Interesting Software and System News

[TedNelly]

YoKenny

Have you stopped taking your Medication again?

Please get back onto those "How to win Friends and Influence People" Pills again.
The angry mean man pills are taking hold!!? 

[Silk0]

Let's stop with the flaming, please and back to on topic. This topic is related to Software News not about YoKenny.

@YoKenny, with no offense, you need to think twice before the postage of any critic about the system or/and software that the other people use. Is a personal choice to have software X instead of software Y, all depends on each person needs not because Software Y has more features, etc.

Moving on...

[bob3160]

Amazon.com today introduced Amazon Cloud Drive, a service offering 5GB of free online data storage per user.
Amazon.com will further increase the cloud storage limit to 20GB for one year if purchasing a music album
from the Amazon MP3 Store, otherwise additional storage can be purchased according to tiered service fees.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/drive/files/learnmore

The 5 GB free storage plan is available to all Amazon.com customers, however further upgrades to the storage plan are currently unavailable in the following countries:

Austria,
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom

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Browser Cleaner Is A Comprehensive System Trace Eraser

Browser Cleaner  1.1 is a handy utility designed to securely delete all traces of your online and offline activity and free up space on your hard drive by removing thousands of unnecessary files.
Browser Cleaner erases history of visited websites, clears browser temporary files and eliminates all other records of your Internet activity.

http://tcpmonitor.altervista.org/browser-cleaner-browser-cleaner-erase-history-of-visited-websites/

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[bob3160]

Is Windows® XP Good Enough? Really??
A roundtable discussion on how the technology landscape has changed since Windows XP
will be held on April 16th.

[DavidR]

I have to say that I think this is more to do with yet another attempt by MS trying to kill off XP and sell more new OSes.

With XP still having the largest share of the OS market just under 60% (or still over 50% depending on which results you view), which must equate to even higher in the MS OS market share, they are desperate to kill it off, but it refuses to die.

[Lisandro]

avast passed the VB100 test again
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/vendor?id=9

[Asyn]

Secunia's PSI goes down due to server problems
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Secunia-s-PSI-goes-down-due-to-server-problems-1223526.html

[Lisandro]

Get Windows 8 Look-Like User Picture Tile (Avatar) in Notification Area of Windows 7
Aura: Get Windows 8 Aero Auto-Colorization Feature in Windows Vista and 7

[SafeSurf]

Secunia's PSI goes down due to server problems
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Secunia-s-PSI-goes-down-due-to-server-problems-1223526.html

It seems to be working now.  Perhaps a temporary thing.

[Zyndstoff (aka Steven Gail)]

Secunia's PSI goes down due to server problems
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Secunia-s-PSI-goes-down-due-to-server-problems-1223526.html

It seems to be working now.  Perhaps a temporary thing.

There were funny things going on yesterday with my PSI. Repeatedly scanning, a scan stopped, and only seconds later started again and again and again.
If I manually stopped, it took about 5 to 10 minutes and all began anew.
Suddenly this behaviour stopped at about 18:00 local time and everything is back to normal since then.

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Windows 7 Overtakes Windows XP in USA

We’ve been wondering when this day will finally come for a while. It didn’t take Windows 7 too long to overtake Windows Vista in terms of market share, but we all agreed that the biggest test for Windows 7 would be to see if it could take down the mighty Windows XP. And it would appear that it has just done that.

[YoKenny]

Windows 7 Overtakes Windows XP in USA

We’ve been wondering when this day will finally come for a while. It didn’t take Windows 7 too long to overtake Windows Vista in terms of market share, but we all agreed that the biggest test for Windows 7 would be to see if it could take down the mighty Windows XP. And it would appear that it has just done that.

All we have to do now is convince DavidR that Windows 7 is the best! 

[bob3160]

You will also have to convince David as to the accuracy and reliability of these statistics.
Even I have my doubts on those two factors. 

[Lisandro]

I think the major limitation of Windows 7 is the hardware minimum requirements.
This is the market share limitation (I think).
I think it is, undoubtedly, an advance from Windows XP. It's better.