‘Plays for Sure’ was the name of the DRM system used by Microsoft to show people that it was safe to trust them as a music supplier. The idea was that Microsoft was so large that they would always be around, and the DRM intertwined with the music purchased would not ever prevent its […]
News of the last few days leads many to wonder if the leaders in the software and hardware world ever bother to look up from their tasks at hand to see what anyone else is doing.
Just yesterday we learned of the Microsoft idea of Mesh, which with all the problems the company has had […]
Dell: cheap, you bet your butt, helpful, not in your wildest dreams!
So many people are disappointed in the quality of customer service today. Nowhere is the lack of customer service more apparent than in the computer field. Consumers are treated as though they had better be one of two types - either they are […]
Beginning Thursday, Grisoft’s newest product, AVG Free 8.0 will be available, bringing improved virus protection, but also bringing part of the anti-spyware component of its paid sister application.
This will be good for many, as the addition of one interface, one program, will bring ease of use to many, and an economy of load on […]
After the problems with the Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft has decided to change things up a bit, and not allow TechNet subscribers and other ‘early adopters’ access to the download until after the general public has a chance to get it.
Naturally, this has those early adopters very upset, as they pay for the […]
Lots of people are discussing what to spend the tax rebate that our government has decided will make the economy better. (Yes, that is like the neighborhood spendthrift shopping till she drops, because more money will be sent her way by the places she shops!)
For the savvy computer user, or one who wishes to become […]
Just introduced to the online compendium of knowledge are the collected works of Charles Darwin, including the still controversial and pertinent, ‘Origin of Species’. Now you can peruse his written works as easily as anything else on the internet.
Thousands of papers written by Charles Darwin, including the first draft of his famous Origin of […]
One in seven are ‘borrowing’ a wi-fi signal to have internet access. That’s a pretty staggering figure, reported on VNUnet, The study cited says that the survey was done in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, The overall average was one in ten, with the U.K. at a rate of one in twelve. Well, they […]
but figures don’t lie. Or so the saying goes.
Many people wonder why, since the figures state incredibly long times of service, why their hard drive has failed them. Hard drives these days have ratings of, when converted to years, around 150! How can the drive they bought have possibly failed them. Were they born under […]
Apparently the employees at Microsoft are concerned that their profit sharing is not performing as it should. Microsoft may be one of the largest entities in the world, bringing in so much money that, at any time, its chairman and co-founder is one of the top three most wealthy people alive, the company may have, […]
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