Microsoft

If you are currently in the market for a job, which I am, you may find that some companies and agencies will only allow you to access their online job application and job search system through Window’s Internet Explorer.  I ran into this when trying to access the Texas Health and Human Services website. It [...]

Microsoft is planning to open a line of retail stores to show off the Windows operating system and the software and hardware that is designed to run on it. Having worked in a retail store that specialized in electronics and computers I can say that any type of store that Microsoft opens would have [...]

At first it was copying the OS X interface look with Vista, then it was copying the OS X dock by placing a version of it in the new “Super Bar” in Windows 7 and copying the way OS X handles wireless connections through an easy to use drop down menu in the task bar. [...]

I saw a posting on Tom’s Hardware site where they had pulled a screenshot of the Windows 7 install options, showing 5 different versions.  There was a starter, home basic, home premium, business, and ultimate edition.  Clearly Microsoft did not learn anything from their last product release, when they introduced a similar number of products [...]

Microsoft has had a worse than expected quarter and because of their low earnings are having to lay off 5,000 employees.  This should be an omen to Microsoft that they need to focus on their core strengths and get out of money losing markets like video games and music players.  The XBox, last I heard [...]

So far the Windows 7 beta is looking great, the taskbar is a huge improvement and the overall system performance is faster on similar hardware than Vista is.  It is shaping up to be quite a success for Microsoft, but there is one last thing that it really needs.  Windows 7, like Vista and like [...]

We know that there will be an enterprise version of 7 because Microsoft has said that there will be, but what we don’t know is how many other versions Microsoft will put out.  It is likely that they would like to avoid the criticisms that came with the massive number of versions that Vista came [...]

While I no longer own a Windows computer, I did use that operating system from 1996 to 2004 and I picked up a few standard practices that will help keep Windows running smoothly and quickly without having to resort to all sorts of different adware and virus scanners in order to keep it working.  The [...]

I recently read a story on Digg about Microsoft’s new program SongSmith being a possible challenger to Apple’s GarageBand in the digital music creation arena. Having watched a few demos of the product, all I can say is that GarageBand has nothing to worry about. In fact, none of the programs that are designed for creating [...]

According to the system requirements, which many are touting as progress because they have not gone up over what Vista requires, in order to run Windows 7 you will have to have a 1Ghz processor, a gigabyte of RAM, and a 128MB graphics card just to run an operating system.  I had the idea that [...]