Oh, it is ON between Google and Microsoft. A Google security engineer in Switzerland warned Microsoft of a vulnerability in Windows XP, but after they didn’t fix it within five days, he went public with the hacker’s wet dream.
First there was Windows 95 on an iPad. People cringed, but apparently they did not cringe enough, as someone else has managed to get Windows XP up and running on an iPad. Macheads, avert thy eyes!
Confirmed: a bad McAfee update for Windows XP has shut down thousands, possibly millions, of computers around the world. That’s big trouble.
If this morning’s news of Internet Explorer 9′s support for HTML5 and video acceleration got you excited, and you happen to run Windows XP, prepare to get unexcited: You won’t be able to install it on your OS. Sorry! [IE9]
Considering the fact that Windows XP is still the most-used OS worldwide, anyone considering swapping out their old hard drives for a new one should heed this advice: be careful. You may want to even consider not doing it.
So there’s this tiny unpatched bug in VBScript that lets sneaky websites run malicious code on machines running Internet Explorer on Windows XP. It’s triggered when you try to access the help menu by hitting the F1 key. Whoops.
Here are the first shots of the VPC08 in action. The hardware looks faithful to those renders we saw mid-November, and includes a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 800MHz Atom Z500 CPU, and separate phone controls with a second 2-inch screen.
