WINDOWS 7 AND CRAPWARE

Windows 7 is great. The combination of Windows 7 and improved hardware makes it far more likely that you will be satisfied with your next computer. There is still one way that you might wind up frustrated – an old problem that has not gone away. Manufacturers are...

MICROSOFT DROPS OFFICE ACCOUNTING

  Microsoft is now completely out of the accounting software market, following Friday’s announcement that it is dropping all of its remaining Office Accounting products. At one time it appeared that Microsoft was going to be a player in accounting software for...

SPEAKING OF UPDATES

Your computer should restart tonight after installing this month’s critical updates for Windows and Office. It’s a particularly large batch of updates and some of them are for the kind of vulnerabilities that the bad guys will quickly be attempting to exploit. Adobe...

PHONE EXPLOSION

This week it’s all phones, all the time. On Tuesday, Microsoft formally presented Windows Mobile 6.5 to the world. It’s a lightly modified version of the Windows Mobile software that’s been usable but uninteresting for years. It’s still fairly uninteresting. Oh, the...

MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS NOW AVAILABLE

Microsoft Security Essentials, free antivirus and anti-malware security software from Microsoft, is now available from the MSE web site. Click here for the Microsoft press release, or click here for more information about Microsoft Security Essentials.If you want to...