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Apple goes Safari with Windows
So Apple has finally decided to put the Mac OS X built-in browser Safari out on the Windows platform as well. You can read all about it here and Sean Hederman has an interesting viewpoint on it here as well. Personally I encourage competition and I welcome anyone who believes they can compete to come forward and do so. So far I've successfully installed and run it at home last night (Windows Vista x64) and at work (Windows XP SP2). No problems so far and it seems to be fast and friendly. Is it...
Three new Windows Live betas now available
According to the Windows Vista team blog post over here there are some new betas available. The most important for me is the Windows Live Writer Beta 2 which now features the ability to add categories and a special new paste method. As my tool of preference I can't wait to try it out. Windows Live Messenger 8.5 adds a new look and feel thats more suitable for Windows Vista and the Windows Live Mail is the successor to Windows Mail on Windows Vista and Outlook Express on Windows XP. I've been...
At last the mysterious svchost.exe memory leak is fixed
Its not often that my work PC (running Windows XP service pack 2) starts to misbehave, but recently I've noticed that when I unlock my workstation in the morning its very sluggish and its been swapping out to disk a lot lately. I thought it was just Internet Explorer 7.0 freaking out about being open with a tab open to GMail - I've noticed that this causes a memory leak under Windows Vista. So I decided to investigate this further yesterday and found the culprit to be a little process known...