Gregg Keizer - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Gregg Keizer

Article | 4/10/2007 Microsoft updates Vista speed, stability again

For the second time in two months, Microsoft has rolled out fixes to improve Windows Vista's speed and reliability.

Article | 3/10/2007 Macs post market share gains

Apple's share of computers connected to the Internet climbed to a new record last month, with about 6.6 percent of all those online running Mac OS X, ...

Article | 3/10/2007 Giving up on Vista? Here's how to downgrade to XP

Microsoft's decision last week to delay the end of Windows XP sales five months means users have just that much longer to jilt Vista and return to the...

Article | 2/10/2007 Microsoft confirms stealth WU update mucks up XP restore

Microsoft confirmed late last week that Windows XP users who repair the operating system cannot update their PCs with the latest patches because of a ...

Article | 2/10/2007 iPhone users now fear security patches, say analysts

Apple's decision last week to bundle an iPhone-crippling firmware upgrade with 10 security patches for the device was a mistake, analysts said this we...

Article | 2/10/2007 Microsoft links Office to Web with Live Workspace

Microsoft announced this week a free online storage, file sharing and collaboration service designed for users of its Office application suite, its la...

Article | 2/10/2007 NY woman sues Apple, Jobs over iPhone price cut

A woman from New York sued Apple last week over the iPhone, saying that the company broke several laws when it cut the price of the device last month ...

Article | 2/10/2007 iPhone's Bluetooth bug under the hacker microscope

Almost lost in the hubbub over last Thursday's iPhone firmware update and whether it would "brick" unlocked phones was the fact that Apple patched 10 ...

Article | 28/09/2007 Microsoft's stealth updates stymie XP repairs

The contentious stealth update that Microsoft delivered to customers this summer blocks 80 patches and fixes from installing after Windows XP is resto...

Article | 28/09/2007 VMware pushes out beta of Mac virtual machine

VMware Wednesday released the first beta of Fusion 1.1, the newest version of its virtualization software that lets Mac owners run Windows on their In...

Article | 28/09/2007 Number of malicious e-mails with bad links balloons 10-fold

The percentage of threats arriving in e-mail that rely on links to malicious sites -- rather than arriving as a file attachment -- has ballooned 10-fo...

Article | 27/09/2007 Excel 2007 flunks some maths problems

Microsoft confirmed this week that Excel 2007, the newest version of its market-leading spreadsheet, returns incorrect calculation results in some cas...

Article | 27/09/2007 Gmail zero-day flaw allows attackers to steal messages

Accounts on Google's Gmail can be easily hacked, allowing any past -- and future e-mail messages -- to be forwarded to the attacker's own in-box, a vu...

Article | 26/09/2007 iPhone unlock hackers promise to fight Apple updates

Programmers who wrote free software that unlocks Apple's iPhone have disputed the company's claim that their hacks can damage the device and promised ...

Article | 26/09/2007 iPhone hacks void warranty, Apple says

Less than a week after CEO Steve Jobs said that Apple would fight hacks that unlocked the iPhone, the company said any modification, unlocks included,...