Another year of blogging on 4sysops passed by. It was a good year. The number of page views doubled...
Vista bashing – Why is it so popluar?
Joe Wilcox from Microsoft Watch wrote a relatively long article trying to explain the negative public opinion on Vista....
FREE: Wireshark – Powerful network analyzer
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across...
Is Windows (XP and Vista) five times as secure as Mac OS X?
Larry Dignan from ZDNet compared the vulnerabilities of Mac OS X with Windows XP and Windows Vista in 2007....
Windows Server 2008 podcast with Paul Thurrott at Windows Weekly
Windows Weekly has a nice webcast about Windows Server 2008. Paul Thurrott interviews Ward Ralston, group technical product manager...
Microsoft beats major antivirus vendors
Vnunet.com has an interesting article about the latest test results of Virus Bulletin. Major vendors such as Sophos, Trend...
FREE: Nmap + Zenmap – Network scanner with Windows GUI
Nmap is probably the most powerful network security scanner. You can use this nifty Open Source tool for security...
SP3 RC for Windows XP is now publicly available at Microsoft Download. I linked to another build (3244) at...
Vista adoption in numbers – 44 percent of all IT pros want move to another OS
The German print magazine C't (26/2007, p.44) has some interesting information regarding Vista adoption in corporate environments. They cited...
FREE: mst IsUsedBy – Check what process uses a certain file
mst IsUsedBy is a simple, but very useful free tool. It allows you determine what process opened a particular...
Review: VMware Server 2 – what a disappointment
I am currently evaluating Virtual Server plus Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) because I am thinking of replacing our VMware...
Public download of Vista SP1 Release Candidate available
Microsoft finally offers SP1 RC for Vista as a public download. You can download it as standalone package or...
Download installation package of Windows XP SP3 RC1 – Does Microsoft drain XP?
You can now download an installation package of Service Pack 3 RC1 for Windows XP. It is a bit...
Office 2007 SP1 downloads
Office 2007 SP1 is now available for download. Microsoft says that this service pack improves stability, performance, and security....
Detailed information about Service Pack 1 for Vista – Is this SP really the solution to all of Vista’s problems?
Microsoft released a couple of white papers that discuss in detail Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. I just...
FREE: Terminals – A multi-tabbed RDP client
Submitted by Patrick Klages A great tool to replace mstsc. It allows me to have several servers up and...
As promised, I added a feature that allows you to rate the free admin tools that were submitted so...
Download Vista SP1 RC1 from Windows Update with a little hack
It seems as if Microsoft is making progress with Service Pack 1 for Vista. Technet and MSDN subscribers can...
Download Windows Server 2008 RC1
You can download Windows Server 2008 RC1 now. Its most interesting new feature is the Group Policy Preferences. Microsoft...
Office 2007 SP1 secrets
You probably heard that Microsoft is going to release Office 2007 SP1 next Tuesday. That is certainly good news...










