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Engadget’s Windows 7 review here Engadget recently published a review of Windows 7 RTM. I think it’s flawed, because the reviewers seem to have encountered problems with Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer 8, yet the review did not disclose any reason...
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I began the below third part of our “Build The Perfect Windows Vista PC” series some time ago. I never finished it, because I was diagnosed with a late stage (4) cancer and given a very short time to sort out my affairs and ensure my family, companies...
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By Byron Hinson, Activewin.com March 26th, 2008 I have to admit that I have been a stalwart fan of ATI's cards for sometime so doing this review of an nVidia based card that I have been sent from Liberating Technologies seems a little strange. ATI...
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In part 1 of this arc I presented a view of the discovery and requirements analysis process that goes into building a perfect PC - where learning how a PC was going to be used and by whom was the goal. That process drives context and provides not just...
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BBAMF64 - Big, Bold, Agile, and Massively Fun What, you thought that a four-letter word for intercourse wasn't "talk"? I thought I'd share a small arc about what it is to build not just a computer, but the perfect PC . A lot of IT professionals...
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Next to, "You today, me tomorrow..." it is what it is has to be my favorite saying. Windows Vista is what it is... and while it is just an operating system , it is at the center of a pretty important ecosystem and relevant to nearly all of us...
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I just don't get it. What in H.E. Double-Hockey-Sticks are people doing that has caused so many to have so much trouble running Windows Vista? Some Background: I need to share a different perspective - the only one I know and that is the one shaped...
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The year is only getting started and if we have our way, it will be among the most exciting years we've ever seen. We've completed our very own Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software suite - "Sovereign" as it is called internally...
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Placing my head in a bucket with a small hole drilled in the bottom, I wander around aimlessly, looking for the sense I lost in a sea of sand...one granule is what I seek...only one... That sense is really a decision to see the good in all things and...
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Windows Live OneCare as its name implies, can help keep home computers safer, running optimally and easier to use and manage. Many families now have more than one computer and Windows Live OneCare is Microsoft's solution for home users. OneCare was...
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I've written a great deal about how Windows Vista's Performance and Reliability tools help users understand and solve problems and how greater levels of instrumentation and error reporting are what drives Vista's now native update application...
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A lot of you may have seen Internet Explorer crash "Internet Explorer has stopped working" when closing the browser in Windows Vista. It happens all too often and while it no longer takes the operating system out with it, it is still annoying...
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It always has been... As Bill Gates executed his last CES keynote address, I, like many people, read a few wrap-ups and my share of tech-journalist's reviews. I was bored witless - not with the keynote, but the press following it. When they get it...
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"People don't want a waitress and a cook - people want a chef that is also a nutritionist!" - Windows Live may well be all of these... Technically there isn't much wrong with Windows at all - it's a great operating system and it...
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Did you ever wish you were wrong? I mean, really wrong? When BETA 2 for Windows Longhorn Vista shipped, I installed it as I had many previous development and testing versions of the new operating system. I wrote, and crazily so, that Vista was going to...