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- Students find Win 7 upgrade a tough assignment
- Well DUH!Students, retired folks, IT pros, dabblers, 'nix heads, etc. would ALL find trying to UPGRADE from a 32 bit to a 64 bit OS hard. Three words - "can't be done."There, was that hard? Why is this even news?This is newsbecause some people like to keep spreading...
- Tags: Operating systems, clean install, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Migration Wizard
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Yes, the cloud is still OK, even after Google's "glitch"
- The big news Thursday, of course, was Google's outage for many of its services. Listening in on Twitter, one would have thought that we were all going to die painful fiery deaths or that several folks at Google should sacrifice themselves to similarly painful and fiery deaths. By...
- Tags: Google Inc., Student, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Management, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Apple's growth potential: Unleash the iPod Touch
- In this Apple story, it's not about whether you're a Mac or a PC. This time, it's all about the iPod Touch, the shy younger cousin of the iPhone that really hasn't had its moment in the spotlight - until now. Susquehana Financial analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro wrote...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Digital Music, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Poll: IT pros love Windows 7; majority dump Vista upgrade plans
- Beta testers of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system are four times as likely to be happy with the new OS than early users of Windows Vista, according to a recent poll of corporate IT pros. In a poll of corporate IT professionals conducted by ChangeWave Research, 44...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Even I'd use Windows 7 if it was free!
- Fellow ZDNet blogger, Andrew Nusca, asked a great question today: "Should Microsoft give Windows 7 away for free?" He answers his own question, with a pretty big yes at least under certain conditions, but I think his question is even more relevant here in the land of Ed Tech...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Chances, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-01-29
- News to know: Google vs. Mozilla; SaaS renewals; Microsoft; Cloud computing
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google delivers another blow to Mozilla WSJ: Google wants its own fast track Google ditching network neutrality? Google: Net neutrality and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-15
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Jobs acknowledges MobileMe failure
- Jobs acknowledges MobileMe failureMobilMe... maybe notBack in 2005, I gave up all of my other sources of email, etc. in favor of .Mac. Without warning or notification, they switched to this "less than" lovely system. It wasn't broke, so why fix it... especially in the way that they did. It's...
- Tags: E-mail, cloud computing, job, MobileMe, MobileMe failure, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Giving Windows Vista another chance ...
- Giving Windows Vista another chance ...tips? yeahWell first of all i don't suggest using ie for safe browsing, firefox or opera can be much better.Be sure to install an appropriate anti-virus and anti-spyware before anything, for me avira antivir personal and spybot search and destroy worked great.If you do have...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Mac and PC are at it again
- The decision-making about how to roll out new technology in our district's elementary schools continues. While the decisions have been fairly straightforward at the middle and high schools, such is not the case at our elementaries, where religious wars are breaking out. It actually feels a little bit...
- Tags: School, Apple Macintosh, PC, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Firefox 3.0 final available for download
- Firefox 3.0 final available for downloadThose will magcally change ...... once the release is made official.RE: Firefox 3.0 final available for downloadIs this really the final version? Runonce initial page refers to RC as do the release notes?RE: Firefox 3.0 final available for downloadIs this really the final version? The...
- Tags: Web browsers, Version 3, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Firefox 3.0 Final
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Reporter's Notebook: Apple's iPhone SDK rollout
- Cupertino â€" After the announcement of iPhone support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync services, and after the testimony by software developers â€" most of whom had never used a Macintosh or an iPhone â€" about the ease of coding with the new iPhone SDK, and after Apple...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Notebook, SDK, Apple Inc., Reporter, Games, Personal Technology, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Select group of testers get new builds of XP SP3, Vista SP1
- Select group of testers get new builds of XP SP3, Vista SP1Performance of XP-SP3 vs Vista SP1What would be interesting is an unbiased comparison of performance of XP-SP3 vs Vista SP1. I wonder if we'll see this. Stuff like network performance, multimedia rendering and speed, disk performance, application performance and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), sp-3, error message, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, XP SP3, Select Group, Microsoft Windows XP, SP1
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Mac developers betting hard on Leopard
- One of the nascent trends at the recent Macworld Expo was the arrival of Leopard-only applications. Despite the ballyhooed success of the Leopard rollout, selling your software to a subset of the market is an unusual move, especially so for small developers. Like a Hollywood studio, Apple...
- Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Leopard, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- News to know: Macworld; Your Gmail on iPhone surprise; Patches; Intel
- Notable headlines: Macworld coverage: Ed Burnette: Time Capsule works with PCs too Garett Rogers: New iPhone update will confuse and upset many Gmail users Larry Dignan: Steve Jobs' performance: The big takeaways Apple delivers iPhone, iPod touch and QuickTime fixes...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Macworld, Intel Corp., Hd Dvd, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-health, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Healthcare, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- I just wrote a proposal for a big Mac rollout (?!?!?)
- For as long as I've been writing this blog, I've been fairly anti-Mac. This wasn't religious and I find myself personally really wanting to snag a Macbook. However, as far as I was concerned, I could never justify the premium price when PCs whether technically inferior or not...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- News to know: NTP is back; iUnlock; VMWorld; $50 DVD burner;
- Notable headlines: Robin Harris: Build a $50 DVD burner. Larry Dignan: NTP: We sue the wireless world. George Ou: Sun shows 2U 16-core Barcelona server with FSB1600. David Berlind: Insight into why Europeans get multi-factor authentication and we...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Hypervisor, DVD Burner, Microsoft Corp., DVD, NTP
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Microsoft: Windows Vista sales rate double that of XP
- Microsoft: Windows Vista sales rate double that of XPTime for the ABMers to point out that many of ....... these sales may still be sitting on the shelf of the retailer or some where else in the channel and not in the consumers hands. Of course the same would...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, sales, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-03-26
- Birmingham kills desktop Linux project citing runaway expenses
- Birmingham kills desktop Linux project citing runaway expensesChickens and eggs.Birmingham's government is apparently not one which will pay any price to carry out a stated policy. Munich's government may have made the contrary decision.A part of the Munich experience is likely to have been significant here as well.When IBM...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, desktop Linux, Linux, Birmingham, migration
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
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