest 24 hour day this year What about those who live either side of the international date line? For them did it already HAPPEN? Or is it STILL coming?Quote from: Geek-9pm on June 30, 2012, 12:32:31 PM Tonight is long north and south! That is a very GOOD point, which I missed. |
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Solve : Came across this today==seems like a cool app==and it's FREE? |
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Answer» http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photosynth/id430065256?utm_campaign=http%3A//www.safelite.com/%3Futm_source%3Dnewsletterq3%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dwecanhelp&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=Photosynth&mt=8 truenorthReally COOL app. I just spent the LAST 5 minutes taking PICTURES of my room. I wish I had this app when I went on my ROAD trip last summer. |
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Solve : Apple, Google, Samsug party.? |
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Answer» Google and SAMSUNG have a ‘GAME PLAN’ that will eventually lead to a cross-licensing deal with Apple Full Story.. Here |
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Solve : Google's "Blogger" service drops support for Opera? |
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Answer» http://planetbotch.blogspot.no/2012/06/google-service-drops-support-for-opera.html For no discernable reason. I'm not a fan of Opera myself but I THINK these "incompatibilities" are completely fabricated. Either way, This would be the equivalent of Hotmail Dropping support for Opera and providing a link to "try the latest version of IE". Everybody would be all over something like that! Yes, that does not look good. Quote It’s a fully current browser, which was released in its latest form less than two weeks ago, and which has a userbase of approaching 300 MILLION. In no way is Opera an obsolete package. Google is risking the loss to 300 million friends. Opera is compact and easy to put non a USB flash. Look here: http://www.opera-usb.com/Well let me tell you a very recent (3 days ago) story about a personal experience involving one of the names mentioned in this post. Over the weekend i finally convinced my wife that she needed to get a bit closer to leading edge O/S technology than one of her computers using Win ME. So i pulled out a Dell desktop with XP home on it and started to rejuvenate it for her. Well there was no virus software on it so i decided i would install Avast free. You must accept Google Chrome as part of the package if you ELECT to install Avast.I had already installed Opera (as many of you know it is my fav. flavor) so i saw no need for another browser.Particularly as the HDD capacity is not yet where i want it to be.So i declined to install Avast and elected to install Microsoft Security Essentials instead (that wasn't without it's own initial problems) but they only OFFERED IE 8 did not force me to TAKE it. The degree of concentration of technology is beginning to be POTENTIALLY troublesome and it's tendency toward consumer manipulation in my opinion.truenorth |
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Solve : Microsoft warns on support scams? |
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Answer» A survey from MICROSOFT reveals just how widespread the fake tech support CALL scam is becoming. |
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