software

Microsoft has had a rough year when it comes to its line of financial software. In June it stopped producing its MS Money product and now it is discontinuing its MS Office Accounting software as well. Though the product may be in the process of being discontinued, you can still get the Express version, which [...]

There is an unfinished feature built into Windows 7 that allows a laptop to become a hotspot. Microsoft originally was going to include the feature, but during development dropped it from the final version. Now a company is beta testing its software, which is free for the download, that takes advantage of this feature.
On the [...]

Microsoft is clarifying what the company says is a LEGAL upgrade process is for upgarding to Windows 7, contrary to the opinions expressed by some on the Internet. This is not a new situation, in that we seem to run into this brick wall with each Windows release. This unfortunate situation seems to rear its [...]

In what I can only describe as a surprising statement, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has actually admitted that Vista was less than a stellar operating system. In a recent statement Mr. Ballmer said:
The company’s reputation took a beating after the release of Vista, which caused machines to stall indefinitely while deleting, copying [...]

I have been beta testing the software known as Microsoft Security Essentials since it was released. The software is currently installed on my test box which is running Windows 7 RTM along with a virtual copy of Windows XP. I am using MSE for both operating systems and it works very well with one exception. [...]

Netflix has seemed to find a sure fire way to get what it needs by offering a $1 million prize as a carrot. In its first million dollar prize offering, it wanted a better software that could statistically predict what movies its customers would like to see. The criteria was that the new software had [...]

A group of geeks from Palo Alto, California are on the attack against the spy trade and have developed new software to track down terrorists. The software known as Palantir Technologies has been shown to be an effective tool against those who would plan attacks against us and others. The software uses a unique search [...]

The copying of DVD’s was hammered with two death blows delivered by two different courts. One court ruled that:
RealDVD software violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 that prohibits the circumvention of encryption technology. DVDs are encrypted with what is known as the Content Scramble System, and DVD players must secure a license to [...]

It seems that those MacBook Pro owners who have systems with 500GB hard disks, have been complaining for months about sluggish performance. It seems that at random intervals the drive starts to click and fails to respond.
But what is surprising is that Apple is going to offer a software fix only. One would think that [...]

I have tried many products that make all kinds of promises about increasing computer speed. They use the fact that all computers slow down after time and that the system needs to be tuned by their fine product. Most of us have tried these products but the results have been anything but stellar. Yes, there [...]

So during my roaming around the Internet, I stumble upon a very interesting article from John Dvorak, in which he describes the failed ventures of Microsoft. He concludes, that in his opinion, Microsoft could be on the verge of failing. He sites failed ventures in products such as MSN, Microsoft Press, Zune, as well as [...]

Though Google is making light of their use of the word ‘beta’, they do admit to over extending the ‘beta’ length on their products. For most of us the word ‘beta’ means test version to iron out bugs. Normally ‘beta’ software becomes RTM software once the testing completes. But for Google they have some products [...]

Photoshop is the premiere software when it comes to image manipulation and is renown by professionals and amateurs alike. For those who have purchased Photoshop you can testify to the fact that the software is expensive. Some have also described Photoshop as being the industry standard in which other image editing programs are compared.
But there [...]

Last week I had mentioned that the folks at Mozilla were getting ready to release Firefox 3.5 final on today’s date. True to form it did in fact hit the Internet today and I have already downloaded and installed the latest release. Now I could waste your time and mine telling you about how wonderful [...]

Intel is testing a Firefox extension called ‘Dispute Finder’, which claims to determine if claims are BS or not. According to the Intel labs site, they claim that the claims made by others can be disputed by readers and both views on the subject are presented. Though this would seem to be a valuable tool, [...]

The military calls it ’search and destroy’ amd it appears that is exactly what Microsoft is doing. They have declared war on McAfee and Symantec. Their new Microsoft Security Essentials, aka Morro, will have a HUGE advantage over anything that McAfee and Symantec will be able to offer. It will be 100% free for the [...]

The story about Microsoft taking cost cutting measures by stopping the payments for employees iPhones, is not the real story. The real story is that Microsoft will pay for employees to use Windows Mobile Devices. You have to laugh at this. The employees know that the iPhone is a superior product.
According to one article it [...]

Microsoft is warning users of the fake malware software known as Internet Antivirus Pro. Microsoft warns that the software can not detect any malware and is rogue software. Microsoft has provided these screen shots to make detection easy:

Win32/InternetAntivirus follows the familiar path of fake online scanner leading to the rogue downloader, which in turn installs [...]

Microsoft has been dumping software during this past year and now they plan on killing off Microsoft Money. The software had been originally designed to go on the attack against Intuits popular QuickBooks programs. It seems as I stated yesterday, Microsoft continues to have issues with their identity and who they are.
Encarta bit the dust. [...]

The Chinese government has contacted all international PC makers and have requested web blocking software on computers that are sold in China. The government stated that the requirement will go into effect starting July 1, 2009. The software must be either installed on the hard disk and provided on a disk for the user to [...]