Internet Roundup About Obama Viruses, Windows 7, Apple Licenses

‘Obama’ viruses are fast spreading. Reports of spam that Bush killed Obama are being circulated.  Emails with “special videos” of Obama’s victory speech are trolling around the Internet too, which when opened aim for any personal information. Unsolicited world news is usually spam, and don’t open these mails (and don’t forward them) even if they say that Bush killed Osama.

Basic users have always been Microsoft’s target audience, unlike some other operating systems that seem to be cut out for power users. In this tradition, Window 7 is apparently going to have troubleshooters in eight categories, to enable users use diagnostic tools by following simple instructions.

Until now, windows has been accused of being insensitive to users’ USB connectivity needs. USB in Windows 7 is going to be more reliable though. There is still the 3.0 speed boost to gripe about, but that is beside this point here.

I guess that after Windows Vista has been written-off by many as Microsoft’s biggest disaster, all eyes are on Window 7. After getting his hands on the pre-beta version, Randall of InfoWorld feels that Windows 7 is a Vista twin, a slightly tweaked and nearly baked version of the latter.

John Martellaro, the Mac Observer, wonders a scenario when Apple issues a license to drive OS X. He speculates in-depth about the tipping points and the impact on Microsoft. Worth a read.