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) [...]
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 [...]
Much to the astonishment of many, there have been very few articles giving advice on the installation of Windows 7. For each one of us that has been through the process of installing an operating system a hundred times or more, there are ten who have never done it once.
Strangely enough, the nice people at [...]
Yesterday, I was writing about the nastiness in store for just about any computer that finds itself connected to the internet. The Secunia Personal Software Inspector is a fine way to keep your installed software up to date, thereby reducing any attack vectors.
Another way that problems can arise is when something tries to manipulate your [...]
A few weeks ago I spoke about the newest version of Auslogics Disk Defragmenter , revision 2.12.50, which will allow scheduled defragmentation during periods of inactivity, as well as giving the user a very nice interface to work with.
While not near the level of sophistication that Diskeeper shows, it is excellent, easy on resources, accurate, [...]
This afternoon, Ed Bott has given us his opinion on the reason for success of Windows 7, which may be partly true, but is mostly just wishful thinking. He states that the availability of drivers, essentially the same ones that should have popped up during the early stages of Vista beta testing, will now make [...]
After a short time in beta, where people were making almost magical claims of its powers, the Microsoft Security Essentials will leave the beta moniker behind tonight at midnight, and be available for download.
Since it will be free to all who have legitimate copies of Windows operating systems, I wonder how many people will be [...]
One of the infrequent writers, at ZDNet , put up a piece today, telling how he has removed the optical drive from his macBook, and thinks that there is no need for optical drives any more, as the time for storage using that medium has passed.
I sometimes wonder if, on slow days, they have a [...]
Microsoft is losing its cool, and is giving the business community the full court press about switching away from Windows XP. It is getting to be very evident that the greed is getting the best of them in Redmond, as the push is coming on all fronts.
Not only is the company starting to push mightily [...]
Lately, the general furor and anticipation over the release to the masses of Windows 7 has had the Windows fanboys salivating, and delivering up stories of how OEMs who deliver Linux are going to stop because of high return rates. These high return rates are ostensibly because the users can’t get Linux to work as [...]
AMD seems to be trying to really please the troops these days with the releases of drivers for their video card lines. The latest Catalyst drivers are available early, in honor of QuakeCon, instead of making the faithful wait until Monday.
from Tech Connect
As promised, AMD has brought the Catalyst 9.8 drivers at QuakeCon and delivered [...]
That is the question that Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is asking this day on ZDNet. Giving figures concerning the adoption of Windows 7 in the pre-release phase, he notes that its use has already eclipsed that of the iPhone. Why he threw that in is unknown, but what is known is why the use of Windows 7 [...]
While everywhere we look, people are happily saying that they are ‘pleased as punch’ to be upgrading to Windows 7, either from Windows Vista or Windows XP, a new survey states that nearly half of businesses will not upgrade.
The IT people in business, by an large, remain unconvinced of he need to update, and many [...]
No matter how exciting your summer might start out being, there are certainly days where nothing is scheduled, and nothing is available, it seems, for at least a great portion of the day. Perhaps it is the heat, perhaps it is because we have been doing so much, then, with the end of school, which [...]
About the only thing that the company has been able to do is continue to call it a downgrade; just wait, the feisty and loyal Windows XP users will make them change those words, too.
After the analysis of a major player in IT stated that the downgrade options would extend only 6 months after the [...]
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