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Six versions of Windows 7. So much for just having the two rumoured earlier. Of course Microsoft cannot get these things right.

Windows 7 even less secure than Vista. Get your anti-virus programs up to date you people.

blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft

I'm amazed at how much more visual imagery there is in Microsoft's Virtual Earth compared to Google Earth; each location in VE has 5 shots: top-down, and the four "Bird's Eye" views from north, south, east, and west. Also, there seems to be far more 3-D buildings in VE than in GE. Does anyone know why Google Earth lacks or omits the very useful and detailed "Bird's Eye" imagery found in VE?

Paul, I missed your post to Google Earth's new release; I give MS credit, but this is totally reactionary.  It's also the mistake they made with the xbox: "Hot graphics sell everytime".

Here is the real newsmaker, and something else interesting.  Oh, and Robertsjoe ---> you're a troll.

news.google.com/news

This is interesting too:

www.romereborn.virginia.edu/project_news.php

robertsjoe: If you actually read the article and did 5 minutes of google research instead of just reading the headline you'd have realized that the UAC change does not make Windows 7 less secure than Vista. What Microsoft did was make UAC more configurable. With Windows 7 you can choose to have it annoy you more or less by using a slider to adjust the notifications to your comfort level. With Vista you could either have UAC turned on or off. Now you will have more options.

A user choosing to turn security features down or off will make the operating system more prone to malware attacks but that is the choice of the user - it doesn't mean the OS itself is less secure. Users can also turn off the firewall or run without any anti-virus. Those are choices - not OS security vulnerabilities.

And what the hell do your comments have to do with Virtual Earth anyways?? Way, way off topic this time.

Ocean: I'm not so sure this is reactionary on Microsoft's part. They have been doing the Bird's Eye View feature for some time now.

Shmanky: The Bird's Eye View feature is not satellite imagery. They get that view by flying a plane around snapping pictures of the ground from all angles. Google hasn't taken that step yet. They're too busy driving their Google Street View truck around running over deer. http://tinyurl.com/deaup8

@Ocean - How is this reactionary on Microsoft's part? Do you remember a little project called TerraServer...I believe it was around n the mid-90's...Google didn't exist before 1996...there was no google.com domain until '97, and the company wasn't incorporated until '98. This is just an evolutionary step...Google bought Google Earth in 2004. It seems to me that Google is the reactionary one here.

But, look here - www.justmagic.com/.../Google_Oceans.jpg - this should be your new avatar...but what is that little bulge in the mid-section?

--tayme

"And what the hell do your comments have to do with Virtual Earth anyways?? Way, way off topic this time."

:-) I guess he had another bad day at school. You didn't answer my question, robertsjoe. What do you want to be when you grow up?

"Google hasn't taken that step yet. They're too busy driving their Google Street View truck around running over deer."

Google gets more press for what it does. That's the reason it seems like Microsoft's actions are reactionary.

Thanks Kenmcnamee.

Windows 7 making it easier for malware authors

www.withinwindows.com/.../windows-7-auto-elevation-mistake-lets-malware-elevate-freely-easily

Things are looking up for Windows 7 </sarcasm off>

Oh, don't get me wrong --> the product itself isn't reactionary...it's the 'press release" via blog, and Pauls post as well.

Is Ken McNamee a new Mike Galos doppelganger?

I am starting to think that I was wrong about robertsjoe...he probably isn't a little zit faced kid...rather, I think that he is the sadest, most obsessed person that I have ever experienced on the intertubes. I really feel sorry for the guy. He needs to get a woman and learn what real life is all about. What a waste of space on Earth he is....but, on the other hand...I recant all of that...he's just a zit faced little teenager that can barely make it through a day at school because of his anticipation to get to mommy and daddy's basement and on the iMac to post his illiterate rants on a Windows site.

--tayme

Regarding robertsjoe, just stop replying to him.

He's like that annoying, attention whoring little snot that was in everyone's grade school class.

Ignore him and he'll eventually go away.

Ocean: Doppelganger? I'm not sure it means what you think it means.

"dop·pel·gäng·er or dop·pel·gang·er  (dŏp'əl-gāng'ər, -gěng'-)

n.   A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its fleshly counterpart."

I'm not sure what's more disturbing... being called a ghost or thinking of Mike Galos as my "fleshy counterpart".

Robertsjoe resembles someone called bonch, who posted few years ago on Paul's WinInfo daily. Same fame, same nonsense.

"I'm not sure what's more disturbing... being called a ghost or thinking of Mike Galos as my "fleshy counterpart"."

How do you think I feel about it...

Man, if anything proves robertsjoe is a troll, that does. His OT posts up there were totally uncalled for. I have a hard time not believing that he constantly browses this site, ready to spit out nonsense at every turn.

Btw, nice to see you, Mike!

"I'm not sure what's more disturbing... being called a ghost or thinking of Mike Galos as my "fleshy counterpart"."

I think what's more disturbing is that you're supposedly haunting mikegalos.

"think that he is the sadest, most obsessed person that I have ever experienced on the intertubes."

You have seen bonch at work, haven't you? :-)

Hey, but it hasn't been all bad - Ocean has toned it down for fear of being compared to robertsjoe.

As someone that survived the bonch years, I do at least give rj some credit for not being *that* bad.

In terms of the so-called reactionary press release and questioning why Paul might be interested in this, remember that Paul likes France, and that is one of the big additions to this recent update.  They also released some new birds-eye for the great state of NJ down around where the good doc lives.

"As someone that survived the bonch years, I do at least give rj some credit for not being *that* bad."

He is pretty close...I remember bonch's posts on MacWorld days...he was truly obsessed with everything Apple. Maybe rj is bonch with a couple of years of maturity???

--tayme

You missed one Ken:

>>In the vernacular, "Doppelgänger" has come to refer (as in German) to any double or look-alike of a person. <<

This is the definition I was referring to.

>>The word is also used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. They are generally regarded as harbingers of bad luck.<<

Indeed, for this thread has brought back the real Mike Galos.  :)

@tayme:

Re: Windows 7 file-type linking from previous article (I've been too busy to respond)

The Windows 7 taskbar contains links to programs when they're not running.  You could always drag and drop files onto program links.  Windows interprets it similarly to a run command where you have "<program> <datafile>".  It doesn't change file type associations in other OS versions.  (Let me know if it does in 7)

That's been in Windows for as long as I can remember (dating back to probably at least 3.1).

FYI:  You can do the same thing with icons in a standard Quick Launch folder too, but small icons in Quick Launch make it difficult to maneuver with the mouse.  If you don't see the black insert bar then you're probably over an app icon.

Ocean: Yeah, I knew what you meant by doppelganger. I just needed an excuse to utter the phrase, "fleshy counterpart".  :-)

I remember on more than one occasion bonch leaving a couple pages of 10 comments a piece in a row of nothingness.  Now that is an uber-troll.  Luckily rj has not stooped that low.

Live Earth vs. Google Earth - Which One Is Better?

Doesn't really answer the question:

chriswoodill.blogspot.com/.../live-earth-vs-google-earth-which-one-is.html

"Live Earth vs. Google Earth - Which One Is Better?"

Considering that they're totally different things, how do you even compare them? Live Earth is the entertainment thing that Al Gore and some other guy came up with.

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