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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft preps PC makers for Windows 7 Upgrade launch]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft preps PC makers for Windows 7 Upgrade launchGet Vista, Wipe Entire Machine, Put On Windows 7I've never had a good experience doing an upgrade, it's better to just wipe completely and install the new OS from scratch.I agree but....I upgraded my Vista Ultimate desktop to the Windows 7 Ultimate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ITIC Research Paper: VIPRE Takes Bite out of Bloatware]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=918017]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To counter the latest malware threats, market leaders like Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro simply stack new layers of functionality on top of their existing engines. The result: the ever expanding code bases of the leading antivirus/antispyware packages invariably result in bloatware.    The remedy to bloatware is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[VIPRE Takes a Bite Out of Bloatware]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1020781]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hackers and rogue code writers will continue to ply their trade and create new, ever more efficient and pernicious viruses and blended malware threats. This will in turn, cause many of the antivirus vendors to continue to expand their code base. Unless or until the leading antivirus/antispyware vendors re-architect their...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Office 2008 for Mac details revealed at Apple Expo]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Office 2008 for Mac details revealed at Apple ExpoVastly overpriced bloatware from the Bloatfarmas usual.When Apple can produce a suite of software for a small fraction of the cost with better interfaces and user friendliness, you know that the bloat ethos with its vastly overblown "content" and vastly overblown prices...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The first Office 2007 Service Pack 1 beta is out]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first Office 2007 Service Pack 1 beta is outoffice 2007 sphopefully they'll address the speed issues. all of the code i've written takes twice as long to run in office 2007 than it does in office 2003.Things includedBetter support for VSTO ver 3.More complete Object Model documentation for coding.Better...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:46:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sharpening that personal productivity axe]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharpening that personal productivity axeThe era of vast productivity gains is overWhen a business went from no computers to having computers it had a massive boost in productivity. No changes since have been comparable to that boost. Everything done since is "fiddling". That is why I take advertising campaigns like...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:33:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The effect of bloatware: A 1986 Mac Plus beats a 2007 AMD dual-core PC]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The effect of bloatware: A 1986 Mac Plus beats a 2007 AMD dual-core PCIf he had compared to OS X TigerThe old machine would have smoked it worse. Not to mention the overbloated LeopardVista wannabe.I did.Not overly impressed.Maybe the next iteration will be better.JJBHAHAHAHA!!!!What a useless test! It does go...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:29:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The effect of bloatware: A 1986 Mac Plus beats a 2007 AMD dual-core PC]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5241]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In what is arguably the most hilarious--yet disconcerting--benchmark comparison ever Hal Licino at HubPages has compared a 1986 Mac Plus vs. a 2007 AMD dual-core PC and the antique Mac generally performed better.The takeaway: Your operating systems is obese. Really obese.Licino's pits a Mac Plus running System 6.0.8 with 1...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:56:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Podcast: MS Office, Google Apps, bloatware, multitenancy and more...]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4940]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss Apples blowout quarter and the latest option-related controversy--former Apple CFOs Fred Andersons allegation that Steve Jobs wasnt blissfully ignorant about the consequences of back dating. Microsoft also had good quarterly earnings, with Vista and Office 2007 getting some traction. David...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:44:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[(Images: Bogged down by bloatware?)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Images: Bogged down by bloatware?)How about a means of turning off the nag screens?There does not seem to be an easy means of turning off the nag screens for the "trial versions" of the software that comes pre-loaded (and no instructions on how to go remove the junk that comes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:46:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Great Vista/Mac Showdown: Minimum requirements; Vista isn't bloatware]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11515-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=29919&messageID=556149&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Great Vista/Mac Showdown: Minimum requirements; Vista isn't bloatwareSorry, but I have to make this workSInce I don't have homes anywhere other than at home and because I do work on several projects concurrently, I have to make this experiment work for me, so I can manage to make a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:44:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[RealNetworks strikes a chorus of deals]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[RealNetworks strikes a chorus of dealsinteresting newsI like the idea of better  not just more  competition in the music arena for consumers. I have never been a fan of Real's software and only use it when absolutely necessary. They do have a decent list of partners to work...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:47:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[OpenOffice plug-in plan set for debut]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OpenOffice plug-in plan set for debutNeeds an 'e-mail' clientIt still needs an e-mail client if it is goingto go anywhere.Actually, like they split apart the Netscape Suite, they should split apartOpenOffice suite and make everything simple, lean and mean, and individual downloads.How about a very simple OpenOffice, with the MS...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:43:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Adobe software to plug into grid computing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe software to plug into grid computingI wishthey would slim down their acrobat program. The new version takes forever to open and frustrates a lot of users, including me. I try to use 5 when ever possible because it opens faster.OSS will eat Adobe lunch.then maybe it'll slim its bloatware.Adobe...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2004 13:14:00 -0800</pubDate>
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