Don’t get burned by Windows Update

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

It’s the very definition of irony: bugs in the application designed to install bug fixes. Such is Windows Update, which in the two instances described below installs known buggy software–and tells you that all is well when it is not.
Installing IE7
I use Firefox for pretty much everything, …
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Survey: Office 2007 demand aided by server software

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Microsoft’s plan to drive Office adoption in big companies by linking the software to server-based products appears to be working.

More than 40 percent of 243 companies responding to one specific survey question plan to deploy Office 2007 within six months, Forrester Research reported Tuesday.

One major driver of …
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Make free online backup part of your data-security plan

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

There’s simply no reason for any komputer user to lose important data.

My hat is off to the tech companies that provide the hardware, software, and services we rely on every day. From Microsoft’s Shadow Copy feature in Windows Vista (though only partially implemented in the Home Edition), …
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