http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/windows/reviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229100393

Top Features Absent From Windows 7

Well the higher they get, the harder they fall ................

Thank you hotdoge3 for these links, it has made me reflect on going to a "single" site for information especially if this site becomes (or always was?) biased in any way.

P.S.: After following your link to smokeys wordpress security blog, I found this follow-up to the article:
http://smokeys.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/matousecs-new-moves-to-recapture-the-label-trustworthy/

After reading that one, I can say that the nail has just gone a little deeper for Matousec!

Best Regards

The Dragon (Paul)

Considering Tall Emu sold Online Armor to Emisoft a few months back this makes no sense. But then again Matousec's results are worth nothing...

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=281529

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/matousec-personal-firewall-tests-analyzed.htm

http://smokeys.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/matousecs-firewall-challenge-wrinkle-conflict-of-interests/

Matousec results prove nothing but you pay !! Have a look !! Old Online Armor out !!

http://www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-security-challenge/results.php

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2267447/uk-government-refuses-upgrade

to hard for government to get IE 8 or Firefox !

Blocks only 1 out of 8 Trojans from executing, claims Sophos

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140323/Microsoft_neutered_UAC_in_Windows_7_says_researcher

better off with XP or Vista ?

Apparently enough people think that Windows 7 has got something right though. One site that I look at for statistics says that Windows 7 has almost caught up with Vista already.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=11

I have it and I like it quite a bit. I always liked XP and never did care for Vista myself. The only disclaimer is that I am not much of a computer techie and my opinions on computer related things are usually suspect at best. ;)

Well...7 is what Vista should've been... still has some crappy sides too,but then SP1 is on the way.
The Home edition is OK,but if I ever have some money to burn... I'd go for 7Ultimate.

lol I wasn't trying to put down old people. I was just saying many seem to be happy with what they have and don't care about how crappy it is. My grandmom's computer has XP and I hate it but it doesn't bother her one bit. Many people put down Vista but I find it to be no trouble at all. And if I had the extra money I would upgrade to 7 without hesitation!

I agree with young Chip about Vista. Vista rules! Now about old people...

I'm sure Chip didn't mean anything by it,Suze...
To add to the confusion Windows XP was launched October 2001 (so it's not really a 15 year old OS.LOL)

Because most 'old people' have been around the block a few times, have more wisdom and experience, and have a longer perspective on many things now that we didn't have when we were younger. That's why!

[BTW, I started out as a Programmer in 1969 . . .]

Hey Chip,you'd better watch what you're saying...
We're not that old.LOL.

Dear lord I love Vista and hate XP. Why must old people cling to the past...

Ah.. that explains it. I would think it would be a bit 'much' to have 3 different OS going on one machine. As I said before, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"!

I was planning to do that,copmom..but I didn't get around to do it yet.....but for now I'm running XP on an older but DIY refurbished machine and a dual Vista/7 boot on my portable.

Robert... are you running all of them on the same machine??

I couldn't agree with you more,copmom.
I'm running XP,Vista and 7...and I like swimming in the deep end of the pool..but XP still has its charm.
What's more a lotta companies still cling to XP ..so even if 7 appears to be a dream to you Ilta...they must have a perfectly good reason not to upgrade (yet).

@ilta, if this 15 year old OS works.. and isn't 'broke' I don't want to 'fix' it with 'new improved'! At least after all this time they've had the chance to work all the bugs out! Oftentimes the new things are NOT as good as the reliable older things, so I'm staying out of the deep end of the pool! Millenium was awful, then vista, so I think a lot of us are gun shy about switching to anything new! And, look at all the GOTD offers that won't work on Vista!

oh for god's sake. vista was awful but 7 is a dream. do you really want to run a 15 year old OS?

c'mon kids, the water in the deep end of the pool is just fine.

PCs installed with Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate will now be able to downgrade to XP up until January 15, 2015 (for Windows 7 Professional) or January of 2020 (for Windows 7 Ultimate), according to Computerworld’s calculations.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/74-of-work-pcs-still-run-xp-and-theyre-44-years-old/36641?tag=nl.e539
74% of work PCs still run XP, and they're 4.4 years old.
Still plan to use XP till the cows come home?
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179109/Microsoft_extends_Windows_XP_downgrade_rights_until_2020

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_Vista

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_7

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Did-Microsoft-hand-you-a-pink-slip-this-week/1278604916

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Office-2010-belly-flops-in-early-retail-sales-dive/1279136453

US consumers and small businesses aren't rushing out to buy Office 2010

http://hardgeek.org/office-2010-wont-support-windows-xp-64-bit

It's good news for *me*, as I actually prefer XP even to 7. Out of my entire family, I am the one most up and up on computers, and thus the go-to 'guy' when something goes wrong. I said that to say this; out of my entire family, I am also the only one not enamoured with 7. Something I could easily do with XP I screwed up with 7, simply because the format is different. I can't get the hang of saving things to a documents file, i.e. My son keeps all his passwords on his jump drive. I was saving a new one to the drive for him, and accidentally deleted all of them, simply because of the difference between saving things to docs in XP and 7.

I run XP also. For me to upgrade to Windows 7 I would have to upgrade my machine (I refuse to go to Vista). I could get 7 cheap I am sure since I have a relative that works for MS but upgrading the machine isn't cheap. Maybe when I can spare a few hundred dollars I might go for a refurbished machine from Geeks.com. I've never bought anything from them refurbished but I have heard good things so I might be willing to take the risk.

Glad to hear that. When I got this machine I had to pay $100 to downgrade from Vista to XP! Of course they sent me the Vista CD in case I wanted to upgrade, but I am NOT!

Wonderful news - thanks much for sharing, hotdoge3.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-xp-gets-yet-another-reprieve-from-microsoft/6819?tag=nl.e539

Windows XP gets yet another reprieve from Microsoft
Users who purchase new PCs installed with Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate will now be able to downgrade to XP up until January 15, 2015
so XP must be the best so far hard to sell windows 7

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/07/experts-warn-of-new-windows-shortcut-flaw/
Experts Warn of New Windows Shortcut Flaw.
Researchers have discovered a sophisticated new strain of malicious software that piggybacks on USB storage devices and leverages what appears to be a previously unknown security vulnerability in the way Microsoft Windows processes shortcut files.
capable of infecting a fully-patched Windows 7 system,
http://anti-virus.by/en/tempo.shtml
Malware installs two drivers: mrxnet.sys and mrxcls.sys. They are used to inject code into systems processes
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.secureblog.info/files/new_rootkit.pdf click Download (221K) or just Look.
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/07/certificate_used_to_code-sign.php
previously-unreported vulnerability in Windows, and that the malware had been code-signed using a certificate from Realtek Semiconductor Corp., a real company.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20000898-245.html
Malware delivered by Yahoo, Fox, Google ads.
Since the malware started spreading in late December, Avast has registered more than 2.6 million instances of it on customer computers. Nearly 530,000 of those were from Yield Manager and more than 16,300 from DoubleClick, Sejtko said.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Trojan-attacks-now-almost-solely-from-legitimate-websites-1031631.html

Trojan attacks now almost solely from legitimate websites

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Malicious-code-on-Lenovo-driver-download-page-Update-1025886.html

Malicious code on Lenovo driver download page - Update

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/29/kraken_botnet_resurgence/

Notorious Kraken botnet rises from the ashes

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Norton-produces-false-alarm-after-Firefox-update-1030099.html

Norton produces false alarm after Firefox update

http://www.auditmypc.com/

Some Proxy Servers are very Bad! ( I don't use slow me down )

Not all proxy servers do as they claim and in fact, there are a ton of junk proxy servers out there that give people a false sense of security or worse, record everything you do in hopes to score a password or two!

Your computer is connecting to the internet at Auckland, E7, in the NZ, with an ip of !!
We could not find your Host Name, this is good!
A trace to your phone comes back with an area code of: 0 ( trick in set up to get 0 )