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- Look who̢̮ÃâÃâ¬ÃâÃâ¢s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it̢̮ÃâÃâ¬ÃâÃâ¢s not home users
- Look whoΓΖΓΒ’ΓβΓβ¬ΓβΓβ’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: itΓΖΓΒ’ΓβΓβ¬ΓβΓβ’s not home usersMakes senseMakes sense. Your average small biz probably doesn't want very much. They just want something that works. If it runs the databases and the tax software, it's good enough. For a small business, a single PC is usually...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Basic, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home Basic hint, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Vista Home Basic on 512MB? Hey, it works!
- Everyone knows Windows Vista is a resource hog. Everyone says it doesn’t even get out of first gear without a gigabyte of RAM, and it takes 2 GB before it stops stuttering and stammering with each mouse click. Everyone says Vista Home Basic is the black sheep of the family,...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Intel, Dell hold off on internal rollout of Vista
- Intel, Dell hold off on internal rollout of VistaWhy not rollout OSX?Since Macs are basically Intel computers with an extra TPM DRM chip, and Intel is timing its rollout of Vista with a new hardware platform, and OSX is [b]so[/b] much better than Vista, and Macs are cheaper than equivalent...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Vista Home Basic, cost/benefit, Windows XP MCE, Vista Partition, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-04
- Is Vista Home Basic a way for vendors to sell low-spec PCs?
- Is Vista Home Basic a way for vendors to sell low-spec PCs?True... but.There will always be a market for low end anything. Especially a PC for the folks that only want to do email and surf the Internet. This is a perfect answer. My parents fit this bill exactly. Don't...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home
- Discussion threads 2007-03-23
- So what's wrong with Windows Vista Home Basic?
- If youre a typical consumer, most likely youve been running Windows XP Home since the day you bought your computer from your favorite retailer (online or in-person). You probably knew there was a Professional version of Windows XP but its quite possible that you didnt even know there was...
- Tags: Media Juggernaut, Vista, Microsoft, Retail, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Aero
- Blog posts 2007-02-03
- Microsoft introduces a new freebie
- Microsoft introduces a new freebieSweetCan't wait to try it out.Vista Home Basic.There is a market for Basic.People who want to upgrade but do not have adequate hardware. People who have elevated the Spartan to a principle, and will brag about the bells and whistles avoided. Poor people, especially...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., software, Vista Home Basic, Intuit QuickBooks
- Discussion threads 2006-10-30
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- Microsoft still working on an Adobe Lightroom competitor, but with a social twist
- Maybe MS needs myLife instead of focusing on cloud everything.I've been a Windows user since Windows 1.0 on MS-DOS. I used Multiplan and Word with a mouse before Windows even existed. Over the years I've purchased so many copies of MS Office, OS upgrades, mice, keyboards, joysticks, development environments (MASM,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., photograph, Microsoft Windows Vista, Adobe Lightroom, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- My scareware night and how McAfee lost a customer
- With their Comcast and AT&T dealsMcAfee has a huge market share hereit pretty much does nothing to prevent being infected by these rogue antivirus attacks.I have found Combofix (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix)is the most effective tool to remove these things but even that isn't 100%.Usually you will want to rename it before you...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Vista/7, software, McAfee Inc., AV Software, Malwarebytes
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Partition Wizard Home Edition 4.2 (Windows)
- Working as partition magic, Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager designed by MT Solution Ltd. This partition software supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Windows Vista , Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows 7. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful...
- Tags: Partition, MT Solution, Partition Wizard Home Edition, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-10
- Easeus Partition Master Home Edition 4.1.1 (Windows)
- EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is an excellent partition management freeware. With its help, you can extend system partition, have better disk space management, settle low disk space problem! The most attractive feature is it can resize/move partition without destroying data.This free partition software works perfectly with hardware RAID and...
- Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, Partition, EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition
- Software downloads 2009-11-08
- Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)
- RE: Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap or even freeGreat post, Ed! Seeing how you outlined the cheapest way to get Microsoft Windows 7 there should be no reason why anyone would not want to upgrade now. Price is no longer an issue. This would be...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, legal way, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Toshiba Satellite L455-S5975
- We've said it before, and we'll say it again: especially in this economy, it's hard to hate a laptop that only costs $350. It's even harder to hate a Windows 7 laptop that costs that much. The Toshiba L455-S5975 is, by 50 dollars, the least expensive notebook computer in our...
- Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Intel Celeron, Microsoft Windows 7, Toshiba Corp., laptop computer, processor, Toshiba Satellite
- Product reviews 2009-11-02
- McAfee vs. Symantec: Dueling in consumer and enterprise
- Worked for SYMC - products inadequately testedWe rearchitected stuff as it was going out the door. That experience was one more reason I eventually switched to Mac.Working for SYMCYou should have stuck around...Then you could have said to have been part of improving of the process . Just compare Norton...
- Tags: SECURITY, Norton 2010, McAfee Inc., Norton Co., Symantec Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- 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
- Netbooks worth the upgrade to Windows 7? Heck yes!
- my thoughts"As I wrote the day that 7 launched, 'Windows 7 is just another OS.'"An article sitting at a -1 rating (out of 33 people) as I type this, and with quite a bit of Talkback discussion. Not exactly a shining pillar of truth."Most netbooks ship with Windows XP Home...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Boot-time, Waking Up, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks worth, Heck Yes
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Asus Eee Top ET2002
- Nvidia wants us to tell you that its GeForce 9400M graphics chip, aka Nvidia's Ion technology, pulls Asus' Eee Top ET2002 up from the depths of Nettop misery by imparting it with better-than-terrible graphics and video processing. We agree that the 9400 chip improves the ET2002's visual chops, but a...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Games, Semiconductors, Keyboards, Video cards, Game players, nettop, chip, game, HDMI, ASUS, graphics
- Product reviews 2009-10-20
- ZhongYuan Keylogger Screen Capture 3.1 (Windows)
- ZhongYuan Keylogger screen capture software is safe, easy and inaccessible utility specially designed to monitor your spouse, child or employee computer online or offline activity. Keyboard monitoring tool runs in hidden mode and periodically at equal interval of time record all typed keys including character, special character, digits and shift,...
- Tags: Software, Screen Capture, Keylogger, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, Zhongyuantech, ZhongYuan Keylogger Screen Capture Software, Keylogging Tool, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Software downloads 2009-10-19
- VA now loves its VistA software
- In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Vista Software, Yes Vista, VA Hospital, MUMPS, hospital, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Sidekick outage says more about the future of 'Pink' than Microsoft's cloud
- This isn't about any service.This is about Microsoft in general. It brings up the question of whether they can manage a server environment. It doesn't matter what that environment is. Preservation of data is always job one. And this is the job where the failure occurred. So Pink, Azure, cloud,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Corp., Azure, job, Pink, IT administration
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Upgrading to Windows 7 - Your questions answered!
- OK Adrian. Now, do the same thing for Ubuntu 9.10.Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 and matrix is side-by-side with W7.One data pointI took my Dell Latitude E6500 (Core 2 Duo P9500, 4GB) from Vista x86 to Win7 x64 (clean install required for 32-bit to 64-bit upgrade). I downloaded the 64-bit Vista...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Notebooks, Karmic Koala, Ubuntu, Dell Computer Corp., Migration Wizard, Microsoft Windows 7, fess up, Upgrading, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
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