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Would Jobs' illness make you think twice about a Mac rollout?

Would Jobs' illness make you think twice about a Mac rollout?Are you serious - a desktop is only a 3 year commitmentHardware starts to get obsolete after 3 years... who would seriously worry about Steve Jobs for a 3 year timeframe?Even if the company disappeared tomorrow, the software already available...

Tags: Desktops, Investment, job, Mac rollout, Steve Jobs, illness, hardware, Apple Macintosh, stock

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

I just wrote a proposal for a big Mac rollout (?!?!?)

I just wrote a proposal for a big Mac rollout (?!?!?)Go west, young man!You named some valid arguments for sticking with Mac. But there's also the pioneer spirit: if the pioneers would have stayed east, which was the most reasonable thing for them to do, the USA would be a...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Mac rollout, big Mac rollout, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-16

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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

AT&T prepares for iPhone MMS day tomorrow

Wow...Cool New Feature there Apple. Way to be inventive. Now Picture Mail, along with cut and paste are 2 innovations that keep iPhone hip and cool...even if every other smartphone has had those features since 1999 or so.Prediction: EPIC FAILWatch the network crash.RE: AT&T prepares for iPhone MMS day...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., MMS, iPhone MMS day, iPhone MMS

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Probably the most awful, soul destroying thing I've ever seen

wow those were just AWFUL..thats about 6 minutes of my life i wont get back. CHEESE CITY! lol.RE: Probably the most awful, soul destroying thing I've ever seenYou are goddammed right. IT feels like I am watching the cast of Barney, as they keep nodding their heads at each...

Tags: Corporate communications, Blonde, video, second video, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

While I'm away..."Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students"

Since I've been using the heck out of Google Gears to access my offline documents/email while I'm on vacation and largely Internet-less (and yes, it is terrible, but at least the sunsets are nice here), here's a repost of an article about Google Gears: Every day, I...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Microsoft Office, Internet, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-14

News to know: Vizio; Apple-Psystar; Buffett; Facebook status; Palm Pre; AT&T

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sean Portnoy: Vizio spills the beans on its Internet TV plans Sam Diaz: Court allows Apple-Psystar case to resume...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., AT&T Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Would Jobs' illness make you think twice about a Mac rollout?

It's that time of year when we're all thinking about summer purchases and configurations. At least I hope you are and your budgets haven't been so severely slashed that summer will be a slow time of year for you. Most of us already know how our FY10 budgets are...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Multimedia, Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-24

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

Will you be upgrading to Snow Leopard this summer?

Will you be upgrading to Snow Leopard this summer?There were a lot of architectual changes in Vista and......the Mac advocates still claimed Vista wasn't a compelling upgrade to XP. We'll see their hypocrisy continue as they flock to Snow Leopard using the architectual changes as justification.To answer Chris' question: Unlikely...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Snow Leopard

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Vista or Windows 7? Just get rid of XP, Microsoft tells users

Vista or Windows 7? Just get rid of XP, Microsoft tells usersWith SP1, Vista (64-bit) has been quite nice.Win7 has promise, but having been burned by Microsoft's effective ditching of the promises made for Ultimate (retail, not OEM), I'm going to be hard pressed to upgrade and go through all...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, netbook, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-11

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

Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students

Every day, I look for ways to make the OS less relevant and make kids' work accessible to them anytime, anywhere. I can't do this just yet for my secretaries and some serious power users. They rely at least on the full feature set or a significant subset...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Microsoft Office, Internet, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-26

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

News to know: Apple and anti-virus; Vista SP2; Kumo; Palm; Linux

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)? Ryan Naraine: Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus Breaking...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., Antivirus, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Viruses And Worms, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Will Apple launch a netbook? And other burning questions

Apple has said "it doesn't do cheap," but one analyst reckons that Steve Jobs & Co. will address the netbook market at some point--either with an 11-inch MacBook Air priced between $800 and $1,000 in 2009 or a tablet Mac in 2010. That's one of the more...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Gene Munster, 3G, Notebooks, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-25

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

BGBlitz 2.6.2 (Windows)

BGBlitz has the by far strongest gameplay of all commercial Backgammons on the Mac, is the winner of the 2003 Computer BG World Championship and is the winner of the 7th Computer Olympiad 2002. Some of its features: Play against BGBlitz, with it's top neural net technology Easy to...

Tags: Neural Network, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Frank Berger, BGBlitz, Productivity, Tcp/Ip, Networking

Software downloads 2008-10-27