Archive for October, 2009:

Businesses Should Upgrade to Windows 7 ASAP

XP is dead and while I don’t think Vista was the flop that people want to make it out to be, it was never able to gain any traction in the business environment. Now, the Windows 7 release is only a week away and many people and organizations are still wondering if Windows 7 is [...]

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Protect Yourself From Online Fraud

Brian Krebs from the Washington Post dives into the problem in this story:

The simplest, most cost-effective answer I know of? Don’t use Microsoft Windows when accessing your bank account online.

I do not offer this recommendation lightly (and at the end of this column you’ll find a link to another column wherein I explain an easy-to-use [...]

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No more NVIDIA Integrated Graphics Chipsets

From Ars:

NVIDIA dropped a bombshell today with an announcement that it is freezing development work on future PC chipsets. The GPU maker is blaming this dramatic move on an ongoing legal spat with Intel, but the market realities are there for all to see.

In the short-term this is not good for people who are looking [...]

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Windows Mobile 6.5 Release

The consensus from the review sites seems to be that this is going to be quite a let-down to users of Windows Mobile devices. Microsoft seems to have done the bare minimum to put a new look on top of Windows Mobile 6.1 without address any of the real short-comings or problems with the platform.

Matthew [...]

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BumpTop 3D desktop

Using BumpTop, it reminds me a lot of what the Microsoft Surface demos showed they were doing, only this is for your standard computer. Definitely worth checking out the free version. I know I’ll be playing around with it on my Windows machine for awhile.

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