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Saturday, January 30, 2016

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Software and protocols

The following are common chat programs and protocols:

Apple Messages
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
Camfrog
Campfire
Gadu-Gadu
Google Talk
I2P-Messenger (anonymous, end-to-end encrypted im for the I2P network)
ICQ (OSCAR)
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
WILL GET
Paltalk
RetroShare (encrypted, decentralized)
QQ
SILC
Skype
Talk
Talkerymail also
TeamSpeak (TS)
WebChat Broadcasting System (WBS)
WhatsApp
Windows Live Messenger
XMPP
Yahoo! Messenger No longer available
Chat programs supporting multiple protocols:

Adium
Google+ Hangouts
Kopete
IBM Sametime
Miranda IM
Pidgin
Quiet Internet Pager
Trillian
Windows Live Messenger
Web sites with browser-based chat services (also see web chat):

Cryptocat
Chat Television No longer available
Convore No longer available
eBuddy
eXo Platform (Open Source)
Facebook
FilmOn
Gmail
Google+
Hall. com
Lycos Chat
MeBeam
Meebo No longer available
Mibbit
Omegle
Talkomatic
Tokbox No longer available
Tinychat
Trillian
Userplane
Woo Media No longer offered
Wireclub
Zumbl No longer available
See also[edit]
Chat room
Collaborative software
Instant messaging
List of virtual communities with more than 100 million active users
Live support software
Online dating service
Real-time text
Videotelephony

Social criticism

Criticism of online chatting and texts include concern that they replace proper English with shorthand or with an almost completely new hybrid language. [11][12][13]

Writing is changing as it takes on some of the functions and features of speech. Internet chat rooms and rapid real-time teleconferencing allow users to interact with whoever happens to coexist in cyberspace. These virtual interactions involve us in 'talking' more freely and more widely than ever before. [14] With chatrooms replacing many face-to-face conversations it is necessary to be able to have quick conversation as if the person were present, so many people learn to type as quickly as they would likely normally speak. Critics[who?] are wary that this casual form of speech is being used so much that it will slowly take over common grammar; however, such a change has yet to be seen.

With the increasing population of online chatrooms there has been a massive growth[15] of new words created or slang words, many of them documented on the website Urban Dictionary. Sven Birkerts wrote:

"as new electronic modes of communication provoke similar anxieties amongst critics who express concern that young people are at risk, endangered by a rising tide of information over which the traditional controls of print media plus the guardians of knowledge have no control on it". [16]

In Guy Merchant's journal article Teenagers in Cyberspace: An Investigation of Language Use and Language Change in Internet Chatrooms; Merchant says

"that teenagers and young people are in the leading the movement of change as they take advantage of the possibilities of digital technology, drastically changing the face of literacy in a variety of media through their uses of mobile phone text messages, e-mails, web-pages and on-line chatrooms. This new literacy develops skills that may well be important to the labor market but are currently viewed with suspicion in the advertising and by educationalists. [14]

Merchant also says "Younger people tend to be more adaptable than other sectors of society and, in general, quicker to adapt to new technology. To some extent they are the innovators, the forces of change in the new communication landscape. "[14] In this article he is saying that young people are merely adapting to what they were given.

Chatiquette

The phrase chatiquette (chat etiquette) is a variation of netiquette (Internet etiquette) and describes basic rules of online communication. [4][5][6] These conventions or guidelines have been created to avoid misunderstandings and to simplify the communication between users. Chatiquette varies from community to community and generally describes basic courtesy. As an example, it is considered rude to write only in upper case, because it appears as if the user is shouting. The word "chatiquette" has been used in connection with various chat systems (e. g. Internet Relay Chat) since 1995. [7][8]

Chatrooms can produce a strong sense of online identity leading to feeling of subculture. [9]

Chats are valuable sources of various types of information, the automatic processing of which is the object of chat/text mining technologies. [10.

History

The primary online chat system was called Talkomatic, created by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois. It offered several channels, each of which could accommodate up to five people, with messages appearing on all users' screens character-by-character as they were typed. Talkomatic was very popular among PLATO users into the mid-1980s. In 2014 Brown and Woolley released a web-based version of Talkomatic.

The first online system to use the actual command "chat" was created for The Source in 1979 by Tom Walker and Fritz Thane of Dialcom, Inc.

The first transatlantic Internet chat was held between Oulu, Finland and Corvallis, Oregon in February of 1989. [1]

The first dedicated online chat service that was widely available to the public was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980, [2][3] created by CompuServe executive Alexander "Sandy" Trevor in Columbus, Ohio. Ancestors include network chat software such as UNIX "talk" used in the 1970s.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 1st online chat system was called Talkomatic, created by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO System at the University of Illinois. It offered several channels, each of which could accommodate up to five people, with messages appearing on all users' screens character-by-character as they were typed. Talkomatic was very popular among PLATO users into the mid-1980s. In 2014 Brown and Woolley released a web-based version of Talkomatic.

The first online system to use the actual command "chat" was created for The Source in 1979 by Tom Walker and Fritz Thane of Dialcom, Inc.

The first transatlantic Internet chat came about between Oulu, Finland and Corvallis, Oregon in February of 1989. [1]

The first dedicated online chat service that was widely available to the public was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980, [2][3] created by CompuServe executive Alexander "Sandy" Trevor in Columbus, Ohio. Ancestors include network chat software such as UNIX "talk" used in the 1970s.

Microsoft’s Edge browser may be storing private browsing data

When Microsoft’s Edge browser arrived this summer alongside Windows 10, it was seen as a major step forward, incorporating new features like Cortana Assist alongside tricks that had become popular elsewhere, like Reading List and the new InPrivate browsing mode.

But now, new research suggests that InPrivate may not be as private as it seems. According to an investigation by researcher Ashish Singh, websites visited from InPrivate can be easily recovered from a user’s hard drive by examining the WebCache report. Visited sites are stored in the same "Container_n" table that stores tab history from conventional browsing, the investigation found.

By examining that table, an attacker would be able to reconstruct a user’s entire browsing history, whether in Private Mode or not. "The not-so-private browsing featured by Edge makes its very purpose seem to fail, " Singh wrote in Forensic Focus...

What happens to those free Windows 10 upgrades after July 29, 2016?

What happens to those free Windows 10 upgrades after July 29, 2016?

Microsoft's ambitious plan to get Windows 10 running on a billion devices within the next few years depends to a large extent on the success of its free upgrade offer.

When the company first announced the terms of that offer last May, it literally included an asterisk and fine print. Those terms have changed slightly over the intervening months, but one element has remained constant: The offer is good first year after the availability of Windows 10.

Here's the actual wording of the offer, as it appears today:

It's free and easy

Upgrade confidently - 100+ million fans have upgraded and are loving it. You'll have a free, full version of Windows 10 -- not a trial or a lite version -- if you complete your upgrade before July 29, 2016.

And this is what currently appears in the fine print at the bottom of that page (emphasis added):

In fact, Microsoft's real goal with this upgrade offer isn't just to get its installed Windows 10 base to a billion dollars. The long-term goal is to help close the books on Windows 7 in an orderly fashion before its extended support commitment ends on January 14, 2020.

Some of those Windows 7 PCs will simply be retired, of course. But what about those that are only a few years old and have more than four years of usable life ahead of them? For Microsoft executives, the prospect that hundreds of millions of PCs will still be running Windows 7 on New Year's Day 2020 has to bring back unpleasant flashbacks of Windows XP's messy end.

Ed Bott sees at least about three possible scenarios playing out when July 29, 2016 rolls around...

Windows 10 at six months: Ready for primetime?

Windows 10 at six months: Ready for primetime?
Windows 10 has been available to the public for six months this week. By the numbers, it's been a hit, with 200 million active users as of the first of the year. Here's Ed Bott's midterm report card.

Microsoft released Windows 10 to the public six months ago this week

The first major feature update found its way to mid-November, almost exactly four months after the initial release. That November update, dubbed version 1511, included some hugely important features for Microsoft's enterprise customers, including greater control over updates and virtual TPM support in Hyper-V virtual machines.

The idea of delivering big feature updates two or three times a year is unprecedented in the history of Windows, which historically has saved those features for "big bang" releases every three years or so.

During the past six months, Microsoft has been delivering cumulative updates every month. That's another major shift in the way Windows 10 works compared to its predecessors.

There's a tendency among casual observers and tech reporters to focus on the consumer experience. That's only natural, of course, because most modern tech reporters are themselves consumers, and they have little or no experience with the challenges that IT pros face in securing and managing computing resources in a business setting.

Yes, the consumer experience is important, but the business story is arguably even more so, and so far it's been mostly ignored in the mainstream press.

As of the beginning of 2016, Microsoft claimed that more than 200 million devices were actively running Windows 10 worldwide, with about 10 percent of that number in enterprise and education.

With that wording, it's time to give Windows 10 a mid-year status report. What's working? What's not? And what's next?

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Anti-malware programs can combat malware in two ways:

They can provide real time protection against installing malware software on a computer. This type of spyware protection works the same way as that of anti-virus protection in that the anti-malware software scans all incoming network data for malware software and blocks any threats it comes across.
Anti-malware software programs can be used solely for detection and removal of malware software that has already been installed onto a computer. This type of anti-malware software scans the contents of the windows registry, operating system files, and installed programs on a computer and will provide a list of any threats found, allowing the user to choose what which files for you to delete or keep, or compare this list to a list of known malware components, removing files which match.
Real-time protection from malware works identically to real-time anti-virus protection: the software scans disk files at download time, and blocks the activity of components known to represent malware. In some cases, it may also intercept attempts to install start-up items or to modify browser settings. Because many malware components are installed as a result of browser exploits or user error, using security software (some of which are anti-malware, though many are not) to "sandbox" browsers (essentially babysit the user and their browser) can even be effective to help restrict any damage done.

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