Microsoft 'Trustworthy Computing' Turns 10 185
gManZboy writes "Bill Gates fired off his famous Trustworthy Computing memo to Microsoft employees on Jan. 15, 2002, amid a series of high-profile attacks on Windows computers and browsers in the form of worms and viruses like Code Red and 'Anna Kournikova.' The onslaught forced Gates to declare a security emergency within Microsoft, and halt production while the company's 8,500 software engineers sifted through millions of lines of source code to identify and fix vulnerabilities. The hiatus cost Microsoft $100 million. Today, the stakes are much higher. 'TWC Next' will include a focus on cloud services such as Azure, the company says."
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Windows 7 is great. I just hit the Windows key and type the file or program I want. It is nice if you forget the name of the file but remember something like sales figures for 2009 and it will display them for you. I go nuts on XP and feel crippled without it. I never go into the program menu at all.
I did not like the libraries feature at first and grown to like. On my desktop I have an admin account called God and the other one is my limited user account. I can just use public documents to share files back and forth. On my laptop with Windows 7 I can view them with homegroup too.
The libraries thing is for sharing very easily and it is nice. Windows 7 is a decent OS actually and a real upgrade from XP for those who get frustrated it is not identical to XP and feel XP is fine even though it is approaching 11 years old.
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Besides, 32-bit Windows 7 can and does run 16-bit DOS applications.
No it cannot, try running something like kknd, syndicate wars or the like on 32-bit windows 7, it won't even try to start up let alone work properly.
Things like that need proper dos (or an emulated environment like dosbox, or a VM with dos on it), which no version of windows has supplied since windows ME.
As for running ppc apps while having lion installed, here [applehelpwriter.com] provides a few solutions. Mostly it is either virtualization or dual booting.
But hey, dual booting win98/win2k or win98/winXP was how people remedied wanting to play their dos games too, and you've already said that work-arounds such as dos box and virtualization are acceptable.