Arun’s Blog

According to an analysis from ThreatFire, 58,000 PCs running Vista were compromised by at least one piece of malware over the six months to May 2008, equivalent to 27 percent of all Vista machines probed.
In total, Vista suffered 121,380 instances of malware from its 190,000 user base, a rate of malware detection per system is [...]

According to two Gartner analysts, Windows operating system is collapsing and Microsoft must make radical changes to its operating system or risk becoming a has-been. It was pretty obvious to everyone who read about Vista or who used Vista. I have a quad core system with 3 Gig RAM and Vista is visibly slow in [...]

Google has released Google Email Uploader which is an open source desktop utility to import emails and contacts from Windows desktop email clients like Microsoft Outlook. You need to have a Google Apps account in order to get Google Email Uploader to work. It won’t work with regular GMail. This utility works only with Windows [...]

I read this interesting article in PC World which narrates the arguments between a mother frustrated with Vista OS and Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer at Gartner Inc. conference in Orlando, FL.
Yvonne Genovese, an analyst told Ballmer that her daughter wanted to use gadgets in Vista, so she installed Vista in her daughter’s PC (What a [...]