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   Review - F-Secure Mac Protection

   Build 7857 Technology Preview (Mar 18, 2010)

   You're kidding, right? Mac OS/X is BSD. Primary browsers are Mozilla Firefox and Safari. Firewall is built in. This is a UNIX based system. Is this marketing F.U.D. to make MacOS/X users think they're insecure on the net and to reap profits from the uneducated?
   
   Sorry, I have to give this a low go.

2. 
   Review - Adobe Reader for Windows

   9.3.1 (Feb 18, 2010)

   For any of my clients that are serious about anything to do with PDF authoring/modification/usage, we've just chucked in the towel and moved to Apple OS/X or GNU/Linux. On a year to year average, the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of running a single Microsoft Windows (insert your version here) has become staggering - regardless of how Microsoft tries to market its OS's, it's becoming vastly expensive - from a software perspective and a support perspective. Working with PDF's under GNU/Linux is at least safe - from a security perspective - and if a workstation is setup properly, there are no issues with creation/modification/usage. Sorry, Adobe - it's a bigger picture that has to be considered - your products are merely a piece of a larger picture. End of story.

3. 
   Review - WirelessKeyView

   1.32 (Jan 24, 2010)

   Especially in the instance of customer/clients not knowing or not remembering their network settings, this kind of tool is invaluable. I've come across many "emergency" situations that were literally business critical and had to be resolved ASAP - this tool has been part of my "kit" since its inception, and will always continue to be part of my "kit".

4. 
   Review - Ommwriter

   Beta 1 (Nov 27, 2009)

   50mb for a single word processor? Umm...is this serious?

5. Comment - Are you a Mac, or are you a PC?

   Beta 1 (May 21, 2010 - 6:35 PM)

   I don't have the time or the energy to even bother with playing around running proprietary software on any box I own - they're all linux, all setup to look like either MS Windows or Mac OS/X. I have to spend my days fixing both Macs and PC's running MS Windows - I'm not going to endure the torture at home for my own needs. However, if I was going to purchase - or someone was going to purchase something for me - say, a new laptop, I'd most assuredly get a 17" Macbook Pro - and dual boot OS/X and linux - don't have the time to muck with MS (any version) and don't want to fight with maintaining it full time to keep it running properly.

6. Comment - Hey, Microsoft, Internet Explorer security talk is cheap

   Beta 1 (Jan 24, 2010 - 4:23 PM)

   Again, Microsoft - which is worth HOW MUCH MONEY? Won't do much about anything as they do not care, are not responsible (due to cleverly worded EULA's and contracts and other legal wordings), and never will be responsible to the consumer that pays for a product - and especially because the customer does not OWN the product. Steve Ballmer could care less about the end-user - as long as he continues to reap in the money from his shares, and continues to push Microsoft products on the entire world - even those that don't want it. Simple.

7. Comment - Should you dump Internet Explorer, NOW?

   Beta 1 (Jan 24, 2010 - 4:06 PM)

   I've used something OTHER than Microsoft Internet Explorer since Microsoft Windows 95 hit the streets. Thankfully, I've been on the "other end" of this issue for far longer than most, and even when the browser I was using wasn't compatible with other websites, I still stuck to it.
   
   I make my bread and butter from servicing Microsoft products, and though I've done my best to educate folks about this issue (security and bad overall code design) and it never does end up mattering until a client literally does have to face the ugly security truths. I'll never use it, though.
   
   Firefox and Chrome are fine for me - sometimes Konqueror, but mostly Firefox and Chrome. They've always done what I wanted, and at least I have a knowledge that they're safe, and can't compromise my system.

8. Comment - The Internet Explorer fracas: Let's find something else worth dumping

   Beta 1 (Jan 24, 2010 - 3:52 PM)

   For the simple fact that Microsoft is worth as much as they are, and so many people depend on them, it boils simply down to responsibility - to the customer and to the product - this should not be happening.
   
   If we were talking about any other product that people seriously depend on, things would not be the way that they are today - and the past 17 years of Microsoft's "issues" would not be in our memories.
   
   The apologists and pro-Microsoft writers should have a bit of a wake up call and realise - and SPEAK UP about the fact that this base product is just not acceptable in it's current state, and instead of constantly playing the patch/upgrade game, they should be concentrating on fixing the simple products themselves.
   
   Responsibility is something that Microsoft has very carefully - through twisted legal wording, contractual wording - avoided - and the public needs to be made aware of that, as well.
   
   Identity theft is not just a security issue for single end-users - it is a massively underrated issue that can (and has) affected entire institutions - and entire governments. Any of these issues that crop up in a piece of software, or an entire operating system, should be not taken with a bunch of pro and con media bantering, but be taken extremely seriously - as if one's life depended on it (and it could).
   
   17 years of the same dodging and lack of adherent responsibility is more than enough, and all arguments pertaining to pro's and con's of Microsoft, all arguments about being anit-Microsoft and etc etc etc - should be seriously put aside and the focus be on the simple fact that there are so many people that use Microsoft products and DEPEND on them - it's high time that Microsoft just fix things once and for all. End of story. It really is as simple as that - and no amount of deflection via marketing or PR can change that simple fact.