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Microsoft 365 Streamlines Business and Reduces Spend

When doing business online, you have many options for available software and systems. You might turn to one solution to handle online...

Why Software Updates Are More Important Than Ever

Every day hackers are trying to figure out new ways to break into Microsoft Windows and once they do find a weakness, they try and find a...

Outlook 2013 Junk Mail

I contacted my email provider to have them empty out the contents of the Junk Mail folder, which they did. But they also told me this...

Windows XP End of Life

What does this mean? If you have a computer that is running Windows XP, the attackers out there will have the advantage over you. Any...

Windows 8.1 Release Date

Microsoft has announced that Windows 8.1 will be released on October 17th, 2013. Specifically, 4 AM Pacific time. This is good news for...

Windows 8: Tweaking the Desktop

One of my previous articles talked about the difference between these two operating areas of Windows 8. You can see from the picture...

Windows 8: Out of the Box

Windows 8 was designed to be used with touch screen monitor technology. Windows 7 will also work with touch screens, but Windows 8 takes...

Firefox 16 is Here

With that said, version 16 is now out and available to download here. If you already have Firefox, your computer will automatically be...

Outlook.com Arrives

You can use this service with your existing @Hotmail.com, @live.com, or @msn.com email address. Simply go to www.outlook.com and sign in...

Microsoft Office 2013

Touch features and Stylus writing are available. You would most likely use this on a tablet or phone, and not your laptop. Most laptops...

Windows 8 Due this Fall

Windows 8 is built on a core of Windows 7, and is designed to look and operate much like the Windows phone operating system. It is a...

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Now Available

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 will not give you any new exciting features. However, it will give you 976 Security Updates and Hotfixes. It is...

Windows 7 Installation -The Contradiction Resolved

Hello everyone, As you know from my last post, I was a little disappointed that the Windows 7 installation did not format the hard drive...

Project Windows 7 – Software that works great

It has been a few days since I loaded Windows 7 Release Candidate (W7) on my laptop, so I thought I would post a list of software I had...

Project Windows 7 – The Installation Contradiction

When I installed Windows 7, I had two options: 1. Upgrade 2. Clean Install I chose the Clean Install option. Theoretically, as the...