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Pre-order Windows 7 upgrade for half off!

June 26, 2009

Windows 7 pre-orders start today. While the software itself will not ship until October, you can get a great deal if you order it now.
I wrote down my first impressions of Windows 7 earlier this year. Unlike Vista, I think Windows 7 is a necessary upgrade for every Windows user, especially those still using XP. [...]

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Acrobat.com Presentations: a future PowerPoint killer?

May 27, 2009

Today, Adobe releases a new collaborative Presentations application for its free online Acrobat.com cloud-based office suite. This new presentation software brings Acrobat.com one step closer to being a full-fledged online replacement for Microsoft Office. Since all of Acrobat.com is still in a beta phase, none of the products are fully developed — and some need [...]

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First impressions of Windows 7

January 11, 2009

Microsoft Windows Vista has been, most everyone agrees, a huge disappointment. Even though, in the years leading up to the release of Vista, everyone complained loudly about Windows XP, by comparison, the old, familiar, and reliable XP stayed on everyone’s computer.
So can Microsoft do better? If the buzz about Windows 7 is any indication, the [...]

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Microsoft’s new ad campaign: WTF?

September 12, 2008

Microsoft video number 2. I don’t know WTF either, but I laughed all the way through.
(For those not following current events, here is video number 1 in the new Microsoft ad campaign designed to compete with the popular “Get a Mac” Apple ads.)
Edit: Okay, I think this guy at Engadget may be on to something. [...]

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Windows will not actually speed up if you do the following . . .

August 6, 2008

From Lifehacker, nine things that will not actually speed up Windows. Among them, disabling Microsoft processes, clearing out your registry, and memory “optimizer” programs.
What will work: running SpyBot every now and then to clear out resource-hogging spyware, and using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer so you get less spyware in the first place.
Debunking Common Windows [...]

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Microsoft wants to control your hardware

June 13, 2008

At least, that seems to be the implication of its new “digital manners policy” patent, which would force your gadgets to receive “orders” from a digital Miss Manners overlord. For example, a movie theater could automatically switch all phone in the audience to vibrate when the movie starts.
Maybe that would be nice, but when I [...]

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Brits shying away from Microsoft Office

May 14, 2008

According to InformationWeek, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency is advocating for removing Microsoft Office from the classroom in favor of open-standards compliant office suites like OpenOffice.org.
It is good to see this kind of pressure on Microsoft. If they would either open up their OOXML standard or else support the Open Document Format like [...]

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Windos XP Service Pack 3: come and get it!

April 29, 2008

If you have been steadfastly holding on to Windows XP (and really, who could blame you?), you have probably been looking forward to the promised Service Pack 3, which will bring some of Vista’s polish to the venerable XP, as well as tidy up the old OS generally.
Download it via Windows Update today.
Windows XP SP3 [...]

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