By Ed Oswald, Betanews
Surprise, Vista's short four-year support run is coming to an end. What's the reasoning for the early exit?
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Internet Explorer 10 won't run on Windows Vista, a clear attempt by Microsoft to kill off the OS. But why bother? Vista has done a very good job of committing suicide itself.
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Study finds the task to be very difficult; overwriting or crypto-erasure seem the best methods for sanitizing SSDs
Until a university study emerged last week, few experts suspected that it's more difficult to erase data stored on solid-state drives (SSD) than that on hard disk drives (HDDs)...
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How long is your favorite version of Windows going to be supported? Maybe longer than you think. One current version, in fact, will still be supported in 2020. And no, it's not Windows XP. I've...
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July 13, 2010 – Support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000 ends.
If you are running Windows XP, stay more secure by moving to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) or migrating to Windows 7.