Jul 15, 2009 | OneCare, security, software, Vista
Starting on July 14, some Vista computers began displaying erroneous warning messages from the Windows Security Center. If you run Windows Live OneCare on a Vista machine, you may see a shield with an X in the lower right corner. Opening the Windows Security Center...
Jul 13, 2009 | Microsoft, Office, Outlook, software, web_services
The bloggers were buzzing about Microsoft Office 2010 today, after Microsoft gave a nice presentation at a Partner Conference. The new Office suites won’t be on the market until early next year and there are some important questions that were not answered today, so...
Jul 12, 2009 | Microsoft, software, Vista, WinXP
One of the things that kept Vista from being adopted quickly was a simple problem: once we are used to doing something a certain way, it’s difficult for many people to change. Vista was deliberately made very similar to Windows XP in most respects but there are a few...
Jul 7, 2009 | computers, Google, Internet, Microsoft, netbooks, software, Windows7
Google announced tonight that it plans to turn its web browser, Google Chrome, into a full-fledged operating system. Its first target is netbooks, which will primarily be used for web browsing and email and which can benefit from a lean OS that starts quickly and has...
Jun 30, 2009 | OneCare, security, software
If you have a subscription to Windows Live OneCare, you are covered until the choices for security software are more clear towards the end of 2009. Keep using OneCare. Your OneCare subscription will not expire. Starting last month, Microsoft began extending OneCare...
Jun 21, 2009 | Adobe, file_sharing, Office, software, web_services
There will be some new experiments with subscription fees for online services, after the last few years when it seemed everything online would always be free or could be financed by online advertising. Adobe has just turned on “premium” subscriptions for Acrobat.com,...
