TechFiz on January 14th, 2009

It was faily quick to install Windows7 on VirtualBox after mounting the ISO directly instead of using DVD. I was not expecting to be able to work with Windows7 on VirtualBox but it took me by surprise as it’s better than Vista and not sluggish at all. On top of it, even the latest beta [...]

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TechFiz on December 16th, 2008

Internet Explorer is vulnerable. Be careful, Microsoft alarms its users not to use its own browser.
Users of the world’s most common web browser have been advised to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.
Yes, If you’re really worried about your privacy never use Internet Explorer. It’s not today’s story for [...]

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TechFiz on November 22nd, 2008

The curriculum which is being served to tomorrows engineers in most of the colleges is mostly outdated or its not up-to the mark to empower students for tomorrow’s on job challenges. They are forced to depend on the IT skills sold by private institutes. I have been through this already and I have understood that [...]

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TechFiz on November 17th, 2008

Richard Murphy, a windows user and a blogger talks about Microsoft and Bill gates philanthropy on his blog as follows.
RTE in Ireland has reported:
Accounts for Microsoft Ireland Research, an Irish subsidiary of the global software giant, show that the company paid just €460,000 in tax, on profits of more than €1.2 billion last year, by [...]

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TechFiz on February 14th, 2008

I was able to peep into this event on 11th and 12th here in IISc Bangalore. I was wondering what Microsoft has got to say about its OpenSource initiatives. Also it Sundip Menon from Novel made it clear why Novell really joined its hands with Microsoft in CTOSummit. “OSIW-2008″ its just awesome! I got to [...]

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