courtesy: blogs.zdnet.com As we saw yesterday the much vaunted Unix skills premium over Windows is pretty small – 15% or so in an overheated market and less than that elsewhere. Notice, however, that this information pertains only to larger organizations: people who can pay their neighborhood pretend-a-geek $25 per hour to futz with their Windows [...]

Microsoft’s open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand words by ZDNet‘s Mary Jo Foley — Does Microsoft have an open-source strategy — beyond finding new ways to thwart Linux? Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s Director of Platform Technology Strategy and the company’s Open Source Software Lab, says it does, and that he can distill it down [...]

Many a times we encounter a scenario, where in we need to log off and login as local administrator to perform administrative task, but in Windows XP its not the case, you can use runas command or right click the executable and select runas, its that simple. What about Windows 2000 Professional:Well by default, when [...]