Oftel's Small Business Taskforce has this week published a buyers guide for companies purchasing telecoms equipment and services. Oftel hopes the guide will help tackle the problems small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face when trying to get...
Installing the patch can cause serious problems, Microsoft said in an advisory posted to its website on Friday. The patch could lock users out of their PC, prevent the Windows Firewall from starting, block certain applications from running or...
An IT pro at a company can install a key on a machine that will then need to be validated online. Windows Vista will have new anti-piracy technology that locks people out their PCs if the operating system isn't activated within 30 days after...
To contribute to the installation guide, the NSA tested Vista by putting systems running the operating system under attack, according to a report in The Washington Post. The NSA Information Assurance Directorate reviewed the Windows Vista Security...
Lending his support to silicon.com's 'Fair Wi-fi' campaign Adam Raphael, editor of influential hotel bible The Good Hotel Guide, explains why the days of rip-off charges must be numbered. Yet over the past year, in my position as editor of The Good...
As with previous service packs, no product key is requested or required when installing Windows XP SP3 using the update package available through Microsoft Update. The software giant said in the white paper: "As in Windows Server 2003 SP2 and...