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Sophos: Windows 7 vulnerable to 8/10 viruses, FUD alert
FUD - Fear, uncertainty and doubtYesterday, a senior security advisor at Sophos, who is responsible for working with the security community and communicating information on security threats to IT professionals, posted an entry on his blog entitled "Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses". Given the bad publicity... Read on »
How 136 file sharers became 7 million
Can we trust official governmental figures on file sharing? According to an enquiry by the BBC, the answer to this question is no. A recent governmental report puts the number of UK file sharers at the hefty figure of 7 million, however, a closer examination into this figure by the... Read on »
Ultimate Steal returns to the UK
Microsoft have re-launched the UK arm of their programme that gives massive discounts to university students and staff. Discounts are available on Office Ultimate 2007, Windows Vista Ultimate, Office Visio Professional 2007, and Office Language Packs.Under the programme, Office Ultimate is priced at £38.95, and Vista Ultimate can be obtained... Read on »
Shift Linux 0.6.5 Released
Shift Linux 0.6.5 is the first public preview release of Shift Linux One. The version number may be confusing, but the team is focused on a solid 1.0 release soon. Shift Linux comes in 3 different flavors, Gnome, Lite, and KDE. All 3 are based on brand-new Ubuntu Hardy Beta... Read on »
Shift Linux 0.6 Released
We have released Shift Linux 0.6 today. There are two versions released at this time: Shift Linux 0.6 Gnome and Shift Linux 0.6 Lite (for older computers). Shift Linux Lite contains two less resource hogging desk managers (XFCE-4 and Fluxbox), but will have a full compliment of packages and utilities.... Read on »
Shift Linux pre 0.6 KDE4 release
We are happy to announce that we have released a Shift Linux pre 0.6 KDE4 version for you to try. KDE4 was just released on the 11th, and we wanted to try this new desktop version with our distribution. We have based this test version on Ubuntu and have incorporated... Read on »
Neowin Shift Linux 0.5 Final Released
Shift Linux is a Linux project that was created by the Neowin community. Based on Morphix Linux, Shift is Debian based live CD; therefore it has access to all of the software and applications as other Debian distributions. Several versions of Shift Linux have been developed to produce for computers... Read on »