Windows 7

I have been wondering that since earlier this week, when an article on slashdot asked if anyone really thought that Mr. Ballmer would ever really say that any Microsoft Launch was sub-par.
The article has a point; one that should not be lost on anyone who thinks. Since we are very early on in the life [...]

As I have written here before, I hosted a Windows 7 Ultimate Launch party, and for the party there were a couple of offers for software that was a kick-start to getting people purchase other software, to go along with Windows 7.
The biggies on the list were deals on Norton Internet Security and Kaspersky Antivirus. [...]

The problems of the world continue no matter the hopes and best wishes of any business or corporate entity. That is the reason we have so many reports of the early sales of Windows 7 being up, by as much as 234%, according to some reports, yet other reports state that PC sales are down. [...]

While perusing the ComputerWorld site, I found that ex-PCWorld editor-in-chief Harry McCracken has penned a series of six articles to ease the Windows user into the use of a modern Mac.
In the articles covered are making the jump, getting around at first on OS X, getting your files moved to the new machine, running Windows [...]

As anyone who builds computers knows, each year during the golden quarter (the last three months of the year, where many businesses actually get into the black for the entire year) prices on computer memory go up, as everyone anticipates the need for memory for Christmas holiday (could be Hanukkah, could be Kwanzaa) gifts of [...]

In a move that may prove the undoing of the Firefox market share, the developers are stating that Firefox will get some changes as a nod to the changing face of Windows, but also the details show that more than a few of the proposed changes will make the new Firefox look more than a [...]

I’m not sure who missed the meeting, but the folks at Sophos, if they were in attendance, certainly did not take any notes.
It’s strange how many times things can be fluffed over in such a way that to the casual observer they seem completely different. At least that’s what we are requested to believe.
From slashdot [...]

Say what you will about Windows 7 (I mostly like it, other than the menu problem that you have heard me hammer on), but the company’s commercials suck. There is no nice way of getting around it. I can’t say  I have ever seen a Microsoft commercial I like. The Windows 7 commercial with the [...]

That’s the word from a fairly reliable source of Windows unannounced information.
Though I would say this has been perhaps the second smoothest release of Windows (Windows XP being the best, though not generally acknowledged, the minor whinings about XP were mostly just that – not based on any real install or usability problems) to date, [...]

Knowing that change is always a problem, and that the size of any problems is directly proportional to the amount of change, it is no wonder that many independent voices are coming up with cautions on the upgrade to Windows 7.
As someone who learns the lesson vicariously each time Windows is updated, I would say [...]

Though Windows 7 is a very big step in bringing the operating system into the 21st century in some ways, in others it seems horrendously stuck in the past. The defragment routines included with Windows 7 don’t look, or act, so differently from those first licensed by Microsoft from Symantec (Norton disk defragger called Speeddisk) [...]

I know I was. After attending a couple of Microsoft seminars, two things became abundantly clear – those people don’t think as I do, nor do they use their computers in the same way; and  they also cannot produce anyone who was a part of the ‘usability tests’ which we tend to hear about all [...]

Everyone I know has been wondering how successful the new Microsoft branded stores would be, and if they might offer a place to gain insight on products that are new, or have not been fully investigated by the computer press.
I know I did not hold out much hope, but I did think it might be [...]

Microsoft may be working at cross purposes, as it tries to tell everyone that staying with Windows XP is a bad move. Stating that Windows XP is less secure, or simply old, makes many who can’t afford to switch to a Mac, or don’t want to make a move to Windows 7, think about the [...]

It was going to be funny, no matter which way you looked at it. The idea of the Griffin family using a personal computer is funny to begin with, and when you throw in Microsoft Windows 7, it has to be a gas.
We were told about the episode, but apparently Microsoft had not put the [...]