by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the back-by-popular-demand dept. According to media reports about leaked Windows 8.1 code, the next incarnation of Microsoft’s flagship operating system will have an option to boot directly to the desktop. People have discovered ‘references to a...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
from the high-cost-of-upgrading dept. During a recent trip to an eye doctor, I noticed that she was still using Windows XP. After I suggested that she might need to upgrade soon, she said she couldn’t because she couldn’t afford the $10,000 fee involved...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
In the next couple of days Microsoft plans to introduce an extension that will make the login process for Microsoft accounts more secure. The method, called “two-step verification” in a blog post, will require not only a conventional password, but also a...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, HAPPINESS, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
Set the rules for what happens to your Google data if you go off to that great results page in the sky Google provided a somewhat morbid reminder of the increasing primacy of digital data in our lives with the release today of the euphemistically named Inactive...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the safer-than-relying-on-pigoens dept. Vint Cerf, one of the ‘founders of the Internet,’ told an audience April 16 that if he could do it all over again, he would construct the Internet in the mold of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Cerf, who...
